skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how long untill they pull the plug and people are left with a brick that isn't updated.

For that price, have a look at Ubiquity's Unifi line (and Amplifi). Great router, great AP's, frequent firmware upgrades and no privacy concerns.
The star tracking feature of the astrophotography mode definitely has me interested. I'm disappointed to see the continued lack of battery capacity on the smaller phone though. While I'd love a larger battery, I'm one of the unfortunate ones whose small hands can already barely reach across my Pixel 2's phone screen -- much less the top section.

I'm also incredibly excited about the face unlocking feature -- I owned a Pixel Xs for about a week before returning it, and face unlock was my absolute favorite feature. It's very seamless especially compared to fingerprint unlock.

As an aside, Marc Levoy, who spoke at the Google event today is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford, and has a great series titled "Lectures on Digital Photography" available for free on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7HrM-fk_Rc
1983 Mercedes Diesel has electronic fuel injection and ABS.
> And yet, despite helming two failed ventures and having little work experience beyond an internship at a financial services company created to manage his father’s fortune, things seem to be working out for Zach Dell. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is now an analyst for the private equity firm Blackstone. He is 22.

I was rewatching Mad Men lately and it reminds of Peter Campbell. Early on, Peter screws up something badly and Don wants to fire him, but he can't because the firm owner Sterling explains, Peter comes from a wealthy family and his family connections bring business to the firm.

Sounds like maybe the same thing? Even if Zach Dell just sat a desk and stared at a wall all day, he'd probably be invaluable because his father is a billionaire and he knows other billionaires and he can introduce them to the principals at the firm.
> It's a loophole?

Well, call it what you want. Originally the H-1 program was for temporary non-immigrant workers. Intent matters when someone enters any country -- if someone is determined by the immigration authorities to have intent to immigrate, but only holds a non-immigrant visa or waiver, they'll be denied entry.

In the 90s the H-1 program was made dual-intent, as in, intent to immigrate would not disqualify someone from entry, setting the stage for the present mass exploitation of H-1B workers.

> what other way is there for someone to immigrate?

Like I said, US immigration is racist and broken. I don't know how we solve it, aside from obvious of creating other paths to legal immigration and phasing out H-1B's dual-intent status so that immigration doesn't turn into exploitation.

From the immigrants' perspective the obvious thing to do is vote with your feet -- go somewhere else or stay in their home country -- but so many people want to come to America that it's hard to imagine reaching a critical mass to effect policy change.
Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand
Anyone can read The Millionaire Next Door 200 times by quitting social media
This is me. Did you at least become a software engineer?
> The pricing change is currently only a limited test for select groups in a small number of locations. We will not be making any significant pricing changes in the near term. We are committed to providing advance notice before any changes go into effect.
I think OP was asking if Amazon is calculating their savings based on the public AWS service pricing or their own cost for running on those AWS services (there's obviously a good chunk of margin on what it costs to run AWS and what the listed service prices are for those services).
ZFS is mountable between Linux and FreeBSD so long as optional features are configured in an appropriate way - this is a benefit of OpenZFS "version 5000" scheme.

IIRC, one of the issues involves the layout of extended attributes. FreeBSD keeps to Solaris layout (which is essentially the same in concept to NTFS' one), while Linux for speeding up certain stuff (and because Linux can't use native xattrs to full extent anyway, due to using Irix API which is limited to PAGESIZE xattrs) has an optional feature to pack xattrs more densely.
I’ve used all of those languages and never had a problem searching for things for any of them, with the exception of C# very briefly at the time it was released.

Whenever this complaint is lodged I feel like it’s just an easy thing to complain about that isn’t an actual problem at all. Am I wrong?
Why did you migrate? I was given the option to but haven't (yet, nor been forced to).
Peeping into the black box of AI to discover how collective behaviors emerge
I imagine if accelerometers were sensitive enough they could be used in place of GPS, once a device was calibrated with position and orientation.
My actual advice--for whatever it's worth--is that at the outset of your career, it's better to chop wood and carry water on successful projects in a good engineering culture, than to collect buzzwords working on projects doomed to fail in a weak engineering culture.*

I know it's very hard to get jobs in established good companies, but there are also quality startups, founded by people who have these kinds of scars already and won't go down the path of building things nobody needs.

Here's a specific tip:

When interviewing, there's a point where you get to ask them questions. Great! Ask about projects like these. Is the company working on any of its own tech that could otherwise be rented from Amazon or is available as open-source? Why? What is the expected benefit? If not, how do they manage development to stay focused on projects that deliver value?

By asking these questions you will identify engineering groups that are strong or weak, and you will also send them a strong signal that you care about success. Good companies will pick up on that signal and be more inclined to hire you.

JM2C. My advice plus $3.00 will get you a latte at Starbucks.

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* This is not a dichotomy, of course.
Sure this will last long.
Same for my 2011 Explorer, and since it was such a PoS [1] the system would reboot it self while I was driving. When rebooting it would put the A/C/heat into halfway fan on 70 degree mode, whether you wanted it or not.

[1] - there's currently a class action settlement about how terrible it was
Thank you, sir/madam.
Thats probably true, but thats someone at the top of the field in of the most expensive places to contract. I am very much not a senior engineer, I started as a new grad about 6 weeks ago.
That’s the first thing I thought after going through the linked article. We strongly need some aggregating tool for all events happening around a particular location.
I've had two Airports in my life. One I bought in 2007 and one I bought in 2013. Not one failure.
Is kinda frightening that this doesn't get any more discussion here, because it means that the people that get the news here (developers, it staff or at least technical savvy users) aren't really concerned about the points he raises, even though they are very important in today's world.
I'm pretty sure that DNT is off by default in Firefox. That's what I mean when I say that turning it on can be an additional tracking data point.
This may sound like a dumb question, but how much do you think you retain and take with you from each book through out a year?

I know it will depend on the book, if it's a book to entertain or a technical book... but sometimes I get the feeling that so little is retained it's almost unproductive in the long term simply because you will forget a lot of it.

I have books that stuck with me, that changed my perception, but those are a really small fraction, and probably had to re-read them to get some details if I wanted to talk about that book to someone for example.

Do you take notes? If so, do you revisit those notes?
> Financial Ledger – This team moved 120 TB of data, reduced latency by 40%, cut costs by 70%, and cut overhead by the same 70%, all powered by DynamoDB.

Does this mean they have a custom set of books running atop DynamoDB or is this specific to aggregate reporting and financial data warehousing?
There is no sure-er mark of a Python novice than the "2 to 3 conversion is trivial" myth. Python has a long history, there are lots of versions of 2, there are complicated data processing changes from all versions of 2 to all versions of 3. Not every conversion is hard, but they can be an enormous amount of work.
Writing is probably not going to change your life.

But by all means, write like crazy...it's a wonderful hobby! I've written ten (bad) novels in the last ten years and I've loved every minute of it. They've been read by less than 5 people.

If I cook dinner but only my family eats it is that a failure? If I play the piano but only for myself is that a failure? If I paint paintings that nobody buys is that a failure?

Of course not.

Writing is no different than any one of a thousand other human activities. Some pianists will reach a huge audience and change their lives as will some painters and some chefs. Most won't and that's totally fine.

We need to stop believing that "all is lost" if we don't "succeed" on the narrow terms defined by others. That goes for writing, coding, and everything else.
Downvoted but not actually opposed by comment.

I think you touched a nerve for some people.
Thanks. Definitely gonna take a look on it
No, no, Uber employed all those developers because every one of them's work was crucial to the success of the company! Dan Luu wrote a famous essay about it, and he can hardly be wrong, can he?!?

https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
"Republicans"? That's what we're calling them now?
It reduces cost and makes it easier to give a nice user experience when people are test driving. It makes it easier to manage all the different aspects of the car from a single interface.

The primary reason the car is made, in the first place, is to be sold at a profitable price. That is priority #1.
Firefighters can make bank.. overtime and all that. Teachers are underpaid and nurses are probably too but they too can do well working overtime etc...
My guess is that like they did with Google, with time, Oracle will go after all the OpenJDK derivatives.

To be clear the licensing appears to be open enough so that this shouldn’t be a real threat, but IANAL.
"strong magnetic fields can make you forget things"

source?
2600 still meets, you should hit up your local one.
I don't know. As the son of a High School teacher and an unemployed father from a third world country, I'm probably not what you call "smarter rich kid" yet I went to a top 5 MBA. Many of my classmates came from equally diverse backgrounds and nationalities. I think 30%+ of my class were foreigners.

But go on, it's easy to hate on MBAs. It's the one bigoted view everyone is seemingly allowed to have.
mods (@dang) can you do something about this unsubstantiated and inflammatory comment
A year sounds crazy optimistic. The new fridge would have to lower the power bill by $1000. That's as much as some households spend on all electricity in a year.
The motion tracking / hand gestures / radar thing seems cool, but it also screams "3D Touch" to me. It'll be really interesting to see if apps successfully leverage it, or if it will fade away and disappear by the time Pixel 5 comes around.
I think OP means Amazon’s discount on AWS.

Many customers on AWS have contracts that guarantee discounted rates given sufficient volume. People have commented on hn about negotiating them, and you can see some examples from recent IPO filings. Amazon (the non-AWS parts) are yet another customer of AWS, and wherever possible you should expect them to operate like one. They even buy RIs!
There's anti-theft considerations at play with how car electronics are coupled, reducing part count for cost savings, and I think a bit of the classic right to repair vs corporate interests dynamic happening. Automakers have been known to intentionally make things difficult to work on.
I Spent a Week Exploring How We’ll Have to Live in Post-Water America
I bet they're just going to EOL it. It's been pointed out here by several Xooglers that Google engineers tend to focus only on launching new products in order to get promoted. This looks like it was built by a different group (Nest) within google.
What’s the maximum speed people are getting in the real world with 802.11ax? I have gigabit internet up/down with an 802.11ac router and I’m getting 420-440 u/d right under the router from both my iPhone and my laptops with 802.11ac.

I get 930 u/d wired.
In the biz, its called a "relationship hire."

Deutsche got caught hiring the dumb kids of Chinese bureaucrats to win over business recently, but it happens basically everywhere.
What about -betterC? I always thought this was a nice "pivot" for D. It would be great to have more support for this direction. You can't avoid malloc there, but maybe some instrumenting for leak detection or some libc replacements that exploit or are exploited by the language.

Other than that, I'm okay with anything that was already in Eiffel or Modula-3…
I have several friends with top tier MBAs. They all got them in an effort to jump from the sell-side to the buy side, and most saw salary increases from 300-400k to 600k-1M+. The ROI on that specific career move is pretty clear and is really the only path I would personally justify for an MBA.

They all say the course load and work is a joke. It's mostly an accreditation to the buy side hiring process and networking.
How? Its an Open source implementation of the java vm which they don't own.
"Don't buy consumer electronics from Google to help them build non-advertising revenue streams, we want to make sure that only DoubleClick is ever profitable."
>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/2009...

This is a surprisingly insightful blog post, which I wasn't expecting, considering the click-baity title. But I think I see now where my parents went wrong in raising me - the self-esteem movement, which the Gen Xers inherited, played too much a role in my rearing, methinks.
The problem is that how do new members discover this meetup? One of the really cool uses of Meetup I have found has been meeting new people and discovering new groups when moving to a new city. That discovery will disappear if everyone does their own thing.
No dogmatic POV will stay untouched in this book.

Kind of a tough medicine, but it may help you out from the depth of depression. I know Jordan Peterson refers to it in a couple of talks.

Also it is so sharp and so linked to modern identity politics.
Was forced to when I wanted to add their cloud monitoring service. The payment system is now Google's.
The claim is that some of the data was migrated to publicly available systems. I'm guessing that quite a bit of it is stored in amazon specific systems, for two reasons. First, availability. If the amazon product catalog depends on Aurora, then when Aurora has an issue, so does Amazon retail. Second, custom solutions that were developed before modern alternatives existed have an insurmountable inertia in a big company.
Wowzers...I should have majored in H-1B Software Engineering. Any good tutorials out there?
How bloody surprising.

My own experience:I have an associate degree, I cannot apply to anything because I don't have a bachelor degree, yet my current stakeholders are CxO, or I am basically a tech lead. I would love to do a MBA or a master degree but continous education is out of reality.

And mooc are useless in this regard : sorry but even if you pass our Mooc "degree", you still need a bachelor to register to the master through the mooc pathway, screw that.
He was referring to RDS list price.
> I can assure you it is not

I have it on vanilla Gnome 3.34

https://imgur.com/BldCTMf
It's a 2 year program and you're also supposed to be learning business administration.

I know they like to select the smart people who have lots of extra money, but when in the program is all this stuff taught?

Being managed by someone with shallow technical skills and bunch of book knowledge about how to manage doesn't like a good time.
So I did a bunch of research and the best generators of these types are the Winco and Cummins ones. The ones they sell at Home Depot are not meant to run more than a couple hours at a time.

If you want a generator that will run for weeks on its own you need to look for "off grid".
Sometimes, "what was happening before but faster" alone is what can cause something to cross the line of legality (philosophically.)
Depends on the definition of "mass". $0.001/unit doesn't pay when "mass production" is 500,000 units per year. That's a savings of $500/year.
(France) financing 6 to 18 month post doc (climate et al.) research contract
ax is mostly about efficiency, not speed. While it has a much higher peak data throughput that’s often not realized anyway, so somewhat irrelevant.

ax really doesn’t do much for most home networks. In a small network, 802.11n will provide all the throughput necessary to stream most things at 4K. And few people even have a connection faster than ac allows.

ax provides faster speeds for highly congested networks, as well as better battery life for phones. That’s mostly what it’s about. It’s unlikely you’d see a difference between ac or ax on a small home network.
Survivalist Vi
As an organiser, I'm genuinly stunned by how poorly thought out this model is.

It fundamentally changes the relationship between me and my attendees. Suddenly they are paying to attend. The fact that I get non of that money is irrelevant to the person paying. That's a big psychological shift for free events like mine.
Domino’s pizza checker is just the beginning – workplace surveillance is coming
I’m no archival expert but here’s my lazy mans 3 location strategy.

I use iCloud photos by default, then open google photos app on my phone every once in awhile to have a duplicate cloud sync ($2mo). Then when I remember every month or so I open photos on my Mac and copy everything over to my synology nas which houses a master iPhoto library that is hundreds of GBs at this point. Using iPhoto is probably a mistake here since it’s fairly terrible, but not sure how else to reasonably manage all my photos. I’ve tried Picasa but came back.

I’ve been burned by apps like everpix cloud storage that suddenly shut down and gave me only a few days to download nearly a terabyte of now unsorted photos. Similar thing with Sony cloudstation. I wouldn’t trust any single cloud storage provider from screwing you at some point.
I think Facebook, for example, could run a functional government. If they were allowed to secede and turn the land they own in Menlo Park into a small low-tax low-regulation country, that would probably be quite profitable for them. So be careful what you wish for!
> In 2016, researchers sent hundreds of résumés to high-end law firms. They were identical in degrees and grade-point averages, but researchers tweaked the extracurricular activities to make some candidates seem rich (sailing, classical music) and others seem poor (track and field, country music). At the end of the study, upper-class men had been invited to 12 times more interviews than lower-class men.

I think that says a lot more about "high-end law firms" than it does about American society at large.
The government should be providing a free guide for how to be compliant. It’s stupid that we have all of these regulations and the layman won’t know how to follow them.
Firing mods and forced relicensing
Java can do this via AOT or partially also JIT compilation.

For AOT there is this JEP: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295 and a different project: the GraalVM
Group has been playing the same game of D&D for 30 years
Fingerprint sensors are so convenient that they have become must-have features on my phones. Removing it from the Pixel 4 is an unfortunate step backward in terms of everyday usability.
I have that talk bookmarked to watch, but my bookmarks queue is like 600+ deep at this point :)

Just going by your summary:

Yeah, I do find it interesting how some different parts of the community have chosen to format their action strings differently. Redux itself literally doesn't care, of course - the only requirement is that `action.type` not be undefined.

As I said in "The Tao of Redux, Part 1: Implementation and Intent" [0], one of the main intents behind Redux is that the action log should be a literally readable history of what's going on in your app with semantic meaning behind each name. You _could_ have a single `"SET_DATA"` action, but that doesn't tell me anything about what's going on.

The Redux docs originally went with the SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE string format just because that's the common programming world convention for constant values. The naming in the docs also tends towards matching how you would name the action creator, ie, `"TOGGLE_TODO"` -> `toggleTodo()`. Those are perfectly legitimate choices to make, but definitely not the only possible ways to do it.

I've seen plenty of other variations over the years, usually in the form of some "domain" string + the "event" name. For Redux Starter Kit, we've gone with a '/'-separated string, such as `"todos/addTodo"`. The end user is still supplying both parts (via the slice `name` field and the user-defined reducer function name). So, the Angular-ish convention of `"[Some Domain] Some Event"` is perfectly fine, and very readable.

Either way, it doesn't matter what you actually name the _variable_ that points to that action type.

One of the most interesting variations I've seen on this is Slack, which apparently uses entire _sentences_ as their action types, each including a unique numeric ID [1].

Finally, yes, we would generally recommend treating actions semantically as "events in the app", not "setters at a distance". Again, the Redux store itself doesn't care, but the "events" mental modeling promotes dispatching fewer total actions and having multiple reducers independently responding to a given action [2]. We'll emphasize this more in the upcoming docs revamp.

Glad to know my writing has helped! Lemme know if you've got any other questions.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...

[1] https://twitter.com/erikras/status/1153350835738468363

[2] https://redux.js.org/faq/actions#is-there-always-a-one-to-on...
Debt does have a statute of limitation that varies state to state [0]. So even if there is a trial and judgement, after a certain amount of time it is invalid and there is no legal recourse to collect (although collectors will still ask).

I think the issue here is that this debt is not subject to the statute of limitations. Some other federal debts- student loans- have similar exemptions and special considerations.

[0] https://www.incharge.org/understanding-debt/credit-card/what...
Great list! (tweeted at you too!)

We've been cranking away at a better group event/planning platform on https://guestboard.co for a while now (basically Slack meets Evite), but with this news, we're switching up our product roadmap to include recurring events much sooner. Would love the input from any/all. Possibly considering an interim solution of simply cloning an existing event and carrying over the guest list from previous?

We'll also be prioritizing a "discovery" search tool to be able to find public events without needing to encounter an invite link from an organizer.

And before you jump down my throat(!) a common feedback point has been improving the RSVP function to allow attendees to join without a full registration, and this new invite/onboarding flow will be releasing in a week or so :)
To add to the list: https://gettogether.community/