skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favourite examples of how the government moves the goalposts around to make the economy numbers go up is how they removed housing prices from the CPI in 1985.

Inflation is often used as a benchmark for economic health, but it completely ignores one of the biggest sources of inflation: the price of homes.

The utility of a house never increases (unless you make upgrades), so if the price goes up it's not really more valuable, assuming it rises at the same rate as nearby homes. It's not like you could sell and move into a fancier house nearby.
If you are motivated by the belief that your efforts will make a significant long term beneficial difference to your life, go for it.

But what if it really isn't true? What if for each thing that appears to be obtained through your own effort, there are plenty of other random factors in your life that interact with your apparently-obtained gains and tend to cancel out the benefits by making something else worse?

Then you'd be labouring under a convincing illusion. One that probably can be examined by people interested in studying it.

If it could be studied, would you rather know the truth, or would you rather not even look, so you can stay motivated?

(Btw, I'm a fan of the quote as well. Above is written from a devil's advocate sort of approach.)
Only thing keeping me in Chrome is multiple profiles

And no, Firefox containers are not the same, I cannot install two versions for 1pass - personal/private

Firefox also have true "profiles" but they are kind of a hack
There have been a number of threads here talking about hiring developers off of free lance sites. The basic algorithm seems to be:

Attempt to hire ~25 people for a sample project of known difficulty.

Of those 25 something 5 will respond and have good enough english to hire at their requested rates. Apparently a surprising number ghost even at this stage. And having some back and forth communication will help suss these people out.

Of those 5 maybe one will be worth working with again.

But basically the consensus is try before you buy is the only way to avoid big costs later.
Timing matters more in entertainment than other industries. There is an infinite amount of content you could pack into a game and it has to be delivered on time to be relevant to your customers and out do the competition.

There are countless games and films at every level of investment that come out too late to be relevant, Jodi Foster suffered from that fate not too long ago.
As an aside, sha-1 is smaller than 128 bytes.

From my numerical experiments (I hope I didn't mess up...) using the random oracle model, the probability that a given key is collision-free is 99.6% if the input is one byte shorter than hash, 1/e if input is same size as hash and 6.6e-112 if the input is one byte longer than hash.

And this holds basically irrespective of key size.
It's funny - you're describing the city that I'm currently living in, right down to the arena and businesses around it.

We've gotten past that phase and now all the local businesses downtown are shutting down because the 2-ish companies that own all the real estate are raising the prices to absurd levels. Our end goal, in the likely near future, is them declaring bankruptcy so we can bail them out as a city and re-zone the retail/entertainment districts to business as originally lobbied.
> You need a way to reconcile the family side of things and the corporate side

I believe that's called share cropping..
> True however as soon as market conditions change and software engineers aren't in demand

I find this unlikely, while boom and bust cycles are normal. If software engineers aren't in demand, other people will have it worse. Demand for software engineer will then pick up faster.

I don't see any major employment segment that has higher future prospect or long term security than software engineering.
Finland seems like the best country in the world- minus the freezing weather and short winter days.

Universal healthcare, income, maternity packages, Linus Torvald. What do they NOT have?
I have no sympathy for them. They've charged extortionate exchange rates to travellers for decades, so now they get themselves extorted by hackers? Karmic justice.
I personally would not have predicted something like this was needed. How long has this been in the works? Now that I can see how useful this is, I'm amazed this didn't happen much sooner. Is this one case where "we" knew we needed it, but the tech just wasn't available?
When did ever use evidence to make economic, political, or social decisions?
We typically assume that organizations like the NSA, FSB, Mossad, MSS, and the like already know of such attacks.
Maybe a better way to phrase it would have been moving over the rubber/space? Or through the rubber/space? It really is motion relative to the underlying manifold though. Let's say there was such a thing as a gravitational soliton, that is, a stable ripple in spacetime, then if you are on the same spot as this wrinkle as expansion starts you will move away from it. You move relative to a structure made from spacetime. This was my field for many years. :-)

The mathematically precise statement is that you are not moving on a geodesic. You are therefore experiencing acceleration (the objects that are not bound and have increasing distance are on geodesics and do not experience acceleration).
I like cars, but I hate driving my commute. I hate road trips. I still like to take my car out on weekend drives. I'd rather not have to do the monotonous stuff.
I don't think age really has much to do with it. Apart from having more experience, joining somewhere in your 40s is pretty much like joining somewhere in your 30s. If you want to code, code. If you want to manage, manage. But don't decide based on age.

42 at MS
The agricultural revolution in the Netherlands from two perspectives
Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It's .Seizable (2012)
HN commenters love to talk about how Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards aren't suitable for use in production hardware.

I recently had a chance to wander around one of the bigger EMS factories in the Bay Area, rubbernecking at everybody else's products in various stages of assembly. It's safe to say not many naysaying HN'ers have done that recently, or they would be saying something very different.
The killer application for this technology is a bicycle bell you can use to break the trance of phone-staring pedestrians who are randomly staggering down the pavement.
Cryptoindex AI Daily Predictions and News for 01/07/2020
https://reason.com/tag/stadiums/

specifically this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=fb3HcuFyDFQ&...

With that in mind, there is however a huge difference between a tax break and a govt subsidies.
You're asking for a lot of pretty specialized things that don't really address the broader market. If you truly need single-digit ms latency, wired solutions or proprietary wireless is going to be better.

The whole point of codecs is to use less of the incredibly congested 2.4G band and deliver similar performance. There are trade-offs, such as latency, in this case.

Also, range is a component of antenna and power usage, both of which could be tailored to reach 100ft. Problem is, people would prefer smaller antennas and lower power, since 100ft of range is useless to most. There's nothing stopping Bluetooth from doing that though; it's just a matter of the devices that exist today.

Not sure I can help you on the sound quality though. That sounds like a problem with the devices you've been using. AAC or LDAC both sound fine to me... and are available on pretty much any device.
Good point, made me realize a bit of my own experience - since I moved out of downtown Toronto, the entire area has been a mental black hole to me precisely because on game nights, it can take 2-4 hours to extract yourself out of 3-4km of space, so I just don't risk it (especially since it's the kind of 2 hours that feels like 7...)
Ageism is out in SV, because the biggest perpetrators grew up. Plus experience is worth a lot of money. If you're young or old, don't listen to those who say you can't do something. It's just one more form of resistance that successful people have to plow through.
The calculation for 1/1/2001 is the same as the calculation for 1/1/1601 plus the number of days in 400 years. So it doesn't have to take into account the special case of February 2000. (Other than in the number of days in 400 years, but that's a constant.) I've written the code. It's a tiny bit simpler.
Those Jag V12s are so cool, though. Carbs as far as the eye can see....
How broad the accepted membership is entirely depends on the union. There is no objective reason to always segment by profession. In my opinion having worked in the games industry for over fifteen years software engineers are treated very similarly to other disciplines although paid better and it would make a lot more sense to work together with other disciplines than trying to each form a union separately.

As you say unions often have reciprocal agreements or are even part of larger umbrella organizations for example the TUC in the UK.
>(And as for "toxic masculinity", wouldn't this be better described as "toxic femininity"?)

No. It's modern masculine culture that doesn't allow men to express their emotions for fear of appearing weak or "beta." The toxicity derives from that pathological aspect of masculine culture. Women doing what men do and reinforcing this toxic aspect of masculine culture are also engaging in toxic masculinity.
The original BuzzFeed News article[1] says that Cohen was telling their reporters what he told prosecutors. They did not report it as undisputed fact.

Is it not newsworthy if a major witness is repeating his testimony to a reporter? How would you prefer they reported it? If news orgs never published the comments of known liars, we'd have very little political news.

BuzzFeed News also backs up Cohen's claims with the transcript of his House testimony[2].

Mueller's office (per your link) was pretty unspecific about what part of Cohen's statements they thought were misleading.

1. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/cohen-tr...

2. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6021026-Michael-Cohe...
I’m lead dev at Tesults.com and we use this stack. Are you asking about VC backed up companies however? Tesults is bootstrapped and not massive yet so may be there is a reason it’s not used more widely which means I’ll discover why and have to deal with it soon :-) Although I hadn’t heard it’s only used for smaller scale projects, is this anecdotal or is there data?
It would be great for the array of TV's at the gym. Mine currently has a headphone jack on each treadmill with a keypad that you can tune into your preferred channel. I've taken to watching Netflix with Bluetooth head phones vs trying to use a wired pair while I run.
You can truncate a hash anywhere you like. But 128 bits is considered too short now.
I didn't say that unions decrease employment. I did describe the mechanisms by which employment might be reduced due to increasing costs (regardless of the cause of the cost increases).

In the referenced comment, you speak of "profit from abuse/exploitation", which presupposes that abuse or exploitation is occurring. Most game developers (programmers at least) have skills that are valuable in other kinds of SW development. If they wanted to, they could usually find work that didn't require so much overtime and in many cases would pay better as well. So if they choose to continue working on games, it's just that: a choice, not something that is being forced upon them. Given that, the implication that they are somehow being 'abused' sounds at best paternalistic.
10% above the rest of the state to move to the middle of nowhere obviously wasn't enough. When a company says they can't find anyone to hire, what they really mean most of the time is "we can't find anyone to hire for the mostly arbitrary price we want to hire them at."

My guess is the company is making far more off of those employees than the labor cost, so if you didn't have access to H-1B employees you would have kept increasing the salary 20%, 30%, 50% until you found someone.
1. We are based on the IPFS and Textile library, using ed25519 for signatures and aes256 for files encryption. We are planning to release tech whitepaper closer to the public launch
It's not just your country, my former city of Christchurch, NZ has a council hellbent on spending money it doesn't have for a stadium it barely needs.

The same promise of economic growth and touted fears of not being a 'real city without a stadium' applies.

> The stadium profits won't cover operating costs, so ratepayers will have to top it up to the tune of $4.2m a year ($4.1m already budgeted).

>It will bring $395.6m in economic benefits, which includes $53.9m in "civic pride".

Civic pride....

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/117262170/christchurch-stadium...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/117978037/christchurchs-...
On a related note: Twitter bots and trolls promote conspiracy theories about Australian bushfires

https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-bots-and-trolls-promot...
>The US spends a mind boggling amount of money on education and still gets out-competed by struggling poor countries.

I don't think that makes sense, or rather it's a massive selection bias. The foreigners who manage to get a H-1B visa are usually highly qualified, but obviously that doesn't mean that all foreigners are highly qualified, those who aren't just don't get the visa. That's actually often a problem for these countries as the highly educated leave while the low qualified workforce remains at home.

I'm sure the US produces highly qualified engineers, but you also have to care for your local, less qualified populace that you can't just export abroad and forget they exist.

As for the fact that no homegrown engineer accepts to work in your "little backwater locale" that actually means that local engineers actually outcompete foreigners and not the other way around since it's those latter ones who have to settle for "the middle of nowhere".
The idea behind your complaint is "if we tell good people about risks, then bad people will know about them. If we keep them secret from good people, then bad people won't find out about them". Or, "if we don't make a list of open doors, then bad people can't find which doors are open". Which is .. not true. Bad people will already be making their own list of open doors, and sneaking through them without being noticed, over and over again.

> all almost all people would do just fine

Here's an ongoing ransom attack in the UK, started on New Year's Eve: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51017852 The ransom is in the millions of dollars range, Travelex websites in 30 countries down for a week, Sainsbury's money exchange websites down for the same time, and "Dates of birth, credit card information and social security numbers [of customers] are all in their possession, they say."

Not looking at problems doesn't stop problems from existing.
It is a bit subtle, I think the background of the page and the text below isn't doing it a favor.

Quickly in the browser giving the <p> below a margin-top of 150px and then moving it over a white part of the background (or making it white if you like), the effect becomes more obvious and it does look a bit blockier around the edges to me in the linear example. I would prefer the second as I'm seeing it.
is there any science on how reflexes / behaviors are encoded in the genome?

have labs successfully changed these? I'm familiar with a prenatal brain surgery that made chickens behave like ducks, but it wasn't genetic
Sure. Playing music makes sense. I was just curious why people cared about 10-20ms of latency on what I see as "movie on iPad on Plane". Clearly there are many other use cases.
I've been using Hugo for a few years. I like it generally, but I have mixed feelings about using Go for templating. Compilation and generation is blazing fast, which is great for short edit-compile-debug cycles.

On the other hand, Go's lack of generics makes working with collections harder than it should be... and much of templating involves working with collections.

To give a concrete example, I wanted to create a page where I group categories by post count. Hugo has methods to group pages, but not categories, so I rolled my own imperative grouping code. It wasn't difficult, but it would have been simpler to do declaratively in many other ecosystems (say, .NET with LINQ).
The whole sports economic impact mantra is pervasive.

I went to a college bowl game recently. They actually printed the amount of economic impact calculated ... on my ticket. And ran those numbers across the jubmotron a number of times.

I don't know who they're selling that to because I'm not local or approving anything, so I guess that's what I'm contributing to? yay? I was mildly amused.
MDI is a big bonus!
If you build an arena and only use it for 15 games per year then the problem may be the poor design or under-utilization of the asset, not the asset in the first place. There is a huge and lucrative market for all sorts of private and corporate events, and arenas would seem to be desirable venues.
> which is unfortunate since they are almost always the wrong choice

Why?
Why would a big union care about a small company?
I've used embedded linux systems for industrial control systems many times. In those applications, as you mention, we integrated with a PLC for life-safety systems or another control system via contact closures. We ran python for most of our on-board system level software and some networking related services. No way in hell would I have used our output relays to do things like close a flood gate.
> Have you checked out the type cheatsheet?

I'm afraid that that does not help me understand how (elem) works at all. From my perspective, I don't need a "type cheatsheet," I need elem's docstring that explains what arguments it expects and what it returns. I'm not even thinking about value types yet, and I don't know what grammar that cheatsheet is written in, nor why I would need to read one to be able to use what seems like the most basic function jql has, the elem function.

To write clear, useful documentation, you need to put yourself in the shoes of a user who has never seen your project before, who has not walked the miles you have to arrive at the solutions you have, and take them quickly to the same destination.

The readme, in general, is another issue. It's...not ideal.

The first part tries to sound cute with stuff like, "Hey there!" and, "remember? That's explicitly not why we're here. But it aids understanding of the more complex examples, so stay with me just a little bit longer!".

But I'm not a little kid who's bored in math class, so writing like that turns me off quickly. Having to read through long prose like, "Ok, let's check it out now, but first things first, you have to install it:" instead of simply a heading titled "Install:" feels like I'm wasting my time, and I quickly skip ahead or move on to the next HN article.

What I'm really looking for is a short intro and a table of contents with sections like: Intro, Examples, Tutorial, Reference, FAQ.

You might think of it like this: the project is your baby, but just like in real life, no one thinks your baby's as cute as you do, and, no, we don't want to see the baby pictures. ;)
That is something to which the SDK was designed to be extended--in fact, the SDK was designed specifically to be extended to different programming models besides the rudimentary one we provide out-of-box. However, we have not had the time to take on the implementation ourselves as the existing one serves our purposes at Lyft well and we are but a small team. So we do hope that someone in the community with a knack for syntax can help improve things!
If you think we’re obsessed with sports now, try reading up on the Nika Riots in the Byzantine capital. There’s something about human nature that leads to sports fanaticism that I just don’t have, but team sports have always impacted matters of state.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
I wonder how much of that "increased spending around downtown" came at the cost of decreased spending in the surrounding area(s).
It's kinda wild. You can hear the different pitch in each carb.
The same appears to be true for individual income taxes too.

I've looked at the income taxes versus growth in the US... and I've been unable to find any obvious relationship. As one of many possible examples, below is a table showing the highest marginal federal income tax rate and year-over-year real GDP growth in the US since 1950.

My conclusion, so far: There's a tremendous amount of theory, and rhetoric, and posturing, and straw-man arguments... but very little or ZERO actual evidence that national economic growth is impacted one way or another. If anything, the data seems to show higher economic growth during periods of higher taxation!

Highest US Real
Year Tax Rate GDP Chg
1950: 84.4% 8.7%
1951: 91.0% 8.0%
1952: 92.0% 4.1%
1953: 92.0% 4.7%
1954: 91.0% -0.6%
1955: 91.0% 7.1%
1956: 91.0% 2.1%
1957: 91.0% 2.1%
1958: 91.0% -0.7%
1959: 91.0% 6.9%
1960: 91.0% 2.6%
1961: 91.0% 2.6%
1962: 91.0% 6.1%
1963: 91.0% 4.4%
1964: 77.0% 5.8%
1965: 70.0% 6.5%
1966: 70.0% 6.6%
1967: 70.0% 2.7%
1968: 75.3% 4.9%
1969: 77.0% 3.1%
1970: 71.8% 0.2%
1971: 70.0% 3.3%
1972: 70.0% 5.3%
1973: 70.0% 5.6%
1974: 70.0% -0.5%
1975: 70.0% -0.2%
1976: 70.0% 5.4%
1977: 70.0% 4.6%
1978: 70.0% 5.5%
1979: 70.0% 3.2%
1980: 70.0% -0.3%
1981: 69.1% 2.5%
1982: 50.0% -1.8%
1983: 50.0% 4.6%
1984: 50.0% 7.2%
1985: 50.0% 4.2%
1986: 50.0% 3.5%
1987: 38.5% 3.5%
1988: 28.0% 4.2%
1989: 28.0% 3.7%
1990: 28.0% 1.9%
1991: 31.0% -0.1%
1992: 31.0% 3.5%
1993: 39.6% 2.8%
1994: 39.6% 4.0%
1995: 39.6% 2.7%
1996: 39.6% 3.8%
1997: 39.6% 4.4%
1998: 39.6% 4.5%
1999: 39.6% 4.8%
2000: 39.6% 4.1%
2001: 39.1% 1.0%
2002: 38.6% 1.7%
2003: 35.0% 2.9%
2004: 35.0% 3.8%
2005: 35.0% 3.5%
2006: 35.0% 2.9%
2007: 35.0% 1.9%
2008: 35.0% -0.1%
2009: 35.0% -2.5%
2010: 35.0% 2.6%
2011: 35.0% 1.6%
2012: 35.0% 2.2%
2013: 39.6% 1.8%
2014: 39.6% 2.5%
2015: 39.6% 2.9%
2016: 39.6% 1.6%
2017: 39.6% 2.4%
2018: 37.0% 2.9%

Sources:

Year-over-year real GDP growth: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=pssP

Tax rates: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highes...
Do you have any sources to back that up? The film industry is one of the most heavily unionized industries in America (if not the most!) and indie films are as popular as ever. The only way I can think of a union hindering independent content is that more people actually enjoy the company they work at and attempt to "strike it out on their own" less often.
we released the beta Pro IDE with JTAG debugging capabilities. we have a powerful cli written in go which lets you compile /upload your code very simplt with whatever IDE you like the most. This board is certified for industrial temperature and other industrial certification are being done now.