skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, author here!

Hope it doesn't read like I meant hate to systemd, please let me know where if you feel like I did! I guess some of the cons I listed count as subjective, but I doubt anyone would argue that adjusting a systemd job is easier than cron job :) Also I emphasised that I had non-tecnhical user in mind, who would definitely have hard time understanding what are 'timers', and why their job type has to be 'Simple'.

But I agree that forcing cron into doing what it wasn't meant for isn't probably going to go anywhere. That's why I suggested that using systemd as a backend is probably the most reasonable option after all, if only there was a friendlier tool to make the process as simple as with cron.
How to Get Promoted at Work? Tips for Promotion
If you were going to take the money and run you would be better off doing it sooner rather than later. A law enforcement agency probably isn’t going to do too much investigation for $20k but $10 million might get someone turning over some stones
In case someone hasn't come across it, there are actually Clojure bindings for Unity:

https://github.com/arcadia-unity/Arcadia

Build on top of Clojure's CLR support, obv.
Instagram Growth Guide Launches with Great Reviews
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Huh, interesting. I’m in Montreal and we dropped them into boxes through a slot, same as before.

I wonder if you had a pilot? Afaik, elections canada runs things the same way all around the country.
The problem in the US is we aren’t going to start getting European level train infrastructure anytime soon. Also it’s arguably not a worthwhile goal, we have so much space, and it’s an uphill battle to change US culture to be one where trains are going to be a good fit for our land use and urban planning.
If you think it's just the parties that have changed, then how about actual policies? Prop 187 has been passed in 1994 with 59% majority, can you imagine anything like that happening in California nowadays? No matter how you see DNC and GOP of 1990s, you surely can see that the California's attitude towards illegal immigrants has completely reversed now.
The reason the the difference in accuracy is that this method has N steps instead of 2.

Another poster in the thread mentioned this as well.
AMD Readies ‘Nvidia Killer’ GPU
Long overdue in geological terms is pretty meaningless compared to a human lifetime.
CEO of Rainway here! David Perry (CEO and founder of Gaikai) is actually one of our close advisors. His insight into our market is invaluable.

I'm also really surprised to see this old blog I wrote posted. I hope everyone enjoys it.
Languages like Lisp, APL, and Haskell reward extraordinary skill with extraordinary power. If you're a researcher or an early-stage startup founder, that's great. You want your little band of geniuses to have the maximum possible leverage.

But if you're an engineering leader at a large company, the last thing you want is an asset in your portfolio that only extraordinarily skilled people can work on. What if they quit? What if your company's stature declines and you can't attract such people anymore? What if a more pressing problem comes along and you want to deploy them elsewhere?

So we get languages with short learning curves and low ceilings (Go!) instead.

Except in performance critical contexts, where it can’t be helped, but C++ already won that one.
Why Won’t My Child Show Any Work?
What it does need is either support for LDAP sync or SSO support though...
I didn't say "let everyone go off and learn a different language and develop new code in it," obviously that is ridiculous, and would get out of control as you said.

What I did say was there's a working piece of code out there that someone else has already spent time getting to work, but we can't use it because of the language it's written in. For example, I've had problems getting people to use Jenkins because it's written in java. Not that they were trying to write plugins or do anything internal to Jenkins, they just didn't like it because the language it was written in.
Honestly, germany has a whole generation going into retirement. These people drive slow, insecure and endanger others with poor sight, poor reflexes and fast cars.
The roads are already filled to a standstill- even without these.

I have really high hopes, that AI would drive those old folks -and would do so faster then they would drive themselves.
> they collect data directly from an agreed upon relationship with a consumer

Facebook builds shadow profiles. Those involve no direct relationship with the surveilled.
I convert the .mobi files into .epub and keep reading.

https://calibre-ebook.com/
It probably has something to do with the parent company being named Alpha_Bet.
Tinderbox was something I paid for (and wanted to love) but it was just too bloated and buggy. The creator's stance on "artisan software" is intriguing, but frankly the software doesn't put him in a good light. I'm willing to pay good money for good software, but $180 for software that feels like it's an open source alpha project is annoying, especially software that is meant to contain massive amounts of connected data.

Thanks for the links! I'll check the rest out.
Of course cars did happen and worked with the crappy roads of the time. Self driving cars will probably have to do the same - work with existing crappy roads including dirt tracks and the like.
> Well, not quite -- I did write the billing system, including a pretty wizzy security system that keeps the credit card numbers secure even against dishonest employees.

Are details of this publicly available?

The topic of storing credit card numbers is one of those for which searching returns a lot less information than one might expect. If you need to do this yourself, as opposed to using some third party vault/tokenization system, there doesn't seem to be a lot out there.
Hey! I'm actually one of the makers of Nototo. I'm quite surprised to find my own project trending on HackerNews!

If anyone has questions feel free to ask me here! or at chen@nototo.app
Maybe I used the wrong terminology. More specifically, I think our issue is with winner-take-all, rather than proportional representation (see: all(?) parliamentary systems).
I chuckled about the the fear that California whites were becoming too right wing in 1995. What a difference 25 years makes, lol.

Privileged people live in bubbles. Was as true then as it is now.
I think you pressure yourself with too many “shoulds” and expectations.

Do not create such rules, you do not have to simultaneously study maths and CS, work, think of business. You do not have to struggle for the next degree dreaming that one day you will a real programmer. You already are as you write code and try to be better at it.

Life is happening now, focus on living your days now: code if you like it, study your minimum to get a paper if you want to relocate. There is no goal in life, no direction, only process that you can try enjoying.

Read Courage to Be Disliked. It is a good book, it may address your anxiety. Seek for someone to share your thoughts and problems, or seek how you can help people around.
Realistically, larger pools mine multiple blocks per day and can pay out daily. 21 even came up with a scheme to front BTC to the device and make it up later, but that's excessively complex IMO.
Wonderful! Good Job!
100% agree. As a kid all I cared about was making cool stuff. My code was a disaster. And I did just fine with Java anyways.

Python is great because of the massive ecosystem and the language is really simple. JavaScript is great because websites.
So on the one hand, I wrote a Tactix GUI in Java/AWT in my first high school programming class which covered mostly Java with turtle graphics. I can agree that kids who want to learn programming want to make games.

But that Tactix GUI took me two months of sustained effort, lasting longer than any of the actual class projects. Most of the students struggled to draw a circle. It took weeks for us to get to "implement a method that takes an argument".

If you're looking at teaching programming concepts to elementary school children, i.e. to most kids, building applications doesn't seem very likely to me. It takes a long time and small children have poor memories for long-running projects.

If the programming is supposed to support elementary math and logic for kids who are getting used to the notion of "variable" in both programming and math contexts, teaching the kids to write the sieve of Eratosthenes or Babylonian algorithm really does seem like the way to go. Not because it teaches them to be good programmers or to like programming, but because it teaches them to think, and they're mostly not going to grow up to be programmers.

If, however, you want to entertain the minority of schoolchildren who do like computers and want to learn to program, then using an easy graphics library with good deployment tooling makes sense. Those kids do want to spend two months or so making a game. But that doesn't, to me, seem to be in the spirit of 'proximitysauce's comment.
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Not in Germany, may be in big cities, but any other region is plagued by disruptions and way less frequent services paired together with horrible local public transport.

The former government owned national railway basically owns every piece of important track and doesn’t give a damn about customers. The prices are constantly rising while the service declines. Can’t count how much time I’ve wasted on several train stations, waiting for up to two hours for late trains, hell, even having to get a hotel multiple times.
Maxthon

XP is still huge in China https://www.maxthon.com

I use that on my XP VM

You can find all here http://www.xpbrowsers.com
It's not possible because it is a bit of mass propaganda, from people who haven't yet realized the Cold War was decided thirty years ago and still see a KGB agent under their bed and in every dark closet.
Super scale active suspension, arduino powered, 3D printed, Oldsmobile Dynamic
Totally agree. Nothing aside from "that's the way it works" is preventing what you described.
I've been teaching myself Clojurescript for the past three months, and while this might, in theory, be a good idea someday, the state of the Clojurescript tooling and learning materials I've used means that it is certainly not a good idea today.
The repeated use of the word "Americans" in this piece, where what they mean is "people" is particularly jarring...
Incorrect use of the word admit

admit (v): confess to be true or to be the case.

Correct use in a sentence: "VW admits guilt and pays $4.3bn diesel emissions scandal penalty"

The word admit doesn't apply to predictions of the future.
Anyone else having this issue with the display https://i.imgur.com/Bk2Gzee.png

Edit: figured it out, it seems the font size is based off of the Window size (which doesn't make any sense) and scales faster than the box scales. Works best if you make your browser window phone width.
The commentary around Venezuela is inaccurate [1]. Socialism killed those people.

[1] https://twitter.com/bbcthisweek/status/1091126998364184576?l...
Are you saying you support legacy admissions?
Very 'close' Qantas jets came within 800m of each other
... while matching their bondi/blueberry imac: https://www.retrocomputing.co.uk/2019/02/imation-superdisk-l...

We used the larger disks for backups, but I don't think we ever bought any more than the first pack of five. And I didn't know anyone else with one, so I couldn't use it to transfer data.
Biden Calls for Repeal of Law That Shields Internet Giants from Liability
I'll bite. Aside from Tesla owners, I do not know anyone in my life today whose vehicle connects to the Internet. Of course, I mean to say I don't see how your comparison to present day is accurate.
The Music app became a complete disaster on iOS. Now it's one thing if they want to kill their new streaming service due to bad UX, but the problem is that the stand-alone music app also suffered.
Doesn't happen on GetAround.
Just re-compile the child with -O0, and step through it in gdb.
Pontevedra in Spain for example, Venice and Oslo are also to large degrees car-free in the city proper. Yes cars are banned from the city, here's an article about the consequences.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/18/paradise-life...
LISP is weird - I used it a lot in the late 80s and enjoyed it a lot but then moved on and, looking back, never missed it. I think it has a hypnotizing effect on programmers brains, feeding the endorphin feedback cycle, but ultimately there are just too many damn parens.
I know certain parts of iTunes including Apple Music are web apps. Could it be that the entire new Music app is just a web app (using their own implementation of an Electron equivalent)? That would explain the memory usage.
I'm pretty sure it does. The more debt increases against a property, the more valuation is boosted since the price of the unique property is bundled with the debt.

This is how nations have been looking at debt for some time. Yeah, you can make a margin call on the US (directly or via a partner), but what are you going to replace that resource pipeline with?
Yeah I actually found a link to the overview page: http://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/aggregation/
There will always be a facility to manually override the decisions of the autopilot. It’s likely to be a legal requirement so that in an emergency the vehicles can be directed to do things they normally wouldn’t (like drive on the wrong side of the road). But you don’t need a steering wheel to do that.

I imagine there’ll also be manual modes to get the car into trucks and ships, or even just out of the factory.
Mismatch is a very real thing, at least at the extremes.

My friend was a teacher at a private technical school (for manufacturing, electrician work etc) that started having revenue problems. The attempted fix was to lower the bar of candidates they took in and pushed them through more and more remedial classes, including basic maths. Their graduation rate plummeted, enrollment kept shrinking, and they went under.

I also saw a less extreme version of this in college and university while I was a student. Kids were being accepted well below standard, then pushed through remedial (aka developmental) courses to get them up to par on reading / writing / maths. The graduation rate for these students was far lower than those who didn't take the courses.

Mind you, this isn't (or at least, just because of) affirmative action. The state in question had a massive gap between what high school students graduated knowing, and what colleges required, and so was a systemic issue that affected all races.

Since then, common core was supposedly attempted, and colleges were banned from testing students into remedial courses if they met certain conditions. The end result is fewer students spending money without earning credit (remedial courses didn't count towards a degree) but it has been too recent to know whether it has had a positive impact on graduation rates or if the students who would have been forced to take them but now aren't are floundering.
> Isn't the answer the euro?

Only 19 out of the 28 european union members use the euro. So I don't think the euro (a 19 year old currency ) is the answer. Unless something changes, then in the future it might be one of the answers.

> you won't even have to worry about the brits messing with it...

The brits never adopted the euro as their currency, so they never messed with it to begin with.

> Stable, inflation proof, light or no sanctions. As brexit proceeds a

Stable... brexit. The problem with the euro is that its political foundation ( european union ) seems weak. With britain leaving the european union, with the EU sovereign debt crisis and potential for further problems in the near term, it's more likely the EU will break apart and the euro discarded than the euro will replace the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. Being the reserve currency of the world requires the political and military backing of a stable superpower. For all our problems, the US isn't losing states like the EU is losing countries.

If the dollar's stranglehold in the world break, we'll probably get regionally dominant currencies. The dollar will still dominate the western hemisphere. The eastern hemisphere will be dominated by regional economic powers and their currencies.
> threshold where couples have to talk about purchases

I don't know about a single name, but a google search for that phrase got me these:

https://www.today.com/money/how-much-can-you-spend-checking-...

https://couplemoney.com/family-and-finances/couples-spending... (writer used to have an exactly $100 threshold, fits your memory)

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/credit-cards/articles/study-...
Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!

Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthus... (via foxrob92)
>> Go to spydialer.com, then click the link "Do Not Sell My Info".

> Cool. Now compare that to another one listed [infocore]:

To opt-out of spydialer.com, you go to https://www.spydialer.com/Consumers/, then you have to provide all of the information you think it has on you to verify your identity and selectively remove it from their services.

I'm not really comfortable providing my full name, address (or addresses if you've lived in multiple places), and phone numbers to a Data Broker just to opt-out - that feels quite counter to the idea of them ideally not having my information in the first place.

I feel like I need a global opt-out where a system or agent on my behalf can then handle this for me at each place where data can be collected.
> ...can't tear down the walls to run ethernet

You can use "fish tape" to run wires in walls, mostly non-destructively. Many fish tapes glow in the dark so you can drill 2 small holes, do what you need to do, spackle, and paint.

You probably still wouldn't do any of this in an apartment of course, but I figured I'd throw out the pro tip.

One example among many:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm5zUCca7jM
Edgium for Mac was released as stable the same day as it was for Windows.
Have you ever tried a macbook? I am never annoyed by the trackpad. In fact, it is something I really like about all the macbooks I have had.
Ask HN: Dealing with team members that can barely write a loop
I was called in as a consultant for a mid sized company (<100 employees) around a year ago as a junior software engineer. A month before I started the gig at said company, they hired a junior software engineer who had completed s six month long bootcamp. The person had no prior experience programming. It’s been a year and this person still needs to have their hand held through fixing bugs and delivering new features. They have troubles understanding basic loops and don’t understand basic data structures. I’m growing more and more frustrated, it’s taking up a lot of my time and I’m starting to question the head developer’s judgment for hiring this person. I feel like it’s not my place to say anything about this, but I’m not sure. How should I deal with this situation?
Google called out after saying it will phase out cookies from Chrome
> If nobody understands the software (or the tools the software depends on, including the build chain), then when someone other than the original magician has to fix something, you're stuck.

Speaking from experience, this is independent of the language chosen. I've seen several pieces of software over a variety of languages that are a nightmare to maintain.

What really ends up happening is a kind of oral lore. People learn how to use the parts of the software that is known to work, and the business processes ossify around those known behaviors. The current developers and maintainers walk around on eggshells to avoid changing that behavior because of the risk involved in changing those processes. And then nobody remembers why the processes are as convoluted as they are, and it just becomes the way things have always been done. When there's a series of successful missions backing that assertion, it's hard to argue the point.

But because this idea -- that perfectly reasonable yet "not mainstream" languages produce software thats's hard to understand and maintain -- is so pervasive, we get pressure coming back from the other side. Perfectly reasonable choices of language are blocked, and everything starts regressing to the mean. The old adage goes something like, nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM. Well, nobody ever got fired for choosing Java, either. Even Clojure or Scala, which are perfectly productive, excellent languages that also run on the JVM, are a nervous choice.

(Also, Makefiles are absolutely a dark art, and many modern languages have thankfully produced better abstractions for their purposes, but C and C++ are still seen as totally reasonable first choice languages for a program. =/ )

> JPL really doesn't want to be stuck when a probe is approaching a planet and a fix is needed to make the mission work. The article has zero recognition that such issues could even exist.

Spacecraft often receive code updates while they're in cruise to their destination -- it doesn't matter whether it's Lisp or not. See for instance Juno: http://www.deepstuff.org/nasas-juno-spacecraft-mission-overv...

>> Spacecraft activities during the Jupiter Approach phase include spacecraft subsystem calibrations and maintenance activities, as well as flight software updates and hardware checks in preparation for Jupiter Orbit Insertion.
Right, except no one is claiming humans are perfect drivers but I have heard self driving car evangelists say countless times that self driving cars are going to bring an end to traffic deaths.
It's called the Method of loci: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Another term for that is the "memory palace".

BTW, I wonder if anyone here in HN used it to learn significant things using this method?