skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are very, very inventive and smart people were working with computers since they were invented. I'd say there were probably a higher proportion of smart people working with them then than now because they were so rare and expensive (although that may be survivor bias in that the less good people fade from history).

Also there seemed to be a higher number of mathematicians involved in computers back then.

One thing I've learnt is that principles matter more than code. Not deep I know, but take a look at the market...
> Yeah, and who do you think comes along and cleans up their mess, extends and maintains that software once your cowboy coders are gone?

Sometimes someone with a CS or SE degree, sometimes someone who learned to program as a hobby while doing something completely irrelevant like Music, English, bar tending or high school and sometimes the cowboy coders themselves with more experience. There’s an enormous amount of theory in programming which is highly relevant to many, many people but you can be amazing at CS theory and write scientific code that’s garbage, uncommented spaghetti like the Imperial epidemiology model. At the other end you can have a great grasp of how to write clean, modular, well commented code and have no idea how you would start parsing a text file to extract all nouns or some other introductory undergraduate project for one of the infinitude of topics in CS.
> So, an ask: any historical examples where government policy other than deregulation has increased the efficiency with which a resource is used?

EU banned selling incandescent light bulbs for one example. Which increased demand for LEDs, lowered their prices, and made people switch much faster.

Almost all countries have legislation that mandates fuel usage of passanger cars has to be at most X liters per 100 km. Or at least there's an incentive system with taxes and other bills.

There are minimal standards for thermal insulation of houses.

If you call clean air and clean water a resource then most environmental regulation count.

It's very common actually - it happens every time there's a tragedy of commons and government regulates it.
Honestly my whole life I have basically been rolling my eyes whenever people complain of discrimination. "Why would a company pay more for less? They'd be eaten alive by competitors that don't". But here we have the whole industry saying they are gonna pay people less based on nothing more than living in black neighbourhoods. And gloating about how people don't have negotiating leverage.

It's making me rethink a lot of things.
With the exception of fruit perhaps, isn't almost everything produced to deter getting eaten?
Worth pointing out that this is a dockerfile, and not something you can just unzip-and-run on Windows.
UK getting 200 mile route to test self-driving vehicles on public roads
They put us on the cover of their print issue in exchange for us doing a giveaway for their users. We got an amazing traffic boost from that, but I wouldn't know how to measure the impact in sales.
Part of it has to do with capital, but a fair portion is due to network effects.

As an example; in Boston, if you are looking to setup a Biotech shop you need to throw a rock down the street and you'll hit someone involved in the industry. In Louisville, KY? Forget about it, yes there are some folks who are in the field but as a whole?
That does not seem a good paper. The only references on biology are quite generic books. Also the stated hypotheses are quite unfounded. As far as I know, there is barely any evidence of biology using quantum phenomena directly, except perhaps regarding photosynthesis and enzymatic activity:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology
Because of COVID19 my workplace has rushed right into Microsoft Teams. There's so much efficiency lost creating large-scale meetings and phone conferences. Coming from the land of IRC I've created a few teams with massive rosters, but nobody seems to really understand the paradigm. They see all these messages come in and they leave the team/discussion/channel.

I keep saying "mute the discussion" and @mentions will signal you if needed, but it is lost on folks who haven't done this kind of things.

They're used to discussion spaces being set up per-incident, instead of just lingering/loitering in a room.
I don't see much evidence for the argument that software will destroy software development jobs. It's true, we have automated a lot of tasks and develop at a higher level now than we did in the past, but there are also more people working in software now than in the past.

You can do impressive stuff with a small team or even alone now, but the past also had small teams doing impressive stuff. Look at how Apple was founded by two guys, how many startups started with a small team. In the 1980s, many very successful games were written by one or two people. We make more sophisticated games and systems now because we build on the abstractions created then.

The demand for more sophisticated software will continue to grow, and we're not remotely near the point where every problem will have been solved. The focus of software development will very likely shift, as it has always done. But software engineers will continue to be needed as long as software is needed.
Current employer basically offers no perks apart from paying salary, which I reckon is a neatly decoupled way to structure life. BYO lunch, BYO social life, BYO health insurance (largely covered by public system). Employer offers salary in exchange for services, as an exchange that does fine.

Employer gave everyone a bit less than AUD 100 as one off bonus to help cover home office supplies (which is then taxed).

In Australia, can claim AUD 0.80 / hr as tax deductible working from home running expenses at end of financial year -- this is federal government tax office policy, independent of company policy. https://www.ato.gov.au/general/covid-19/support-for-individu...

One small downside is that I can no longer drink the mediocre free coffee at work. But can instead make my own coffee at home, which is more enjoyable (better coffee + better ritual). Costs me about AUD 0.26 in beans and AUD 0.06 in electricity to produce each 1L french press payload of black coffee, so cost is negligible.

Don't have to lose 1.5 hours of my life commuting to work and back every day, don't have to sit in noisy shared office environment where we don't even have fixed desks. On the whole working from home is a massive net win. My working from home setup is sub-optimal (small apartment, little space) but that said home is a lot better than the office and I don't want to ever go back!

Compared to other sectors of the economy or other employment situations where low-paid workers who are already vulnerable are laid off, no longer have any income, and have experience in industries that are approximately dead (tourism, hospitality) absolutely nothing to complain about at all. Still have a job, still have regular income, no drama.
Italian Contact Tracing app source published on GitHub
Do people actually still torrent without using a VPN? That seems... unwise.
Software doesn't actually get easier to write. Yes, you have more building blocks to choose from and sometimes (very rarely) improvements in abstractions. But this also means that your software sits atop an ever larger mountain of code that you do not understand. This means that it is easy to do things half way, but it still isn't any easier to do things well.

Much software also has to model the world around us. Which doesn't really get any simpler as we try to solve more problems in systems that need software. Like self driving cars, or even something as everyday as your mobile phone.

The piece was too long.
I think in modern day it is called News from KOL. And since it is a Tech Person talking about a piece of Tech. I thought it was quite relevant.

Hopefully more people will purchase AMD as the result of this. Its financially figures are not good. ( As I have been saying in every AMD thread )
I'd wager they count in different ways. Or I'm living in a total bubble. None of my friends is living alone. All of them are either sharing a house with others or living together with their girlfriend/wife.

Edit: it might be that your statistic is dominated by houses being owned by old people
You're absolutley wrong. Air quality is a huge issue in most Asian countries due to crop burning especially Thailand. You should look at the AQI and pm2.5 levels on a trusted app.
Are virtual actors about to put Hollywood's humans out of work?
Generating random numbers using C++ standard library: the solutions
If you're doing some quick system call and that system call does not use much RAM, then you'll have your cache almost ready after its return. Now if that's in some tight loop, that might influence performance. Probably in single digits of percents, but it's still degradation.
Solution for this is to tunnel the traffic through encrypted connection to servers in countries that respect persons privacy(if that is true nowadays). The easiest way is to use WireGuard, easy to set up uses only one port and have clients for many devices.
I think a new wage fixing agreement between companies within SV is going to happen, just to avoid the situation you have mentioned in your reply.
The "Releases" section of the repo contains something you can just unzip-and-run on Windows.
So what is the endgame again? Is it eradication? That seems completely non-feasible without truly draconian measures. If it's not eradication, if it's just "flattening the curve," that's already happened in most of the world:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...

Oncologists are talking about how they haven't seen new patients for two months or more. Even with clinics open, people are afraid to come in. Time is critical in some cancers. How many people will die because they've progressed to stage 2 cancers without diagnosis? How many people have already died from heart conditions because they were afraid to go to hospital. What happens when the 2nd order effects hit half of that 100,000 number?

This thing is most likely going to be a part of our environment and ecosystem. People are going to continue to die until this burns out, and that might happen before Gavi/Gates/whoever gets their vaccine through clinical trials.

So far, people have mostly been doing what has been asked, not by force. But we've been fed so much conflicting information, we are so scared and risk adverse, and our governments seek so many more powers in order to protect us, and so many people have lost their jobs, savings, businesses and livings, that there is justification for peoples' concerns.

When it comes to civil liberties, we're talking about basic rights. We're talking about the question: Who owns you?

Liberty isn't some hobby or thought experiment. Liberty is most precious in times like these, when people frame claiming one's liberty as selfishness and a threat to order.
If you know who the author is, and assuming the author is not ready to revoke citizenship how is this going to solve it? DMCA (or whatever law your country has) is also applicable to IPFS.

One solution is hiding names from everything like say Pirate Bay/Silk Road but I would not trust anything like that to run in my machine. I wouldn't even download TPB app if it is going to be released. It would also make discovery very hard.
A better analogy would perhaps be studying how a machine-learning model works, once it has been fully trained.

Code is written by humans for humans. The way models are trained has some similarities with the way evolution has created our biology.
I guessed quite a few of these ingredients because I work with beeswax, tree resins and plant oils in the wood shop, particularly when doing instruments.

I was surprised about the bitumen and its origin story (floating blobs in the dead sea). That stuff looks like bitumen but I did not expect that they had petroleum products so long ago.

I use lots of materials in my craft that were once used by the ancient Egyptians. Beeswax, linseed oil, hide glue, propolis were all used for at least 4000 years successfully. It breaks my heart to know that we abandoned these traditional materials less than a hundred years ago and replaced it with plastic crap, which seems unlikely to stand the test of time.
... so they can stamp 'Made it Italy' on the bags, which obfuscates the fact that they are actually Chinese made. For fashionistas, the made in Italy stamp is very important.

Additionally... it saves on shipping completed bags from China to Europe.
Passmark numbers seem to say -15.5% - but I guess that's maybe not that big of a deal in most things.

I use my desktop for playing games, so having 4-8 cores is enough, I'd much rather have fast cores for things that don't parallelize well.

That being said, I am pushing a pretty old cpu - i7-4770k - and I haven't been able to convince myself to spend the money on the upgrade since I'm down ~32% from the best thing you can get considering single thread perf.

Maybe the next round of cpus - Zen 3 et al. I'll be doing nvme pcie-4.0 ssd as well in the next build which should give a big boost over the sata ssd I'm using now.
We ban accounts that do personal attacks and flamewar, so please don't do those things on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Regarding absorbing iron on a plant based diet, it's important to distinguish between heme iron and nonheme iron, and that namely most vegans have no trouble getting enough iron from beans and greens.
I'm pretty sure this would be illegal in the UK, the job pays what it pays and where you live shouldn't be a concern of the employer (the exception being if they base you abroad and you get relocation taken into account).
I think getting an offer from somewhere else works out well for both sides. It gives a clear indication on how much you are worth on the market without having to guess from both sides.

From employees's pov - if a company would increase my salary and I didn't have actual info what others were willing to offer I would still be second-guessing - would I be better off somewhere else, how do I know if what they are offering is fair?

If I ask for a specific raise without having any other offers how will the employer know that I'm not BSing?

It's very difficult to know the fair price without data from competitors.

I guess what one should do is save enough money so they could last at least 6 months without having to rely on a job. This will open so many doors and remove any desperation during negotiations. Then it won't matter if they start to look for a replacement. And you already have evidence that other companies will be happy to hire you.

Otherwise it's probably gut feeling whether the company is the type to be reasonable about business and not take things personally.
Content free, typos galore, captures back button. Avoid.
Retrying a network request with a delay in Combine
NLP for text classification: classical Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning
I'm gay and have a Playboy. The one with the richard dawkins interview.
Note for the interested: this uses the centralized model, as opposed to the German app which scrapped the attempt and went decentralized.
My comparison is usually nurses who have an actually hard job where people's lives are on the line (and lately their own lives). If someone thinks that software developers are notorious for accepting low pay, I can't imagine what they think of nurses. The worst thing that happens in my day is that I might have to battle bombastic management or know it all whipper snappers in order to get my way :-) (Well, to be fair, as a contractor for a company in the travel industry, my biggest stress is making sure they don't get the impression that paying my invoice is optional...)
Ask HN: Mental barrier preventing earning more $$$
Hi!

Does anyone have experienced this:

I could make about 3k - 5k per month with personal projects, but after more than 20 years developing digital products, I've never got to 10k/month for example. It's like a mental barrier. From the outside it seems I just got bored after a project is built and its running.

But internally I know there is something more. Like don't believe I really could make 10k or 20k / month.

Why do you think I cannot break this barrier? What would you recommend?
My reading is that people who are planning to move anyway put in remote work requests just in case.

You need more context to evaluate something like this.
That is correct and what I meant. Thanks, and there doesn't have to be a `try/catch` because it is possible to "fork" control with promises.

They implemented a "disposer" incorrectly (I added this to several other libraries and made a Q&A about it here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28915677/what-is-the-pro... )
The alternative is public transport or living closer to your work, both more efficient than everybody driving in their cars and waiting in the trafic.

Basically it's comfort vs efficiency, and people maximize their comfort within the acceptable traffic jams level.
Yeah I think our views are mostly aligned.

I was pointing out that if you as beginner manage to set correct boundaries for C++, you still need to know what's on the other side in order to avoid it. You've constrained yourself to smaller language (a good thing), but you haven't eliminated all the baggage / mental overhead that rest of C++ brings. The optimal approach would be to pick a language that's already well suited to problem. I would always choose enhanced C over degraded C++.
You wouldn't even need DNS data, just how much Internet traffic a specific connection or device is using is enough to determine these things.
A History of Palomar Observatory
What Is Next for Bitcoin: A Big Dump Before the Bull Market Starts?
Linus Torvalds Switches to AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years of Using Intel
Anther exception being if you're a public sector employee, there are certain accommodations made for living in London: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_weighting
I feel kind of lousy if I stop daily workouts but then I get used the new schedule/metabolism after a few weeks. Caffeine might be bad but I don't find this argument perfectly compelling.
DarkMate 12.1 – Desktop Install Script for FreeBSD 12.1
Yes, several times - we pay Mongo Atlas over $5000 per month.

We reported it immediately at the highest severity and we pay for the highest tier or support - we tried to collaborate as soon as possible. It sort of went "over their head".
This is very cool. I think I could be very good cobaya.

- Too much projects at the same time
- Starting but not finishing
- Getting bored after project is built and not pursuing sales enough
- checking twitter too often..
Samsung Biologics Signs 287 Bln Won CMO Supply Deal with GSK
So then, when you save money on something else, do you give a portion of it back to the company?
Have you been able to find a trustworthy public DoT resolver?

I really want to use uncensoreddns.org, but availability has been a little flaky in the past. I'm not sure about Quad9. Google and CloudFlare are obviously out of the question. What else is there?
Is Sacramento at risk of earth quakes?
Technical Guide to Protecting Voter Registration Databases
The idea that we will have some abstraction that will someday (in the foreseeable future) save us from all of this difficult work sounds very far fetched to me, and I can’t imagine how that would work.

The problem here is that word "all". It's never going to be easy to do everything. Some part will be hard. That's where the value lies, and that's what your best people focus on. But everything else will be abstracted away. It's already happened. 30 years ago making a GUI was hard, but VB changed that. Then making a web app was hard, but PHP changed that. Then app layout was hard, and Bootstrap changed that. Then ML was hard, and Torch changed that. Every hard problem gets a 90% working solution that's more than good enough for most companies. There'll always be a few companies that pay people to work in the last 10%, so the problem never really disappears, but fewer and fewer people work on it.

The key to keeping growth going in tech is to keep finding new problems, not to keep everyone working on the same old problems.
However, there was still an increase in authors and the number of books in addition to everything else being written.
I distinctly remember talking to programmers at a job fair in the mid-80s who warned me that there was not much future in programming.
Same here. But I want to go to the other side of the planet: Carribean, then the Pacific and eventually around the globe.

Working one day per week while travelling should earn enough money to do this perpetually if you don't spend a lot.
Great material, thanks for the hint.

Unfortunately some of the animations require Flash or other plugins which are no longer common.
The first version of the source-code of the Covid19 apps published on GitHub
So maybe I've just never seen it used properly since most of what I've seen is more along the lines of a single "General" channel that's way too hard to follow. I can definitely see the value in your "Ask [Department]" explanation which is a great example.

I've only really evaluated Teams for one use case and there were limitations that made it impractical. I was hoping to set up Power Automate rules that would let me forward an email to a group and have it auto-create a Planner task, auto-create a Team Channel with a link to the task and a copy of the original email posted, and reply to the email with a link to the channel. Then all conversation about the task happens in the Team Channel and someone can own the task to make sure it doesn't get forgotten. When the task is closed, the channel gets archived. However, there's a limit of 200 channels per team, so it's not good for short lived channels. Planner also has some crazy low limitations, but I don't recall what they are.

I know that sounds a lot like an issue tracker, but the hope was to trend towards the other scenario you describe where email, IM, SMS, etc. are all replaced by a single tool. Just email + SMS are enough to de-thread a conversation and cause confusion / miscommunication.
Opening of BI title: "Alabama hospitals are out of ICU beds"

Actuality: the mayor of one city is saying this; nobody actually in medicine or in statewide government is.
Health care. There, regulation makes it more accessible to more people, improves quality, and drives costs down. Deregulated health care systems are less reliable and more expensive. People who can afford it will pay anyway.

Public transport. It benefits society as a whole when people are able to move around, and if they can do so without causing massive traffic jams. Regulation, keeping prices low, and ensuring that even remote areas are reachable, make it attractive to use and will make it more usable to more people.

Labour in general; shorter work weeks and improved working conditions have improved productivity.
Last few companies I've worked for were using what would be considered the latest trends in software development: SPAs, React, Redux, BFFs, monorepos, kubernetes... I can tell you, we're not reducing the need for developers at all... if anything we're building things so complex and overcomplicated that will require generations, and generations of developers to maintain an understand. So we're pretty safe for the time being...

Yes, then you have things that would really cut down the number of people working on the field, such as Heroku, App Engine, Firebase... but this is such a small factor due to the few companies using it that compared to the messes we're creating in other places I don't see it causing any collapse of the job market.
Is fashion industry relevant? It's just producing garbage that's mean to be thrown out within a year, destroying the planet. That industry going under would be nothing but a positive.
No, Occams Razor implies that the concept of "causation" should be discarded. Only the concept of correlation is necessary.
Now.

Back then you could smoke at your desk.

Which was unfortunate for the non-smokers.
Top Skills You Need to Be a Good Software Testing Engineer