skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in the suburbs...

cheap automated taxis are a way more realistic idea for reducing traffic. Not just for last mile either. Switching transportation in the middle of a trip even once wastes a ton of time and adds hassle.
Sometimes when you're having a hard time getting through a piece of writing, it's because the writer is so masterful, each word so rich with meaning, each turn of phrase so unusual and yet so apt, that you have to acknowledge a shining genius far beyond your own. This is not one of those times.
I'm inclined to agree with this position. Does every Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, Hackernews, Facebook comment need to be archived and stored for the next thousand years?

I'd argue no, and there's a huge amount of waste in there - so many bot posts, or just spam.

But here we are, people want to archive every byte of information that traverses through the internet.

These days you have to approach cautiously, as every thing you do or post may be archived.
Further to that point, there is radically more money in big healthcare than there is in big pharma. In the US big healthcare is 8x-10x larger than big pharma.

There is a lot of money to be made by big healthcare in any procedure in the US, including one as described by the article. Hospitals, admin, doctors, nurses, techs, medtech, they'll all be thrilled to ring the cash register instead of big pharma.
That physical cash can become damaged is nothing new. Maybe this implementation could be easily damaged in some way, I don't think this threatens the concept of silicon cash generally.
Maybe I just had a different career path, but so far it seems that my job is learning, and the work is a byproduct of that.

I spent a bunch of years in the USAR doing basic computer stuff, both in training, and then learning from others as I went along. I was the US Army version of a general purpose "IT" fellow. Once I got out of the military and I interviewed at a few private sector jobs I realized I was not overly well equipped for IT, but if I could show I wanted to learn they would usually bring me on-board. I did desktop support for ~2 years before I landed a veryyyy basic SysAdmin job. I did that for a year, and rolled it into a real SysAdmin job. Did that for a year and turned it into a Server Engineer job (Super sysadmin?) I did that for ~2 years....you can kind of see where this is going.

I've been out of the military for ~10 years now, and every job I've had has been about learning, (and then learning that my current job wasn't going to pay me what I was actually worth) while trying something new. I got paid to "learn" every step of the way. It just wasn't a direct "learn X and you get Y" process, but even then, most companies offered some level of college reimbursement (I never really did that college thing) or will pay for certifications/training, and really, IT is one of the few fields I can think of where all of the knowledge needed to do it is open, accessible, and available to everyone.
yup, this is taught in MBA programs as a classic example of a moral hazard/principle agent problem. executives are offloading downside risk to shareholders and locking in profits for themselves.

one way to discourage such behavior is the lengthen the time horizons of performance incentives like stock grants and bonuses (to, say, 7 years).
To be clear, I don't think you could write Route53's DNS servers in Perl. It'd rather be my contention that most people running their own DNS servers don't need the kind of resilience that Route53 has (if they did, they'd be using Route53).
Sweet. Personally, I appreciate it... this is totally what I need to get some momentum going with my project.
Do you have a repo you might be willing to share?
The state de-funding of the university is great for corporations in a lot of ways. First, as you note, it's a way of getting you to pay for your own job training.

It's also a clever way for tech companies to externalize a lot of their R&D costs—because academic labs often rely on private grant funding more than the state, corporations can determine research priorities by extending grants, and then have the costs of that research partially subsidized by tuition-paying students!

This is an interesting talk on the subject. Haven't listened to it in a while but it really shaped my thinking about the university while I was a student: https://wearemany.org/a/2014/06/fall-of-faculty
I feel like there's something so comforting about having a concrete language you can rest your back up against though. Once you start throwing in #DEFINEs and typedefs, I start to question whether I can trust anything I'm seeing on the screen to not be hiding crucial secrets from me.

Maybe it's just me.
Not everyone starts a PhD right after undergrad. It'd be interesting to look at PhD students who started later in life and see how they take the program. Anecdotally, they have a lot of problems too.
Why not just respond to what I actually said? I am not gaslighting anything. I originally hit edit after posting to clarify my words. Now I’m done so please address my points 1 by 1

I cite a document from after we got off the gold standard to support my point because I tend to prefer to support points I make with strong and easy-to-follow evidence
Yep. Prove that you can do your job in less time, and use the slack for learning. Dip out early on days you need to speak at things. Work from home on days you know will be slow and do learning while no one is around.

It’s not difficult to pull that off at a big company.
What’s the podcast named?
Others have better responses to the rest of these points; many of them are still significant issues though a lot has progressed over the last couple years. I can preempt one though by saying alternatives to Synapse like https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct are probably something more aligned with your interests. (disclosure: I started the project with kaniini).

After more than two years in and around this space I'm still comfortable with stating that I'd take Matrix with all^wmost its flaws over ActivityPub. All of these protocols kind of suck. I see Matrix as having the lowest hamming distance between where it is and where it should be.
And those who do, have a competitive edge over you. It's an investment in yourself that qualifies you to leave and find a better paying job.
Bloomberg made his billions with a computer system you’ve probably never seen
And choosing their suppliers based on prices... This is like a supplier offering their services for free and then bitching that no one is paying.
I believe this is the crux of the problem - it favours people with minimal external life factors or responsibility, and they’re quite often the ones to rise to power, therefore creating a “well it was good enough for me” sentiment lacking empathy.

While by contrast, there are some people who want to kick back and simply collect a pay check, there is a whole segment of people in the middle ground who are hungry to learn, but are stretched so thin that they can’t outside of work — a whole segment that isn’t being catered for, and therefore an opportunity exists to tap into this.
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It doesn't, that's what's great about it. But ARM equipment is generally better value than x86 and I would expect Google to offer it as a more affordable target config (like AWS does).
One advantage of Amazon's ARM is that it doesn't do hyperthreading, so when you rent a "thread" you actually get a full core rather than half a core.
> Not in the suburbs...

Which, as a reminder for urbanists, really translates to "Not in the only place 90% of the nation's population is allowed to live"
> Apple, for example, never did come up with an icon for "print" that people didn't have to be told what it meant. Apple could have saved a lot of grief by using "print" instead of the icon. (The same for "delete".)

Do you have any references for this? Every print icon I've seen Apple use looks like a printer, and every delete icon looks like a trash can. Is there an article or something saying these caused confusion?
There are degrees of wrongness.
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The mind numbing work is what give them a salary to provide for their families. They might not like unemployment as an alternative.

I've met certified accountants whose daily job was to take an excel spread sheet, add 1% to every cell with a number, then return to the client. It's not automated but not because it can't be automated.
For some value of 'super specialized' you are correct. For a value that includes the bigger perspective on our culture and what it means to live a good life, an exclusive focus on STEM is indeed 'super specialized'.
Insights from Elon Musk on optimizing orginizations for development speed
Real name policy stopped the initial growth.
This is doomed from the start, then. There’s no way for them to work on an open standard without leaking features or contributing work to their competitors.
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Throwaway account here.

I actually had an interesting experience relating to this. A small handful of remote disaster coordination groups have self-organized over Zello (a PTT walkie talkie app for phones that uses data.) Their primary purpose seems to be to organize broadcasts of relevant information to groups of people who would "listen in" during dangerous conditions. The groups volunteers consist primarily of people that have internet connections and can broadcast from a safe location during the storm. These are similar to this idea [0].

I participated in one of these groups during a major hurricane in the US a year ago. My experience was mixed. It was interesting and fun to monitor social media, news sites, and NWS for alerts, hazards, and announcements. On the other hand, I was struck with how disorganized the groups were.

It was like there was a "vigilante" group of disaster responders who were giving guidance and advice that was of questionable quality. I encountered more than one member of the group that actively used the channels to spread fear and uncertainty, (like claiming that the hurricane would cause a risk of "meltdown" at a nearby nuclear power plant.) After I tried to bring up the fact that this was potentially harmful, I was verbally abused by the group leader and banned from the channel.

While these "bad eggs" are not the only part of these groups, other more well-meaning members might still not be well trained to handle very real crises.

I'm not sure the best way to handle this sort of problem, but I felt like sharing my story might provide value to anyone else who might consider getting involved with this sort of thing.

[0]: https://fortune.com/2016/08/20/cajun-navy-tech-louisiana-flo...
It's displaying for me fine an hour later.
Physical cash is both very resilient and if damaged can be replaced. This is neither.
Do you mean “couldn’t care less”?
Carbs are poison, including fructose.
Apple is suing its former lead chip designer
this, and people are free to believe what they how bad and stupid it might look to others.
It's often the case that a company decides to filter down the infinite possibilities of the programming world to a strict subset. What's left can often be a little boring, and that's on purpose.

So in a world where your choices are 1) learn other tech within our toolbox or 2) learn stuff in your domain but outside of the scope of your current work... only one of those is okay to do much of on work time.

All those ES2018 features and CSS variables may be cool things a front-end engineer should be learning, but if we have to support older browsers then I don't get to use any of it.
"Wages are taxed differently than a company's income."

Which is why a country like Belgium can be a Tax Haven for companies and have the world's highest income tax at the same time.
Jesus, so this is all of 0.000173% of the budget. Significantly less interesting in that context.
You missed as a sales lead channel. Most of the activity I see are from vendors trying to sell products and services.
An investment with no guarantee that the employee will stay to provide a return.
Webber personally refuted your claim in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21764564
No one is disputing that Twitter is popular. Likes and retweets will not save the Internet Archive anymore than thoughts and prayers. People who are not willing to click a link will not be willing to make a donation.
Search HN comments for something like "unsustainable suburban" and you'll find plenty of hits from people arguing basically that suburbs have to (somehow) end.
Whatever. I discovered and solved an orders scanning problem where blank pages were being paid for 5-8X in each order passing through the OCR scanner machinery. I saved that company well over $1M per year just by changing how they delimit scanned orders. Crickets.

The ultimate slap in my face came when some twit received an award because she created some awful MS Access DB for the CEO. She got extra money for it, too, like $5000. It pays to work in the C-Suite and generate tech debt.
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Well, at xmr.to:

> We can recommend Monerujo on Android and Cake Wallet on iOS. These wallets integrate natively with XMR.to.

I don't use either Android or iOS.

Do you recommend a suitable Linux wallet?
> You ever think about how much we subsidize businesses by paying for college ourselves?

1. Generally, education leads to productivity.
2. College education is typically tranferrable -- learning CS topics improves worker productivity regardless of who they work for.
3. Education is sticky to the individual; it can't be repo'd (or confiscated by fascists / nazis).
4. Employers generally try to match wages to productivity. Even if they pay as little as possible, in a fair market they will have to be prepared to bid close to worker productivity or lose out to a competitor who will.

Given these factors, I think the status quo is going to do a better job optimizing things than requiring employers to pay for training. When deciding who should bear the costs of training, it's appropriate to remember who the benefits accrue to. It's not only fair, but also ensures the incentives are aligned. When the topic is general and tranferable, the benefits of training largely accrue to the trainee.

Which is why I'm sitting in a training class about how our software works and code review culture, and not one about Python or Go.
I see a lot of untypeable code (in views). Doesn’t that slow you down whenever you want to make a change in an existing codebase?
Weren't non competes unenforceable in California?
Sorry, yes S&M courses are generally poor to include in that list. A calculus or chemistry course or two aren't going to affect your career potential.
Haven't really used it yet, but https://youneedawiki.com/ seem like a good hybrid approach, using Gdoc for editing, but having a browsable read version of your wiki.
I mean, sure, they tried to wriggle out of it any way they could, but the law was clear. And they had every reason to believe that this was a very likely outcome.
We're talking about money collected by a government. That isn't inflation.
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Don't they allow you to sell steam keys without giving them a cut?
You're right. (Hence the question mark.)
I was going to say 'jealous', which is orthogonal to experience. Either is bad but, only one tends to sort itself out over time.
Automation is coming regardless. Political and economic systems must adapt to soften the blow. People will need to find purpose and meaning elsewhere than a job that can be automated. I suggest family, community, and self development, but to each their own.

As a disclaimer, I have recently become enchanted with automating accounting work due to hearing about the problems accounting functions face. I'm a tad biased.
> So only people without cars would buy them?

I expect so. About 16% of Somerville households don't have a car (according to the census).

> Do you think a developer would risk only selling to that market?

Some developers would choose to build off-street parking anyway, even though it's not required, and that's fine. I'm saying we should remove the requirement to build parking.

> It seems like that would limit what they could sell the units for, and as a buyer I would have to think carefully about being able to re-sell the unit.

This is another way of saying that the units would be cheaper. That's a good thing!
One of the major elements of a TEE is that I can send code to an untrusted party and expect it to be executed faithfully. Under that model I have to assume that they have physical access to their own hardware and could do hardware based attacks.

Which means the model is just as broken even without it being a software attack.
The market is frequently irrational. Short squeezes, news cycles, macro economic events, etc can cause a stock to diverge from a reasonable calculation of its discounted future earnings. In short, the efficient market hypothesis is incorrect. It's why value investors like Warren Buffett have been able to get rich buying underpriced stocks. It isn't all that unusual for stocks to double or halve during the course of a year. Acknowledging this is why Berkshire is authorized to buy back stock only up to a certain multiple of book value. More companies should follow suit.
Studded bike tires are common in bike friendly, cold cities. Work great with ice. It's all about the right tool for the job.

Although what a lot of winter bike commuters do in my city is go by bike 95% of the winter, and take the bus when the conditions are really bad.
Vaex (Python) = billion rows per second
I don't even think it is a real animal, it looks like a capuchin monkey or something. Anyone know what species it is?
It really seems to be an activity that takes a special type of person to enjoy - my wife, being an avid summer biker, tried winter biking a single time, and came back with a giant bruise on her knee and a bent pedal and swore never again.
I assume they used a bundle of dollars to represent cache!
We lived in that world a few decades ago, it sucked for users, and where it's still common practice, it still sucks for users, and the only players really allowed to play that game are a few big names.
You don't know what all those library calls do behind the scenes either.
Merchants are allowed to charge a surcharge for credit card usage in the US.
Art speaks for itself. If you have to sit down with a reporter from the Washington Post and explain it then the art itself is not the goal.
Thanks! This is great, and even better coupled with Firefox's Reader View
“We” assumes a level of cooperation and mutual goals that I think doesn’t exist even for most high end jobs.
This looks like an amazing resource. Security and Privacy is intimidating for engineers and the resources and training are currently hoarded by massive enterprises. Really excited to see stuff like this become widely available.
Only about 22% of households in Manhattan own cars. But there's also a huge number of cabs, Uber/Lyft, limos, etc., many of which are taken by locals. Also a lot of traffic comes from delivery vehicles, buses, and so forth.
For reference, I have highly technical colleagues with leadership/engineering management positions in a large non tech enterprise who might spend their time in a typical week like this: 25% line management of direct reports, 30% admin or interviewing, 44% attending meetings about various initiatives, 1% maybe doing something as an individual contributor.
> Those things arent currencies. And it seems people have solutions to hedge against inflation already. That use case isn't the point.

The point is that there is a use-case for decentralized assets.

> Point is it being not tied to a state level actor is only useful if you can use it to get out from underneath the control of an oppressive regime by not being beholden to it's financial system.

Or if you don't want the value of your money inflated away by central bank policy.

> So far we haven't seen a crypto succeed at that. So... so what if it has that property? Doesn't seem to be useful in practice. In theory yes, but not in practice.

Yes, that's true. Although you could argue Bitcoin has succeeded, just not as a currency. It has succeeded as an asset class. But the question of why crypto hasn't succeeded as a currency is what Kong appears to be attempting to solve. Their answer to that question is that it doesn't have some of the nice properties of physical cash, so they made one that does.

I'm not sure I think that this will change much, but I don't think the fact that cryptos haven't displaced national currencies yet is evidence that they don't solve any problems. They do solve important problems, they just create other ones, and those things don't yet balance in their favor.
“I know PG claims meta programming was the secret to ViaWeb's success, but I'm not sure how exactly that was the case, and even if true whether that is still relevant today”

I can totally see this if you are alone or a very small tight team is working on the code. You will know what’s going on but once you start adding more people it will be very hard for them to work with such a codebase. I have done some really elegant stuff that made me super productive but looking at the code three years later I myself can barely figure out how it works or how to make changes. other people have almost no chance.

Once you grow it’s probably good to stick to paradigms a lot of people in the Industry are familiar with.
Twitter aims to build an open standard for social networks
Terrorism is indeed becoming a tired excuse. They're changing their arguments to child protection.
I honestly didn’t see the need for GPL until a project I had sunk a lot of time into contributing to changed their license from Apache to Proprietary and started charging more than I could possibly afford for a license.

I feel tricked and betrayed, it has been a year and I am still upset. The whole thing feels like I got robbed. I donated my time to a project I thought was for the good of the community, turns out I was just doing free work on a proprietary product others stood to make money on.

It’ll be a long time before I sign another CLA on something I care about.
Relevant to this is the "ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop"[0] that was on the front page yesterday.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21756243
> You see, when you develop land, that land is being used. You can't go ahead and develop the same land another way.

But why not?

You have a street with insufficient parking. There is demand for parking, so you buy one of the homes, knock it down, put up a new building with a large parking garage and sell spaces to the neighbors. Now there is more parking.

It seems like the problem is that people want to eat their cake and have it too. They want parking but they don't want to pay for it. But mandating it doesn't allow you to not pay for it, all it does is require you to pay for it even if you don't need it.
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Yeah, thats actually remarkably good