skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I grew up watching SS, Mister Roger's and 3-2-1 Contact on analog OTA KQED ch. 9 on my grandparent's HeathKit TV. About 8 yo, I figured out the ultrasonic remote receiver would change channels by rattling house keys on a keychain.

PS: I'm curious if the Waze cookie monster voice is actually Mr. Spinney.
Tech Skills for 2020?
The custom buid system we use at $WORK can build and run tests from the index (or any git revision really) specifically to facilitate fine grained commits.
Ha. Have a beer!
AFAIR, entity group is a Megastore concept. Megastore is ill-conceived predecessor of Spanner, are you confusing them? Spanner is much faster than 1 transaction per tablet.
Facebook ads work amazing for me but maybe it's just my product (haven't tried any other channels).
That is an excellent reason to provide maybe 1 or 2 months of subsidised healthcare to women who with children who are seeking work. Something extremely targeted and modest. But it seems a bit questionable in the thread context of "the program literally pays for itself" which presumably means the program is encouraging high earning women to enter the workforce, ie, those with valuable skills, substantial experience and a contacts network that means they can probably bear the cost of finding work.
Prototypes? This company was essentially selling a rebranded Segway ES2.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/06/25/segway-n...
I will not work for a company that monitors my screen.
I think I'm an exception in this instance, but I don't understand what value there is in message history. How often do you find yourself reminiscing by going back through a messaging log?

If there are photos that should be kept then there are other ways to back them up. Is there valuable context in the conversation that was had around the delivery of the photo?

Are messages backed up and restorable for other messaging systems, and have you ever needed to go through a restore process to look back through a conversation?

If it's for the purposes of software project development team discussion and history needs to be kept for legal reasons then I think Signal is intentionally not aiming at that demographic.

I get that there are special moments in life but, for me, the textual conversations around them are very secondary to the moments themselves. But then, in discussions I've had with other people, my opinion seems to be the exception.
True enough, but it has become a much bigger thing now. I've even seen a couple kickstarters showing their funding split on their kickstarter project page between investors and kickstarter funds.

The level of professionality in modern kickstarters is a bit of a turn off really. Seeing massive slick ad campaigns for a kickstarter isn't exactly a sign of authenticity.

But then again if those ads have a positive ROI I totally get it.
Maybe. It all depends on which of the 14,000+ US school districts you're in.
> If this ("turn it into two not nested loops") was indeed intended, I'd suggest to spell it out, not abuse notation

O(2n) is not an abuse of notation. It's just as well defined as O(n). The fact that O(2n) is a subset of O(n) is a theorem, not part of the definition of the notation.
Health researchers disclose $188M in conflicts of interest
Less solid cases have been taken on contingency. No need to have "more money than God", just a strategy and someone willing to take on the risk.
I don't really agree with this for all people. I'm sure it's true for some, but I'm less sure that it's widely applicable. I got a CS degree from a fairly well ranked (somewhere in the 25-50 range) school.

For context, I went to school several years later in life than most undergrads, but I wasn't a developer during the intervening years. I came into university with nothing more than a hobbyist's knowledge, but through continued extracurricular activities and paid internships, I kept myself perpetually well ahead of the curve.

1. True, and the ability to complete over-engineer undergrad CS projects just because you have the time to do so is often a lot of fun.

2. Didn't work that way at all for me. I already had a better theoretical understanding than the undergrad curriculum was designed to teach me, so I was constantly bored. I didn't even do particularly well in the theory-focused classes because tests often asked to regurgitate what the class taught rather than asking for an explanation of the theory that was the subject of the class.

3. I find this one utterly baffling. How anyone could consider studying (as distinct from learning!) a privilege is totally beyond me.
The idea is that these programs bring additional tax revenue by encouraging parents to work
So a handful of students get to decide, for the entire campus, what they do and do not like, accept, or is ethical?

These students probably have no memory of 9/11, maybe if they lost a loved one that day they would have more informed opinions?
That's cool - I'd hope that's generally the case. This could also be more evidence that it is an exposure issue and it takes longer for them to catch up.

I'd be curious to ask adults that were homeschooled if they would want to do the same for their kids.

I'd wonder even if it's the common case they end up perfectly normal adults if it's hard for them prior to that.

I think I'd be nervous about being able to do it effectively for my own kids (both for the social and academic reasons).

That doesn't mean I don't think it's a solvable problem and there is probably a way to create a community of people to do this well, but that might just end up looking like a secular private school.
> This logic could be applied to k-12 education, which would be rather expensive if not government-subsidized.

No, because most parents aren't good at teach their kids basic knowledge.

> Pre-school in particular benefits both the children?

Disagree, it's a virus-fest and a herdish, artificial beginning in life. People who are lucky enough to grow their kids in rural/family/small town settings have it much better.

> A lack of affordable childcare disproportionally falls on women

agreed, but that can easily be worked on
This is true, but keep in mind that in QC the salaries are lower, and there is a high demand for workers.

A big part of this is because the workers have to be Francophone, and often bilingual (esp. in Montreal).
I'd love to have this as a torrent
> The 1% still pays ~38% of taxes by the way.

They also have 40% of the wealth, so I think that's pretty reasonable.
But that's not an issue with the model, that's an issue with our response to the model.

Fundamentally there's nothing wrong with this. The somewhat harsh truth is that 'systemic bias' is actually just... statistics. There are a lot of minority criminals. It's not that there's something special about these people that makes them criminals - it's the same thing that makes everybody turn to crime: lack of opportunity, low capacity for upward mobility, limited access to education, and so on. We act as if the information is not accurate, and that this is a result of racism, but the cold truth is that if you were to take a white person and a black person and only look at the likelihood of criminal behavior, the black person is going to come out on top of that. It's just the math.

Where the human element comes in is where we decide what to do about that math. Do we blame the race? Do we utilize these models to preemptively police people on the basis of race? The answer obviously, should be no. That said, our model can give us insights into this. We can take this data and go, 'well we know that it's unlikely that race is the major causal factor here, so what else can we look at?'

This is a much deeper issue, and 'structural racism' is a really bad way to look at it, because it forces you to focus on the racial elements, even if they're not relevant. It's asking for a model that is not representative of reality, because it looks ugly, rather than looking at it for what it is - just data - and figuring out what to do with that data.
It's criminal. They are forcing working class people to take on student loans. We are being forced to become slaves to the Government. We are all sharecroppers now. We can't recover from this level of exploitation. The US is dead.

Edit: Hackernews has manipulated the title from "American Factories Demand White-Collar Education for Blue-Collar Work" to "College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor." Can you guys be any more lame in your attempt to shape the narrative? Truly disgusting.
Completely agree. Raising a family is work and it does add to the greater good of the world. And, it's not being measured properly, which leads oeople to assume that dual income is the "right goal" when it's an intrinsic bias to the situation.
In most countries, people generally live with or near their extended families, and grandparents/aunts/cousins watch over the children if the mother works. This is much less common in America.
This mentality keeps on going right up through high-paid white collar work. All job postings inflate the minimum requirements and everybody wants someone else to train their employees.

All junior software engineering jobs that could be filled by recent CS grads or bootcamp grads want 2-3 years of professional experience. The next level up that should require 2-3 years wants 5-10.

The unemployment numbers are crap. Ask anyone who has a middle of the road white-collar job how confident they'd be in quitting and getting a new one and they will laugh at you. Nobody is really hiring on fair terms. Everybody wants a new senior employee for the price of a junior one.
For some of us data loss is often a bigger threat than unexpected retention.

I like Signal and it always makes me happy to see more people showing up there, but for now certain group chats will stay on other messaging services.
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Any time I hear of an O(n^2) problem I remember Shlemiel the painter.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/back-to-basics/
> It feels like you're being unnecessarily hostile, here. He didn't address your specific problem as stated, but he did add to the discussion.

You're right, sorry for the tone. The thing is, it sounded an awful lot like a blatant attempt at derailing the discussion by shoehorning span to promote a build tool. Nix does not solve anything, particularly as it was being proposed as a solution to a problem that plain old Debian packages do not have. So if Nix solves nothing and Nix adds nothing to the discussion then why waste everyone's time by adding noise by selling a tool that does and solves nothing wrt plain old Debian packaging?

> If people started using Nix recipies instead of Docker or janky bash scripts for deployment of Hadoop and other complex software, most of this article's complaints would disappear.

...or simply build a plain old Debian package?

Is it that hard to simply follow the happy path of packaging for Debian?

Why is suddenly Nix the only option on the table, specially as it brings absolutely nothing to it wrt what plain old Debian packages already provide for decades now?
http://archive.is/cRZSn
>>I will happily bookmark this and that, but it's unlikely I'll ever actually go back to the bookmark.

>That might be a problem with your process, not with your tools.

Sure, great startups make problems your problems. Haha.
> Security updates are more important than user convenience for the same reason that vaccines are more important than people's opinions.

That's exactly the attitude I'm trying to get away from.
cool thanks it might be useful to have it in documentation i had no idea where to start looking
> I have worked long and hard to be able to socialize with people from ‘Regular’ America, and I still, nearly 20 years after I graduated high school, and more easily socialize with people from a Midwestern conservative homeschooled background.

You're not missing anything.
Looks like it also comes with a sweet little penthouse: http://www.jerseylillysaloon.com/whiskey-row-penthouse.html
Yeah, I've never understood the complaint about IKEA instructions. Their instructions and build steps are always miles better than other furniture companies.
Well, it's sort of a truism that you pay more for less when it comes to fashion (and minimalism of other kinds, too...) But I'm glad Gibson can afford Acronym (and/or his connections are enough to swing him a free coat as an 'influencer'). Probably no single author has had such an impact on me, in hindsight.
>... the program literally pays for itself (and more!) via increased income taxes from parents that would have otherwise chosen to stay at home.

In the US both the left and right play a game where the only way to increase tax revenue is tax cuts to the rich. It has never worked...but politicians be damned if they will ever try anything other than trickle down economics.
> It doesn't have to be this way.

No it doesn't. Rates for Stockholm, Sweden (PDF): https://forskola.stockholm/globalassets/forskola-och-skola/f...

In short:

FULL-TIME RATES

Full-time rates apply to children in the ages of 1-3, who are in childcare for more than 30 hours a week.

Child 1: 3% of household income up to maximum a fee of 1425 kr/month (roughly 149 USD)

Child 2: 2% of household income up to maximum a fee of 950 kr/month (roughly 99 USD)

Child 3: 1% of household income up to maximum a fee of 475 kr/month (roughly 50 USD)

PART-TIME RATES

Child 1: 2% of household income up to maximum a fee of 950 kr/month

Child 2: 1% of household income up to maximum a fee of 475 kr/month

Child 3: 1% of household income up to maximum a fee of 475 kr/month

Every family receives child allowance[1]. Child allowance for one child is 1250 kr/month for one child. Two children: 2650 kr/month. Three chidren: 4480 kr/month.

[1] https://www.forsakringskassan.se/privatpers/foralder/nar_bar...
What a waste of a good startup name.
This guy knows the facts , hes a data scientist that makes 300k a year. He says these things because liberals hate white people, people from the south and enjoy acting elitist. Its who they are, nothing to do with logic.
Because your while your gross Y is greater than X, your net Y might be well below (especially when you have 2 or more kids).
I do feel the same way. I used to casually browse Kickstarter, but don't anymore.
Child rearing produces children that are adults and had the attention of a fully invested parent. Are you sure you're measuring the right thing?
Same click.
Woah, didn’t realize you could install Linux on the switch now. Got me thinking about the uses for a portable tx2 tablet...
what does it cost you to keep this up and running?
Index Providers Saddle US Pension Funds with Stock Scams
I don't know of any resources offhand, but the principles of technical writing are very similar to code writing. The biggest difference is that computers only need to be told once, whereas humans need a few (controlled) repetitions and some examples in order to digest something.

- Don't Repeat Yourself: Describe it in one place, and then refer to it elsewhere in the document.

- Componentize: Build up smaller concepts and then use those smaller concepts to build up bigger concepts, etc. Then you can continue to use simple language with the bigger concepts that are easily broken down because they in turn are described in full.

- Each part does one thing and does it well. Don't mix many different concepts in one description. Describe one thing well, and reference it elsewhere.

- Keep things short. The longer a section is, the harder it is to absorb.

- Naming is important. Use memorable, descriptive names for your concepts.

- Have examples that demonstrate your concepts. Don't try to pack many concepts into a single example; that just makes it harder to figure out.

- Have a glossary if there are more than 10 new concepts.

- Test your documentation on people who are unfamiliar with the project. Ask them where they're getting confused. Confusion is the human manifestation of a bug in your documentation.

- Always keep your goal in mind. What should the end result be with your reader? Anything taking longer than 10 minutes is a chore, and only the most dedicated would continue that far.

- U/X is important. UI layouts, source code, and documentation all have U/X components to them because a human will be interacting with them / consuming them in some form. Make it easy for them to navigate to what they need.
The technology very rapidly aged, but that's not what you read Gibson for; his writing much more evocative and stylish than your typical SF.
James Mickens is a national treasure.

"To Wash It All Away" was the last of his columns for the Usenix magazine. Here are all the others:

2014-03: To Wash It All Away: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1403_02-08_mickens.pdf

2014-01: This World Of Ours:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

2013-11: The Night Watch:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

2013-09: The Slow Winter:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf

2013-07: Mobile Computing Research Is a Hornet’s Nest of Deception and Chicanery:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/01_mickens_02-04_1.pdf

2013-05: The Saddest Moment:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login-logout_1305_micken...

"The Night Watch" is a personal favorite as I identify as a systems programmer. The phrase "I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I'VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS" resonates with repeated personal experience.
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While not Montana, I can get gigabit internet service [~10-30ms latency to Google servers] on my farm. I like it here, but I don't see the masses flocking to live here because of the internet service.
Subsidized care is needed because of taxes:

Y = Annual pay on open market

X = Cost of childcare

Y' = Takehome pay after taxes

Y' < X < Y is an inefficient utilization of resources that subsidized daycare can fix (since the subsidies come out of Y-Y', it can be revenue neutral or even revenue positive for the government).
It depends on what the set of falsey values is for that language.

E.g. in Common Lisp, the only falsey value is NIL (the empty list). This is easy to understand, easy to remember, and straightforward in practice because idiomatic Lisp does a lot of list operations. It wouldn't make sense for 0 to be truthy, because that's a legit value, and NIL represents the absence of a value.

I don't know what values are falsey in Ruby, so I can't comment on it.
That would be great be apparently current older generations have been brainwashed into thinking that your entire goal for your life is to save for a lavish retirement where you will finally get to enjoy yourself every day after you retire and should have no responsibilities. Which basically equates to- don't enjoy any day until you retire because you are so busy focused on retirement.

My parents are like that.. my mom even moved to live close to one of my siblings and the grandchildren.. but complains every single time she has to watch them because it takes up her valuable retired time... ok.
when will the reverse happen? College seems to have very little value added these days, so you would expect people with blue-collar educations to be able to take over white collar jobs.
Do you care if the country's population drops dramatically? I'm sure many people are fine with that, but if you're a country looking to stay strong economically the math says you'll need to incentivize childrearing somehow.

I think subsidized daycare is a great idea as long as it isn't too much of a disincentive for those who want to stay home with their kids. When I was looking into childcare I noticed there were a lot of options that were only 2-3 hours a day. It took me awhile to realize these were breaks for parents who stayed at home and they were not targeting parents working full time. The parents I do know that have stayed at home could really use and appreciated some reprieve here and there. Nicer gyms and even grocery stores offer temporary childcare. I'm confident there are fewer options in middle/lower class neighborhoods.

Most people I know who chose to stay at home have only one or two kids. Even for those who have, say, five kids I wouldn't say it would still be a net loss to the government (many regulations mandate 1:6 caretaker:child for pre-walkers to 1:15 starting at age 5 for childcare). There are other advantages to group care like being able to spot issues that aren't age appropriate. As a parent I don't have a large sample size for most milestones. "Normal" can have a range of a year for many developmental skills, but others can stick out in a group setting. Spotting these things early can go a long way in addressing them. Scheduled pediatrician visits are only once or twice a year and last ~30m. So many things can be easily missed.
Reminds me of the Douglas Adams quote:

“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'"
No one owns space — the Outer Space Treaty 1967 declared that space is free and open to exploration by all nations and that claims of national sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body are banned.

Most countries, but not all of them, have ratified the treaty.
I think the cost of Facebook and Google ads blindsides many founders who take them for granted as a distribution channel when planning their startups, particularly founders who have no experience with them, or (even worse) founders who used them several years ago when they far cheaper and are unaware of how the landscape has since changed.

You should assume they will simply not be available to you for planning purposes. Occasionally you might stumble across an untapped niche where it is still possible to run ads at a cost permitting reasonable ROI but in my experience that is now the exception rather than the rule. If you do find such a niche it is more likely to be on Google, since their keyword-based model permits such niches to theoretically exist, whereas Facebook is an all-out competition by all advertisers for the same newsfeed slots.
So spammers who had yahoo account mailers
They sold 350 scooters at $700 each. So just under $250k in sales. They decided, right before Christmas, that they would tell all those people their $700 has been thrown right in the trash.

The founder of this company is the founder of Tile, a VC-backed company worth $XXX million that has raised $104M+. If this person had any morals he would cash out $250k of his shares in Tile and pay back the people who ordered his scooters. Hell give them half back for $125k. That is chump change to a successful SV founder.

I know that legally he has no obligation, but how can he sleep at night? This wasn't "oh making hardware is way harder than we thought and we couldn't afford it" this was "well I figured if I couldn't sell a million of these I'd rather just give up so I spent all the money on ads".

What a jerk. Merry Christmas from Silicon Valley.
I'm going to say that you're the one making the implication that the US can kill people wherever it likes, you can do the homework.
I've had generally positive experiences on https://www.codementor.io/
Well I'm often dealing with lots of files and I have to use "xargs" a couple of times a day.
the iScoot is next