skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started programming in C when I was 12. Computers had always interested me so this was a natural progression. This predated regular internet access (if I was lucky I could get on once a day) so I was entirely dependent on books, all of which are outdated now. What got me hooked was the precision of specifying instructions to computers, controlling what went on behind the scenes. This interest has always been my hook to the subject so it's of little surprise I write firmware for small microcontrollers now.

What is your experience with university? Did you get a degree, was it worth it, do you think it helped you find work, what did you love/hate about uni?

I went to UIUC for Computer Science and it definitely improved my prospects. My path through college was a bit weird so I was actually in my early 20s when I went in. I was one of the most experienced coders upon entry but that is a really small part of what you need to do well. Up until then my knowledge was entirely practical and I didn't know any of the mathematics or algorithms behind what we do. Those topics along with a rigorous dive into subjects like computer architecture have proven extremely useful since leaving the university. Simply having a top engineering school on my resume has also opened a lot of doors.

How did you get your first paid work (family & friends, internship, freelance, full-time)?

When I was 16 I got fired from a summer job at a fast food joint and decided it was time to start making money coding. I began offering services writing small PHP applications online, starting at $16/hr and working my way up to $100/hr by the time I stopped in college. It was a great way to make money when I was younger, but the work itself was really boring and the way I structured the business would not support anything more than side gigs. My first "real" programming job was given to me at age 19 by an older friend/mentor who was the director of web development for a regional mortgage lender.

What do you do now and what do you love/hate about your job?

I write embedded software for IoT power meters and love it -- I also really like that my company helps third world countries get reliable power for the first time. This company is pretty small and I have tended to like this environment more than giant corporations (I've worked for Intel and Qualcomm in the past). It wouldn't surprise me if I end up back at a big company at some point since they pay more, but I really like where I am at the moment.
> They are a very odd form of fundamentalism with some serious shade thrown at certain Christian churches.

They aren't that odd for the time. They pretty much reflected fairly common fundamentalist attitudes at the time they were written, including the anti-Catholicism; that's subsequently become muted mostly because the politically-focussed Christian Right realized that right-wing Catholics could be useful political allies, but calling them Satanists made it hard to work together.
Exactly, these people are in position of power, with mutiple degrees, staff and million dollar equipment. They are not just a rando off the street
The quality of comments has become so poor as the median age of Reddit users has dropped into the teens, that I think that was a deliberate design choice.
Would you like to be subject to Twitter's or Facebook's interpretation of extremist?
I mean I think they're pretty upfront about that the fact that they're not FDIC insured which is your only real protection from the kinds of events you describe happening at a bank (sans the theft I guess).

I wouldn't put my money in a bank that wasn't covered by the FDIC but who am I to tell someone else they shouldn't be allowed to -- especially if interest is better.
With the current measures in place (reinforced cockpit doors), it's not a significant enough risk to worry about.
If your goal is to reliably manufacture probable cause on demand $60k for some glorified dowsing rods is a hell of a lot better than multiples of that for a trained dog that requires a "handler" and isn't as reliable.
Would you need to confirm this? I think the benefit would be that refugees would have an option that would allow them to work, not that you could necessarily ensure you were hiring only refugees.
>Thinking that you need everyone to get a vaccine to live a normal life is a strange bar.

I don't understand what that means.

What happened to thinking of other people?

When I think of getting a vaccine... I just do it as a part of normal life. It doesn't change my life at all, outside of added immunity.
Pretty much. If you really want to maintain access to old stuff in perpetuity, you have to pay for it yourself by either storing it on your own equipment or paying someone to store it on theirs.
The reason you can't get a PS5 is because China is deliberately messing with the supply chain, because of Trump's mini-trade-war with them in 2017-2020, which they have not forgotten.
If they haven’t seen one in wild it must be very exclusive and hence expensive.
We're getting way too close to struggle sessions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
Surely customers would have returned the device after trying it out for five minutes?
Using list pricing comparisons of course favors the mainframe in this comparison. Since commodity hardware is sold at a fraction of list price and mainframes are not.
Ask HN: What is your favourite graphic novel?
Sure, which is what the conduit Matrix server does. But at a certain point people will likely want a resilient database.
TypeError: Only integer scalar arrays can be converted to a scalar index
I saw Kenyan police use it on a bus I was in. At the time, I didn't think much about it for being asked to alight the bus and be searched was already an inconvenience for. Not shocked that the Kenyan government was duped. I am certain some top officials also made their killing off of this probably even getting them at a price a multiple of the quoted 60k. Fraud and corruption work together very well.
Does your friend need a second property? If there was such a ban someone else could buy it that would have stayed in it/rented it anyway
""Orca" is the name of Climeworks' new direct air capture and storage plant in Iceland. It will take carbon dioxide removal to the next level by combining Climeworks' direct air capture technology with the underground storage of carbon dioxide provided by Carbfix. Orca will capture 4000 tons of CO₂ per year - making it the world's biggest climate-positive facility to date. Using Climeworks state of the art technology is one of the most impactful ways to stop climate change. "

https://climeworks.com/orca

Read more about their methodology here: https://climeworks.com/co2-removal
Police-military-industrial complex is bad. But the liberal_arts-journalism-clickbait complex overstates it.
> the device was merely being criticized because of its "primitive" appearance. He said: "We are working on a new model that has flashing lights."

I know. But the Mark 3 addresses the silence issue. It makes amazing noises.
I wonder if it wasn't just being used as an excuse for illegal searches. The high price just prevents third-parties from testing its efficacy.
To me the person to blame here are the people spending 52M buying it and using it as a protection without testing it.

I know it's a bit blaming the victim, but in this case we're not talking about regular people, but about higher ups whose responsibility is precisely to be able to find solutions and handle a budget : if they get scammed (or more probably corrupted) by such ridiculous devices, the blood is on their hand from the minute they accepted the responsibility.
The maintainers can be pretty ruthless about closing issues. I think it’s either about their workflow or about maintaining focus for the main branch’s feature set. Last I knew the core team was two people and maintaining a repo with an increasingly large number of contributors can be super time consuming.
I love their sense of understatement.

> the technology used in the ADE 651 and similar devices is not suitable for bomb detection

It’s a friggin empty box! It’s just as suitable for bomb detection as my nose, if not less.
Okay, I googled it for a bit. Apparently foreign citizens do need an exit visa but only in two cases:

- If they have (maybe only some type of?) a residence/work permit and would like to avoid problems when returning to Russia

- If they have a tourist visa but overstayed the duration of stay it's valid for
I would rather compare the train/cruise ship to a packed theater/stadium, rather than a commandeered aircraft used as a kinetic weapon. You have potentially thousands of vulnerable people in an enclosed space with no realistic means of escape. The idea that a bombed train isn't going to be a major disaster is baffling to me. Train derailments invariably cause massive casualties to those on board. Heck, lock the doors and start a fire.
That's what the M1 Mac Mini is for.
the victims were the people who died from undetected bombs going off.

I doubt they had any knowledge of what devices were being used to sweep areas for bombs
But there is plenty of evidence, you simply ignore it and then make claims based on your evidence-less "insider" knowledge.

Wired discusses patent restriction here: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/get-ready-world-covered-electr...

Just look at the relevant patents still being filed by the company here (mostly trash): https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-holdings-inc

See patent suits across the globe - Germany: https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2015/03/02/german-court-fi...

Here is the position for their patent lawyer, who actively discusses their "offensive and defensive" actions around their patents: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-bean-0988645

Here are articles discussing the 115k yearly buy-in for their tech (https://www.epo.org/news-events/events/european-inventor/fin...). And note - if you're not large enough to discuss that with them, they usually won't even bother responding.

Wonder why 2016 saw a rapid increase in EPD devices? It's because they lost that 2015 case in the EU.

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So your whole argument boils down to - "they don't do the volume". Which is true but meaningless: Clearly there is demand for these devices, why is the volume not ramping up to match? And I'm saying "Patents and IP restrictions". What are you claiming?
By being better than the competition. And in this specific case by having no competitors ( see other comment, they are different products)
I suppose it will make a change from blaming everything on covid.
Just like not everyone can afford a rent. The point is to make things better not to fix homelessness.
Use leftovers.
They're all over the Universe.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283762433_The_Cosmi...
How is a mirror not solving the problem of data loss if a single instance goes away?
Truly this was a wonderfully written article about Alvy Ray Smith.

> ..You are not looking at pixels on your screen but the expression of those pixels. The pixel itself? That’s just an idea.

At the end I realized it's written by Steven Levy, who is the author of "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" and other books on the history of computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Levy#Books
This feels (no disrespect to you) like a huge cop out. How many more small, "let's hack this together and hope for the best" projects are they missing out on because developers feel uncomfortable with the black box that is AWS billing? I suspect it would be a significant number, believe it or not.
I'm half-surprised we don't already have this. The airlines already use some sort of uber-like self-employed contractors to deliver lost luggage. They could offer the same service in the other direction.
Apple's Planned App Store Changes Will Barely Affect the Company's Bottom Line
I collect at a rate that far exceeds our production capacity to develop and have a nice collection stored at a relevant domain. It's not advertised or used, just an alternate management technique.

I own somewhere around 600 domains, with only 20% in any type of active state.

I think there are about 200 on the site, thinkfur.com and skycaver.com are probably my favorites that don't have a planned use yet. Awakera.com is pretty solid too.

Seobrandabledomains.com
Python ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence
Countless documented instances of asthma induced by the dander of drug/bomb sniffing dogs or just dogs in general? I have asthma and have occasionally reacted to animal dander—but never in an airport or other location due to service animals.
> The Howey test applies to commercial paper, tradability is inherent.

Howey itself did not concern commercial paper, so if the Howey test only applied to that, it would be nonbinding dicta.
I’m a guy who does Electrical Muscle Stimulation instead of going to the gym
And Stalin's comment on allying with the US and Britain to win World War II: "It is permissible to walk with the devil to the end of the bridge."
i can make absolutely awful software in rust
It used to happen only at smaller airports that didn't have the capacity to handle extra lines. But lately, I've had it happen at bit airports (like ATL), so I'm not really sure.

The answer to your (implicit?) question is that it doesn't work. The staff take the card from you at the start of the process, and once your bag is in the machine, they have no idea if it's yours. So far, every time this has happened, I"ve been singled out for additional security.
He better also has built some savings for legal defense. Because he could easily be sued into oblivion especially in Europe.
At least the first part. There’s an easy profit motive: increasing the base of the food chain feeds the rest of it, and some of those are products we like to eat.

The second part, if you can find a profit motive to compost the ocean floor and actually do it in a profitable way, then it will get done. Else we’re stuck relying on natural processes.
That reminds me a lot of the story of the manager explaining the best engineers superiority in terms of dividends on a higher percentage of time dedicated to work..

I don't really buy into this theory since in my observation a lot of people get sidetracked and get their dividends on skills that cease to have meaning or otherwise miss the important pieces. I.e. they become convinced of a particular paradigm and use it as the wrong hammer on many nails. In authors they become obsessed with what amounts to retelling the same story to the bored audience. Also, people seem to ignore the net zero nature of being the best or even a pro. If you choose some paths every other amateur ends up as a pro by the standards of when you started, with others you spend years training alone only to suddenly be very relevant due to some shift.
I (American male, age 32) initially got into programming because my dad said I should try it. We had a Compaq Windows 97 machine I loved to tinker with--rural hometown, not much to do. He brought the QBasic editor home on a floppy disk and a print out of a tutorial online. First thing I did was try to PRINT Hello, world, but when I didn’t understand how to run a program, I thought maybe I literally needed to press print on the printer. It didn’t work.

Later I used that bit of BASIC to program my TI-86 calculator from reading its manual to "show my work" in math class because my math dyslexia led to a lot of partial credit because of how often I mixed up numbers while writing them down from my head. Teachers didn’t mind since it took a lot of understanding to write the programs from scratch.

Later I went to college as an art major. I took quite a few digital classes, and I usually had the most interesting Flash projects because I was the only one that vaguely understood how and what coding ActionScript could do. I decided to minor in computer science in my 2nd or 3rd year as a fallback in case "art" didn’t pan out. I got a website-building paid internship through the university my senior year.

After school I took a short contract to build a few-page website for an acquaintance in my college town. I did everything from setting up the GNU/Linux VPS, overkill CodeIgnitor PHP framework, front-end for IE7, design, and even shooting photography.

When I looked for a real job after that, I didn’t have any luck in design but landed a Python position at a big company many miles away in which I was vastly underqualified for (didn’t know the languages, source control, how to do "meetings" and Agile). I (rightfully) didn’t last long, but I did learn a lot about how "professional" software should be built.

I took some time off (but also couldn’t land a new gig with my experience), moved back in with my folks, and decided to teach myself more thoroughly how to build websites. I landed another gig at ad agency and it gave me a lot of attempts to build basic landing page-type sites and practice other skills in a lower-risk environment.

I mostly avoided JavaScript though because I didn’t understand it and when I did I used purely procedural code. When I finally did decide to learn JS and design patterns, functional programming was starting to get the indie, "cool" vibes (2015)--and unlike my earlier failed attempts to teach myself object-oriented programming, FP kinda "stuck". My bullheadedness let me go chase that paradigm specifically which led me to now doing purely-functional front-end applications despite the lower amount of available jobs.

I’m pretty far from the design, and my art skills are severely rusty, but I’m generally happy making the switch as remote work is plentiful and normalized in the field, and now I get to travel the world (pre-COVID) while I build things and having never-ending puzzles to solve.
No idea, been happy with joplin app to be honest for personal note making. Simple enough and captures most use-cases cases. Just not as elegant as notion, but optionality is great
The immediacy of a threat is directly proportional to the willingness and resources allocated to tackle it. 40 years ago, no politician was willing to bank their mandate on starting to tackle a problem that was (mistakenly) thought to be a century in the future. This is starting to change.

Take COVID. Every government knew it could happen, and the damages to the economy (i.e. cost) it could have, yet none of the countries in the West did anything to prepare for it, and had to foot a much bigger bill in the end than say Taiwan or Japan. Again, because the threat was elusive and didn't feel immediate.
It might be that my household eat food on plates very differently, but it's obvious if it's dirty or clean dishes in the dishwasher, as long as you open the door and look in.

But I guess as the other comment mentioned, if you pre-wash the dishes before putting them into the dishwasher (not sure why you would, but let's run with it), then I can kind of see how it can be confusing.
That's totally valid and as an employer you are obviously entitled to set your work culture and select for the types of employees you want working for you. It sounds like I would be a poor fit for your org.
By spending tax payers dollars, not your own dollars.
I saw a documentary on border controls in afghanistan where they used a pretty ingenious idea. they frisk a guy and check his pulse at the same time. so a guy holds two fingers to the guys jugular vein, and the other one checks him. any increase in pulse and its an indicator they should keep searching.
> Imagine making the argument for welfare on a company that is worth a trillion dollars

You are not doing delivering some sort of poetic justice, you are just showing your lack of self-preservation instinct. For your own welfare, just don't poke the bear. You don't wanna get blacklisted for doing some dumb crap that will come bite you in the ass someday.

There are enough stories running around of people getting their job accounts banned by association for pulling idiotic stunts like these, and we don't know what crap Amazon will be running in the future.
0. I think my original idle interest was watching my cousin build simple games with Basic and HyperCard. We were both around 10 I think? This was all unknowable magic to me.

1. In high school I was recording music and wanted to share it with the world. There was nothing like SoundCloud yet. So I built my own site. I started with Dreamweaver…

2. My then girlfriend decided to learn HTML and rebuild her personal site. I thought that was cool as heck and did the same.

3. I got tired of manually updating HTML, learned enough PHP and SQL to hobble together a basic content-driven template system.

4. By this point I was interested in programming for its own right, but continued to iterate on my own site until I had effectively built a more general purpose CMS. (It was super cool for the early oughts! It had in-situ design agnostic content editing)

5. That landed me my first programming job, with a company making their own custom CMS. This was basically brochureware work for a few years.

6. A buddy and previous coworker asked me to do a quick 2 week contract rebuilding a marketing website for the startup he was at.

7. They liked me so much they kept me on full time. I eventually led their frontend team, gradually moved backend and wound up designing distributed systems for their cloud integrations.
You can smell many of the chemicals used in explosives manufacturing. Your nose is definitely better.
I'm sure it's a terrible idea for some reason, but I love the idea of setting up a service with a wallet that pays for itself. Anyone can add funds to the wallet. As long as the wallet has funds, the service keeps running. I especially love the idea of the provider (AWS, GCE, Azue, whatever) setting up the wallet, and guaranteeing there's no way to withdraw from the wallet, so you know the funds you deposit really do go to funding that service. Then, give the service a way to see which account has deposited funds, so they can credit you for funds you deposited... I mean, I would just love to see more services running "self-funding" like this.
I would be pretty close to the exact target for this product. The killer feature that would put it over the edge for me would be the possible "crashcart" KVM feature mentioned later in the notes.

Lugging around a full KVM console is overkill (unless it is literally on a cart and you only need it at one location). And USB crash cart adapters are buggy, overpriced, and unmaintained.

With serial, SSH, and KVM this will fill the perfect "there is a piece of hardware on the rack I need to interface with" role.
Yes, that's my approach when I am teaching. Positional sparring is way superior to free sparring for learning. Lower stakes, people are more relaxed, the same position is presented multiple times and that's where learning happens.

And I explain it to students beforehand. I say to students: there are interesting games going on in positional sparring and one is that who is trying to escape (say, from mount) is in a better mental, but not physical, position. You are already mounted, now if you "lose", that's ok, but if you "win" (that is escape the position or finish), it is a big win! And for the who's in mount, finishing is ok (already in mount), but letting the mounted escape is a big "loss". Winning when all, including yourself, know that anything else than winning is a bad loss, is being in the "ugly zone", like Dave Alred says, high pressure, low margin for error, when things are not pretty. But that's where one learns (it sounds like it is high stakes, but it not, because the activity/drill is repeated multiple times).

I do positional for takedowns, side control, mount, from flat half guard, favorite guard (and I say, this is your favorite guard, you should be hard to pass!).
He's been a Google puppet for years, this is meaningless.
It's also free to US Service members and DoD civilians.
Funny how HN is so willing to agree with the absurdity of security theater at airports, yet so resistant to calling out the pandemic theater we're living every day.
Maybe they downloaded more RAM...
So now we just have a job board without id verification.
Or, a failed Engineer ;)