jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So you're saying we should have the same standard while literally giving two different types of allegations that are thrown at Signal and Telegram respectively?

We either consider the funding of both and decide how the funding COULD ultimately impact the product, or we could look at the source code of the applications and the cryptographic theory supporting them and talk about that. If crypto experts aren't finding holes in Signal's protocols [1], I don't think random people on the internet yelling "bUt It WaS fUnDeD bY ..." will make it less secure.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013
> A meeting here, some buzzwords there and compile the results regularly in lengthy confluence pages nobody will ever read.

Uhm, no. I've been a scrum master. Your calendar looks like a lost game of Tetris, everybody above you is wondering why everything is late, everyone below you is wondering why they don't get more time. It's the anti-thesis of a cushy job.
> If you miss a deadline or delay the launch of a product does the company dock your base pay?

Inasmuch as it impacts the performance review, yes. Employees are held accountable to a much more extreme degree than gains are shared.
Total deaths pM Norway: 123.41

Total deaths pM Denmark: 414.88

Total deaths pM Sweden: 1,399

Similar cultures, but Denmark and Norway implemented more strict lockdown measures.

Two can play this game
A module system and a package manager are two separate things.
Exactly.... all the benefits of dynamic, with all the benefits of static compilation.
The 1099k thing for payment processors has been required for years. It means that companies like MasterCard and PayPal and square need to report transactions, not small businesses. The payment processors fought hard against it and lost.
This one-page format using "concept" -> "example" -> "reasoning" is fantastic for people like me who used C++ a lot in the past, and haven't touched it* in decades but still want to keep up to date.

It probably helps that the author understands this enough to ELI5. So Thanks Oleksandrikvl whoever you are.

* And by "touched it" I mean used its deeper features, not just STL containers and simple classes (and for/auto). (I still use it for TFLiteMicro, but generally I see that most users are topical C++ programmers, like me.)
I'm not ignorant of the needs and concerns of self-promotion in order to build a popular campaign...but I hope they have a technical advisor who will, at some point, inform them about the technique of OCR and how a large hashtag-watermark can obstruct such a technique.

Also, minor detail, but the images should also be rotated to their proper orientation. Crowdsourcing data collection has to be as frictionless as possible, and this is an easy fix.

Depending on how many actual documents there are (i.e. how many pages are in those 200 folders), it might be worth it to go the route of ProPublica's "Free the Files" project, in which they built a mini-app that let people voluntarily transcribe the important fields in each document:

https://www.propublica.org/series/free-the-files

Their Al Shaw wrote a piece about designing for efficient crowd-sourcing:

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/casino-driven-design

They even open-sourced the Rails plugin for it:

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/transcribable-free-the-...
Usually, when you start investing in manufacturing, that means R&D has achieved all it could.

So is this factory a sign that Tesla is settling down on the current levels of cell capacity, charging times, weight, etc?

I.e. they don't believe in a breakthrough before 2020, do they?
Switzerland is in Europe. Are you confusing EU with Europe?
> Google's styleguide on that subject is also very clear that you should indeed not close void tags.

Only because it results in smaller files. For example it also recommends omitting optional tags for the same reason. I'm really skeptical that omitting these things helps readability (if that's what the guide is referring to when it says "scannability"). If size is at such a premium why not simply preprocess and minify HTML? Recently I tried briefly omitting "/>" from <br> and friends and I wasn't impressed as far as legibility goes. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough... :)
> 3 weeks without a paycheck isn't exceptional in freelancing, at all.

I agree 100% with everything patio11 had to say. There is real fear involved when you have these low periods. Just because you're overwhelmed with work now doesn't mean you will be four months from now. But you should definitely celebrate the fact that you've proved to yourself you can get clients to pay you!

I don't think your only options are to quit your job ASAP or wait for 6 months. Instead what I'd suggest is redirecting all your extra freelancing income to a savings account (bonus points if its an account opened up for your business). Save enough to make yourself feel comfortable with the idea of a contract potentially dropping out of nowhere and not being able to find work for three weeks.

Once you hit that amount in savings reevaluate. Are you still getting enough work? Are your past clients going to give you great word of mouth referrals (which is one way to switch off of Elance)?

The big thing is you don't want your emotions to control your business decisions. I actually wrote a whole blog post on 'How Savings Impact Freelancing' http://challengeacceptedhq.com/how-savings-impact-freelancin...

Good luck and congratulations!
The usual rule of thumb is that your freelancing rate should be double your salary. Freelancers have to take on considerably more risk than employees. Double your salary rate probably gets you about the same salary in the end.
What if users don't block ads but never click on one either?
They could crowdsource finding interesting stuff - eg, the Guardian had an app where members of the public were show random expense reports from politicians, and could flag unusual/odd expenses.
> Unless "we" are C++ programmers, in which case "we" like to write 2500-line clones of the Unix 'grep' utility whenever "we" need to do a text search — or so it would seem, from the candidates I've interviewed in the past few months.

Maybe you made the impression of a smart ass interviewer who likes to make up retarded interview exercises, and your interviewees played along. You might want to work on that.
You can have a computer science degree and no nothing about Kestrels or Thrushes. Just because you stumbled upon them in a course or online it doesn't mean that others should know about them.

Trust me, I can pick a term from "Introduction to Algorithms" or Knuth's 3 volume books that you never heard about.

For those who are interested in your plugin, chances are high that they know what K/T represents, but that's because they've worked with combinators before and that's why they are looking at your plugin.
I think it depends on how you sit and your general health. I've got a pretty bad back, but I tend to change seating positions a lot. So generally I'm not that dependent on a chair, unless we're talking about very cheap chairs. I regularly switched between Teknion Contessas at work (comparable to Aerons) and an IKEA chair at home, and found no real difference.

But if we're talking about companies, I'd definitely recommend a higher-priced alternative. While there might be a few people where it wouldn't make a difference, on average there are a few where it's a matter of severe back pain or not. And why risk it? (Never mind that depending on laws or union regulations you'd have problems being an Office Depot cheapskate)
What's most of your debt from?
> In the US, is it cheaper to live rurally? In the UK that is not true at all in my experience, country living here is aspirational and generally a sign of wealth.

Is it really more expensive, or is it just difficult to afford to live there because of the lack of employment opportunities?
The PHP errors may not be enough on their own to convince them that there's a problem worth fixing.

You need to tie those errors to business problems/benefits. A client may not know / care what a php error does to their site unless they know that it's losing them money, conversions, visitors, etc.
"There is no reason why GNU would refuse to mainline such an enhancement if it had merits outside of the GCC dependency"

Except everyone who knows RMS well enough knows he'd be extremely obstructionist and indeed GNU would refuse to maintain/mainline such an GNU Emacs enhancement. That's one of the reasons I believe the GNU Emacs maintainer threatened to fork it, he obviously knows RMS well enough.

(So do I in the 1979 to late '80s period, and he's not changed in this sort of thing. And he was reliably reported to be like this before I showed up on the scene, by among others one of the two initial ITS TECO EMACS beta-testers. And others I knew less well.)
After working on a couple API's used by mobile devices I would recommend starting with some static pages containing JSON, then write a client against them first. That will help verify that you have all of the needed data and the format is correct.

Once the format is nailed down it's easier to write documentation, and the server side code will go quickly because less time is spent iterating changes.
And it doesn't dim the lights for bicycles/motorcycles. Audis are the bane of my existence. If you can turn that feature off and manually control the brights I implore you to do so.
That's beautifully cherry-picked data, given that Vermont's most populous city only has 42k people in it. My home suburb has 60k, for comparison.

Would that be considered one of your 'different factors', that it has no real urban environments to compare to New York (eg NYC 8M) or Italy (eg Rome 4M)? Hardly an apples-to-apples comparison.
Hourly payment is good for employees, and bad for consultants.

I'm now consulting again, and I avoid selling hours, because hours do not scale. Instead I sell solutions, because a solution to a problem likely has a much higher value than the hours summed up.

Also, if you switch from consulting to being employed you can ask for much better terms, then anyone who had been unemployed before. Always add the term to your contract, to allow you stay self employed in addition to employement, to serve old customers. And if you leave a company, offer them a maintenance contract.

For employed people, sometimes the 'cost of living' argument can make wonders. e.g. I once had a query from Munich, and after we went several weeks till I accepted negitiation of salary, I came up with:

I'll play only €208 per month for my flat in Bremen, including heating, waste removal and water. I only pay €100 for my yacht per year, including boats house in winter and mooring in summer. Your offer sounds nice, but rentals are 5 times as expensive in Munich, then in Bremen, and I better do not talk about prices for mooring a yacht in southern Germany. Get me a similar fat and mooring in Munich, or what do you think about home office + Bahn card gold (to ride the train for free) to visit your location once a week + hotel costs.

And you can really get those, if you switch from consulting to employed, because the company does prefer employed.
You might find more luck with the term “intersex” or in more historical sources, hermaphroditism.

From the wiki for mosaic DNA:

> In rare cases, intersex conditions can be caused by mosaicism where some cells in the body have XX and others XY chromosomes (46, XX/XY).[12][13] In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, where a fly possessing two X chromosomes is a female and a fly possessing a single X chromosome is a sterile male, a loss of an X chromosome early in embryonic development can result in sexual mosaics, or gynandromorphs.

> An example of this is one of the milder forms of Klinefelter syndrome, called 46,XY/47,XXY mosaic wherein some of the patient's cells contain XY chromosomes, and some contain XXY chromosomes.

So yes. Looks like it occurs in humans enough to be a big area of study for intersex understanding. There’s a lot of research on sex in this area, but it’s hard to dig through. (And a recommendation for the game “House of Fata Morgana” if you’d like a fictional telling of this history).
I mean, the alternative costs $2,000/mo.
Storming APP (Atmosphere Processing Plant) to rescue colonists I imagine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVLBLJOCBg8 https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/M577_Armored_Personnel_Carrier#B...
Prop 13 is already limited to 2%
Apple has the majority of profits in the smartphone industry in the US, and even globally.
To me, that warrants a major anti-trust investigation into: the App Store and pre-included apps like iMessage being fused into the SMS system on their devices!
Bring them down to size.
The CPI is a propaganda tool. It is designed to keep the real inflation hidden to make it seem that inflation is not a real thing to worry about. Because it is formulated in secret, they can manipulate it to give a fairly rosy picture. The published CPI never panics.
I had to use Microsoft Edge today and it reminded me how cool it was in the 90s to have a little throbber showing you when a page was loading. I brought it back as an extension, for Edge and Chrome. It only rotates if a page is loading!
> I'm against all icon fonts except icon fonts that literally only implement Unicode icon codepoints. That use-case is still technically accessible.

This seems like the appropriate solution, especially since those icon codepoints are quite extensive (they include all emoji, for example). Do you have examples of icon fonts that are implemented with this restriction?
A quick skim of the source shows that appears to be using the iCloud auth device setup workflow which does not have any rate limiting or account lockout guards in place.

I'm guessing the author noticed that, when setting up a new device for iCloud, that they didn't get locked out when authenticating their iCloud credentials. They then reverse engineered this authentication process and created a script to brute force it. Not an earth shattering attack, but an astute one.

Expect apple to add rate limiting soon. I'm not sure if they'd be able to implement lockout without breaking the login process with existing devices.
I'm just saying that after seeing the project demo or readme on github or whatever, I would use that as just one signal as to assess the quality of the project and whether I would use it or not.
I still find Hacky [0] better, although it's been abandoned for a while.

[0] http://www.hackyapp.com/
I once heard stress has a big role in cell division quality. Could it be they merely didn't take stress into account and credited luck instead?
Efi standard documents are available on the net.
>5.1 -> headphone HRTF implementations

The technology I tried is intended to be used for real-time games. Individual game objects' audio samples and their positions are run through their filter, accounting for position and the material properties of nearby reflective surfaces (hard vs soft, solid vs semi-solid).

Is this fundamentally different to the implementations you've tried? It seems to me you're referring to '3D' implementations that take an already-mixed 4 channel source and try to jam that into a spatial 2 channel mix. That's the kind of technology that I think is pretty lame/useless as well...

If you have a chance to try out Visisonics tech, I think it'd be worth giving it a go if games are your thing. Seems like you definitely know a lot about the subject.
It's probably one of the reasons why the BBC News website is popular. All articles were originally written so that the first three or four paragraphs could be cut off, and presented as full articles on teletext (a tv text service), so the whole story had to be summarized within that space. They still write their articles in that way, even though teletext is increasingly un-used.

I should say, though, that it does mean that the content of that summary, and of the headline, becomes extremely important. For instance, you could nominally cover a news story, but write a boring headline and summary, and very few people will trudge through that to find the really important details later on. You do sometimes find that occurring on the BBC site, especially when it's a story which might raise a lot of controversy within government.
There was a Balance of Power - geopolitical game in the 80's. It was all about influencing various countries, nudging them left or right. Then there would be an impasse and the missiles would start flying. It didn't seem like much of a game to me.
I think the term you are looking for is "hosted database" or "database as a service". Database management service is a bit vague.

If you are comfortable around a Linux command line shell, I suggest getting a VPS (AWS EC2, Linode, etc.) and simply installing MongoDB using your distribution's package manager.

But it sounds you are looking for a more managed service and don't really want to bother with system administration (which is perfectly fine). In that case, I would recommend going with a PaaS provider like Heroku which offers a number of out of the box hosted services including (but not limited to) MongoDB.
> Relying on 'exit' to free your memory is backporting the web mentality to unix land

A very fitting description of systemd as a whole.
Good catch on Paris, and I should know better I’m from there! Perhaps it’d be more interesting to compare the greater urban Paris area to San Francisco proper as Paris is an exceptionally/abornally tiny town for historical reasons. Too late for me to edit though, thanks for the note!
Could be a first-mover advantage for Tether and the fact that there haven't really been alternatives for a long time. Even if there are now, people are slow to catch on...
I would imagine that in cases where you're earning a significant enough amount of money, the issue isn't whether the government knows you're up to no good, the issue is whether they have admissable evidence that you're up to no good.
It's actually much better for indie developers because it's completely free to build and ship something and see if market wants to before worrying about subscription costs etc like in Unity.
Yeah. My first non-lego robot was almost identical to this and about as cheap. Although the esp32 wasn't out at the time and I used those cheap bluetooth serial modules. An interesting general purpose robot platform would support some kind actuator and charge itself.

I'm also not convinced the integrated servo form factor motors with an external encoder is an improvement over a small stepper motor.
To underscore the sibling comment: at the point where a "% of revenue is millions of dollars" the company can easily afford to invest in an in-house solution if it's that important for their revenue goals. The tradeoff is hiring a sufficient number of skilled game engine programmers to make that work. It's not cheap.
Didn't Mediatek also hire open source developers (or at least one very notable one) to work on their wifi drivers in the mainline kernel?

In [2], I'm seeing sensors (not made by Mediatek), GPU drivers (Mali, ask arm on that one), and RF (usually regulatory; legalism?), and whatever else is in that textdump. Is there anything that actually does an analysis? Even the blog source eventually just said they didn't know.
And someone who says "duh it shows the Google homepage" is destined for the executive team.
Could you expand into why you think this question is indicative of a workplace with "little-to-no learning" on the job?

I ask this question to new grad candidates with no expected answer in mind. The goal is to establish some level of technical competency and discover the candidates' interests. Do they talk about kernel, network, backend, frontend, etc?

The percentage of candidates who can spend more than 1 minute answering is abysmally low. If I get a curt response I'll follow up with relevant questions to the position they're applying for.
> Most of the JS runtimes already do some kind of type inference

Problem is they are not available to users. I dont care what the JIT does,I want my IDE to help me write correct code,that's the goal of Typescript.
>In other words, it's like Uber - a scheme for getting more work out of low-paid employees.

I refuse to use Uber (and don't need to living in New York City) and from what I've read about the founders, they're scumbags. But what a cynical and dim view of the world to think that Uber is just a 'scheme' to exploit people.

>It's all heavy machinery, automation, and centralization. Works fine.

Pack it up guys. Someone on Hacker News has figured it out. Everything relating to garbage is working fine everywhere for everyone. We clearly have no room to improve, cause ya know, it works fine.

It may surprise you to learn this, but not everyone exists in the same situation as you. Here's [1] a picture I took of a not abnormal trash day in Brooklyn. The woman in the picture is about 5'4".

1. http://i.imgur.com/jt461hG.jpg
Most bad drivers I know are convinced they are 'good drivers'...
>The idea that the worlds population is a problem is in my world an antihuman stance which keeps popping up even tough it keeps being proven wrong. Wether Maltahus, Erlich or the UN.

Ok, I will stay in my pragmatically driven (being in favor of endless population growth is just another ideology, being in favor of neither is pragmatism), non population exploding enclave and become rich in the process. I'll be looking forward to seeing Africa mass produce poor people.

Your ideology requires technological progress to always be faster than human population growth, sure you can keep this up another 300 years but at some point you are going to trip.
Unity rendering sprites has nothing to do with C#. A big portion of their engine and rendering stack are implemented in C/C++.
At the beginning of lockdown last year I thought it would be a fun projects to build a doomsday-type local internet. Just a raspberry pi with it's own AP hosting various offline version of reference websites.

I thought it would be pretty low effort: maybe a few scripts to crawl some websites and then a few scripts to spit out html. I never got passed acquiring all the references. Most of the available stuff is from over 10 years ago. Wikipedia's convenient snapshot are from 2008, the dictionary files I found seemed to be based on Merriam Webster from 2009 and I couldn't find a good reference for scientific unit conversions just to name a few.

In the end I shelved it since it was going to be much more than quick project. But I must say that i'm impressed with Gutenberg project on how they provide an option to download all their books.
Thanks for the link to configuration to the payment system there. I found the commit that added that here dated October, 8 2020: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commit/39c09733d3... .
I wonder whether robots.txt of Yahoo answers have links available?
If you like creating picture books (no ads, no account required) perhaps you also want to try out my MyPictureBooks app for android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.juliushuij...

Add text and audio to pictures and you can flip the pages. That's mostly it. I also provided a couple of books myself.

(update: removed multi-line question 'where are examples?')
feel free to email me at matt@enjinu.com
If you've ever been to business school, then you'll know that most of the students clearly don't give a shit about the course material. I mean what kind of 18 year old kid would care about the pricing of a zero-coupon bond?
Because in Infinity you can't predict things with sight. Actually, it seems like the rectangles have become a lined curve, but in reality they aren't. They are just too small to be noticeable.

4 - π will be that small, tiny difference.
Just because the conclusion is wrong it does not mean that there is no point here. What’s described is exactly what one has to deal with in digital image analysis. Here is a write-up and a link to a paper: http://inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lengths_of_curves. The paper proves essentially that there is no good way to approximate lengths of curves with any grid, even if the size of the mesh goes to 0.