skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article is just blogspam for their dubious "habit coach" service, contains multiple affiliate links to the same.

Rest of the article seems to be fluff, as another commentor pointed out the author estimates 2 hours per book. That's laughable.

Regardless of the fact if it's even possible to read that quickly, what about retaining and revising what you learnt? Especially important if you're reading non-fiction. I'm trying to experiment with the Zettelkasten method (posted on HN a few days ago) to see if that works.
> "The average quality of products like bread and meat is much lower in the US than in Europe, but in the US I have the option of going to some high end shop or bakery and get stuff that is much better than I can get here in Europe. In Europe things are extremely uniform."

Maybe you need to shop around a bit. There are also high-end shops and bakeries in Europe. Though maybe not in every town.
I tried the Costco route for exactly the reasons you mention. The technical qualities of the prints are better than what my inkjet produces. But in terms of what I am looking for, my inkjet produces prints I prefer because rapid feedback lets me iterate the image editing and my goals are orthogonal to prepress values.

These days, most photographic tools are oriented toward prepress because there is real money in B2B. I don't really care that much about accurate color reproduction between the real world and the print. I care about predictable correlation between what's on my screen and the print. I'm not aghast that tungsten lights produce warm images (thogh sometimes fluorescent lights are a problem).

Like you I forswore printers. Casual printing would often be a multi-hour or multi-day process because the printer demanded a new cartridge. And two days or two weeks later I would go to print and it would demand another.

About a year and a half ago, I broke down and bought a Canon Pro 100. After the gift card it was $99 and came with 50 13x19 sheets. I print frequently enough that I don't get clogged nozzles. I generally print 4x6. The paper is cheap. It uses less ink. The prints don't take much space. A few months ago, I switched to third party ink. It might not be as good as the OEM. Refilling is more fiddly than disposable cartridges, but it's way more under my control: no trip to the camera store or waiting for UPS. There's a guy on Youtube.

Costco printing made me see the value of printing. But in terms of what I do, it's like outsourcing to the lab back in the film days. The printer in my office is like having my own darkroom. But faster, cheaper, and easier. I can print iteratively at 10pm Sunday and into a Monday morning.

I'm thinking about adding a dye-sublimation printer: Canon Selphy. No fiddly bits, portable, and can run off battery. Somewhat like a Polaroid in terms of producing quick prints in the field. It costs out to around $0.30/4x6 print. Cheaper than a B&W 120 negative.
Inspired to carry water for genocide? I hope not.
Most languages settle down with C interop and don't bother with the added complexity from C++. Rust is one of those, some of the concepts aren't even on the language right now, what would lead to very non-idiomatic imports.
Mobilizon looks like it's on the right track but my biggest concern is seeding it: the first version of any such aggregator should pull from existing repositories of events to allow discovery (while still forwarding actual registration to the original source site).

I do like the fact that they have an event-publishing tool and the option to self-host.

> Framasoft wants to create Mobilizon: free/libre software that will allow communities to create their own spaces to publish events, in order to better emancipate themselves from tech giants. We want to develop a digital common, that everyone can make their own, which respects privacy and activism by design.

https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
Rx for doctors: stop with the urine tests
In my experience, it's a reflection of the organization. Shitty workplaces treat people with a little less leverage shitty.

I have also observed in some places that in some ways, diverse management structure is worse for some workers. White managers tend to be ignorant of subdivisions of asian society and treat all contractors or sponsored employees with aloof and impersonal management styles.
The very fact that they are dogfooding DynamoDB (with core features of their business) makes me want to take it more seriously and use it more.

I also love that they didn't just replace Oracle with <insert competing RDBMS here> but instead thoughtfully pieced together a strategy based on what the data was going to be used for.

Well done!
Very meta information: https://simpleanalytics.com/blog.simpleanalytics.com?start=2...
"They went as far as praising Switzerland's diversity and inclusiveness... Come on..."

As someone who owns a business in CH and visits there relatively frequently, I understand what you are saying, but I have two initial responses to you:

1) technically, CH is, in fact quite diverse in terms of population stats - especially Zurich and Geneva. I was surprised to look up and see that 25% of the population of CH is foreign born[1].

2) That being said, to whatever degree CH is really, really homogeneous (and it definitely seems so as you travel outside Zurich/Geneva/Basel) isn't that a feature ? Isn't that the point of a Switzerland ? I don't want the entire world to be strip malls and walmarts - I enjoy local culture and diversity in nations.

[1] https://www.thelocal.ch/20180831/foreign-residents-now-make-...
I think it's just done by voting, anyone could submit an alternative link, but it would need X upvotes to be promoted to the primary link.

I can see how this might not work so well with contentious stories, but when it's just linking to the primary source vs a poorly written article on a secondary source it might improve the experience.

This is also true when something is paywalled but there are alternative versions.

Edit: In my mind it's an additional facet, rather than just being done in comments. Maybe it's not even visible unless you're a high karma individual.
This is not news. People are fired, and leave jobs everyday.
I call it the Windows control fractal. Each new version of Windows requires clicking through a totally new UI layer to get to the previous version's control panel. Finally you arrive at the Windows 95 settings program you were trying to get to in the first place.
Ditto. My 2011 MBP is a truck that just won't quit. Although I've replaced just about everything in it but the processor, the fact that I was able to do so makes me love the machine.
A nice thread on the subject: https://twitter.com/louishyman/status/1051872178415828993
Well, as to #2, if you get an MBA right out of college it's theoretically more likely to be worth it, simply because the multiplier effect has more years to work with
In Norway, the oatmeal is often steel-cut oats, which you really can't eat raw. If you're eating them with milk, you've probably got rolled oats, which are already cooked.
Doesn't this work like an assembly line now?

I'm under the impression that a lot of schools hire students like this, and then there are employers like Bain and Cisco that are lined up to hire them for two years and then hand then back over to the progran.
Face-recognition technology is the new norm
160 in the South Bay is significantly better than 95 in Minneapolis, at least. Unless you want to buy a house. I lived in Minneapolis not long ago and the major cost differences were really only housing, gas, and electricity.
Someone can explain what's the reason to disable telemetry? Telemetry data is anonymized and important for Firefox development. What and how is transferred is documented well. If certain measures are suggested, there should be given a reasoning.
CScout: The C Refactoring Browser
Mostly VC backed ex-startups (now 10+ yrs old, 100s to 1000s of employees). Though I’ve also got a few friends at a bootstrapped company that never took VC money (~15 years old, but still small, ~30 employees), as well as a number of friends at Amazon (working on different RDS teams).

All have had the same experience re: there being more feature work and tech debt elimination than they have the resources to complete.
Switzerland is extremely diverse. There are four official languages, and 20+% of the population is foreign-born. In Zurich, that rate is much higher.
The Nobel Foundation recognizes the economics prize as a Nobel prize.

So, yes, it is a Nobel prize because the guys in charge of Nobel prizes say it is. It's also awarded by the guys who award the other Nobel science prizes (the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences).
i miss my t42p
Just in case you didn’t have enough Google surveillance in your house, turn your router into a marginally useful weather app slash microphone.
Style transfer on iOS using convolutional neural nets
While it's not one of the original prizes, the laureates are still selected by the same institution as those in physics and chemistry, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

> In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was given the task to select the Laureates in Economic Sciences starting in 1969.

[0] - https://www.nobelprize.org/the-nobel-prize-organisation/priz...
Army looks for alternatives to GPS as enemies threaten to jam signals
A failure in the infotainment will brick the entire car?! I thought they would be made up of individual systems talking to each other in messages. Tesla needs Erlang!
Zip codes 78701-78704 are the most relevant. $350k will buy you a house that is falling apart from the 1920s in most cases. It is not “cheap” here by the national standard. Just comparatively to the coasts.
For a senior dev, anywhere in the range between 2 and 5k EUR net monthly (after taxes).
In some cities, you can use the library as this service. They will store the books before and after you read them, and often they will provide suggestions.
Journalists should just say "Nobel Memorial Prize" rather than "Nobel Prize". Anybody that doesn't know about this difference won't be distracted and pedants that do will be satisfied.
I’m specifically speaking to Amazon. Why did you turn this into a personal attack?
You're right. The [changelog] for Python 3.7 states:

> [bpo-32670]: Enforce [PEP 479] for all code. This means that manually raising a StopIteration exception from a generator is prohibited for all code, regardless of whether ‘from __future__ import generator_stop’ was used or not.

[changelog]: https://docs.python.org/3.7/whatsnew/changelog.html#id115

[bpo-32670]: https://bugs.python.org/issue32670

[PEP 479]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0479/
Guest Post: How you can generate income through Goat farming
Even the Statute of Limitations is gone in the US. Companies can sue you in court for debt right before the limit is up and your debt limitations has just increased 20 years. They also tack on interest. Someone I know had $4K debt that ballooned to $25K due to this tactic. The original debt is from 1997 and this person is still on the hook.

It's all corrupt.

https://creditcards.usnews.com/articles/what-happens-when-yo...
"And then, in December 2010, the Claims Resolution Act passed. This historic piece of legislation settled an unresolved court case in favor of 75,000 black farmers unjustly denied agricultural loans in the 1980s and 1990s. Ironically, tucked into its 801st section was a provision to increase the “collection of past-due, legally enforceable state debts”. It quietly expanded which debts could be referred to Treasury, from only those due to fraud to those resulting from unintentional errors."

How the (#$*) did Obama let that get out of the first committee reading (Warren wasn't elected yet)?
With mattresses, the only golden rule is that no one else's recommendation should matter to you. It really is a personal choice – a function of sleeping position(s), BMI, gender, preferred feel (in<->on), and other considerations (back issues, motion, heat, etc.).

This is actually scientifically verified: https://www.rti.org/sites/default/files/resources/rr-0016-11.... As they put it: "The actigraphically best mattress was well distributed among the sample of participants and across the seven mattresses studied." Basically, there was no "mode" best mattress. No one else's experience applies to you.

They also note that "The mattress that individuals chose as optimal before the randomized, controlled phase of the study did not predict either the actigraphically determined best mattress or the best mattress as determined by reported sleep quality." My take: focus on in-home testing, trying to understand what you like, and return policies more than showroom tests or recommendations.

What I can offer is a fantastic way to reach your own conclusion: https://www.themattressunderground.com/ (under the "Mattresses" nav tab).

Start here: https://www.themattressunderground.com/mattresses/five-steps..., https://www.themattressunderground.com/our-articles/mattress...

This is the most thorough and least-biased mattress site I've found. I'm not affiliated except as a fan.
Just because Bill Gates has the resources to buy a fleet of 747s doesn't mean I can.
This is pretty good -- there are a number of config options here that I didn't realize existed.

My only real quibble is that I don't think people should turn on DNT if they can help it. Most sites don't respect it, and for some sites it's actually another tracking vector on its own.

I believe if you turn on fingerprinting protection in Firefox it gets automatically enabled, so this isn't a suggestion anyone can practically act on. But if I had the choice to disable DNT, I would. I think we should deprecate any tracking protection that relies on good actors respecting our choices.

But overall, good article.
IARC's findings stand in contradiction to nearly every other governmental agency. From what I can tell, they intentionally chose this position and then curated their data sources to emphasize their beliefs. This is an ongoing situation where I encourage you to read as widely as possible.
Python 2 is only unmaintained because the Python foundation is refusing to let anyone "officially" take over support. There are thousands of programs in Debian with less core developers than Python 2 working just fine.
UX Tools Survey (2019)
Depends on what you mean by comprehensive. https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/ is a good place to start.

After that I'd do some PoCs or talk to a consultant.
Is there any evidence that people are regularly checking whether software has been abandoned, and those packages removed? It seems more plausible to me that this was an excuse to replace the default 'python' with Python 3.
My company has tried to get me to replace my 2015, and I am resisting until they release a better keyboard design.
Sorry, not good enough. The decision was made, good or bad, 11 years ago. Everyone had plenty of time to come to grips with that reality, anyone still lingering on Python2 is bad at their job.

The bad decision now is to allow the split to continue, and RedHat is allowing that to happen due to greed and ignorance.
you forgot IMO in your last sentence
> We’re mostly there—using the actor model eliminates a lot of problems that would otherwise naturally occur.

So D comes with an actor system baked in at the language level? I like that sort of thing after using Erlang and using some half baked libraries in other languages.

I’m curious how good it is...
.net core is definitely better than .net framework in regards to nuget issues in my experience.
When I applied for an MBA, Harvard was known for a strong general management program as distinct from Wharton’s more quantitative and finance oriented. I chose the latter precisely because of this emphasis. I entered with years of experience in the medical field, and much older than most students (I did the full time program). Did it help me later with anything? Not really, other than the prestige associated with it and getting the top C-level job at a large medical group. Would I do it again? No. I wish I’d had the foresight to go for CS (early 90s), which I’m furiously self-teaching now. I’ve (mildly) encouraged my kids to stay away from the MBA fluff, even from Medicine, and go for hard science, mathematics, and computer science.
It's not an article to push the artifacts, it's an article to push global warming.
Are you just trying to inflame people for no reason?
Well, getting bombed by British jets didn't help.
It depends?

I.e. when I worked at a fairly large multinational (around 10k headcount), the only time I got promoted was when I explicitly started asking along the lines: "I like the sound of 'senior engineer', how do I get there?"

But there was a process. Maybe you don't have a process.

W.r.t. 'having your performance speak' I would suggest looking at it as 'building your case' rather than 'I am working a lot, right?'
Cloud computing in enterprise IT is changing how companies run
I don't, it's bloatware anymore and always trying to upsell you some other service.
How is this different than the already existing Wifi Mesh devices?
I didn't talk about before YouTube existed–I'm talking about when YouTube became the defacto standard for online video. Independent video sites existed and flourished along side YouTube in the beginning.

Sidenote: If we were having this conversation over beers at a meetup would you have said "Give me a break..." to me? Is this your conversational tone in person as well?
After reading this article, here is my advice to a developer in the Bay Area

1. Definitely don't move to Switzerland. Your cost of living will be very similar, you will have to work more than 40 hours a week, and your salary will go down.

2. Move literally anywhere else in the USA. I live in Boulder, Colorado and its awesome. Mountains and trails out my door with a great city scene as well. People snob at Boulder because its getting expensive, but you can still rent a 1 bedroom for 1300, and get a room in a house for $800. Google, Twitter and Uber are here if you want FAANG level compensation, as well as a bunch of other small companies.

3. Or better yet, get a remote job and move to somewhere even cheaper. I work remotely and it was really hard not to move to Bend, Oregon. I could have bought a nice house there for what I paid for my small townhome in Boulder. The only reason I didn't do it is because I am a fanatic rock climber and the climbing around Boulder is better.

One thing I have found about working remotely is that its pretty easy to work 35 hours a week and produce the same output as a full time, in office employee. Less distractions and in-office chitchat, and more working time. In practice this means that you can wake up at 7:30, make a coffee, be online at 8am, and then be free by 3pm. The Swiss 9 to 6 is a hard sell with this lifestyle.
Has yours gotten out of it's cage and made an attempt to escape through the window yet?
COM is kind of like GObject and something like it has a place.

COM usage is fairly limited because using it easily requires compiler support, which only very recently was included in the Community editions of Visual Studio. You can also access COM via language bindings; most .NET code you write is COM-enabled, for example, and is accessed from non-CLR code as COM. MinGW has stuff that lets you use and generate COM classes, but it's not great. Improving it would help FOSS dev on Windows.

There are other languages that use COM also. The lead designer of Delphi was poached by Microsoft to design .NET.
But you are giving them access to that specific build user, not "ALL" followed by "!root".
It's not really that generalized as you can pick 1 or more majors and focus on what you want to learn most. Not to mention each MBA school has different characteristics, attracting different candidates and campus recruiters. Stanford and Booth couldn't be more different if they tried.

MBA graduates are also not fit for running literally any business. The only thing employers know is that if you come from a top 10 MBA, you probably check the box on being pretty smart (the GMAT is a tough exam) while also possessing soft skills, being personable, ready to meet with clients or manage people and probably well-connected. It's a pedigree that allegedly excludes the dumb rich kids

Now your claim about Wall Street is just uninformed FUD. Most people on the street do not have an MBA, let alone one from a top school, particularly on the Sales & Trading branch of Wall Street that is usually what people associate with poor ethics and exploiting Main Street
Depending on the size of your install, there are companies that are very good at converting over something like Oracle to Postgres for probably much less than you'd expect. With the price of oracle licensing, your break-even could be in a year or two.
Central banks are Schrödinger institutions, both described as banks to link them to actual private banks when it suits one's argument, and also to the government agency (that they are) when it suits one's argument.

This makes me wonder:
- would there be less backlash against the econ prize had it been funded by another government agency with "bank" in its name?
- would there be less backlash if econ was like math, with no Nobel prize but a "top prize for the discipline" instead (the John Bates medal for econ, the Fields medal for math)?
> 4) Money is better in the US. I currently make about 160k USD, which is more than pretty much any European Dev will make.

If you're contracting in London at 600 GBP per day (not an unreasonable amount for a senior in demand, it's very possible to get more than than), then assuming 2 weeks of vacation and 1 week of public holidays, you make 147k GBP, which amounts to $185k. You can make even more in Scandinavian countries, but such contracts there are rather rare, while 600 GBP p.d. in London is common.
10K a month these days
In fairness to the person you are responding to[1], the numbers were probably true 5 years ago, sort of true 3 years ago and only seem completely off in the last 2 years.

[1] I find the term OP to be ambivalent. Like is it the original poster of the whole thread or the original poster you are responding to?
In my mind the true "hard part" would be in migrating business logic that lives in Oracle stored procedures (PL-SQL). Are there any tools that do a decent job in translating procs to non-Oracle dialects?
They don't even show me the "enter your phone number to unlock" dialog. I'm just logged in but can't do anything, including setting a phone number without getting an error saying that the account is suspended.
Yes, I was under the impression that distros would keep providing a lot of old packages that no one was looking at much anymore, until they actually started to cause problems.
that is completely rad. thank you for the link
I'd love to believe it was the right move because I'd love to continue giving this therapist more credit, but I'm not sure.

It' might've helped things looking forward, but looking backward I think it wasn't great. As in, "I am so smart and yet thus far have accomplished nothing." So, maybe that's a debt to be paid, and once paid a person is able to move forward at a better trajectory than before? That might make sense to me.
I don't think anybody really cares about the Techempower benchmarks. Else we'd all be using Vert.x or so.

The most popular frameworks having the 90% of deployments, are at the middle to bottom of the Techempower benchmarks.