skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you use a personal budget for?
I'm working on sort of an early-stage idea for a personal budgeting product. So far, its main feature is going to focus on answering a single question: how much runway do I have? I wrote something rudimentary like this years ago when I adopted my first child, and it helped me make it through the rough financial patch(es) that followed with my sanity in-tact.

The question is, then, is just answering the one question enough of a value proposition? I don't think it necessarily is, so I'm trying to build on the idea to get people to the point of wanting to commit the time to enter the data/credentials the engine will need to make accurate predictions.
Consciousness is not just an abstraction, requires self replication/evolution and ability to create models of self and environment - both being extraordinary feats.

A perceptive self replicator existing inside a multi-agent environment that affords both cooperation and competition, and who's existence depends on its ability to adapt and act well - this configuration is what creates consciousness in my opinion.

There is no particle or fundamental quality of consciousness, but it is what self replication under limited resources leads to.
Adobe XD for YouTube Thumbnails
Just to set some expectations here I am NOT a designer. With that said I have a YouTube channel and up until now I have created all of my thumbnails in Photoshop. This presents a couple of problems but the main one is you end up with .PSD files everywhere. I have recently started using Adobe XD to create all of my thumbnails in a single file and I am really happy with the result. I put together a tutorial showing off my workflow if anyone is interested.

https://youtu.be/xjfZ1KTHe64

P.S - This video is not sponsored by Adobe, I just happen to really like the product.
PowerShell Universal 1.1
Safety guidelines based on what evidence exactly? Because just back in February the WHO guys were saying masks were useless before completely reverting their position, so you hear everything and its opposite even from experts.
Just a guess, probably because he likes their work?
From what I gather this is largely addressed and the answer, it seems, is no [0,1]. (Disclaimer, IANAL and IANAUSC.)

[0]: https://abovethelaw.com/2019/06/explainer-how-letting-platfo...

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 (Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material)
> What does the US do right that we do wrong here? Besides paying our devs worse.

The reason there is really no cool tech firms in the EU is because the EU economic policies make them impossible.

Working for a startup is an extremely risky decision. As a top engineer, you get shitty pay, and a really good options package that in most cases ends up being worth nothing because most startups fail.

In the US, however, if your startup cashes out, you end up rich. This is not only a life changing experience, some of these rich top tech engineers end up creating their own startups afterwards with the money they make, which perpetuates the cycle.

In Europe, if as a top engineer your startup cashes out, you only end up marginally better than if you had had an 8-5 job at BigTech (Google, Apple, Microsoft). Almost 50% of your cashout goes away in taxes, and the rest barely compensates the bad paid you got the last 5-10 years of your life, and if you take "worked hours/week" into account, quality of life, and risk taken, the value proposition is just a joke.

Startups already have a very hard time flourishing with top talent. Europe makes it almost impossible for these to attract top talent, so that's why you don't see as many unicorns here as you do in the US.

This doesn't mean there aren't any startups in Europe. There are. There are just much fewer than in the US, have an even lower success rate, and a less qualified and risk-friendlier employee base.

Source: my own personal experience job hunting in Germany, for many US startups operating here, where most of them actually try to offer BigTech salaries without option packages because they know option packages do not make sense here.

Source 2: https://notoptional.eu/

Techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/27/30-european-startup-ceos-c...
Honestly I would just use auto. I favor heavy use of auto actually, if you got a modern IDE auto is a really great feature.
If you're going to simply re-define words then you can say a duck is a rock and a rock is a cloud and a cloud is happniess.

It's silly and serves no purpose other then allowing you to generate some clickbait-y titles.
Or, to rephrase, he created digital copies and made them available, requiring a fee for the service. (Just as bertmann had required fees).

This instance is more an argument in favor of long copyrights than against them, because without copyright, there would have been no bertmann archive to begin with, and without the long copyright, it wouldn't have been preserved and digitized. (See the sorry state of early Hollywood film archives).

That said, I absolutely agree that our current copyright regime is horribly excessive, both in duration and in the hugely abused anti-circumvention provisions.
We're advocating moving this power from massive corporations to the government, because at least the government has some accountability, whereas Google has NONE.
Yeah I figured, and I personally really like # for comments in code, but here's a list of reasons why I don't think hash as comment in text is workable, in practice:

#1: That's the only reason.
I'm using a 5K iMac with Radeon Pro 580 8 GB. I'm making the comparison vs Sublime Text which has no lag and is my standard.
Do people jaded by years of experience fill out as many surveys?
"Emergence" can certainly be abused in this way, but it is nevertheless a real, useful and important concept.

Take Darwin's theory of evolution, for example. Evolution is an emergent theory in that a purely reductivist approach to biology will not find a particle or field of evolution. This does not mean either that biology is inexplicable by physics, or that evolution is pseudo-science.
Family size is relevant to control for changing demographics. If households used to average 1.6 adults and now average 1.7 adults (or whatever the actual figures are), you need to control for that when judging economic outcomes based on household incomes.

When a couple moves in together, their finances generally improve a small amount (due to reduced overheads), but by less than the doubling that a simplistic spreadsheet might show, hence economic papers considering household income should make some account for household size.
Wonder why this is being downvoted, this is literally what's happening with every other drug in US right now. For example, insulin is dirt cheap everywhere except US where people can't afford it and die trying to ration it.
The degree of the epidemic in a given country during March-April seems to reflect at least three factors: (1) luck (e.g., did you get early spread like Lombardy), (2) public health policy, and (3) resource limitations that were unavoidable given the short warning period.

South Korea was well prepared by SARS, and did extremely well on (2)+(3). Other Western nations had good policy responses, but didn't have the resources in place by February/March.

However, many countries that were unprepared have since made significant efforts to increase resources and deploy successful policy. A look at the epidemic curves in May shows that results are diverging even between Western countries that had similar initial growth. Some, despite starting with a similar initial case spread, are seeing significantly greater declines than others. Some are deploying testing resources at a higher rate.

Ignoring current performance and lumping all Western nations together completely ignores all of this and makes it seem like humans are helpless to control epidemics, which is an absurd claim.
Sure it does. Musk's public deterioration is a fascinating case study of a personality's transition from leader of a well-intentioned start up company into a straight up bully. Both his celebrity and the ugly influence of social media really have corrupted him. He has gone wrong and it's sad to see.
Agreed, but it's a bit too short notice to change that in time for COVID treatments/cures/vaccines.
Yet Another Habit App?
Predatory Pricing absolutely works... when you have a working business model and capital to back it up.

Walmart and McDonalds are masters of this approach.

Uber is a long-term play at disrupting cabs/transportation cartels and incorporated self-driving cars into a non-literal roadmap. They're in it for the long play, and even if they hemorrhage money for a while longer it may, in fact, play out in their favor.
I’m trying to use them more and they are helpful but they can be tedious because now I sometimes have to remember to import the right typing modules and I’m not very comfortable with typed sequences or union types. Anyone have a good cheat sheet or reference?

I’m adding them to code I’m refactoring and it definitely helps there. Instead of a random named variable I can now get completions for the thing I’m working on and dependencies are a lot easier to see and use.
> The idea of end-to-end encryption is just too broken. You always need to make sure that the implementation of the idea isn't controlled by the vendor from which it is supposed to protect you. But it is pretty much never the case, all the WhatsApps, Signals, etc. control implementations, updates and openly fight against attempts to decentralize or weaken that control, making sure that ultimately they are the ones deciding whether they get access to your data or not.

Note that the client side apps are available for researchers to study. If they find a back door, it will be a big publicity issue for the app vendor.

Your concern is still valid though. Both Whatsapp and Signal could announce tomorrow that they drop E2EE or add some feature (like a default on non-disable-able cloud based spellchecker) and there is nothing you could do to protect your correspondence.

Matrix is different here that it encourages independent implementations as well as end to end encryption.
The problem is using `white` on black instead of `gray` on black. The latter provides plenty of contrast while still being easy to read.
Nice! I hope you'll give this a shot too! :-)
Because by that logic, voting itself is a poll tax.
I've heard of this happening for executives and board members at various blue chip companies.
You made such a poorly thought out reply, I have already written three drafts in attempts to tackle it and discarded them. I don't have the patience to point out in detail what's wrong with it on a level of discourse that I consider acceptable on HN because it takes an order of magnitude more effort than you put in. I will reconsider and write the proper reply if you really want me to.
Regarding the UN, China has veto so UN can do nothing.

Even if the UN is just a “condemnation” paper tiger unless a world power is pushes and does the heavy lifting
Thanks for sharing!

It sounds like your questions are calibrated to detect if the interviewee is passionate. I totally get that, 15 years ago, it was obvious everyone around was, but those last years I find myself wondering more and more if devs around me didn't get into coding just because "it's a good job", and it looked slightly more interesting than a career in law or commerce.

> I have one big issue with recruitment process: when I meet people, after those 2 questions, I can know very quickly that I don't want to hire with them. If we are in the first 5 minutes of the interview, how can I tell them "no" without being too rude?

Been there, I feel the pain :) I had briefly a job as a manager, and I knew it was not for me when I started to panic about how to tell people I won't hire them. Still better than to have to fire them, but damn, finding a proper way to say "you're not good enough" or any other reason is brutal.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time for sharing all of that with us.
Those actors exist only because China blocks US movies in their theaters to 10 a year(!!). US movie industry creates so-called joint movies with the only goal to avoid these quotas.
That's how Chinese capital suddenly got access to US movie companies, Chinese actors start appearing in US movies.

It's a pretty much mafia move and has nothing to do with fair trade.

Somehow Korea managed to create best movie of the year without this mafia-style ruling.
They use the weaknesses of regular people who want gains now.
Making Desktops on the Way to Dynabooks: Happy 80th Birthday to Alan Kay
Will Certainly check that paper out. 13 years old? Pretty precocious.

A great book to read on the subject of color spaces is ‘color space and its divisions: Color Order from Antiquity to the Present’ by Rolf Kuehmi. I have read just about every major book on color there is, and this one is easily amongst the best. Written in plain English and with great insight. Go with him to a place beyond RGB.
It's a shame how few of these prevent horizontal scroll on mobile. Usually the table and/or video are not probably handled. My take away from this: Simple does not mean easy; check edge cases.
A Plea for Micro-Transactions
Negative News Distorts Our Thinking
My point is that the separation of body and mind doesn't make sense in the eyes of some scientists. Like some of your memories are bound to scare tissue.

Some back it by the change of personality after major trauma.

Moving a mind to another body is most definitely quite a trauma (maybe the ultimate trauma?), which begs to ask the question:

What's the point of moving your mind to another body, if you'll cease to exist as you are? If you lose, like you said, the "sense of you".
There is no edit, but you can delete and repost! Just go to your sent mailbox and find the email, click on the mail you sent us, and hit reply. Then type "$DELETEME" as the first text in the body.

https://hackerspring.com/faq/
To be mindful in turbulent times, turn to an ancient form of entertainment
By the way, it also is important to distinguish between the preferred language for the UI, the preferred language of the content, the preferred localization (geographical relevance) of content, the preferred currency etc.
only if they stay neutral. This goes beyond that.
I'm using a 5K iMac with Radeon Pro 580 8 GB. I'm making the comparison vs Sublime Text which has no lag and is my standard. This is based on my experience, not benchmarking, just try it side by side and you'll see.

My Sublime Text is decked out in plugins and so on too, there are instances where it slows down but only when it's obviously doing some processing. The basic rendering is fast, totally unlike vscode. But like I said vscode is still "fine" just uncomfortable.
Yes, and if you look up the opinion of present-day scholars, you'll find that many of them call said banks out on it (if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck). While I'm not a scholar, I completely agree that it's jumping around the issue and it is almost certainly interest. It doesn't mean Islam allows it. This in my opinion, is a manifestation of what I mentioned how the West pushed their usurious banking system onto Islamic nations, and because many of those governments were installed by Western nations, now the people are having a difficult time breaking out of it.
This is precisely what's going to happen.
But that isn't what's missing. It's a restatement of the problem. DOM based apps are much more resource intensive than native. What is missing from native that makes business choose DOM?

If there was some modern tool like WxWidgets that supported modern apis like DOM, Android and UWP, would we see more use of native? Electron would therefore become pointless.
Intuitively we would think if an animal can move, meaning it has locomotion, it is NOT because it is intrinsic to all matter (i.e rocks), rather it is because there is some bio-mechanical reason for it. Scientist could figure out how things moved and the underlying cellular processes to obtain energy in order to do it. A proponent of this article then might say that all matter is in constant motion. Then we are not talking about the same things. We are talking about directed motion to obtain food or some goal for survival. Atoms are not alive so they don't need to survive and do not have goal-oriented motion. But then those same proponents would list off how electrons move according to laws that behave similar to living creatures etc. so its some intrinsic thing. You can't win with those people. They will always have a response framed in some narrow definition that does not have any basis for what we are thinking of what locomotion means. That's a long metaphor.
> No this was a misunderstanding I said if you need (concurrency control/transaction and index) use a real database not a filesystem, since it’s the whole reason database exist.

Just because something is designed for x doesn't mean it's any good at x. Kafka is also designed for handling concurrent events, and it's significantly better at it.

> But if you don’t need it there are plenty of good distributed file system that will not eat your data.

There really aren't any distributed filesystems that are nice to work with. S3 isn't a full filesystem and your writes take a while before they're visible in your reads, HDFS isn't a full filesystem and can be slow to failover, AFS has generally weird performance and locks up every so often. If your needs are simple then anything will work, including distributed filesystems, but it's very rare that a distributed filesystem is an actively good choice, IME.
The overwhelming majority of applications do need ACID and the overwhelming majority of companies do not care about few operations being slower.

If you are really at the point you need to super scale, then you can look into specialized databases.
We should probably ignore most "scientific code" altogether. The jig is up.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/9/98038-science-has-only...

https://guscost.com/2020/05/12/pandemic-woo/
Non-amp link: https://fortune.com/2016/12/22/russia-ukraine-app/
>If it's a dozen admins making a megabuck, and the president making a few megabucks, that's a couple thousand dollars per student.

Without having studied any university financial reports in detail lately, anecdotally one of the issues isn't so much megabuck salaries at the individual level but general administrative sprawl--which there have been complaints about for decades.

Some of this is just Parkinson's Law stuff. (As he originally wrote about the British Admiralty.) Bureaucracies tend to grow.

It's perhaps also the case the today universities need more administration to handle increased compliance and other requirements.
you're a white guy that moved from slovenia with a degree already and $3000 in cash. slovenia isn't moldova or romania or ukraine - gdp per capita ppp is 36k. your $3000 is twice the median savings of black people and hispanics in this country

https://www.valuepenguin.com/banking/average-savings-account...

what social mobility? you were middle class and you're still
middle class

my family actually immigrated as poor people (refugees) 30 years ago from a shit country (moldova) and we're all doing very well in tech now but that doesn't mean i'm blind to the inequalities faced by systematically marginalized people.
Day job. Working during day, doing open source at night and weekends. Until very recently I didn’t have my own OS projects, but I did contributions to about 20 others. Now I begin to work on my own stuff and I hope eventually turn it into sustainable business to support myself doing OS 100% of my time
> What are some tips to get into open source and turn it into fulltime career[?]

Don't.

If you want money get a job.

If you can't help but write software, if coding is what you do, all day, every day, because everything else is fucking dull, if you, like Asimov, take your typewriter on vacation, then, one day, your skill and art will be superlative. On that day, give the world your software.

I roll out of bed and within twenty minutes I'm on the machine. I won't stop until my eyes cross (my body's way of telling me we're done for the day) at around midnight to 2AM. I burned up my stomach eating nothing but coffee and blueberry muffins from dawn to afternoon, I blew out my back from not sitting on good chairs (Aeron chair FTW three years and my back works again!) I've been doing this for over a quarter of century and I'm still not good enough to publish my software.

(I do anyway but not because it's good enough yet. It's not.)

Computers aren't about making a buck (increasing a mere scalar value) they are an investigation into the nature and meaning of truth. A tool for thought.

Bucky Fuller pointed out that, when you have computers, you can just program them with the available data and they can tell you exactly how to build a working civilization. ("World Game" is the search term there IIRC.) We could solve most of our problems on a spreadsheet if we could just get out act together. We've got all the technology we need already.

(The trick is that we have to optimize globally, e.g. things like connecting all the world's electric grids into one so that we can shift power around as the planet rotates. A global grid has greater opportunities for efficiency.)

So, from that POV, trying to make a living from somehow selling software is counter-productive. Very good programmers have already created all the FOSS we need. Work to alter the nature of the economic system itself.

- - - -

To answer your question, I was homeless when I learned most of my knowledge, I wrote a cool demo and presented it at CodeCon and was offered a job on the spot. Since then I've worked for many startups and once as a TVC at Google, but I have never made a penny from open source. No, wait, that's wrong: I once made $50 selling copies of an RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) app I wrote (in Delphi!) at a college (I sold it at a college, I wasn't attending.) I hope the two people that bought it got some use out of it. But that's it I think.
Bring back fond memories of http://www.csszengarden.com/

Just plain HTML + CSS
holy shit, this is a gold mine. will take me a while to work thru this but thanks for the list!
I don't mean to hate on any particular groups of people, I'm simply a proponent of using the right tools for the job.

I can only speak from my own experience, but I have never dealt with an Electron app that wasn't noticeably slower than other apps, to the point of standing out like a sore thumb.

Or, put another way, when I notice an app performing especially slowly, I think to myself, "that's probably an Electron app", and I'm usually right.
To software engineers criticizing Neil Ferguson’s epidemics simulation code
I have my Firefox "Language and Appearance" language set to "English (United States)". I'm not sure why this setting even exists, because the operating system also has a language setting, which I've also set to "English (US)". Yet somehow, some parts of my Firefox UI are still in Japanese. Nobody has ever been able to explain why, or how to fix it.

I don't understand why a web browser (or any application) needs a custom language setting, much less a prominent one. It's just one more place that can fail.
So where is the Vision Fund getting these billions, and why do they need them laundered (squandered?) so badly?
Detecting Taxis from My Balcony
Slashdot used probabilistic anonymized meta-moderation. I think that should be used to weigh people's karma. (So someone that is deemed very wise by the meta-moderators should have more "power".)

I have no idea of the second order effects of this. Echo chambers are of course possible, just like without this.

Maybe adding a third layer would help to reward people who help diversify and rationalize discussions, and so on.