skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SoftBank needs to invest $100 billion and at-least needs to make a trillion over a decade. That’s a lot of money. It doesn’t quit working with small startups. At 100k investment like YC makes they’d have to fund a million startups. That’s more than all startups world wide.

At 100 mil, they’d have to fund 1000 startups. That’s still a lot of due diligence, and hand holding to do to grow them.

I guess SoftBank is the experiment that will let us know whether it’s possible to invest huge amounts of money and still get startup returns.

On another note, would 100B have helped us solve our age’s biggest problems like sustainable energy, efficient governance, efficient basic healthcare etc.

Like how far does a 100B go?
So if I'm understanding this correctly...even if the Chapters Advisory Council formally recommends NOGO on the sale (which they haven't officially voted on yet), ISOC would not be legally bound in any way to bend the knee, and a hypothetical board decision to move forward with the sale anyways--assuming ICANN blessings--would risk organizational implosion stemming from the rage of its chapters followed by unfolding of a fragile justification for its tax exempt charity status?
DOS used to have record oriented file functions. More like some kind of legacy from CP/M.

Guess what, they were abandoned. I don't know, maybe they were not flexible enough?

Does the OP suffer from not invented here? Most of the file formats he describes have free (at least to use) libraries available.

Even for sockets there are countless message passing solutions. He just need to research a bit and pick one.
Are we the most irresponsible generation
To piggy back onto this thread: I've written a fair amount of severside JavaScript, read the Eloquent JS book, the You Don't Know JS series (which I heartily recommend to the parent), and feel I have a pretty good handle on the modern language itself.

How does one take this knowledge and learn the browser APIs (in particular, best practices around those APIs) plus to navigate the frontend ecosystem in general without getting overwhelmed? Obviously you learn the APIs by building stuff, which I do. I can and do write frontend code, but always with the feeling that I've never learned this stuff properly.

I know there are tutorials aplenty on this stuff -- other than MDN, is there anything authoritative, comprehensive, and deep? Like, the SICP or TAOP of frontend programming?
This feels like the philosophical conclusion that Kafka Streams has made, i.e. you don't have a strict watermark, and if you really want you can theoretically keep updating and retracting data forever, and build a pipeline that magically stays in sync.
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Yes. And to add something to this, you might be able to find a cable instead of an adapter. One like this:

Monitor <-- male DisplayPort* ---- male mini DisplayPort --> MacBook Pro

*I has to be DisplayPort 1.2 or newer (they are backward compatible)
Meditation helps compartmentalizing your thoughts, so if you meditate, you might still notice the problems and be angry at them, but you might be able to better control the anger and tame it.

Also, it sounds like you may be angered by something else, so you are on edge, and it’s easier to be angered at a door than at someone or at some situation. Going to a shrink may help disentangle the anger.

And yeah I am with you: fuck google maps.
I remember spending 1/2 hour (really!) with my wife looking for the "print" menu entry after installing Office xyz, that first had "ribbons", on her computer.

That's the kind of change that makes you hate computers, and computer programmers.
Well, that was hugely frustrating. It reminded me of those satires of local newspapers, where the crash of the Hindenburg is described as "local man delayed."

I get that the author has a real interest in missing documentation. And the issue of missing documentation from the colonial period can be really interesting. But it's just unfair to the reader to begin a story with a mystery, and then not actually give any solution to that mystery.

I get it - the answer is to "buy my book." Not when it's so unsatisfying, no I won't.

Sorry for the frustration coming through here, but this story really annoyed me. It's bait and switch of the worst kind.
Read the You Don't Know JS series [0] - this tackles much of what people with mediocre proficiency overlook. To go beyond that you would probably want to dive deep in to the ECMAScript specs [1] to really master the language. I don't think it will be that hard, just a slog.

[0] - https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

[1] - https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...
> Attention is a finite resource.

and equally, so is empathy. And those people who invest in this garbage and profit of it ofc know it!
No, sorry, the world doesn't operate how you wish it or were told it does. And I don't think you yet comprehend the Snowden revelations, the military-industrial complex, the nature of powerful elites, inverted totalitarianism or reality. Please stop peddling the party-line lies of manufactured consent and educate yourself outside of the mainstream media and the many others who are also brainwashed but don't realize it.
Find whatever works for you to reach "mediocre proficiency" then use that to improve until you reach "perfect and complete level". You won't find any resource for any language that will hold your hand all the way, if only because the concept of "perfect and complete" is rather fuzzy and subjective (and probably a moving target for a language like JS that's still in active development).

JS is a rather forgiving language (maybe too forgiving) that's very suitable for learning by trial and error. Get the basics, start hacking, find what works and what doesn't, look at other people's code to draw inspiration etc...
But didn't the same management also decided to make the company a PBC instead of becoming billionaires by going public? That always felt to me like a signal that the management believed the mission too.
All images can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/sets/
> Maybe, just maybe, this isn't a problem you can "solve" by engineering. And maybe, just maybe, the solution (if it exists) isn't a "product".

Or maybe it is. In all your comments in the various threads here you fail to give a reasoning for your position which is not "it is my opinion". Instead you have now started attacking others. "sociopathic talk"? Really?
All the Ways to Make a Web Component
There is also text alongside the images at the source. It would be exciting if the GAN could write an excerpt alongside its creation.

Side note: is there something that already exists to modernize old English?
And you’ll get sued for using the public domain pics on your website instead Of paying Getty
So Wall Street wants to rip off RedCross.org

That is just what bankers do, no? Whatever happened to unfettered capitalism?
JavaScript.info
Those conditions require the release of new information and, I would assume, re-scrutinizing the decision based on that new information.

This information should reveal that indeed this is a fraudulent sale. If the information does not reveal that, there is less of a reason for blocking the sale. Really, what should be reversed is the decision to remove price-hike caps on the .org TLD.
Meituan makes first grocery deliveries in Beijing with driverless vehicles
Whatever resource you start from this is ultimately what I go to every day at work for answers on anything JS related. Bookmark this link.
A little side note; You could consider ClojureScript.

I've worked with JavaScript many times through the years, and never felt that I got close to becoming an expert no matter what. The language it self is in the way. Browser compatibility, language weirdness (like the =, == or === mess) and there are a lot of standards around. But now a days working with ClojureScript, which settles the language problems, I get to focus on getting good at libraries, react and browser-stuff.

I hope I never have to work with vanilla JavaScript again, but since ClojureScript is a niche I'm pretty sure this dream will burst at some point. But I can attest ClojureScript has brought significantly more enjoyment into my life when dealing with front-end development.
Reminds me of this thread from 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135494
How StackOverflow approaches remote work at scale
"sponsored by US stent manufacturer" and people are gobsmacked that this happened.
> So whining that stackoverflow has rules which you don't want to follow doesn't make for interesting reading.

Most complaints, even very good ones, are uninteresting reading.

> "I can't have stackoverflow on my terms, so I'm going to criticise and disparage it".

If complaining about not being to have something "on one's own terms" is enough to be sour grapes, then just about every complaint in the world is sour grapes. That's obviously wrong.

> It's not mandatory.

Did you honestly think I was saying it was mandatory? Come on, you can do better than that. "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation"
I'm not targeting users with that level of technical experience or those who want to spend the time and effort to do all those.
Is it mandatory to reciprocate? If not, then that's a problem of their own making, isn't it?
I would second this, CLojureScript is the first language that has made front end seem sane to me.

Unfortunately your chances of getting a job doing ClojureScript is probably slim to none :(
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I resigned from a software development job after being asked to write this dual receipt system for an AdTech company. Works for a lot more than tax avoidance in an industry where standard terms are revenue share agreements.
> The same goes for meals by the way

I don't think meals work in quite the same way. If I'm looking for a snack that is a short-term immediate need. I have a stash in my desk drawer, there are often free ones in the kitchen & break-out area, and I'm happy to use those usually rather than going further afield. It doesn't save actual time because ten minutes nipping to the shop is ten minutes time I'll serve elsewhere but it can impact productive time as a 10-minute break is a more significant mental context switch than a 30-second one.

But at lunch though, is a different beast. I'm going to be away from my desk and/or meetings for at least half an hour, except on those occasions when there is an emergency so I stuff something down myself at my desk from the collection of protein bars and such in that desk draw & work through. Providing a meal doesn't give the company the same productive time benefit there at all, in fact some studies suggest it could be a detriment - taking a proper break for lunch has been shown to have a beneficial effect on concentration in the afternoon. I usually make a point of taking most of an hour to get out away from my desk, even in iffy weather, though I do currently have the luxury of working close to home so I can actually get there, eat, fuss the cat, and get back, in that time so that may not be as appealing to others.
Rosalind is language-agnostic, except for the mini tutorial at the start.
> Instead, you register persistent, stateful enrichment "streaming jobs" (i.e. incrementally-materialized views) into the data warehouse; and then, when data comes into a table upstream of these views, it gets streamed into and through the related job to incrementally populate the matview.

This is correct. There is an example in the docs of dumping json records into a source and then using materialized views to normalize and query them - https://materialize.io/docs/demos/microservice/
Solitude and solitary activities are important for our psyche. If the social issues caused by too much information and communications is due to its ill effects on us mentally, then that approach is not only ignorant, but dangerous.
With all the crufty layers now being built on top, perhaps a new simplification is now needed?

On the other hand, it would take quite a lot of effort to reach a parity of capability for a new OS these days.
Google doesn’t have ML workloads (Basically all of search) or real-time (basically all of RTB) requirements?

I agree not everyone can develop like Google, but it’s wrong to say that “it doesn’t work”
> It is primarily your earned income where you pay taxes from.

Income you were able to earn because infrastructure allows businesses to operate, police forces protect their property, physical safety and the shipment of goods, a court system allows peaceful resolution of conflicts, armed forces protect you from invasion, fire departments prevent entire cities from burning down by putting fires out early etc.

Taking the benefits without paying the democratically set price for a wide array of services is not that different from stealing.
Personally, it would take a lot of money for me to put up with that so I would approach it as if I had nothing to lose.

I'm not sure what kind of financial situation you're in so this might not be the best advice.

If you haven't already given management a chance to fix it themselves, then tell them to deal with it or you're gone. The cost for management to fix it is a lot cheaper than hiring a new person.

What do they really have to do? All it takes is them to tell the person to just stop it.
They have very very very high wages already for PhD students though?

True, their rent costs are also very very very high but based on the current exchange rates the $500 the tag line example person has left over, after rent each month, is comparable to the amount left after rent, food, etc when doing a PhD in the UK 6 years ago in a not London location.

It seems that the PhD wages are very high already to compensate for the very high rent costs.

If the anecdotal evidence given by people in the comments here, concerning TAing and moonlighting at other nearby research institutes (for ~$10K !) are both true and common then what is the problem?
How to choose your coworking space?
Saw it done after the previous HN discussion, but can't find the ephemeral tweet. Here's another implementation from last year though - https://twitter.com/fuse_works/status/1206975474804690944
https://learnjavascript.online if you're like me and you only learn via practices.

https://javascript.info/
Imo, the basis of the problem is that we look at the GDP as a major health indicator of the economy, while this works against the idea that we should be consuming less, not more. From this follows adtech, and indirectly people being rewarded for doing stupid stuff.
7000 years in the future our greatest inventions will be gone without a single trace. Steel corrodes, our buildings crumble and nobody will be able to read the data on our HDD or SSDs. This well only survived because of special circumstances. Can we perhaps create a preservative environment that will keep our own history accessible 7000 years in the future?
I hope some of you find this interesting, if not please let me know!
If you find it interesting, let me know! (or if you have any questions! :) )
As an user, I usually dislike these walk-through when they are forced to me and I try to finish them as fast as possible. I think a good user interface shouldn't need them by default.
And in my eyes this is the only right way, because it allows to build structured services on top. If on the other hand the structure is already in the underlying system, it's incredibly hard to build something useful on top.

Similarly, think how useful memcpy() is: Because it can be applied anywhere.
If he is making you want to quit then you're giving him too much power over you. Ignore him and focus on what is expected from you and don't expect the workplace to be heaven on earth.
> Are you looking at how you preserve the preferences too?

Yes, per media preferences for subs and filter.
Thanks, edited. Didn't mean to imply it's over.
My amateur opinion is we need to get fusion before fossil runs out or we‘re fucked. Then it also needs to be shared among all humans (for free hopefully). Or we are fucked as well.

Either energy collapse or war or both might result otherwise.

If we manage to avoid either (seems unlikely so far), then we just need to solve climate change and we’re almost at type 1 civ.

/speculation
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Where don’t you go! There are tonnes of course on udemy, pluralsight and similar and often they are free (because they want you to pay for the React / hot tech du jour course), so find one that suits you.

Pure JS will be a bit boring. You’d want to learn some Node apis to do something useful. But you could limit it to file I/o if it’s the JS you want to focus on. At least that’ll give you some async experience which I’m sure you’d be keen to learn.
I would recommend Javascript The Weird Parts. Good pacing and clear exploration of the languages ‘quirks’ and a general tour of vanilla js. Then you can dive into how your own framework can be created, also interesting for obvious reasons.

This course really pushed my js knowledge forward!

https://www.udemy.com/course/understand-javascript/
The article makes a good point about the dumpster fires named ansible and docker.
"Just trust us bro" isn't a 'solution'.
Documentation is off-topic here, but we're rewriting the documentation currently here: https://docs.videolan.me/vlc-user/3.0/en/index.html
Not OP, but thank you! I recently got a SDR dongle and was going to set it up. This will help.
I personally think it won't be this bad. The beginning of the industrial revolution wasn't even three centuries ago. Next time progress will be slower but we will have a treasure trove of old tools that we can scavenge from the junkyards to bootstrap ourselves.
The main difference vs KSQL is that we support standard SQL (roughly SQL92 + correlated subqueries + json so far) and provide strong consistency:

KSQL has a distinction between streams and tables, effectively giving you control over how views are materialized but also forcing you to do that work yourself. In Materialize you just write the same SQL that you would for a batch job and the planner figures out how to transform it into a streaming dataflow.

KSQL is also eventually consistent - late arriving records might cause changes to previously emitted answers. Materialize won't give you an answer for a given timestamp until it can guarantee that the answer is correct and won't be retroactively updated later.

Expect to see some performance comparisons soon too.
I normally don't post here but i just wanted to say that i've noticed the same thing around me and have also felt the crushing depression that comes with the realisation that everyone is addicted to something that's destroying the very fabric of our society.

And your point about fixing loneliness through a painful but personal journey is spot on. If it doesn't hurt, you're not really doing it properly.

Go out and meet new people, talk about new ideas and remember that all storms will pass.
Yeah, look, ethics is great and all but when you risk being homeless or hungry, it quickly goes out the window. Especially for "victimless" (i.e. no one is directly affected) illegal activity.
Blockchain of executions as a utility token economics model
> The guideline was to always use the imperative form if you knew there was a better way, especially if there's a precedent or it's a written rule in a guideline, but even for opinionated things.

Same here. We used imperative form too and never had any problems. All developers were matured enough to not take comments about technical stuff personally. I think as long as we are being direct and polite in the reviews, there should be no issues.
hey speedgoose. Totally agree. You mean the ones in-platform, before you can use the product, right? Yeah, we don't like those either.

This is an optional walk-through on the landing page, for those who prefer that over signing up and trying it themselves.
NLG with Bert
Anthropology PhD's aren't training their mind. Much less so than people who are starting their first job in sales. They're just studying man. It's very interesting, I'm sure, but as a matter of self-betterment, utterly replaceable.

In fact, anthropology PhD's don't seem any better than non-PhD's to me. They're about the same as other people their age, maybe worse. This is with a sample size of one.

On the other hand, if you've got a scratch handicap, you are better than me. I played with a +3 handicap once (better than scratch). Never have I seen something more beautiful. And scratch golfers must have a much better trained mind than some median anthropology PhD, or they wouldn't be able to hit the ball so consistently.
When will phone makers in China recover?
Yes and then AWS free plan rolls off and you’re going to be paying quite a lot more!
> it usually takes hours to learn a new (procedural) programming language.

Really? I feel like I’ve spent longer than that just trying to get my head around JavaScript’s prototypal inheritance. I’m even more confused by Promises.
Coinbase becomes a Visa Principal Member to double down on debit card
That robot looks scary as hell!
Spotify is homegrown in Sweden. King.com is homegrown in Sweden. Klarna is homegrown in Sweden and so on and on.

I don't think you have any data to back your claims, reading through your comments it gives me "I feel it is this way" vibes and I don't think
I would guess these objects were too large for that heuristic (which, if given 100% control, is fairly bad, by the way. A plastic bag is quite different, safety-wise, from a plastic bag containing 100kgs of concrete).

It makes sense to put a size limit on that heuristic. If a 3M meter plastic bag were to blow onto your windshield, braking is in order.
Sure, but I can’t see how that matters here.
Definitely a great course, started learning JS using that one.

After watching that I would recommend https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS and that should give one a solid base.
Don Eyles breaks down his conversations with Apollo astronauts in this TEDx talk. Really great anecdotes: https://tedxbeaconstreet.com/videos/conversations-with-the-a...

"What we had in common was a spirit of exploration." @17:10
Can Huawei phones regain lost ground in Europe with HMS?
Cloud-Based MES vs. On-Premise MES
In my opinion, unions are just a way to destroy property. If you want really improve your life, gather people and leave the company, start a business, the same business, why not and put all the improvements there. But unionize is plainly silly.
HQ is still here in Stockholm, it grew from Sweden up to the point it was incorporated outside of Sweden to go public, because shareholders will be moaning about it. It is still a very Swedish company, paying taxes in Sweden.
One needs a lot more fluency than the other - there's a difference between what could be considered 'knowing' a programming language (where it's possible to slowly cobble together, or decode, a sentence over an afternoon with documentation to hand) and conversing 'live' in a natural language.