skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, it is true. And "price" doesn't only mean money. Maybe a country wants a longer shoreline in exchange for a piece of mountain land or something.
What would that get them? It's already clear that Discord's community doesn't translate into success for an associated game distribution platform.
Aren't car controls pretty universal already? At least the pedals, the turn signals, the steering wheel, the "warning lights" button, the seat belt release button, the parking brake whether it is electronic or manual, are pretty much the same in any car. Gears in autos are pretty much the same (PRND) and manual transmissions have the same layout.

Also, to get a closer analogy to the topic of the discussion, the fuel hole in cars is standardized - you have one for gas and one for diesel (which are incompatible on purpose) and that's it. There's no "you need to buy a dongle to fuel your BMW on non-BMW pump".
It is appalling that cancer research in particular is being hamstrung with such extreme mercenary motives as protecting IP
Stacks are used extensively across the x86 family [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions
What 15 Years of Y Combinator Investments Can Teach Us About Startups
The goal should be to have chargers sold separately. Packaging chargers with the devices does nothing to reduce electronics waste.
Depends on definition of success :) My app is not very successful in that it brings in only a few k$ per year.

However it has been featured here and there and these features were always massive spikes.
Because laptop monitors were traditionally driven through a direct LVDS signal, you can buy an adapter but it would cost much more than $20...

So the question is why would you want a $100> worth of extra logic in a laptop that only a fraction of the population would use, this seems to be even stupid from an environmental perspective since you are increasing e-waste not reducing it.
You discover this early on when picking up a language. It's so pervasive and so annoying for language learners but I can understand why it happens.

If you're learning a language, CC are p much the way to go
How do you measure "innovation" though?

Is it in terms of patents, in terms of the number of new companies, new companies that succeed (and according to which metrics?), new companies using/developing new technologies?

Do you consider modern implementations of old concepts as innovation or not (i.e. transitioning some activities into the digital world, that kind of things)?

Do you normalize that "innovation" quantity with how much money is injected into the "innovation industry"?
This kind of hypothesis would be so easy for aliens to test, but so hard for humans.
Ditto, I ended up taking the course twice.
Anti-Vaxx is a cult. So it is the GP is most decidedly correct.

Also seeing right through some unscientific nonsense does not protect you from all of it.

There are people who laugh at Creationism and then turn around and deny Anthropogenic Global Warming. Others laugh at both creationists and AGW denialists, and then tout Health At Every Size. And there are people who reject vaccines despite being perfectly able to accept scientific evidence in the other mentioned areas.
Shouldn't a prototype city of the future be built around walking and public transit with cars being more of an afterthought?
You're thinking of a Rhoomba :P
Because the sophons have been sabotaging our experimental results
These kinds of announcements are always full of hype. Panasonic has a similar concept in Denver. Google / Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. The practicalities of executing on real estate development at scale is always underestimated or neglected. Between regulations, the labor force, and tastes of eventual residents, the end result ends up close to the mean because the stakes (amount of capital involved) are so high and many decisions are prohibitively expensive to reverse.
Not if it's built by a carmaker. Perhaps the point is to show that we'll never separate ourselves from personal transportation vehicles (cars) but the future of the symbiosis will be far smarter and efficient.
Still easy to mess up the coordination when you have mutable shared state.
Yes. Make the difference.
Who would trust Tor if one party controls 200 million nodes?
Waste of money and space.
I rather disagree.

I work at a large non-profit. I'm not a coder, but I'm IT literate, and know enough about database design to not do absolutely stupid things. I'm happy to document processes enjoy clarifying ideas.

We use Sharepoint. In many many respects Sharepoint is detestable garbage, but I have managed to create some really quite complex automated workflows which are saving people in the organisation a lot of time, using Sharepoint Designer (no coding). It's documented, fairly robust and I wouldn't have been able to write it in a conventional language.
Generally choose the path that results in the least stress, and most sleep, for all parties
Great series to all who haven't read it!
Is Happiness U-Shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-Being in 132 Countries
foriegn ties of researchers? something tells me, it's going to be data mining.
So how do you differentiate a declarative language like SQL with a declarative YAML file for Ansible?

What would be the benefit of adding a declaritive language into the mix over YAML?
I think you’re misreading the word “quant” and coming off with a very different understanding of subtext here.
I don't think we should regulate away bluetooth only devices, seems rather unreasonable.
> But even Apple has started using USB-C ports to charge their laptops and tablets now

“Even”? I still hadn’t seen a usb-c anything in the wild when Apple switched their MacBooks to it and dropped all other ports.
> Wealth is always "stolen". Behind every great wealth is a great crime.

> You have an agenda and you are using obvious extremes and lies to push your agenda. The other side does the same. Instead of being driven by agenda, try to think objectively. Look at the problem from afar.

Pick one.
They didn't get the money by performing well. They do it by convincing people that they performing well. Even thought that 98% will not outperform a basic cheaper index fund with skill.
> I got a moto because of this. It has _almost_ no bloatware. LinkedIn, DropBoxNativeClient, and a few other apps I don't use cannot be uninstalled.

Sorry, but WTF kind of world are we living in where a terrible professional network app being permanently stuck to your phone is regarded as almost no bloatware? I'm not disagreeing with your statement that Moto phones are low in bloatware; just that if it's this bad for Moto phones I can't even begin to imagine how bad it is for Samsung. I wonder how much LinkedIn is paying for that deal.

I guess I'm glad I run either Google phones or Android One; highly recommended for your next phone. Vote with your wallets. The Android Ones are more affordable than the eye-watering prices Google charges for Pixels these days.
Civilization is equally about regulating behavior that hurts others. Traffic lights, food labeling, laws against murder and theft, building codes, and so on all constrain us. You can punch the air as much as you want. My idea of civilization constrains you from punching someone in the face and you probably value the constraint on others to punch you in the face or steal your stuff.

Pollution hurts other people. Do you want no constraints on dioxin, PCBs, and mercury emissions?
Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)
DC jacks still have their use, especially in simpler devices. The complexities USB PD specification doesn't make that much sense to impliment in say an electric drill.
>>had a budget over ~20k USD to decorate his personal office at work.

These sort of perks are common in senior management in several software companies as well. Especially if your job involves some sort of client/customer facing responsibilities.

Indian IT outsourcing firms give their top management a very lavish budget to spend. Typically 5 - 7 star hotel stay, business class travel, thick daily per diem to spend and the best meals money can buy. Plus they also get paid to spend what it takes to impress clients to win contracts. Office furnishing budget etc. I even know one person who bought a fairly expensive bose sound system, and even took it to his home over time. No one really audits these things, and money once given is large aggregated in a group by statement in a report somewhere, and since its already sanctioned, no one cares how its spent either.

This is one of the biggest motivations for me to move into management as a career upgrade.
> software developers are expensive

in most businesses the business experts are more expensive. wasting their time with building systems can be costly
I don’t get it. What does she want people to do?
They're looking to use it to research the possibilities of integrating autonomous vehicles into cities more tightly I suspect. It makes sense that they're in no hurry to deprecate their own core business.

What I find interesting is there wasn't really any illustrations of the reported three layer road system, and the majority of the illustrations are of huge, open walkable areas. I would love to see how they're looking to address separating slow speed traffic from high speed traffic while keeping them both useful.
Disney tried this too, as well as other companies. They don't tend to turn out well because when things get complicated the profit motive tends to win for these companies serving as shepherds of the communities.
> So no sports, no stadiums

As much as I hate it, in Texas, college Football is a profit center and the only way to get serious research funding from the state.
Very confusing. It's not actually Lisp but some new language with superficially Lisp-like syntax. It doesn't say what it's for or why the hell anybody would want to use it.
I think calling Chrome bloatware is a bit much.
Is Safari bloateare on an iPhone?
Is the Play store bloatware?

How would you even get anything on your phone the first time without the Play store or Chrome being installed?
This point is dealt with in the article. People have different traveling arrangements. In my case sometimes I have to drop off my child at school and head in after the morning rush hour. So daily stand up is not first thing in the morning.
I haven't found a way to make daily standups work in my team which is fully remote and spread out on 3 continents and 4 time zones (so there is no "start of day"). Instead I have a weekly sync with everyone and 1:1 with each person on a weekly basis.

Kanban board gets reviewed weekly for assignment and direction (and I keep an eye on it thoughout the week). Blockers get addressed asynchronously in dedicated discussion spaces as soon as they arise. If a solution isn't found in chat then it becomes a topic on the sync meeting. But generally, there's no "spinning wheels" as everyone is mature and doesn't need a short leash.

Which leads me to trust. Everyone in our team has a decent amount of experience. They all know when they are stuck and they all know where to ask for help. I've always felt that trust is empowering and that's what I wish for everyone on my team.

But in this context, 1:1 are very important and I try my best to make them safe spaces for people to bring up issues which would be more uncomfortable to bring up in a group setting, especially for introvert personalities.

Ideally, pick what works best for YOUR team. Experiment and try new things. What works today may not be the right thing in a year. These are tools, not dogmas. The worst process is the one everyone follows but nobody knows why nor how/if it helps.
>I can imagine some Boeing employees being uncomfortable, but having it run past the FAA would have relieved that.

There were some emails released where a Boeing employee boosted about he used "jedi mind tricks" on the FAA people.
Well there's this:
https://github.com/ucsdsysnet/corundum
But that's more intended for optical networks. Useful reference at the very least.

Really, we need more fiber optic everywhere. It's easier to hack on, because cable modems are technically radios, and run into the usual FCC red tape. Plus, fiber is just better.
Ford's China vehicle sales drop 26% in third straight year of decline
Clever use of `__VA_ARGS__`! Does gcc remove `_a` as well? Well, may be it was just my implementation:

#define mkmacro(func, ...) mkmacro_(func, VA_NUM_ARGS(__VA_ARGS__))
#define mkmacro_(func, nargs) mkmacro__(func, nargs)
#define mkmacro__(func, nargs) func ## nargs
#define DO(...) mkmacro(DO, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__)
#define DO1(n) for(I i=0;i<(n); i++)
#define DO2(m,n) DO1(m) for(I j=0;j<(n);j++)
#define DO3(l,m,n) DO2(l,m) for(I k=0;k<(n);k++)
If a city (or small neighborhood) were specifically designed for autonomous vehicles (with sensors and guidance tech everywhere) then it would probably work. Ironically, I think this could backfire by showing just how much additive and connected tech -- and demarcated lanes where humans shouldn't step -- will be required for properly operating fully self-driving vehicles. Folks living in "legacy" neighborhoods will look at this and say "No way" for the most part.
> Increasingly popular in the last couple of years, I think 2020 is going to be the year of “no code”: the movement that say you can write business logic and even entire applications without having the training of a software developer.

Last couple of years? I'm sorry, how long have you been in the industry because the industry has talked about that forever.
Ugh, sorry, I meant Google Play Music, Google Play Movies or what's it. I fixed the post.

Play Services are considered a core component and I think even app developers would be pissed if that could be removed.
The trick is generally to find yourself in a situation where you take home 300k because you made 3000k for your firm.

I'm not being facetious. With anything trading-related, a big part of having the ability to make three million dollars more-or-less "on your own" is to have tens of millions of dollars to sling around, plus a good idea of the manner in which to sling it. So a firm will give their people a couple million in buying power and then tell them to go make an X% return. Those that can do so are compensated.

The downside, as I have it, is that the "work-life balance" is, as you mentioned, non-existent and also immensely stressful. Plus, having that kind of money in your 20's can be a problem all on its own.
I work with a bunch of HFT firms and my impression is as follows:

>what are the kinds of tradeoffs involved in these jobs that pay so extraordinarily well so early in one's career?

>Is it a case of spending your 20s 8am-10pm in the office, no weekends, no vacation, etc?

You'll be in the office for the bulk of the trading day. You will need to be available/online though not necessarily "working" around open and close (possibly from home, many employers are flexible about butt-in-seat hours). Early mornings are rare. Late evenings will be commonplace if your employer does not have their end of day routine down.

If the team you work with is on their game this business is basically a money tree and predictably with that comes a very good work life balance. I have no idea how much vacation these people take but things get very, very quite around basically every holiday so I don't think they're lacking.

>Or, if not, then what's the path into a job like this? Are they simply 0.00001% level brilliant people, lucky, well connected?

Some combination of all of the above and being in the right place at the right time. These are smart people who understand finance, understand tech and understand the implementation. The algorithmic arms race isn't all that fast but the competition is stiff enough that you need to have all your T's crossed and you I's dotted to make money. Have you ever considered buying a microwave link because the fastest fiber money can buy is too slow. That's the level to which everything is built. People roll their own implementations of protocols because the off the shelf ones aren't optimized for what they want to do. Some of these firms reverse engineer the topology of the exchange's computer systems (by sending various orders and carefully analyzing the responses) in order to gain a competitive edge. This stuff can get crazy.

A lot of these firms need to stay under a specific headcount for legal/compliance reasons and when you need to cram that level of competency in all those skills into very few people they obviously wind up being exceptional (in the literal sense) people and they are compensated accordingly (because supply and demand).
I absolutely love this. It's a great distillation of many of the reasons I myself keep a blog. It's a means, and an end, of learning more, and keeping yourself accountable to your knowledge.

It is difficult to know what you should know when you have a lot to learn and are in an intelligence-signaling environment. A side effect of having written detailed technical notes is that I calibrate my confidence on a topic. If I now understand something, I am sure of it and can explain myself clearly. If I don’t understand something, I have a sense of why it is difficult to understand or what prerequisite knowledge I am missing.

I like this passage in particular, and I divine a second meaning between the lines, and that is: developing understanding, and then putting it out for the world to see, requires bravery. The more you do it, the bolder you become. It gives you some skin in the game. You can't just deceive yourself that you know something. And, if you're doing fundamental research (like the author), you gotta be brave - because there's a good chance you could be wrong. Many people are very afraid of being wrong.

As an aside: I still get nervous every time I publish a post on my own blog.
It depends on your level. I'm a big fan of Peppa Pig, because I think it's funny/entertaining enough for adults who understand >50% of what's being said. But before you reach that level, you need to watch something simpler. I'd suggest "Superbeginner" and "Beginner" videos in a YouTube channel called Dreaming Spanish
That's just picking the lowest hanging fruit which is quite common sense. Not to diminish your achievement but if tomorrow, say, I figure Rust's compiler is slow, there's nothing I can do [in the foreseeable future].

Having much better hardware in these cases helps you be actually productive and not twiddle your thumbs waiting for the compiler.
The sell side provides liquidity to the market, by engaging in market making and other activities, while the buy side consumes market liquidity (transacting so they can construct/manage a portfolio).

So as others have said, sell side typically is the investment banks and brokerage houses, while buy side is your asset managers.
The pipe dream is far older than that.

Around 1960 some people seriously claimed that within about 5 years there would be no more professional programmers because with this new language, everyone could write the software they need themselves, since it was so easy to use.

The language was COBOL.

Oh, and look, this one still seems to be around: http://www.makeyourownsoftware.com/
why do you consider the volcker rule failed and nonsensical?
When the Russians started to drill they claimed they had found free water – and that was simply not believed by most scientists. There used to be common understanding among Western scientists that the crust was so dense 5km down that water could not permeate through it
Storage Wars: Dropbox Software Engineer Salaries vs. Google
Since last years iOS 13, with the updates to the Files app, it's no longer impossible to connect an off-the-shelf USB drive to an iPhone and dump pictures to it.

You will need a lightning to usb adaptor, (and probably the powered lightning to usb3 adaptor to work with most drives), but it does pretty much work the way you would expect now.

Presumably if you have a fancy iPad Pro with built-in USB-C then you can also connect a standard usb-C compatible thumbdrive directly to it.
You forgot about "model-drive development". And before that, COBOL was sold on the same pipe dream.
*When the vendor decides to make new versions available...
Learn math, stats, probability.
Interesting. Seems good. I guess the Render free tier is basically competing with Netlify, with the added luxury that you can add paid dynamic services at any time...?
> This is the domain of the legislature, not the courts. We shouldn't shoehorn in an interpretation we like or don't like because of the failure of the law to adapt to new kinds of content and culture towards it.

The courts are the fallback when legislation comes into question. It's not a perfect system but it attempts to balance itself out. For example, laws that violate your constitutional rights can be challenged in court, as they should.
If you want to build a DSL, build a DSL. DSLs are easily embeddable in the mentioned programming languages.

YAML is not typed and you can basically do whatever. The worst of all worlds.
While (most) actions in Ansible modules are idempotent the entire playbook is not. So how your system is going to look at the end of a run is highly dependent on the order of everything in your YAML files and the current state of the system. You can ensure a file exists in and part and remove the directory containing it in another, and you are non the wiser unless you run the playbook multiple times and pay attention to the changes.
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> But to be honest, what you're doing is almost certainly not very effective, so maybe stop doing that?

You most certainly don't have enough information to make such a recommendation.
I've been using gc/firebase. It's very easy to use, with acceptable documentation. I've been able to get dangerous quickly without even trying to. If I weren't on the free tier I would've racked up unaffordable bills. Instead I exhausted my API limits and had to wait. Perfectly acceptable behavior for development. I'll also add some logic to the finished project to handle resource exhaustion. Should I start exhausting resources,and it's not a bug, I'm not going to continue with infinitely scalable/infinitely billable gc. I guess if target customers are companies with 9-12 figure budgets getting a 9 figure bill wouldn't be the end of the World. If I got a high 4 figure bill I'd have to declare bankruptcy.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466124
Not at all just that sales is more important than the shiny tech.
Is Plastic Recycling a Red Herring to Our Waste Problem?
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Good luck with that. I think you’d be better off leveraging an existing open SDR board for the different waveforms these modems support. Even still I don’t think there are any affordable SDRs out there that can support the high order QAM modes of even just the old DOCSIS specs much less 3.0 and above
Yes, in the 80's and 90's we called it CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering). It was just as fascinating then and equally impractical now. Text turns out to be a great, compact way to convey ideas or instructions which is the heart of software development.
Whats up with this weird obsession with putting people in prison?

Is it just an American thing? Why not just put the executives against a wall while we’re at it? That’ll teach them!
Database Design Standards
well, among other things that library contains an infinite number of proofs that P=NP. Also an infinite number of proofs of the opposite. Also an infinite number of base64-encoded FLACs of the original cast recording of a rock opera based on each of those proofs, performed by David Bowie and Justin Bieber. Obviously, an infinite number of them contain logical flaws. An infinite number of them are surprisingly listenable.

You’re welcome to devote time to trying to discover them...