skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
might as well not use deodorant either, those bacteria under your arms are naturally occurring! wouldn't want to disrupt anything.

gotta love taking advice from ancient humans when determining how to be hygienic.
> 401k contribution limits (without catch-up) are about $20K/year.

The GP may be referring to the $57K limit which is the total employee + employer contribution. The $20K/year limit is salary contributions. I think there's also a backdoor that lets the employee contribute more, but the real limit is $57K.

> But they're actually less of a big deal for top execs etc. for whom the dollar amounts are relatively small.

Indeed, few highly compensated execs rely on 401K. They cannot even get tax benefits for IRA's. The 401K and IRAs are designed for the middle class. The main problem is that you need an employer who provides a 401K. If my employer doesn't, I can't go and get one on my own (correct me if I'm wrong). On top of that, you are constrained by the funds provided by your employer's choice of 401K provider (e.g. may only have access to high fund fees).
Carve will search through your Clojure code for unused vars and will remove them
Having just watched them movie Dark Waters[1], I'm surprised I hear more about this than I do of that [2].

That said, while I'm glad that they're doing these studies, I'd like to here something more conclusive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...
Not to be further pedantic, but in no way does the USMC operate these carriers. They are USN ships through and through. The Marine Corps is a part of the Navy, as much as they'd like to think of themselves as an independent branch.
The proponents of the plan refuse to estimate it's cost. I don't think it's unreasonable or unexpected to use opponent's estimates when they are the only estimates available. The (left-leaning) website factcheck.org notes that the green new deal is likely to incorporate a Medicare-for-all program with a pricetag around $36 trillion, so the order of magnitude is at least correct.

So, I think your "groupthink" descriptor is a off base. I'd also note that you didn't respond to the substance of my comment (seriously - replace the $50 to $100 trillion in my comment with $20 trillion - does it make a difference to my argument??) but instead frothed at a widely cited estimate without providing another estimate that you saw as more reliable.
This is a correct title unlike the usual:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKdvTecYAM
The point that the parent commenter is highlighting is that if somehow a malicious package version is introduced, since nobody actually is auditing the changes that are being pulled in, it is possible for the tests to pass and introduce a security vulnerability. They're suggesting that the contents of the actual diff in the packages should be reviewed.
For causality to be reversed unions and collective bargaining would have had to exist and be the norm prior to at-will employment. More like unions and collective bargaining were successfully discredited by engaging in excesses of their own - some along the lines you advocated
Fusion may be difficult but math and physics say we should be able to do it. Just because it's difficult and with a long time horizon doesn't mean you should throw it in the bin with "perpetual motion". (Cold Fusion however, you may throw in the bin)

Just saw a talk [0] where they talk about using lasers to create fusion. The current puck used to kick start the process costs $1M, (paraphrased) "it needs to cost 20 cents before Fusion is viable. But hey, we're in the research phase!"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcGgaa2mFc4
Would you support Uber hiring all the California drivers, and then forcing them to only drive on their platform? If so, do you think that would be better or worse for the drivers and consumers?
I am guessing that people outside the US do not have as much trouble, as the format is naturally dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yy, so reading left to right is more natural.

It took me a brief moment to acclimate to this, but after I did I felt it was pretty straightforward and elegant.
What do you use to clean your hair? Do you just rinse it in water?
It's slightly distracting but it's definitely a don't throw the baby out with the bathwater situation for me. I can see how it'd be easy to take in the book's ideas and get seduced into libertarianism, but I can personally testify that it's possible to read the book without subscribing to libertarianism.
> Japanese company "유니콘미디어"

That looks like Korean, to me (Unicorn Media).

DMCA seems to have been one of those things that we say "It seemed like such a good idea, at the time" after the fact. I'm certainly waiting to hear positive stories about it.
Doing, not watching.

College tuition is essentially payment for someone grading my problem sets.

The lectures themselves were worthless.
I've read that Germany and Canada have a middle ground between independent contractor and employee, the dependent contractor.

Does anyone know how well that works out in practice? Are Uber drivers dependent contractors in these countries?
Sadly, I share your pessimism about formal methods. I suspect one of the headwinds is that there's a greater demand for more software than there is for better-proven software.
Good for Uber. California has its hands on too many things. It has so many ethics it has destroyed the middle class. I want much less regulation.
Hahaha, you keep telling yourself that. Some countries don't even have reliable network/power/etc and don't say "oh you can trade bitcoin with paper," because that's just stupid.
> It's not that keeping the poor behaviour is benefitting him in any way. It's more that the new solution is not his solution and he's got a lot riding on his solution being chosen (justify his code rewrite).

It might also be worth to add that he might have been subjected multiple times to alternative theories that were refuted, and in his eyes this new outlandish theory isn't even the most credible one on that list.
I built some NLP infrastructure, as part of a larger project I'm working on. Two bits I was fairly pleased with were

1. Something that takes a line-chart and turns into a word narrative of what the graph is describing.
https://towardsdatascience.com/financial-storytelling-using-...

2. Sentiment-tagging (positive/negative) for financial news.
Personally, I don't believe there's a lot of alpha to extract from this, because news usually lags market information. But A LOT of people believe differently, and this article shot up on relevant Google searches, way ahead of academic papers or other sources of authority.
https://towardsdatascience.com/a-new-way-to-sentiment-tag-fi...
As a developer I agree with you, but I think if I were a FAANG I'd be thinking: developers are crazy expensive, how can I commodify them? Every C++ developer is unique. There's endless variety of language subsets and build situations. It takes enormous investment to bring someone up to speed on a project, and only mandating a heavily-restricted subset of the language can make teaching it to fresh college grads practical. These are exactly the things Go is designed to avoid.
Design 3 is quite nice. For me, it's the quickest to read.
If they charged customers more, they would still fight this. Because it is still lower profit. They don't want to pay workers.
Yes, electricity is what I meant. While the Japan report I linked was energy overall, Japan's electric sector is nonetheless 83% fossil fuel based [1], which is much worse in absolute terms than Germany, regardless of their respective recent trends.

I agree that Germany, like most nations, has a major problem with road transport dependency on oil. Germany is currently playing catch-up with car electrification, but it is, with Japan, a leader in electrified rail transport.

In terms of home heating though, Germany, for its climate is far ahead of the US, with much higher home building standards for energy efficiency and comfort, and smaller homes in general. Japanese homes, as I'm told, are often very cold in the winter due to lack of central heating and very poor insulation, so they don't use much energy, but are also uncomfortable.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan#Mo...
Carlos Ghosn’s Escape Puts France in Bind with Nissan Alliance at Stake
The B-1B bomber has performed a larger percentage of CAS missions than any other aircraft. In many ways they are the best airframe for this since they have a long loiter time, incredible load out, high speed to get to the fight. The only downside is no brrrp cannon like the A-10.
Touch typing
You need to define your goals, learn the CS you need for the projects you want to work on. If you find yourself at a point where that is not enough, you should get yourself into a CS program.
That isnt what the parent comment asked though.
Yeah, even just 'upcasting' is surprisingly effective as well, it's really just inheritance. The lack of being able to embed more than one 'thing' is painful though. And if you're not careful you can run into ugly strict aliasing issues like `struct sockaddr` has (Though a quick `-fno-strict-aliasing` can make all your problems go away...)

And I would agree, I find a surprising number of people think C is 'easy' because it doesn't contain that many built-in constructs, and then get completely stuck when they try to use it. To get really good at C, you need a very solid understanding of common and effective patterns you can use. You can still write C without such things, but it quickly becomes a mess of random patterns and inconsistencies. And unfortunately, I can't really think of one source you can really point to for learning them (though admittedly I haven't really looked into it tons).
As an aside, is there a term for the kind of virtue signaling comment torrent this post is likely to elicit? Perhaps "Business Woke"?
There are still two arguments to be made that electric vehicles themselves are a threat to the German auto industry, independent of cost or where the vehicles are made:

1) There are an order of magnitude fewer parts, due to replacement
of the engine with battery + motor. The part count of ICE engines
was the reason we have such a robust chain of suppliers, which
are now threatened. There are also jobs lost due to loss of
assembly and integration work.

2) Several German (and Japanese) auto manufacturers rest on the
reputation of having the best engines in the business. Electric
vehicles do not have engines. The brand halo from their engine
expertise doesn't transfer directly to EVs.
If the user is able to read that page, then how is Wikipedia "removing support for insecure TLS protocol versions"? I think that is not what is happening here.

Instead they display different content to those users.

As I understand it, a user that is MITMed will not get any benefit out of this. As the MITM could simply display the original content to them.

So this is more like "To force you to switch your browser / device, we deny you access to the content you requested".
California a once beautiful state ruined by terrible government, citizens, and tech companies.
This is cool. I'm curious about what your main marketing channels are. There is another project this reminds me of another project called Simple Analytics.
There are also costs and various rules associated with administering 401k plans. I'm not an accountant or financial advisor so I'm not sure how effective using these sort of arrangements would be. (Of course, lots of money opens up a wide range of tax minimization and savings strategies.)
So didnt the employees benefit from google s avoidance scheme all this time?
With an on demand business model that lets you work (or not work) whenever you want — why do these companies owe anyone a livable wage?

If you want a livable wage, work somewhere that pays you a livable wage.
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Oh, that isn't what I meant. I meant in contrast to hunting around for new music more directly. I used to spend entire weekend afternoons looking for music--reading forum threads, browsing weird labels, going down related-artist rabbit holes in new genres. Lots of this was on OiNK and What.cd, which had tremendous forums and metadata. There are modern replacements, but they aren't equivalent. Lots of this is the diffusion of music lovers in general.

Spotify is reliably a B- source of music, once you've used it for awhile. My Daily Mixes are...fine. Never great, but never awful. So I fall back to it as background music.

But because it isn't awful, I'm not motivated to put in heaps of extra effort to move from B-grade to A-grade. Moving up that curve is diminishing returns.

On the technical front, it'd be quite easy to play your own files through snapcast, in a variety of ways.
The problem is that many cities simply can't 'grow up' because they weren't designed to do so in the first place. What you're arguing simply doesn't play out in reality, or else cities like Seattle or California wouldn't be having this problem, now would they?

The reality is that it's a problem you have to tackle before it becomes a problem. You have to design your city with public transit in mind, or else you end up with issues like LA where you have endlessly expanding highways with zero ways of managing traffic.
>The criticism towards Google, Apple etc. for minimizing their tax burdens has always been misplaced.

It really hasn't.

They'll find another loophole, and exploit that.
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Discussion from last week where dependabot was proposed as a solution to the issue of third party contributors sneaking exploits into package-lock changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21886914

My stance is still "if there's no CVE, and your application works, why go around introducing changes to the environment you're running it in?"
I'd say now I rarely 'learn' anything. I just Google it.
Ask HN: Good strategies for finding jobs with companies in specific fields?
There are plenty of job/contract-search websites focused on location (or lack thereof), or tech. What are some good strategies for finding jobs in any location, or using any tech, but in specific fields?

For example, I have deep passions for travel and aviation, as well as enduring interests in embedded software and telephony. I've typically found that I perform much better in roles that engage at least one of my passions/interests. What are some good strategies for searching for jobs in certain "verticals", i.e. companies involved in specific fields?
Is that including ocean?
It seems like it should be able to be done programmatically, though. It suddenly seems like a neat project.
He's right though. You should try it. Depending on your haircut you can probably go much longer than a day without shampooing. That doesn't stop you from rinsing it, after all.
Fight them with laser lightning rods to controlled discharge them?
Dinner for One – 18-Minute New Year’s Eve Tradition – Review (2012)
It's hard to replace such a manufacturing oriented work culture in any country, especially one revolving around cars in general. I think Germany will be fine, it's still early.
I do wonder how the fires would be if Australia had worse firefighting infrastructure. It seems like aggressive firefighting efforts reduce the damage caused by smaller fires but leave more fuel for "the big one", when it comes.
Yeah, that's why I edited and put cause/explain. For the purposes of the point, it's the same type of thinking whether you are analyzing causes of effects, or reasons why.
Interesting. I just learned about that energy combo, and Stirling also makes a lot of sense for someone with a non-solar heat source!

Amazing how China came along at the time it did. The hardball politics aimed against US solar startups since Carter has been a fascinating tale with little mainstream coverage.
Fair enough. I am kind of with you in that boat.

I love the technology that Tesla is producing. But I hate the risks associated with using such technology
IMO, often arguments about "less regulation" related to employment law (and generally how large employers treat workers) tend to neglect the fact that these arrangements don't happen in a vacuum.

The seeming less-regulated employment is in fact supported by a great deal of government safety net programs taxpayers. Many of these low paying / independent contractor / "gig economy" jobs are really only feasible due to government support. Given that, it seems more reasonable for the government to regulate.
Harvard’s CS50 [1] is where I started in my self learning journey. I found it very difficult but it’s given me a really good base to build upon.

CS50 hits the sweet spot of excellent online material, large online community and fun.

1: https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-computer-sc...
Ask HN: Firefox on Mac causing systemwide graphical artifacts?
I posted about this issue a few weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21790148

Basically I took home a brand-new 16 inch Macbook Pro, and a handful of times over the course of a few hours I saw graphical artifacts (random, tiny rectangles of pixels that would turn magenta, or green, or orange, etc. until that portion of the screen refreshed by scrolling or otherwise).

I returned that Macbook and ordered a new one. This time things seemed fine for the first 12 hours but then I started seeing the same kinds of artifacts, this time mostly on the menu bar (some were on the menu bar before).

I've noticed that while they aren't always on the Firefox window, they do at least sometimes correlate with things I'm doing in Firefox. Opening a new tab, visiting certain sites, etc. Turning off hardware acceleration in FF also seemed to have an effect (I'm trying Chromium now to see if they happen at all with Firefox closed).

I'd be shocked that two >$2k laptops in a row would have such an egregious hardware defect out of the box. Is it possible Firefox is the entire culprit? Or is it more likely that it just surfaces the underlying problem more often, by making greater use of the GPU?

Edit: This seems to be the same issue https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/338319/red-pixels-on-mojave-dark-mode

Really I'm just trying to decide whether it's a software problem or whether I should exchange it again.
Essentially all the freelance writers I know are also vehemently opposed to the bill.
> Enough of a difference to matter in judgments of the behavior?

Yes. As you indicate, we have a long legal tradition in Western countries of weighing these things.

But beyond that, someone who is one of these states and kills the wrong frickin' person is not likely to be celebrated by society as a hero afterwards ;)

> So is the difference enough to counter the other poster's comment? I don't think that has been established enough to dismiss their post outright.

That is, don't confuse escaping some degree of culpability (perhaps justified in this guy's case, but not to the extent he did...) with being officially lauded (uh, no way).
"Algorithms, 4th Edition" is demonstrated using Java. They make use of a graphical library that helps show different runtimes visually. I ported that library from Java Swing/AWT to Ruby (TK) if you'd like to go through the book using ruby instead of Java. Looking at the TK code you could probably also port it to Python pretty easily.

https://github.com/gregors/standard_draw_tk
> Sure, if a package absolutely needs exact dependencies for its entire tree

Not sure you're talking about the same thing as everyone else.

There's a big difference if you're maintaining a package vs maintaining an app.

If you're a "package" maintainer, you don't want to pin dependencies. Because the package consumer (i.e. people building apps using your package) should not have their exact versions dictated to them.

If you're an "app" maintainer, you absolutely need to check in your lockfile, because you should care about repeatable builds.
Honestly I think the real dereliction of duty here is that not everyone have the same opportunities to plan their taxes like the big boys, and if you call the tax man for help they're obviously not going to do anything for you.

I have some pretty basic, perfectly legal and not unethical optimizations applied to my tax foot print, but I had to hire an accountant to make it happen because I couldn't figure it out on my own. (How do I know it's legal and ethical? I checked with the tax man and they said as much.)

My opinion is much the same as yours, government should work to make taxes fair and clear, and do away with loopholes. But I also feel a large part of the unfairness is that you have to spend a bunch of money on accountants and lawyers to sort things out for you in the first place. I'd like to see at least some basic fiscal planning services provided for everyone, maybe that could help level the playing field a bit. But tax planning is such a taboo subject for some reason, even though it's perfectly legal and acceptable.

I dunno, maybe I'm just rambling.
Not if Elon Musk and Bill Gates have their way. Electric cars, using power provided by thorium reactors ... two massive game-changers for everybody.
part of "maintaining" a valuable repository of information... is uploading it to the Archive yourself

The problem is that we're talking about information that started suffering from bitrot before the Internet Archive became a big thing. Or even before the Internet Archive existed. Heck 99.999% of it existed before the internet.

Sure, it would have been great if on May 13, 1996 someone would have uploaded all of the information that there has ever been about the TRS-80 Model 100 to IA, but that didn't happen.

So often in places like HN the answer to flaws is "Well, you should have...," as if that solves the problem, or makes it go away. But it doesn't. It just makes the person writing that look like a jerk who isn't interested in solving problems, but in pointing out the failings of others.
From the point of view of an end user, it doesn't matter if a technology is not possible because it's physically impossible, or if it's so uncompetitive it's economically impossible. The net effect is the same: the technology is dead to them.
I have been compiling a list for quite some time now that I have been planning on doing some sort of scoring system of. There also many video sources that are great resources as well.

That said, I will tell you the main lesson I have learned in my obsession for better understanding of the big picture; don't follow outlets, follow journalists, no matter where they go. So I was reading Greenwald long before The Intercept, and if he published somewhere else or gave an interview or talk I'd watch it. The same for others like Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk, Nassim Taleb, Chris Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Whitney Webb et al.

Find the ones that hit hard and keep their integrity. Disregard outlets. Use RSS/atom to avoid the crappy websites that often accompany the content.
These are all of my personal/tech/political blog archives over the past 24 years. Not proud of everything there, but fuck it - there it is.
The magic you can create with React and Electron
Very easily! And could certainly happen accidentally.

I live in spread out suburbs, so my radio spectrum is pretty clear. It might be an issue in a vertically-oriented city.

My primary automation network is ZigBee, which does have a (mild) layer of encryption and mechanisms to prevent replay attacks. There are ZigBee buttons and remotes, but nothing cheap enough that I could put two in every room. (And I had a bunch of these remotes previously, from when I just used them with the matching outlets).