skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The big investment in your career will be ideas that stand the test of time.

This is spot on in my experience.

As I grow in my career as a software engineer, it's funny how much more often I notice that the things that set one apart in the field is a level-headed understanding of the fundamentals and a calm resolve to take into consideration what's worked in the past, much more than one's ability to "chase the shiny".

Honorable mention of the Lindy Effect [1] here - one of my favorite ideas from Antifragile [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince...
I'm a reviewer and a firm believer in PullRequest. I do believe that some of the concerns expressed here are valid but I think they belie a fundamental misunderstanding of "what you're getting" from PR. Having an under-experienced contractor review your code without context, pointing out things that static analysis could/would catch sounds like a terrible proposition, but that is NOT what PR provides.

Speaking from personal experience, the reviewers are very knowledgable professionals who are not doing this for money as the primary motivation. The pay is great but is more of a perk/reward for doing something we enjoy, and doing a great job at it. The staff at PR does an amazing job of coaching and guiding reviewers on how to provide the most value to the client and also encouraging us to do our best work. It is never anything like "You need to be faster and bill less, do more, etc" it is quite the opposite, we are encouraged to "keep the clock going" while we research, gain context, etc.

Everything is focused on providing value to the client, and IMHO a stellar job is done. Every review comes with detailed information on who the client is, the make up of their team (seniority, etc), recommendations on what to look for (and what NOT to look for) etc. Essentially you are putting your code in front of people who have been there, done that for a long time and are acutely aware of not only risk but also pain points and how to avoid tech debt. We are providing insight, recommendations and even code snippets on how to avoid repetition, speed things up, or make them easier to maintain.
Yeah, it's weird how a random Facebook post with no evidence is the basis for this story. It's one thing if your aunt believes it. It's another if some content farm posts it as fact. It's quite embarrassing to see such an article on the front page here though.

It's probably possible, and dealerships usually work with repo men/banks, but the point is, the article certainly did nothing to verify anything.
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> Windows have been teaching users to install from third parties since 90's

in this instance ReactOS is more secure than windows from the era it's replicating thanks to it's software center
I liked this a lot. The easy ADB integration makes everything much faster to me.
A simple 12V to 120V transformer with a transistor driving it on the 12V side should create enough voltage to do the job.
Yes, fundamental to Yang's ideas are you can make capitalism work if people are given a voice, ie dollars (capital) to vote preferences with. Currently it's really hard to get money when you have none, there's a bootstrapping problem. We do a good job of rewarding innovation but not of creating opportunities for it.
> I hate the ones (them being not in line with the regulations btw) that force you to go to the second screen for saying "no".

Absolutely. At the very least it should be legally required that "Reject all" is at least as easy and prominent as "Accept All" if we already started to legally require clicks for consent.
If you haven't switched to Wayland (don't know what the equivalent on there is):

xset dpms force off

Move the mouse to wake the screen.
Coming from well documented parts of python ecosystem and Go, I was surprised that spring being such popular framework had no approachable documentation. Maybe it's intuitive for people with 5-10 years experience in enterprise java but not for me.
The competitive advantage of being allowed to operate their business.
> Isn't Hacker News itself a really great example of a website that successfully uses only very basic html with very, very little styling and fancy extra features?

Hacker News is an aesthetic that would be unacceptable to the majority of businesses in the world. The login page alone would cripple sales on any e-commerce site.
I don't care about some chemicals that go into American cigarettes. I am not American and I don't smoke. I only know people died from lung and other cancers or copd on a massive scale long before anything was added to tobacco. I objected to your claim that
"Pipe smokers don't seem to suffer the fates of cigarette smokers", because of course they do. One of my uncles died of aggressive lung cancer and he smoked natural tobacco from a pipe. Smoking tobacco will not be healthy even if it is the most bio organic tobacco available.
Maybe if you have a download or some other long-running process that you don't want to interrupt? What I think would be useful is some way to manually use DPMS to actually power off the display. The only thing I'm aware of is using xset on Linux / X11.
So at what point will Teslas also start snitching on their own owners and other drivers for driving too fast, being in the wrong place at the time a crime happened and reporting copyrighted music played in the wrong country?

Is there already a design doc for that somewhere in Teslas ticketing system?
hearing $1300 and $600 in terms of rental money and living in NYC I cant help but ask what neighborhoods is that rent available? Back in the late 90's friends who were moving out at 17-18 Yo were having a hard time finding local places for $500 in the boonies of Queens.

I own some property and have a large 2nd floor 3BR that can fetch $2500 and its in a shitty neighborhood where someone was shot around the corner the other day. Most 2BR apartments are 1800 and up with 1BR apartments starting at 1300+. People living in Manhattan shoe boxes are paying ~2000+ for 1BR.
There are plenty of ways to screw clients with fixed-fee projects. The most common is to ask the client what they want, write that down, and build it for a fat fee based on the value they imagine they'll be getting. It turns out clients mostly don't know shit about what they actually need. Indeed, for many projects it's impossible to know the right thing to build up front, as much of the data is unavailable until you start shipping things. So what they sign up for and what will actually help them can diverge wildly.

Now that you have shipped the technically correct but not very useful thing, you collect the fee and then start accepting "change orders" at a punitive rate. At this point switching to another contractor will be even more risky and expensive, so they'll probably just suck it up. Or if you're really good at the game, you then negotiate a whole new fixed-fee contract with a higher price tag, and the deliver what they now think they want.

Bonus points if, as I've seen a big-name global contractor do, you deliver something not even barely working but possibly conforming to specs, and then just walk off the job. Even though the client has contractual obligations that they can't fulfill if the software doesn't work. At that point, the client realizes that a) they still need the software, b) the big-name contractor is the only who can deliver in time, and c) suing is risky, will take years, and anyway the big-name contractor can afford more lawyers. In this case the client signed another multi-million dollar contract with the big-name contractor, easily doubling the "fixed" fee. I lost touch with my contacts there before the thing ever worked, so I don't know how many times the big-name global contractor pulled this off on the same job.
I would go even further and argue that making students read or listen to lectures for any significant length of time without them being actively engaged with the lesson is sub-optimal.

Newer learning systems like Duo Lingo, ALEKS, and Brilliant do an excellent job of constantly, actively engaging students with the lesson, tightening the feedback loop between teaching the student something and checking whether they actually learned it to seconds rather than days.

After experiencing such systems for myself I'm blown away that they aren't already the norm.
Python uses a generational reference counting GC, it should be able to handle circular references.
> You experiment a bit with generating a tags file, using the ctags program that comes with Vim

Honestly more trouble than it's worth, 99% of the time. I'll stick with * (or usually #, actually), thanks.
Hope so!
I feel like that was the point the author was making:

> Obra Dinn achieves this by the simplest mechanism
I'm not sure that I like the term 'Web3', as it implies that everything will move in that direction, which I don't think will be the case. I just refer to it as the Decentralized Web. Centralization has many benefits over Decentralization and vice versa. Its a very healthy thing to happen though.

I do think it has a place, and is a promising emerging market. Which is why I've been interested in learning development in that area.
Judith Martin, who writes for The Washington Post, said that were she a singer in operas, instead of perfunctory standing ovations, she'd rather be hissed for an off night, and on a great night have the students unharness the horses from her carriage to tow her back to the hotel.
So much of life is luck.

I'm from a lower-middle class family.

My father was able to get into computers and video games during the microcomputer boom of the 70s because my GRANDFATHER repaired televisions on the side for extra money, so the house had all the tools for my dad to take people's broken machines, repair them, and use them. This led him to learn basic (and BASIC ha) programming, which helped him get a decent accounting job.

In turn, when I was born in the 80s, we had a computer and, even though neither of my parents were college-educated (in fact, my mother was a high school drop out), my dad could explain programming well enough that I understood and was able to find out I was good at it/really enjoyed it + I grew up in a tinkering household that encouraged experimentation, repair, and tool use.

And now those skills are the main reason I don't have to worry about poverty. Because in the 1940s and 1950s my grandfather fell in love with televisions. That's just luck.
My insight comes straight from the Dalai Lama's book "The Art of Happiness".

He explains that often people mistake please for happiness, so he suggests that you contrast the two by asking yourself: "Will this bring me happiness or pleasure?"

Happiness as described in the book is much closer to contentment in my opinion. The best I can describe it is the deep contentment after helping someone, resting after having done a good job or finding beauty in seemingly ordinary things.

To me, it appears to be less dependent on external circumstances, and more dependent on a state of mind. It appears to be less fleeting and less addictive. The mind becomes more still because of it, whereas the mind tends to be come addicted to pleasure.

Happiness appears to find you, whereas the mind endlessly chases pleasure.
Curious, why? (I admittedly know very little here)
The Right Thing in 2021 is to not do RSA encryption. RSA signatures work fine, but RSA encryption has too many footguns and doesn't offer enough benefit to make that acceptable.
Bruegel DATASETS – European natural gas imports
So true. For me it has become RegEx, Email, Email Servers/security, Excel, and sorting. Never thought I'd go on about it, but man. It apparently is my niche.
> It has happened that cars and even homes have been "repoed" as a result due to a mistake by a bank.

So the obvious conclusion is to... eliminate the "repo" mechanism entirely, on the off chance it might get abused/mistakenly used?
There are far too many articles or tweets or stories they get traction with zero attempt at verification. I do not understand why people upvote it.
What is your point? That any growth, no matter how tiny, translates to scary graphs?
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> child welfare social services

Firstly child welfare services aren’t there to give another few years of average lifespan to poorer kids. They’re there to protect children from neglect or danger. Secondly they’re not acting as mere individuals but as agents of the government which gives them that authority.
> why WOULDN'T you also provide compilation to Wasm and Javascript

Because it's useless save for a single kind of development (websites) and the main issue is not even in spitting out WASM but making the language runtime and libraries work in the browser. Most languages have no first-party WASM or Typescript support either.
Well just FYI, the only person who died on Jan. 6 (at the capitol building, anyway) was Ashley Babbitt, who was shot by the capitol police.
> I think the answer you may be looking for is: Nuclear reactors are unreliable. Compare them to solar, which is very different.

You should come in southern Germany to see how reliable is solar when half of the year there is foggy.
The Battle of Blair Mountain. Shirtwaist Fire. Company towns. Sharecropping. Child Labor. Indentured servitude.

Authoritarianism is the same whether it's public or private. It's about power and leverage.
If I had to guess at one thing that will become of increasing importance over the next decade it would be privacy and security related to that. I think some jurisdictions will force this issue, and companies will have to start treating large amounts of personal data that might be stolen as a liability rather than an asset.

This is likely to be a business change as much as a technological one, but it’s definitely going to have an effect.
The argument for college is significantly more enticing than drinking poison:

* All your friends are leaving to amazing places. If you don't go you'll be left behind.

* Going to college is a high class move. Even if you're poor, people will still probably think you are high class if you sign up.

* Everyone says you make more money.

* People won't hire you unless you have a degree.

* If you sign here, you get awesome friends, the best dating opportunities possible on Earth, and we'll show you your true path in life.

* Nobody will ever criticize this decision even if it's foolish. No matter how foolish, the worst case scenario still shields you from any consequences for five years.

* Five years is a long time. Maybe you'll marry someone with money that you meet here. And politicians keep talking about free college, so maybe you won't have to pay it back.

An 18 year old would have to be really mature and self-confident not to sign up. Maybe a wise 18 year old would choose a cheap college and a good major, but very few will resist it entirely.
devops is the new agile
Ok? It's an incorrect usage. As somebody who was in on "Agile" since before it was "Agile", I'd say much of what happens in the "Agile" world is an incorrect usage. So it's no surprise to me that another term has been misappropriated.
No but you (most of the time) lose the ability to get software updates which are a pretty significant feature of Teslas.

I also wouldn't be surprised if Tesla locked out your sim if they found you to be abusing it so you'd have to try to get a new one (not sure how that works with eSims).
Land Value Tax solves everything! /meme
You could replace Swift with C# or .NET in your argument, but I'd guess you aren't about to say that C# is a mediocre language.

Sure, .NET and C# are technically cross-platform, but in reality they're almost exclusively used by Windows-based developers. Especially in the case of .NET Core, it was only released as a cross-platform framework because Linux servers have been replacing Windows Servers in data centers ever since the Web 2.0 era. Microsoft knows that Windows Server is not the future of the company, Azure is. That's why they happily make tools like VSCode, PowerShell, and .NET Core for Mac and Linux.

Swift is used in Apple's ecosystem because it was designed for Apple's ecosystem. That business decision has nothing to do with the merits or demerits of its language design.
Mass theft, bricking, or actual crashing potential. It's a Futurama episode/ Sword of Damocles waiting to happen.
Genuinely curious, I've heard of Nix OS but I don't know anything about it. Why do you think interest will grow, and would you recommend it?
For comparison, during last year's freeze in Texas ERCOT prices hit ~€8000 per MWh.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-electricity-texas-prices-...
I suspect that's what the OP meant. (I'm also not sure anyone sells digital music files with DRM anymore -- books and movies, yes, but not music. But I think it's kind of become cemented as the go-to example in a lot of people's minds.)
Usually rental anything is a lot more costly in the long run than outright ownership. So someone getting his Tesla repossessed probably wont be any better of trying to rent one. Thought my biggest problem with large scale car rentals are times like rush hour where nearly everyone needs a car at the same time, so there either has to be a giant capacity or you have to rely on most people still having their own car.
That was my guess. However, couldn't they make new brown bottles out of old brown bottles? Maybe not big enough incentive to sort by specific colors.
It would be quite a long trip for me to try it.
Maybe it's different in some places but your delivery example seems like it would rarely cause problems as deliveries are usually addressed to addresses with a house name/house number and/or flat number, so they'd ring the corresponding bell for the house/flat number and then ask for the signature connected to the named recipient.

I've never heard of a delivery person say they wouldn't delivery an item because there was no name on the bell or that the bell name wasn't consistent with the recipient, and those guys are experts at excuses for why they can't/won't make a delivery!
“Whomever opposes my greatest China, no matter how far they are, must be executed.”
originated from East Han (BC 35). It has been popularized by recent patriot movies.
Wasn't the Moderna COVID vaccin funded by the German taxpayers?
American households are intended/designed to purchase property. If you don't, you're perpetually at the whims of the housing market. You may agree or disagree with this as a way to structure society, but renting long-term is always going to be a losing proposition outside of some very specific situations. The biggest source of middle class wealth is real estate for a myriad of reasons.
Multimodal transformers
I don't think anything BIG is going to happen in next half of decade

I bet that:

autonomous cars will still suck.

CPU will just get lower and lower, but nothing fancy except maybe weird shapes concepts.

web (browsers) will still introduce some weird not privacy friendly stuff.

FP-ish languages ain't gonna be mainstream, probably nothing cool enough for purists and good enough for mainstream will appear.

decreasing energy usage seems to be irrelevant cuz people will use that energy in other way anyway.

quant computer still just fancy thing in lab.

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or I've found one that I hope will be big!
air purifier's cost and efficency improvements! shit's so expensive, yet so important
Naturally. In an Agile environment it's more or less impossible to get it right the first time without seriously forward-thinking architecture, which takes time that could be spent pushing harder towards the deadline.

It's a business decision to organize software production this way. Refactoring and ease of software maintenance are quality of life issues for engineers. Not business concerns.
Check out the F# SAFE Stack for an interesting way to build websites
My definition of "having fun" while coding is to feel like I'm not struggling to manifest whatever idea it is I have. To that end, right now I find writing for Google Cloud to be fun; it requires almost no backend expertise to stitch products together to make a decently powerful API, which I can easily build a frontend against.
I think the personal freedom and privacy implications of self driving cars with centralized communication are rarely talked about. What happens when your vehicle decides you can't travel to an area of civil unrest (for your safety), or refuses to drive you to the gun store?
Try a whole bunch, see what you like more.

I've been working with rails for 10 years, got bored, switched to Django and it's been a lot of fun for me.
A Kid Surveillance Complex Locks Parents in a Trap
Imagine, now, that self-driving combined with Uber pool, so that people who need to get from and to the same destinations at the same time (as is typical for commutes) would be able to share the ride.

Imagine then making those vehicles larger to enable not only a decrease in traffic, but an increase in housing density, local infrastructure in walking distance, and economic growth.

Imagine if we then realized we could charge that elongated car as it's driving if we put electric lines above streets.

Oh, and why not increase rolling efficiency while we're at that, and make the task of self-driving simpler by embedding signaling infrastructure into the road itself.

You just imagined buses, trolley buses, and streetcars respectively.

Which is what makes the most sense, and will continue making the most sense for vehicles that don't sit in your garage most of the time.

There's more to car ownership than being able to get from A to B in principle.

Once you add immediate availability, individual vehicle preferences, having your stuff in the car already, the ability to keep your stuff there once you arrive at your destination, never having to think about small, but normal usage damage (especially if you have kids), or, conversely, having the vehicle just as clean as you want it...

...you will see that garages aren't going anywhere any time soon, self-driving cars or not.

And that we'd be wise to develop actual public transport infrastructure for the people who really do only care about getting from A to B, with some acceptable wait time. It's a win-win for everyone.

My pessimistic prognosis is that the development of the self-driving car will make the taxis slightly cheaper, but instead of paying your Uber driver, you're going to be paying engineers, maintenance, and cleaning staff.
Since WWII started, I don't think it automatically followed that leaving the gold standard did the trick. War economics are bound to have had at least some impact.

Also isn't printing money equivalent to raising taxes?

Ultimately, isn't the issue how to distribute and produce goods, not spending in itself? It seems to me there needs to be some indication that spending even helps with the distribution.

I can imagine the economy needing a kickstart like a motor, but whether simply distributing money is sufficient to do that seems not obvious.

Also couldn't people still get into debt, no matter how high the monetary supply? Like if the government says "build this bridge for us, and we owe you 100000$", what does it matter if the 100000$ are backed in gold or not?
Wouldn’t it be extremely difficult to throw away all your friendships and relationships and move like that? Iirc studies show spending quality time with friends is a key component to happiness
No, the metadata would not be encrypted, so that you know which operations would be sensible. Just homomorphic encryption to do these operations without the sender being able to decrypt the respective data. Don't have any particular use cases at hand though. Brightening an image without being able to decrypt it or something like that...?
Do you have an example repo of this stack you could point to?
Been trying to scope out something similar lately and can't get all the pieces to fit together