skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't there a similar article not too long ago which said go for a run/jog? Not a whole lot of real advice here other than an interesting suggestion to the age old advice I've heard my whole life: "Stuck? Take a break and do something different"
yup, I got scammed on upwork for 10k. super hard to know the difference between a developer that got a little stuck, vs someone that is scamming. upwork seems to do their best to enable these people as well by hiding reviews. this guy in particular would do a lot of small projects to cover up the negative reviews on bigger ones. the other feature which encourages this is the upworks feature of automatically paying invoices without any checks on the work being done. the best way to avoid getting scammed is not to use upworks. its almost like they designed their product to encourage scams.
"Prior to the junction, you move into the center of the lane corresponding to your intended direction"

Aha! You assumed that there are multiple lanes. That wasn't explicit in "This can also be prevented by not trying to pass right turning vehicles on the right and only pass them on their left"

I read that as "ride in the same lane as the cars, but pass them on their left".

I still think that's way scarier than the Dutch approach where nobody needs eyes in their back to detect each other, just eyes that can look in front of you.

Having separate cycle lanes, as this will, also solves the "driver education states that drivers must make their turns as close to the edge of the road/curb as practicable" problem.
Some of us work in regulated industries where coding standards are not strong suggestions but unconditional requirements. Unambiguous names and identifiers precludes the use of Nim as a tool in any of those fields just by an improper design decision. Sounds very bad and completely avoidable to me.

There is a reason old languages were many times case insensitive but not anymore.
I tend to be very skeptical of claims of conspiracy and conspiracy theories in general but I've yet to hear a reasonable theory to explain how Epstein could have killed himself in a cell and unit where suicide is made a practical impossibility. A friend in law enforcement related a story about someone on suicide watch who managed to kill himself by eating/shoving massive amount of toilet paper down his throat and then drinking water (which caused the tissue to expand and suffocate him). After that, toilet paper was issued as needed rather than having rolls available in the cells. They go to INSANE degrees to make self-slaughter impossible in these units.
Same here, strangely C++ provided a kind of welcome home to some of us.
> I mean whether or Maduro is good or bad is irrelevant.

Yes, it is totally irrelevant to an arrest or intimidation.

It is relevant in that you might not think highly of someone for supporting that kind of regime.
The CCP supporter are flooding the issues because of this:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v781-free-uyghur-edition/
The RISC-V ISA was made with some hindsight of what choices makes it easy to optimize for OoO superscalar CPUs. If I remember correctly, that's one of the reasons everyone jumped ship from OpenRISC to RISC-V (the big mistake in OpenRISC being branch delay slots I believe)

It might also help starting from scratch.

I'm also not convinced it's entirely an apples-to-apples comparison. ARM might support more complex instructions that their core don't, and the ARM core might have features like TrustZone.
FYI they've updated the article with this statement:

This story has been updated to include a response from Juul, a link to the lawsuit itself, and a clarification that the lawsuit did not specify which contaminant was allegedly in the pods.
There's also potential for asteroid mining, building space/lunar colonies. Not to mention Musk's dream to build a Mars colony. Plenty of "wow" factor for space exploration, imo.
I don't think that quite applies. Technical debt comes from making choices that help you in the short term but cost you more in the long run (i.e. you're paying interest). Needing to move off a deprecated tech stack wouldn't really qualify unless there was a longer-term option available at the time you originally decided on your tech stack.
This comes off as excessively ranty.

That said, if you replace the word "ugly" with "unintuitive", the points are mostly valid, if not particularly original.

#2 bothered me though, because while I've seen overly-simplified buttons that were just colored text without a border, I've never seen ones where the text was underlined. Underlined colored text is still respected as the absolute universal signifier of a link. Now, some sites do remove those underlines on links which can create interference with other sites where non-underlined colored text is a button. But still, he should've used a more realistic example of the actual problem instead of a straw-man.
Is there any way to "bleed" more heat (other than making the atmosphere thinner, which is obviously a double-edged sword, and not feasible anyway).

Would be interesting to keep inflow the same and reduce outflow, but I have no idea what I am talking about.
Fact is most DA's hate pursuing white collar crime because the workload for the cases is much higher than jailing evil poor people.
"Prior to the junction, you move into the center of the lane corresponding to your intended direction"

Aha! You assumed that there are multiple lanes. That wasn't explicit in "This can also be prevented by not trying to pass right turning vehicles on the right and only pass them on their left"

I read that as "ride in the same lane as the cars, but pass them on their left".

I still think that's way scarier than the Dutch approach where nobody needs eyes in their back to detect each other, just eyes that can look in front of you.

Having separate cycle lanes, as this will, also solves the "driver education states that drivers must make their turns as close to the edge of the road/curb as practicable" problem.

It won't solve the problem of "cyclist is traveling at about 16 feet per second", but those cyclists, IMO, are suicidal, if they do so in places where they can't know things will end up OK.
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Python made programming fun for me again. Thanks, Guido.
> Your job as a designer is to focus on the user experience journey and understand what those users expect to happen - not what you want to happen. This is a very delicate balance of design “give and take”, hence why simple designs always seem to work best.

Interesting. Why not give users exactly what they want and make it easy by using standard patterns they see on all the consumer products they use?
It's useful in as much as it provides a basis for comparison between differences in the base standard of living between equivalent gdp/capita societies, like Finland and the US, which is what the parent was doing.

It's not, however, useful as the sole metric for evaluating the economic condition of a society.
just basic supply and demand combined with the fact that people working in the same timezone and office are still more productive than remote. big startup opportunity if you can actually solve those issues with remote work. slack, notion, and google doc helped a bit, but its not perfect.
In PG&E's world in context of this comment thread. Dividends are any payout amount that was not captured in the regulatory framework. Salary is a captured expense. Bonuses are paid from a pool when a surplus is created, or rather a profit is made, or more bluntly when dividends are earned.

Legally, you're correct. PG&E has been operating counter to those rules for a while.

http://investor.pgecorp.com/news-events/press-releases/press...

https://www.kqed.org/news/11737336/judge-pge-paid-out-stock-...
IMO a good an practical idea would be to write it in C/C++, expose as flat C API and then offer wrappers in whatever popular consumer languages there are (python included).
The world of software does not end with Python
Would it really be technical debt when we talk about transition from py2->py3? Technical debt is about the consequences of bad design. But py3 is more the consequence of growth and gain of experience. And for a company it is an external debt.

I would call it more something like upgrade debt or time debt, as it's a problem that appeared because an external situation changed over time. Similar problem in that regard are operating systems which change and let old software behind, or in case of linux old packages not working anymore, repos disappearing, etc.
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Both Guardia Civil and Gendarmerie are part of the Army (but take orders from a civilian hierarchy) and are strictly speaking military police. But they don't police the military, which is what you probably had in mind.
> Until you get into general relativity, time itself is extremely simple and uniform.

Just a little niggle, but I think you meant to say special relativity; special relativity is about the relationship between space and time, whereas general relativity (I believe) is more about gravitation and other things that I definitely don't understand.
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Definitely. It's not indicative of any sort of quality, which naturally makes it fun to game! I randomized the amount of commits on each day so my graph has varying shades of color!
I have worked on agency produced apps made in Stockholm, and they were pretty crap as well. The agency charged about 3 times my salary equivalent. Paying a lot doesn't necessarily get you better work.
Is this SEO spam? Every comment seems to have numerous links in it
Running flake8 on pull requests on GitHub
This article just feels like a ploy to promote the author's alternative CV product. It's 2019 and many adults in the room have turned their backs on social media. Not having a profile somewhere is hardly a characteristic of a luddite nowadays.
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IIRC, SpaceX is planning to generate all their methane using CO2 captured from the atmosphere as a test of the equipment that will do this on Mars.
I'm sure what you say is true, but here's the thing... you know what that makes you? An exception. And as a first pass heuristic, "don't bet on exceptions" is a pretty reasonable guideline.
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That Makefile works with BSD and GNU make, no extensions used.

Bazel isn't really nicer than the autotools when you need something complicated, if it even supports your platform. Here's a fun bazel bug report: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/4350#issuecomment...

I've always managed to avoid autotools unless it was used before with things like LDFLAGS='-lsocket -lns' make ...
All satellites that want to efficiently get into somewhat equatorial orbit do.

However, satellites heading to polar orbits of course launch north or south, and famously Israel launches things into retrograde orbits, due west, because of lack of suitable launching locations that head east.

In the case of suborbital hops, it doesn't matter, because your target isn't orbital speed, and what you lose in free speed you gain back in your target coming towards you as you hop.
I think Python 2 had hit the perfect balance of "just enough but not too much" which I'm very deeply worried that Python 3 is going to deviate from.
You're on point with the second paragraph. I only know of one chip fab that has it's design rules public, and they're an open source fab running out of HKUST that'll give you about Arduino level gate counts.
That restriction can't actually be adhered to in the right spirit outside the Japanese language, and isn't 100% adhered to even in that language.

Counting syllables

quickly on the fingertips

before clicking Post
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On a related note, this is not about getting scammed, but more about getting the work you need completed.

I have had very poor results using people who have a full-time job and are trying out freelancing as a side gig. They rarely seem to be able complete the work on time, and of the quality you desire.

It's never due to a lack of technical skill. It's in part because they seem to lack time and energy to do the work after grinding it out all day at full time job. But more importantly, they seem to lack the time-management, and communication skills to manage the work.

An experienced freelancer can juggle multiple projects, but someone coming from a single-focus, full-time job often cannot.

I think this is why a lot of people dabble in freelancing, fail and go back to full-time work.

Edit: This is more a general note, and not about Upwork specifically, but the same definitely applies.
I don't see anything about the Starship design that would prevent a future version with the nose cone being sealed off with a bulkhead, along with and explosive bolts attachment mechanism and Super Dracos attached (plus parachutes). The mass budget is there, and if it is designed to be detachable only in emergency then it could be a lot simpler than a separate capsule system design.
Or do, but stop complaining about the consequences of doing so.
Epstein was taken off suicide watch though.

Edit: the rate of suicide is still pretty darn low, and lots of other stuff worth looking in to. Just pointing out that he wasn't on suicide watch at the time.
When I was working for Thomson Reuters WestLaw they sold the Danish/Swedish holdings and we had to move off the platform we had just spent a year moving onto (the sale happened about 7 months after the move was completed), we had one year to move off or we would have had to pay approximately $180,000 a month for using their platform (approximately as being represented in DKK not USD), of course we managed the move and also managed quite a lot of added business value.
The treatment of Carles Puigdemont and others is hardly consistent with free expression.
Sign us both up :).
Totally agreed. This is for emergency use. I suppose sitting in the dark is better for the planet, but I would really rather my freezer not spoil.
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> if you aren't being driven by emotion you're incapable of doing good.

I'd say the article is claiming one is "less likely", not incapable.

> they're better off ignored.

So you advocate inaction? Seems like the author may have a point :)
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Wow, I'm so surprised.
SiFive was founded by most of the initial RISC-V designers, and is easily one of the companies with the most raw talent in the field right now.
I read the title here--"Sleep has a role in developing Alzheimer's"--and I was like "well, it is a good thing I don't do that, then!", but sadly the article title now says "Too many bad nights of sleep could play a role in developing Alzheimer's"... :(.
> They are still discussing whether to change something in a backwards-incompatible way in Go 2.

FTFY
> IMO the worst parts of this are that (1) ~50% of the population has a different opinion than the other 50%, and they will need to manage to live together independently of how things turn out, and (2) Catalonia's politicians do not care about their constituents, and only appear to care about those constituents that voted for them. I personally think that's pretty shameful, and don't have any respect for any of the politicians on either side.

That's pretty exactly the UK/Brexit problem as well. :(

You could literally s/Catalonia/UK/g and have the sentence be 100% valid for the UK too. :)
I’ve been ruminating on this problem for a decade or more and my belief is it’s not the licensing that’s the problem, it’s the infrastructure.

In the old world of tarballs, you could throw a file on an ftp server and someone could take an afternoon, mess with the paths and the make and make install and all that, and have your thing up and running. And mostly keep using it without fuss.

With web services you just can’t. You minimum need security patches applies, and in truth, you need the original author to be able to keep refactoring and updating the service architecture.

We don’t have infrastructure that can facilitate that. That’s the real problem, not licensing.

You can put a Heroku buildpack or whatever in your repo. That gets us pretty close to one-click deploy, and almost automatic security patching. But Heroku will penalize us with a 30 delay for being non-profit, when we access the service, which is pretty much a deal breaker. Even if I am paying them a hundred dollars a month (and I am) they will still pause for 30 seconds every time I access one of my cold “free” services.

If there was a hosting solution, even if it involved users paying a monthly fee, but it solved this issue of shared maintenance of open source services, it would usher in a new golden age of free software.

Ostensibly Ethereum solves this problem, but we’ll see if the ergonomics get where they need to be. It would be nice to be able to do this in a trustless way, although I don’t think that’s necessary for a MVP.
Do you know what happened to USA flags which astronauts installed on the Moon?
py2 to py3 would be handling the technical depreciation of value.
I'm fascinated by the idea that someone could have killed and successfully covered up a murder this high profile.

How do you handle the guards? How do you keep the other inmates quiet? Can you get away with bribing a single guard or is a larger operation needed? If you bribe people, how do you get the money to them? How do you keep them quiet when the inevitable investigation happens?

I don't think it's impossible, but if this was a murder then it's fascinating that someone could be this good at assassination.
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A solution to warming? Maybe. A solution to ocean acidification? No.
One day tech historians are gonna look back at this era and shake their heads at all the time, energy, and talent being wasted by people just trying to keep up with tech trends for the sheer purpose of remaining employable.
Piece of cake: It’s a recursive acronym.
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Is Apple Deteriorating as a Company?
Oh sure perhaps for unknown developers but often it’s the same customer I already worked with for quite a while.
Being cheap is how this problem started. You want to get more cheap?
It's just delaying maintenance. We're bad at recognizing that software requires maintenance and periodic updates/replacement, same as anything physical.

Businesses think once it's written it will always just work...and that's true if the underlying OS and hardware never change, and the business never changes, and requirements never change. But even if it's a completely niche application whose requirements never change, after a while the hardware breaks, and we can't buy the same, and we can't license the old OS or it has documented problems that won't be fixed, so we have to use a new one, and we can't get the old software dependencies to work on the new one, etc etc.
> The UK allowed a referendum because it has to

No? There was no "has to" involved anywhere, it was a choice of the central government to permit it. Referendums are extremely rare in the UK until recently, and all run on an adhoc basis.
Are you saying you actually get 25-50mg of nicotine in one vaping session?

That's sounds like a lot. My point of reference is nicotine gum, they are 2-4mg a piece, and the packaging says you are supposed to chew it slowly over 20-30 minutes.

If you have no resistance, 2mg can be enough to create a "buzz".

Cursory Google turns up a pretty wide range of nicotine content for a cigarette.
20 million tons of plastic to manufacture is small comparing to world production - and we're talking about world effects here. Launch pollution is calculated...
Was it? My bad. I thought I read something about GitLab planning to block access to the platform until you accepted the new ToS but maybe I was wrong.

My point still stands though.
Can we flag paywalls?
Remember what Hilter said before?
And note that at 800 bars of hot oxygen, metal doesn't so much rust as it burns with a bright flame. The environment in the Raptor oxy-rich preburner is much worse than the typical oxyacetylene torch that is used to cut steel.
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Developer here,

Feedback is very welcome! It's an early beta so some features are still missing, but there should be enough to use it for smaller projects. Most things are drag & drop (adding images/links).

Looking forward to your thoughts!
Yes it means end the project, hand in your resignation and then make a haiku.

sarcastic what I can't believe this emote
I wasn't sure what OoO stood for and since they never mentioned it in the article I had to look it up. For anyone else who is asking the same question.

OoO = out of order execution
Is working ok for me if thats of any help.
The inmates talked. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-death-shrieking...

If there was a conspiracy involving the guards, it involved at least two of them. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-... (Non-paywalled summary https://thehill.com/homenews/457346-epstein-guards-fell-asle... )
> lack of type system (but people treat variables as typed anyway)

Python has a type system. The types are on the objects, not the variablenames. If people threat variables as types then it's their misunderstanding.
I mean, if you are going to market yourself on the internet in order to be hired for remote work, it is in your interest to at least maintain a professional internet persona. Github, linkedin, personal website...
If you are hiring remote workers you are very much duck typing when looking for potential scammers.
There's literally 0 evidence presented in the article to suggest the arrest was political and the only source cited is the very guy who got arrested (their own reporter)...
It's so crazy how something as subtle as the order of welds and whether they ground the welds would so dramatically affect the strength of huge structural components.
Hmm, but we know weather like two weeks in advance

We understand it isn't an exact and perfect prediction for the state of things half a month from now, but it's better than nothing.

"your area is at risk of blackouts next week - 60%" is better than nothin'
It doesn't seem that this new claim discusses anything not explicitly mentioned at the time of the suicide decision. See the NYT article on this new report for a fuller discussion, as well as quotes from many pathologists:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...
More specifically, the bonuses were to higher management, not to line workers.
Kroger, Walmart, and CVS all have identical monitors for around $10, strips are 25 for $12ish.

Unfortunately they are keyed at the end so each stores strips only fit their own device.
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