skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a matter of weeks I'll be 50 and have spent the past decades growing as a software engineer. My advice; 1st, take a deep breath and calm down, 2nd, ask yourself what you love about this career and focus on that. I've been doing this for going on 30 years and have been an ambitious, eager to learn and driven person my entire life AND will never, ever know everything I want to know or everything this industry has to offer. But, kiddo, that's absolutely ok. Ask yourself what kind of engineer you want to be; an '-' engineer who has an incredibly broad spectrum of knowledge, a 'I' engineer who knows one thing really really deeply, or more of a 'T' engineer that has a pretty broad spectrum of knowledge and an deep understanding of one technology. Then, plan your course. Take a page out of agile development to maintain your personal sanity; define a 1-month goal, then define a series of 1-day tasks that'll get you there. Be reasonable with your expectations and work through your task list. You'll begin feeling accomplishment as you chip away from the tasks and you'll see progress. That, in itself, will reduce your stress (I believe). As I'm closing in on 50, and my own learning speed slows, it's counterbalanced with the ability of applying new technologies and knowledge with existing knowledge and fundamentals. Consider this; an experienced pilot is likely quicker to learn a new aircraft than an inexperienced younger pilot. I believe knowledge workers have the same advantage. Keep you chin up, plot a course, execute your plan and keep your eye on the ball.
Nuclear weapons made military sense in the days when hundreds of bombers would fly to hit a specific factory or base and have a slightly better than even chance of doing real damage to the objective. Is there still a need for this weapon when we can launch cruise missiles with meters of accuracy?
How do you validate the model without understanding where you might find problematic results? That doesn’t require a narrative, maybe, but it does require not using black-box-only testing.
There were also "app problems" and late results in the 2016 Iowa Caucuses.

Linked from the article:

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/the-low-tech-high-stakes-iowa-...
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/how-iowa-democrats-co...
> Pinning Coronavirus on How Chinese People Eat Plays Into Racist Assumptions

> The outbreak has had a decidedly dehumanizing effect, reigniting old strains of racism and xenophobia that frame Chinese people as uncivilized, barbaric “others” who bring with them dangerous, contagious diseases and an appetite for dogs, cats, and other animals outside the norms of Occidental diets.

https://www.eater.com/2020/1/31/21117076/coronavirus-incites...
I think that in Canada at least, the government launched an information campaign to get people to cough/sneeze into their sleeves instead of covering their mouth with their hands. From my anecdotal observations, it was pretty effective in changing many people's behaviour in a lasting way.
My prior comment was so well received that I'd like to add that another motivator for claims of "fear monger!" is when people delight in their lack of concern, such that the concern of anyone else feels threatening to them.

I worked a summer shift at a heavy machinery factory just after high school before college. I was the single and only person, to my knowledge, that made use of the provided ear and air protection (a face mask and ear plugs, given that we worked with fiberglass with incredibly loud machines).

I was told multiple times that I was "paranoid" and faced a negative reaction because someone protecting themselves pierced a hole in the delusion that everything was fine.
> Regarding performance, on the other hand Linux/BSD still don't match macOS real time audio capabilities.

Got a source for that? I use a Debian machine for an audio workstation. I moved there from OSX and am using the same DAW and get less latency now. Especially because I can run a real-time kernel...
The whole article is about how it might happen, with only a dozen words strung together at the bottom suggesting it probably won't.

Basically "Prof Valentina Zharkova, from the department of mathematics, physics and electrical engineering at Northumbria University" thinks the sky is falling. Other scientists, who hopefully are from fields that actually study these kinds of things, say it is not.

Like you, I'm siding with the bottom few lines of the article. It's pretty unlikely, and the person saying otherwise isn't even in an authoritative field on the matter.
At least as of 10 years ago, national (USA) TV networks have a ton of commercials about investing and “wealth management” from massive financial institutions. It must be a massive market with plenty of uncommitted customers to claim.
Exactly the same. For critical domains I also add extra NS servers from commercial DNS providers (Akamai), but keep Cloudflare for my custom automated records sync script.
>Markets don’t appear to think so

It's hard to say whether that's really the case because of interventionist policies by the PBOC.
The fact is, getting the backend running on cheap is far more fun than chasing and talking to people.
Has anyone questioned weather this virus has infected any other race of people other than Asians?
Standard Warning Poster - Widespread in Tourist areas.

https://www.thetraveltart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Dro...
Breaking the endless price-gouging can only help the (largely invisible) poor ... and those who are headed that way.

Something similar is well-deserved by firms charging exorbitant interest rates for pay-day loans:

http://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/the-hidden-costs-of-ba...
Seems unlikely for cultural reasons. Consuming obscure, rare, and endangered species is a significant component of traditional Chinese medicine (which is also widely practiced elsewhere in Asia) regardless of efficacy.
The new FileProvider API supports something like smart sync: placeholders for files that live in the cloud and download on demand.
What if some bad actor decides to harm the network by listing illegal links? How network secures itself against that?
I wonder what people use this for as it is too simple -- in my opinion at least.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickmpeterson/

> •Successfully activating insights to optimize value propositions, user experiences, and marketing
Isn’t this easily defeated by taking a NSAID(eg: ibuprofen).
As the side note, the following sentence from the post "I began my investigation with a strong presumption of chicanery" is something I am going to steal and use from now on. :)
When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
So, Mike from Mushino; you know who I am: this is my real name, and google will inform you I am a real person. I still have no idea who you are.
For sure there are comments required to justify the decision/revisions.

I was replying to the idea that one might submit an article for peer-review in order to get comments on one's work from the peer-review process, rather than to attempt to get it into a journal where it might be read by many people.
Heh, or a wet napkin, a quick wipe will significantly decrease your face temp until it dries.
Learn one thing at a time.

If you can do meaningful data science in one language, and nothing else, you’re ahead of a whole bunch of curves. Get solidly good at one thing.

You’ll pick up a bit here and there about other techs in the course of the job. That will a) help you pick the highest leverage next thing to learn, and b) anchor you when you start learning them.

Stick to a theme. You don’t need to know web sockets to do data science.

For followup learning, pick complementary technologies (instead of Python and R, which compete; or R and and Docker, which are virtually unrelated; try either Python plus tensorflow or R plus tensorflow — because either of those pairings can be used together to increase your capabilities.)
I would be more curious on why this would change Chinese people's consumption habits, and how long lasting such change would be after the outbreak.

Will be very interesting to see it through.
I would bet hard cash that it'll be out as of 10.17. Almost every major vendor is done, and the ones that aren't have a 2020 OKR (or equivalent) around this.

> more than 60 seconds, so you can’t dynamically page in large files anymore

certain vendors with legacy engines they've ported 10 years into the future are in trouble. But, assuming a 10.17 release, which they've worked out with apple? They'll be fine, mostly.
The parent comment is complete nonsense. The motive for making low-yield weapons is the same as the motive for making high-yield ones. Deterrent. You can simply look this up in the DoD’s Nuclear Posture Review:

> Russia’s belief that limited nuclear first use, potentially including low-yield weapons, can provide such an advantage is based, in part, on Moscow’s perception that its greater number and variety of non-strategic nuclear systems provide a coercive advantage in crises and at lower levels of conflict. Recent Russian statements on this evolving nuclear weapons doctrine appear to lower the threshold for Moscow’s first-use of nuclear weapons. Russia demonstrates its perception of the advantage these systems provide through numerous exercises and statements. Correcting this mistaken Russian perception is a strategic imperative.

> To address these types of challenges and preserve deterrence stability, the United States will enhance the flexibility and range of its tailored deterrence options. To be clear, this is not intended to, nor does it enable, “nuclear war-fighting.” Expanding flexible U.S. nuclear options now, to include low-yield options, is important for the preservation of credible deterrence against regional aggression. It will raise the nuclear threshold and help ensure that potential adversaries perceive no possible advantage in limited nuclear escalation, making nuclear employment less likely.

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Feb/02/2001872886/-1/-1/1/201...

To say the purpose is tactical use in war is franking a baseless conspiracy theory, relying on flawed logic that can easily be debunked.
I mean, isn’t that obvious. Our industry is just as ridiculous as any other. Cheers to a good lol.
That's certainly possible if for no other reason than grinding global supply chains to a halt. If Chinese are being forced to self-quarantine or avoid work, factories will not be producing goods. That could cause considerable consumer inflation, too.
I was at a baby shower recently. Of the ~30 participants, over a dozen came down with a cold the following day. We later learned that, indeed, someone there was sick, knew they were sick, and came anyway. I didn't get the brunt of it, I've just had some minor throat irritation for the past ~2 weeks, thankfully, but a few folks were actually quite sick and had to take time off of work.

I'd love to avoid sick people. Can we make them wear signs saying that they're sick?
>Linux purposely makes proprietary drivers crap.

No it doesn't, the devs refuse to provide stable in-kernel APIs because they want the flexibility to be able to modify them as they please when a better solution comes along. Also maintaining support for proprietary drivers is harder due to them being black boxes, not only in terms of debugging, but also in security and stability.

NVidia is basically the one major holdout these days, and its proprietary driver for Linux is very good, so it's not as if it's impossible to maintain a proprietary driver in the Linux ecosystem. The motivation here comes from Linux being huge in accelerated computing and 3d, not due to any particular love for Linux on Nvidia's part.

Indeed the lack of a stable interface has made it cumbersome to maintain a out-of-tree driver, which is GREAT since it means hardware vendors are more likely to open source their drivers or at least give enough documentation for them to be created by a third party. This ends up being a huge part of Linux's success, as it supports the widest range of hardware of any system 'out of the box', hardware support which is then functional on any platform on which Linux runs, which in turn is practically everything under the sun.

And if this wasn't enough, it is also a boon for alternative systems which will never see official proprietary drivers due to being niche, as they can port Linux drivers, or even add Linux driver compability layers.
Vice is fake news and that's why they dont turn a profit.
Saying that a group of people in China made risky decisions and that others are suffering for them is not racist. Not all statements directed towards another culture are racist. Also, many Chinese don't eat bush meat, and no one is criticizing them.

It's also not directed specifically towards Chinese; the same criticisms have been leveled at Africans for the same reasons when the same practices caused similar outbreaks, so it's not a specific dislike of Chinese.

HIV, lassa fever, SARS, Ebola, and more have been caused by eating bushmeat. That's not racism, that's epidemiology.
When I say communism killed tens of millions of people, I mean that very literally. I don’t just mean that a putatively communist state killed tens of millions of people. I mean that, when the theory of communism was put into practice with collectivized agriculture, it failed so spectacularly that tens of millions of people died. You could go further to the horrors of purges. And there is a fair argument that communism, which involves expropriation of private property, is intrinsically ripe for such abuse. But you don’t even need to go there to get the body count.

Slavery and colonialism, are completely different. They were bad things that were perpetuated by putatively capitalist states, but have nothing otherwise to do with capitalism. There are many definitions of capitalism, but extracting unpaid labor using violence doesn’t fit any of them. And as to colonialism, capitalism actually explains why colonialism had negative effects that have lasted long after the colonizers left. Colonialism robbed countries of their capital. Robbing other countries of capital through violence is not capitalism in any form. Same for U.S.-installed dictatorships. It’s not like the Soviet Union didn’t have an elaborate network of puppet states. That’s orthogonal to capitalism versus communism.

As to environmental issues, that’s perhaps a fair point of capitalism. But socialism has an even worse record in that regard. The Soviet Union was enormously resource inefficient. Even today, the US generates six times the GDP per capita with just 30% more CO2 emission per capita.
>IOUSBFamily has been deprecated and headers removed from SDK since macOS El Capitan (10.11). All clients should move to IOUSBHostFamily or USBDriverKit, where appropriate and outlined below.

lol which one of you? i fully sympathize but oof, guess you lost that fight
So it's more like the Galactic Empire soldiers meeting the road runner?
The primary fun filled failure, https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/honest-wes-just-f..., is a pretty neat excerpt I had never read before, especially as one who toes that Wizard approach towards formal verification.
That 'can't be recycled' clickbait headline is completely refuted by TFA which quotes from one company already doing it.

"One start-up, Global Fiberglass Solutions, developed a method to break down blades and press them into pellets and fiber boards to be used for flooring and walls.... 'We can process 99.9% of a blade and handle about 6,000 to 7,000 blades a year per plant...'
Speaking of virtualization, what about using macOS as a VM host? This typically requires kernel mode drivers. It would be awfully inconvenient to not be able to host VMs on a Mac development machine.
You know what goes well with coronavirus? Lyme disease.
If only there was an system somewhere between the United States and East Germany. Sheesh.
You may be able to compete based on factors other than current feature set, including but not limited to customer service / support and usability/user experience.
Let's say the error goes the other way. Criminal actors within the US illegally launch a strike and destroy Rostov-on-Don. The US agrees to hand over the culprits for Russian trial and pay reparations. The Russians decline and destroy Miami instead.

Matter settled?
Oh no, somehow the worst thing the west can do! Why is that?
Yes, trick is that the tests are in short supply, paperwork load is high (reporting to city, state, and country authorities), and you need two positives tests to be considered definitely sick with corona virus.

The result is that there's many 100k that are sick, but only 25k are "official". China is actively deleting photos, videos, and posts on social media trying to keep a lid on it.
It’s not that peer review is great (there’s lot of problems with it), but rather the fact that the points you brought up have nothing to do with peer review.

Anyway, I agree that academia, and science in academia in particular, has lots of problems
“Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”
Should we guess whether you've done any air travel in the past couple of years? (I have too, I'm a hypocrite as well.)

I have no idea the source of your number. I see half a percent here[1]. That is also possibly inaccurate, because at least one major internet company offsets all their carbon emissions with things like farm animal feces digestors and methane recapture covers for mines. Even if it is three percent, it's not clear that a given amount of bandwidth is responsible for the same fraction of emissions. Also, perhaps the more people watch movies, the less they drive around and do fun things outside the house. So it may be that for each % you increase internet emissions you decrease other emissions by %*2. Who knows?

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/aug/12/carbon-f...
Ancestry lays off 6% of staff
There was no book with everyone's phone number in it. There were many books that covered small regions. If you lived in Oshkosh Wisconsin and wanted the number for someone in Kansas City, or even Madison Wisconsin it wasn't that easy to get that book. Maybe your library had it. Phone numbers on paper aren't that useful. You can't robodial a paper phone book without hiring actual people. But no matter what you couldn't get millions of phone numbers while sitting on your couch, and if you could they would be useless because they were all on paper.
More common is the daily ritual of getting in line at the crack of dawn, hoping to get medical care and getting at best some IV fluids then kicked out each evening because you don't officially have the virus. Of course if you ask, there's no tests available.

There's numerous videos of people passing out in public, which could be just a non-representative sample. What makes it scary to me, is that everyone around just looks and seems to think it's normal/expected.
Greta Thunberg should be pleased. After all, depopulation is the only thing that is going to make any kind of dent in the climate crisis.

The more I think about it, the more I'd be okay taking the "Thanos Snap" Russian Roulette odds.
Bank to bank transactions seem to be pretty much a wild west after you leave 1st world countries, like the US, assuming that there are limited treaties between the two countries, etc... The only reason why these major "bank hacks" (different subject, but just sharing) work is because you can transfer the money out and liquidate without real issues (until you get caught for whatever reason).
> Their targeting is so good that I almost don't mind seeing the ads.

Wouldn’t that make you more apprehensive of their ads? As it’d be more likely to lead to you parting ways with your money.
I build a little scratchpad for personal use:
https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/

I guess for the most part these sort of things start off solving a personal problem. Getting 15k monthly users is very impressive!
For the same reason the Western people have tattoos of Japanese or Chinese characters inked onto their body. They think it looks great and it's affordable.

I venture to say that 99.9% of Vikings had no idea those pretty designs in gold thread said anything at all, much less the word 'Allah'.
Under capitalism you don't necessarily reward politicians. Politicians get rewarded when the spoils of politics are large, not from market exchanges.
Long ago I spent a week at a compiler workshop (on what was then the relatively new SSA form) and one of the other attendees worked on the occam compiler.

He told me about the language over dinner and it seemed really interesting but I think he left me with the impression at the time that it was not for mainstream everyday programming.

Yet as others have pointed out, CSP has survived and is now embodied in ‘go’.
If what you say is true then why are homeowners in Berlin selling their homes for 20% higher gains ?

If it’s all the same why not sell for the same price they bought it for?
"I, a close adviser to one of the richest men in the world, will given an interview about the failure of my advice to him." Hrm. I wouldn't expect someone in such a position to be eager to be interviewed. It doesn't provide evidence either way in my accounting.

Even if they did give an interview, what do you think they would say? "Yeah, we totally ignored the feedback about political risks. Didn't even read it. And it blew up in our faces. Aren't we dumb?" There's no way that it would be admitted. It would be framed as a calculated gambit either way.
Scratchpad looks pretty nice actually!
Inside Acronym, the tech consultancy behind the disastrous Iowa caucus app
And making people think that you're a wise-ass is better than making them think that you're stupid.

P.S: Exile to UK seems lit fam.
> many of them don't understand the concept of supply and demand.

Or they understand supply and demand perfectly well, and figured out that if they legislatively block new development, fixed supply + growing demand = rising home prices = better investment.
re: blue zones.

They also don't smoke, drink, and do regularly exercise. And these things are usually prescribed by their religion.

As soon as you start accounting for confounding variables, correlations between eating meat and bad health outcomes drop significantly. And you're left unable to determine whether it's observing the Sabbath on Saturday or not eating meat that makes them live longer.
Facts can be used as weapons, sometimes for racist purposes. That's certainly happening here in Australia in relation to this.
Ask HN: llc – best cost effective option?
i am in the process of registering an llc. am based in texas. whats the most cost effective option? should i do it myself, or signup to services like legalzoom. am operating on a shoestring budget, so any any advise on spending less to get it done will be greatly appreciated.
Fine how?
I'm talking about the vast majority of things people use websites for, which do not need a webapp much less a mobile app.