skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup it’s still viable.
Just pick one.
Let us know what career you’ll pick after web dev.
Gluck!
As though the normal means of forming relationships is fun or good for you? How many people commit suicide over failed relationships? How many people are committed to bad relationships due to sunk cost fallacy?

Forming relationships is a pain in the ass no matter how you slice it.
Meditation can be like dieting+exercise in a sense.

There are people that let themselves go: eat unhealthy and gain weight, exercise too little and lose muscle and cardio, etc. Then when one day they look in the mirror, realize what they've become, and it motivates them to eat healthy for a period of time, hit the gym etc.

In other words, they wait until they have an issue then solve it. They are re-active, not pro-active.

Alternatively, you can maintain your physical health by always being mindful of what you eat and making sure to get adequate exercise, etc.

Meditation is the same deal: don't wait until the day you have serious trauma to deal with in order to start a practice of mindfulness. Do not be reactive about it. Like physical health, it is far better to Maintain and be Proactive than to let it go then React.

So if you reach the top of the mountain: do you just roll back down to the bottom and then have to start all over again? Or do you actively maintain your position?
Three general pieces of advice:

1. It matters where you are geographically as to which tech stack is hot/viable.

2. It matters what industry you are in/coming from both for which tech stack is used, and for how much value you can contribute.

3. A web search (indeed, linkedin etc) for dev jobs is likely to tell you a lot more about these two in terms of what is avaiable, what they are looking for and so on than any generic advice you receive here.

For instance, if you have a background in trading stocks, and are in NYC, then secure web interfaces might be a big deal. If you are have a background in marketing and are in a big city, then single page apps might be your ticket. If you came from Oil and Gas, in Houston, then who knows.
But the point stands - the people in power, in most cases, are replaced with minimal deaths.
Many of the comparable cases will involve cities that also had lead poisoning issues.
In the USA, inflation went down as inequity increased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Historical_Inflation.s...

I don't doubt that inflation is a factor. Duh. It's just a tax by another name.

But it takes extreme incredulity to ignore the biggest policy change (pink elephant): shifting the tax burden from capital (assets) to labor (income).

PS- Your cites note Bretton Woods. What's your position on the gold standard?
YouTube is updating its TOS
I (the director of Free Law Project) agree with a lot of the other responses here, but I'll just add two points. First, technically PACER isn't a website. If you ask the judiciary, they'll tell you that PACER is only the public access system. So it's nuts that it rakes in $150M/year considering that Congress said they can only charge money for PACER to the extent it pays for itself. All of us that work on / use / think about PACER need to reframe this in our minds. PACER is not a website! (We're as guilty of this as anybody.) So...how much should it cost to run a basic credential system?

The second point is this: When should the gov't charge fees for services? Should cops cost money when they come help you? Schools? Yes, the fees help the gov't survive when Congress can't set a budget, but is that worth it or should our basic legal documents be freely available just like the courthouse itself is?
The State of Carsharing and Car Rentals 2.0
I’m guessing OP was aware of this but was more questioning whether we know this was because of lead exposure or just the fact the school system isn’t good. It seems it would be hard to separate the two. Like was said: there are plenty of cities with similar results but without the lead exposure. The lead could definitely be a contributing factor, it’s just hard to know.
>You gave your consent at democratic election

No, you voted at the democratic election. There is no question on the ballot asking whether or not you consent to be ruled by the resulting government.
Show HN: Pitikapp – Monitor your computer from a mobile device
I don't, except by the weak negative; I feel that lack of strict regulation creates a predatory, cruel, socially violent mess, which feels less desirable to me. Not to imply that the banal evil of a bureaucratic mess is not a bad thing.
Only people deep in the right wing media bubble even heard of that Obama "stunt".
So is reducing the accident rate on roads "harming people"?
Drool. I want one! Make -j64 ;)
Then for you, that's ordinary.
I had the same initial thought based on the title. Unfortunately, the answer is no.

The article discusses a low-dimensional KNN problem. The curse of dimensionality guides intuition that the methods here likely will not apply to extremely high-dimensional problems.

faiss actually comes with a lot of excellent documentation that describes the problems unique to KNN on embedding vectors. In particular, for extremely large datasets, most of the tractable methods are approximations that make use of clustering, quantization, and centriod-difference tricks to make computation efficient.

See https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Faiss-indexes and related links for more information.
I first learned about this in the Google FI subreddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/dszauf/unexpected...

I was one of the people that received a message, just before 4am ET I received a message from someone I am not on speaking terms with and replied in a fashion one would expect for dealing with such an individual. Yay fun. Someone in another thread in that sub had reported they received a message from their ex calling them babe, and also replied.

My question here is, why is there some server out there that is storing messages from at least 4 carriers from 9 months ago and resending them.

I assumed carriers kept our messages for a certain length of time, and that one or more government agencies might store them indefinitely, but why is some random server out there holding onto messages for 4 major carriers for 9 months and as configured in some way that allows it to resend those messages NINE months later?

Forget the security implications of this, what about people that received messages from a friend/family member/co-worker/loved one that has since died like in the article:

>one person said they received a message from an ex-boyfriend who had died; another received messages from a best friend who is now dead.

Can anyone familiar with this part of the communications industry speculate on why such a thing is even possible or shed some light on just how long these messages might be stored on such servers?
You can also use "I". Trying to avoid pronouns can make it sound like a high school lab report with excessive passive voice (e.g. "The baking soda was mixed with the vinegar" vs. "I mixed the baking soda with the vinegar").

In this example, I might say "This seems very complicated to me. Would a simpler model work?". If I had something simpler in mind specifically I would suggest it.
Yeah, far better to insure children are poisoned to encourage their parents are properly punished for their lack of political commitment...
I like that they incorporated under "Fast AF, Inc".
Any heat we generate on this planet is minuscule compared to what we get from the presence of the giant ball of incandescent plasma we're orbiting.

Our sole issue is greenhouse gasses trapping more heat than they should.
Design Systems are much like Frameworks you can either formalize and document the process or not but all this type of information has to live somewhere and be communicated.

The hard part here is that now with the rise of alternative tooling like Sketch, Zeplin, Figma and technologies like styled components, SASS, post css etc - there's a pretty broad range of ways to pull all this together so some of the implementation is going to be organization specific.

In general though we've found that developing design systems can greatly increase our throughput on new initiatives without having to reinvent the wheel on a lot of basics. There's some overhead but at least it makes for a transparent way to manage communication of a design.

Of note there's a great site https://designsystemsrepo.com/ that is a repo of a bunch of design systems. Great place to peruse.
Yes, web dev is still viable and will be for a long time to come. You can't go wrong learning the basics of front end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), the latter of which also gets used on the back end quite regularly nowadays.

You'll also have to get good working with the web environment (understanding how servers and requests work, APIs, etc), with developer tools (the Terminal, your IDE, Git, etc.), and likely some frameworks (e.g. Express on the back end, React on the front end.)

You can make it quite far with just that.
"A Mind Is Born" https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/

> Making a demo in just 256 bytes would be a formidable challenge regardless of platform. A Mind Is Born is my attempt to do it on the Commodore 64.
The big catastrophe that happened to Flint was caused at the state level (specifically, by a budget-cutting Republican statewide government). It wasn't anything the town of Flint had a say in.
Speed is not just important because it's important, it's one of those traits that exist on a wide spectrum. The fastest are a lot faster than the median. Also, startups with their typical minimalism and lack of legacy/technical debt can be fast, so it's worth capitalising on that as a comparative advantahe.

Fast also comes with other good things, often. Flexible, cheap, creative...
I think that's a made up word that just means a graphics artist.
In NL they actually got enough money to live on while studying. I still got money while studying in the 90s too.
‘Noise’ in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals
If they ain't comin' to you, you gotta go to them :)
Update on OpenSSL 3.0 Development, FIPS and 1.0.2 EOL
You have to tag a function as async if interacts with anything async and doesn't create an executor itself. Executors have functionality that let you start an async fn/block in the currently instantiated executor and return immediately. Such a function wouldn't need to be marked async, IIUC.

Note that marking a function as async is only syntactic sugar for a function that returns a future.
If you hire a consultant, you ask them what you should do. If you hire a contractor, you tell them what they should do.
I run a bounty program and I like to think my company does a good job, too. I received a report of a RCE in a desktop app and got a fix released in 72h. We have a bounty committee that reviews payouts and paid in one week.
Context: assuming you're in the US, near a major city. If you're not, my advice probably doesn't apply.

Totally viable, but getting your first job is as much an exercise in grit and hustle (ugh, yes, I know), and self-promotion as it is technical ability. Yes, it is important to learn whatever tech people recommend you (HTML/CSS/JS, and then Node + React would be my recommendation). However, it's just as important to then build a bunch of projects and network/sell yourself to anyone that would give you a chance. It can be hard to get your first job and get someone to take a chance on you - but it is absolutely viable.
NBA, NFL and NCAA making noise over privacy app
The aim of county auctions is to get the property into the hands of someone financially healthy, someone who can actually pay for the upkeep of the property. Taxes are usually the last thing you stop paying because you know the county will seize the house, maintenance stops long before that.

I once had the misfortune to rent from a landlord like this. They stopped paying for garbage removal, a few days later the heating broke. That was in a state where code enforcement actually had teeth, in a more tenant-hostile state I'd had had no recourse except moving out at shortest notice. Thankfully the roof held tight all the time I was there, there would have been no money for that kind of repairs.

That landowner actually did "renovate" the property somewhat, they did tart up the kitchen a bit but did nothing about the sewage leak in the downstairs bathroom.

No one should have patience for bankruptcy artists who go crying about "violence inherent to the system" when they can't make it, if they overextend themselves they need to go through the bankruptcy process. That's why you have interest as a risk premium. Too bad the fellow missed out in the gentrification windfall.
Everything Announced at the First Google for South Africa Event
Taking a look at some of the dangers posed by global warming
The current generation of engineers couldn't invent the internet
I was thinking about today's development culture of sprints and MVPs.

There is a legend that in South America, there is a tribe of natives who collect axe heads left behind by another ancient tribe that died out millennia ago.

They assume the axe heads come from the gods, and they don't make their own, they re-use the old ones.

Apocryphal or not, it the legend reminded me of today's startup culture.

Are we just building obvious applications on top of technologies created by a previous generation—mining it like a natural resource?

So many of the technologies that are being hyped take us farther and farther away from even understanding what they built. ¹

Firewalls too hard to understand? (use k8 ingress/egress instead or an AWS control panel), can't bother to package your dependencies (use Docker), is Linux userspace too hard to understand? (go serverless) and so on...

I wonder if the lego style development culture we practise today would even allow us to invent these foundational technologies if they weren't there for us to build upon.

I'm sure I will get ripped into for dashing off these quick thoughts. And I'll admit the argument hasn't been fleshed out as well as it could have been.

Is there perhaps a grain of truth in it anyway?

1: I had to explain sockets recently to someone who thought that you could only accept a single connection when listening on a TCP/IP socket. He thought you had to use a separate port for each incoming client connection. In a way he was kind of right (ephemeral ports), but this is despite having used and consumed other network enabled applications for his entire career.
Also, just to pile it on: levels of up to 10 µg/dL weren't considered a problem according to US guidelines until 2012.

This is not by way of meaning to be blasé about the situation. More to highlight that even the country's highest authorities on the subject were enough laxer about it until recently enough that you really do need to be on guard about it for yourself. A 7-year-old CDC guideline will almost certainly have trickled down to your pediatrician's practices, but it probably hasn't had enough time to have much impact on your local building codes or any other local government policies. 8 short years ago, what happened in Flint would not have been considered a problem.
Time is more valuable.
There's also shitty therapists who don't know what they are doing and so shame their clients to hide their incompetence. As per Sturgeon's law[1] these therapists outnumber the good ones.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
I don't quite get why this article sides with the boss. He promised his workers a certain amount of money through a pension, and now he's having trouble living up to that promise. I wouldn't say it's "being a good guy boss" that is the problem here, it's making financial promises that he wasn't able to keep.

The article also acts like changing to a different accounting system in order to get a different result would be the perfect solution. Well, that's how you get underfunded pensions in the first place.

I think the error was in making these pension promises in the first place. It is far better to make promises that you understand how to keep, like the defined contribution of a 401k, than to make promises to your employees that are implicitly assuming a certain rate of investment return for decades.
I couldn't find a good application to monitor my PC from my tablet (not working, not good looking, too complicated, ...), so I went for the simplest solution: I made my own!

The goal was to have something simple to use and that the user can customize as much as possible.

The server requires a Windows computer and the client can run on iOS and Android.
With how easy it is to slip up and destroy the pins on these things, I'm amazed how comfortable everyone seems to be with handling a $750 chip with absolutely no recourse for damaging it besides spending another $750.
Perhaps it does merely reduce to "being competent". But the contrast with nearly every other vendor out there is stark.

Been managing GHE for years, and I have been consistently impressed with Github's code quality, competence, and even product management (nearly every time I think, "there should be a way to...", there already is).

From the outside, at least, they look like the model to emulate for this sort of application.
Creativity: Super Organic Shapes
From my quite limited understanding, RBF basically allows to cancel a transaction (since you can set the fee to something that would never be accepted in a block) which is even worse than a regular double spending, because in the end, nothing at all is spent.

But even without RBF, there's nothing stopping you from spending the same coins online and in a restaurant at the same time. I'm not even sure if a restaurant would know that you and you're friend aren't actually spending the same money twice for your respective meals.
Big difference is that a surgeon cannot fiddle around with a liver, jam it back in the body, wake the patient up, test how the change works, and address (or revert if really messed up) any unexpected and unwanted behavior.

I agree "Web dev" has a very long learning curve, but there is opportunity to be productive and helpful at many, many different points along that curve.
It's not just how safe it actually is, but how much safer it actually makes you feel that makes a difference in the quantlify of service.
T-Mobile promises free 5G to first responders for 10 years after Sprint merger
I've heard that these programs are widely used for corporate espionage, especially internationally. It would certainly make sense why they would have been silently kept alive all these years.

The programs should be permanently authorized so that they conversation turns to one of repeal rather than, "I guess we'll repeal it when it comes time to renew it in a few years", and then never repealing it.
This is not true, in my experience. The best way I can describe shrooms is “they show you what you need to see at that moment in your life,” and sometimes the “bad trip” is exactly what the doctor ordered. I have literally only ever seen “bad trips” be useful and transformative for people.

I do agree that you shouldn’t ascribe too much weight to certain things, but personally I’d say this is applicable more to specific spiritual conclusions, “seeing god,” etc. No, you didn’t see god, you were taking a hallucinogen and were high as balls.
It does come off as passive-aggressive. The tone is so final and closed to all discussion.

If I were on the receiving end of that feedback, I'd much rather have the reviewer write something like:

"Can you walk me through the rationale for this concurrency model? It seems complex for what we're trying to achieve at this stage."
I am waiting for a language to solve this with the type system and compiler. Give me the ability to mark a thread as async only and a clean (async) interface to communicate with a sync thread. If my async code tries to do anything sync, don't let it compile.
Nah it's actually up for society to decide what they want to allow.

Nearly everyone agrees that political ads that lie are problematic. We the people think Facebook should do something about that. If they're unwilling to regulate themselves then we'll regulate it for them.

This can range from putting guidelines all the way to breaking Facebook apart.

It's Facebook's decision what they want their future to be.
Increasing volume is not really that easy. You are constrained by aerodynamics and any additional material required to contain an expanded volume adds weight in addition to increasing drag. There is a reason all planes look relatively the same, and it is not because we just happen to think it is a pretty shape.
You are right, in a way. If they can't service the debts themselves, and they can't take out a loan to cover it, they have to go bankrupt.

In reality, the pension provider probably should declare bankrupcy. In theory, FSCS / PPF should kick in and most people should still get some kind of pension out of it - albeit a lot less than they expected.

However... I don't know much about the bankrupcy procedure. Would administrators have to be called in? Would they then chase these customers anyway?

I don't see any way out of this cock-up of a law without the law itself being changed. It's bonkers.

[UPDATE]

Actually, it turns out that's almost exactly what they've done

https://www.plumbingpensions.co.uk/plumbing-pensions-to-clos...

By closing their doors and handing the pension pots on to other providers, anybody still a member is completely safe.

The problem is, the guy in the original post stopped being a member, which is what has triggered the legal problems.

If you want to see the government position on this, it's here:

https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Sum...

... and they aren't willing to do anything about it, for fear that people might use any fallout mitigation to walk away from being responsible employers.
Pseudoscience is a loaded word and just because something is pseudoscientific does not mean it's wrong.
Building a CLI in Typescript
> I don't understand why people here see democratic system as a replacement for ruling by a force.

I would hazard a guess that a lot of us, that see it this way, are from culture backgrounds that still have historical recollection of "not democracy".

The definition of state is it's monopolisation of violence. But the difference is if it uses violence to keep the specific section of the ruling elite in power ... or just to keep the state (i.e. the entirety of the ruling elite) in power.
There's a combination of overselling and vagueness on the site that add up to an appearance of sketchiness that you were probably hoping to avoid. Couple of things that poked me in the eye:

If you have a trial and a real sub, calling the sub 'Pro' sounds silly and unserious, as does saying it has 'priority' support. Priority over what?

There's a lot of talk about privacy being important but the most important question - does the service have access to my video feeds, does it store them, for how long, etc, is not answered straightforwardly anywhere that I saw. Saying things like 'highly encrypted' is a slightly chiller version of the old 'military-grade encryption' and equally uninformative.

The privacy policy is vague and offers no notification of changes while at the same time assuring you your email address can be used for promotion.

I realize a lot of this stuff comes from standard-ish templates but if you're selling something mildly sensitive you probably want to go through the materials with a fine-toothed comb for details and tone.
def is way better than fn. you can read def at least.