skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you contact the website admin and discuss the suggestion in the communication medium of their preference. After all, you are making the request to them. Not the other way around.
It's the difference between just wanting to carefully make more money and wanting to do something important. Or to quote Walt Disney "We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies."
I agree that this type of toxic peer-pressure is spreading, and I have no idea what to do about it. It reminds me of what Louis Fischer and Arthur Koestler described in their respective essays in "The God That Failed".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_that_Failed
It's just an opinion. Like literally _everything_ in life, multiculturalism has pros and cons that must be studied and analysed for us to understand the effects.

FWIW I've not read the book, but the existence of such a book isn't necessarily racist.
I had the same feeling. Most of the article was about challenges the author has with Linux in a single day of trying. My SO could have written the exact same article about the time her work gave her an iPhone when she's been an Android users since 2011.

It's like me deciding to learn Polish and giving up at the end of the day because I'm not fluent. (I actually tried for three months before deciding the pierogi was the only word I needed).
As much as I want to be sympathetic, if I was his co-worker I would feel very publicly harassed especially when the co-worker explicitly was conferring to him privately.

Sure shame the monolith that is FB, I would even say shame Zuckerberg he controls the place. But don't shame a fellow engineer who you work with, he didn't have any say in what FB was doing.

Also long term ineffective, if you promote a culture of shaming private conversations, then nothing happens because no one talks.
Telescope Building with John Dobson (1992) [video]
Sure, but that's nothing a few years in the real world can't fix. The point is that C++ programmers are not some rare breed of neckbeard that are gradually going extinct. They are being produced en mass.
in particular because our president refuses to be eclipsed in newspaper headlines so he's likely to keep doing things that keeps these protests relevant for the next few months. (unlike #occupy)
This is magnificent. Read slowly.
Send me an email if you’re willing to part with one of those SE/30s assuming it still works. I’ve been pining for a classic Mac to play with but the pickings on eBay are either all broken or really pricey.
People who are worried about Apple's review process being arbitrary and onerous have no idea what's in store for them when VR/AR becomes more mainstream. Facebook's Oculus store is more of a "don't call us, we'll call you" and it's not getting better - they're actively training users to want this type of curation.

The smartphone era will quickly be seen as the Good Old Days where publishing was self-serve at all. Basically what I'm saying is, we need to nip this in the bud, or indie development is over.
It’s part of a bit of a wide reaching effort to make it possible for me to get all my income from open source work and free ventures. I’m about 25% of the way there.

And quick note on YouTube CPMs, they vary a lot by genre. Some of the more popular genres are on the lower end of that spectrum (afaict, based on limited testing).

It’s tough because I have a chronic illness and also support a family of five (SAHM, but it seems all parents have been stay at home lately).

But as cringey as many in the HN audience may find it, marketing is actually vital to any endeavors success.

I try to make it so my work is better than the title suggests, but don’t always succeed.

I literally unplugged my MBP and replaced it with a Pi 4 for a day, but that is apparently not literal enough to justify the title ;-)
That's not a goal of capitalism. It has no goals. All it means is that you, the individual, own the means to production. And you own the resulting profits or losses, regardless of how much value you create or how efficient you are in the process.
on the flip side, at least we now have a rough measure of the attention span of the hive mind
Maybe.

On the other hand, if they think that they'll catch up by replicating things in the united states down to the layout of research labs... then that's kind of hilarious and they've really missed the point. It's like the Soviets copying the space shuttle and concorde. They're copying the wrong things, too late.
“I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of: ‘The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that’s enough.”

“Like, if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, cause, ‘Man, you see how woke I was, I called you out.’”

“That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That’s easy to do.”

- Barack Obama

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/obama-woke-ca...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
> I'll be paid less under a union

This is a valid point. Your two examples are guilds not unions; they're inherently geared more towards contractors and individuals due to the nature of the work. While job hopping has become both more prevalent and more frequent among software engineers, it's certainly still mostly an employee-oriented field. It's very true that under unions, high performers specifically are paid a bit less and low performers a bit more. This is both the upside and the downside of collective bargaining and a fundamental characteristic thereof rather than a flaw of a specific union. As someone who's generally been promoted faster and paid more because I worked hard and put in long hours, unions are anathema to me. I'd likely be paid less and a less-productive peer paid more. I can see, however, why such a prospect would appeal to most people. But as an outlier among most employees, I see no reason to entrust my situation to majority rule as that takes it from a negotiation between me and an employer (a person who represents my interests and one who doesn't) to one between someone who represents the average employee and an employer, both of whom probably don't represent my interests.
But this only works if you're releasing a new version every subscription period -- and in that case, it's equivalent to upgrade pricing.
I also bookmarked a very informative article regard biohacking written by a silicon valley CEO:

https://hackernoon.com/im-32-and-spent-200k-on-biohacking-be...

For those who interested with the topic.
"IQ shredder" simply describes what is happening. You may not like what it describes, but calling it "dangerous" is odd. Is describing water as wet also dangerous?

>condemning homosexuality

There are worse things than condemnation. In Somalia, homosexuality is punishable by death. Somalia also has a birth rate of 5.93. The future is populated by those who show up. If you want gay rights to continue to exist, then you should want LGBT-friendly nations to have a birth rate higher than replacement.
IMO the audiobook versions narrated by Jonathan Cecil are the best of the lot: you get a voice that sounds like both Fry and Laurie, and the richness of the full text.
I merely read a couple of Wikipedia pages relating to him, but an interesting thing about Saakashvili seems to be that after leading what seems to be a quite beneficial (and peaceful) revolution, he himself became autocratic and corrupted to the point of having to flee Georgia and cancel his citizenship. The most interesting thing is actually how soon he was forced out of power, considering the massive success and popularity he had had.
I am 41 yo, I started working as a developer in BigCo´s when I was 20.
I love coding, but I made great progress on the management side, I ended up being the CTO of a small startup.

Now I am back to only-coding, and I love it. I begun learning a lot of new things and I will never stop putting some time on learning more about software development.

Managing is hard, consumes a lot of energy. Maybe some time in the future I will get back into managing, maybe the best solution would be a more engineering role as mentioned in several comments here.
You will be judged on how you look, how you speak, how well you write, and what you produce. You need to make an effort on all four. In every group, some will take advantage of you, some will sabotage you, some are bullies, and some you can trust. Your best strategy is to recognize them as early as possible.
I mean what you say sounds pretty reasonable. I wonder it also sound reasonable if I say "Well black men have it really easy, they have great skin tone and better physique than average. All they have to do is to not dress like punk or wear hoodies and have hair cut short so they don't have run in with police often"
One theory behind ARM's power efficiency is that you don't have to waste power and area converting x86 into uops. But this is a constant overhead. It matters a lot on 5/10W TDP mobile processors, but matters much less on 45W TDP laptop processors.
Of course there is a line you can't cross. But asking someone to do something, then saying they didn't do, does not seem to be past that line to me. That seems like something that would happen very routinely.
Fair enough, this story got more attention than I was expecting. Happy to be wrong!
If I could customize my Mac like I could with a PC build (mmm more cores in a Threadripper without a $10K Mac Pro minimum...), I would definitely not be using a laptop today :(
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."

— SAUL ALINSKY (Rules for Radicals)
%python

>>> import pandas as pd

>>> pd.{whatever pandas functions you want}
Because that's fundamentally incompatible with a competently-designed compiled language. Consider:

fn immutable foo() long:
asm(long x:"rax") "mov rax 7"
return x

Now try cross-compiling that from a 32-bit ARM machine.

Aside: D is kind of weird in this regard because most of it is designed to work as a interpreted language as well as a compiled one. To the extent the D is good, it's not compiled[0]; to extent that it's compiled[0], it's not good.

0: in the language design sense, not the language implementation sense.
Aside: This is the first time I've seen "congressbeing" and from now on it will be my preferred term.
WarnerMedia is getting rid of the HBO Go app
I don't see any attempt to mobilize a Twitter mob against a person, unless you just consider all disagreements on Twitter to inherently imply a desire for a Twitter mob to come to your side.
You're not wrong, KDE3 was something of a high point for personal computing.
I can’t even scroll the page. Go to the bottom and back up, then it won’t stop shaking.
It's a little anecdotal, but I used a pi 4 for quite a while doing dev work and 8gb would have made quite a difference when a single chrome tab can take up a gig.
If you don’t add the right options to FFmpeg it can’t take advantage of the CPU acceleration, I believe.
Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming
People like to rip on YouTube for the recent child-protections but there was some dark shit going on, stuff like uploading Peppa Pig videos spliced with NSFL footage. The youths love YouTube, you can't take that lightly.
Human IPO – Human IPOs of people you believe in
I think that makes the difference, the fact that we are (becoming) aware of the consequences of our actions. It gives it the ethical/moral responsibility that we don't expect from fungi, trees, or beavers.

On the other hand, I like your comparison to other species. At an essential level, human culture has lot in common with ancestral life forms, like a culture of slime mould. There's collective behavior over generations, of which individuals are largely unaware.

"Exceptionalism" is an apt word, because not only do we treat other species as our resources, we do it to our own. Humanity eats its children. The fact that we're doing this knowingly, is why we carry shame, a guilty conscience in our collective psyche. We expect better of ourselves, because we should know better.
Ask HN: Can DevOps/Infra/SRE engineers share their startup founding stories?
We often hear about the backend/frontend/full-stack or mobile engineers start their startups and be successful in running them.

I am not sure whether my circle is small, or I simply do not know any DevOps/SRE/Infra folks have started one. And I also mean starting on dev toolings/services too.

Can someone from this space and had this experience share their inspiring stories here?

I am a DevOps/backend person, but I rarely see myself as a frontend/mobile eng that I can build everything on my own.

I would also love to hear what I need to acquire on a day-to-day basis to improve myself, to one day achieve my dream of starting my gig. Thanks.
> Facebook fires employee who protested its inaction on Trump tweets

Why should facebook act on Trump tweets?
The "don't call us, we'll call you" model already exists in the form of game consoles. Nintendo is probably the most restrictive in this way. If you don't have a pile of money for the development equipment, don't bother calling.
I buy an app on my iPhone once every couple months. I simply cannot find anything. I cannot buy.

The 'freemium' games hide.

I want:

- games that offer a single purchase, or a one time upgrade for full features without ads. Yes, some people will buy the 'bucket of coffee beans' upgrade. I won't. I don't want to search through twenty games that offer it.

- productivity tools that do something useful. My phone is stuck in 2001. Universal menu ordering? Teach me in two minutes? Manage my contacts to call people I haven't talked to in a while? Anything?

- privacy. Why does the Peet's Application in the background still get updated location services, draining my battery? When is the microphone on? Who is really calling me?

Seriously. A business model based on "the other players aren't doing well either" seems excessively fragile.
This. Surprised anyone thinks things will die down soon.
Almost every comment refers to VSCode, which is... bizzare. VSCode has abysmal performance. I'm a Vim user and every time I've encountered VSCode it's just been awful, awful, awful. There's some kind of brainwashing going on here. Probably something along the lines of "I write webshit, and if webshit is bad, I might be bad by association, so webshit is definitely not bad".
I think the person was talking about the quote, not the concept
Yes, most defendants should not be required to pay monetary bail.

However, the police/DA can accuse an innocent person of a serious crime. You should not be imprisoned before you are sentenced unless that is the only way to make you show up for trial. I.e., it should not be about the severity of the crime, but about how much of a flight risk you might be.
Hi Sid, there are 2 users already making their points on this thread on the precise core issue I've raised: they have to automate around Gitlab instead of from within. This is what real platforms are about, they give users the tools to customize and make the platform behave the way their org needs it.

The great late Robert Stroud, ex Forrester analyst, was very adamant on how a DevOps platform should focus on weaving the so-called value chain, not replacing it.
Correct, you need to toggle a setting in the boot config, and your HDMI cable and monitor both have to support HDMI 2.0
I'm using the NUC to host a VM instance of Home Assistant, and run a PostgreSQL instance outside the VM for logging (What HA calls "recorder").

I don't work within it on a daily basis. I probably VNC into it once a month or less, just to apply updates or troubleshoot any issues. It's stable so I'm not keen on mucking about with any non-default packages. I seem to get myself tangled up a lot more lately whenever I decide to make any changes to a running system.[0]

But who am I kidding? I'm sure I'll have some free time one of these days and decide to give KDE a shot.

[0] https://xkcd.com/349/
I wouldn't worry too much about trying to make grander more truthful statements with art.

Making things for the sake of making things will do. It doesn't even matter if you don't get better at it over time.
> Person A and Person B commit an identical crime

Not even this. They are alleged to have committed the crime, but have not been tried in court.
I’m willing to pay enough monthly software subscriptions to count on one hand. Subscriptions are not the answer for the vast majority of apps and Apple’s insistence on pushing this as the solution is just more evidence that the survival of indie devs doesn’t matter much to them.
The only decision the market is allowed to make is “do I buy this, yes or no?” It (you) doesn’t get to change the rules whenever it feels like it when you don’t feel like paying for something.
The thing is these really are issues that need to be talked about and addressed, and they really have fallen on deaf ears in the past because of lack of popular force. The people in charge just keep posturing, brushing it off, saying "yeah yeah we'll get to it", and waiting for the news cycle to move on. Nothing ever changes.

But the problem is that society at large, especially on the internet, apparently just sucks across the board at anything resembling actual discussion. It seems impossible to both a) give an issue national attention and b) have a remotely civil or productive public conversation about it.

I don't know what to do about it except to say we all deserve each other.
I wasn't comparing them to society as a whole. I was comparing them to others who made bail. The only difference was money. This isn't about nuance and good faith: any of those they wanted to release was entitled to get out at any moment.
I absolutely believe that PHP is worse than many, if not most, other langauges. I have programmed (in a non-trival way) close to 10 programming languages (and fiddled with more) over more than 20 years. Of all those, there are only two that I hate, PHP and Javascript.

PHP (and to a lesser extent JS) are the only languages (that I have experience of) that it seems actively work against the developer writing bug free programs.

Tools reach a point where they can be considered to be dull, and they're not dull before that. PHP in my experience and opinion has crossed that boundary.

> it does not mean PHP is a dull tool and not suitable for some projects.

I think it depends. Should you use PHP for small stuff? one-off's that you run on your home network? I mean, you could, right? No-one's going to access it other than you, so you don't have to worry about user supplied data. But should you use it for Internet facing stuff? Shopping carts, user data? The difficulty is going to be ensuring that you've not coded bugs or security problems into your code, so I would say the answer there is no. I looked, there's been a study (there might be more than one, this was the first result) that has found that PHP is more prone to defects than a lot of other languages (beaten only by c and c++): https://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/11184-which-...

The interesting quote:

"The languages with the strongest positive coefficients - meaning associated with a greater number of defect fixes are C++, C, and Objective-C, also PHP and Python. On the other hand, Clojure, Haskell, Ruby and Scala all have significant negative coefficients implying that these languages are less likely than average to result in defect fixing commits."

This is my experience both writing PHP (lead developer for over a year on a 300k line plus app), and reading it. PHP is hard to write well.

So if you have decided it's not for you with the big projects, why bother with the small ones? They might after all become big projects, but even it they don't, the other languages aren't really that hard. I wrote a Go program yesterday that reads temp and humidity off an i2c bus connected sensor on a Raspberry Pi and writes the data to an influx DB. It is less than 100 lines. It can run from systemd, it uses threads, it's damn fast, and it was even easier to deploy than PHP necause it's just a binary.

It's also far far less likely to have bugs in it.

> If you disagree I am curious of a really example of something that is super hard to do in PHP compared to Python/Ruby/Go , some real world thing. I am aware of the weak points of PHP but I think you can do your job with it, the language is not dragging you down.

You can pretty much do anything in PHP that you can in other languages, it's turing complete after all, but then again, so is the sendmail configuration language.

The issue with PHP is that it makes the task of writing bug free software so so hard.
I love that in, another Tweet, someone is giving Arthur shit for... not having his pronouns in his bio.

ETA: apparently the user giving Arthur shit is just trolling
Every year for 40 years running...
The changes that unions make will not neutralize the negative impact they have on an industry's efficiency/competitivess.

The outlier is if unions succeed in changing immigration policy to restrict the inflow of foreign labor. That can have unexpected effects that boost the country's economic growth rate or at least help its wage growth rate.

Depending on the situation, immigration restrictions can also harm the country's economy/wages.
Normally sure, but when politicians are using your platform (paying you) to further their own narratives, it's fair game.
That may be the nominal purpose, but the primary function of monetary bail is coercing guilty pleas out of indigent defendants.
Machine Learning Field Guide
I'd argue that it almost quite clearly indicates that focusing on calorie deficit is too simplistic a model to accurately predict/forecast weight loss. Just look at that subway map at the top of the article, there's no way that calorie deficit is an adequate model for the complex interaction of macro-nutrients and how different parts of that "subway" interact.

Maybe you don't have to entirely agree with me that Nutrition science's idea of a calorie is the last bastion of phlogiston theory in any science, but surely you can admit that all of the evidence suggests the model isn't accurate enough, continues to give surprising results that do not match reality, (and arguably causes more harm than good in the way some diet plans use calorie deficits as a bludgeon to make people feel bad). The models need to be refined, the human body is not an ideal furnace nor a "spherical cow".

(But yeah, I wish the Apple Watch would let me change all the displays that read "calorie" to just read "phlogiston" as useful as they "are" to me.)
Linstor can do that. I use in Kubernetes and it is incredible!
I've hard second had that Russian TV (in Russian obvs) has had numerous virologists and people who know about virus labs in China that they'd be unsurprised if their protocol allowed accidental release. Apparently they also postulate CN labs are "playing" with much more virulent organisms --fortunately, so far, they've handled them well...

On the other hand, TV is all about speculative bombshells...

So, not sure about the above speculation, as it's Russians saying things about Chinese labs of which they may or may not have good data... but makes you think

The biggest point they make is that their protocols leave a lot to be desired and two they are working on even worse viruses... maybe fear-mongering or getting eyeballs...