skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ideal situation is to pair each apprentice with an experienced dev, with a fixed time allocated every day to help them.

Yes, it's costly. Yes, the experienced dev needs to be ok with it.

Then you find small tasks you know people can google their way around and that you know won't lead to a disaster if they are done badly or if something break.

Then you increment.

Apprentices are very slow and very demanding at the beginning. Once they are productive though, they have the best cost/benefit ratio of your company, provided you did the first steps well.

Source: been an apprentice for 5 years, and all my classmates were.
I'm using a KB Paradise Keyboard for Full N-Key Rollover, as some stenotype chords require 10+ simultaneous key depressions.

I do not recommend an actual stenotype machines, being a niche item; are usually on the order of £400 up to well over £800. Quite all right, no. Plus they're great big bricks to lug around with you.

Some enthusiasts have made "steno-friendly" PCB layouts and chassis, which is a nice-to-have but not a need.

The software that I'm learning on, Plover, is available for free! My total spend so far comes to £40 (bought the keyboard refurb).

The real spend is the time, though: if you're already typing fairly quickly, sinking 200 hours of practice on a new system is daunting. But if you're hitting 160WPM, which is the conservative speed estimate, and you do a significant amount of typing, you could easily amortize the training hours fully within two years of full-time computer work. Aggregate time savings over a few decades start to look pretty enticing.
It's only valid use case, is to keep the sheep glued to their phones. In that aspect it's totally succeeded.
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Perl isn't so bad once you learn all the little gotchas, but it's not something I would recommend to anyone unless they're scraping clis. It has too many foot guns, and the pool of engineers to choose from seems too small.
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My speculation: this ties into thier ultra wideband location technology: a killer feature would be the ability to LoJack and kill any device globally. As well as find anything with a UWB sticker attached.
Not to mention you can provision phones and computers without carrier activation.
Photos you posted on Facebook 12 years ago are generally inaccessible to the public; you need to be a Facebook user to see most stuff on Facebook after all.

Also, in most cases even you would have a very hard time accessing them, unless you somehow "pinned" them not to be far far down the scroller.
Indeed. The term you are looking for in 4) is Lawful Interception [0]. Existing satellite networks like Iridium that support satellite crosslinks and could theoretically get around this are not legally allowed to do so [e.g. 1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception

[1] https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf08528.html
Zen and the Art of CSS Design is a good book.
In Defense of Utility-First CSS [video]
> classroom with a single teacher tasked with educating a room of people who might not be interested...and apprentice with one person who likely is interested

In my experience, the "should be apprentice" in a class is the one ends up being frustrated by the class environment because they care.

I see classes like commercial farms - everyone gets the same amount of water, nutrients, sunlight... An apprentice's master is like an expert gardener who notice when one plant needs less sunlight and provides shade. And provides calcium when one plant needs it.

That's why small time farmers are usually the ones who create freakishly big tomatoes, carrots, pumpkins... These freakish farm produces created through painstaking personalized education would be called geniuses if they were humans.

In small classes, students often get this personalized treatment. But majority of classes aren't small.
> In the next series we'll see how to translate the legacy JavaScript code to working Rust code.

this is the part I came to see.
Ask HN: How do we unlock the worlds collaboration?
Sorry in advance for the probably badly worded title. This is probably just badly formed thought that doesn't make sense but still wanted to share.

I find it interesting that the worlds collective collaboration happens inside businesses. Doing a search on the word 'collaboration' I find results for collaboration in the workplace, inside businesses, in the corporate world. But how about people outside of organizations? How do we enable collaboration between communities and groups with shared interests? Is financial upside missing to motivate collaboration, are we missing a shared process for collaborating, a leader to provide direction? I'm sure this is all true and more.

In the context of software - after starting a small software group (500 or so devs) I realize that there are a bunch of developers that hope to collaborate with others on software to build something meaningful and learn. Is this true for other industries - are creators looking outside their organizations to collaborate on something more fulfilling? Is it possible to organize the world - independent of organizations?
There have been fewer than 50 deaths attributed to vaping.

It shouldn’t even make the top 1,000 list of things to bother worrying about.
I really love Scala, but I worry about its future given Google putting its weight behind Kotlin, and the two offering a lot of the same features and philosophy.

Does anyone know if the Scala maintainers have addressed this directly?
> What do they really think

Small publishers don't really have the resources to think much about their monetization. Sad that there are not more companies working on monetization really, i was hoping browsers like firefox would step in to help.
It's a choice really.

There's ways to do a lot of things (I swear that is the real sticking point on HN when it comes to react discussions).

But just serving up straight HTML, you could actually use react, but you don't have to do it "just" to do that.

If you're stuck in a spot where you HAVE to use it, that's the fault of whomever decided that, not react.
Did anyone find a subscribe link? I'm curious to see how this progresses.
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I find your crude language repulsive. Hoping moderators will remove comment. Not only is your comment inappropriate, it bring zero value to discussion
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Lisps are compiled, generally. It's just that you can add new compiled functions to a running image, and replace existing compiled functions. The running time of compiled Common Lisp can approach that of compiled C code, and sometimes be better.

The dividing line between compiled and interpreted languages has become permeable these days anyway. Perhaps the better dividing line is between languages that are designed to compile to efficient code, vs. languages whose design precludes that. In some cases this may just mean we need smarter compilers. And this is where I really like this kind of language fuzzing: it's a great way to test compilers, and can be extremely helpful at firming up implementations of complicated optimizations.
Easy to say, but people will still do it. And those people vote and affect policies that, in turn, affect you and me.
I think that's accurate, but really illustrates my point that this is a more apples to oranges type comparison.

Classrooms (at least thinking of a US style education) are for the masses.

Apprenticeships are for the handful of folks who really care ... that's not many people and in so many ways really isn't for everyone.
Nope. You should find a way to be happy. Meaning is irrelevant although most people find meaning in responsibility.
I can see the connection, it advocates learning how to repair your own tools and not being dependent on mechanics.
People in Europe who pay 10€/month for mobile internet.
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Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?
I am curious if you know any good audio book for developers.

The topic of programming usually don't lend itself well for audio books.

I know there are a lot of podcasts about
programming out there. Most times I don't think you learn by listening to them.

This is why I am searching for good audio books about programming.
Some pointers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765514
> Scala is declining
And the proof of this is... Where?
I switched to clojure for a new job from doing scala for 5 years. I just feel a weight has been lifted off of my head. Weight of syntax, slow compilation, weight of implicits ( some of them are so bad even editors like idea couldn't figure out what is going on). And most importantly the weight of the constant feeling of not being able to fully understand the meaning of endless math terms thrown at me casually like monads, freemonads, applicatives , categories, Kleisli ect.

I spent so much time learning what all these math concepts apply in programming but now I don't remember what any of these mean anymore and I am still shipping production applications ( in clojure). Sigh, what a waste of my life doing scala :( .
The last release was a beta from May 2017.
German stenotype works quite similarly from what I know, although with a different keyboard layout. For a long time Stenografie (shorthand writing with a pen) was important (not sure how important it was in the US), and is still used e.g. for creating parliamentary records, where other countries have switched to stenotype.
I don't necessarily want to be either - I consider culture to be a continuum rather than a fixed state.

And you're right, Islam shares a common heritage with Christianity and Judaism (despite being conspicuously absent from the "Judeo-Christian" moniker) so it makes no sense to consider the influence of only two.
The full picture of what killed Iridium is written up in great detail in "Eccentric Orbits". I'm only part of the way through the book, but lots of interesting stuff in there so far.

https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Orbits-Iridium-John-Bloom/d...
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His third to last paragraph is the second paragraph which is why it's stupid to use some wordy bullshit like "antepenultimate".

You NEED to get Grammarly as the incessant ads say.

To downvoters: Toxic pedantry like this is what drives women and minorities out of STEM. You're the reason we can't have diversity.
I usually just press F12 and delete it with the DOM tree inspector.

Is "DOM Delete" automated?
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You should first consider what you want to achieve from this “revamp”. Are you facing some issue with your existing tech stack?

I’m wary when I hear teams discuss a total rewrite of an existing application.
And yet it has some incredibly helpful bits on actual motorcycle repair (and putting together grills :)).
I know we don't love reddit here, but it's the first online source I could find for Edward Abbey's hilarious review of ZAMM:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CalamariRaceTeam/comments/5bij42/ze...

Yeah, I know, allegedly written by "Dave Harleyson". Count me among the skeptical.
Nail salons don't capitalize on vice.
When During Fetal Development Does Abortion Become Morally Wrong?
still doesn't make sense because the foreign nations aren't depriving the people paying for the research of the information they paid for via taxes.

theft means that something was taken away from somebody else. this clearly isnt the case in your scenario, as the foreign nations just copied it.
As a native English speaker with Dutch colleagues, I've always thought Dutch was remarkably close. Once you kinda figure out pronunciation patterns a lot of it is very similar. Written Dutch is the only language I intuitively perceive the cognate rrelationships with.
For some reason I assumed the bike in the book was some sort of older Harley. Never figured the Honda CB77 would be suitable for 2up travel for such a long trip. I also had no idea Pirsig actually took that trip. This makes ZAMM so much more impressive.
Just because people are saying it doesn’t make it true. It doesn’t even make sense as a thickening agent. It’s not more valuable if it’s thicker and it becomes more difficult to handle and to fill cartridges.

It’s used to water down the product and sell more cartridges with the same amount of THC oil. The exact same thing cocaine dealers do with talc powder or some shady bars do watering down their bottles.
I wonder how much of that is some marketing department spamming up the page with google tag manager and not caring about the impact on the design (i.e they block the ads themselves or never read the site on mobile).

Most of the worst web UX I’ve ever seen has been through browsing a news site in landscape mode on a mobile. You’re lucky if you can actually read anything at all with the sticky headers, popup banners, modals that don’t fit the screen and break scrolling, and floating videos.
> Science fantasy is largely more popular because a lot of what humans want out of their stories is just that: fantasy.

I kind of disagree. What people want out of their stories is something that resonates with them emotionally or that speaks to the human condition. The fantasy vs science dichotomy doesn't really apply, and it's mostly subjective anyway.

Also, it helps to remember that Star Wars and Star Trek were pioneering in their respective media. Star Wars basically invented the motion picture blockbuster and "epic" sci-fi. Star Trek, for all its hokey technobabble, was the first attempt (that I'm aware of) to portray an internally consistent, realistic future society onscreen.

But both are also far more about people than technology or even extrapolation. If you take away the Force and the space wizards, most of what happens in Star Wars would be plausible in many "hard SF but with FTL" settings - it's actually a fairly grounded universe - and there are many such settings that somehow allow for telepaths as well. It's entirely possible to have hard sci-fi that has a wow factor and human drama (Babylon 5 comes to mind as an attempt, maybe the Expanse,) it's just not something people want to do because science is difficult, whereas teching the tech is easy.
Click the tweet itself, not the "conversation" icon button. That button is not "view replies", it's more like "write a reply".
It's also illegal to transmit unlicensed in the L band. Fortunately though, GPS uses spread spectrum signals which are incredibly resistant to interference, in addition to using several frequencies simultaneously and several reference recievers on the ground, it is extremely unlikely you will jam GPS.
$7.50/month? Seems pretty reasonable to me.
Calling LuaJIT unmaintained isn't exactly true. It's still getting commits, however the author has stopped trying to keep it up to date with the mainline Lua updates. Lua has a history of not caring too much about backwards comparability, so the LuaJIT devs have decided to stay with Lua 5.1, even though 5.1 is nearly 10 years old, and 5.4 is on the way soon.
I think it depends on tropical location more than anything else. The sun is much more potent. My grandfather in northern Australia had many cancers removed from his face, ears, neck, shoulders, arms and legs. Today skin cancer occurs in roughly 2 out of 3 people in Australia.
> temperature. if the temperature is right for you, chances are that it's a bit too warm for your electronics. Chips get hotter, which can result in all sorts of problems (particularly with big screens and graphics-intensive apps, but modern storage as well is often at risk by poor cooling).

This is a very AC-centric mindset. I make it a game to hold off on the AC in the summer. I have experienced graphics card overheating, but only when gaming.

A sun reflector, an extra 120mm fan, and maybe a better case should combat any temperature differences.
"The real cost is your time." -> this.

we've been doing this for the past 4 years, but as i really started to enjoy sales, things are going quite well, so i'm just adding my 2 cents:

From my experience the sales process is the only thing that matters. No client cares about the software (at least initially).
Although this is/was tough to hear as a softwareenigneer (i didn't believe it either), if you're in B2B and trying to solve a serious enterprise problem, most of the readily available info on "how to start up" on the web is not applicable.
All the talk about "build a fancy landing page", "build an MVP", "test your market first" did not help us. This is because we found that our target audience is not really active on the internet and the amount of potential DECISION MAKERS/BUYERS (not users!) is in the thousands to tenthousands not in the millions. Therefore we needed direct sales, whether we liked it or not. And initially that's a founders job.
See this as a hint for my claim: B2B companies that are turning over many millions of dollars per year often have "a website" (which looks like it's 1999) but that's basically it.

Why? The clients are in B2B as well, so the level of doing business is mostly person to person, establishing a relationship. You don't need a fancy website for that.
The reason is actually pretty simple: If you are solving a relevant business problem in B2B the duration of the anticipated business relationship is 5-10++ years. Depending on WHAT problem you solve the dependency on the clients new supplier (=you) is very high. Therefore a client cares much more about WHO that supplier is. Building that trust takes time and interactions, and that is why B2B is so fundamentally different from B2C where you have everything from one-off interactions to product-lifecycles of 1-3 years (max).

It was therefore always clear to us that building a viable B2B business takes 10 years.

So what did we do? Initially none of our clients cared about the software but about the business problem we solve and the people/the company who they are doing business with. We funded our product development by doing a mixture of pre-financed dev work & "contract software dev/consulting" with the IP remaining with us. This allowed us to build a product and use the references to get to work with the next clients. Over time this lead us to our (now SaaS) product.

B2B is tough, but as soon as you're in, you're in.

edit: typo
Yes, with a small correction - "uit" is loosely pronounced as "out". A huis is pronounced like a house. Well, close enough anyway :)
These are books about mathematics that are free and open-source.
...in the same way that stories about trans fats were about eating being harmful.
Some sports leagues draft kids out of high school. What if companies starting offering 4 year apprenticeships out of high school to the most promising students ? How much should they pay these 18 year olds for those 4 years ? Would the colleges lobby the government to ban apprenticeships ?
> it tries super hard to make you do things properly

I don't have much experience with Laravel, but my sense is that Laravel tries to make hard stuff (CRUD operations, MVC) easy, but it doesn't try so hard to make you do things "properly".
Well, that's hilariously out of touch. I'd need to really need their articles to pay that much.
> Chips get hotter, which can result in all sorts of problems (particularly with big screens and graphics-intensive apps, but modern storage as well is often at risk by poor cooling).

Why would you want to run non-trivial compute and storage in a non-temp-controlled environment anyway? That's an obvious use case for a thin-client setup. I'd surmise that some products intended for industrial, rugged etc. use can be a bit more resilient to extreme environments than your average laptop, and performance would be a non-issue.
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R - it's already good just not quite as good as Python.
I won’t even mention the anecdata from my own workplace. I’ll only say that within my extended network people are frantically rewriting Scala bits in other languages. Those who are stuck with it (because of, say, extensive prior investment into Spark) are scrambling to come up with alternate solutions.

Put your ear to the ground, and you too will hear it.
Why is this book mentioned so often here? I know nothing about it but my first thought is that motorcycles and the people who love them have zero appeal to tech / startup people.
That's exactly why you should read the book. It's less so about motorcycle than you think.
The presumption you're making is that a country would never spend money for the public good, where that is defined to include the entire human race, rather than just nationals.

Weird assumption! Generally speaking, academic research is considered to be an international, or super-national, cooperative effort in most fields.
The languages describe emotions differently
The last time Mike Paul pushed anything is almost a year ago until two weeks ago based on the two RSS feeds I use. The Git commit dates could be unreliable from either cherry-pick shenanigans or him just not bothering to push the changes until two weeks ago.
> This caught my eye. I find it curious that "government intervention in the private market" seems to be treated as de facto harmful.

The current administration and Senate is the target of that sentence.
This is a good list of books. Unfortunately many of the links are broken? Probably just my luck, but the first few "with Sage" books I excitedly selected unfortunately 404'd.
I'll send an email.

> Moreover, the American Institute of Mathematics maintains a list of approved open-source textbooks.
https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/

I also like the (free) Green Tea Press books: Think Stats, Think Bayes, Think DSP, Think Complexity, Modeling and Simulation in Python,
Think Python 2e: How To Think Like a Computer Scientist
https://greenteapress.com/wp/

And IDK how many times I've recommended the book for the OCW "Mathematics for Computer Science" course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

There may be a newer edition than the 2017 version of the book:
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf
> But just as later work has suggested that different cultures do not always categorize color in the same ways, there’s a growing understanding that even those supposedly "primary" emotions (love, hate, anger, fear, sadness, happiness) may hold their own meanings and nuances in different cultures that aren’t directly translatable.
> what model there might exist for moving quickly with a multi-stakeholder process.

There is no model for that.

The OP's list of "fast" was more of a compilation of cherry-picked projects that, with the right context and in the right hands, achieved an impressive outcome.

Moreover, each of them AFAIK had long prerequisites to get to the point where they could reach their endpoints. The path to great things invariably includes many failures, false starts, and uncertainty.

The author, perhaps, has watched too many films with breezy montages that end with triumph. It doesn't happen that way, except in the wet dreams of project managers.