skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do agree with you that the system blocks more people than it should. Personally, I think there should be many more apprenticeships than there are currently. There are many technical roles that can be fulfilled by people of all backgrounds.

But, for the most serious roles, there needs to be skill scrutiny and performance under pressure.

Think of the difference between a performing artist and a music teacher. Both are vital roles and have related but distinct skill sets. The performing artist must have everything drilled and ready to go on stage, much like a heart surgeon shouldn't be doing research on the operating table.
every company does this roughly.

It's really funny when they aren't giving you any severance and they expect you to sign that stuff tho :3
This is amazing!

Not about the chicken-wing issue per se... but the fact that a local small business has the wherewithal to make a corporate presentation on facebook for their community to judge.

That's really sweet.
Synology is proprietary UI but it’s just using Linux raid. That’s how you can recover if anything happens to the hardware.
You have to understand - it was REAL subtle.
The level of veracity of the claim.
I think what makes me the most crazy is this cult about being a founder. And it's all about the glitz, the glamour, the headshots, the "40 under 40" and all that. It's rarely about results, either business or social. It's about some young people who bet big, and who knows, it might pay off, but let's write about it like it's the next big thing.

On the other hand, I'm sure there are a lot of people doing similar companies, similar things, and wondering when they will get their "break", when press will recognize them for either the same lack of progress, or acknowledge their actual progress in the field, despite being older, less novel, somehow less interesting to write about.

And people honestly drink that koolaid. And those who don't get any are jealous of those who did. We all like to think it's about some kind of meritocracy, and it might be in some small part, but it's just as much if not more so luck.

That's why I really stopped with the hustle p*rn. The 40 under 40's. The wunderkind of the week.
That workflow has worked for me for Julia in Spacemacs and VS Code. Pretty sure it works in Atom, too.
Take a look at: Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs by Tom Stuart.

It's pretty much "computation theory for the everyday programmer". It uses Ruby to implement things like Turing Machines and the lambda calculus. Extremely accessible, and a lot of fun.
It improves reproducibility, consistency, and sharing, but reduces convenience for some operations. It's a trade-off in favor of programming in the large.

If you don't want to recompute dependent nodes, then use new names for your experiments rather than redefining old functions and variables. Yes, in some ways this is less convenient for you, but it's more convenient for people receiving your notebooks, that the notebook is always in a consistent state and reproducible.

Maybe it doesn't work well for your workflow, particularly if you're not sharing notebooks and keeping your notebooks small. On the other hand, if your workflow requires significant amounts of leaving notebooks in an inconsistent state, you may end up saving yourself significant frustration with larger notebooks and losing work due to losing track of your mental tracking of inconsistencies.

Also, if you hit a state that you really don't want to lose, you should probably do a quick git commit. You can always squash commits later if needed.

It might be worth changing your workflow, or it might not.
It's interesting to think about this sort of thing: interactive forms generated from OpenAPI specs? Some way to plug-in handlers for specific mime-types? etc.
Good question. I didn't really pry into other's situations. I was told compensation was based on state, and I really only know my own extremely well. I will tell you Bernie Sanders would approve, and then some, but for my particular area of the state (where most of us live, figures) it is probably deficient by about 3 dollars.
Me three. I used to get colds that would regularly ripen into sinus and ear infections, and I haven't experience a single such infection in several years since switching to about 95% plant-based eating.
Every once in a while one concept goes out of fashion and another one becomes current fetish. Often the new is actually an old one and sometime is masquerading under new name. And then you have army of prophets that are here to show you "the right way". Rinse and repeat. Personally I read and try various things and use whatever I think is appropriate for given situation. Do not really give a fuck about what is the official point of view on subject at the moment. It changes of course if doing job for client and client insists on things done in particular way. Luckily I mostly design and build complete products so clients mostly care about the end result and do not interfere in the internal plumbing matters.
I stopped reading at Karl Malone supposedly being a good but not great player.
Toyota Corolla. I am a Software Engineer and make a good salary but am frugal when spending money on cars since I know they are not assets and only depreciate over time.
You'd rather have root in userspace than basic boot security?

Your threat model must be that of Swiss cheese from air.
These apps have a lot of videos of people dancing. These sites also tend to have decent comedic content, similar to what used to be on Vine.
Then things are a lot better now than they were when I was using it actively, and I take back that criticism.
Build a giant live scrolling tickertape display
Some other knowledge-graph type projects for comparison:

> Metacademy - "Package Manager for Knowledge" - https://metacademy.org/

> MathLingua - language for easily creating a collection of mathematical knowledge, including definitions, theorems, axioms, and conjectures, in a format designed to be easy and fun to read and write. - https://www.mathlingua.org/

> Learn X in Y minutes - https://learnxinyminutes.com/

> Learn X by doing Y - https://aquadzn.github.io/learn-x-by-doing-y/

> Awesome Lists - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

> ncatlab - https://ncatlab.org/ - I visit the page I want to understand and make sure I understand the meaning of most of the hyperlinks in the first paragraph before I attempt to understand the rest

Many people are also starting to use the bidirectional-link style of note-taking to create their own knowledge graphs. I'm curious to see what sort of tools will emerge in the future to help people share the graphs they've created.

It's easy enough to find reading lists online for a topic, but one of the hardest things about learning a new subject, especially without the help of a teacher, is learning what NOT to spend time on and why.
Oh yes, I heard about that. There will surely be mistakes but I don't see how it will be a general problem people will keep shooting themselves in the foot with an never learning from. How many times can you rebuild in the same spot before you realize you're wasting money?
Big Sur made it worse. For probably the greater part of the last 6-7 years I've felt Windows performs better on equivalent hardware (even after Mac OS fresh installs). By Big Sur it's so bad the latest Intel MacBooks chug on it.

That said, the M1 changes things, IME. It's just sad it takes that much.
This does not sound like my experience at all. I'm also vegetarian and lean towards being vegan when it's easy enough. And I can't remember the last time I actually bought dairy cheese at the market that wasn't on a prepared item. I do have a bunch of vegan cheeses in my fridge though. In fact I have frequently remarked recently how amazing all the new cheeses are that I've tried.

You will get best results picking the cheese to meet your need, rather than simply trying to do anything and everything with the first thing you pick up. But even if you can't be bothered these days, it's mostly alright. I'm not even that worried about trying to melt a new vegan cheese these days. I don't have much faith it'll be particularly great, but I'm not worried about ruining anything either.

I don't foresee people running out to grab some vegan cheese to put on their real meat, but even with a truly perfect vegan cheese I think you'd have trouble getting major market penetration in that demographic.
2012 Suzuki Swift; super economic car.

And a 2008 Toyota RAV4 4WD for the offroad fun and longer trips.
Litestream flushes out changes to S3 on an interval. By default, it’s every 10 seconds although you could reasonably drop that down to 1 second. You could go lower if you’re replicating to NFS.

That interval determines your window for data loss in the event of a catastrophic failure (e.g. disk failure). I’ve run multiple DigitalOcean machines for years and have never had a catastrophic failure so they are rare events but they can happen.

Dqlite and rqlite run every write through a distributed consensus algorithm which guarantees that your writes are persisted across at least a majority of nodes in your cluster before returning a success. In that situation, you’d need a catastrophic failure on a majority of nodes to lose data, however, there is generally a large performance trade off when running distributed consensus.
you skipped ML (meh) and mavericks (best)
See my post just below.

I know that Roosevelt was in a wheelchair from polio, but you don't seem to know that Biden is senile - yet other countries are reporting on that.

Nothing I posted is from PragerU, but it's a better source than cnn.com.
In the beginning (95-ish) Qt was license encumbered, there was serious agitation about KDE becoming popular while using it, leading to the very-open GTK based GNOME desktop competition. It was a big kerfuffle at the time.

See the History of Qt section: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)
"The Parks Department responded by saying well duh, we could have told you that there was no such process, and then you would have avoided killing the flowers and wasting our time by making us check on everywhere else you were allowed to apply fertilizer".
A big part of their purpose is to short circuit the bureaucracy within a company. Instead of filtering everything though the fiefdom owners, management has hired guns get shit done.

They hire smart, personable people who can run with whatever. If the numbers or analysis is bullshit, it’s because the org gave them that data.

That said, dealing with the BCGs and McKinseys of the world is a pain in the ass. Once you do it a few times, they are pretty easy to manipulate and manage up.
Oh man I gotta figure out how to get my wife backpay for all the bounties she must be owed!
I see a book by Bill Bryson called At Home: A Short History of Private Life:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003F3FJGY/

Is that the one you're talking about? Thanks!
Oops, sorry will keep that in mind next time!
They'll just run planes above the city to watch people instead, until they find what shape of surveillance robot people are okay with.

This[0] is why the technical knowledge is more important — this went on for how long, and will continue in the dozen(s?) of other US cities because people don't read.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/5/22267303/baltimore-marylan...
The article was written in MIT’s student newspaper… given that, I wouldn’t really call it “name dropping”
Another great tool for interactive fiction is the Inform7 language[0]. It's very close to natural language, there are many good examples[1] online and I found the documentation[2] easy to read.

[0] http://inform7.com/

[1] https://i7-examples.github.io/Bronze/source.html

[2] http://inform7.com/doc/
Agreed, the new password should be
feelbadforwalter --> decrypt + base64 zbQOp+Pa0RxqLuTjuNnJ3A==
Toyota Prius (2009) and love it
Surely IE6 already had a "reasonable subset" and devs hated it for holding back progress...
they wanted a consulting report that parroted back their pre-determined conclusion

Precisely: Someone at a high level wants to do something, a major change or costly initiative. They have to justify it, so they hire a consultant to tell the company it's fine, it will work out, it's a great idea.

I have actually worked with a consultant that told the truth. It was even done nicely, polished and presented in a very palatable style. It was ignored. Also everything it predicted came to pass.
"Intra" here means inside the same government (you're thinking of "inter"). The hypothesis is that there will be parts of the US government (like perhaps the FBI) that will advocate for government-controlled backdoors into all encryption, while other parts (like perhaps the NSA) will argue for the strongest, backdoor-free encryption possible.

I think it's an interesting hypothesis, but one weakness is that the government can have its cake and eat it too: they can mandate that all encryption have backdoors, except that the government is exempt from that requirement.

Of course, then it just becomes the usual "if you outlaw strong encryption, then only outlaws will have strong encryption". As long as backdoor-free encryption merely exists, the "bad guys" will get their hands on it and use it. So you haven't fixed the problem of being unable to prosecute crimes due to encryption, and at the same time you've weakened everyone's security. This state of affairs is still beneficial to the government, as it makes dragnet surveillance a lot easier, and your average citizen with "nothing to hide" won't seek out the (illegal) strong encryption.
I'd like a reference for this explanation :)
They always seem to come with a dongle just incase though, and sometimes people use the dongle despite having bluetooth, or plug them in and then connect to the computer's built-in bluetooth.
I didn't take it as a genuine request as they are parroting an anti-vaccine claim.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pfizer-neurological-damage...
> and it was bad enough that the testing company lost their contract (whether they were fudging numbers or not is debatable, I can't find any good information on it either)

Ah yea. That happened in California and Florida for sure, probably other places too. In Florida there were two labs specially that were reporting 100% positive for weeks, I don’t care how badly they had it, that wasn’t actually possible.

You probably had it, my personal experience was I got it early and aside from two days of flu symptoms it was gone. Didn’t know until I gave blood months later and had positive antibodies.
Does that mean it was pre-1.0 Rust!?
I'm not sure what you're referring to. You can use any web server library/framework you'd like, we open the web view whenever your program starts listening on a port. We can't open the web view any earlier since there would be nothing to load in the web view.
Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards
how is that different from a list containing 2 implementations of an interface?
I was in the same boat until summer of 2020. Switched to ubuntu 20.04 w/ gnome desktop on my home laptop and haven't looked back.
Maybe he meant something similar to Go interfaces, but they are abstract and coupled loosely with implementations after the fact.

That or abstract class/pure interface. There's no need for default implementations introducing assumptions in code.
While emergent story sounds nice, like Nell's primer in Stephenson's novel "The Diamond Age", suspect we won't see it in the same way we won't see a perpetual motion machine. I was inspired to this conclusion by diydsp's chastisement [0] of pursuing algorithmic music. For me, it's the hope of infinite variety. Infinity, though, is only the purview of Horror and the Holy [1]. More likely, though, my computer would only be as creative as a forty person writers room. It's not to say that couldn't be good enough. They can be derivative, so long as it's of something I've not experienced. For example, I've heard the advice to new roleplaying game leaders to crib notes from tv shows and so on, rather than set themselves the task of refereeing and writing a novel story framework.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26874918

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1722845.Horror_and_the_H...
yes, i just mean “current state of fundraising, if any”
Jon Pretty responds to allegations of sexual harrassment
Realteks also have documentation and thus open-source drivers, which was for a very long time (and very much still is) a problem with Broadcom's notorious closedness.

In my experience, Intel has higher performance and more features (which might be a downside from the point of complexity and configuration) at a higher cost, while Realtek is slower, but cheap, simple and reliable.
The main reason I disliked it was it wasn't standards compliant for the parts it did implement: you couldn't write code to-spec and expect it to work on both IE6 and Firefox, without testing each browser separately.
If your company has design documents that describe not only how systems have been designed, but also _why_ they've been designed that way, then you can:

1. Read the problem statement (or context, or motivation) in a particular system's design doc.

2. Flip through DDIA (the book others mentioned) to find relevant material, and try to decide how you would solve the problem.

3. Go back to the design doc and see what your colleagues decided.

By trying to solve problems yourself, and seeing what colleagues did in the same situation, you will learn to improve your thinking.

The good thing about doing this within your existing environment is that you can ask colleagues when you don't understand "why didn't we just use X for this system?".
The official book is good, and I recommend even experienced programmers read it. Ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes are really central to the language, and really handled differently from other familiar languages. The jump from "implicit and occasionally violated" notions of ownership to an "explicit and 100% enforced" notion is a big one.
Dueling anecdotes:

I live in a country where schools have stayed open and our 2 kids have been going to daycare normally throughout the whole pandemic.

Our kids have also been eerily free of colds/flus this winter, after the previous winter where it seemed like they had fevers weekly and so much snot they'd choke on it while asleep.
Volkswagen is being investigated for its ‘Voltswagen’ stunt
It's likely you're underestimating the complexity required to run Hopper and support all existing features. Only a small subset of those engineers will do mobile work. And they likely have many more priorities than building Auto-buy, the benefits and viability of which isn't obvious. So while the rest of the Hopper Eng team churns on with other long- and short-term changes, one or two engineers may have been able to lobby for a POC on iOS. Or maybe it was just a quick week long hackathon project that's still being monitored for ROI.
Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir
>The anti-vice authoritarians only stop here because they would be eviscerated if they tried to ban something like alcohol. But we should be careful about emboldening the moral busybodies with national victories.

Bingo. The state is dictating virtuousness for our own good.
That's an interesting aside about humans; I didn't know. I think the simplification is justifiable for the explanation in this case, though.
I wonder if this gives out the “real” credit scores that are used for mortgage and loan applications, or the gaslight score that’s given to consumers when they check their own score.

I wish they’d just ban credit reporting agencies. Court records are public. If I owe you money, and won’t pay, sue me. Future lenders will see that.
Sure, but if you're going to sell a "security product" and then the security turns out to be a joke -- or even decent, but flawed -- you should be held responsible for it in some way.

Obviously it's difficult to draw the line, and that's why we have courts. The company will argue that they did all that was possible, but as sometimes happens, something got through; the plaintiff will argue that the company's software had serious flaws because they were negligent or cut corners or had poor development processes or whatever. However imperfect the process is, the court can render judgment case-by-case.

(Before someone suggests this, I'm not trying to say that a random open source developer who works on OpenSSL should be held liable here. But if you're selling a product, you should hold some liability for when that product fails.)
In this case the battery is not necessary. You don't need to store electricity to create water during off-peak hours, you just need to store excess water created during peak hours.

Also the article is not about solar panels, but a novel solar thermal distillation device.
I work from home. My wife stays at home and takes care of young kids.

We sent our 6 yo back to (in person) school because computer school was a bad idea.

I have a friend who teaches high school. He is SO relieved to be ending computer teaching.

I think so people want in person school so parents can work, but plenty of people want in person school because it IS better.
I wasn't able to get past the second sentence:

> In a state that doesn’t require carbon monoxide alarms in homes, they had no warning they were poisoning themselves.

As of 2012, Alaska is the only state to require carbon monoxide detectors in all dwellings. That doesn't mean it's not a problem for all of the other states, but framing the sentence in that way makes it seem like a smear, or with some silly bias, since Texas is in no way unordinary, in this regard.
I know this would be hard to keep under wraps, and extremely difficult for closed source software, but it seems like the right answer here would be for the NSA to create patches for government use.

If the government only used open-source software, the NSA could create patches that only the government would use, while keeping zero days that can be used against everyone else.

If the government started requiring all/most software to be open-source, it would create a market. There's no way big government vendors would refuse to create open source software. They would just shift to monetizing more heavily using consulting services, or support, or something.
I only think I have very occasional allergies by observing my health during the pandemic. I have no clue what it's from. I just assumed they were colds before, though I certainly had less illness of any kind this last year.
The Chinese government cannot be trusted. PRC-based companies are required to cooperate with the state intelligence apparatus. Not that much different in the US and the US-aligned world, but at least there is more transparency, open discussion, and defiance.

All the reasons (privacy/spying, government unaccountability, etc.) that would make basing a tech company in the US bad are worse in China.

It does seem, though, many are (seemingly in bad faith) increasingly conflating criticism and scepticism of the Chinese government with racial or ethnic animosity. It is almost identical to how discussions surrounding the Israeli government are conflated (seemingly in bad faith) with anti-Semitism.

E: spelling and placement
Once a complicated exploit is known, it can be added the arsenal of any script kiddie.

This isn't saying you're wrong that quality can raise the bar. It's saying that time and context also lower the bar. Especially, not being subject to "that’s in easy reach of anyone who can program" not guarantee by any purely default action - notably not guaranteed by spending X dollars.
Here it did. It didn't allow the agency in charge of that approve it.
10 years is a long time. I run Linux on a Carbon X1 and it's been great. I think it's about 4 years old now.
That's a great news for opera lovers.