skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I'm a skilled carpenter and woodworker, but for a much higher salary and benefits I can sit on my butt all day long typing into a computer. They would have to offer me a lot more money than my current six figure salary to get me to do carpentry work all day.
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Problem is it isn't much cheaper. There is still work to do on site. Prefab needs labor in the factory. Prefab generally has higher shipping costs. These mostly balance out.
The article mentions labor being a huge problem.

On a TV episode of Grand Designs (UK) a few years ago, the German company Huf Haus (www.huf-haus.com) sold a prefab home to a family. Their approach to labor? Ship that too.

The whole crew arrived with the house components. They knew exactly how to assemble it on the concrete base the local crews had put in place. It went up ridiculously quickly, and once done, they got in the trucks and drove back to Germany.

So I think the key takeaway of this article is that it's hard to drive from Germany to California.
The difference between Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service and you? Nothing.

People in Intelligence are as smart and more importantly dumb! as the general population.

One difference is they can't smoke pot (Unsure about the Dutch)

Their only 'power' that makes them seem better than mediocre is they can do things that would be considered illegal for a normal person without fear. IE force everyone to hand over tax records for analysis

This person has climbed the ranks. They 100% are a bureaucrat. I 100% stand by what I said.

(If you think they are leaking a Zero Day, no. Not on a crappy paywalled interview. And I'm not sure I've ever heard of a phone recording people by foreign intelligence or hackers)
Anyone who takes on building a custom house can easily afford to spend 3 years in court losing 15k.
>Yeah, it's harder to get a ride share, and you can't work in an office in the city without a very long commute. But there are higher priorities than those, like growing better humans

Pretty ridiculous statement here.

So, the kids I knew in college who grew up in rural areas all said a lot of their peers (and sometime them) got (sometimes heavily) involved in drugs/alcohol because "there was nothing else to do."

>Crime is much less of a concern where there are far fewer people.

Disagree completely, I believe there is safety in numbers and the community mostly watches out for kids. (Personal experience here)
Still, a 12 inch log is R12...
Yes. After years of dreaming about it, I finally have a remote job and it was everything I hoped it could be. I have a den set up as an office with a standing desk, white board, and a DOOR THAT SHUTS. I love it.

My employer keeps throwing out tentative dates for "return to work." There are going to be a lot of unhappy people when we're forced back into our open office environment.
I have many people applying for positions I have open that lack the listed years of experience. If I review their resume and think their experience is still good enough to warrant a chat then I've already accepted they don't meet that requirement but I am still interested. I don't need you to address the fact you only have 3 years (if I am asking for 5+) if that is all that is on your resume and I have still made the call. What I need is the candidate to prove they are capable and have the knowledge and understanding to do the job relevant to at least their experience level they do have.

Part of the screening that helps me look at someone with lessor experience is if what they were doing closely matches the position details then I am likely to set them up for a chat, even with the difference in experience. I look at it this way, someone who has 5+ years of web dev experience in other industries and someone who has 3 years in our specific industry are nearly equivalent in many ways. One might require less technical help, but need more industry help and vice-versa so kinda a wash in many ways. This isn't always true of course, but is a good generalization.
I've found python to be somewhat inflexible and inconsistent; two qualities which make me think using it as a shell replacement might be a bad idea. Also, who wants to spend hours googling solutions to problems that only affect your shell? I see enough of that with Fish and Zsh.
You are picking one particular attack and are attempting to use that single, outlying instance to argue for things that will not be necessary in the 99% case.

And the problem with military gear -- as we're currently seeing, plain as the day -- is that cops will not just save it for the truly dire situations; they'll use it more and more until it becomes a part of routine operations.
Thursday: I should build an API package for OpenWRT that will track bandwidth usage per device over a calendar period, e.g. past 30 days. wrtbwmon is all very nice, but it simultaneously tries to do too much (offer a UI) and not enough (track data usage for all time). Let me just write that down in my notebook.

Friday: I can build a nice and simple API for OpenWRT that is API focused and provides easier access to the common functions that people want from OpenWRT, this would help mobile app developers create apps that talk to OpenWRT in a simple way. Let me just write that down in my notebook.

Saturday: Let me just sketch out this new design for a workshop cabinet that will let me combine my tablesaw, bandsaw, chop saw and tool storage in a single location.

Sunday: I want my security camera to combine all the detected motion in to a single multilayer video that lets me scrub through events like layers playing simultaneously rather than scrub through time. Let me just write that down.

Monday: OpenWRT should have a "state" that is queryable via a curl request that determines if OpenWRT still needs to be configured. I can build that as a simple API and package it. Let me just write that down in my notebook.

The ideas aren't the problem.
Just so I can get an idea of the magnitude of the number, I am making an estimation. Please point out any egregiously incorrect numbers.

Price difference between smaller car and larger car: $15000

Lifetime of car: 8 years

Frequency the larger car is needed: once per month

Additional time to pick up and drop off rental: 3 hours

Money saved per hour: $52

So it seems that if someone values their time more than ~$50/hour, they should buy the larger vehicle.

Edit: Forgot to take into account the rental fee: $150

Money saved per hour: $2

It looks like it doesn't make sense to rent, as buying would allow the convenience of using the larger vehicle any time, especially if it is more than once a month.
What way results in the fastest performing PHP setup?

FastCGI, SCGI, mod-php?
I ran that hackathon. Can confirm it happened in 2015. LA Hacks at UCLA, Evan was the keynote speaker and stayed around to talk to hackers and builders after his speech. Snapchat, as a company, was at its hottest peak in 2015. Very cool event.
This is not a new precedent, it is exactly what trademark law was intended to do. Trademark law is ultimately a consumer protection, designed to protect the public from fraudulent misrepresentation.
If I order a catalog house from a manufacturer that does prefab it would probably either mean completely prefabbed wall panels, i.e. wall panels with a handful of layers (timber framing, OSB, plasterboard, wind/moisture barriers, lathing, external panel with a base paint), plus roof trusses. Or it could mean just the framing (wall panel timber frames and roof trusses). There would be passages for vents etc but you wouldn't see entire prefab "rooms", or even prefab walls with e.g. tiles or fittings like plumbing or electrical, like you see e.g. in large hotels or cruise ships.
I can only speak to my state but this process is done in public and under the scrutiny of both parties. The outer envelopes are recorded and then discarded before the inner envelope is stored in a separate room. Somewhat amusingly the room requires two keys -- one from a Democrat and one from a Republican.

The inner envelopes are then opened and counted, again with scrutiny from both parties, in public.
I use this https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it on my "main" system, because you're right, no one has time to setup their shell every time they ssh into a new server, but it is nice to have a "pretty" bash setup for where most of the work gets done.
What part sounds like capitalism to you?
The quality issues that you encounter in houses aren't the framing either, though. It's the roof sealing, ventilation, trim, plumbing, ... all things that prefab framing also doesn't address.
I'm curious if there's an equivalent of this for shell scripts, or people use Xonsh itself for this.

Simple bash scripts can easily grow into tangled behemoths and there's not an easy, incremental rewrite step (like JS → TS) that would add a lot of structure. Jumping straight to Python is usually painful because of all the subprocess calls.

It seems that xonsh could bridge that gap, but I'm not sure how many people use it for that purpose, or if people use something else (e.g. Oil shell).
Honestly when I interview someone and they have no side-projects, or any interest in that sort-of-thing, it's a huge warning sign they're not likely to succeed and/or stick around long.

I mean I don't expect people eat/sleep/breath code but I also don't want to hire folks that just got into CompSci/Coding cause it was a 'good/safe' career choice. In my experience the guys that are self learners, doing side projects, playing with the latest 'for fun' are the dudes that really get stuff done.
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The CDC estimate was from before we had any good studies using antibody prevalence. It was too low.

The WHO estimates a fatality rate of 0.6%. If you are simply dividing deaths by (an estimate of) current cases then you will get an inaccurate number because many of the current cases will eventually die of the disease.
This. So much this. Dear lord, so much this.

99% of the good jobs are filled through internal references. All the shit jobs nobody wants to do are filled through recruiters and cold appliers. Learned this one the hard way, lol.
And he's the guy who eventually turned it around.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I think it's a little silly to write them off over old stuff that they're no longer engaged in when there are bigger fish to fry. They are making pretty good products these days and, by all appearances, are one of the better players in big tech these days.

I hated Microsoft back then too. They were about as bad as I thought a company could be. At least until I lived long enough to see Amazon, Google and Facebook - or learned about the horrible things other household brands have done.
You’re pretending that all political goals can only be achieved through violence.
> America's 250 year history of free speech absolutism, with virtually no extremist groups gaining widespread traction is evidence of this.

Ku Klux Klan?!? QAnon? There are plenty of extremists groups with varying number of members and activities.[1]

The US has also plenty of domestic terrorism [2] the majority was committed by right-wing or religious (christian + muslim) extremism.

Most 'modern' terrorists are also self organized+radicalized. Social media and access to more and more extremist content plays a crucial role in their radicalization process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_Unit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States...
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I think that gets to a major risk of continued windows focus by Microsoft, in 5 years it's possible that Windows market share will be below 50% with most new software written for nix systems. History has not looked kindly on OS's in such an environment, and further market declines may be inevitable as windows begins to look like a legacy platform or a use case specific platform (Games).

I'd have to imagine that Microsoft has been thinking of what their Desktop OS play would be at that point, allowing windows to simply die a slow and profitable death would threaten other business lines such as Gaming. Non-Apple hardware vendors will be looking for OSX like systems to compete with a possibly dominant OSX platform.
I'd probably be willing to lose 15k to not spend 3 years in court.

Doubly so if it came after all the stress of custom-building a home. My blood pressure is worth more than that.
Yeah, I imagine their security team would have a very unique perspective on this. I imagine it was implemented this way as a response to thefts they saw in the past/envisioned.
From an evolutionary point of view, I find serverless appealing and exciting - a romantic idea.

However, the frequent posts along the lines of "my Lambda function was buggy and now I owe Amazon three billion dollars" definitely kills the romanticism.
Well if that's it then making a list of "too short, too tall, a woman" is double-counting.

Also if you take it as exactly 5'9" then airbags aren't suitable for men either. What you need to do is examine the range it's designed for. It's not the average height that matters, it's what percent of men/women fall inside that range. There might be a significant difference in that percent, or there might not be.
While I don't share your fear of hotels, I can add a bit of anecdata from the summer in Europe.

I booked an AirBnB in a major city for 16 days because I thought there was a nonzero chance I'd have to quarantine for 14 of them. Had I tested positive (or not tested) it would have sucked to be in a hotel for the whole stretch, and staying with friends would have defeated the purpose of quarantine.

The price was about 20% below pre-Covid peak prices, so not really much of a discount. A quite nice hotel room would have cost about the same all-in.

I have to think there must be at least some of that factoring in: if you need to go somewhere and you might get quarantined there, you are going to plan ahead, and for lots of reasons quarantine in a 1BR apartment is way nicer than in a hotel.
I never quite understood what problem serverless platforms were solving for companies that already deployed their own SAAS solution.

As the article says, serverless is one of many (many) ways to wrap a quantum of functionality inside an internet-accessible environment. You could have a chunk of python in a serverless setup, a small flask server in a container in k8s, as an endpoint in a monolith, etc. Each of these environments have difference performance, cost and maintenance characteristics, but I think of the star feature of serverless as the light deploy. For companies that don't have a deploy chain, that makes serverless very attractive, but if you've already invested in one it seems less compelling.

I think serverless products have a ton of potential for side projects and hobby projects. It's great that you can just type out python and access it on the internet immediately! That quality just never seemed to be what was holding back SAAS companies.
I don't know what you mean by "lockdown" since masks, hand washing, and social distance is not really what I'd consider a "lockdown", but...

What happens when you say, "flatting the curve worked!" and relax all the recommendations and requirements? The infection numbers go exponential again, right?
No but a used beater M4 is a whole lot cheaper than a new Mk18 or a new M4 and it's probably been maintained by military armorers it's entire lifespan.

Though yes, the military firearms tend to be select fire. Probably not a useful feature for police but I can't imagine they use it with any frequency.
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The Holocaust was peanuts compared to the looming climate catastrophe. Thus, we absolutely must silence anyone who denies that the earth must become carbon neutral by 2040.
> Past 55? 98th percentile

Reference? Are you implying that developers over 55 are unemployed against their choice?

I suspect sampling bias: Any half competent 55 year old has lived through some golden opportunities to make bank, or decide on a career change by choice. Also the intake cohorts results in not many over 55 as a % of total. My experience in New Zealand is that older devs are doing fine as a cohort, although I also can see poor performers who stuck with old tech who may have bitter anecdotes.

> You need to own the economic value of your output as early as possible

I disagree. I have plenty of 50+ acquaintances doing very nicely on their boring salary without the stress or risk of trying to get a slice of equity. Plenty of people do not have the traits required, or their personal circumstances are not flexible enough to allow for risk, or they just want a 9 to 5 and a comfortable retirement (which they will get, and their rockstar friend might not).

Edit: Past performance is no guarantee of future results. The outcomes for the first cohort of developers is very unlikely to be anything like the latest cohort who you are advising - “as early as possible” doesn’t apply to 55+ year old developers?! We haven’t had 30 years of hindsight bias to know what the successful path for a current 20 year old will be.
The articles intro seems weird to me: if you go out to tender for a job like building a house, why wouldn't the quotes that come back varry that much? I've gotten software vendor quotes with highest figure way more than 2x lowest figure. The same for quotes for a new boiler for my residence. Did no one tell the subject of the article this or is the founding story really just bs for people who've never gotten quotes for things!?
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I guess what most comments here are missing is the analysis behind certain purchases that come almost as a default in certain people's life like a bigger home, better car, etc.

Not everything has to be cost-optimized some things can be just for pleasure or for the peace of having something available when needed.

What I do think is that for a lot of people many of these purchases are just a default path to follow.
People who play money games literally have no idea what they're doing or what the real consequences of their actions are. They trade in weapons, they fund the destruction of human habitats, they undermine governments to put the desires of a small minority over the needs of the many. Yes they've lost their damn minds.

And when anyone points these things out, they complain and deny responsibility. "If I don't someone else will. Why is the government always on my ass trying to interfere?"
This feels a bit like a strawman. Does he have experience living the lifestyle of suburb house + car or is he just trying to justify his own choice of living downtown?

Having done both, I can tell you they are very different lifestyles. There are certainly perks to the downtown lifestyle, but it isn't all peaches and roses.

Taking the bus is a huge mixed bag and depends a lot on the transit system layout. Taking a newborn on the subway and transferring to a bus to see a pediatrician sucks. Hyperactive kids fighting all day when you're trying to work from home from a shoebox apartment sucks. You don't get as much leeway in your choice of schools (and btw, the highest ranking ones often aren't downtown). Etc.

By contrast, the north american suburb lifestyle generally involves driving kids around pretty much all the time: they might go to a nicer school that is a bit farther out (did I mention good school areas have expensive real estate?) One might drive out virtually every weekend because getting ice cream at ikea takes as long as it does to walk/bus to the nearby supermarket. When one drives, they can also pack more activities in one day: Going for groceries then checking out a dozen books from the library in a single outing isn't a recipe for back pain. And you can actually get home before lunch time. Etc.

With a bigger house, your parents can come stay for a few months (this is very common in many cultures).

Yes, you can save money by living the downtown lifestyle, but there's certainly a hit in various aspects of quality of life.
So you are agreeing your statement was objectively wrong?
Well until people's file descriptors happen to be pipes or sockets.
I really don't see why this kind of thing should be illegal. Aren't we supposed to be happy when people make it easier to vote?
This fundraiser appears to be going just fine: https://www.insider.com/fundraising-efforts-kyle-rittenhouse...
> Your computer is probably 95% idle. Just saying.

On that point, my next machine will be in the cloud. 32 GB laptops cost around $1,500. For the same cost I can buy 6,250 hours on a VPS ($.24 / hr) which is three years' working-hours use. It's even cheaper if I only need all 32 GB for a fraction of the time.

In return I get zero risk of theft, zero risk of hardware faults, zero capital outlay. The best part is that I can try it for a month for $10[1] and if I don't like it I can revert to the status quo!

[1] I'll probably start with an 8 GB machine
The things that put me off were hard resource limitations (e.g. runtime/memory), idiosyncratic vendor set up and vendor lock in. The former ends up making the latter so much worse.

The wins also didn't seem great enough to overcome these twin beasts.
You don't see it in the news that much, but you get phone calls because nosy neighbour reports an unattended kid outside. Law in some places say that children have to be supervised until 12, etc.

The phone calls create a chilling effect as parents tell other parents. So if you even want to avoid the helicopter parent trend, society forces you to be their chauffeur.

So no, kids don't get taken away immediately, but the singular phone call is enough to stop it in %99 of cases.

But here are some links (go through the links that the articles give too):

* Started by some new stories: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/27/fr...

* The linked article author went through an entire lawsuit about this with BC's CPS: https://5kids1condo.com/we-won-common-sense-prevails-in-bus-...

I bet if you did 10 minutes of google research yourself you could find plenty more.
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Is there an editor that will format the same code file with different preferences? For example, I use 4 spaces instead of tabs and I don't like extra spaces around (). But my teammate might want 8 spaces or tabs, and extra spaces around ( ).

Why can't we both look at the same file based on our personal preferences and have, for example, GitHub convert it to the approved team standard on check in?

This way, maybe we can end the spaces vs tabs debate once and for all, and make everyone happier.

if (dense) {
// mine
}

or

if ( spacey )
{
// theirs
}
in fairness, an airline cabin is just about the only place someone walks up and down the aisles with the authority to force you to wear a mask
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That's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of smart, capable, hardworking programmers who enjoy their jobs and aren't just taking the easy-street, but have enough else going on in their lives that they don't want to spend their free time writing code. I say this as someone who does write lots of code outside of work: it is not fair to gate people based on the number of side-projects they have. It's not even a reasonable indicator of job performance.