skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I attended a bootcamp(Dev Bootcamp) and it was a life-changing time for me.

However, I will say this:

- When there's a gold rush, there are going to be people trying to make money selling shovels. Some of those shovels are going to be crap. Perhaps most. That doesn't mean that some people aren't running an honest business(or in this case, a bootcamp).

- Bootcamps are what you make of them. If you expect them to be like a school where knowledge is just dumped on your lap by a professor, you're going to be in for a world of disappointment. If you're willing to take charge of your learning and are willing to spend the time sharing knowledge with others, and dedicate yourself to maximizing your time(studying, projects, failing in a good way), then a bootcamp will be for you. I spent as much time as I could learning, and was often the last person to exit the building in the early AM.

- In relation to the previous point, you may not necessarily need a bootcamp. If you have the passion and the will, you can acquire the knowledge and skills on your own. You could take the tens of thousands of dollars you'd spend on a bootcamp and quit work for a while to study and do projects at home, go to hacker spaces, and attend developer meetups, and you'd get something pretty close to what a bootcamp will give you. However, a bootcamp will bring you together with a bunch of other people in the same position as you in somewhere like San Francisco where there's nonstop action going on. By going to Dev Bootcamp, I was immersed in a world I otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to and had experiences with people I might not have had otherwise. All in all, most of the value of a bootcamp is being around people you can learn from and with. If you find that on your own, then you might be able to save by not having to pay that bootcamp tuition.

All that said, I don't completely disagree with Shaw's tweets. A lot of bootcamps are clearly(IMO) predatory. Ultimately, a bootcamp can't make any guarantees as to whether or not you get a job. That task is ultimately up to you and, as much as it's not fair, your success will mostly stem from your ability to sell yourself. You can be a completely shit programmer but charm your way into a career. Income share deals, I think, are a bad idea, even if they work out for a few. At that point, you might as well save money by skipping bootcamp and do the learn-on-your-own approach I described earlier. There are many bootcamps that act like they have standards but will actually take just about anyone, even if they aren't really the type that can handle the self-responsibility of going to a bootcamp.

Shaw might be painting with a broad brush, he's not totally wrong.
No, this is wrong. There is no law that explicitly prohibits filming the public realm (e.g. the pavement) or incidentally capturing your neighbour's property.

There is a code of practice: the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice (SCCoP). There are also requirements to follow under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).

The consequences of not following the SCCoP, the GDPR, and the DPA may result in regulatory action being taken against you by the Information Commissioner's Office as well as private legal action by the affected individuals, but it is not per se against the law to film those areas.
Opportunity for a company like $TESLA or other startup to provide additional competition in the farm equipment space. It's a duopoly between John Deere (Green) and Case IH (Red). A modular electric system would work well since the required speeds are low and torque is important. Extra points for a small wind turbine based charging station that can mount to a barn.
Someone who went to HackReactor & got a job at Airbnb making 6 figures was telling people not to go to a Bootcamp because the job situation is getting worse and all the best parts of the course are available either for free online or $10 on Udemy (vs $20k for the bootcamp).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSgsX80ymF8
I think we should address the root of the problem. Why are package delivery companies just leaving these packages outside, unattended anyway? Of course they're going to get stolen in a city. Any city. That's beyond absurd and they should be held liable for their missing packages. I don't leave a thousand dollars in cash in an envelope on my porch unguarded. How about properly securing valuables first before blanketing the neighborhood in surveillance that you know doesn't work? This would possibly require an act of congress, literally, to force carriers to accept liability for their actions. As is, by having a package delivered, you're tempting people to steal it and hoping that human nature will not prevail. It's hard to have empathy for such a negligent action that's so full of ignorance about human nature.
I think this was intended for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971223
Well, there are a lot of old problems to solve as well, but in general productive developers develop proficiency at using established solutions to them. There is a real skill in being able to find a solution to a similar problem and convert it to fit the new problem as well as being able to break a new large problem down to a number of small old solved problems a few new small problems.
What did Creator get for this six months of exclusivity?
GURPS for me is the quintessential cyberpunk role playing experience. Its gritty realism suits the genre way better, in my opinion, than systems like Cyberpunk 2020. The bionics / cybernetics systems and point based character creation really opens things up for creating the kind of character you want versus being stuck in an archetype that the genre defines. GURPS is an amazing toolbox for simulating a lot of gritty and deadly combat. A lot of people don't like that you can calculate what you need to roll in order to shoot a person in their left eye as you drive past at night on your motorcycle and prefer a more abstract system. In that case, I'd move towards the Apocalypse World system. It's a much more modern role playing experience without a lot of the issues that GURPS or D&D style games face.

http://apocalypse-world.com/pbta/games/title/The_Sprawl
Pretty much all audio equipment falls into this as well. A vintage marantz stereo is going to sound better than nearly anything on the floor at best buy today, and if something goes wrong you either pop in a new part and take the thing to someone who can solder a wire and read a schematic.
Unlike a modern stereo that's a hunk of junk if a piece of critical plastic snaps in half or a cheap quality solder on the silicon board cracks out of warranty, not to mention the sound quality.
Usually, when comparing modes of travel, a person has some destination in mind which is a fixed distance in mind. If you're just trying to get out of the house, say, then I'd agree that air travel is a more dangerous way to do it than driving around the block. But if you're trying to travel to a specific place for business, family, or vacation then it makes sense to compare based on danger per mile.
>Instead, the rules weren’t tight enough to stop the current shitshow we now have. Your explicit opt in is a nice single button click, on a modal that fills the entire screen. It tells you nothing about what happens, it’s just easy.

I wouldn't blame GDPR for any company's deficient consent process. That's just what they believe to be in compliance with GDPR, it may not actually be. Many of these questions are being litigated by privacy activists like Max Schrems.
The release date portion may be abbreviated (assuming no more than one major release per month).

Released 2020-04-05, updated 2020-10-15.

Version: 2004.201015

I'm not in love with that, but that's how I'd assume it'd work.
It is related to some extent. Things like brushed DC motors can be very reliable if you’re willing to replace brushes on occasion, but they’re wildly inefficient. Better motors need more complicated circuitry, and it’s easy to cheap out and make that circuitry unreliable. It’s certainly harder to repair.
As a person operating decades old equipment I see trade offs here. Old machines are reliable and cheap to operate, but they are also NOISY, steering require quite some muscle strength and cabin without ac and filters is not pleasant and most importantly good for your health.
There are some, many even, instances where the kind of fraudulent modifications you might want to do could not realistically be done at the time the page is saved, but could be done at a later date.

So for that, it's useful.
> The system a software developer works in shapes their performance so much more than individual differences.

So what you need to reward is people who improve the system!
I don't think that's a counterpoint to the comment you responded to in any way at all.
> Both have established their products and markets clearly, pull on decent revenue, have been growing continuously, no scandals, no weird CEOs, nothing illegal, no "break it till you make it" attitude.

VC's want lottery tickets, not profitable companies. Please don't forget this.
Market forces would work in this situation, if only the situation were different:

- if there were an existing competitive market, that would help.

- if there were a clear long-term market, that might inspire competition.

But in this case, market forces caused the problem.
>>You are merely long-term renting or leasing products from them.

Correction: You lease after buying them once. I doubt the govt will help, USA is kinda hands off
Sure, but why is it a service as opposed to a library? What is the advantage of a service for this? It seems to me it's just so the author can get paid, which is fair, but that's not a selling point that appeals to me, the user.
As far as I’m aware LIDAR cannot see though fog, as the light is dispersed, and even light rain might reduce range significantly.

Tesla cars have radar which can see through any weather condition and detect transparent surfaces, invisible to LIDAR.
Does farmers in other countries somehow enjoy a plethora of tractor manufacturers to choose from?
IR and UV radiation can very much ruin your sight.
Sure, but how do you propose to introduce competition into this market?
According to Wikipedia, the original Mac 128k had a launch price of $2495 in 1984, equating to approximately $6100 in 2019 USD). I'd say they're behaving very similarly?
The market is just an optimizing function. Perhaps the problem is not competitive markets but rather the structure of the market, e.g. the optimization parameters & feedback loops.. For example, a common criticism of the medical market is that without accurate quotes, you cannot price compare- thus it's not a properly functioning free market with the appropriate feedback cycles, and the free market approach to fixing it would be to improve price information.
> X could solve Y if only Y were Z

That's a nice hypothetical, but hardly helps these farmers. The real solution is America's most hated four letter word: regulation.
You'd have to make sure there's still enough contrast. The way book printers deal with the problem is to use unbleached 'natural' paper for long books, instead of bright-white paper. (Not entirely unlike the background color of HN).
If anything, calendar version is superior here because you can tell when it was updated (and if it follows modern conventions, techniques, etc.)
I like to do road trips as a hobby and I see a lot of Japanese and other Asian brand tractors in American farming areas,so there is competition
> We could insist on a right to repair, open standards, etc

The advantage older equipment has is that a generalist can repair it because the equipment is fairly simple and well understood. Parts on older equipment are easier to source or sometimes can be fabricated by the farmer themselves. Newer equipment has tighter tolerances and components are more difficult to fabricate or repair. Computerized components require special tools to interact with and specific knowledge to configure. Newer equipment is more complex and thus more difficult to diagnose and repair.

Right to repair won't fix that. Regulations aren't going to make manufacturers return to having simpler machines, it can only force them to make the knowledge required to repair those machines public. If need a left-handed knurled whats-it to remove a part or a special diagnostics tool to service the electronics, regulations might force the companies provide documentation and sell those tools, but it won't remove the need for those special tools and domain expertise.

The only real way to change this would be for a manufacturer to pivot to selling field serviceable equipment which seems unlikely.
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Sure. https://time.com/3934663/safest-seat-airplane/
The note about what circus means in Picadilly Circus taught me something about where I grew up: the roundabout where some 5 (or 6 I forget) roads meet at one end of the high street in Tankerton, Kent is called Tankerton Circus.
Everything is a library to someone.
I have an IHC (International Harvester Company) 433 that is about 60 years old and it is still in use occasionally for forest work. It is amazing how robust and reliable these old machines are.

Fun facts:

- It has 8 reverse gears and 16 forward ones. With a maximum speed of about 25 km/h this is very granular. On the other hand: the diesel engine is very forgiving and not easily stalled.

- It does have an operating hours counter instead of an odometer.
I think bootcamps work best for people who are already technical but aren't specifically trained as programmers.

I have a friend from college that was a biochemist for a while, took a bootcamp course, and is now a dev at Microsoft.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/It... would be a good place to start
In warm/hot areas with low humidity you can get enough of an evaporative cooling effect around the major artery in your neck to make a enough of a different in temperature feel to make it worth it.
> Every big company I've worked for (none of them FAANG), helping another team is a recipe for disaster. You will get your hand slapped, punished, blamed, and basically make your life much worse.

This. More work, much of which won't improve your review or bottom line. You get a stack rank from your boss and your team, not the guys two offices over. Then, if your upgrades screw up its on you.

Apropos of a a saying I'm fond of: "not your circus, not your monkeys".

> Each team is super insulated and tries their best to hide behind their management chain because of this.

That's what Mgmt is for, and why things can be escalated as "Mgmt Issues" so that the leadership, PMs, etc. can figure it out.
I have a different view of the situation. I believe that the 737 Max disaster was directly caused by the idea that management is a valuable skill on its own, that management is somehow separable from the domain-specific knowledge required in order to make an honest buck.

There are plenty of examples of engineers that make terrible managers, to be sure. But there are also plenty of examples of managers with business backgrounds that have absolutely no idea about the consequences of their decisions. An optimal result requires skill in both domains.

By this point, you might be thinking, "Hey wait, isn't it true that cost-cutting also had a role in the crisis? Wasn't there at least one engineer that sounded the alarm in a memo?" And my answer to that is a resounding yes. But the question remains, where the hell did that idea come from? At no point did anyone think, "I'd love to spike my profits this quarter here and have huge disaster that will tank us in the next quarter." Therefore the problem isn't one of simple pursuit of the profit motive, because it is quite clear that Boeing hasn't profited from this situation long-term. And that's why I have focused explicitly on this foolish, self-defeating management fashion at the top of my mini essay here.

This brings us to the topic of Boeing's future. I could be wrong about him, but the fact that they have selected a person who majored in accounting to be their new CEO does not bode well for them. At the very least he has a major gap in his background to overcome, and at best I can only see them just managing to hang on instead of growing.

How does this relate to the merger issue? This management fashion I am speaking would have likely infected both McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing had they remained separate. That's because companies hire people out of the same pool of people that learn this stuff in their universities! Maybe there is a case to be made that having separate companies would make it slightly harder for them to both fail, but I believe that this isn't a very strong argument.
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I bet results would be roughly the same even for the exact same dataset - Scylla and other K/v data stores can’t compete with columnar databases that are purpose built for complex analytics queries. the many orders of magnitude query performance differences (not to count storage, compute overhead) show it enough.

It was kind of a crummy use case for Scylla anyway (it’s a transactional write store, not an analytics engine)
The only time I've come close is when we fostered a culture of continuous improvement. We don't want to just produce features faster. If that's all you ask for you get people finding new and better ways to cut corners.

Learning productivity tricks and building tools actually lets you do the same amount of work in less time. Some quality initiatives reduce rework, which also increases throughput. And these practices also reduce stress during exceptional events (production issues). That effect may be mostly obvious but what we don't ever talk about is the fallout of stressful events and how they affect the quality of the code produced immediately afterward.

Burnout, as you say, is the end game of not doing this. But I think the symptoms are detectable long before that point (and I might argue are part of the feedback loop that leads to burnout).
Bingo, now you're getting it.
A foot or bicycle journey is not comparable to a commercial flight (except in the case of a few, statistically insignificant, cases). Furthermore, one flies commercially in order to get from A to B, not to spend a certain amount of time doing it, so the risk per hour is not a particularly useful figure.
This very simple script is a quick-fix until `loading="lazy"` is available on more browsers.
I read the article. I have no respect for this "oh poor me" woman. It's no easier for men in Tech--the whole business is a minefield that you have to run through at full speed. It's not a place for everyone.

Everything in the story has her cant on it. That's not reality for the majority of people who are trying to make their mark on the world or just make money in SV.

Let's understand another thing: When attractive men hit on women, it's not sexual harassment, only when the ones they don't prefer do it is it a problem. I think it's more just that this woman couldn't perform in her job or socially and is now blaming everyone else. OMG, a man might give you unwanted attention? Katy, bar the door!

Her parents are assholes: "Gun control advocate in NY" is about all I needed to hear to understand what kind of fools raised this woman. City folk! I know some people applaud these "progressive" bona fides, but they miss the fact that this is the destruction of our civil rights in process. Might as well call them "Anti-Civil-Rights Activists." Cuomo made my father an overnight felon in NY State. No forgiveness for that, thanks activist assholes traitors!
The Karhkiv tractor plant models from the USSR are one step easier still to maintain, and hence very popular outside the west:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv_Tractor_Plant

The XTZ 150K:
http://xtz.ua/en/kolisni-tractory/xtz-150k-09-172.html
Tangent:

Prayer can work, if it is done like Bhakti yoga. You cannot just use your intellectual mind to speak to the face of the Beloved. Your heart must move, and it will spontaneously move on its own, and not because social expectations requires it. It comes from the an understanding that the divine and the ordinary are not so fundamentally separated [1]. That the Beloved whom one is beseeching without, also dwells within as well.

Ironically, yeah, it is best paired with mindfulness meditation. The Buddhist equivalent to bhakti is are the metta practices -- adopting the attitude of loving-kindness in thoughts, words, and deeds. Not so much different from the teaching of the Christ.

Prayer can work -- but there are many methods, and many different kinds of people.

Footnotes:

[1] Orthodox religions, including orthodox dualist Shaiva Tantra from which all the modern yogas descend from, all have this fundamental separation of the divine and the oridinary. Christianity, as popularly taught, has this view.
What would constitute evidence that it worked?
This might sound silly, but I found that actually buying the book and handing it to the developer was quite effective. They then understood I was serious about them reading it.
How to protect humans in a fully automated society (2019)
>What can a start-up driven cloud mass surveillance do in that regard what a 1950-tech alarm system can not?

One word: tranquilizer dart
> Milking your customers is not good for business, especially if you drive them into insolvency.

It clearly is good for business, even if it's bad for customers and society at large. Pretending it's bad for business just encourages complacency because it suggests that the natural discipline of the market will drive the milkers out of business and encourage good business practices. But that doesn't happen, and if we want that to change there needs to be some source of external regulations to prevent it from happening.
Fault of the law in which way?

The GDPR does not require continuous confirmation of consent, only that they're allowed to withdraw consent at any time

> The GDPR does not indicate a shelf life for consent. Theoretically, a person’s consent is indefinite,

https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/

> since the penalties are significant if small sites

This is FUD, proportionality is used when calculating penalties
If we assume that's true, it would imply marketing works, would it not?
In cybersecurity here in Australia you get 1,200 to 1,300 per day as a security architect.

I agree with the above, it is a “low demand, low supply” market as you always end up working for the same big companies.

I’m at Google Sydney now and my total compensation is 300k (AUD), while anywhere else in it’d be just under 200k
You know what I'd like? Not to have to set this stuff individually for every client. I greatly miss the ability to customize my own machine and have most of what was on my screen look the way I liked. The web broke all that; publishers (especially commercial entities) started recruiting designers to make their offerings stand out, and all the good design work that used to go into software UI went towards publishing, turning the internet from the worlds greatest library into the world's largest magazine rack. Ubiquitous video has made it exponentially worse; 9 out of 10 moving images I see are noise trying to sell me something - probably more, in fact.