skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but there's Toyota Corolla style mass production and Tesla Model S style mass production. In the former? Sure, save $5 here and there and it adds up. In the latter? Spend the money. Any small saving from corner-cutting will be far outweighed by the loss of reputation if your $100k car bricks itself for want of a $5 part.
By and large, the top programs admit people who already have work experience. Early career experience--executive programs aside--but something material.
> no Sun

Only in the winter. :)

The other points hold as far as my experience goes.
Awful Tabloid Predicts a Killer Asteroid Almost Every Day
When we use the coercive power of the state, it can only be with respect to the actions of an individual. Group punishments are completely unacceptable.

Quote Rev. Bayes till you're blue in the face, but profiling amounts to holding a group responsible for the actions of bad individuals.
Lots of Sun, but maybe not as much as Southern California.

San Francisco is famously non-sunny (all that cloud).

Salaries are certainly not capped at 140k CHF, I've seen a number of job ads for 180K CHF and that doesn't count stock options which is usually the bulk of compensation at the high end.

Not sure about the MBA vs IC thing though.
Advertising data algorithms. Usually they are just promoting things you already have recently purchased.
The old control panel can never be removed, because a significant amount of legacy software integrates itself into the old control panel and therefore wouldn't be usable if they removed it.
As a Norwegian, I agree with you it's disgusting.
As far as I am concerned, Stroustrup's greatest contributions to programmer are these three quotes, all from thre 2nd Edition of The C++ Programming Language:

"The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build."

"There are no 'cookbook' methods that can replace intelligence, experience and good taste in design and programming."

"Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost."

So true, so important, and so universally applicable.
It takes more than that to replace a BGA flash chip.
Yes, but it helps that they are not weighed down by the requirement to carry inventory, have brick and mortar stores, and are primarily in a services business (logistics as a service, compute as a service, etc). This is, of course, by design, but comparing the two models would not be appropriate. Sears does some of this pass-through badly on their website, but they also used to own a huge chunk of real estate and still manage their own warehouses, in-house brands, etc.

Amazon sells you counterfeit goods comingled with whatever manufacturers drop-ship to their warehouse. It's a totally different model.

Personally I think there's still room for brick and mortar retailers with some expertise and services that are reliable. Not sure it will scale the same as non-cog people / expertise are involved but not everything has to.
My life can be divided into pre-regular expressions and post-regular expressions. I get excited every time I find an opportunity to use it, and it happens a lot
Module Stability in Swift 5.1: Why It Matters
My family’s ownership outcomes strongly suggest getting a Toyota. I’m driving my Dad’s old 2001 Tundra pickup with 350k miles on the same engine. I was amazed when I bought it from him how every switch still worked, the original AC still blew cold. This is not my normal experience buying used cars from other manufacturers. Usually at about 150k miles they turn into a clown car of various systems failing. Someone put thought into each component on the truck and how it would age.
Thanks! Trying it on a few links it worked on a newer video from a terminated account but no dice on old stuff. It looks like they remade their account so that's definitely a win!
The domain is dlang.org, the github repository is called dlang, the titles of their pages are things like "Dlang tour" and "Dlang forums". It's already searchable as dlang with no issues.
Becoming a public company is a way to get equity investment. That is the purpose of the stock market. It was the original purpose of "investment banks" as opposed to "retail banks".

However, that is not what the bankers of Wall Street now focus on, they are more involved in producing "financial products", packaging arcane structures primarily to encourage trading and thus fees from mindless turnover.
zfs import -af?
That mindset is definitely not exclusive to Europe, almost every country on the planet thinks managers and MBA's should be paid more than individual contributors. It's only a very recent trend in the US that it started to change.
Sounds like a pretty damning indictment of quarter-by-quarter short termism
Not to defend MBAs here, but doesn't a big portion of the blame fall on organizations that are clearly putting too much weight on their candidate's degree and placing them in jobs they're not (yet) qualified for?

In an alternate scenario: an MBA gets hired to fill a position below management and the higher-ups get a clear picture if they're cut out to manage operations, only awarding the MBA a promotion to management if/when they prove themselves.
There are plenty of 90s era car electronics that are going fine. The sensors are going to be maintenance items after 20 years, but there's no reason to think the solid state components won't normally last 25+ years.

Spare (electronic) parts shouldn't be an issue with major brands. I've seen the same sensor used on a dozen models from several manufactures produced over 10+ years. As Takata exposed, there aren't that many parts suppliers around the globe, so a lot of commodity components are shared across the industry.

For long-term part replacement, I'd be far more concerned with construction techniques like plasma-transferred wire arc sprays used for creating cylinder linings. This technique cannot be replicated outside of the factory, thus, they kind of make engine blocks disposable (they can be sleeved, but they won't perform the same and will require different piston heads).
> Trying to secede in a country where secession is illegal, is... you know... a crime.

No one is arguing whether what they are doing is legal or not, we are arguing whether it's right or wrong.
Essential Papers on Sentiment Analysis for Data Scientists
I have talked to people who have been to fancy MBA programs. The ones who had (substantial, management-related) work experience first say that they already had learned everything the university could teach them. The ones that did it right out of school said that they didn't really understand what the university was saying until they saw it for themselves in the field. These were non-technical MBAs that taught accounting concepts and management strategies (as opposed to these modern MBAs that have a lot of statistics courses), so I'm not sure how closely this aligns with the situation today.
The ones who are bad at business and gamed their way to the top are never just bad at business. They always have borderline personality issues and strange quirks.

Reminds me of Ramesh Balwani from Theranos.
I have a 2005 Accord which has been quite reliable, but it is an LX and doesn't have much of an infotainment system. I'm worried about repair of things like the video cameras, LCD screens, and infotainment systems that are in the new cars once a decade or more has passed. Cars are a pretty hostile environment for those systems.
Not true, there's a ton of sun in the mountains above the clouds.
Python 2 Removal (All): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=py2removal;...

No Python 3 Port: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=py3noport;...
How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries
Seems a bit more complicated than just unsoldering the old chip and putting in a new one.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190621052637/http://teslaservi...
Will you detect data corruption before your snapshots rotate? ZFS controls saved data. Also, it saves more more space then rsync as it can store just the difference (rsync will copy whole file if changed, which makes things like snapshots of virtual machine very impractical).
David Sinclair: “Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To”
Exactly, this bites me almost every single day. Working in IntelliJ and using Chrome dev tools on the current tab. Switch to the browser window to look at a change, tab to dev tools and oops I'm in IntelliJ. Juggling the 3 windows I never seem to land one the one I wanted. I found the different shortcuts like you mentioned but I usually default to Cmd+Tab which is never what I want.
What about formal requirements? The software field in the US is known for not caring a whole lot about people's educational backgrounds as long as they can do the job. Is Switzerland the same or are degrees hard requirements?
... and only in parts of the US.

Historically compensation tends to be tied to age/seniority and hierarchical status, not contribution per se.
Newly ported packages can absolutely enter testing at this moment.
They still have the highest salaries in Europe. Anybody moving there from another European country would see those salaries as pretty awesome.

I don't care what managers and MBA-s make until I can make an awesome living. I'm not more special.
It looks like this article is setting up a week of reporting, and I assume the facts will come in subsequent stories. It's a weird format though; not one I'm accustom to in a world of self-contained news reports.
Logistical part of reading 200 books a year seems like a bigger challenge than actually reading the books. I'm not sure I could find 200 good books to read. Basically I would have to find new books at the same rate I read them. Also, I would probably have to pre-order a month worth of books and find a place to store them after I have finished reading. Then, of course, I could go to library, but that takes a lot of time, given that I'm reading most of my free time. Seems like a headache and I need to hire a personal secretary who would provide me with a steady stream of good books.
EDIT:
Just realized that there already might be some kind of service, that does just that. If not, it might be a good business idea.
The argument is that the shutter sound inconveniences regular users while doing nothing to prevent the misuse it claims to prevent. Which part did you miss?
Not only does Switzerland have a Sun, it has the same Sun as California, just on a slightly different schedule.
right clicking with option held is difficult? you’re not a mac user so maybe you didn’t realize this but the option key is used to modify many things (like promptless shutdown/restart/trash empty). click open a menu and press option and you’ll seem some menus entirely change.

Also Finder absolutely does support showing the path, and right clicking on any node gives you the option to copy the path as a string.
Patent Buyouts: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation [pdf]
From the article:

> It would be difficult to think of a less commercially minded venture in the early 21st century.

This would be more of a wealthy guy side business instead of a VC backed growth business...
You need sudo access (at least in Linux Mint, I suspect also in Ubuntu) to be able to manipulate printer settings. I've setup this for a special role granted to all users on our machines at home as sometimes the printers are recognized as offline although they are clearly online.

There are mundane use cases for this.
It also has syntax for structural typing where needed.
Well, yes. I would say most developers can't go to their nearest 2500m peak and work for the day, though. :)
Instead of raising StopIteration you have to return from the function, otherwise you'll just get a RuntimeError starting with Python 3.7.
Agreed it is not likely to hit many people in production, but the writeup on the oss-security post, linked to below is a fascinating reminder of deeply buried assumptions buried, that make security hard.
I think it would be interesting for Hacker News to know what happened with the company that they made famous from the start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18024277
> Their actions have been judged under the laws of a democratic state but of course Secessionist propaganda calls it 'Fascism'.

Under a state they voted against is a pretty important point.

Under a state they weren't even allowed to vote against.

Under a state they were actively trying to separate from.
I have seen multiple people post to Ycombinator claiming that porting to Python3 is always trivial and easily done. And, yeah, sure, for a 380-line script written after Python3 came out, porting the code so it runs the same both in Python2 and Python3 is trivial.

However, for an over 6000-line script written in the mid-2000s, before Python3 even existed, porting to Python3 is non trivial. Trust me, I tried.

First, the syntax sugar stuff was easy enough to fix: Do a simple search and replace so that all cases of stuff like

print "foo"

Become

print("foo")

I had to do something similar with the way this script calls raise(). Not to mention adding a hack so Python2 uses “xrange” while Python3 uses “range”. After doing all of this, the code still does not run in Python3. As far as I can tell, the issue is that Python3 does implicit float-to-int conversions differently than Python2; the code will not raise an error in Python3, but it will silently run differently, until the state is different enough that the Python3 version raises an error while the Python2 version works as expected.

At this point, I just threw my hands in the air and gave up.

For reference, the offending code is here:

https://github.com/samboy/misc-civ4-mapscripts/blob/master/T...
How was the process of obtaining a work visa / citizenship?
Great, please do. I wanted to add zoom capabilities to the boxplot visualization, but it didn’t seem to be available in vega(-lite) yet.
Examining how AWS builds their own serverless apps
>Even if that person ends up taking a much harder stance than they actually believe in, and becoming a little too disconnected from reality.

Sure, that will get the issues discussed - discussed and then promptly rejected. A bad arguer arguing for the right side can do a lot of damage. For example, imagine how successful climate change skeptics would be if someone got in to the news by saying that New York was a month away from flooding.
Thanks for the correction regarding Sinofsky .

Undoubtedly there were multiple issues at play there.

However having been part of such "rebuilt the world" projects, I do believe politics also played an important role, as many signs that came into the outside world feel similar.
This article makes a credible case for special protections for the yew being unneeded. There does not appear to be a great number of threats to them nor does it appear they're being cut down with any regularity
> Of course you're right about that. But the conclusion should not be "continue rotting away on social networks", the conclusion should be "read 200 good books".

"Good book" is extremely subjective category. But I imagine that with such consumption, they would become boring and repetitive quickly.
Lowes recently started carrying The black and Decker version of Craftsman and they're pretty adamant about advertising the warranty is back. Then again, who knows if that's accurate.

I try to pickup old craftsman tools (and matco / Snapon) when I go to garage sales. The older stuff was great.
“Hacker”: Why so controversial? – Working in a privacy focused startup
I do that too. Mix some light stuff in with the heavier stuff. For example I have learned that Stephen king is a damn good writer. It won’t change your life but it makes a commute quite entertaining.
> Furthermore, ZFS protects you from bitrot via multiple copies or RAIDZ or at least lets you know bitrot occurred (scrub).

Scrub is not even required for that: all data is checked when read, it's only for checking unused data.

> It lets you resize the dataset

Considering that you are talking about quota on directories, I'm not sure it is really advantage of ZFS. It's basic functionality.
I don't think the article does that honestly. But I don't think it is helpful to forego the discussion because it might feel a bit alarmist.

If you look at modern enterprises, digital technology is most often used in the most un-imaginary way possible. For surveillance of workers. KPI and rationalization are keywords here.

That has made working profoundly worse. Until we see more constructive deployments of information technology, I think the recoil of accusations like this should be more tempered.

And yes, there is a certain subjection to data. In the health care sector, nurses get a fixed amount of minutes to be done with the patient. Based on collected data that allegedly gave us the insight to make that determination.

It should be the other way around. Managers should fear that digital technology surpasses their abilities to efficiently coordinate tasks and give nurses information about the most urgent cases. Digital technology has failed spectacularly to achieve any of that.
This is such a strange argument. We didn't have social media 20 years back. We still weren't reading 200 books every year then.
1. How easy/difficult to get Switzerland citizenship if you live and work there?

2. How popular is English language is in Switzerland IT companies?
Ah, the shortcut for this is keyboard layout specific: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/193937/shortcut-fo...
I'm currently reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and it's quite lengthy at 1300+ pages. Not only that, but there are some interesting digressions along the way, some which have gotten me interested in very basic cryptography (or at least the history). For instance: https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/about/cryptologic-h...

So I don't see how in a case like this, I could finish this book (and any related materials of interest) in the allotted time, to reach the goal of 200 books a year. That's just unrealistic.
It also states one line before:

> Simple is better than complex.

I understand that nobody will force me to use this feature, but as I said before, even the spec and the write up tells how this feature is confusing and .. complex.
This is my experience as well. Even with > 10 years experience, it's hard to find engineering jobs paying > 120k.

> In Zurich, you can rent a whole flat (50+ square meters) for something between 2500-4000 CHF and if you are single and open to living with other people you can find a room in something called Wohngemeinde for as little as 800-1000 CHF.

Good luck if you have a family, it's ~4k for 4.5 rooms (100sqm).

Check the listings on the website, most of them cap out at 10k/month. That is gross, pre-tax. So net is about 8k max.

> Maybe it is because of the crunch work culture that squeezes out everything out of employees and only gives a payout to founders and VCs?

This is no different in Switzerland.
> If you want to save on the premium and keep yourself healthy then you pick the 2500 franchise and pay as little as 300 CHF per month for healthcare insurance.

That's..surprisingly expensive for someone that's not self-employed. I didn't think it would be that expensive. Meanwhile for me it's about $30 a month for my HSA employer plan with a lower deductible.
Descartes wrote that reading great books is like having a conversation with the greatest minds who have ever lived - and even at that, hearing only the absolute best of their thinking.

I think it's a matter of filters. On Twitter where there is almost no filter, you will be reading almost exclusively garbage. You may just be better off reading erotic romance novels than reading unfiltered Twitter. HN is a little more tightly filtered, the quality of stuff posted is generally higher, and it's probably more worth your time.

But it's hard to beat hundreds or thousands of years of filtering through the best thoughts of the best minds. When you pick up the plays of Sophocles or the writings of Cicero you know that people from radically different societies and ages of history have found wisdom and insight in their thoughts. So I think there is some "magic" in books in that they have had time to age, and that thousands of very smart people have found value there.
> And if a Chinese airplane manufacturer out-competes a US one, causing it to fail, its workers go unemployed, weakening the US economy, and making it more dependent on China?

This won't happen, because despite the US's public insistence that free markets should be enforced everywhere, it is in fact quite protectionist over several of its industries, aerospace being one of them.
There's an interesting assumption baked into this entire approach, which is that the human-evaluated system is better. I'll be interested to see if that's an artifact of this summary article or is reflected in the underlying reporting coming up, because it's wise to not leave that assumption unchallenged. FTA:

> Instead of talking to a caseworker who personally assesses your needs, you now are channeled online where predictive analytics will assign you a future risk score and an algorithm decide your fate.

If the caseworker is racist, this isn't a worse scenario... unless such racism has also been baked into the risk assessment algorithm, which is definitely a possibility. But at least from my personal experience, I trust our ability to identify and de-train racism from assessment networks more than I do our ability to consistently identify and hire non-racist caseworkers. Deprogramming racism out of humans is hard (and even if you succeed for one, you can't copy their state-vector into the brains of their peers).
It took me about 10 minutes at the local city hall. However, my wife is Swiss, so I'm very much an exception.

If you don't have a familial connection, you need to find a job, and the company will need to prove they couldn't find a local Swiss resident/citizen that could have done the same job, so it's a bit harder to get in than Germany or other areas of the EU.

Edit: I'm on a multi-year residency visa. I'll need to renew once more before I'm eligible for citizenship (after ~5 years).
https://emojipedia.org/right-pointing-magnifying-glass/ is part of Unicode Emoji 1.0 https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/1.0/emoji-data.txt as 1F50E and it's represented on the page not via an image embed, but as a character.

Why wouldn't you consider it an emoji?
They also contain decades of bodges and quick fixes to get stuff to just work - working out what they need to keep and throw away must be a nightmare.
Study finds a key reason black scientists are less likely to receive NIH funding
There is a bloat of capital seeking any and all possibility for growth. Even money-destroying companies are going public because growth-chasing has become so desperate.
ThymeBase has two remote developer positions open with a preference for Africa and European timezones. https://remoteok.io/remote-jobs/75614-remote-full-stack-deve...
The sad part is, every time I type dlang in google for something, it tries to correct it to golang and that's terrible. duckduckgo doesn't do that.
How to optimize a resume to land a startup job
"If this is the case why do so many companies seek going public?"

Do you think the majority of people working in Wall St are involved in IPO value creation?
Yeah I can see that. It's definitely a personal taste thing. I'm just glad that many people have so many different things to enjoy.
Without encryption, we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground
Please note that the labour market is regulated in Switzerland and that, depending on where you come from (especially outside EU), it may be difficult or impossible to obtain a work permit.
IMO cameras are more useful as a tool to defend yourself against the state rather than to bring charges against the state. The government doesn't want to bring charges against those enforcing it's laws as that would cause other enforcers to be less willing to do the work.