skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please note that Lubin is a Jew and this is another way Germany is paying reparations. I can't bother to spend the time to connect the dots for any reader - you can do that yourself if you're honest. Besides, anything I say will get censored anyway.
> This is broadly true though the bit about the West and imports is unnecessary. Manufactured goods have gotten cheaper whether imported or not in real terms

This must be interpreted in the context of a large fraction of manufacturing moving off shore in the last 75 years. Manufacturing which remained has become significantly less labor intensive (because that which didn’t has moved to lower labor cost locations).
Propaganda Analysis! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Propaganda_Analy...
Where is this actually true? I split my time between the Bay Area and rural Oregon and in neither of those locals has any of those 4 items gone up by 7% in the last year.
Home Assistant is the clear winner, in my mind. It's a very robust project (four full-time devs, plus a huge community), very actively developed (https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/categories/release-notes/), and has a very healthy and helpful support community.
>Assembly Makes Flask Great Again

The fact that flask can bar a basis for other frameworks makes Flask (and werkzeug) great in itself.
For the uninitiated: Rust differentiates between safe and unsafe code (safe being the default and unsafe needing the unsafe keyword). The unsafe code is like C/C++: it's more powerful than safe code, allowing you to do more things, including allowing you to trigger undefined behavour. Any mistake can possibly mean UB with all the consequences of crashes, wrong behaviour and nasal demons. Safe Rust on the other hand, is not supposed to be allowed to trigger such UB, no matter what you write. If you are able to trigger UB in 100% safe code, it's considered a bug in the language, an unsoundness bug.

Note that it was known that Pin/Generators had soundness problems when you turned on noalias optimization flags [1]. They have however decided to stabilize it without fixing those problems as they could be fixed afterwards as well. I'm not entirely sure yet about the impact of this one, will have to read the thread I guess.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/62149#issuecomment-...
Don't they crack down on parts suppliers? Why can't they operate a warehouse and keep spare parts for all their loyal, early adopter customers?
Just drove a rental Dodge Durango last week, and it was asking me to do updates each time I shut it down.

I think Tesla were the first, but everyone does it nowadays.
I would dispute your claim that our resources (again, it's not just about carbon) footprint is not directly correlated to basic standard of living.

But the key issue with your reply is that this is not 'us' doing this versus 'them' doing that.

We must reduce CO2 emissions and we must stop population growth. Both 'we' mean humankind as a whole.
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Abstaining from social media doesn't improve well being
A lot of t400 series have soldered DIMM's, but i agree with you.
I track my spending to the penny and this simply isn't the case in the Bay Area.
Non-failing ecus are down to overspecd components, and obsessive supply chain management, given a decent board design. One single capacitor swapped out for a cheaper spec one can brick a huge percentage of correctly produced boards. Tesla is new, and this is a growing pain, and result of not hiring, or perhaps heeding the advice of, those familiar with industry best practices.
They lacked physical firepower, but they had metaphysical/magical firepower. I imagine they purposefully filled gondorian soldier's mind with dread and misery using their powers (think fighter planes with capabilities of high end electronic and cyber warfare capabilities instead of traditional weapons)

If not for Gandalf using his own metaphysical powers to give hope to the soldiers, I imagine the gondorians would have become inactive with shock due to terror and dread in the airwaves.
In a market economy there is a lot of deliberate inefficiency. Commercial economies are driven, primarily, by transaction quantity, which is most typically exchanging end goods/services for money. Exchange quantity goes up as wages go up and unemployment goes down. Therefore it is in the interest of companies and government that people are employed, as many as possible, even if each person does very little to substantiate the wages earned. This line of thinking falls apart when an economy enters a correction.

Likewise, people will require less energy when wages shrink or disappear all together. Energy consumption is one of many indirect parts of the market economy. When people have less money they will travel less and shop less, which decreases the need for fuel and manufacturing.

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Reducing energy consumption is a very bad deliberate goal though. Energy efficiency is a natural goal from the collision of increased demand versus fuel cost. The economic desire to increase energy efficiency does just result in lower prices but also cleaner fuel sources. This has trended true over the last 150 years far before people became aware of environment consequences from rising fuel consumption.

Since rising demand, a product of rising consumption rates, drives technology interest in fuel efficiency it is healthier for future economies, and the environment, to encourage greater fuel consumption at consequence to the economy, and environment, at the present. That statement will remain true only so long as up scaling increase of efficiency outpaces up scaling rates of consumption over time. So far the difference in scale has shown true since the start industrialization and there is no indication that the difference in scale will decrease.

Another way to think about this is energy equivalence. As energy sources become cheaper, cleaner, and more available over time they allow greater access to energy by people with less purchasing power. A poor third world economy can grow in ways it could not before because less investment is demanded to achieve growth independence. These new and emerging energy sources and distribution methods are not created for humanitarian reasons. They are created from expensive investment to satisfy expensive first world energy demands. The people who benefit most are those with the greatest need in developing economies under high market pressure without the luxury of expensive investments in infrastructure or logistics. An under-developed economy with high market pressure is one where there is huge demand for raw goods/resources but that economy lacks the finances to invest in itself, such as Ghana under the cocoa industry.
Sorry, how is the Tesla more complex in the drive train than a Honda Civic? The sheer number of moving parts in the Civic makes your argument highly questionable...
Same. I have an installation setup, with KVM, but even after following instructions and setupz cuckoo never reverts the snapshot it used. So after the first use , it reused the potentially malicious snapshot for the next run. If I can't figure out how to fix that , I can't use it.
The original definition of hijack refers to the seizure of goods in transit, typically contraband. Vehicles were involved as well, but it was really about prohibition booze. Exclusive application to vehicles didn’t come about until the mid-late 60s. Since then, it’s been applied to ideas, concepts, and even things like meetings and parties. Basically, taking things by force for other means.
> (Hint: go ahead and start interviewing and have semi-serious job leads before this talk)

I think this bit of advice is at odds with OP's statement: "I don’t think I’d come across very well (or as sharp as I usually) in interviews at the moment without a break."

I was quite burned out at my previous job, as well, and decided (against most people's advice) to quit without an offer. I had similar "I'd rather give it a shot at being a bartender than write more code" thoughts.
I was unemployed for a few months, but ultimately ended up with a few good offers. Leaving without a backup was definitely the right choice in my case.
Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs/books, and why?
That engine list is about driver-pleasing performance, not reliability. It states "The selection takes into account power and torque output, noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) levels, technical relevance, and basic comparative numbers."
Simon Peyton Jones initial intuition [0] was that Rust would be full of soundness holes due to not starting with a full formalization. Derek Dryer, Ralf Jung and others in the RustBelt project [1] did amazing work in formalizing Rust's safety guarantees, showing that Peyton Jones' guess was not accurate.

There is nothing wrong about having bugs, of course, but the reaction to the bug in this thread shows that mathematical correctness is not as universally valued as I thought it would be. I agree with the sentiment that this is a bigger issue that shouldn't be discussed in a technical thread about a specific bug. However, after reading this, it is unclear to me whether mathematical correctness is regarded in the Rust project as an explicit goal, an explicit non-goal or an unessential nice-to-have. (I do not mean to insinuate anything with the word "unclear", as I believe all three options are valid and appeal to different use cases. Almost all of the popular languages don't care about this, for instance.)

[0] https://youtu.be/t0mhvd3-60Y?t=130
[1] https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/
If we continue expanding air travel it will take our whole carbon budget within 30 years (possibly more). This means we need everything else to go to zero. It seems unlikely that we can achieve that.

I don't think we can exclude air travel just so a few people can continue jetting around the world.
Cheapening was just one of the above comments points... strange to try and dismiss it on that part alone.

But yeah, if I add filler to my soap so that it costs me 20% less to make, but requires you to use 20% more for efficacy, I've cheapened the good, and inflated it's cost.
I'm thankful for my health, my parent's health, and my education/work. Hopefully 2020 will be even better than 2019!
I feel you and yes, there's plans to make it more into a PORO core and Rails/Hanami/Sinatra/personal flavor adapters. But we're a small team and Rails has the biggest market share & ecosystem, so it's the focus right now.

Feel free to reach out if you want to help! :)
A database to digitize financial details, labeled a "blockchain" so people get more excited about it.
I've been wondering about the same actually. bitcode likely needs swift's LLVM or another apple provided LLVM fork and you'd probably want to link dynamically. I guess they are not intending to offer compilation to bitcode any time soon.
It absolutely does matter, particularly for owners of debt (bonds). Inflation will eviscerate returns on bonds and all other fixed-income investments.
Propaganda Analysis! This was very important in my debate years in school. It continues to be important!
See: https://psychologydictionary.org/propaganda-analysis/
https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media/hpropag...
Leave now, sadly this is not going to improve.
Like you describe, I just kept sucking it all in, consuming as much as I could. I have self-taught through a few of these subjects. I don't have an answer for you, but I have an answer for me. Perhaps sharing my answer might help you too. I hope so.

These are unsolved problems, that's why the material keeps getting produced. I think if you can find inspiration or a good "nutritional meal" to last for a while, it's a good thing. If nothing else, it serves to motivate. That's a big plus.

I'm pretty dense and hard-headed, so I have the hand-grenade theory of teaching myself: I just keep lobbing book-after-book into my own ignorance over time until I make progress. The vast majority of my attacks on my own personal ignorance are ineffective in the long run, but you know what? Little pieces here and there tend to stick. Maybe nobody's said it before or maybe it just takes the right author in the right context to get to me. I suspect the latter. After enough pieces stick, I can start actually working the problem of making myself better.

People who want to help in areas like this (unsolved domains) will BS one another in a heartbeat. I suspect that it's all so contextual to each of us we're just not aware of what we're doing. I don't know. But it means that personal recommendations of material should make you wary, especially if they come with heavily-laden emotional terms. ("Fight the evil corporate management structure!" or something like that) Like an organist that rests on the pedals too much, you get a long ways with books like this by making them emotional. Once again, motivation is great. If that's all you get, that's still a win for many.

So now we get to the heart of it. The real problem is coming up with evaluation criteria. Everything is great until there's a feedback loop and a way to fail, so your long-term job in trying to learn is setting up faster feedback loops and clear criteria to indicate success or failure. From there you can begin sorting out the "good" parts of the material from the fluff.

But that's just me. Until I had a good, solid way of evaluating whether something failed, a criteria that could point me to consuming smarter the next time, I was just going meal-to-meal.
> try not to name names.

Definitely do name names. Don't you think the tech lead will when they go ask him about it?

Why pussyfoot around the issue?

A start-up I worked at went through this after I left. An asshole team-lead chased away 2/3 of the original development team.

Sometimes it is personal.
It would likely halve the market value of property, causing a massive wave of strategic foreclosures and also mean the revenue would be more like 2.5% of current property valuation.

It would also likely be a massive long-term boost to equity markets, though the transitional financial chaos would be a short-term drag.
Good work! I have to point out that the name kind of reads as "pisser-act" though, which sounds funny in English in case you weren't aware :)
I was more impressed by this project's backbone service Thinkgpedia, a common natural language interface to different web services and internet-connected hardware. I'll definitely find use for it in future!

I started using Almond application for Gnome. It delivers on many fronts, but still lacks polish.

Some typed prompts would never get an answer. Some prompts got misinterpreted, for example "tell me a dad joke each day at 9 am" would get scheduled at 12 am. The wake word is followed by audio ping, but there should also be a visual clue.

Still, very cool technology. My favorite skill is "Miscellaneous Interfaces" with queries for random number, opening URL, throwing a coin...

I'll try to stick with this for a week, to automate some OS actions and my git work flow.
I understand there's already some ruby feature to avoid full page refresh? I'm a js Dev currently working with a ruby backend. Honestly for what we're doing we could have just made a plain old html page and that would have been best, with some partial reload sprinkled here and there.
I'm not sure if there's a market for this, but it's nice to see that you try new things.
Right now I feel the pain of having a large react codebase while most of the team prefers working in ruby.
The risk with such project imo is to have insufficient abstractions and to end up debugging js code in the browser anyway.
How about code splitting, hot reload, automatic assets compiling, etc .. that we've come to expect when developing front ends ?
Why do so many plans such as this exist which serve to enrich our government with so much more funding when they are currently incredibly bad at spending what they have? The US spends more per capita on education than many countries who are ahead of us. Construction of public transportation is filled with corruption and inefficiency. So many tasks still require snail mail or physically going and waiting in a line when they could be done online. Why don’t we focus on getting our government to spend effectively before giving them more to spend?
>Most people working in offices today effectively wouldn't have to commute but they still do because employers require them to do so, basically because "that's the way it's always been".

A million times this.

My entire office could do their job from home as even when we need something we have to email our team leads and CC our manager so I could be doing that at home, in comfortable clothes, not fighting 50-something men for access to 4 stalls and not fighting 100 something people for 2 microwaves. I mean, to be honest, getting 4-5 hours of my time back every week would actually a huge compensation... after you remove my vacation that's like 8 days a year of free time I'd get back.

But alas, my employer would never hear of working from home. Likely because of the ages of the corporate leadership: Chairman & CEO is 75, President & COO got his first degree in 1987 so is 'young' at 54~, CFO & EVP is 66, CIO is 59, VP of ops is 58, Information Services EVP & CIO is 60...

Good luck selling remote work to corporate leadership types that have 30-50 years of old-school corporation under their belts.

I'm sure any cost savings would probably be kept by the company and not not passed on to employees but I'd save 20-25 minutes of commuting a day (plus the half hour every day I waste sitting at my desk off the clock because the tardy policy is terrible, accidents are frequent on the way in and logging in to your computer and getting the time keeping software open can take as long as 5 minutes) so once you remove my vacation weeks that would get me 8~ days of free time back which alone would be nice. Plus the reduced mileage/maintenance/fuel etc for my car.

I wish I could find remote work so bad, or that my employer would adopt it.
From the wiki reference: >"A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a propaganda technique and logical trick (fallacy)."

It is not a specific big lie, but a class of lies that exploit a certain mass naïveté.
> 6. The end result is a sort of "Red Queen" effect where everyone is forced to compete harder and harder just to maintain his/her existing standard of living.

Nice pocket philosophy, if only the world was a zero sum game, but it's NOT.

The past 300 years of growth in human prosperity should make that abundantly clear.

Past 30 years the world has reduced extreme poverty by half. Not because we in the developed world got poorer.

The only fix we need is to gradually increase taxes on resources until they match the environmental impact. Sure we nee to also regulate the market, etc. To avoid draconian schemes.

But a well regulated market with solid incentives can fix many problems.
Ask HN: Jumping from Corporate Finance to Tech
Hi all,

TL;DR: 35-yo guy seeking advice for jumping in the "safest" (ie with little revenue loss) possible way from my current career path in corporate finance to a path more in line with what I'm really interested in: tech-related matters, in particular related to data collection, management and analysis.

Long version:
For the first 10 years of my professional life, I've been following one of the "natural", safe ways any business school graduate can take into audit then controlling and finally corporate finance, and reached at 35-yo what is generally considered the top job in that field: CFO, in medium-sized, fast-growing, non-tech company in Europe (2000 employees, ~$400m turnover).

Now the problem is: I work harder than I have ever worked, on problems I find less and less interesting. Conversely, the aspects of my current job I enjoy the most are when it comes to participate in IT projects.

Tech and data have always been a passion for me, and as I have furthered my career, I keep being more and more remote from those problems.

And then I just had my first child which makes you put things in perspective even more than I could have imagined...

So I'm curious: has anyone here jumped from "high-powered" finance jobs to tech?
What was your course of action? Did you take some kind of training before switching to a tech-oriented job? Or did you maybe try to "overfit" your LinkedIn profile to something more tech related in order to seek new opportunities directly?
Did you accept a less paying/less senior job?

Thanks for any comments and advice - both negative and positive views obviously.

Best
> iPadOS on the other hand is inching towards a desktop-like OS, ofcourse based on Apple's in-house ARM chips.

A desktop-like OS better includes lots of capabilities for development and debugging, e.g. attaching a debugger to a process, memory dumps, compiling and executing code etc. I do not believe that this fits Apple's plans and philosophy for iOS.
Mix Khan Academy, Project based learning, teams, UX (about face), agile, and marketable skills (python, java, html, css, JavaScript for example), and include a competitive program like AP.

To this day I had a high school computer science teacher that did these things (minus khan academy) about 15 years ago and it had a tremendous impact on me.
You can feel and hear these holograms
Basically, you're right. In a JS-free world this would be probably overblown (or a niche thing for Ruby fanatics).

Where Matestack shines is when it comes to very generic JS behaviour that you don't want to recreate for the 100st time in a project - just wrap it into Matestack component and tell it what to do. I suggest watching my co-founder and Matestack creater Jonas introduce the concepts behind it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY5AeGhgK7I
There's a book called Capital, by a guy named Karl Marx which explores this concept fairly deeply. I highly recommend "Reading Capital with David Harvey" which is a lecture series recorded this year that breaks it down and provides modern examples to illustrate the concepts.
I'm so excited! I discovered AoC in 2017 and I've participated last year as well. In 2017 I used it as an excuse to practice my JavaScript chops using ES2015 classes. Last year I learned me some Rust while doing the problems, at least up until I had to implement a doubly linked list and gave up on using Rust for the rest of the problems.

Hopefully this year I can make it past day 14. It's strange, but I got stuck or tired on day 15 both years. We'll see how it goes, I'm planning on learning Clojure this year with AoC. I've only started learning the language a bit these past 2 weeks, but I'm sure I'll have fun with it.

To all participants this year: remember to have fun!
Eventually? Inevitably, and for many companies that is a reality today.
For being healthy.
If you're healthy you can do anything.
You start to appreciate that when you get sick.