skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can try peoplebox(https://www.peoplebox.ai/) to run meaningful 1-on-1s. It integrates with your calendars so before every 1-on-1, it sends some pre one-on-one questions to your reports and suggestive talking points. You can collaborate on agendas, action items and track them all in one place.
You should be getting paid at incremental milestones, NOT big-bang 100% at the end.
Jamie Oliver's failed restaurants?
Hm, I wonder what kind of questions that entailed. Because unsigned arithmetic in C seems very intuitive to me. I have a hard time coming up with a question that would be hard to answer. Certainly, if we're talking about the C standard, unsigned integers are much more intuitive than signed integers.

Although even if there somehow are hard questions, I'm not sure understanding unsigned arithmetic would have helped whoever wrote that code. Because I think if you asked that person "what does this unsigned type do with -5 C?" the answer would have been pretty obvious.
Whoa at the work hours, if you don't mind me asking, just curious to know what kind of work entails such long hours? Also I'm assuming it paid equally well for the time devoted to it, frankly the hours itself is a big turn off regardless of the quality of work.
You can go along way with not much more than a couple dozen instructions (mnemonics, though when encoded with addressing modes it'll be more opcodes, but Jack's compiler delegates that work to the assembler). MOV, MOVZX, JMP, CALL, RET, CMP, TEST, Jcc, ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV, AND, OR, NOT, XOR, INC, DEC would about cover it for basic control flow and integer operations.

Adding floating point arithmetic needs another dozen or so instructions. The x87 opcodes (FLD, FST, FADD etc.) are very easy to program against, since it's a stack machine - a post-order traversal of an expression tree is usually sufficient if the stack won't overflow, though SSE2 instructions are more usual for x64.

Large portions of the full instruction set are vector operations which you wouldn't realistically be emitting for a didactic toy compiler. You can get by perfectly well without the string operations too.
Oh of course! EUMEL, L3 or KeyKOS! Why didn’t I think of them?!
Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack
Facebook stock (recently sold all of it) made me a millionaire. I think FB-the-company is a scourge and wish it good riddance but it was more than obvious years ago that there was a lot of value there for stock speculation.

I've lost track of how many friends and family laughed at my investment and/or advised me to dump it before "I got ruined". What I found interesting was that a lot of these friends were tech insiders with decades of experience in the field and ought to have known better. What I think happened was that in all cases, their personal dislike for FB-the-company clouded their ability to properly analyze the situation.
Does anybody here have experience of "learning" physics, electrical engineering or material science in 12 months?

By this I mean starting from the very basics to a level where you can comfortably talk about main concepts and start designing or experimenting using your knowledge
Same as everyone else. Targeted ads.
I've let go of my addiction to finding the best tool and settled on Emacs+Org-Mode (specifically with Spacemacs so I can use Vim keybindings).

Over the years I've tried so many tools, languages, workflows, and the only ones that stuck were the ones that were boring but timeless. I've not just been gravitating toward OrgMode for all my note keeping, but I've also gotten more and more into bash for much of my stuff.

There are downsides to that, of course. It's frustrating that I'm mostly limited to text-only things, for example. But it feels like any investment into bash/emacs+orgmode/emacs+tramp/emacs+? offers so much more than becoming reliant on app number <x> that quite possibly disappears or stagnates.
I don't think this is true.

If the systems, you are talking about, were so great, they would be used by the masses. There are much more non-technical people out there.
AI automation for long-term cryptocurrency trading
Colored ones are quite expensive so we started with monochrome
Okay, I don't know too much about Monzo at all tbh, but Revolut got an EU banking license, which means, simularly to the N26, it will not be applicable for the UK Market.

If that means they fall bank to not issuing accounts with Deposit protection in the UK, I'm not sure, or if it means they are just waiting to see what happens; sugested here : https://blog.revolut.com/how-we-protected-our-customers-from...

It's not sure. But either way, if there are not enough people in the UK market to warrant the hassle of re-investing in the UK, I don't see the issue.

The EU feel betrayed by Brexit too.. :(
More specifically, in this word gat would mean ass.
>>in a healthy atmosphere some employees will provide that feedback on their own.

Absolutely; but again, such atmosphere does not come out of nowhere. It may get boot-strapped by the initial cycle of:

1. One-on-one meetings where team members are encouraged to bring up thoughts, concerns, ideas, etc.

2. Manager who reacts positively to such feedback; actions it (within the constraints of organization & reality); and communicates outcomes honestly

3. Faith & mutual trust are established and team members feel more comfortable bringing up feedback on their own.

At least in my experience, not everybody is willing to provide feedback of their own initiative to a new manager. You have to earn it...
There are other implications to switching banks, e.g. credit reference agencies will often deduct points if you frequently switch current accounts and/or don’t have at least one long-standing account.

Also worth noting many of the challenger banks do not yet report to any/all of the three main credit reference agencies.
Follow-up:
Where do you think my time would be better spent preparing for a new job? Making a sideproject I can show off or doing interview puzzles?
This is practical advice, but it also points to the reality of scientific funding today -- you can only get money to do things that you already know how to do. You must have an idea that is pretty much ready to go on day one. All that should remain are working out the details.

I can see why bureaucrats and government officials prefer it this way (accountability!) but I don't understand why we scientists put up with it.
This misunderstanding could have been avoided by formulating your initial statement like this:

>openssh makes the situation worse because +even+ if the key is already in your host file and it's just the ip/domain that changed it will not tell you that it recognises the key.
Probably you're so familiar with modern computing environments — and unfamiliar with any others — that you take their drawbacks for granted, perhaps even assuming they are unavoidable.
Materialize is the streaming data warehouse
The problem is because you're using GitHub Pages to host your website on a custom domain. When someone accesses your website via HTTPS, they get a certificate that is only valid for GitHub domains. Of course the HN submission is an HTTP link, so the person you're replying to probably has their browser configured to use HTTPS everywhere.

You can fix this by enabling HTTPS in GitHub pages, so that a valid certificate is served. See GitHub's troubleshooting information: https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/...
They’ve stopped the rollout to new cities - however in cities they currently exist in they continue to roll out new fiber, just at a rate slower than molasses. Austin TX seems to get a new neighborhood once every 2-3 months or so.
If we can make software development less of a specific job and more of a companion skill of most jobs, maybe people will start and develop systems for their fellow non-technical co-workers.
I’m surprised none of the comments mention widespread increases in 4G coverage and decreased cellular broadband costs as a factor in shutting down the program worldwide.

At least here in Myanmar free WiFi is no longer needed at cafes and the like as most people now have access to affordable cellular broadband at 4G speeds. I know it’s a similar situation in India where Google was operating the program.
>> - when receiving a new card due to upgrade the old one becomes void but there's no mention anywhere of this

> - Sounds reasonable?

Experience shows that postal deliveries might be really slow, so no guarantee when it arrives. Some deliveries just gets lost or stolen. Some people are travelling and not physically near their postal address for awhile. A lot of students and long-distance commuters really have two places they live so might not be staying very often where the card gets delivered. A lot of people (me) just don't open letters straight away, and certainly don't put the new card in my wallet straight away.

Which is why established banks know you need a month or so overlap. And modern banks know how to notify the customer properly that a new card is available. And progressive banks know to only deactivate the old card once the new one has been used.
It sounds like Australia is a victim of the resource curse. Resources bring in the money regardless of how competitive you are. There are no incentives to compete and improve because Australia can afford complacency and incompetence.
Thanks for the link. I'll look into that.
The article talks about adding SREs. As if the developers wrote buggy software and then the SREs fix the bugs. I’m sure I’m misunderstanding. What is meant?
Facebook Needs Regulation to Win User Trust, Zuckerberg Says
> It ticks me off that this junk ends up on social media

> who eventually spend nights weeping over their inability to feed their child

But that's your problem, not science's. You seem very resentful, do what works for you but don't expect scientists to lie to make you feel better. If the fact is "breast feeding is better than formulas" and you can't breast feed just get over it...
December was the 80th anniversary of her disappearance. It's the only unresolved missing persons case I'm aware of in my neighborhood.

Assuming she did die in December of 1939, the Muddy River seems to be a likely place to find a body. It's just to the south of her home. The river is dotted with a series of ponds: Jamaica Pond, Wards Pond, Willow Pond and Leverett Pond. The largest, Jamaica Pond, is just over 50 feet deep. Of course, in December of 1939 they were probably frozen over.
Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch, by strangling it
Researchers Debate Whether Global Emissions Have Peaked
Prepack Is Dead
The Ugly History of Blaming Ethnic Groups for Outbreaks
America has public schools, but they mostly suck. I would take a profit driven private school over a public one any day. I would also take dealing with a corporation’s customer service over a government office like the DMV any day.

And while you mention healthcare, the actual problem is that they aren’t profit driven enough and instead exist as this Frankenstein’s monster of a public/private partnership. I currently live in a 3rd world country with no health insurance or government intervention in medicine and healthcare and the system works well(ish). Fixing a broken bone or getting a tooth pulled is only going to set you back $10. And while this is a lot for poor people, it’s still only between 2-10 days salary for an average person.

That being said, there are major trade-offs in quality. I wouldn’t recommend giving birth or getting a life saving treatment here, but for anything somewhat routine, the healthcare provides great value. Also, all meds are over the counter and are very cheap. One med in particular is 100x cheaper here than the out of pocket costs in America.
Revolut started out with another bank (wirecard?) issuing for them. Now they have a banking license and issue themselves.
I manage a Family Office and do monthly performance presentations with PowerPoint, the slides have an unique design, and updating them every month became extremely tedious and error prone.

I was already looking for an excuse to learn Python and this was perfect.

Instead of recreating the slides I created templates (just the last set of presentations) and update them with info directly queried from the database, using python-pptx and pyodbc.

This isn’t exactly an example of a “tool”, but I think the most important part isn’t really the tool, but to be able to identify what you can automate. How you do it might range from DIY to paying someone to code for you, but the feeling after getting rid of manual processes is great!
In my case, it made me hate exercise. I couldn't do the things they required (stuff like somersaults, jumping the pommel horse, etc.) so I just took an adversarial angle. It was not something to enjoy, but to try to beat if possible, or escape otherwise.

Many years later, I can kind of enjoy exercise like running or swimming but I still never go to gyms as they give me bad feelings.

Indeed, being a teacher myself today, I'd rate my gym teachers as terrible, as setting goals (like somersaults) with little relation to the actual exercise most people do, and more relation to innate talent than effort, while not providing much motivation or explanation of why that is useful (I still don't see why today), seems like a huge pedagogical failure. But I had various gym teachers and they all seemed cut from the same cloth, and other people with similar age and country give similar descriptions. Maybe it's better in other countries or it has improved by time, I don't know.
this is N26's deleted blog post before this announcement:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQgcNPyXUAcsVrK?format=jpg&name=...

key quote:
"we are 100% focused on ensuring minimum disruption to our customers whatever the outcome or timing of Brexit"
This argument is hard to understand, given that this hasn't happened when companies did this in the past. At the end of the day, you can break your word as much as you like as long as there's a year or so between making the promise and breaking it.
they had a plan:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQgcNPyXUAcsVrK?format=jpg&name=...
How much does 1 cycle of IVF cost?
Funny how it is almost like Altruism.
Don't forget all that money.
How are these things actually measured or scaled?
the nature of the withdrawal agreement was not clear until brexit actually happened
Liking something because it will negatively affect other people is a weird position to take
Where the police is less violent and less biased against underprivileged strata of society, the probability of people thinking of the police as an institution which may help with such issues is higher. In many (most?) countries, an encounter with the police is something that makes you worried you will likely be talked down to, potentially held up, and potentially even locked up for the night, beaten somehow, arrested, have stuff taken away from you, and in some countries perhaps even shot.
I'm pretty sure that the Sims franchise, which used to be a Maxis product, has been and still is incredibly profitable for EA.

Probably more so than SimCity ever could have been, just due to the size of the target audience[1]. Of course, why not do both?

[1] And maybe it's easier to sell content packs for The Sims, though Paradox sure seems to be trying to do the same for C:S.
Lincoln’s forgotten legacy as America’s first ‘green president’
Threader – A simple alternative to gnu-parallel written in Golang
If they had managed to get enough clients in the UK, it would have made sense to apply for a UK banking license.

If there hadn't been brexit, their banking license would have been EU wide, so they'd only have to look at their EU wide user numbers in total.

In short, brexit is certainly one of the reasons.
Load shedding lasts for hours. Generators are a big business, but they are expensive to buy and run. Keeping a good battery in your laptop is great, but the power to the wired internet infrastructure, the cell towers, etc are also cut. You could drive to the office, but the traffic lights have no power either.

So it is nightmare.

The real reason you can't operate in ZA is Empowerment, and what Google probably ran into. They can only own 49% of the business the start. They must find an empowerment partner (which means some black people, but they have no money so you have to give them their controlling 51% share) that happens to be a friend of the ANC (not a documented requirement, but I did mention corruption). So they will siphon funds out of the company, but if you have the right ones, you can win big government contracts such with the bailout money they keep getting.

The place is a banana republic - Live there, enjoy you cheap labour, great food, amazing geography, the wildlife, your personal security guards and inexpensive servants, but don't reside there and keep everything in another currency.
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Sorry, I don't understand your notation. To me a monad is defined by two functions, pure and bind (aka flatMap). I don't understand how — × M corresponds to this.
I think the better question is how long did it take you to set this up initially?
Democratic calls to break up Big Tech raise fears in Silicon Valley
First release of threader cli tool. The tool will recieve a more complex Makefile in the future. Future releases will also contain builds for different Archs. I hope you enjoy it .)
If you don't know what the background success rate is, then why do you need to know what this commenter's success rate is? All you need to know is that it's significantly higher.
Very interesting, thanks for the writeup!

Sony did manage to ship a PS2 emulator that ran on the second-generation PS3 though (1st generation PS3 had actual PS2 hardware inside, but the second generation was software-only emulation if I recall correctly?). Besides knowing exactly about every hardware detail, any idea how they pulled that off on hardware that was much weaker relative to a PS2, compared to a modern PC?
It's okay for you to trust people when you don't actively hear about them being bad, just as it is okay for other people to take what they see elsewhere and think it informs the behaviour of cases they see as related.
Not necessarily.

In some world states, the prosecution, having taken a case to court but seeing that it is likely to lose, often drops the case. This typically coincides with the practice of judges of dropping strong hints to one side or the other that they will rule against them, and thus it might be better to drop the case.
Totally agree on there is no shortcut for "hacking" languages. But at the same time "The quality and type of practice you do matters a lot" as you've said.

And also, for learning languages, one way could be significantly less painful than others.

I grew up in China, where almost every student struggles so much on English learning, every day. I found myself very easy to pass every exam and beating the average, without listening to the lectures or doing any homework - simply by playing video games (especially RPG). I was/am by no means excellent at English, but it was almost a totally free perk for me.

Basically video games are:

1. Designed to be both engaging and challenging, whereas schools suck at those so much.

2. Have specific and meaningful targets, if you failed to understand what's going on or what's the mechanism you're not likely to play along.

3. Including scenarios and plots. A lot of reading and listening activities. You don't have to appoint a teacher or native speaker to talk with you. You can start anytime you want (except I have intolerant parents so I have to play it sneakily).

4. Cheap.
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Kids Don’t Need to Stay ‘On Track’ to Succeed
The core gameplay in yakuza zero is still just combat. Everything else is completely optional, apart from few hostess missions.
Here is its repo on GitHub.[0]

Read its wiki-docs.[1]

For report any bugs and/or feature requests use its issues tracker.[2]

[0] https://github.com/mjhorvath/Video-Game-Keyboard-Diagrams

[1] https://github.com/mjhorvath/Video-Game-Keyboard-Diagrams/wi...

[2] https://github.com/mjhorvath/Video-Game-Keyboard-Diagrams/is...
> Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

I think this is very much true, but actually I disagree with you when it comes to OSS. For example, Django makes heavy use of metaclasses in order to simplify its API, and I think that's fine, because no junior developer realistically needs to contribute to such a project. They can work on a project which uses Django without needing to understand the internals.

Having said that, I was only introduced to SQLAlchemy a couple of years ago, when already pretty competent at Python. Their filter syntax (ab)uses __eq__ to allow you to write expressions such as `MyModel.my_field == 'query'` which return an expression which can be evaluated dynamically when applied to a SQL query. I did a double take when first looking at this, assuming it at first to be a typo. I then ended up digging into the internals of SQLAlchemy to find out how it all fits together. The upshot was that I explored the SQLA API in great detail. The downside is I spent a few hours doing it :D
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"I don’t like this so nobody else should" is always obnoxious to read.

I like dark mode. If it has options to let you have dark-text-on-bright-backgrounds, why does the option for a dark mode bother you?

Tech should cater to different needs. Nobody should have to defend their preferences against anyone, but for those wondering if there are any objective reasons:

I don’t want intense light constantly blasting my eyes, taking up more energy and reducing the display’s effective lifetime, and I want to be able to work comfortably in dark environments, which may be dark for any reason: Not wanting to wake other people up, or bother anyone in theaters/restaurants/cars/planes/etc. or simply reducing energy usage.
Rephrase: "one reason could be [...]"
Government is a corrupt single party system in practice. Can't even keep the power on and the water system is in trouble. They would need a World Bank bailout for the Internet in a few years.
GCC 10 Adds Late Support For -std=C++20 To Target C++20
I would be a bit wary of a 30-year-old book on compiler construction. If it were more on the theoretical side then fine, but this sounds kind of hands-on. "Let's build a compiler with 1980s tools!" doesn't sound very appealing.

That is just a shallow impression though. Convince me I'm wrong?
Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake Desktop CPUs Selling Ahead of Release on Chinese Site
Achieve Consistently, Collaborate Constructively, Challenge Yourself, Leadership Mindset and finally Job Expertise.

All of these apply to everyone, it's just that different levels have different expectations(so for example a Junior is still expected to perform well in "leadership mindset", but for them it's enough to demonstrate willingness to discuss and negotiate ideas, convince others to their plans etc, they don't need to be a manager to have a leadership mindset).

They do have pretty formal definitions for each level and for each job title - so by telling people what is expected of them at each level it's easier to then do the final peer review at the end of the year(and no one is surprised at their score).
That is not how grammar works... . The point is about exclusive sublicensing. Of course, they are allowed to sublicense it, nobody ever questioned that, but that has nothing to do with the discussion.
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Agile Manifesto and IT industry is based on customer vision only. If you are startup CEO, you are customer of the programmers, ie. the one who pays the bills!
This is awesome! I would hook this up with Shopify and one of those printing and shipping services and see where that leads you.
I'm a Shopify expert, already did that for customers, if you need advice let me know