skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on my personal experience, learning the ins and outs of the Magento platform can be quite a lucrative long-term investment, especially if you plan to do some consulting later. There's no shortage of open positions for Magento experts. Certificates play a significant role here, so you might want to look into that later if you decide to go down this path.

I'm talking about the situation in Europe, so I don't know if it's also true in the US. Nevertheless, by everyone working remotely now, you could work for a European company and get some pretty sick rates as a Magento consultant, easily over 100EUR/hr.

It's built on PHP, and elements of ZF (which is not actually that hot anymore), so it will give you a good intro to the whole PHP ecosystem. Shopware is also pretty popular now, and once you get a hold of Magento, the switch shouldn't be that hard if you decide to learn more e-commerce solutions.

1000 hours does seem a lot, but I guess you will spend a lot of those hours building custom extensions, etc., and building on the skills you've learned at the beginning of the training. Also, 1000 hours translates to roughly six months, so don't worry about overspecialization! :)

It all boils down if that's something you find interesting, but money-wise, it's definitely not the worst idea.
Breville also does some great toasters and juicers.

Fun fact: the company started out making radios in 1932.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breville
There's something really funny about white collar office worker businessmen talking about how it takes balls of steel to do what they do. Ok bro, sure. Trackballs of steel maybe
The beginning of the end of the banking ‘mafia’
Are you saying this is more harm prevention/safteyism rhetoric?
> Spanish flu in 1918

How many people you know died of COVID?

The spanish flu had roughly 1 death every 2/3 families.

Honestly you are comparing a firecracker to a nuclear weapon, and if you want to do that, then you have to produce the proofs.
Gym-Retro works up to python 3.8 at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgEIoOQgjFg shows how to integrate an AI using gym-retro, stable baselines with pygame so you can fight it.
My situation is similar, except I'm mid 40s and more on the infrastructure side. I'm on a 6 month break from work, and have zero worries about finding my next job. I don't care about titles. I have no particular career goal. I just want to do interesting work and get good pay and benefits.
Given the current political climate, iI won't be surprised if they will get the license as soon as they cosy up the A company. Whatapp got license to do financial transactions (UPI) just after they invested in Ambani's Reliance.
> you are limited to the scope of a single team scope, report to an Engineering manager, just be a worker at a feature conveyor </snip>

I am in your age demographic. My current title is simply ‘Engineer’ without modifiers, but in the business hierarchy I am on the same line as VPs, so I interact with them as peers; and they are. The Directors, Managers, etc. that report up to my peers do not take orders from me, but I can override their decisions on concrete technical matters.

What I’ve found is that in a non-startup (ie corporate) environment your row in the org chart determines your level of agency, not the title as it appears in your HR file.
Theoretically investors should reward a realistic and well-reasoned business plan, and punish hand-wavy science fiction. The fact that this is largely not the case (cough metaverse cough) is probably an indicator about how frothy the market currently is.
"The founder of Scripps Research Translational Institute tells me what we need to stop the new variant and end the pandemic"

Lol. This is true problem with science. Hubris in pursuit of empathy with a touch of politics, power, and money.

Everyone knows this is total fantasy,
In your shoes I’d be working remotely for a California company from Texas because the labor laws from California will apply to you. It’s not a choice for me, but I’d love that.
>The point is not to make a better system, in every way; the point is making a functional system that is decentralized, so it can operate in a trustless, geo-distributed, multi-party way.

Let me preface this by saying that I think it's deranged how ad-driven and surveillance-driven modern centralized tech has become.

Why is what you are saying good for me and others?

I can see some value in a currency that isn't specific to a government, so that I can more freely exchange it for good and services anywhere in the world. But I don't live everywhere, I mostly just live in one country. If I wave my hands and imagine a future that doesn't exist yet, maybe if much of my life is stuck in the "metaverse" then that could have benefits. But none of these things require decentralization or trustlessness (in fact, the "metaverse" looks to be headed towards more of the same centralization we see today).

Please don't say "you just don't get it" or whatever that so many crypto people do today. That isn't convincing.
Can it save to local disk? How does it differ from the browser's built-in "save page as"? Does it work on video?
All pre-orders have the possibility of not being fulfilled. SpaceX is a lot more capitalized than a random start-up or a kickstarter, so they are significantly more likely than a typical pre-order of delivering the product and of issuing refunds if they can't deliver.

So I think you just have to have an objections to the vast majority of pre-orders in general if you have a problem with this. And if so, focusing on Starlink is clickbait and/or disingenuous.
howenterprisey: thank you for your post. I am surprised at all the positive karma I have received. I thank all of you.
I disagree. Their product is already functioning. It's not a kickstarter. How is this dishonest? The only dishonest thing would be the government not allowing it for some unethical reason.
68000 is pretty clean, too.
Oh wow. Thank you. Maybe I would accept an outlier community college here and there, but it is hard not to come to the originally posited conclusion. I will admit that it fills me with an odd feeling of bemusement. Those schools are no mere diploma-mills. There is a medical school and a law school. If those poor souls that are hit so hard by this verdict, how on earth are they going to cope with the real world ( and the very real burdens of those professions ), which is noticeably less nice than US of A?
"[globalization] is in fact full of highly externalized costs that make the 'efficiency' in fact a fallacy."

Globalization is efficient. Any claim to the contrary is an extraordinary one, and requires extraordinary evidence.

It can't be explained away with fossil fuel externalities, because it's been going on since before fossil fuels.
Not sure why "some assembly required" is so popular in higher end keyboard circles. I'd rather buy something that was repairable. I'm not a skilled electronics worker - my skills are elsewhere. I'd probably introduce my own defects into the keyboard...

These days I'm using a Kinesis Edge with lifters: comfortable, ergonomic, and, likly, reliable.

Anyway I would probably get a Kinesis Advantage or Maltron 3D keyboard for these prices. Fully assembled, with a warranty. :)

I look forward to another iteration of a symbolics keyboard...
Often, the only reason you wouldn't choose, say, stainless steel over regular steel, or UV-resistant polycarbonate over ordinary polycarbonate, is because of the expectation that one is cheaper. So price can't be so unimportant. And one version always is cheaper, sometimes by a factor of five or ten times. But sometimes there are surprises and the stainless version is cheaper for other reasons. Maybe the non-stainless bars of that particular size are only available with super tight tolerances, for example.

So why force the customer to know and guess which material grade they want as a proxy for price, when you can directly let them find the selection that meets their needs at the lowest price?
May be Ambani's Jio is upset.
People occasionally wipe and reinstall their computers from scratch, and buy new computers.
Typora is a markdown reader/writer not a note taking or knowledge base application. It's strange for you to compare them like that.
Jet-A1 is a lot cheaper though than unleaded petrol or car diesel at least here in Europe. Especially because it's untaxed.

Still it works out much more expensive for the chopper obviously. Those really guzzle it.

And this one looks so old that might be piston based in which case it would probably run on avgas which is a lot more expensive than car fuel.
The very opposite.

Honest debate requires being open to have your mind changed.

If you believe that killing children is ethically unacceptable you cannot at the same time engage in a debate on when to kill children.

There is a reason why legal systems have a distinction between crimes that allow debate, extenuating circumstances, statutory time limits and others don't have such wiggle room.
For the original keyboard layout of a Symbolics Lisp Machine keyboard see:

https://twitter.com/rainerjoswig/status/1464675225061240836?...
Religion in the Legend of Zelda: The Ultimate Guide
Well, tbh, I don't know the reason, I can only speculate. It is meant to encode pure binary data (cbor) and not to be human readable or URI or anything like that. It is specifically designed for QR Codes.
I read through some Github issue [1] just now and as far as I can tell, it is more or less a design oversight, which might be remedied by a later version.

[1]: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/hcert-spec/issues/64
you took two bites at the apple already and achieved nothing, but I guess this is a nice distraction from inflation
A solo tent needs to be below 1kg before I'd consider it light.

Maybe it is the lightest tent when considering the weather it can deal with, but this was not mentioned in your original message.

I don't get the analogy with the Tesla going to space? You don't expect cars to fly. What would be the tent equivalent? Using the tent as a boat?
> If you consider building software a creative pursuit you want to be connected to personally

You mean you think this isn't possible while contracting?

> my boss gave me zero credit for the work

> being seen, by nearly everyone, more as an expensive machine that writes code than a team mate.

It really depends where you work and who your client/boss is I think, the same as if you're an employee. I've had contracts where they want you to be part of the team and others where you're kept outside too.
What kind of PC is an industrial PC? More hardened? More resistant to factory floor accidents?
That's a valid concern for most DRM-encumbered software, but Typora in particular saves in a format that other programs can read.
I hope that last sentence was sarcastic. I fucking detest microblogging. Oh wow, thanks Seth Godin! Your trite and clichéd 1-paragraph was so non-obvious and original! Definitely not something anyone else has ever thought of before! And thank you from sparing me all nuance, context, and the need for fleshing out an argument in any detail! No no, just what I needed this morning was an even lower signal to noise.
People equating inclusivity and totalitarianism while at the same time downvoting me to -4. Oh the irony.
I guess I have a weird family. My ex wife was there. She is a programmer who I consider a mathematical genius. I am a programmer. Our son was there. He rebelled by not caring about anything tech. My mother and father are pretty smart. They were all curious about it because of the buzz, so I did my best to explain it. I'm pretty sure they grokked it, especially the part about Bitcoin being attractive because the government can't devalue it by printing more. My ex has a relative working in New York City as a hedge fund manager, so I asked her to ask him to get a second opinion.
Next downturn when everyone wants to cash out all their investments at once so they can pay rent and such. BTC has yet to experience a downturn, I don't think it will be pretty.
Or maybe the US dollar has just deflated 10x in value against the only reliable store of value: used 100 trillion Zimbabwean notes on ebay.
Certainly, tons of stuff happened during that time. However, my parents actually did mention the 1968 flu pandemic (though it was prompted by covid discussions, it wasn't just out of the blue.)

But yeah, you're probably right... if things keep up like this, we won't go back to normal due to anxiety and fear. I can see this going on for additional years.
My understanding is that diseases
tend to naturally select to be more contagious but less harmful. The more contagious more harmful mutations tend to die out because they incapacitate the host before maximally spreading vs. less harmful mutations. Not to say it's not possible for a more harmful mutation to spread widely, just that it's not the expected evolution.
>adverse selection

According to Matt Levine's recent column, while you might think that, it wasn't what sunk them in practice. Bidding low in fact worked; it just was inherently limited in scale, which is why they switched to bidding higher. Unfortunately, being wrong in the other direction is very bad.

"I know, I know, the traders are saying: “No, this is stupid, your algorithms will not be 100% precise, some of your ‘lowball’ bids will in fact be too high, and those will be the ones that sellers accept. You’ll get adverse selection and end up losing money.” But that was not Zillow’s actual experience in the first quarter! The actual experience is presumably that some people accidentally got too-high bids, realized they were good and accepted them, but mostly Zillow sent too-low bids to everyone, and some people, for whatever irrational reason — market ignorance or financial necessity or laziness or whatever — accepted the too-low bids. The general point is that there is no reason at all to think that the people on the other side of these trades from Zillow are generally better informed than Zillow is. Sure they know more about their houses than Zillow does, but Zillow knows more about the market, and has more money"

"If you systematically bid too low, you will not do many trades, but you will make a lot of money on each trade. If you systematically bid too high, you will lose money on each trade, and also you will do a whole ton of trades. This is much worse!"
That's quite a fantasy there.
Interesting concept, but I prefer movielens myself. Having good grades by people who like similar movies is imo a better predictor if I will be enjoying the movie or not. How I'm feeling is of course important, but if I can see the short description of the movie I can decide for myself... Still, movielens dataset is available, maybe combination of the two approaches would be even better?
Could they bypass the laws of a nation state by using inter-satellite lasers? Yes! But what leads people to believe that Starlink is going to ignore the laws of powerful countries?!
> Not sure why "some assembly required" is so popular in higher end keyboard circles.

I have heard that Betty Crocker cake mix initially wasn't very popular. Housewives didn't like it. They reformulated it so that it wasn't "just add water" - you had to add an egg as well. That made it a lot more popular, because people could still feel like "I made that cake".

I wonder if this isn't the same. "I built that" gives more pride of ownership than "I took it out of a box.".
> "I'm writing to intimate you.."

This is a documented Indian English usage: "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intimate" (see the verb section).

Indian English has retained some strong markers from the British colonial period. There's no clear guide for how prestige and emulation will affect usage, but "to intimate" in either verbal form is a literary archaism in North American English.
The best thing you can do is work out the concept of "enough" and "satisfaction with what you have."

I've watched far, far too many well paid tech workers over the years just go down the road of "Oh, my paycheck is larger, so I can afford this [insert luxury item here]." Cars and houses are the big road to ruin.

You get a taste for $1.5M houses, and $150k+ cars, well... you're going to be working the rest of your life. Figure out early on that a cheaper house (exact value depends on the area) and a $20k car get you around just as well for a lot less money, and you can go far.

An awful lot of industries exist by trying to convince you that enough isn't enough. You deserve better. You have to buy the new one every year... because! Etc.

And it's nonsense, but it's both very profitable to them and a great way to drain out your money without ever realizing where it goes.

Get a grip on all that stuff early, and it helps a ton. I've made tech worker money for many years of my life, and have a 9 year old car, a 24 year old truck, and a range of esoteric and cantankerous motorcycles, the newest of which is around 8. They all do their jobs just fine - we just did a long road trip (2500 miles) in the car (Chevy Volt) with zero issues.

I mean, sure, I could get loans for $100k class cars, but... why? What do they do that my current stuff won't? Well, phantom brake, apparently...
I had an XPS laptop from 2008 which constantly overheated. I ended up having to remove the bottom of the case and put it on a stand to make it usable.

One day a bolt of lightning struck the house across the street and it died instantly.

Used the insurance money to buy a macbook pro and never looked back.
Literally all of the pop-up style toasters there are wide-slot types. And the conveyor style are clearly out of the question since my stated goal is to use less energy. I'm not sure I understand your suggestion.
Yup, very similar except in his case he got well enough to work again. I too had a couple of times where my ears just freaked out and went deaf. Pumped me full of steroids to bring the hearing back. It's been pretty hellish but thankfully I have very little hearing loss -- in fact I'd happily trade some sensitivity for hearing loss, as I essentially hear "too well."
Good call. Yeah, I am worried about building something that either doesn't serve users well or worse cause other unintended problems. As a technical person, getting to know new technologies seems a lot easier than getting to know new industries and markets. And that's why I am looking for ways to understand industries better.
That sounds like a conspiracy
Orrr maybe someone in the org could've practiced some basic morality and compassion and refrained from further contributing to the housing shortage. Just because you can make money being a sociopath doesn't mean you should...
> ...My favorite feature is the mathjax support.

I too was drawn by this feature at first. But then discovered that with pages and pages of formulas, the rendering gets too sluggish which also impares the editing. So I had to disable the rendering just to edit some formulas.

While I still see a use for Typora, especially due to its convenient export into .doc, I'm already considering alternatives.
Out of interest, how are you searching for roles?

I ask because we have (what I believe to be) a very interesting engineering problem to solve but a lot of the recruiters out there will plug the hedge fund and fintech jobs because those guys are willing to pay absolute top of market and therefore pay more in commission to the recruiter.

I wouldn’t get caught up thinking about titles because they mean different things to different people. There’s really interesting work out there for someone of your experience and increasingly more interesting startups in the Uk. You just gotta look a bit harder for it.

We are searching for a ‘principal software’ engineer to join our team. I think we have a different engineering setup to many startups because it’s very multi-disciplinary in nature: plant science, ml/optimisation, software engineering, sensor/embedded tech. So our idea of a principal swe is someone who spends some of their time as an ic and some of their time helping others to upskill in software engineering - this could be junior swes or senior plant scientists. I know that for other companies ‘principal engineer’ could be a product owner role or it could be a chief architect role or it could be more of a floating mentor.
Or NSA reading other country's ppl data.
The bulk of it is the custom keycaps (a keycap run is seriously expensive, especially if you're using weird key sizes), the enclosure, and the switches. They're probably being hosed by their suppliers too, since I can't imagine they have the money to invest in serious volume.

That said the board looks seriously under-engineered. It's a bit ridiculous to invest so much in high quality switches and an enclosure built like a tank without spending any time on designing the board to withstand any forces, passing the buck onto their customers to make sure everything is soldered correctly...

I'd be confident the enclosure survives a fall and lasts a lifetime but certainly not anything inside it.
I think it’s actually the kind of simplistic analysis you are referring to that got us into this mess. If we would have put a bit more belief in the epidemic models and acted accordingly from the beginning, we would be a lot better off right now.

But even now, two years into the pandemic, the “people” and policy still seem to be unable to take any action until we see very widespread disastrous effects that were predicted weeks or months in advance. Even now, people still don’t care about an increase from 10 to 20 cases (or any other metric) and won’t take action until they see cases going from 1,000 to 2,000.

Remember the ridicule Merkel faced when she told journalists in summer 2020 that models showed that Germany would see a huge second wave by fall? That just seemed completely nuts to those journalists at the time given the very low number of cases at the time, even if there was already exponential growth again at that moment.
Don't forget Baylisascaris procyonis, the roundworm in raccoon droppings that eats your brain. I found out about it a decade ago, when someone told me about the roundworm in raccoon droppings that eats your brain, after I had just cleaned up a beachball-sized latrine of raccoon droppings that was killing our tree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylisascaris

So ya, stay away from the roundworm in raccoon droppings that eats your brain.
Yes I'm so glad this guy posted, as I think removing myself from brokers is somehow less fun than doing my taxes, bordering on trying to negotiate a car deal during 'rona times!
I get around this by running windows / Linux virtually on a server in my basement. If there is some software I need I can either ssh or use a Remote Desktop tool.
I think he later on added a headphone jack to the same phone i built in this video. It was just after all the brouhaha about Apple / Samsung et al removing it.
If you're hitting it with a rocket the explosion should considerably change the momentum, no?

But not that it's really relevant anyway, these things are not close to each other at all in this context.
Apple related sites that seem to have since removed their content.
Network effects: we got 'em.
Also worth a read: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
But all that heat is client-side, and I hear turkey is a dish best served cold.
I think it's incorrect to think of prolog's execution model in terms of "functions" and "output". So I don't think the nicities you're hoping for are applicable in prolog (at least not in their straightforward definition).

Though I agree that prolog seems like it came from the 90's; I especially agree with that "functions with slightly different names" bit.