skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started with reading books on basic etiquette and manners as a baseline. I also asked folks who I trusted (my sister, fellow geeky/awkward folks) for genuine feedback which helped identify the issues no book can help - for years I would actually look at someones mouth instead of their eyes and didn't realize this until a girlfriend told me. Like most skills, it's a slow walk up a mountain - just keep taking a step every day, have conversations with strangers, pick up an on topic blog or book as it's useful.
I should have stayed in bed today...

Still, probably faster to incorporate a monotonic check in a quicksort first pass, than run a bubble-sort pass which probably won't help much anyway?
To be honest I didn't feel like tinkering with it, I just reinstalled. Right now it is on ext4.

My issue was that for some reason Linux no longer could find the encrypted partition to decrypt, so I couldn't get it up to a point where I could even work with it.
> You clearly have no idea what is being taught in Top 20 MBA programs. Many MBA programs are graduating people that get both heavy technical training in their program (stats, data engineering, coding, etc) as well as learning how to properly manage individuals with technical skills.

Blatantly false - and I say that as someone with experience with multiple HBS classes. This might be the case for a small minority at those schools, but in no way is it the prevailing wind.
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If you don’t enunciate the h it sounds like “buggered,” which has a few potential meanings. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Buggered
One or two books a month is my target, too. I enjoy reading and, if I don’t reign in the habit, it will consume all of my free time and begin eating into time I’ve reserved for other things.

I used to tell myself that reading is a better way to spend my time than watching movies or TV. But my counterpoint is that it’s still not what I’ve made plans to do. I’ve found that limiting long-form reading to several hours a week is still enough time to get through one or two books a month.

And when I read excessively, I’ll browse my library’s currently available books until I find something. That’s in contrast with now, when I decide to read a particular book and then wait for it to become available. Though I do carry a “to-read” list and there’s usually one of those available at any given time.
What type of visa do you have and how did you qualify for it? Was it difficult to get?
Most, if not all, SD cards are not a viable archive medium.

Expect bitrot within 5 years. In testing PhotoStructure's image and video bitrot detector, I found all of my older (5+ year) cards were either unreadable or had file corruption.
Rent in Zurich is $4000 a month and that as an advantage? Is that a joke? Many workers in Switzerland commute daily from foreign countries to save money.
I've done this for many years. This is what works for me:

- Turn off interruptions in the AM. Focus, focus, focus. You have the most mental energy in AM and it is gradually depleted as the day goes by.

- Keep a log so you know what you worked on. Doesn't have to be wordy, just enough so you can tell what you did.

- Put something in the log at end of day so you know what the next thing you are working on is.
Example: "Working on error in timestamp()." You don't want to expend energy trying to remember what you were working on, you can just jump right in.
Under what measures is the economy doing “very well”?

I see low unemployment rates as one indicator of good economy, but otherwise we have low labor force participation, low wage growth, low GDP growth (lower than the annual deficit). The S&P 500 is in an earnings recession.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-sp-500-is-in-its-first...
> the use-case for this range is when there is NO obstacles to go through (it does not really work otherwise...)

So, on the one hand, 5G is going to make unicorns fly down and carry us to the heavens on wings of pure data, and on the other hand, it can't go through walls...?

Research shows that two thirds of consumers are not willing to pay even $1 more for 5G internet. [0] Regardless of the promises companies are making to each other and consumers today, the demand for 5G just doesn't seem consumer-driven.

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[0] https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/consulting/library/consum...
not sure what the threshold is for 'elite' but a top MBA program will generally require some years of work experience, but not necessarily responsibility for other people.

Most people in MBA programs are there to either a) help jump their career into a higher bracket (i.e. management) at companies where having an MBA is one of HR's checkboxes or b) move into consulting.
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Sounds like this old joke:

---

There’s an old story about a guy taking a smoke break with his non-smoking colleague.

“How long have you been smoking for?” the colleague asks.

“Thirty years,” says the smoker.

“Thirty years!” marvels the co-worker. “That costs so much money. At a pack a day, you’re spending $1,900 a year. Had you instead invested that money at an 8% return for the last 30 years, you’d have $250,000 in the bank today. That’s enough to buy a Ferrari.”

The smoker looked puzzled.

“Do you smoke?” he asked his co-worker.

“No.”

“So where is your Ferrari?”
Saw a tweet the other day. Walmart is a true behemouth; and they spend on R&D (anecdotally, have met some great data scientists from Walmart Labs).

For perspective:

Walmart makes ~58.7m an hour

Amazon /
Macy’s /
Best Buy /
Sears /
Target /
Gap /
Big Lots/
Kohl’s /
J.C. Penney /
Nordstrom /
Dollar Tree /
Barnes & Noble /
Bed Bath & Beyond

... make ~57.3m/hr combined
Citizenship is relatively hard: you have to be a resident for 12+ years to start the process. A lot of people never bother - a long term residency permit ("C") is almost as good, but you don't vote and do not have military duties.

Everybody speaks English; I know a number of people in Zürich who never bothered to learn German, as there is a large expat community and everything is multi-lingual.
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Absolutely! I didn’t mean backing as in backing a business but in a philanthropic sense. If one get a number of rich tech people or VC or incubator to shell in $100k, one can easily “raise” $2-3M for the endeavor.

And they can use it for PR, as in “were supporting Arts, too.” I think this would come handy in current climate that’s getting more and more hostile to tech companies.
HBS is also a trailer in terms of what is on the horizon and is an indicator of what not to do. There are studies done showing that most of the grads chase the worst fad at the worst time. In 1989 they were all chasing Japanese manufacturing consultancies, in 1999, all internet ceo jobs, etc. They're never predictive, just chasing what seems hot.
I have an MBA from on of these schools and I can tell you that it's virtually worthless. I went at night because my boss made me and paid for it. (Yes, doing classes from 6-9pm a couple nights per week for two years was miserable) People who quit their jobs and forgo income and instead take on debt to go full-time are insane, the only point is to basically relive college and party 4-5 nights/week. Frankly, I don't see the point of any post-graduate degree in something that's neither specific nor complex.
>ZFS is already quite old filesystem as has great features (for example: checksumming, snapshots, compression) that should be already standard.

Sure but if you don't know how zfs works do you really want to figure it out in the middle of trouble shooting installation problems, or post install root volume problems?
If you were doing software development in the 80es when C++ was born, you wouldn't be asking this question. You'd either choose a language that allows undefined behavior and write a program that completes the work today or a language with all possible runtime checks and a program that completes the work sometime next week.
I'm not sure that is right, Sinofsky was brought in to fix windows dev after the vista fiasco, he did a good job on win 7 then went off piste with the metro ui in win 8 and that was it for him
Video footage can be misleading. Different Video perspective and knowledge of events unfolding before the incident is necessary to accurately convey what happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/us/police-bod...
Are there 95-100% remote jobs?
The whole practice of counting how many books you read is ridiculous. I recently read Don DeLillo's Underworld. It's 850 pages long and some sections can be kind of a slog. But it was one of the most satisfying books I've ever read. It took me 4 months to get through it. Am I really worse off because I'm reading at a pace of 3 books per year vs. someone who reads 100 trashy self-help or empty business-speak "thought leader" books per year? Probably not.
The last section is eye opening for me. This is what the total compensation looks like for entry-level software engineers:

Apple: $160,548

Microsoft: $155,775

Google: $188,086

IBM: $95,857

The IBM total compensation does not even have 6 digits! No wonder they have a hard time attracting talent.

It would have been interesting to see the numbers for Amazon, Facebook and Netflix too.
Well, yes, porting large projects to Py3 is not trivial.

That's why they had, what, around 5 years to do it since the 2.7 EOL was extended to 2020?

I think most of the problems you encountered would be solved by the six library, btw.

But the most annoying bugs were those were some Python 2 quirk was "just working" (like comparing strings to integers in Python 2) or the conversion of ints and floats and then it correctly broke on Python 3.
1. (See above answer as well.) It's definitely difficult if you don't have a familial connections. Once you get in, though, it's pretty easy to stay and if you stay for 10+ years, you can get citizenship fairly easily.

2. It is mixed. I've had local interviews in (high) German but they were comfortable enough to switch to English if needed. Most jobs list proficiency in English + German as a requirement.
Have you tried https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/2to3.html? It should automate some of the syntax conversation.

You can also write custom transforms with 2to3 but I've found https://pybowler.io is a decent wrapper. I haven't used it for 2to3 conversion though.
Press Ctrl-^ ? it doesn’t give you a single pop up but chances are when you do this you’re looking for a specific window and having them all visible saves time.
I have experienced exactly the same and have faced a lot of recruitment nonsense over the years. In my opinion it's all a numbers game, some interviews I absolutely smash both the tech and hr part, others I fail miserably even on easy questions because of various circumstances.

Some companies (for example Apple) won't even give you any hr interview they just call and say "let's go through some tech questions" and some guy starts asking you everything you've learnt in uni over 30mins. Others ask you to do a project at home and present it to them. Most commonly they send you a hackerrank which even if you smash there is always the chance you won't hear from them.

Last bit brings me to my next point, recruiters don't see you as anything more than a resource and will change their mind at any point during the process. Recently I had a call with a company's HR they were super impressed and wanted to invite me in for face-to-face and said they will inform me their availability asap... well that was 3 weeks ago and haven't heard back.

My advice is don't get discouraged or believe anything a recruiter tells you. Once I asked for a very reasonable salary for my experience and the recruiter got pissed off telling me even seniors don't make this in their company. Well guess what the next recruiter that called I got offered position for this exact money I asked for with no questions asked.

Just keep applying and slowly improve your problem solving skills and eventually you will land the right position. Most Interviews are extremely unrealistic anyway and even if you fail it doesn't mean anything about your skills, just means they found someone who would work for them for less money...
Keep trying and best of luck!
It barely shows any emotion to put a magnifier down, maybe?
No, it's not like this in other developed countries.

We don't let officers do this where I live.
Go to Spain, same salary, free healthcare, better quality of life, better weather, no crunch culture, better social life (good luck making new friends on Switzerland), less taxes and the last nobel prize of literature was inspired meanwhile lived here like many others.
D needs to up its game with the Techempower benchmarks IMHO. Vibe.d has been completely left behind by the usual Rust/Go/Java suspects. I'm very confident that it is capable, but that isn't particularly obvious atm.
> Some just choose to ignore them

Some... like smart people with lots of money.

Because, you know, the prediction market in nice oceanfront properties beloved by the coastal elites hasn't collapsed, even tough their tongues say they believe.
Note that there is some discussion [1] surrounding this licensing, as the content was orinally under cc by-sa 3.0 and recently (begin September) relicensed to 4.0.

The concern is if Stack Exchange Inc has the right to unilaterally and retroactively relicense the content.

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333615/will-concern...
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It's more interesting to sort the source data by salary, ascending. IBM has quite a few more "developer" titles than Software Engineer and Software Developer, and many of them pay quite poorly.

The median for "Application Developer" is $77K with a low of $48.5K.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=IBM&job=&city=&year=2019
Also most expensive place to live in europe
The founder of Autodesk, John Walker, has written extensively on this topic since moving to Switzerland decades ago.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/pourquoi_la_suisse/
No one has claimed porting to python 3 is easy in this thread. That said, if you start by "search and replace", then you are probably doing it wrong [0].

[0]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html
He was trying to make a joke..
And yet it is brainwashing that they believe the CCP is responsible for the bulk of the poverty reduction, rather than simply opening China to international trade. When one compares the postwar growth of Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan to that of China it might be more correct to say that rather than making them rich, the CCP stopped empoverishing the people.
>Btw, he’s used to sex every night, the court doesn’t grant him that

Wow that's a very deluded view, no one has a right to sex, married or not.
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I can comment on 2 as a swiss developer: It depends. While it might not be the prevalent spoken language, all small companies and startups i worked at so far had code comments, commit messages and issue tracker stories in english. The larger, more estabilished companies had most text in german. But everybody is willing to switch to spoken english in my experience.
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Do they?

==About 3,600 firms were listed on U.S. stock exchanges at the end of 2017, down more than half from 1997.==

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-09/where-...
No commercial ties to them, but if you're in the US, Costco does prints that are cheap, and (as a former digital pre-press nerd, I can attest to) reasonably accurate color reproduction.

The nice 7-color inkjet I've got under my desk has been unused for years and years. Good riddance to fiddling with that ink-sucking, nozzle-coughing, fiddly beast.
Congrats on the huge milestone!

I really like how you respect the Do Not Track flag. I wish companies had done this before browser makers started removing the feature.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/06/apple-removes-safari-do...
MBA or other Master's degrees are ways to buy time to wait out a bad economy.
> I know a number of people in Zürich who never bothered to learn German

I think Zürich is just a typical large city exception (similar to Berlin or Amsterdam). I think German (or French or Italian) is pretty necessary outside of Zürich/Geneva.
They use of a different mechanism to power it by delay. They use a second CO2 fixation pathway known as Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM). Basically they "store" the energy by day, then open up at night and to their thing. Only 5-6% of plants do it this way and, IIRC, almost all of those are succulents or desert plants. This pathway helps preserve water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism is a decent introduction to it.

Also, most "kid" bedrooms are around 10x10 or so, but some master bedrooms can be rather ... large. I said 3-4 to cover both not being the only one in there and the size of the plants. The tests are done on or projected to full-size mature plants, but if you go to the store and buy them they are rarely full size. They'll range from 6-8" babies to about 1/3-1/2 in size (1-2'). For the "full effect" from the reports they size based on a 4' tall plant.
You can certainly create a simulation in which the laws of physics are mutable, or have different immutable values than in our perceived reality.
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Haha, I miss you Alan.
> To read 200 books, simply spend 417 hours a year reading.

I mean, if you're blazing through books without really paying attention to them or thinking about them, sure. But I'm not sure the point of reading is to flip through pages as quickly as possible.

Also, there's nothing intellectually holy about books. They can be just as much of a waste of time as social media or TV. Whatever media you're consuming, the point should be to be mindful about it. Not to optimize for some pointless metric.
Because it is quite a bit too obvious?
The price comparison reads like a joke from my $500 a month, 2 bedroom, nice neighbourhood apartment in Sofia, Bulgaria. Also, probably saving more money than I would in Switzerland.

"If you are a Software Developer living in Europe then there is a better place for you - and this place is Switzerland."

Ha-ha

Yeah, it's probably not bad in Switzerland, just some of the arguments are really funny.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitosha
That's what hide is for. cmd+h hides the app+windows, going back to it immediately restores all of it.
I did the math, still worth it by far.
>Python3 does implicit float-to-int conversions differently

I don't think so? Might be floating point division.

> In Python 3.0, 5 / 2 will return 2.5 and 5 // 2 will return 2. The former is floating point division, and the latter is floor division, sometimes also called integer
division.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/183853/what-is-the-diffe...

I think an automated tool like `2to3` is probably a better bet for doing that kind of conversion. It should be a mostly automatic process for most scripts.
”Let's not even get into Finder and how awful it is in so many ways.“

Yea, let’s. Given that you’re talking about Karabiner to swap cmd keys you’re talking about an old version of macOS. So what specifically is bad about Finder? It may not be an issue anymore
Have you found there to be a significant language barrier when moving to Switzerland? I know Europeans generally know English, but is there an expectation that you speak German or another local language?
Yep. Sears was infamous in its heyday for selling homes (some assembly required), among other things, at reasonable prices to black people when that just wasn't done in large sections of the recently re-united US. Its catalog was a true innovation.
For cost of living comparisons, there's a great site for that:

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Most data are consumed indoor anyway, so mmwave will likely be used through indoor micro cells. mmwave also allows to boost capacity.

As already written in my previous comment, 5G is not just about faster internet. Other use-cases are as important, if not more. Operators know they can't charge consumers extra.
In addition, UIUC closed their in-person MBA program not long ago. Maybe a sign of things to come?

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/05/28/illinoi...
I'm curious if height is accounted for: nutritional deficiencies in childhood manifest themselves in both decreased height and decreased neurocognitive function. Decreased height would also lead to a decreased gait speed.
Video might help force a debate about the behavior and roles of police.

But the only technology that can really fix this is training. And changing the mentality of law enforcement in the US.
Toyota has been known for their reliability for a long time now. I can attest that with my Lexus, it's 13 years old now and in the 7 years that I have owned it, it has had zero defects. Last year it even got recalled (12 years after production) because the fuel filter might not have been installed correctly in the factory, so they replaced it for free.

That said: I still do every scheduled maintenance, which helps tremendously. The main problem with older vehicles is that people stop following the recommended services as the car gets older. Which is of course the opposite of what you should do with an old car.
A consortium of Chinese companies led by Qihoo 360 purchased the browser and several other Opera assets for $600 million

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/opera-sold-600-milli...
"Any other car manufacturer would issue a recall notice and repair it for free, regardless of warranty status."

I don't buy this one bit. E.g. GM ignition switches, Ford Focus transmissions, LR coolant crossover pipes. They don't do this by default, and mostly get away with it.
Many of the best-used robotics packages are handled in this way. The ROS paper itself has thousands of citations.

But it might be tough to get tenure doing that, and few jobs will support those efforts outside robotics startups or research labs, and often proprietary is the law of the land in those domains.

And outside tech R and D, where software still rules but isn't a core competency, you'll likely never have success with this model, sadly
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Why is Debian removing support for Python 2 at all? It's not like there are new releases they need to test against or updates they need to merge.
Me personally I'm not against the idea of copyright but the length of copyright has completely perverted the purpose. I do generally create for the public domain, but when you can lock up parts of culture you're stealing from the public. Once you share something it's no longer just yours. The idea that copyright has gone from 7 years to the perpetual state that it's gone to literally means that there were years where almost nothing has entered the public domain through copyrights expiring. Something from almost 100 years ago will only enter the public domain this year. That's wrong and a perversion of copyright, and has stolen something from the public for years because of retroactively changing the copyright rules.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-ye...
This guide answers a lot of questions:
https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/how-to-find-job-as-software-dev...

Long story short: it's super easy if you are from the EU. If not, it is quite hard.
> In Zurich, you can rent a whole flat (50+ square meters) for something between 2500-4000 CHF

Is USD 2500 - USD 4000 supposed to be cheap?!
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This opinion is heavily biased toward a white-nationalist narrative. For instance, the second linked “study” is actually a propaganda piece published by the New Century Foundation, an organization described by its founder, Jared Taylor, as “white-separatist”.

HN is not the place for this.
The capped salary is a really big deal.
Honestly......it's higher than I was expecting.