skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This website has a bug in the chat where if I type too much text and it goes out of the box, the entire webpage goes blank and the page throws a react error. lmao
I don't have a lot of experience and confidence regarding this, but pretty sure DE,NL,ES,IT pay sucks compared to US as an example (as a local).
> I'm not sure if you're being facetious here, or if you simply are ignorant of how the U.S. Constitution / government works.

I do understand that. The thing though is, "trifecta" is difficult in practice and shouldn't really be a barrier to passing laws.

My observation was mainly about fixing and overhauling the immigration system (combating fraud, streamlining it, etc - and not really about increasing or decreasing immigration). I am not sure Republicans were a barrier to such efforts.
I don't think the edges are all that interesting. The stair-stepped appearance is just what you inevitably get when you rotate a square in low resolution without antialiasing.
Funny you say that because recent OCPW leaks have pointed out that the war some were once pushing in Syria over alleged gas attacks was false.

It's always amazing how many wars start via a toxoplasma of rage based on false premises.
> Obligatory: yes, he's in his 60s who's made millions, at some point you gotta retire, and it's easy to show integrity when you clearly don't need to work again

> Having said that, I'm kind of surprised he's surprised by the overall reaction that he got when he quit, and in interviews since then.

I wonder if he got any advice when doing these interviews. The photographs used for his NYT interview are of him... posing on his private boat.

It's like they were designed to make him look like a millionaire hypocrite who has retired with as much as they could from Amazon and now criticising while swimming in the money. He's been somewhat set up here by whoever managed this interview.
Very cool idea. Haven't had any leakage issues since doing it?
Common usage has turned the terms into something confusing. It's not the accountants fault.

Your credit card is linked to an account in someone else's books. They opened that credit account for you.
So you saying "I was not as interested in reading the rest of his article after that" was "exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally" then?
Reminds me of when Suzuki switched manufacturing of their GN250 to Chinese factories, and suddenly second hand Japanese built Ginnies were attracting a premium over brand new models.
But git doesn't use master/slave (noun). It uses master as an adjective ("master branch"). Think cassettes and vinyl records or "master boot record". It means being the definitive source of truth and has been used in that form for centuries [citation needed, but I don't remember where I read it].

This isn't just an instance of "not old enough", it's an instance of it not even being the same word, so I guess you just can't win this...
Ledger is almost great software, except that it uses signed numbers. Why?!
NihAV
It's sad to see people complain about git for complication because people just jumped on the "It's made for kernel development by Linus, so it should work for me" bandwagon when he wasn't obviously targeting for the masses...

For sake, I was using bazaar back then as it looked to be aiming to be user friendly but I guess everyone jumping to git killed it.

Now every new git users are crying how it's not intuitive while every developer ecosystem is being built around git.

It's the price we pay for blindly following "coolness".
The person who wrote this should probably talk to a therapist about his obsession with hunting people down online instead of blaming a social network site.
>You are assuming that they have this information. However their argument is that the search terms "could" retrieve such documents. There is nothing here that confirms they possess these purportedly irrelevant documents that would be produced given the current search terms.

Having the documents is a necessary condition to them being found (or in other words if they don't have the documents they can not be found), so I would hope making such an argument without actually having any documents containing this information would get them a stern talking to by the judge. Then again law often works very different to what we laypeople assume.
>Marketed as "individual rights" and "opportunity", of course.

This is what happens when the concept of "individual rights" is directly substituted for the "individual right to choose what you consume" without any regard for any other individual rights, even those which are supposedly hallmarks of the U.S. like voting rights. The more I think about this, the more I'm reminded of Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent.
Another is less air pollution, from fewer cars being on the roads.

"This might actually help because studies in the past showed that air pollution actually increases the risk for preterm birth," Alshaikh said.

One takeaway that doesn't involve arguing about the so-called Patriarchy and what not: Let's just try to lower pollution rates generally. It's good for everyone, including but not limited to pregnant women.
Age of Attention
They are not as affordable as chinese counterparts (Rigol or Siglent) but their 1000x line of scopes is a step in a good direction. I own one although I paid more for less features as compared to Rigol, difference in quality and polish of the UI is staggering.
> Men should get paternity leave too

Or neither should.

> In most countries they do

Nope

> but European countries

I am living in one.

> y'all boys

Not a boy

> telling women creating you has no economic value

I did not say that.

> this entitled nonsense

So I am entitled for saying that you are not entitled to money that you did not earn? What?

> while you scoop up those six figure salaries

More like barely 5 figure salaries.

You do not know me, do not act like you do.
One of the main troubles I have with beancount/fava is their multiple currency behaviour. If I made some income in some foreign currency in say 1995, the amount would be shown to me as converted to my base currency at today's exchange rate, not at the rate that was in 1995 when the transaction actually happened. That makes sense for assets and liabilities, but not for incomes and expenses. The software fundamentally lacks an ability to make this distinction between these two different sets of accounts in this dimension.
Cognitive dissonance is a single person holding two contradictory views at once. A person holding views that contradict yours is not cognitive dissonance. "The values that build up a society" are not a universal truth.
I think usually society regulates itself that way: people who prosper have kids

No they don't - not in modern industrial societies. Please look at the data.
This is the most reasonable explanation I have heard and I'm surprised it was not discussed in https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.03.20121442v... The increase in stillbirths roughly matches the reduction in pre-term births but the proof would be in the reduction in medically induced births during lockdown for which we don't seem to have the data.
I feel like this isn't terribly compelling. I have heard the whole corporations are evil and primarily look out for their own best interest before. I think people have been talking about this for over a century now. I don't even disagree (at most, i might say the truth is more complicated, but it always is).

I guess the article leaves me thinking, so what do you want to do instead? Communist revolution? Anarchist utopia? The article posits that we should break up some specificly named corporations, but doesn't even give a criteria as to why those corps, other than i suppose the author dislikes them. Why them and not others? What's the objective criteria?
Why don't we first work to make that future into a reality, and then argue?
I live in Shanghai. I will eat a live chicken if there are companies paying Bay Area salaries to software engineers, Baidu, Ali Baba and Tencent included in significant numbers. Zoom has its programmers in China because they can get the same value for 30% the cost. Even entry level finance doesn’t pay as well here as in the US. At the top it does because it’s finance, you eat what you kill but there are to my knowledge no markets equivalent to the US in software anywhere. That’s why people keep moving. It’s why Lambda School abandoned the EU and international expansion. There’s much, much more money in the US.
That's why I wrote 'in general' and that there were caveats related to terrorism.

Money laundering is another issue. In general I think people are still free to spend their legitimate money (it's not money laundering to begin with).
Well they are still orders of magnitude more accountable than facebook, that's the irony.
I think that propaganda got the better of you. But I can live with that if you can.
That's why you can't have social justice and individual justice, you have to choose.

And it boils down to "what's unfair", doesn't it? Is a different life expectancy a signal of unfairness? A different wealth or education level? A different rate of depression, mental illness, or suicide? There's a lot of picking and choosing when it comes to picking the data to consider when evaluating unfairness, I believe.
Zero copy serialisation is offered by flatbuffers - and one additionally has the advantage of IDL as a contract between different technology platforms.
BBC did something similar with its BBC Micro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro_expansion_unit#Telet...
Abandoning Android: A Series, Part 10.1 – The Watches
In my experience that's what happened. Some ad text on the bottom of the email got picked up (ie "hotels available during your trip"). It had "hotel" and a date range. That's all a faulty Google AI needs to create a hotel stay event.

In fact I'd adventure to say this is an exploit by the airline upsell team, not Google.
I was specifically commenting on this wide-sweeping generality:

There are thousands of things that are illegal, but in practice are rarely or ever prosecuted, even in cases where people are violating those laws at pretty significant scales.

"rarely or ever prosecuted" for you. You are on the advantageous side of a system that isn't that way on happenstance. Let's take your startup. How easy would it be for a black-owned startup in the US to raise VC funds in comparison to a white-owned startup? How easy is it to get... well any sort of loan if you're a black person, compared to a white person? How many black-owned banks are there that cater specifically to black businesses of any size?

Name three black CEOs.

Now, why is that?
GPT-x will be able to perform most copy-and-paste operations soon enough so that's the kind of jobs that would be made obsolete by it. Low code and point and click jobs are the ones that will follow. At first it will be "aiding" developers by suggesting code, and then GPT's successors will finally deliver the "no code, only a business description promise" that has been hanging on the industry for decades.

Of course GPT-3 is not there but it's only a matter of time: the capabilities are there. You are already thinking in decades which is the right mindset. Fortunately, tech is not something that will be done ever so there will always be opportunities just not in the fields we are looking at this time --digital products like web or mobile apps will be as exciting as a custom invoicing Windows app in a matter of years, but then you have IoT, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, and whatnot. Stay ahead of the ball as an engineer.

Of course you can also move up the food chain and become a manager or technical architect or lead.
Web developers in SF are barely representative of web developers outside of SF, let alone factory workers in the US. That's a bad comparison.
Useful?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bullshit%20jobs
Only found this Python thing (not maintained): https://github.com/josauder/procedural_city_generation
@PinguTS, well your friend is either mistaken, or you misheard him or a combination of both.

First, auto-takeoff is not possible. Its not possible due to technical constraints (e.g. concerns regarding LOC capture on the ground). It is also not possible due to safety constraints (e.g. the requirement to be able to deal with an aborted takeoff in a timely manner).

Second, automated landing IS used, but it is only used in limited situations. Why ?

- Because not all runways are equipped for CAT III autoland (i.e. the aircraft is not capable of landing itself without a shit-ton of calibrated equipment on the ground being there first, also good luck finding a CATIII autoland somewhere mountainous or with an otherwise tricky approach).

- Because not all aircraft are equipped for CATIII autoland (see above, more kit, more money).

- Because the autoland system itself has DH (Decision Height) and RVR (Runway Visual Range) requirements. The exception to this is CAT IIIC autoland, but AFAIK the vast majority of CATIII certified runways are only to CAT IIIB because that's expensive enough to certify, even for major airports.

- Because of general weather requirements. For example, I don't know about you, but I'd rather NEVER see an aircraft attempting autoland in a Captain's crosswind (i.e. crosswind so strong that the airline prohibits the First Officer from flying it).

- Becuase autoland operations at airports involve ATC increasing traffic separation. Increase separation leads to what ? Yes, that's right... decreased flow rate and increased possibility of delays and cancellations.
This is already possible with flatbuffers.
Apple Keynote
I think having everyone be healthy, fed, housed and clothed is a good baseline. Inequality in the shape of "this person has a better phone than me" is much, much more preferable to "this person can afford to feed their family and I can't." I'd certainly like to believe that we can achieve that.
How to prevent credential stuffing with keystroke dynamics authentication
The top of your range would be the bottom of the range for a Google beginner with 3-5 years of experience.
I'm not very comfortable with the answer to this problem being 'how to make homeless and sick people keep working'. America desperately needs better social security nets. (for example) Seeing Bezos net worth skyrocket by billions at the same time as millions of people losing their homes is absolutely disgusting.
Notebooks Are Getting Revamped
Among people I know who track modern firearm technology I don't know a single person who would even contemplate buying a Remington. They are to modern guns what a Harley Davidson is to a modern motorcycle.

People who care about good tech and value are buying things like CZs, aero precision and Anderson AR10/15 lowers and uppers, etc. Even the canik pistol from turkey is remarkably good quality. Savage offers good value for traditional bolt action rifles that can be used for many purposes.
I've had my eye on their 110 Scout for a while.
> I know it is pretty taboo to even be centrist around here

It is incredibly hard to be a centrist - both sides hate you and downvote your messages. It's constantly demoralizing and makes you question yourself.

But then you go out in the real world and see that most of the actual humans on the planet are centrist, and you feel better.
I don't know, but you might find one in Excel [1].

[1] https://kb.iu.edu/d/agqw
They're a lot less antisocial than cars in terms of how much space they take up, and in terms of pollution per person-km as well. We could build much more liveable places if we embraced them.
Rust maybe, python definitely no and Julia I don't know a lot.
By what measure? They seem to be moving tons of product, with competing products that don’t come close to its margins.
I think the idea that "cushy" tech workers don't need protection is really insidious. It seems to me like it helps keep the white-collar workers on the side of management, rather than realizing that they actually have a bunch in common with the less well-paid worker. Yes, there are MUCH MUCH more vulnerable people working at amazon, but that doesn't mean the better-off workers don't also need protection e.g. against wage fixing https://time.com/76655/google-apple-settle-wage-fixing-lawsu... or the normalizing of 50-60hour work weeks. And specifically, that forming some kind of a protective structure where workers of all levels band together to advocate for their shared interests could be a good idea. Still brainstorming names for that structure... combination? group? unitement? unification? idk anybody with a good idea shoot me a dm
A third of Americans not paying their rent or mortgage is not about sick and homeless people not working. It's about people not working due to lockdown.

A lot of those people not working are lower class. A lot of professional jobs just shifted to work from home.

We need that one third of Americans working. They need opportunity. They aren't getting it.
I don't care if you're a boy. Your views are sexist.

If I knew how little you made I wouldn't even considered you a developer who has opinions on this.

You live in Europe. If you don't work in the United States then this conversation isn't for you. However hard you think you have it at the expense of women getting paid while they give birth to humans isn't as hard as you think. That's why Europe pays you under six figures, because higher quality of life.
This is a really cool concept. I'd love a mature supported technology, that could replace .NET's AppDomain.
Managing people is something that I don't feel any AI would be able to do in the foreseeable future.

But then I'm in almost in my fifties so I'm only looking at three more decades in the best case.
Some disciplines don't separate them, using footnotes as references (but I think all would be improved if they did separate them).
"what if poor people just stopped having kids" is a trashy question to ask.

The jobs come from our ability to be creative and find ways to improve each others lives. More people on Earth means more people to provide for and more people to provide.

Anyway, I wasn't there but IIRC Reagan started diplomatic talks with China and American billionaires have been shipping jobs overseas ever since.
Not in pre-industrial societies either. There was just a really high maternal and childhood mortality rate to go with the really high birth rate.

Modern societies also have a precipitously declining fertility rate.
I think the trick here is alot of people on Hacker News are not women's rights advocates.

Hacker News is notoriously one of the most sexist places on earth.

I'm a female reader, Staff Software Engineer and I've been reading hacker news everyday (literally) since sophomore yr of college in 2010.

This place is sexist af.
Thank you for the link. Reading it now.

The pocketknife attack appears to be according to the Portland Police Bureau. As this is a non-neutral party, I'm not sure what to believe barring video evidence.

I could lean either way on that incident, or violence in general. What it comes down to in my mind is which side is the aggressor. In this particular instance, the protesters appear to be the initial aggressors, attacking the building (Which I don't really care about) while people were still inside (Which I do care about).

That being said, most of the violence that I have seen from these protests has been firmly instigated by police, so if you take that into consideration, the police could (should?) be considered to be the initial aggressors.

In short, it's a mixed up situation with no good answers I can see. Thoughts?

Edit: Also this --

> bricks were lobbed at firefighters who were attempting to extinguish the blaze. He said he suspected that white supremacists were behind the violence.

Context for above quote: Protesters/"Protesters" set a dump truck on fire in Richmond VA.

Any thoughts on something similar to this happening in Portland to discredit protests?

Second edit: Going offline now. Will read/continue any further discussion tomorrow, if anyone wishes to.
This happened in The Netherlands as well. Here's [0] a mostly English language link to the history of the Basicode system as used in the radio program Hobbyscoop.

[0] https://www.hobbyscoop.nl/the-history-of-basicode/
And private programs can still succeed without extracting every last bit of margin for the owners.

Governments can create and fund programs to do these large-scale projects. They can also leave it to private industry to do so as well, but with strong protections for workers, the unions they may want to form, and the living conditions of all participants (employee, supplier, miner, etc.), domestic and foreign.
Ask HN: How do you fall (back) asleep?
The world is quite stressful these days. There are a lot of problems to solve, people to help, and bills to pay. I feel like I'm in college again, wondering how in the heck I'll graduate. Except now, replace graduate with "live a full life."

So. How do you manage to fall (back) asleep?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated :)
I might suggest an approach in parallel. If development sucks that bad for OP, getting steamrolled by some shit while trying to pretend like they're not getting steamrolled is maybe not the best plan.
> the downfall of great engineering companies and hopefully how to avoid it.

why is this the responsibility of the engineer (presumably, with no real equity in the company)?
Wouldn't it be more useful not to have to do this? Keeping them footnotes saves buying another copy, or damaging yours.
If I understand correctly, in Germany that works fine and is a lot less profitable than you’re expecting because the maternity pay is based on how much you were earning a year ago.

Caveat: I’m still learning German, and this is a second-hand description from a coworker who is a father but isn’t an employment lawyer
I’m a big REI fan. I’m not one of those people who hikes every week or anything, but I like to go backpacking and hiking when I can. I also have met lots of people who do the same, and REI is pretty highly regarded among most people. Their products might not be the top-end in every category, but I’ve rarely had an issue with anything bought from them. Plus their service is so outstanding, I’ve been taken care of any time there’s been a problem. It’s totally worth it to me to spend a little more, to get the peace of mind that it’s a fairly good product (they don’t sell anything horrible like you’ll get on amazon or a dept store), and that they’ll take care of any issue that does happen.
I thought we're talking about a country where 1 in 5 is on food stamps?
If the parents do not have the resources to give the child a stable and healthy upbringing (becouse you want to save money), it will lead to a much higher risk of destructive outcomes like poverty, disease and crime. All of which you will have to pay for later via your taxes, in one way or another.

It's my firm belief that you are short-sighted in this regard, and that your way of prioritizing will lead to worse outcomes for everyone involved, including yourself. Not to mention you seem a bit indifferent to the suffering of children, but that is beside the point.

Giving our children a good start in life is an investment for the future, just like spending money to educate children in school is an investment for the future.
Also are you from eastern Europe or something? Denmark, Finland and average paid maternity leave across the EU is higher than the states. Sorry your facts are wrong, but we get it youre a special flower from that one European country who doesn't have paid maternity leave and you're not a boy which somehow means you can't be sexist even though it doesn't.
If we didn’t have social security the country would be a dumpster fire right now.

Employer provided healthcare is the dumbest idea ever, it should be outlawed. I don’t care what it’s replaced with just as long as it’s gone.