skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Punting a risky investment is a fine line between the dream still being alive and the bad news starting to roll in. For some investors - and sadly, even for some founders - this is during the earlier stages, which is why it is a huge red flag if founders or early investors insist on cashing out during later rounds.
I think this post had tons of good advice, but I feel like programmer vs engineer is a micro-optimization.

There's no standard terminology and nearly every company has a slightly different definition of terms.
Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust
I've been using an Asus ZenBook for a while and am very satisfied with it! They aren't very cheap, but Asus seems pretty innovative with their laptops. And the brushed metal finish is also quite nice.

https://www.asus.com/au/Laptops/ZenBook-Series-Home/

Not associated with Asus in any way...
Surprised Craft CMS hasn't been brought up.
Exactly. Smarter by not doing things I don’t want it to do.

Having remote functionality in an app is way better than an additional remote that will be lost as it is so rarely used.

I have my apple remote, don’t want nothing else.
"Bringing to bear the work of many dozen scientists over many decades, Meyer, who after a stint as a geophysicist in Dallas earned a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge and now directs the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture"

I'd sooner trust anyone with a bachelor's in Biology over a physicist and especially a philosopher as those folks tend to believe thruth can be constructed through arguments.

"Meyer doesn’t only demolish Darwin; he defends a replacement theory, intelligent design (I.D.)"

The point wasn't ever to put Natural Selection to the test. The point was God. The point is God and the point was going to be God all along.

"Meyer and other proponents of I.D. are the dispassionate intellectuals making orderly scientific arguments"

They are mostly reputable scientists from other fields who just happen to be devout christians, as well. They use their reputations to make the argument for religion. That doesn't make them bad scientists, just unqualified to speak on this topic. I'd recommend Meester's probability textbook interested in probability theory even though he is pro-id.

as for the whole cambrian thing, i defer to someone qualified but let's be clear that the author is stating at least one untruth here: the first animals appeared not during the cambrian but during the preceding period. To quote wikipedia: "The fossil record from the Ediacaran Period is sparse, as more easily fossilized hard-shelled animals had yet to evolve. The Ediacaran biota include the oldest definite multicellular organisms (with specialized tissues), the most common types of which resemble segmented worms, fronds, disks, or immobile bags".
WSL 2.0 is a full linux kernel powered by HyperV and is very fast with minimal overhead. Useful for using all those Linux tools directly on the same filesystem.
Knowing an ecosystem well on a senior level won’t happen in a few weeks.

But to your example, I’ve seen developers who couldn’t adjust to developing where they had a rapid release cycle because they were use to the big design up front. How you develop software where you don’t have all of the requirements for the next year is a completely different mindset.

Even on comments on this post, I see people who aren’t actually willing to actually talk to the customer to decide what they should work on.
But does it match WordPress in terms of functionality, plugin ecosystem, ease of deployment etc?
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Here’s a more comprehensive, if somewhat convoluted, explanation: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-pink-an...

“Pink and magenta have the same hue. What distinction there is to be found between magenta and pink lies along other axes than that of hue [i.e. saturation and value]. All pinks are magenta and all magentas are purple, and by extension, pink is a purple. However, it does not work the other direction: it does not mean that all purples are magenta nor that all magentas are pink, let alone that all purples are pink.”

(Visit the link for a more detailed picture of the differences)
You can either test toxicity on animals or test it on humans. They should create an especially uncharismatic dog breed to test with.
Thanks for the clarification. The article also mentions that the same pilot who sent some of the text messages voucher for the safety of the plane to FAA regulators. It looks like whatever concerns he had, he chalked up to issues in the simulator itself.
> Err, have you ever bought a first-gen Apple product?

I have 1st gen iMac retina, I have had zero issues and have been using it daily since I bought it new in 2014. I did get SSD and upgraded cpu and graphics card; I believe the base models under performed so I can imagine people were not so happy with those models?

Only regret, it cannot be used as an external monitor.

> I'd rather not volunteer $3000 to be a guinea pig for Apple's keyboard design gremlins.

yeah, I would probably wait as well; unless work was paying for it
That was already a possibility even before all of this DoH publicity. Mozilla, etc. pushing DoH publicizes it's availability, but there was nothing in the past preventing malware from tunneling all sorts of traffic over HTTPS. DNS inspection isn't an end all, be all for malware security. It just gets the low hanging fruit.
'Everybody Is Freaking Out': CA law aimed at Uber might harm freelance writers
Which would be fine, that is just not obvious in the site.

It'd also be nice if it was compatible with universal remotes.
That's great to hear. Maybe everyone complaining loudly about that got them to redesign it. I completely ruled out getting an XPS previously because of that design decision.
I remember VCs investing in Cash4Gold when that was being hyped, presumably because it was growing stupid fast. [1] I think that qualifies as a we-are-a-tech-cuz-website company. What VCs mostly look for is growth. Some silo themselves into niches (e.g. enterprise software), but I reckon that any company with high growth potential would be fair game.

[1] http://www.nagellen.com/2009/12/high-tech-venture-capital-fi...
Perception is trained, whether visual, auditory, etc. It's true that people who live next to the sea/ocean are trained to differentiate shades of blue and green much more than people who live in woody areas — shades of greens and yellows become much more sophisticated in such cases. Musicians tends to isolate sounds and timbers better (e.g. with a noisy background, or identifying precise instruments and effects in complex multi-instrumental pieces).

Painters are typically a bunch of good examples of our very subjective color perception.
This saved my sanity:

synclient PalmDetect=1 && synclient PalmMinWidth=4 && synclient PalmMinZ=60
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> outcompeted by midwestern farms..

with railroads to move the produce.. yes.

It was not fun to be a New England farmer after the end of the Civil War, economically. Things got difficult.
The pilots knew about MCAS. What the texts indicate is the behaviour of MCAS was changed during testing without the pilots being informed, and the pilots also failing to report that change despite becoming aware of it. This was certainly a contributing factor to the events that occurred later, but not at all the smoking gun that the title implies.

Forkner:

"Oh shocker alerT!

MCAS is now active down to M .2 [mach 0.2]

It's running rampant in the sim on me

at least that's what Vince thinks is happening"
I can agree with this. It's especially wonderful without aliasing on an even multiple Retina display. For example, 2x on a 5k Monitor (iMac, LG Ultrafine) or MacBook Pro. It's simple, clean, tried and true.
I'd guess... Make enough money to cure baldness and disdain for working people.

Only half sarcastic...
> because they would have to do something with those returned bottles...

No they don't. Here in Norway the bottles are compacted in the back of the reverse vending machine (usually from Tomra: https://www.tomra.com/nb-no/collection/reverse-vending) and sent directly to recycling. Bottles from all the different suppliers go together, none of them go back to the manufacturer of the content. And Coca-Cola has a deposit on bottles here and it is an entirely non-controversial idea.
It will be interesting to see what happens when subsidies end. There are likely to be both first order and second order effects.

The first order effect is just price sensitivity. People will decide to take public transportation, drive, take a conventional cab (which now has an app)--or just skip going out for the evening--if prices, say, double.

The second order effect is that there will be fewer passengers which will lead to fewer drivers. This probably doesn't matter much in a big urban core. But in marginal areas, such as where I live, it may be the difference between a viable service and an unviable one.
Is it not indicative, though, of the progression of changes to MCAS over time, different speed envelopes, significantly more elevator control, etc. And no process to decide when those changes should warrant additional documentation or training requirements?

Meaning, unrelated to "the glitch", but could have exposed info or training that would have made "the glitch" more survivable, because the pilots might have known MCAS was in play.
Yeah downvote a guy looking for work. Thanks.
> It feels like every modern realworld battleworn programming stack (ecma, c++2x, .net, jvm w/e) is filled with nuances and quirks which, as it turns out, an engineer _must_ know about to be able to bump revenues a little bit and to call themselves a professional.

I think you are overestimating how important those nuances are. The differences between Python and Ruby are not significant. The differences between Java, C#, or Golang are not significant. If you are a trained software engineer and have coded with one managed memory language, one garbage collected language, one typed language, one untyped language, one functional language and one object oriented language you have seen 99% of what there is to see. Most computer science grads should graduate having programmed C, Java, and Python
I Went Blind. I Still Owned Manhattan
I mean, that’s sort of Patrick’s exact point - you should avoid being hired as a generic “programmer” as you’ll make far less income. Instead, if you frame yourself as an expert in a particular business problem (and have the data to back up your results), you’re far more valuable to the average manager at BigCo, or to any business in general.

A good example of this is the acquihire phenomenon. BigCos often acquire small startups purely to hire the people working there. Half of the time, they shut down the startup and throw away the code. The objective is to hire smart people whom are also domain experts in a particular problem.
I understand that we're mostly agreeing, and I think that we both have an intuition for what it means for something to be a profit center.

Still, I'd like to show a gap in what you said: You talk about what kind of increase in revenue you'd have if such and such people did a better job, and what kind of ROI you'd get from each department.

But the question is, an increase relative to what, or an ROI relative to what?

Let's take the billing department. If you made sales for $10 million, and your billing department works okay, then you would have a revenue of $10 million. If you hired the best billing experts on earth, you still would get just $10 million. So that might make you look at the billing department as a cost center rather than a profit center.

But maybe if the billing department fucked up royally, either by not charging a customer, or overcharging them and hurting the relationship, or breaking obscure laws and getting the company in legal trouble. Then you could be out a lot more than $10 million.

So in effect, you could view the billing department's ROI as "how big a disaster they can prevent, and how good they are at preventing it." That kind of thinking makes sense for any department in the company.

That's the reason why I don't see the logic behind branding some departments as profit centers and some as cost centers.
Most Linuxes attempt to detect a HiDPI screen (hi resolution basically) nowadays but you cannot do fractional scaling as easily as you could on a Mac, especially on Wayland. You can only do 2x or 1x.
This looks pretty neat at first glance - however, the pricing being “pay for how long your API calls take to execute” seems incredibly difficult to even guess at what a per month price would be. Simple, sure. Clear? I don’t think so
RealmQL – GraphQL Alternative for Realm DB
data Numberable = Numberable {
first :: IO ()
,second :: IO ()
,third :: IO ()
}

parent = Numberable {first = return (), second = return (), third = return ()}

child = parent { third = print 'third' }

And if you wanted to DI into a function:

data Env = { numberable :: Numberable }

doStuff :: (MonadIO m, MonadReader Env m) => Int -> Int -> m ()
doStuff num1 num2 = do
myNumberable <- reader numberable
print (show num1)
print (show num2)
liftIO (third myNumberable)
I truly don't know what runs through the head of a writer or editor who hits publish on a story with this title right now.

Surely they must know that they're actively misleading people with it. That putting it out into a world where ten times as many people read headlines as entire articles means they're lying to ten times as many people as they're informing.
Yes.

With 50-company approach you increase the absolute number of first callbacks you get (hence everyone thinks it's optimal). With 5-company approach you increase the odds of actually getting through to a single job offer. Think about it.
I Built a Golf Website That Now Funds My PhD on Motor Control
OK, if the power is out you wouldn't know the temperature. Although in theory you could build a battery powered cellular system.

But like slfnflctd said, if it doesn't report that the situation is normal, there's likely to be a problem.

If there's no power and it's cold enough to matter, you go there (or call a neighbor or handyman) to either start a generator, start up a kerosene heater, or drain the pipes.
You don't know anything about my particular situation, and happen to be very wrong. But assuming the role of your rhetorical me, there are thousands more companies just like "mine". they all provide paychecks.
Intelligent Design rears its head from someone who should know better. FWIW: https://quillette.com/2019/09/09/david-gelernter-is-wrong-ab...
Gas money smells relateable to broad spectral segments. Cars are how Americans usually get places. Most people know the price of gas. But I'm not assuming that the population in the article own cars. It's the unsheltered. They sleep rough. A car would be a step up in terms of shelter.

On the street, gas money is still more than a proxy. For the carless, gas money is an ordinary way to get a ride in someone else's car.

Just now, the lowest fair on the Greyhound website for San Francisco to Atlanta six months (4/20/20) from today was $186 and 62 hours. I used six months because that seems like a reasonable lead time for a planned relocation. I used Atlanta because it is a lower cost metro with a lot of opportunity and moderate weather.

The lowest cost ticket to Atlanta tomorrow (10/21/19) is $217. Denver is $156 and leaves at 11pm. Chicago is also $217 at 11pm. I'd need convincing that Denver or Chicago is a better unsheltered living option than San Francisco.

On the one hand, even a Prius is unlikely to get you to Atlanta for $217. On the other hand, you can't take a lot of worldly possessions on the bus and two or more people can't share the cost of transportation.
The cost is like 50 euro a year - which is only really significant if you have less than a few meetups every year.

I would say that fee keeps things a little more professional than otherwise.
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>That he's also a dewy-eyed Trekkie who rationalizes his greed with dreams of space colonization makes it even sillier.

Space colonization is a form of greed: it's basically saying this world is not enough. So I don't see this as a rationalization: in fact, the article heavily suggests that his dream of space colonization was what led to his greed.
Not necessarily this. There may be other ways.
I thought it might be about wheezing the ju—uice.
How do we know we all see same red color ?
I hear the "depression is an illness" trope repeated over and over but I still fail to understand what it means.

I'm sure for some definition of the word illness it's true. But it's certainly not an illness in the way a cold or malaria or shingles or cystic fibrosis are illnesses. Those things can be objectively diagnosed. They entail physical measurable changes to a person's body.

Depression is a set of guidelines in a book that ask vague subjective questions about how someone perceives the world. And then if the person decides you have it you have it. If they don't you dont. This has very little to do with the first scenario.

I'm not trying to trivialize depression. I think it is very real and very serious. But I think the "illness" rehtoric is at best innacurate and at worst seriously misleading and distracting to people who have serious issues to deal with.
This site clearly explains why containers hve flopped so badly in the market.
Maybe this is what you were drawing attention to, but that part of the article misinterprets centralised planning. What it describes is the logistics of getting something from one place to another.

Centralised planning is when a government planner decides the source, the destination and the good without giving final power to a consumer. Amazon doesn't have the final word on what people buy (or the destination of goods for that matter) so it isn't a centrally planned system in that sense.
This has been happening from the start of the 737 MAX situation.

It has been incredibly eye-opening to see how the media will amplify and outright misrepresent the facts of a situation to create outrage/clicks/uptake/whatever. I know a little bit about aviation and chat to commercial pilots so watching the media coverage and comparing it to what the people in the industry are saying has been a bit bewildering and eye opening. I can only assume the media is equally manipulative in all other subject matters where I don't know enough to discern.
>why do they oppose a fee that is unlikely to hurt overall sales?

Do you have any evidence for this?

It seems like any fee, even a small one, is going to impact sales when an item is priced as low as soda is. That's not to say their stance is justified or morally right. But framing it as primarily driven by opposition to recycling (which is a source of cheaper raw materials for them), as opposed to blanket opposition to any kind of fee being added to the price of their products, strikes me as misleading.
Most Americans are afraid of tap water and have been brainwashed into thinking overpriced bottled water is better.
I’m team “operator mono”. It costs a bit but damn is it beautiful
Bezos on climate: "While others might fret that climate change will soon make the planet uninhabitable, the billionaire (Bezos) wrings his hands over the prospects of diminished growth. But the scenario he describes is indeed grim. Without enough energy to go around, rationing and starvation will ensue."

As Lovelock as said, currently the only answer is nuclear energy and that's largely rejected while the non-Western countries increase their fossil fuel use 'up to but not beyond' Western levels. They have a way to go and it seems not to involve cutting back whatever words emerge.
'human activity', aka fracking.
Correct link posted a few minutes before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304277
U.S. expands blacklist to include China's top AI startups ahead of trade talks
There are no whistleblowers in this story... both pilots signed off on the safety and the guys lawyer is arguing the conversation is being misinterpreted.

> “If you read the whole chat, it is obvious that there was no ‘lie,’” David Gerger, a lawyer for Forkner, said in an email. “The simulator was not reading right and had to be fixed to fly like the real plane. Mark’s career -- at Air Force, at FAA, and at Boeing -- was about safety. And based on everything he knew, he absolutely thought this plane was safe.”
> and the impossible to find... good app recommendations

Why not just ask for a pony? It would be easier.
I know all of this because I’ve Architected two solutions on Windows CE devices and built one on top of proprietary mobile/web form builder that would let you do real coding in Javascript.

Any company that would hire me as a modern “mobile developer” would be absolutely foolish. I have only written 30 lines of Java my entire 20 year professional career, never written a line of Swift or Objective C. Why would they hire me over someone with relevant experience as a developer? If they want to hire me as a team lead/architect and then find mobile developers, I would know what to look for.
Having written the SPARC64 compiler and runtime for Go (and the Solaris port), I assure you I know the difference between SPARC V8 and SPARC V9.

It appears that I have been mislead, back in 2005 when OpenSPARC was released somebody from Sun told me that LEON is based on OpenSPARC, and I haven't bothered to check since. It seems to be a completely different design (it even uses VHDL instead of Verilog). So I was very mistaken about LEON.

However, there have been other (embedded) SPARC V8 CPUs derived from OpenSPARC. I have worked on one myself (on the software side). This one was a very strange one because it only had two register windows (and the ABI didn't use register windows) and they disabled SMT.

This type of modification is extremely easy to do on SPARC because of the way 64-bit works. There are no separate execution modes, there's simply another set of flags that's affected by instructions. The conditional instructions chose which set of flags to use.

I really like SPARC, it's my favorite architecture.
What is the font used on this website?, looks very legible.
Searching on myfonts.com with a screenshot didn't work.
See my parallel reply.
Regarding plugins and functionality, not really. But the deployment is easier — and free. For simple sites, it's a real alternative.
Misleading title.

Coca-Cola pushing back on a bill that would increase their overhead, increase the cost of their product, and decrease sales is disingenuous and intellectually dishonest to label as "Undermining Plastic Recycling Efforts". Especially when they do things to push for the recycling efforts in other ways.

That's not to say bottle deposits wouldn't be a great system, regardless of how it hurts Coca-Cola's bottle line - I just can't abide by such egregious dishonesty. I've taken to referring to such over generalization of titles "the news cycle Simpson's Paradox." Its masking material details by over generalizing or over abstracting them away.
Too much of the cursive can damage readability, but if it's constrained, then it actually helps a lot. I use Dank Mono and write primarily in JS. I use the cursive for things like `let` and `const`, which helps them stand out. It's a very nice typeface, well worth the money.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304512
We pop a bullet powered rod in a animals head, flay it, cut it's flesh off, eat it, shit it out...... all good.

Use an animal to progress science and help the lives of millions?

This includes understanding animal physiology, vets allow animals to live amazing long lives these days as well as humans.

We didn't get were we are today listening to the weak minded who think's the meat in the plastic wrapped supermarket section is the lesser evil.
Keyboard controls, responsive design, no images (I don’t think), pseudo elements, and all weighing in under 10kb.
And how do those companies earn money to give you a paycheck?