skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was part of the plot of a recent Star Trek Discovery season. Left me wondering if writers had eaten mushrooms...
I am not kidding: you are all set to be CTO or dev lead (mind: only if there’s actually a team so you don’t have to do much development) at some late-early stage funded startup, that wants a long-time Google alum on their staff, in leadership. Without even a change in your work ethic. Not even slightly a joke.
> Tax rates decrease at the very top of the income spectrum because our tax codes make a deliberate choice to preferentially tax investments and capital gains.

Why don't we make some more tax brackets up top and tax dividend + capital gain income more like income?
I was so excited to read Glass Bead Game. I waited till the end, having read most of Hesse's other major works before tackling his magnum opus. I was so disappointed in it, and I too put it down. Part of me wonders if something was lost in translation with that work.
Old post but Swift is like TypeScript
From what I read one of the developers wrote on here, Parcel does allow for configuration. It just doesn’t require it.

It’s actually convention over configuration taken to an extreme where it’ll start adding entries to packages.json for you, or wrapping rust code in WASM for you on import.
Here is my philosophy in life.

"Make it a ride and become a passenger."

I mean we are all going to the same place in the end. Nothing really matters.

Have a comfortable job. And positive outlook but never plan for anything. Its so much fun. Life happens all around you and you just observe.
10 years ago everything was tedious but possible because you had full control. Now it's super easy until impossible/difficult.
At COP25 (December 2019) the W.H.O was still very concerned that not enough was being done to reduce/prevent air pollution's deadly effects ...

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/03-12-2019-pollution-po...
99% of jobs are boring. You're just solving other people's business problems after all.
That sounds more like courage to me. Many of those shovel and hose carrying people would not make very successful software developers from my experience.

It takes a certain kind of mindset; attention to detail and an ability to visualize and work at high levels of abstraction.

To do it well, that is. Copy-pasting framework cruft until it sort of works is simply boring and the world would be a better place if we stopped doing that.
Although I'm sure this gets said fairly often around HN, smart phone "advancements" have stopped being "advancements" a while ago. They're they're closer to fads, and the cheaper brands have to chase the luxury brands, because the luxury brands get to define what is trendy. Much the same way that the rich get to set fashion trends, and the rest have to follow.

I'm not denigrating the upper class, fashion, or trends in general -- just pointing out that fashionable trends are different from technological advancement.
So your proposed solution is to throw more hardware at the problem? It surely can work at the small scale, but why do it when you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars / mo in servers? Why not choose a proper high-performance language, at least for the parts that are slow?
> Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?

I suspect the author was 25 at some point in that range of time. It's hard to keep going when an essay starts out that way.
According to the high bidder he does it on purpose to generate marketing and good luck

> In Japan, paying more than half a million dollars on a single fish is considered good luck for business (and also comes with a round of free publicity).

https://qz.com/878980/a-japanese-sushi-chain-owner-just-boug...
It's quite an old game now, released in 1999. Runs beautifully under wine and one of my favorite games of all time. I recommend giving it a go if sim games are your thing. Hard to believe it was all written in assembler and I too would love to know how Chris managed his code.
How to Generate a Payload for Metasploit
Yes.

I like a landing page whose implementation makes it clear that the people behind it have thought long and hard about the people who will visit, and what they want.

I like a page that's clean, clear, spare, easy to find the things people are looking for when they come to a landing page.

The XKCD panel nails it: https://www.xkcd.com/773/

There are so many things I really don't care about when I land on your site, and a few things I really do care about. Visit the web site for a museum to find out how much it costs to visit[0]:

> Plan your day
> Your visit
> Discover
> Become a friend
> Memberships
> Admissions
> Audio guides
> Day tickets
> $18

Then you want opening times and which holidays they are closed, and the page is comprehensive and detailed, and from 2008 and clearly wrong.

Absolutely no thought about what a visitor is trying to accomplish, and instead is all about trying to ... well, I don't know what they're trying to do.

I like a landing page that has clearly catered for the visitor, and not just to show off how wonderful their web design skills are.

--------

[0] Adapted from here: https://twitter.com/sophie_gadd/status/1213126700625739778
>Probably that with sufficient land you can sustain yourself regardless of what happens with the outside world. Sustenance farming as a baseline of human need.

Producing enough in the growing season to sustain yourself through the off season is... no small amount of work. You need a reasonably large amount of capital in the form of tools and knowledge to have a reasonable shot at doing so with only your labor. And unless you have a lot of capital in the form of advanced machines, it would be a huge amount of labor.

But that's not the real problem; the real problem is how chancy farming is. Too much rain? no food this year. Not enough rain? no food this year. I mean, there are a lot of things technology can do (like, say, tile drainage and irrigation) that make the growing conditions wider, those things can require significant capital and/or labor, and even then, you can have too much or too little rain. Even if you do everything right, if you are depending on growing your own food, there's a reasonable chance of not getting significant calories for a year or two just 'cause the weather was bad.

Most of our farm subsidies go to crop insurance; the government essentially sees to it that our farmers are made whole if it rains too much or too little, which makes farming a lot more certain, and helps ensure our overproduction of food. (note, I totally support my tax dollars being used for this; If there's anything the world should overproduce, it's food.)
Although HN can't really do anything about it, it's also worth noting the PDF linked is named "mmc3.pdf", which greatly confused me for a moment because I happened to also have the MMC-3 spec[1] opened in my PDF reader, and it's also roughly the same size.

[1] http://www.13thmonkey.org/documentation/SCSI/mmc3r10g.pdf
privacy.com for sure, super simple and clear.
Except ironically, the most satisfied and dominant group in the story are nomads who subsist solely on animal byproducts not agriculture.
It doesn't until the second version, which isn't mainstream.
Practices for Better Code Reviews
Care to explain why that would impact the essay?
Yes, it's disturbing how the submitter entirely ignores the possibility of users who have telemetry disabled, as if it is not even a possibility. Since 3% is still too high for his agenda, he then begins throwing unwarranted conjectures that most of those 3% use a `user.js` against their own volition.

In fact, it seems obvious that this is a highly biased sample and probably in the other direction, at that. It seems a reasonable assumption that people who have turned off telemetry are those that would be more likely to use a `user.js` file.
I started interviewing at Google since about 2005 so over 15 years. I've seen the entire gamut of interview style questions, from trivia questions, to brain teasers, to easy algorithm questions, to the algorithm arms-race where LeetCode hard questions are now being asked. It has only gotten harder and the expectations as someone with 25+ years experience is too much. That is the biggest problem someone my age faces. I'm easily the best programmer on the team, but it's hard to show when I can't memorize 400+ LC questions for the FANG interviews.
> Non-native apps can be as performant as native ones

This may be true. However, Electron apps cannot be as performant as native apps can be, which seems to be what they are getting at.
ProgCop is an application firewall for Windows
I’m not a Go user, so I’m not a bit of the target audience, but it’s so refreshing that it has the native UI on macOS. Today deceloper tooling is almost all electron/Qt/custom-framework based cross-platform; I was really disappointed when I tried to find a decent editor with autocomplete (based on LSP), project management with a cocoa-based UI (like native tabs and cocoa textfields) and found... nothing.

It was really disappointing to find that nobody developing the developer tools really consider user experience or nativeness... even on the mac where Cocoa is very emphasized by the users. (For more of my arguments about native UI, see my comment against flutter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20612195)

This product with some C/Rust/Lisp support would be the product I would have to like to find, and I’m really looking forward to this product with the expectation where this might be more configurable or some other language support is added.

Great job for the developer, I really is thankful for showing that a cocoa-oriented editor is possible & feasible. Thanks.
Can you elaborate on the pyschological tricks and how you pull it off? How do you come off as a high performer?
Hard as in unpleasant, obviously not. Hard as in mentally challenging, obviously yes.
Well past. The sociopath takeover is complete there, the community is entirely unrecognizable from when it began.
This is a false dichotomy and just drives me up a wall. Why not get fulfillment in both the work and non-work areas of your life?
> Today deceloper tooling is almost all electron/Qt/custom-framework based cross-platform;

Sublime Text comes to mind as an app that is native as well.
This blows my mind that in the US one can make such insane money in tech while still being a slacker and retire early with a dream house bought and paid for while in Europe devs are slaving away through SCRUM powered meat grinders burning themselves out for a 3% salary increase on a pitiful 40-80k/year, no stock options, without any hope of early retirement or owning a decent home without a 30 year loan or financial assistance from their parents.

You guys don't know how good you have it. The behavior of slacker Googlers described here would have gotten them instantly fired in any European company(yes, the "you can't fire people in Europe" is just a meme).

Reading OPs problem and some posts here where people are too bored of making ludicrous money left me with a bitter aftertaste that life really is unfair and success in life is more linked to the lottery of birth and opportunities available to you than any amount of hard work. Not hating, just saying.

Good luck to you guys and hope you find a calling for a fulfilling job or a hobby that gives you meaning or purpose in life.
Almost every resource is limited. That doesn't mean they are public goods.
Does anyone else feel like a 3rd or 4th class citizen reading posts like these? How is someone supposed to "compete" financially or socially when there is a magic gate with so much privilege on the other side?
I'm surprised not because it happened, but because it was so thorough...
Can you elaborate on the observed personality thing? How do you do this?
Could one use AWS AppStream [0] or Mighty [1] or similar tech to proxy-view YouTube?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/appstream2/

[1] https://mightyapp.com/
Prototype of NASA Bruie (destination Europa) field-tested under Antarctic ice
I suppose it depends on what you consider "eyes" -- these starfish could be said to have many effectively single-pixel "eyes" instead of two high-resolution ones.
> An in any case, segmentation is a thing.

Which is apparently why the engineer owns both discount (Arco) and premium (Shell) stations.
Subcultures are young people's game, and something you usually grow out of.
While L4 is terminal at Google, it's still not particularly high achieving for 6 years of career. Google also doesn't make it easy to jump from L4 to L5 either, so OP may feel like they're stuck in a rut because of that as well.
Bruie: Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration
The purchaser is an executive at a large sushi chain- the purchase is for marketing/media attention, not for direct profit.
They say in the study that they looked for reverse causality, and that they checked for study participants that acquired a medical diagnosis of cognitive decline (eg. dementia) during the study period.
This is one of those article so riddled with the cliches that people normally believe anyway that's truth is hard to measure. Not saying it's wrong but...

Either an article that gave some objective measure of these things would be interesting or a book that gave a lot of anecdotes and details around a particular phenomena like this might worth the read. But for an article like this I can only shrug.
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Many, Many Rounds of Bingo
Not sure they did, though perhaps later on after the industrial revolution. Early English coal for glassmaking, notably including Ravenscroft inventing lead crystal a little later in the century used sea coal: Coal with unique properties that washed up on beaches, mainly in the NE of England and East coast of Scotland. It had several other uses. Ships would transport it south daily. It burned far hotter than most regular mined coal, and was quite bituminous with very little ash. Not quite sure when it was first adopted as they discovered it burned hotter, though it was definitely part of the step forward of bottle production. Not sure when it was crowded out by other coals, as sea coal was relatively limited quantity, either. (Note there were one or two NE English inland seams of sea coal, with the unique properties, so descriptions can sometimes seem confusing).

Some photos of the industry's last death throes (apologies for DM link, but as always they include lots of pics): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309040/The-twiligh...

Edit: BBC page and prog referencing its use in bottles (sea coal turns up surprisingly few references, and Wikipedia describes it incorrectly): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/RG2DjvRx861cLSWtwc...
That's the ingenious thing about torrents. Literally anyone can make one.

Anyone.
There's this for Vue:
https://github.com/vue-generators/vue-form-generator

Looks promising. However my recommendation is create single components for common elements you use a lot...

Like... have a structure like resources/js/form/elements
where you might have:
Input.vue
Email.vue
Password.vue
and all types...
set some sensible defaults put use props so they're all overrideable.

Then create forms by model:
resources/js/users/forms:
FirstName.vue would look something like:
<template><form-input extraJson:"{readonly: true}" /></template>

Then your users/form.vue would be like"
<template>
<first-name />
<last-name>
<email>
</template>

Then say you have two types of users like users and customers... and two different forms -- you can reuse the email/name input modules in other forms so you don't duplicate content. I use inertiajs+laravel+vue though, and handle validations via laravel and don't generally need to use the whole json schema thing, as it just makes for more code. I like handling the validations in the backend and let the frontend just focus on ui/ux.
This is a great answer - lots of practical advice. Thanks.
But if subcultures are dead, and the author was a young person in their heyday; would they not be perfectly qualified to write a postmortem of sorts?
Yeah, I mean these things would all have to be figured out, and my guess is I have a decent enough understanding of UX to be able to create a solution that works well. Whether or not you and others feel the same way will determine whether the product becomes successful or not.
I guess it's time to evaluate and grade scientific findings?

It would be interesting to see how reproducibility varies by field, university, country, etc. Although I guess scientific reputation would already give a clue over the quality of scientific work?
This seems like a nice improvement for processing biomass waste

- less of the input energy wasted compared to traditional charcoal production.

- retains coal advantages compared to less processed biomass, namely higher heating value meaning cheaper to transport, and easier to store (doesn't rot if it sits in a pile outside)

However, as a side note I'm very sceptical wrt bioenergy. Using biomass waste for energy is fine if there's no other use for it, but growing biomass for energy production really isn't. Next to climate breakdown, the most serious ecological problem we're facing is biodiversity loss, largely due to conversion of wilderness to farmland. We really need to get past the idea that every hectare of land has to be put to "productive" use. Much better to produce our energy with wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear, and rewild nature to the extent possible.
Labour spends five times more than Tories on Snapchat ads
I found some good advice on one of the slides:

Make sure your computer is in a PRIVATE location.

Don’t walk away from it and leave your work exposed. Password protect your monitor screen – with a short cycle.

Save and log off if you’re going to be away for long.

From "What I've Learned the Hard Way"
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NI53QSEta45KNKdkdoGn-wvpyt...
20 years is too pessimistic. It was nearly accurate exactly once, which is where IE6 remained dominant for nearly a decade and a half. As far as anyone can tell, there will probably not be another case where a single outdated version of a browser contains a significant part of the marketshare. Most folks are now using browsers that update automatically, be it Edge, Safari, Chrome, Firefox or even numerous niche browsers.

There of course remain some demographics where outdated browsers live on. Like I'm sure the last version of Chrome that works on XP has some marketshare in China.

The worst case I can really think of is older Android, but let's at least keep in mind that Android has only been in people's hands for a decade, and practically speaking most developers are not very concerned with supporting Android Browser from really old Android releases. IIRC, Cloudflare's free tier already doesn't work with Android Browser from 2.2 because at that point it didn't support SNI. Not to mention, Android Browser marketshare is quite tiny at this point, as I believe Chrome or Samsung Browser is usually the default browser on modern Android handsets.

I would guess as long as this move goes off without a hitch and isn't reverted it will likely be the safe reality in under 5 years. My guess is not particularly special, but I mean, the internet is already unusable on really old browsers. For better or worse, the world we live in doesn't have much tolerance for older software versions. Sometimes this is for pretty good reasons (such as improving cryptography standards.)

I will admit I have a strong aversion to breaking browser support for anyone pretty much, but the security of 95% of users is worth forcing 5% of users to update their damn software. It's unfortunate that the situation can't be a bit more backwards compatible, but I think that's just how things go with certain hard problems. There's never not going to be some compromise, and it doesn't seem likely any time in the future will be particularly better than right now.
Interested in explanations for downvotes, given that this post is -2 despite contributing to discussion (has 5 replies, 15 comments in tree).
The idea is that if you operate a server in -eyes territories then your data is not secure.

I'm not sure I buy this argument though. We've seen companies just not hold onto data, be served, and release "sorry we got nothing". AFAIK you don't have to create backdoors for the NSA. Canaries are legal. You don't have to store data. So listing if a service is from a -eyes country misses the point really. Point being if the service is secure and follows best practices or not. Something isn't secure because it is located in Switzerland.

Or am I missing something?
So then, what's the internally consistent libertarian position on the Eagles vs. Seahawks game?
>A slogan of Rao’s may point the way: Be slightly evil. Or: geeks need to learn and use some of the sociopaths’ tricks. Then geeks can capture more of the value they create (and get better at ejecting true sociopaths).

That sounds a lot like what's happening to open source. Mops are happy that they get things for free, creators are living on starvation wages, sociopaths at the cloud companies are making hundreds of billions.

>At best you can charge them admission or a subscription fee, but they’ll inevitably argue that this is wrong because capitalism is evil, and also because they forgot their wallet.

Yes, open source mops to a t.
As a working scientist, I feel both sides of the problem every day. Most papers I come across turn out to be difficult if not impossible to reproduce, and I'm sure some of my own papers have fallen into that group at some points (although given that I'm a theorist, what "reproducible" means can be a bit fuzzy sometimes). At the same time, I'm confused every time I see people wondering about the scale of the problem or what to do about it. There is absolutely no mystery here whatsoever.

Scientists are generally fairly smart people. Put smart people in a hypercompetitive environment and they will quickly identify the traits that are being rewarded and optimize for those. What does academia reward? Large numbers of publications with lots of citations, nothing else matters. So, naturally, scientists flock to hip buzzword-filled topics and churn out papers as quickly as they can. Not only is there absolutely no reward for easy reproducibility, it can actually harm you if someone manages to copy you quickly enough and then beat you to the next incremental publishable discovery in the neverending race. This is absurd and counterproductive to science in general, but such is the state of the academic job market.

Anyone who purports to somehow address the situation without substantially changing the fundamental predicates for hiring and funding in the sciences is just wasting their breath. As long as the incentives are what they are, reproducibility will be a token most scientists pay tribute to in name only.
Liking this analogy - if we continue the logic - there is another property of plastic in that it’s known to be toxic with mass consumption.

Also would the advertising industry then be like oil/petrochemical complex?
Thanks for the link. This is awesome.
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