skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hu Jintao was never jailed and the anti-corruption campaign wasn't so much targeting his supporters, but instead people Hu couldn't afford to get rid of, such as former security minister Zhou Yongkang. No one received worse punishment than a prison sentence, so even if you count the anti-corruption campaign as part of the power transition, it was still a peaceful one.
Ask HN: Getting a good SV job in one’s 40s from the other side of the globe
Inspired by yesterday's "Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s" post. I'm ~40 and spent my career in tech startups on the other side of the pond. I recently started entertaining an idea to move to the USA, Silicon Valley in particular. Is there a reasonable chance to find a good job as lead or principal developer in a reasonably well funded company (or CTO in a small-ish company) while still living in Europe when applying? How to approach this?
My hypothesis is that vim style work (without moving a wrist even a bit) is the reason people get carpel tunnel. I anecdotally see far fewer (none?) People who don't do vim/emacs getting these injuries. Makes sense as well right? Just like "take a walk and don't sit in the same place" but for your fingers
An interesting amount of "MS is winning over AWS" articles these days. Not buying any of it.
Here you go: https://outline.com/nHcEqX
Musicians and engineers don't want their work 'modified' by the streaming service to make it louder.
Netezza End of Life
To clarify, if someone gets stuck in 'vim' when debugging an issue and searches the web for "how to exit vim" and ends up on the document linked in the OP ... your advice is "stick with Notepad"?
I recently started a hobby project that I've managed to keep going for a while after doing no programming at home for years. I think these things have helped.

I work remotely from home so don't end the day feeling nearly as fried as I did in an office environment. I also feel more productive in my job.

I sketched out some days to be "hobby project days" and if I'm feeling anyway capable of working on it will drag out my laptop and do something for an hour or so. Then on other days I will do something else or rest. I think this relaxed schedule is helpful because you'll at least consider the project on those days.

I borrow a pattern from my working life and keep a todo list which also acts as a done list. Moving things from todo to done is a little motivation boost. I also keep a very small diary talking about what I've done.

I don't sweat missing days if I'm tired, ill, stressed out or want a break. I'm doing this for fun.
No doubt it's not possible everywhere, but many countries offer YouTube Red (or whatever it's called now), been paying for it bundled with Google Play Music for years (in Australia).
I’m now a tech lead and I don’t code much even at work, but I still don’t have a life - no friend, no real hobby. Haha
Yes! I'd just be careful to assume that people who are smart enough to program aren't smart enough to knowingly do so.

Competitions in modern times are nearly always an artificial construct. Who cares if you coast at your job as long as you do what you are paid for? There is no award ceremony at your funeral for having achieved a manager position higher than your neighbors.

A competition only exists if you agree to take part in it and I am willing to bet that's usually a conscious choice. If you can provide for yourself and your family to enjoy the things you like - why introduce competition if all it does is annoy you?

Some people just don't care about being able to afford luxury products because other things already give them fulfillment.

Others need more money and/or more power to get a maxed out Tesla or a house in their dream area (or simply to stroke their ego). All is fine.

There just isn't some sort of obligation to anything other than maybe the people directly around you (SO, kids, parents, friends...).

Invest time in what you like. Life doesn't allow that to always be the same as your job.
I wonder if more dynamic music is actually worse for developing tinnitus and so on when listening on headphones. As the perceived loudness is lower for dynamic music, people turn it up to compensate. This means that the peaks in real terms are actually louder than the equivalent super-compressed stuff while achieving the same listening level.
I had a cynical thought about opening a dating app where I will use styleganv2 to generate natural looking pictures, GPT2 for bio and throw in some lstm with generic conversation structure, apply it to create lot of female users. Since male users on dating apps are used to not getting replies or hear back often, they probably won't realize they just swiped a fake profile. Sometime, the bot will start a conversation and ghost it before you can find out and probably hire real people to reply humanely for boost so the user has incentive and illusion of dating app and boost working.

Then I went to bed and forgot about it because that's not what a good person should be thinking of.
Attacking my account age is so off-point. Greg's specialty is using true facts to try to claim or imply false information. I am new to this forum. He knows I am not as new to standing up to his form of dishonest distractions used to derail conversations he knows are bad for his house-of-cards.
And to put even more of a punch to it, I spend 2 hours a day streaming Rust development (heh heh... inexperienced rust development :-) ) and it will buy me precisely nothing at work. There's another guy on my team that seemingly spends every waking moment working on code for work -- because that's what he enjoys doing. He will very rightly get more recognition for his efforts at work than I will.

Although it's never guaranteed, you general get what you put into it. I'm going to learn about Rust development in my spare time and maybe that will be useful to my career someday. Compared to someone who is concentrating on spending time with their kids, I might get some benefits. But, my Rust development will never throw me a surprise birthday party when I'm 90. My buddy at work enjoys the time he spends and gets lots of deserved plaudits at work. He'll get raises and promotions that I likely won't. I could do the same as him, but I don't want to. Similarly, had I chosen to settle down and have kids when I was of an age to do it, I could have. I decided not to and I'm totally happy with my choice. You don't get to benefit from the road you didn't choose. That's just life.
The point here is the limitation "apparently".

Huge part of the needless discussion about the risks of vaccines happening in well educated parts of the population are misattributed effects of vaccines.

Everyone I know apparently knows someone that has a child that has a serious condition because of a vaccination. Yeah, right, if it was so clear cut and widespread, these vaccines would be pulled from the market yesterday.
In the opposing vein, as an Emacs user the best configuration I ever made was to rebind C-x C-c to execute-extended-command instead of kill-emacs. It was way too easy to (even accidentally!) kill emacs with a sweep of a finger. And I probably use a few hundred execute-extended-command calls for each kill-emacs (which I now have to type manually as 'C-x C-c kill-emacs' - no problemo).

A similar optimisation was with tmux to bind the prefix to C-z. It's in a handy location next to ctrl and I very rarely use suspend anyway (which is still available as easily as C-z z). Stretching your fingers between ctrl and b (the default prefix key) merely made me wonder who the heck thought of something like this?

As for vi, I made a point of learning to use it enough to do useful work editing config files and small texts. Every once in a while another application brought up 'vi' for some reason (maybe I lost VISUAL or EDITOR while sudoing or the app was looking for another variable) and I could never exit the damn thing.

So instead of just learning :q and figuring out how to make the particular program or script relaunch another editor I thought it's the path of least resistance to just edit with vi directly. It has been an incredibly handy skill: I never use vi for anything larger but these days I actually do 'vi /etc/fstab' myself instead of calling for emacsclient.

However, I've been toying around with the idea of eventually writing a minimal 'vi' clone that you cannot exit. I'm sure there's pent-up demand just waiting for one!
> And virtually it's as narrow minded as refusing to take antibiotics

Antibiotics are over prescribed. And due to that we enjoy Multidrug-resistant bacteria. Antibiotics are the opposite of vaccines. By taking them needlessly you fuck up everyone else.
Interesting tutorial on libav for sure but the submission title is definitely a bit of a stretch given that it's just a libav tutorial and you can probably do the same with ffmpeg directly quite easily. Can we change the title please?
Developers need to code after-hours in order to stay competitive in part because our industry enables businesses to not to provide continual learning time during an employee's workday.

If you had, say, 20% of your work week to practice on skills, technologies, patterns or ideas that weren't a direct deliverable: would the average you still feel compelled to spend so much of your free time additionally practicing skills (ultimately to the benefit of your employer)?

We bemoan the scourge of scope creep and the waste of mass meetings. Businesses demanding only short-term saleable output from developers is another drag on sustainable productivity.
I can't wait for this article to be on top of Google's search results for 'how to exit vim' = D
Maybe your analogy is not the best but you made a good point and I'd agree.
NMPV: Like Stockphoto but for Science and Biology
I think the problem with these products is that they build on the assumptions a file is a file and not that a folder can be a file and a file can be a folder.

The assumptions you need to do to make a folder into a file requires a lot of extra work.

An example of a folder that is actually a file could be a folder named "A Good Movie" with a bunch of .rar files in it.

I've built a streaming plugin for deluge that tries to work around these assumptions but only for a playback scenario and not an indexing scenario. That allows streaming of multi-rar file torrents.

There's also the problem that many rar parsing libraries reads the beginning and end of each part of a split .rar file. That can cause a lot of latency with e.g. 100 files.

Edit: all this applies only to rar files with no compression. With compression you can't do much with regards to seeking and whatnot.
Programming isn't inherently different from any other profession. We don't expect builders to keep constructing houses in their free time in order to become better at our jobs, so why do we recommend programmers to do this?
This reminds me of a "hilarious" conversation I had one time when I was in the casualty ward of the local hospital.

"So there I was at home and I cut through an electrical cable with some scissors."

"And you came to A&E because you got shocked?"

"Well I was shocked, yes. I didn't expect the cable to be live, there was a big bang and all the lights went off"

"OK you've had an electric shock?"

"No I was surprised, I was not electrocuted"

"So why are you here ..?"

(Paranoid partner made me go, though I was certain I was fine. Had some fluid taken from my spine; apparently electric shocks can cause "stuff to break down" and they were gonna use the fluid to confirm whether I'd been hit by electricity or not.)
I bet if you benchmark your n-gram vs GPT-2, it will perform the same.
BRS, that old classic Big Red Switch, kills all known operating systems and proc's, dead in their tracks.

Me, It's usually :wq, or sometimes :q! or more than likely ZZ - which can be done with shift zz or if you truly want to do it with just one finger, capslock then zz.
'Retina' is just one metric. When it comes to crisp edges, there's still a difference up to 5 or 10 times the PPI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperacuity_(scientific_term)
At burning man and etc the last few years it's really seemed like some of the music makers are just trying to see what the speakers can do.
For chess application i mean
War is still “a racket” (2015)
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Just random advice: feel free to pick a hobby randomly. My friend did that and I thought it very strange, but he committed himself to it and eventually really enjoyed it. Not only that, but he met a lot of people and eventually met his wife that way. It sounds weird, but if you aren't particularly passionate about something, it's a bit easier to pick a hobby because you can choose anything. Based on my friend's example, I decided to pick cooking as a hobby -- because who doesn't want good food. It's still the thing I do whenever I'm stressed out and just want to relax. It's a very strange thing.
In my experience, noise-cancelling headphones have made a big difference. The music doesn't need to compete anymore and you can lower the volume and enjoy the dynamic range.

I also wonder if the resurgence of vinyl, and rise of home producers on bandcamp/soundcloud/etc have helped contribute.
> You won't get what true "liveness" is until you work in Lisp or Smalltalk. The ability to change a function in a running program, without restarting it

This can be done in a number of other common languages today such as Java (JVM languages) and C# (probably all .NET languages). Most IDEs I've seen for those platforms support it.

Substantial enough changes to the code can require an application restart, but most changes you might make like changing the implementation of a function, adding new functions to a class, etc., will not. Hot Code Replacement (HCR) has been supported since Java 1.4: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_What_is_hot_code_replace%3F

Fully dynamic languages like Lisp and Smalltalk permit a greater degree of this than statically typed languages do, however, since they don't have types and a type system to wrangle with. When I've used it, hot code replacement supported most of the changes that conceptually make sense to support.
> I have pretty much zero sympathy for adult antivaxxers who get infected.

Why? Some of them will have been lied to by people who have considerable amounts of money to spend on disinformation, and we (who support vaccination) have done a poor job of explaining that vaccination is safe and effective.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/13/majority-...

https://khn.org/morning-breakout/important-donor-to-anti-vax...

We know that many people struggle to understand health information. In England we see:

https://beta.nhs.uk/service-manual/content/health-literacy

> More than 4 in 10 adults struggle with health content for the public and more than 6 in 10 adults struggle with health content that includes numbers and statistics.

Attacking people with anti-vaccination views does not work to change their minds.
Birds have very sensitive respiratory systems (which is why canaries were traditionally taken into mines to detect toxic gases). Given the prevalence of fires in these Australian bush habitats, it’s not unreasonable to expect birds in those areas to be extremely intolerant of smoke, allowing them to fly away and escape long before the fire gets close enough for them to feel the heat.
How to Make Your Habits Stick
There are, but they regulated wattage, not luminosity.

An old crummy incandescent bulb in a 90s civic will produce a lot less light at the same wattage, than a new, super-bright LED.
> Grab a copy of your favorite show or movie as a blu-ray and rip that (which is illegal in most jurisdictions, as you have to break the copy protection).

I was fairly certain this was allowed in Europe as long as you own the discs (or otherwise has a permanent right to watch the content?)

Anyone knows the details?
Flu vaccines are basically useless because the actual vaccine is based on mutations of last year.
That part is hard. I suggest starting small and creating something you want to use.

My side projects usually involve a great deal of hardware design, with some sort of challenge in SW. Once you have created the hardware, having something physical to remind me of the end-goal helps a lot.

I have a lot of abandoned projects as well, but I try to at least choose the project so that I learn/relearn/practice something that interests me. That way, even abandoned projects have value.
ADEA does not cover people younger than 40
This doesn't feel like a fair response because the article isn't saying "cull the camels because there isn't enough water for humans and camels to be able to drink, it's us or them". Also that statistic will be incredibly skewed for the urbanised nature of most of the Australian population, whilst the article is talking about a remote Aboriginal community (of ~2300 people over 102650km).

Some quotes:

> A recent feral-camel-population boom is exacerbating the need for water, threatening damage to infrastructure and putting communities in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, an Aboriginal district, at risk...

> “Some people, in this sort of weather, are unable to put their air conditioners on, for fear that the animals are going to attack their air conditioners for their moisture.”

(Honestly, to me, this is a very first-world-problem feeling reason... But it's too fun to not quote :-) )

> The DEW noted that camels who do not survive the extreme arid conditions also put locals at risk.
>
> “In some cases, dead camels have contaminated important water sources and cultural sites,” the spokesperson said.

> “And in that time we’ve got to feed them . . . The reality is, we just can’t do that,” he said.

The article is a bit dishonest feeling saying:

> professional snipers will take to helicopters to hunt 4,000 to 5,000 camels in South Australia’s remote northwest, adjacent to the wildfires that have raged since September in New South Wales

The closest NSW fire is something like 1650km away, and that's being fairly generous.
It is possible for sure. However, note that San Francisco is incredibly expensive now. So you have to really focus on getting a good salary and actually finding a reasonable place to live. Also, traffic, homelessness, etc. The reality is it isn't as glamorous as you may have in your mind.

There are a lot of remote jobs to be had. Companies like Gitlab hire all over the world. That might be another approach worth exploring. Maybe look for a remote position and see if you can relocate.

Despite what some may think there is age discrimination, I have found that Silicon Valley is still more of a meritocracy. You github/gitlab, blogs, accomplishments weigh heavily. The valley is still in high demand of talent and will pay well.

That being said, any interest in starting your own company? People often think entrepreneurs are mostly in their 20s, you will likely find that it is much higher than that: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youll-never-guess-avera...
Intel, Lenovo spread foldable computer fever at CES
>if it was so clear cut and widespread, these vaccines would be pulled from the market yesterday

That argument is empirically false, as there have been multiple medications and vaccinations which did widespread harm.

Granted, nearly all of them occurred 30+ years ago. However I don't think we should ever claim we've advanced to the point where we _know_ that there are _no_ medications or vaccinations that are causing problems we aren't aware of yet, especially given how long it might take for those problems to manifest themselves.

Not an argument against vaccination at all, just an argument for intellectual humility.
There is no trend in drought in Australia. You can go to the BOM and have a look: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/index.shtml#tabs=Tracke...
Nice job. Read the first couple of entries, look forward to following through the rest. I enjoy this kind of exercise, just complex enough to give you a flavour of how the 'real' thing works whilst not being a mere toy example.
> I agree but then you must acknowledge that by chosing to restrict yourself, you may lose competitive edge againts those who have no such restriction.

And by choosing to restrict yourself by only focussing on your job, you're losing out on other areas of life.
I too can predict that there will be bushfires in Australia.
Not sure why you are being downvoted.

I too assumed this was some minimalist from scratch C-project, not a guide to using ffmpeg.
why would you have no sympathy for children who can't (as in, both aren't allowed to and aren't intellectually equipped to) make that decision themselves is beyond me.
> A Google community specialist mentioned that the tool scans folders related to Chrome only, but its scope is not exposed to the user in any way.

The title seems a bit of a leap.
Facebook post boost and advertising for restaurants – best practices
>Hard skills are surprisingly small percentage of the overall picture of the person from employment perspective.

This is true outside of tech hubs and in companies with non technical management. What is true in Oklahoma City and Paris isn't necessarily true in SF/NYC
Flux: Irishman’s Anti-Aging VFX toolkit
USA might have used harp to cause an earthquake in Iran near a nuclear location. That might be the cause of what we have seen.
(I did not check the time nor that if that is possible)
They plan to kill ~5,000 camels, which consume an average of 30 gallons of water per day, that comes out to about 150K gallons per day.

With 22 million Australians, if they reduce their daily water consumption by 0.0068 gallons, these camels would have enough to drink and be allowed to live.
Actually I'm considering dropping out of the industry and starting a crime career. I have been in touch with someone who'd be interested in operating drones to deliver haschich from Morocco to Spain.
Ahhh the pedant. Welcome to the discussion.
Not sure if "to bisect" and "to draw and quarter" are so similar here. I mean, if you say that someone is bisected, or drawn and quartered, the meaning is pretty much that he's dead!
Almost every company in Europe? I've got 26 days I can take whenever I want. That's excluding legal holidays. Some countries have a lower minimum, the country where I live the legal minimum is 21 (4.2 weeks), but 5+ weeks of paid holiday a year is quite common.
The temperate orchard conservancy is an awesome non-profit, preserving many rare varieties and distributing scions for grafting onto rootstock.

They only take orders from December through January (i.e. until the end of this month).

http://www.temperateorchardconservancy.org/