skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, here's what happened for me: During Summer at Ohio State, I worked as a "consultant" in the computer lab. The job involved opening/closing the lab, managing the printers, and providing basic assistance to students (we had to know how the subject matter of an intro sequence).

During Summer, it was so dead, I somehow found my way to contributing to Bugzilla. Those contributions, plus hanging out in IRC, caused me to be noticed by someone who was looking to hire a Bugzilla person. That eventually led to sysadmin, and later more.
The problem is, in smaller cities, the local consultants are your competition. They are the one providing the cities with decade old technologies and ugly U.I./U.X.

Truth is, and i can't stress it enough, you are a 100% right. If you can find someone to cooperate with after you already beat him at the public bidding process, you did 90% of the personal relation work.
There's nothing I can say here that Thai Duong can't say better, or that I'd be more qualified than him to say. I yield my time!
Well, they are using the descriptions that have come down to us from Ancient times, and I don't know how much the Ancient Romans differ from modern Romans in terms of their racial aspects. Italy has had a lot going on since ancient times in terms of peoples that have migrated there.
You can automate construction a lot (biggest issue is making sure deliveries are ordered the right way, and that you keep QA).

But that requires getting getting the pipelines running instead of doing it once a decade.
I would imagine contacting the browser makers could be a good start
Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds
> The odds of a bad accident may be very small but they are not zero

re: Very small

We've had nuclear power less than a century and we've had more than one significant event, and even more near events.

But its not simply the odds, but the impact. We have yet to see a worst case scenario. How much longer can that last?
> It looks like you want to build an interactive protocol. I'm not sure if libsodium has a solution, but Tink doesn't. So far we've been focusing on encryption at rest. Can you tell me more about your use case?

I don't have any particular plans of something I want to build at the moment. I was just using group chat as an example where there on one hand you're told to not roll your own crypto, but otoh you can't really just use someone else's crypto because there's no way to just use it.

Say I want to use an encrypted transport, that's trivial, I can just use TLS relatively easy. For the most straight forward case i can do `http.Get("https://example.org")` in go and not have to worry at all about the crypto.

If I want E2E, there's libsodium and tink, yes. But then am I "allowed" to build e.g. a forward secrecy scheme using ephemeral keys with these libraries? On one hand I know enough about crypto that I could do that, otoh, I also know enough about crypto that doing so would already make me uncomfortable.

So what I dream about is to have something like "ssh/tls" for E2E. Something like libsignal generalized. Of course you will have to do some key management, and it will never be as simple as `http.Get("https://example.org")`.
I would say that Florida is essentially a Chernobyl style exclusion zone, except that Chernobyl is actually a pretty nice place now.
I graduated from college with an Economics degree. I was working as a Business Analyst. I started looking at database schemas so I could write better documentation, and then started writing SQL to deliver reports myself instead of waiting on the engineering team. It didn't take long until executives were coming to me directly for their custom reporting needs. Eventually, I was running a rogue web server for generating dynamic reports. When I was "found out", I was absorbed into engineering, and started my "real" career as a SWE and started building web applications on a team.

I broke that first-job barrier by getting myself a job close to the technology, and then solving problems that had a visible impact. (I want to add that, though I constantly pushed at the edge of my authority, I avoided ruffling feathers and was always a team player. I never went over my boss' head, for example, and generally asked permission.)

I'm now in my third executive role, running engineering for a Series-A funded startup. Being able to bridge the divide between business and engineering really hits the sweet spot for me. I very much enjoy what I do.
I have preached until I was red in the face that nuclear is the only solution we have currently that will get us to zero emissions on a proper time scale when it comes to global warming. I am all for wind and solar, but you have to be practical as well. We don't have anything that is even close to being able to provide stable 24 hour power like nuclear. Obviously we want a mix, but there are safe nuclear designs out there. And the feds will just have to overrule the NIMBYs on an official site or three for properly controlling the waste.
An article linked by the Wikipedia article puts the scale of the Ponzi schemes into perspective:

> ... At their peak, the nominal value of the pyramid schemes' liabilities amounted to almost half of the country's GDP. ...

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/albania.ht...

What neither the Wikipedia article nor the Global Security piece quite explain is the economic recovery after Operation Alba (which ended the violence). Conventional wisdom says that an economy seeing such a massive deflationary shock will need extensive external aid in the form of bailouts, loans, and debt forgiveness.

This piece from the IMF in 2000 makes no mention of a specific international aid package:

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/pdf/jarvi...

If anything, it sounds like the country picked itself up off the mat:

> The long-term effects of the pyramid scheme phenome- non are likely to be limited, reflecting not only the resilience of the Albanian economy but also—and, perhaps, most important—the government’s adjustment efforts and its refusal to bail out depositors. Prices and wages are extremely flexible in Albania; as a result, the government was able to cut real public sector wages substantially in 1997 (by leaving nominal wages unchanged), and the economy suffered no loss of competitiveness when the lek appreciated. The new government’s willingness to tackle the budget deficit and undertake long-overdue structural reforms was also crucial. However, the social effects were profound. In addition to the loss of life, thousands of people were impoverished either by their unwise investments in the pyramid schemes or by the destruction of their property in the ensuing violence. Less tangible, but also significant, are the effects on confidence in Albania. The resilience of the Albanian people is consider- able and has been more severely tested in the past. But the pyramid scheme phenomenon was a sobering setback.
Statistics should be part of pretty much every step of education IMHO. Even in elementary school you can teach useful things about reading statistics, high-school math allows more, and universities should cover it too (again with different focus depending on subject and depth of math classes). It's among the most universally useful in life parts of mathematics.
"the state" is often used as a general term for the government and not necessarily the government of a specific area.
Don't forget the ads following you across websites for the expensive product (that you only need one of) you just bought.
Well at least it's NoCode
How did you measure telomere length?
It's not very useful to borrow futures, so that tends not to be an issue in practice.
Yep. It's a bit of a rough diamond but it's a good game nonetheless.
- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first?

I never planned on being a coder, I was a derivatives trader at first. It turns out being able to code helps a lot in finance. I co-developed my skills between building quant strategies with coding. And coding quickly swallowed up everything, it turns out it would have been easier to be a systems coder first, then develop quantitative skills. I've done an enormous amount of coding in different areas now from that journey as well as a variety of web side projects. A small amount of GUI/FE coding, a lot of micro performance and networking type stuff.

- What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more?

I have a lot of freedom to decide what I want to do. So I code a lot, but it's what I want to do.

- How did you break that first-job barrier?

Responded to an ad out of uni, went to interviews.

- What were you doing before this?

Uni, where I learned a little bit of coding, but not enough to appreciate the depth. Zoomed over algos and data structures, which it turns out I ended up relearning.

- Any tips for the rest of us?

You can't really do this if you don't like it, but you also won't like it if you haven't learned a bunch of code-related skills. For instance if you don't know how version control works, you'll forever be reluctant to modify your code, which will stunt your growth. Same with sysadmin type skills like how to set up a network, how to move files around, how to set up the OS. You'll think everything is a chore if you can't write some scripts to simplify your coding flow. Something like Docker takes learning before you can use it, but once you have it it helps a lot.
Yes, my experience is that people understand well enough.
Right.
On a bill, it will show a 80/20 ratio for the tech/support pricing, but in your internal cost structure, you put 30% for the tech and 60% in support.

Because they are small organizations, they are used to pick up a phone and talk to someone right away.
Make Already Tiny SvelteJS JavaScript Bundles Smaller with the Closure Compiler
I'm almost completely self taught. Went to uni for a couple years and changed directions a bunch (CEng -> CS -> Math) before dropping out.

> Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first?

A friend back in high school pointed me at the problem of brown numbers (Brocard's problem), which are pairs (n,m) where n!+1 = m^2. Known pairs are (4,5), (5,11), (7, 71). I became obsessed with this and attempting to find a new pair, and spent most of high school learning programming to improve my searching programs. Things went from there, since I knew that's what I wanted to do.

> What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more?

I'm a systems engineer working with Rust on AI infrastructure. It's what I expected to be, it's a good job in that it pays well and I enjoy it. It's not perfect, and I wouldn't describe it as a 'dream'.

> How did you break that first-job barrier?

Got an internship by emailing around, that transitioned into a full time position.

> What were you doing before this?

Uni, mostly.

> Any tips for the rest of us?

Find a cool problem and use it as a 'north star' when learning, I think that helped me a lot. Also, it's a big field, you may find that you don't like a corner of it, but don't take that to mean you won't/wouldn't like any other parts of it.
Look, I'm a stan for LFTR and thorium reactors, but the nuclear energy industry is full of old PWR reactors on life support that are dangerous and meltdown prone.

But Fukushima happened, and unfortunately the management attitudes in TEPCO are not unique to that company.

The fact is that solar/wind is currently running away from everything else. I believe new natural gas plants can't compete with solar/wind, and that means installed gas plants are in their crosshairs just like coal plants.

Notice your article leaves out solar/wind.

"We will not be able to "defeat" climate change and keep this planet inhabitable for future generations without mass adoption of nuclear power."

I disagree.
I've not installed FS2020 yet, but from what I've seen in reviews, I believe "drone mode" can be untethered from your plane and allows you to do just that.
I would say it apocalyptic.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly the discovery is, if there's any.
Synchronicity:
You joined HN June 28, 2016
I joined May 8, 2016
I disagree. Mainly because Apple is the main driving force behind destroying computing. The iPhone today is as much of a computer as my microwave.
I think the idea would be to not spread the technology to countries that are deemed risky and to severely punish people who leak the tech.

I wasn't sure if you instead meant the microplants could be terrorist targets but this quote from the wiki seems like it'd be fairly effective at preventing that:

>The actual reactor would be located in a sealed, cylindrical vault 30 m (98 ft) underground,<
No the citizens are not willing. Just look at the median income of small cities, then look at their budget. Some cities have a 5M$ budget, and police is half of it. No mayor will raise taxes for a SAAS.
Strangling the Internet: Geopolitical Chokepoints
How much of the resistance to nuclear power in the US was due to the very unfortunately combination of the Three Mile Island incident and the release of the movie The China Syndrome both happening within two weeks of each other? Add in the nuclear arms race of the time and the emotional aspect for anything nuclear becomes even greater.
Try thousands of years due to differential evolutionary pressure, population bottlenecks in Europe and East Asia and interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovians.
Asynchronous behaviour using asyncio in Python
Curious: Cygwin’s been available since 1995. Why’d your company go about their own way?
I think FAA has some nice material publicly available.
We make keys long to prevent people being able to guess them. If I intercept 40% of the key, haven’t I reduced the effective key strength by 40%?
X-plane is also pretty bad for this. It has VOR and ILS tutorials, but nothing more advanced navigationally (like navigating to the intersection of two VOR radials), nothing about crosswind landing, nothing for the more complex aircraft, etc.

However, the flip side is that the simulation is generally realistic enough that you can use instructional materials for real world piloting. The VOR frequencies match the real world, the real SIDs and STARs are in the simulated Garmin GPS, etc.

Not sure how much this holds for FS2020.
Ask HN: Programmer Compatibility Questions
Dating services like eharmony base their matches on responses to compatibility questions.

Can you think of non technical questions that would help predict if you’d get along with someone on a team? Examples:

- tabs or spaces? (Tabs, spaces, I doesn’t matter as long as we are consistent)

- what’s the largest diff you feel comfortable sending for a code review? (30 lines, 100 lines, 1000 lines)

- Do you refactor code without first discussing it with the person who wrote it?

etc...
I'm guessing all those people buying it at the bottom are doing so to meet monthly minimums. Judging by my experience trying the product, I can't imagine people really want it that bad.
The argument is that the human race gets to survive and progress, unlike the one where we destroy our planet with a run-away carbon dioxide greenhouse effect.
I used the google maps VR app the other day and it is exactly this. It’s incredible.
- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first?

Fell into it - the first computer I owned happened to have a basic interpreter in ROM, and at the time a lot of software was published in magazines (you had to type it in by hand), so that started me on my way.

- What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more?

Being able to code brought me to a lot of places I would have never expected. Things change very rapidly, what you are doing today is completely different then what you will be doing tomorrow, you have to constantly challenge yourself and expand your horizons. I’ve met plenty of people who were really great at version X of framework Y in language Z and five years later they are unemployable because the world moved on while they did not. You need to get beyond versions and frameworks, entire languages came and go out of vogue, the more generalist you are the better you’ll fare.

- How did you break that first-job barrier?

I worked cheap at my first job, a year later I used my experience to trade up to a position making more the prevailing wage, things took off from there.
Cigarettes aren't free and haven't caused society to implode in every country on the planet.

Dopamine on the other hand, that the Facebook cartel pushes through their Like counting, attention capturing/engagement maximizing algos is Free and Unlimited.

If cigarettes were handed out for free and in unlimited quantities to everyone, for watching cat videos and accumulating Likes by insulting each other 24x7 then sure comparing Facebook to Big Tobacco would be apt.

They are a type of drug cartel that has never existed in history and their execs need to be thrown in jail for being completely clueless for so long.
"on average"
And that's on a US Government official, the ones who are not may end up in a cage...
- I got into the field because in my previous career (bank compliance), I spent an inordinate amount of time gathering data and summarizing it. The process took several hours per day and was extremely monotonous, but I couldn't do any actual work until it was done. I figured I ought to be able to automate the whole process, so I picked up a book on code and plugged away until I made it work. After that I was hooked and kept going down the rabbit hole until I could build entire web apps (and also understood how a compiler worked, which was what originally fascinated me).

- I like my job a lot, but it's very much building CRUD apps (or guiding others to do that). I'd like to work on technical problems of higher complexity, possibly scientific applications, so I'm trying to figure out how to get into that as someone without a formal education in it.

- I reached out to somebody on reddit /r/programming who had posted an ad. I told them what I had taught myself so far and why I thought I could be a useful junior dev, and they gave me a shot.

- My tip would be to let your curiosity drive you but stay realistic, responsible, and honest. The reason I've stayed satisfied in my career so far is that I haven't been too impetuous (e.g. leaving good jobs just to jump at something new), but I also haven't let myself get stale or bored for too long. So far it has served me really well.
It just occured to me that we're looking at Facebook wrong.

Why do people come to FB? For the content that other people post. There would be no eyeballs for the ads if the users didn't post content.

Shouldn't Facebook give us a piece of that ad revenue then?
Why is that worth noting? I feel like you're being intentionally ambiguous by leaving unstated implications.

Do you believe public operation had an impact on safety? Better or worse, and based on what evidence? If neither, how is your statement relevant to the discussion?
Indeed from what I've heard it seems that DeWalt is despised by many professionals, while some feel that Makita is only one step up.
Exactly zero people died because of radiation at Fukushima. And keep in mind that if the entire exclusion zone was covered with solar panels, it wouldn't produce nearly as much power annually as the nuclear plant did.
Whatever Signed HTTP Exchange it can successfully claim. The whole point of this work is to separate origin from where you managed to download the bytes from.

Imagine CDNs that cannot forge content for your site.
If China wishes to block the sale due to AI interface technologies then just sell the brand and user base.

Microsoft has world class engineers that could come up with a replacement algorithm that’s similar to Bytedance’s before the U.S. deadline anyway.
There exist investment firms where some measure of return to society is incorporated into investment decisions (see e.g. https://acumen.org/). If your business is creating some sort of positive externality, then seeking these sorts of investors (whose problem interests are aligned with your company's) may be a good fit.

It sounds like what you actually want to do, however, is just create a vanilla business and put a cap on what is returned to investors. You can do this -- in fact, you can do whatever you want, the world is your oyster. The only question is if anyone will invest. VCs who want an unbounded or very large upside won't, but there exist investors who will probably waive the right to any unlikely windfalls for more certainty of low-level gains. See e.g. https://earnestcapital.com/about/.
Are you looking for proof about what? About the belief that the US is a Christian nation or about the belief that Christians are persecuted in the US?

Because evangelical groups have been very vocal about each of those claims for a very long time.
The problem is people are picky, and in groups the effective pickiness increases.

So the bigger menus were likely to address dad, mom, teen, and kiddo.

If a restaurant is just going to make four or five dishes, it starts getting perilously close to places like Chipotle.
Perhaps this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro,_The_Gay_Blade
How? If your program asks the OS for a handle for “data.db” and it returns one for “Data.db”, does it matter? If your program asked for “data.db”, why should your program care that the only match was for “Data.db”, so it got that?
Tbh it's not that different in Europe. If you are dark skinned and it looks like you may be part of the ethnic group that causes trouble around your area, you will be stopped.

Since I was 16 I was asked for documents and pulled over so many times, it wasn't even funny.
I can't say I blame officers, though: I don't think recognising patterns is racism.
I'm more pissed at people that look like me and contribute to the majority of crime.

I hate the police sarcasm and bad treatment though. I think it's too easy to have unlimited money from the taxpayers' pocket without having to lift a finger to actually fight crime.

I remember this one time, they stopped next to me in their car and just asked in between laughs "so, which country would you be from?".
I replied the name of a small town nearby in the country's native accent and they immediately went "ohh, sorry sorry" and left immediately to poke at someone else.
Apparently I wasn't part of their personal zoo of illegal immigrants to make fun of and ignore.

That's probably the best argument I have for decriminalising victimless crimes and not having all power centralised into a public police but split into private entities with a Profits and Losses sheet.
Paywall workaround: https://outline.com/4TE4T5
This article is a lot more optimistic about the California/Federal plan:

https://grist.org/climate/a-california-wildfire-response-pla...
Lots of Small Modular Reactors waiting for political will and funding around. Personally I'm really interested in Soviet-originated SVBR series, but politically it's even more problematic than other designs right now :-(
Get some help man
Little substance? Name one other group that is working on solving the problems required to actually deliver this technology to lots of people.

Scientific advances are incredibly valuable. But they often don't help anyone until those advances show up in the actual products that we interact with.
It was an ancient reactor by today's standards, but you will never convince luddites of that.