skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't tried it, but I know myself, and how I work.

- Interacting with people is exhausting for me. I can't imagine having to be in constant communication with someone sitting right next to me, 7-8 hours a day, every workday.

- Writing software requires deep concentration, and the constant interaction seems like it would destroy the required concentration.

- Having to put everything I'm thinking into words, waiting for a reply, constantly being atuned to social niceties -- how can that be compatible with doing productive work? (Not in general, but for me.) I may stare at the screen for a while, trying to figure something out. A number of ideas go through my head. I run through a bunch of approaches quickly: that's stupid, that can't work, that might work, that's idiotic, ... I go back and reconsider the better ideas in more detail, ... First of all, I am reacting to incompletely formulated thoughts. Forcing those thoughts to be more formulated, to the point that I can describe them, definitely changes the way I would work. Maybe for the better, but definitely different. Second of all, saying "that's idiotic" to a coworker probably isn't a good idea.

In general, pair programming seems like it would take an extremely absorbing and enjoyable actvity, and turn it into torture. For me.

I read a New Yorker (I think) article about how Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat work together. They seem to do pair programming extremely successfully. Good for them. I have no doubt that it works well for some people. I am quite sure I'm not one of them.
I went back to undergrad to finish med school prereqs, after the mcat I decided to go back to coding and am so thankful that I did. I did it because of the earning potential, not passion, and I don’t think it’s possible to be happy in that career path if you’re just trying to get money out of it
"Is Typescript worth it?"

No, but not because the tired diatribe on typing, but because JavaScript nowadays is mostly good enough... As long as we remember what its goal is and we don't use it for anything more than its intended purpose.

That aside, everything in that post re soundness vs unsoundness was what I used to know (and was taught in college) as "strong" and "weak" typing, is the redefinition recent? Was I taught incorrectly? That aside, C is weakly typed (and there are long, long discussions on it) but I'll say that, if it's good enough for C, then being for or against it becomes pretty much subjective (obligatory IMO, my saying that at all is also subjective).

After all, it's a flamewar that's been going on for decades. Typescript certainly isn't going to solve it.
Take time every day to invest in yourself. Your employer is lucky to have you.
This is clickbait advertising trying to sell you a service . . . .
Because I require money to purchase goods and services.
Wont help who much? Maybe as you say throughput wouldn't increase because other things need to happen anyway. But passenger latency would improve and that's valuable.
Australia's bushfires are definitely climate change related, the only argument anyone can have is whether it's human-caused.

But the climatic trend for the last 2 decades has consistently topping daytime temperature records, and it's been drier and hotter earlier in the bushfire season year over year (a fact which our rural fire service was warning our federal government about in July right when they were both ignored and had their funding cut).

We are having problems because of a climate trend, and the reaction of skeptics in power has been to cut funding to the groups who can do forest management to deal with the year over year reality we now face.
Most plausible nuclear war scenarios don't make the earth uninhabitable forever. Stay inside for as long as possible (at least 48 hours after any blast 500 miles upwind) and you'll probably be ok. The ~30-year Sr-90 effect will be left but it's way less dangerous than the first few hour fallout.

http://www.oism.org/nwss/
Glad to hear it! It really would be a shame for such a great protocol to go unused.

That's interesting that you feel Sandstorm failed. I draw inspiration from it on a regular basis for several of my projects. Maybe it was just ahead of its time.
Advertising readily exploits low price consumers like you, too.

First of all, they find ways to drop quality. At first they have the good deal for a limited time. This results in social proofing - good reviews and customer approvals - that theirs is the exceptional choice - quality at low price. Then they downgrade it. But because you were already buying it, you won't look the next time.

Second, they find ways to engineer deals that lead you down a path of more expensive dependencies. You go to the supermarket, and you get your veggies, and you see a sign saying "best enjoyed with" - and there's a product. Maybe one you know and are familiar with, maybe one you don't. Regardless, you see the sign and the message and you start wondering, "am I enjoying my veggies less because I'm doing it wrong?"

The dairy industry has succeeded at this for decades, crafting all sorts of narratives about the necessity for milk, the pleasure of milk, how milk lets you have moments shared with friends. It doesn't have to have a brand name attached to reach you and reprogram you.
Based on my experience in the military a lot of seemingly useless not very interesting things are marked as classified. Of course lots of interesting things are classified as well.
As someone who uses visual studio + code literally every day, I'm not sure what you're referring to with most of these complaints.

The project/solution files are bog standard xml, and well documented, but in general you shouldn't need to touch them.

The migration from framework to core 3.0 is now very simple thanks to xaml support, but it used to be a huge hassle. You can literally just edit the tags in your csproj/fsproj/etc to enable different target frameworks, or you can use the ui [0], and then you'll need to do a nuget reinstall. One command [1].

As for running into bugs, they built bug/feature requests into the visual studio 2019 ide, or you can access it via the website [2]. They are usually very responsive, typically something within a couple of days.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57334018/visual-studio-2...

[1] open package manager console, type 'update-package -reinstall'.

[2] https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com
> but they have to do a risk analysis the bad guys (tm) can do the same AHA moment and secure the same advantage.

Are you implying that the NSA is the good guys (tm)??
That wealth is not yours.
Late reply but you might find it useful to check out this post which is much more detailed https://segment.com/blog/separating-our-data-and-control-pla...

I'm also left with some questions however. If the issue is the high read latency with a centralised settings database, why not deploy read replicas?
This sounds like some sort of patient wisdom until you realize that there's no actual upside to your seeming preference of doing things less efficiently. Appreciating the ability to fly across the world isn't exclusive of being able to improve the experience when there are easy ways to do so with few, if any, downsides.

By your logic, why not add an additional mandatory thirty minute waiting period to deplane? After all, it's amazing that we can fly.
It was real memory. I know the difference. I only noticed because I got an OOM error in my Java program and X11 froze, couldn't use my mouse. This happened multiple times with different heavy duty JS websites, particularly SPAs.
I try to find a better way to try this and after reading hackaday on Forth 2017 which highlight the latest (2017) update on Forth development:

https://hackaday.com/tag/forth/ (mainly this: https://hackaday.com/2017/08/04/take-the-blue-pill-and-go-fo... )

I find this and you can run the whole thing on my MacBook in 5 minutes. It is great:

https://jeelabs.org/article/1720b/
When you have debt to serve, kids to feed, wouldn't you want to blame someone else when you fxxked up your work? Human, all too human.
Beijing studies using facial recognition for subway security check
I can't even imagine the effort of stealing the office umbrellas and selling them being worth it.
Anyone here questioning the license, just stole it, its a chinese copycat from another company, so feel free to ignore developer, watch backdoors and never use it in production
I might get downvoted, but I believe that using "strict" mode is not worth it precisely for the reasons this article talks about. You get at least 90% of the benefit of Typescript (IDE support, typos, refactoring, etc) without --noImplicitAny and other flags that induce a lot of boilerplate and wasted time. After all, how confident can anyone be that DefinitelyTyped types are correct? I use types when I find them useful. I also enjoy being able to not use types when I don't need them, which is why I choose to use Javascript.
Look, I don't disagree with you. But you're talking about this like power™ doesn't exist. Like, who do you think will have more leverage in this situation you describe? A woman whose employer is a man?
Common decency is apparently not valued above political homogeneity in the tech industry.

Common decency? You mean like not going out of your way to deny rights to others or do you mean tolerance of bigotry? Hmm.
> One of the worst development experiences of all time... The API’s you can use are pretty sluggish and poorly documented.

Can you elaborate? Shopify released their GraphQL Admin API in 2018, which has built in documentation, as well as an interactive IDE (Graphiql) that you can run on your shop. As long as you're not doing anything too crazy that exceeds the throttle (e.g., syncing 1000s of products), they're pretty good about listening to developer requests.

https://help.shopify.com/en/api/graphql-admin-api

> Rails is just not meant for heavy transactional load.

Shopify has invested heavily in their sharding setup so that it can be handle high load and scale quickly. e.g., flash sales where baseline traffic will 3x in a matter of seconds. See the discussion of pods:

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/e-commerce...

> And e-commerce needs async to handle what can be a huge load.

Long running processes are async. However, having commerce modeled by a transactional database that provides atomicity is a boon for simplicity. You don't want to deal with eventual consistency when updating inventory or placing orders.

Note: Am ex-Shopify. Ran the API team.
Unless skin in the game counts as accountability, then that's definitely missing from the list. My previous employer had zero accountability for the people above the software engineers who implemented things and unfortunately these people made all the decisions. You'd have architects and PMs who had all these terrible ideas, tell people to implement these terrible ideas and then blame the engineers when things didn't work. So dumb.
Because they are Chinese, the base of their tech is based on copy and steal from others
FWIW, this is from 1993, not 2005. http://archive.vector.org.uk/10
> I just setup Edge a few minutes ago. There are two options "Inspirational" and "Focused" that show no crappy tabloid news websites and one that does - I didn't pick that one :)

I chose focused. It's a nice option.

Too bad it doesn't respect your search engine preferences, because any searches you do with it seem to always go to Bing, regardless of what address-bar search engine you have selected.
This is pretty much everything you need to know about Toyota - everything you need to know about corporate Japan - wrapped up neatly in one anecdote. Toyota can’t make a plug-in electric car to save themselves but for white elephants like flying cars and smart cities they are all in.
Ok, but on domestic they generally don't.

Also, most lounges really aren't very good. AmEx centurion lounge is nice. But like, the United lounge in your average airport is really a few steps down from your typical airport bar.
k (well, some version of it) has something along those lines:

> [the] `:` in `|:` is used to force the verb `|` to be interpreted as a monad, as by default ambiguities are resolved in favour of dyads.

http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/k.html
Yep, the story he tells about Warren Buffett is also (afaik) not true (this is common for basically all stories that are told about Buffett in SV).

By the time that Buffett worked for Graham, he had already studied at Columbia with Graham and worked for a few years at his dad's brokerage business. He worked for Graham for a couple of years, he took a salary (over $100k/year in today's terms), and literally the year after Buffett was running money for other people. He was not a rube who needed Graham's wisdom, he was already Buffett. It is a very odd and specific story to make up.

Interestingly, there is a more well know story in the Berkshire lore on this subject about Mozart (google Munger Mozart story).

But yes, you are right. The idea that you need to sit at the feet of some guru, and that is the only way you will ever learn is utter horseshit (and likely self-serving).

There isn't some secret book with the answers, you have to work it yourself, and build up expertise yourself...you can't borrow expertise (btw, this is something that is kind of common in Asian culture...if you go to a Berkshire Hathaway meeting, you overindex to these cultures that have respect for elders/"guru" culture...if you want to be an entrepreneur, I can't think of a worse attribute).
I used the official, automatically-updating build from getfirefox dot com. Package managers are always outdated, which you don't want for browsers (CVE madness).
Fair assessment. Any thoughts to what could work as an alternative? For it flaws, overwork being the main one, I think other parts of residency make sense. Every year you advance further in a system of graduated responsibility until you become an attending. It would be nice if it were easier to switch fields or programs, but the different specialties do take care of different organ systems with their own unique pathology and skills needed for each.
Google Gives Chrome OS Apps a Shutdown Date
Personally I have never experienced a random stop here in Japan. None of my friends here have worried about such either.
'You have no idea what a tide of idealism enters medical school, and what a shambling army of heart-broken zombies is left by "mid-career."

Are you me and my MD friends?

I'd add, from the clinic setting, that the amount of micromanaging of care and the amount of cost shifting back onto the patient by insurers is appalling.
Want to prescribe an inhaler? good luck trying to figure out which one the patient's insurance will cover, and once you do they'll change it to a different one in 6 months without warning you or the patient.
Want your patient to take insulin? good luck trying to find anything for less than $100/month, often much more. I hear about "copays" of $3-400/month for patients for insulin. This is with insurance. Its a joke.
And yet the insurers, and my employer, would like to grade me on the % of patients with diabetes under 'good control'.

I fantasize about various alternate careers on my commute home.
That doesn’t quite get at what I’m saying. I’m claiming that “skin in the game” is not really something an individual employee can identify organization wide. And, if it’s not possible to determine whether your boss’s boss has “skin in the game,” it’s a useless construct for determining whether a given organization is an immoral maze, regardless of its causal role.
> it's less rewarding than Javascript.

This varies with goals, attitudes, background, bias, etc. Besides, if you know a little C, you can livecode over at glslsandbox or shadertoy and be immediately rewarded.

> It isn't the kind of thing you tackle because you need hirable job skills by the end of the month.

No, not really. This also roughly says "JS doesn't necessarily require lots of experience" which is not much of a plus, as someone already pointed out.
Without commenting on the wisdom of the plan above: what in earth are you talking about? You don't just announce the equation and say good luck. You'd announce each row or range of rows in order, the same way you do for boarding (or in boarding's case, as encapsulated by boarding groups).

The real issue would be compliance, not comprehension.
Tesla has Musk who has become extremely popular, he's probably better than whole marketing department with good funding.
On US bases* in Iraq, that are there (or are used by the US), because the US invaded Iraq.
Cats understand work/life balance, and dogs don’t.

For a dog, the highlight of the day is running with the pack, regardless of how much effort that is. Thus, the success of the dogsled.

The cat’s highlights are the daily private hunt, followed by a nap. There is no such thing as a catsled. Channel that thought during your next daily standup.
I really don't see a pattern of any sort of large scale noise pollution via helicopter forced on people to think it will somehow be sure a thing.
Google rolls out redesign with black “Ad” label and favicons for organic results
> Technology is morally neutral

This argument needs to stop being used. Developed knowingly, a race-condition-full Therac-25 machine is objectively bad and a side-effect-free cancer cure is objectively good. It's along the same lines of "guns don't kill people, people kill people". It is a gross simplification of morality and ethical theories but nonetheless touted by people on the internet way too often. If anything it highlights the need for an ethics class as a requirement for any engineering degree.
Thanks for the questions! Good ones indeed.

1)nGQL will be compatible with the international standard GQL.

2) Currently no

3) So far the following SDKs are available:

Python https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula-python

Java https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula-java

Go https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula-go

4) We are working on the benchmark. Stay tuned.

5) Yes we'll follow the Open Core business model like you said. All the features that are open source today will remain open source. :)

Please let me know if you have any further questions.
I'm skeptical of this argument. Advertising companies shill garbage to us all the time. If it were bad, people would have stopped using it. As strong as the Google brand is, I don't think people are using it just because they were told to. Consumers, even the least technical of them, are still savvy enough to notice "slow internet". Their friends tell them to switch to Chrome, then they stop complaining about it, done.

> Chrome's main advantage was/is the limitless ocean of resources of one of the biggest three companies in the world

Yes, this is the reason why it became the best. It had loads of talented developers deployed on it for years and years. You can either complain about it or be happy that it happened and you have access to the fruits of this labor for free.
> Joby says it will manufacture prototypes at a facility in Marina, California, near Monterey, but plans to tap Toyota’s famous manufacturing prowess to build “highly reliable complex hardware at increased scale,” said Paul Sciarra, Joby’s executive chairman and a co-founder of Pinterest.

More glorified complexity. I would pay more to ride in something with highly reliable simple hardware.
The products are not illegal, just the business model. If the businesses can't follow the law, they will get blocked or banned, and their market share will become available for the same or similar product backed by a legal business model. Unlike drugs, where the product itself is illegal.
> It would be better to stop public funding of police all together and replace it with either private security contractors hired on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, or citizen's patrols like the Guardian Angels, Black Panthers, or a version of Neighborhood Watch.

This is a bad take, in my opinion. For the most part, all types of crime have been steadily declining since the 1990's [0][1][2]. You can't say policing is ineffective as a whole. There are certainly things to be improved upon, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Property_Crime_Rates_in_t...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent_crime_rates_by_ge...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burglaries_per_1,000_pop....
Cool, where in MD? I grew up in Towson and Bel Air.
Former govt. agent admits illegally spying on Sharyl Attkisson
Gitlab too it seems.
I'll leave with this...how someone who disagreed with his religious values can still write a meaningful obit.

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2018/07/29/gerv.html
Ah the internet. Where people pick arguments over light-hearted comments about the psychopathy of cats.

Personally I'd go with the lack of empathy and constant daily need to kill. But rather than just arguing back and forth, here you can read about how this isn't a strange new perspective from some random dog-person or something: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/cat-psyc...
There were used to power Soviet reconnaissance satellites that used radar to track ships. The satellites themselves were in really low orbits (~200km), and they didn't want to use solar panels due to additional drag and inability to generate power at night. When the satellites were deactivated, they were supposed to eject their nuclear reactors (actual nuclear reactors, not RTGs[1]) to a higher orbit before the satellite reentered. The program had a number of "oopsies". A lot of the reactors leaked, and are actually one of the biggest sources of space junk today. I think they were the #1 source of space junk before China's antisatellite weapon test.

The biggest oopsie was when some of the satellites malfunctioned and weren't able to eject their reactors. One of them landed in the ocean. The other didn't— it ended up spreading radioactive debris across a good chunk of northern Canada. Some of the pieces of debris where radioactive enough to cause serious harm, so it was fortunate that the junk landed in unpopulated areas.

[1]: RTGs are how most nuclear powered things in space generate electricity— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Hospitals will pay their own money for residencies in specialties that are wildly profitable. Usually, some fancy types of surgeons. Primary care, endocrinology, rheumatology, and a lot of other needed specialists are not so the limited slots are whatever the government will pay for.
Higher Math Proficiency Test: An interactive quiz on higher mathematical skills
Show HN: Add streamlets for all to see. It goes on and on and is saved nowhere
Uh the Prius Prime and (later this year) RAV4 prime exist or will soon. What’s your point?
well, that’s not true.

“managed forests” produce high amounts of waste and take away arable land and natural habitat quite aggressively [1]. what you have said here is a common propaganda perpetrated by industry advocates on the web and is often passed on as gyan without any scientific basis or authentic study or source to back it up.

hell, even critical thinking is missing when people write comments like this!

kind of like lobsters were cheap prison food in 1800s story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/emcx69/the_history...

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_pape...
Sound and unsound aren’t the same as strong and weak. Weak and strong systems aren’t honestly very well defined, but under many definitions can be both sound and unsound, though the theory of the weak system will need to have explicit inclusion of the implicit casts (e.g.).

Type systems become unsound when they, as a total system, cannot uphold their own promises. The promises of a weak system are weaker, but not (always) non-existent. In an unsound system you can generally, through trickery, take any expression reducing to a value of some type and modify it so that it appears to reduce to any other type at whim.