skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a few with PhDs, and they don't. Usually post-nominal credentials, rather than "doctor" before the name. Anecdotal evidence doesn't mean a whole lot.

The giving-medical-advice thing was a dig at a formerly popular television host.
Why Muhoozi Had to Kill Gen. Aronda
HydroMining (which I assume will be the process they use) takes a LOT of water. Hope they got plenty of it.
I have mixed results, sometimes DDG is pretty good, a lot of times its about the same, but reasonably regularly it leaves me high and dry on an entire page of results and then usually the top hits on google give me what I want. However, I always go DDG first, then !g if I don't get what I want.
Thanks, you made my day.

I'm a Google network SRE, but perhaps I'll get new business cards saying "cold potato engineer".
This "personal instance" model doesn't really fit AWS: if the instance is borked then fail over to another one that isn't. No need for console input.
I was in the middle of college when that bubble burst, and I kinda felt like I was being cheated out of the opportunities I was expecting to have when I went in. Most of this centered around the internship/early-career period that is quite vital to one's career growth later on.

When I went into college, they talked about all these great internship/co-op opportunities that everyone got. So each year I went to the career fairs seeking them out:

- Freshman year: Go away, we only want juniors

- Sophomore year: Go away, we only want juniors (though I got lucky and had a single hit that I did take up on)

- Junior year: Go away, the tech economy crashed. We only showed up because we didn't want people to forget we exist.

After college, I attempted some semblance of a grad school experience to bide my time, while looking for work on top of it. Unfortunately, I often felt like I was competing with all those people with the critical "4-5 years of experience" who were unemployed. Furthermore, everything I did find seemed to be crappy contract positions requiring tons of experience for very little pay.

Eventually I got a gov't job that needed my degree, but didn't use or develop my skills. I got quite depressed, as I felt like all my education and personal development was going to waste and was going to rapidly become worthless. When I finally escaped, it was to a worthless job at a different employer that actually had future grown opportunities. This ultimately allowed me to pivot into the kind of job I actually wanted, and the rest is history.

Of course the takeaway from this is that I was already 4-5 years post-graduation before I had the opportunity to take my career in the direction I was expecting to go immediately after leaving school.
> It doesn't make sense to be a startup non-founder employeenowdays.

TBH, it never really made sense. There were few lucky shots and tens of thousands of sad stories.
(Google are doing it for the money.)
I read a little bit of it and started to wonder how iCloud isn’t prior art. Then I noticed that there’s a prior patent that’s nearly the same, but filed many years earlier (8437797) and they’ve used it to file against Apple and many others... Panasonic, Motorola, Netgear, etc. http://npe.law.stanford.edu/patent/8437797
Man, I hope to be “ruined” to the tune of $200 million someday. I would cry all the way to the bank.
Renting bare metal is exactly how the business worked prior to the rise of EC2. e.g Rackspace, Linode.

You can rent vs buy at any level : rent only machines, rent a 1/2 a rack, rent a full rack, rent a cage, rent 1/2 a dc, and so on.

Same with connectivity: you can plug your machines into a lan managed by the hosting provider, or run your own routers and peer with their in-house ISP, or you can buy peering directly in the building, or you can rent lightpath from a telco with pop in the building, or you can go rent a backhoe and start trenching across the parking lot...
The contracts can be written with any language. But generally yes, you lose them. If they are vested you can exercise them - meaning you pay your own money to buy them and own actual shares.
Just not maintainable, which is why distros switched away.
I worked through the tail end of the dotcom boom and saw all of the dot com bust.

My company went from 1500 people to about 300 people in 1 year. Layoffs decimated the company, and eventually we were bought by a competitor. I have coworkers who were out of a job for 2+ years. One of my personal friends on H1B had to pump gas overnight, and transferred his balances between credit cards just to stay alive. Entire technology parks were abandoned wastelands.

Even worse was that the idea of "outsourcing" to India started up during this time. So not only we were losing our jobs, the thought was that we could possibly be losing our jobs forever, because why wouldn't the engineers in India be just as effective for 1/5 the price? The per-capita job loss in Silicon Valley was worse than Detroit in the 80s, and the job losses were so bad that the traffic on 101 was actually okay.

I honestly felt like my way of life was dead, I even went to the hospital for a panic attack. Take into considering that while the wages for software engineers were high, they weren't as high as they are now. I was making good money, almost 6 figures, and it felt like I might have to find a new job in less than 5 years. It felt like a very dire situation.

After a couple of years, things started to stabilize, and it didn't feel so dire. However, I think people who went through the bust like I did were naturally reticent about joining companies like Facebook, Google, Netflix, etc which were the next wave of companies that defined Silicon Valley so we missed out on a lot of upside.
1. Your examples aren't on the same level as Nest, and I do the same thing. If you happen to hack my account at some random forum so I could see someone's attachment, have at it.

2. If anyone was so dumb as to think a camera they can view on their phone while at work or on a cruise ship was "only on their local LAN" then, again, it's 2019 and there's no excuse for that. If you can't figure out that you're seeing your house from 2,000 miles away because it's connected to the internet, I don't feel bad for you.
Canada (and many other countries) also have required accreditation.
Bitcoin started off as a toy, with 10,000 being exchanged for a pizza once. Ethereum smart contracts, even ones dealing with cryto-asset-exchange, are often treated as toys
Language popularity can make a significant difference. Using DDG for purescript queries gives iffy results often enough that I instinctually add the g!. However, for something like Java, or even Clojure, I find that the top result across both engines is more or less the same
You are right, I've just tried to upvote some posts, but I don't see that my upvotes counts
Well, every language requires you to write serialization code unless you have the rare case where your datastructures line up 1:1 with your serialized structure over the wire. And the 1:1 case is already trivial with Elm. So I don't really understand the complaint.

Frankly, with something like serde in Rust, it's such a pain to deviate from the 1:1 case that you tend to stick to the 1:1 datastructure despite how suboptimal it is, maybe manually transforming it after parse time if you can be bothered. I don't find that to be any superior to Elm's simple combinators.

My experience with Elm's codecs is that there's a small learning curve if the concept is new to you. And then after some real world experience you wonder how it was ever alien at all. I wish I had it in every other language I've worked with.
$900 if you include the $700 he gave himself.
Oh my god this runs in my browser! There goes my week
I started to read this and thought to myself "This sounds like Jonathan Blow" and then you mentioned the Witness and I finally tore my eyes away from the text to the username, and lo and behold!

Quick question - how do you gain this understanding of the possibility space without bottom-up exploration? Is it a matter of having good influences (and who might those be)? Or some other reason?
This 200m is for JP Morgan and UBS who extended 500m credit line to Neumanm and he promptly drawn down $380 million.

As JP Morgan is pushing for different vision of WeWork restructuring this is a pill to make sure they won't show loses on the credit line to Neumann.

I doubt that Neuman would be left with more then a few $ in his pocket.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/business/wework-jpmorgan....
>Sure it’s nice to have a Chinese name that sounds familiar, but would you expect your (say) Indian immigrant colleague to adapt an English-sounding name when moving to Canada?

I remember watching a comedian doing a bit about this phenomenon of people adopting names from other cultures, where there were two Caucasian ladies at an ashram, both called Lakshmi, and an Indian lady by the name of Pam. I wish I could find a video of this.
Agree, very insulting
He has already cashed out hundreds of millions, so it's probably closer to being ruined to the tune of $1B.
GoDaddy ships code faster with AWS and Serverless
I'm not sure I understand how hearing aids work. I think they pick up sound and amplify it for the user, giving them the ability to adjust the volume.

I remember seeing my grandmother's aids. They had a little knob on the side to adjust the volume, and if she turned one to high they would produce an ear piercing loud 'shriek' for eveyone in the room.

This was years ago, I'm sure the technology has progressed since then. But now that I really think about it, how does a device like that just not accelerate hearing loss.

We know we're not supposed to listen to earbuds/ headphones too loud, or risk ear damage. Seems like hearing aids are a kind of earbud that amplify external sound.

Seems like a high risk of folks blasting the volume, and damaging already poor hearing even further. Or a least a sure path to a nice case of tinitus over time.

What am I missing?
> they have more incentive to lie than your ISP does

A lot of ISPs openly collect user data, so I don't know how much that factor matters. And while I can go get a VPN, I can't just get another ISP.
Fascinating story. I'm really impressed with the dedication of the parents who retraced all his steps, contacted people he had met, found long forgotten photos, and eventually were able to find him in an unmarked grave in a foreign country of which there were no official records whatsoever he ever entered, and bring his remains home. The parents were incredible investigators.

As to the rest, it will always be speculation. From the article it does seem he himself made decisions to go places.
This battle technique was perfected by the old Norse Vi Kings.
Or maybe something like developing, manufacturing, and prompting a new pain pill, that gets millions of people addicted to opioids, thus ultimately resulting of millions of overdose death over a decade.
Typically data centers have compliance requirements like SSAE 16 specifies controls around physical access. Most any major retail data center would have that certification and others.

One presumes that because of NordVPN's business, they're colocating a server or two in many very many "POPs", presumably not all of them have tight controls on physical access. Its likely that there are none available in many areas where they seek to maintain a point of presence.
From what I understand the main concern with cow farts is the methane produced in cows' (and other ruminants') digestive systems, not carbon dioxide. Methane is a 25x more potent greenhouse gas according to the EPA: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#m...
The build quality feels great, and it doesn't feel like it is going to fall apart on me (granted, it is brand new). It feels quite solid, it doesn't easily bend or creak, and I feel like I can throw it into a backpack safely enough. Also, the keyboard feels really great, although anything that isn't a modern MBP keyboard feels really great to me these days.

That said, it doesn't feel quite like a single, solid piece the way my 2017 MBP does. I'm not sure why that is, especially since several of the keys on my MBP are actually falling off of it right now.

I would say that it feels comparable to a Lenovo laptop, but I haven't owned one of those for almost a decade.
I don't think the renting example is that true. AFAIK auto manufacturers certainly do "rent" many of the factory machinery they use, and they certainly "rent" the maintenance contracts from the companies who service them (the big exception I'm aware of being Toyota, which makes their own factory robotics).

In other examples, many airlines do lease airplanes, and even among the airlines that do own the planes, they still usually lease the engines.

As the GP said, there's a balance to be struck. Delta doesn't have the expertise or the economies of scale necessary to build their own engines from scratch, but they do have the ability to lease those engines and then have their own teams maintain them. Similarly, most companies don't have the know-how or the EoS to run their own data center, so instead they buy cloud services and then have a smaller team to maintain it. It's a win-win. Some companies like BofA might be big enough where they can run their own cloud and it be cheaper than using a cloud provider, but that's definitely not a common thing.
The AWS Associate and Professional Architect certifications together costs $450. 12 months of self-study from knowing nothing about computers, and many have done it in less. Compare them (although this is not the best metaphor) to an Associate’s and Bacehlor’s degree. You would certainly earn as much...probably quite a bit more.

The study materials for those exams, worst case, bring the total to $750.

So $750 vs $50,000 for a modestly priced 4 year university.

Can anyone in intellectual good faith argue that the latter system is going to survive outside of the very short term?
Description reads like a reaction-less drive [1] so at least quite speculative if not even violating the law of conservation of energy (because kinetic energy goes up with the square of velocity, but a reaction-less drive converts stored on-board energy into kinetic energy linearly).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive
I've read about contact lenses that used super—tiny LEDs to produce a focused overlay image in the eye.

It of course had a large external induction coil to power it, and very low resolution.
I worked at large stable companies and only knew there was a dot com bust because I read the news. Business as usual.
I agree, with the loon no longer in the lead, they have a chance.
>>> The prototypical Chinese name has three characters, a single surname followed by a two-character given name. A smaller number of Chinese people only have a single given name, and a very few have two surname characters.

>I'm not sure if this is correct.

It's not. The distribution of one- and two-character given names is pretty even in China.

>Another interesting characteristic of Chinese names is that given names are very diverse and varied, while family names come from a small set (something like a hundred or so). This is opposite from the West (or at least America) where given names are pretty restricted (e.g. lots of Johns and Emilys) but family names have a lot of variation (probably due to all the immigration).

You know, maybe we should change how we think about the ordering. Instead of family-given or given-family, it's clearly restricted-arbitrary.
The problem is that 1) you can't assume what the available stack space is and 2) you don't let tainted user input determine allocation sizes which is what Systemd did in the CVE disclosed earlier this year.
It could if momentum isn’t conserved.
thousands of people crushed. Really awful.
False equivalency: When the manufacturer fails to secure PII, plus location history, plus control points of the car's internals, etc etc... that's far worse, more obscured, and much more in need of public disclosure than "door's unlocked, free contents!"
What a geeky piece of knowledge to have on hand... bravo!
I believe so, he has the duty to private "accredited" investors. IIRC, this is sort of what toppled Shkreli-- he mishandled investor money in a criminal manner, despite actually not losing any of their money.
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> This undermines the profession, at loss to the public

It does? I've seen really good engineering done by people who don't even have degrees in engineering (or degrees at all, for that matter). Contrariwise, utter disasters by people who were supposed to be incredibly professional.

For the most part, being a PE is about liability, and the technical stuff is there for show. It has nothing to do with "undermining the profession", it's all about who can sue whom when something falls over.
[pinboard.in][1] has an implementation that I like. What I especially like about pinboard is that you can chain tags together (logically AND'd, not OR'd) to narrow/filter topics to highly specific criteria. This all works well provided you usefully tag your entries.

[1]:https://pinboard.in
You're right, but it's much better documented now that people can read the stories on the internet, and I'm still not seeing the shift to equal term sheets for employees and investors.

Also employees have higer risk than investors, so in theory they should get better terms, they just don't have the negotiating power.
Video chat sessions that are recorded and shared with everyone. This includes things like pair programming, but also just normal conversations on topics that are too green for any kind of formal documentation.

Then as you build consensus it makes sense to start putting things in writing to reference in future discussions.

When putting things in writing, put as much of this in your code as possible, and don't be afraid to repeat yourself in many places.

Be deliberate about how you name things. You should choose names that align with names used across disciplines/teams in verbal communication.

Cross reference things by these identifiers, even if you're not using any formal documentation generator.

Rely on new employees to write high level documentation, with seniors around to answer their questions. A new hire will have the ideal perspective, and will become an expert in the process. Pay them accordingly ;)

Don't worry about docs getting out of date. Again, rely on new hires to find issues with docs.

Be relentless about reducing "API surface area" of your subsystems.
It’s pretty obvious that the answer is yes
Wake me up when someone solves the cobalt problem.

Cobalt is where the cost threat lies for lithium-ion car batteries.

See: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/battery-builders-get-the...
This is somewhat related but does anyone know what the market rate for a mid level backend services dev in Seattle is? I’m looking but it’s a little hard to find a range.
>One XFest he stood on stage giving a Powerpoint presentation on debugging and multithreaded concerns. An animation was slow, and he broke into it and started debugging Powperpoint live to demonstrate some of his techniques. A legend.

Is there a video of this somewhere? Sounds amazing.
I personally wouldn't choose to mess with the Saudi's money on that scale. That would seem imprudent.
Not sure if you've ever actually taken those certs (I have those + Sysops Associate) but they're just glorified multiple choice quizzes. In my experience hiring, they reveal relatively little about one's abilities to do meaningful work. They're more like the SAT than a degree.

Until the tech industry forms meaningful professional organizations with legal protections like law and medicine, these certs will be resume garnish compared to a degree.
Why does every employer pay poverty wages and what can one of the biggest (or biggest) private employers in America do about it?

It's interesting you take the position that Walmart is helpless to pay its workers more, as if they were some mom and pop operation.
Seven Reasons We Chose Apache Pulsar over Apache Kafka
If you like this idea but aren’t really a t-shirt person, you can get wool shirts which are much more comfortable than they sound. Wool and Prince sell them. I’m very sensitive to scratchy clothes or being too warm, and I’ve been wearing these exclusively for a few years. If you keep yourself clean, the shirts only need dry cleaning every 20 days or so, where I’d normally only wear a cotton shirt once between cleans
Several things:

- Any news about a "recovery" has nothing to do with the reality you are likely facing.

- The worst of it is in the long-tail, not necessarily the initial shock.

- The change in the market from, "We can grow our way out of anything!" to, "Quick! Circle the wagons and lay low." happens a lot more suddenly than you expect, but there are also warning signs.

- You're super valuable and totally super employable right up until the moment that you're not, and in the wrong place at the wrong time you have no control and almost no influence over changing that, so be prepared to weather it or jump ship.

- Super high software developer salaries seem somehow correlated to VC-pumping, and when the market fundamentals kick in, you're likely to find yourself facing steep cuts, so live like you're a mechanical engineer, not a lottery winner.
I had 12 years at a major tech company, then I contracted for awhile. Before the bust I felt like a film star fielding calls whenever I was looking for work. Fun is the word; I was so in demand. When the bust hit I was actually choosing to take some time off (and taking classes). After that I was the only person in my Java class who got a job, out of 35 or so, and that job was one third my previous contractor hourly, and it was intermittent. On, off, on, off, with that small company. One of my friends in my class was unemployed for two years. I live in SF and the Mission had been flooded with bright young wannabes with shiny degrees, and they all disappeared during the bust. One horrifying thing happened that I was close to. The small company that I had gotten a gig with went under and the CEO committed suicide. That was a few months after my final check. He was a brilliant and funny guy. I have had a lovely run of success lately and I try to remember how much of it is luck plus timing. Also we underestimate the true hardness of hard times. Best to be appreciative.
>皇非我 (Not-Me Huang). An official of the kingdom of Song. Again maybe a result of traditions trying to protect children from evil spirits, but I still find it rather amusing.

I'd think that, since 皇 means "emperor", the name is protective in the sense that it's trying to say "no, no, I'm not the emperor".

>I've never really heard a good explanation for these, other than given names didn't really matter back then, rather it was adult honorary names (e.g. Zi or 字) that mattered more, which sure I guess I can believe. On the other hand, if that was the case I'd expect a cornucopia of awful names rather than the comparatively few, but still abnormally many, that I observe now.

Presumably, honorary names are the ones that are recorded, since they mattered more, not the awful names given by your parents or nicknames.
It's neither far worse, nor more in need of public disclosure, at all, because it's the exact same, consequentially. Literally, even! In order to take advantage of your "exposed" PII, the adversary needs physical access to your car.

Nothing false, it's actually equivalent.
A button that resets an individual application’s state?

I mean this is already an issue today where people “reboot” their system which really just sleeps/wakes it and are surprised that their problems aren’t fixed.

I think it would be a good thing for UX if an OS made this explicit and had a correct “factory reset” behavior for individual apps. It would make troubleshooting a breeze.

It does kinda suck because under this model to ensure correctness apps either can’t share any state between them or the entire forest has to be reset together.