skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk is the guy who bets his house at the roulette table. It’s been working out for him so far but one day he’s going to step into some shit his money can’t get him out of and it’s going to be entirely his own fault.
I had the opposite experience actually. Expo made it difficult to accomplish anything with their ever changing sdk and (what felt like) never ending version deprecations and I found sooner or later for any serious project one would inevitably need to eject.

As of RN 0.60 it has been completely smooth sailing developing a react native app sans expo IMO
Doesn't that make this it's peak?
Well it is also true that wage are lower than in the US. So if you are young without many families bonds makes a lot of sense to seek employment oversea.

If Europe started to pay better money, then there would not be such lack of engineers.
#3 is fun. Where does the promotional discounts go to? How do I know if the restaurant is price dumping to gain ground or GrubHub is actually screwing them?
The article is about Canada not America.
No presumption, but demand outstrips supply for teslas so they are always atleast a few months behind, and now probably much more.
I think the most obvious explanation is that 1) lots of stores are closed and boarded up, and 2) Since we don't pursue property crimes under a thousand dollars and often more than that, people don't bother calling the police, so their experience of crime begins to differ from the crime stats. Those are the cases of people walking into Walgreens, grabbing stuff, and walking out. A crime was still committed, but no one called the police since they know they wouldn't do anything, so it doesn't show up in the crime stats. Lots of people don't bother calling the police for things like car breakins for the same reason. If there's no benefit to you and it takes time, then why do it?

One interesting way to test this is to look at NCVS (surveys of random people asking if they were the victims of crime) versus crime stats as reported by police departments. In about 2 years the 2020 data will be out, and then we can see whether the push in places like SF to decriminalize property crime resulted in an increase or decrease in property crimes in the victimization survey, but you can't really judge reported crime stats by police departments when they are under a do not pursue mandate. This would give us a more rigorous approach than looking at a sample of nextdoor posts.
Native apps can share libraries at run time. I'm no electron expert but I'm assuming electron apps only can share dependencies at build time at which point they would be copied into the executable so they really wouldn't be sharing.
Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic
The fire he is playing with is Public Opinion.

The first covid death - no matter why/who or how - will make the press and if he was saying 'mean things' ... it will be bad.

This is a pandemic, people's lives are at risk, the only thing coming out of Musks' mouth should be how much he cares about his staff, how much he is doing to make sure they are safe, that they get 100% paid time off if they or their partners get covid, that it will be 'the safest factory in the world', testing for anyone who wants it - etc. etc. etc..

It's actually an opportunity for him to look like a 'Covid Leader' but he's going the Trump/Twitter/Constitutional-crowd style populism on this one. I think it's just a mistake not borne by any communications strategy, just an angry, frustrating, flinching twitter thumb. That's not a strategy it's just 'reacting'.
Machine Learning at the Edge
Unemployment benefits in California are not generous. The maximum benefit is $450/week. That is less than the state's minimum wage. Assuming that you received UI for an entire year, that is only $23,400.
I wonder if you have worked as an accountant? Or at least took some intro courses in the area? Or at a bare minimum took a look at common corporate financial statements?

This is such a typical dismissive reaction by a person who has ZERO insights into the domain.

If it is so trivial, why don't you do it and disrupt the market? Some very trivial millions are waiting for you to just come and get them, what's holding you back?
If you are holding significant Bitcoin over a long period I don't think it's recommended to have it sitting in an exchange wallet. Most of the top tier exchanges have very good security these days but there is an extra risk as opposed to holding it on a paper or hardware wallet.
Why macos doesn't offer something like this by default is beyond me.

Really, there are some really smart people at apple. You know some of them have customized their environment. You know apple has internal tools.

Why don't they get it and support customization of their os?

They're also not very supportive of "outside" tools. Say you want to use python on macos. Apple has only the most passing support for it. Same with bash or anything else that could put up a dialog box or whatever without having to compile/use xcode/other barrier to entry.

applescript doesn't count.

I know you can add software like macports or homebrew, but I mean first class support from apple.
Your WHO study from 2000 is, well, 20 years old. It tells little about today.

France public healthcare changed a lot, it went down for 20 years, successive governments handled it with the capitalist logic that, basically, healthcare should be profitable, like any other business. Budget for public hospitals was reduced again and again, the number of available beds was reduced, staff was reduced or not renewed.

I don't think French healthcare ranks #1 today, not even in the top 10. Try to see if you can get your hand on a more recent report.
The pancreas is described by physics. Can a Turing machine make insulin?
Except for UNIXes like NeXTSTEP and Sun NeWS, as no other UNIX ever had any clue about GUI development, as Jobs used to say.
Perhaps. It certainly wouldn't have been me that had to live with it. It might have been hard to stop using it.

To give some context this was a utility company. The gas pipes were consumer and commercial supply lines. You need to know where they are buried so people don't blow themselves up digging them up. It was safety critical.

>> It was really quite depraved but it worked

The baseline context for this, though, is a very error prone process. It was common for me to register a pipe in the technical specification (size depth etc) system and map that (by rekeying the handwritten ID) and accidentally pick a different location in the system for indicating connection of service to main pipes. You could have a service pipe (to someone's house) registered to a main in a completely different area. My script eliminated these types of errors.

The other thing to note is it didn't change the underlying process. You could, and I did, check the underlying form fills (something I wouldn't bother doing when it took 6 times as long).

I'm not trying to denigrate the individual here, he might have been doing his best given his knowledge and level of autonomy (he might also have been chickenshit) but as an organisation they let some value fall on the floor from an employee because they had no mechanism to capture and integrate it.
I think that not telling students about different versions of tests is better for deterrence. Of course, not if applied once, but each test they will think twice before copy&paste of an answer.

...

Cheating is a form of deception. The person in the story wanted to cheat an exam, and then later - manipulate OP that they are the victim. One shouldn't fall for that.
It's not like Tesla has a choice. From the e-mail:

>Choosing not to report to work may eliminate or reduce your eligibility for unemployment depending on your state’s unemployment agency

Tesla is not the one making the rules of unemployment benefits. They merely informing people of the rules.

What is Tesla supposed to do: lie to the government about employment status of their employees? Pay them even if they don't work?
All news agencies have this problem. And both Fox and, say, CNN, don't report on certain subjects in the same way. They both ultimately need to be "advertiser friendly".

Like I haven't seen anything on CNN about the US ramping up bombings in Somalia, which is a pretty serious thing!

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/22/coronavirus-somalia-airs...
I don't do it because I care more about my time these days than about making millions :-) And why would I want to do something that is so obviously boring?
> FAANG doesn't determine salaries based on cost of living, but cost of labor, which maps to your concept of "competition density".

Yep, that's exactly what a Google recruiter told me - they try to pay at the upper end of the _local_ market.
> it's difficult to pinpoint the actual criminal violation he could be charged with.

Doesn't seem to be. These businesses in LA county have been charged:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-03/coronavi...

https://www.dailynews.com/2020/05/12/60-nonessential-l-a-bus...

Alameda county could do the same.
Bash vs. Zsh vs. Fish
In many ways it's much better. There is a consistent interface over everything. Whereas on my Unix boxes my ~/.ssh/config file looks completely different to my Apache config.

Also I get much more fine grained control over permissions in the registry, right down to individual keys. Try doing that when your config is in a text file.
Those JavaScript cross-platform solutions are opaque boxes that run basically their own operating system within an operating system. This comes at a penalty of a non-standard UX and higher than usual CPU usage and memory usage. But after they tackled that hurdle (like Visual Studio Code, excellent work), they still lack a lot of platform standard goodies like Accessibility and AppleScript.

I prefer solutions like Xamarin / Mono where you can have a Cocoa UI coupled with C# or F# based dll's. Let's be honest, as long as you have a good way of maintaining a good state in your app for example by already using ViewModels that did most of the heavy lifting like formatting strings, having the state in a state machine and so on, getting the UI to work as required is just an exercise of filling in the colors between the lines.

Barely anyone would notice they were using a Xamarin based solution on a Mac, while the JS based applications are immediately really obvious to the trained eye.
Serverless Authentication with AWS Amplify: A Practical Guide
I read the GP comment and I was about to downvote. Then I read your comment and sat up in my chair.

I use Ableton and I also play with Logic, FL and the occasional tracker. I would love to know what you mean with "the vim of DAW" and perhaps if there is a video or text that describes it?
> […] Japanese wrestling but only through the Tiger Mask anime[0].[…] This was an interesting contrast because the live action was visibly silly

If you take the WWF (now WWE) as the base yes I can confirm that the silly comment is right. It was their product a more cartoonish-gimmicky style of wrestling. But especially when we look at the Japanese wrestling I would challenge the silly part. Puroresu (Japanese wrestling) had always a more stiffer kind of wrestling and put more weight to it that it looked more like a legitimate competitive sport [1][2].

Also in the USA you had the NWA at that time which always had more the vibe of a real competitive sport with more real characters.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2uQvLlgW5A
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCpkKtyyG0Y
Very good illustration how "full inertial physics" works (in contrast to what can be seen in sci-fi movies).

This is a huge potential procrastination catalyst :-)
Java, JavaScript, .NET, forks of Lua, forks of Python, and others are JIT compiled.

So I am not sure what you are saying. Everyone that is able to is compiling their stuff to try to regain some efficiency.

The reason is that people wants to do more complex things with their software nowadays, and hardware can't keep up with the trend. There is also battery life, smartphones, tablets...

Those are the reasons we are seeing a resurgence of native development.
A software engineer!?? On HN!?? IMPOSSIBLE
so that seems to be: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
I happily offer you a birth on Skid Row LA.
So actually he didn't want to be responsible for deploying more widely. I kept on using it. I was probably not meant to.
Could you give an example?

Clearly, there are new paths. Streamer, Podcaster and so one. But nothing that couldn't employ masses.
Patently untrue -- there are fixed ratios for each band v city. With all due respect such a bold claim deserves a link.
Oh yes, I see. The path is shown relative to the current working directory.
There's is an alternative, it's called the telephone!

Are you that terrified of making a phone call?

If it's a small restaurant, just ring up and ask them how you'd like to pick up the food!
And... Do you think that anyone will drop the commission rates?
UberEats isn't profitable.
GrubHub isn't profitable.

What do you think is going to happen?
They're going to charge less?
The guy's a fucking terrorist. Unless our government is actually involved. In which case, he's an American hero. No difference either way.
Trivial in the sense of integer multiplication being easy; non-trivial in that it's full of weird & wonderful business rules, many of which are barely written, and strange interactions between different markets and contracts etc.

Half of it is just the business & people skills to extract the necessary information. Harder than you'd think, and that's just asking people for stuff!
One of those point under "Expectations" can be explain in this page

https://golang.org/doc/go1compat
Database Monitoring and Alerting with N8n
Let me tell you a story...

I was at a crossroads in 2008. I had been developing mostly in C for a decade and decided to pivot to being your standard “Enterprise Dev”. I had a choice between moving my career to C# or Java. I chose C# partly because of the bad stench of the cross platform Java IDEs at the time. Give me VS or Xcode any day over a Java based IDE.

Photoshop definitely isn’t using a non native runtime. I doubt that Blender is either.
KNN for Classification (Of Glass Types)
Plus 600 a week through July from the federal government...
Ninja is great ! In particular the author's point about iteration time rings really true, if things don't happen in a span pf 2 seconds attention span is lost.

I've been developping a small cmake frontend which uses it by default as well as generally optimizes for build speed - https://github.com/jcelerier/cninja
FAANG-tier companies have set ratios based on band and city. The notion that they're going to ditch these suddenly feels bizarre.
( Working in the field. This is obviously not my employer’s opinion. ) Don’t think about your own personal car. Don’t even think about a taxi fleet. Think about all the large company who has to truck goods to their locations, like all store chains for example. They have to maintain a huge fleet of vehicles and a small army of drivers. They already have a maintenance center where a different small army is fixing and cleaning the trucks. If you have a working self driving system you can replace the army of drivers with it as long as the cost of the self driving system is lower than the wages you pay the drivers. This of course puts a cost limit on the viability of the self driving system. If you need 10 Phds per car to keep them rolling then you lost and nobody is going to use your system. On the other hand self driving companies bet is that through smartness they can make it so that they only have to employ a handfull of people per thousands of trucks driven. If that bet works out then the system is financially viable. If it is viable the self driving company can capture a portion of the difference between the drivers wage and the barebones cost of running the system in perpetuity.
Some good points. Some more context: this made a manual process semi manual. You still had to enter the data and the target programs still flew around (on screen) on the background. I think the risk profile was similar.

> Unit tests, integ tests.... was there a preprod environment for it? A trial run? Can you safely roll back if / when bad data shows up?

Nothing of the sort :)

But... Let the adequate be the enemy of the less awful?
Marketo eh? My wife mentioned wanting that in her small business after seeing a shiny video but I said the price is probably not going to be appropriate (some research seemed to support this). Does anyone have experience using it? I have mixed feelings about Adobe but don't know how much influence they wield.
It's a good point. It varies widely depending on the industry, but even in the software industry a good rule of thumb is that IT costs about 10% of revenue (some places are as high as 30%, some as low as 2%). But that includes all the management (not executive management) and support staff. The spend for sales and marketing is much higher than development (though sometimes most of that goes out of the company, paying for sales channels, etc).
I've never seen an et cetera qualified :D
Yeah. I think it's also a perfect example of scope creep done right. As I understand, its original purpose was closer to remapping Caps Lock to CTRL, not to let you write a whole tiling window manager[0] for Windows in it. But now it can do both, and established itself as the unofficial Windows scripting language.

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[0] - https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
What gets you infinite upvotes on Reddit doesn't necessarily work here.
I will gladly write 10x Swift thatn RN.
That said it is usually less code, because you don't have to reinvent thnings.
AutoHotKey!!! It single-handedly spurred my interest in software development.

I still remember my favorite scripts and miss them dearly:

- a smart "spell check" of sorts that could look at previous characters or words to contextually fix typos and expand abbreviations, powered by regex. For instance it would recognize common typos like `AUtohotkey` where your finger would linger on shift for too long. Or auto-add a closing parentheses, if the previous character wasn't a colon (in case you wanted to type `:(` etc.

- I was a huge fan of OSX and specifically wanted to have something like Quicksilver back then but could not afford a Mac. So I built Quicksilver with AutoHotKey and used that. It had a cache, contextual actions, periodic rescanning, would search not only files but also Preferences and fuzzy search with custom scoring. God I loved this thing.

Fun fact, the current logo was contributed by me waaaaay back in the day :)
Which manifests itself with Indians in the West hiring other Indians exclusively.

There are just so many negatives with Indian migrants that they should be more heavily restricted from working in the West.
Don’t worry, calls to forbid surfing have already been placed.
Go-ethereum
It is relative to the current working directory, which is not necessarily the same as the directory the binary is in. We could display the full path, though. Interested in making a PR ?
Is it just me or are the velocity numbers inverted?
Seattle also has locked the price of delivery which is good.
Okay, which Code and which Section for CA?
I tried RN for the first time (with a lot of React experience) a few weeks ago and I haven't noticed this. I don't use third party libraries though, maybe that was the source of your problems?
If you know native at the same level, RN is in now way faster.
Doesn't unicorn just mean $1B+ valuation?
This seems backwards to me. If you get hit by Google, you’ll wake up in a hospital bed full of flowers from ambulance-chasing lawyers who are salivating over the chance to represent you so they can get in on that sweet settlement money.

Hit by a human, decent chance they flee and if you track them down, it’ll probably be some uninsured drunk with a negative net worth.
Trivial stuff takes what, an hour, a week, a month at maximum to do? So you are trading the opportunity to be financially independent for the rest of your life for what, your free time on a span of one month? Yeah, that does sound reasonable.
> At the end of the day, people are there to come out with a degree and a good grade, not feel good they didn't take the same opportunity available to others.

Some people, yes. Others are there to actually learn something. Either because they're intrinsically motivated to do so, or because they understand that while a degree may help get them in the door somewhere, career success in many fields does depend on actually knowing what you're doing.
We all do what our managers / tech leads / architects tell us to do in the end of the day. Even if you have a lot of say where you work, eventually you will join a company with an established stack over which you'll have little control.
If you're going to do web development there's zero chance you can keep this up forever unless you're working for yourself.
Don't get me wrong, I wish the industry would do more of what you're describing, unfortunately it's just not happening.
FAANG total comp -- today -- is at a record high and well outpacing every other vertical.
I used AHK to create my personal snippets tool which works across all IDEs, editors, browsers, etc.

Have been using this for years and years and finally published to GitHub a couple of years ago.

https://github.com/ethanpil/snips
I'll mention that from experience. IIT is a mixed bag. I've seen some really good people, but a lot of them were just terrible at coding as well.
stock = livestock for those who don’t know Australian.
Yep, I can see how FAANGs would be reluctant to adopt remote work. While it can be a fine solution in your run of the mill software team doing boring web or backend work, FAANGs are all about innovation and, often, very technically complex products. The f2f interactions could really foster creativity there (just imagine scientists trying to work out the Manhattan project remotely over Teams...).
What happens when you do the first update? Have you used Expo?
It can be a nice and quick relatively-low-calorie dessert. It doesn't need to be anything more.
We used CosmoDB and here's what we learned
We used CosmosDB instead of a relational database, here's what went through and learned.
It is actually 256 KiB, not KB.
Isn't this just an illustration of the potential pitfall of the tendency to simplify UX to cover just the 80%?

Here, the design seems to be following the idea that an owner of the standard edition of the car doesn't need to be made aware of the existence of a heavy duty version of the car. But a person who owns the heavy duty version and is not aware of it is not guided to this knowledge because the UX hides it from them. It is difficult to say that this is what happened, maybe the author was presented with the choice of standard edition or heavy duty edition and genuinely selected the wrong one. Unclear from the description, but yeah, if I have to type in the car model and there is some sub-type, that sub-type should probably be required.

It sounds (to me) like this is a case where someone decided to hide the essential complexity of the choice and made the choice accidentally simpler than it actually is.
Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's bones used in Brazil forensic medicine courses
FTA :

>>> Vescovo spent three hours at the bottom, and saw a plastic bag through the viewports. In the Puerto Rico Trench, one of the Limiting Factor’s cameras had captured an image of a soda can. Scientists estimate that in thirty years the oceans will hold a greater mass of plastic than of fish. Almost every biological sample that Jamieson has dredged up from the hadal zone and tested in a lab has been contaminated with microplastics. “Does it harm the ability of these animals to feed, to maneuver, to reproduce?” McCallum said. “We don’t know, because we can’t compare one that’s full of microplastics with one that’s not. Because there aren’t any.”

A great achievement, a pitiful conclusion.
The internet as a whole has been in a gradual downward slide since eternal september.

Should never have given the unwashed masses internet access... /jk