jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From where?

Genuine question, I was interested in trying to play around with one a while ago, and I spent a fair amount of time searching and could not find a single monitor for under $1000, and most of them were in the $3000 to even $7000(!!!) range for a device that can literally only display a single line of text at a time.

If there are manufacturers making cheaper devices, or even just doing anything interesting with the hardware like building multiple-row 2D displays instead of 1D single-line outputs, I would love to know about them. It's a market I'm somewhat interested in.

The cheapest option I ever found was https://www.boundlessat.com/Blindness/Braille-Displays/Brail..., which is $1000 for a device that can display a whopping 14 characters at a time.
>Indefinitely? How do we know it's a feature vs a temporarily convenient oversight?

Basically nothing can be known to be indefinite. But Apple has signaled that they'd be open for ARM Boot Camp if Microsoft was to sell non-OEM Windows for ARM licenses. So it seems like Apple might consider multi-booting a feature.
Are US sanctions on Cuba really intended to impoverish Cuba? I would think not, because Canada, the EU and other developed countries continue to trade with Cuba (and send holidaymakers there) and it has been decades since the US tried to put any real pressure on its allies to isolate Cuba.

Rather, I would suspect that the real aim of America’s Cuba policy is to appeal to the Cuban-exile demographic, which has a powerful lobby and can deliver votes to politicians in favor of the status quo.
Lack of savings in such a highly compensatied field is bound to raise red flags during due diligence phase.

Which is also why it's hard to raise $10 mil, but it's pretty much impossible to raise $10 thousand.
That's the frustrating part about it all.

Capital is sitting around instead of being applied properly to this critical issue, and then the people responsible for allocating the capital want to place the blame elsewhere.
I'd never even heard of GridFtp before. It looks pretty good. I've taken to not installing ftp on servers at all and just using ssh, but this might make me think again.
PG says this issue is crucial to the very future of America.

So it's only worth one day of discussion?
As long as you don't work on spec ever, we're cool. lol
How 'bout this from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8825308
Yeah, as you imply it's basically a symptom of how artificially constructed the price of much art is perhaps due to how artists and art pieces are assigned value --somewhat arbitrarily but with some relation to perceived relevance in art history. In other words much of its value not not so much intrinsic as manufactured.

One only needs to look at Rhine II [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein_II
I would like to hear the other side of the story. It is entirely possible that, in effect, the work is not likely to be valuable in the future and so he's gaining trust of those who do not understand the value of a piece and selling what will eventually be a worthless piece for inflated value.

Honestly, I don't take pity in the games of the wealthy.
The idea is to "freeze the economy" by massive government spending, covering various costs of private companies and the people.

> the Danish government told private companies hit by the effects of the pandemic that it would pay 75 percent of their employees’ salaries to avoid mass layoffs

> The plan could require the government to spend as much as 13 percent of the national economy in three months.

The state has agreed to take on 75 percent of workers’ salaries, up to $3,288 per month, for them to stay home and not work, while still being employed.

In addition:

- the state will guarantee 70 percent of new bank loans to companies

- people on unemployment benefits will continue to receive it, without the usual requirements, and even past the 2-year limit

- the state agreed to compensate companies for their fixed expenses, like rent and contract obligations, depending on their level of income loss

- the spring payment of taxes for companies have been postponed until autumn

- all public employees will keep their salaries when sent home
The ".com" tld, along with no licensing information on github does't make me feel very good about the request for contribution.
Can i use tailscale to access the internet as if i was in another country?
I’m a programmer in NYC and my spouse is an MD/surgeon/fellow here. I’m also fascinated by the idea of applying queuing theory and Little’s Law to medical capacity issues, especially in times of capacity strain.
Yeah, after looking it up I don't think that explanation was right. However, I would argue the conclusion is correct though -- sugar is not a required ingredient for bread dough.

The more correct explanation is that the primary source of sugar for yeast in bread dough is the starches in the flour -- adding a teaspoon of sugar won't impact the fermentation process enough to make any noticeable difference.

I've tried baking doughs both ways and there really isn't any appreciable difference. Yeah, the bread with sugar tastes and browns better, but it doesn't rise any better. You also don't need to "bloom" your yeast (though it does help to do because it lets you check whether the yeast is alive or not).

For other types of fermentation you do need some kind of sugar (ginger beer, Kombucha, etc). Beer also has sugar but it's in the form of boiled malts (which release a lot of sugar into the water).
A barcode scanner with a scale solves this
Egyptian nobility was largely inbred (and modern Egypt population is Arab, not Persian anyway).
If they are physically unable to work in the "rideshare business", however....
> Many of the problems arise when people with some power have dehumanized other people in their minds, and start to mistreat them, within whatever level of power they may have. By their very nature, such mega-corporations tend produce many such opportunities.

This is a good insight. That many efforts in the fairly recent past to alter the the situation have failed spectacularly, or at least not turned out in the way it was expected. As examples, 'communism' seems to degenerate into a strict hierarchy of authoritarianism and associated suffering (perversely such a hierarchy being an anathema to principals of communism). The Arab spring, something seen in a positive light in the west, seems to have in several cases failed. It could be argued the failure was in part because it didn't have a clear vision or the people in place to make the change happen - there was a power vacuum.

These failures make us very wary of people talking about any significant change. They seem at a default that they could be dangerous. That predicting the future is hard.

It is important to be wary. What really is a red flag is claims of a better future, when it's not explained clearly what that future is, and the policy changes that will need to be undertaken to get there.

All that being said it seems to me important for a society to strive to be better, and to think of other solutions than just more of the same.
Just curious, have you ever actually taken many cabs in cities? Or Ubers?

I see this complaint all the time and I truly can't wrap my mind around it based on my own experience. The difference between yellow cabs and Ubers is night and day. I've had countless cabs drive away and refuse to pick me up because they didn't like where I was going, and that's never once happened with Uber (I'm sure it happens some behind the scenes but once I get matched with a driver it's very reliable).

There's even an entire industry in NYC of "gypsy cabs" in some of the outer boroughs, because the limited number of medallioned yellow cabs never go out there since it's not profitable enough.
This is an incredibly toxic way to think about conversation.
It's also entirely plausible that every apartment DOES have high VOC levels, but she is the only one reacting to them. Or that other people are also reacting to them and haven't figured out why yet.
I'm not seeing any reason on the site to think otherwise, can you elaborate?
Well said, I stopped using Reddit and Twitter because I realized a few things.

First arguing with other angry people all day has never accomplished anything.

Second no matter what you say, in 10 or 20 years it might be absurdly offensive and that can destroy your entire life. The dumbest thing you ever said at 19 is a part of your identity even when you're 42. But that only applies to the internet. If I said something really horrible to you at a bar, the worst that will happen is I'll probably just get kicked out.

I say that on Twitter, you can destroy my career for the rest of my life
I follow HN but not as closely to find most things out :)
I put the smiley! :) The post sounded like it could have been written by a robot evaluating the value of human reproduction. :)
Ok, I should have said "must not have turned out as well". But would they have done better if they would have stuck with their PhD?

My point is just, if you're going to drop out of (any) school you better make sure you have a really good plan because it's a big deal. You're leaving some real advantages on the table so you better be able to justify it.
Well, you're right to point out that is a "grey area".

But it's a completely different situation to reworking copyrighted code :) It's hard to draw too many parallels between the two.
There is quite a big difference between Gmail and a just for fun ascii art generator.

I could see this guy being upset if he wasn't given credit for it. But the new version gave credit to his original from the very start. Kind of a weird thing to get mad about.
By using Airbnb everyday, I will get to know the product and the people like never before.

Worth it just for this, I bet any "niggles" in Airbnb will be worked out pretty quickly :D
IMO the biggest thing that's going to hurt you is actually how long you've been in the same place. Don't do that again. :)

If you've been doing software development for 8 years then you shouldn't be a junior and shouldn't settle for it. Highlight the points you mentioned and don't show any links for it. You could have been doing company internal sites for all they know.

>2. As I said, I'm no rockstar. I can't in good conscience apply for one of these jobs knowing I'm not the genius they are looking for."

How do you know? Employers often end up asking for more than they want, so just try and let them decide if you're good enough. You're going to need more confidence though. If you don't think you're good you're going to have a hell of a time convincing someone else that you are.
Tullow Oil is a great example of this.

They take over oil fields after the big oil giants want to abandon the well and usually manage to squeeze more out of the well in a more efficient and environmentally-friendly manner. Their profits are generated primarily in Africa, and they also work better with local officials than the big players do.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_13/b3926075_...

Maybe BP should contact them and hand over the Gulf mess to them :)
awesome idea. how much more does this cost than renting a place?
No, no, not necessarily. Follow HNN for a few months and you'll know about the archive-type and newsletter-type repackaging sites. I'm not behind any of them, and I know of them.

But your larger point, that Marak is a jerk - yeah, 100% agreed on that one.
If he gets offended so much that he doesn't see the point, then he doesn't view himself as a partner. He thinks he's the boss.

The most important thing to convey is that you are both bringing value to the table, and neither of you can do it without the other. If that is a problem, find someone else.
Thank you so much Brian! I'll start reading it right away.

The class sounds great as well, and I hope you enjoy it. If you find yourself compelled to share anything in particular, I'd be very interested to hear it. Maybe you could do a blog post?
Location: Italy, Europe, EMEA
Remote: Yes
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Résumé/CV: https://vittoriomattei.com/resume/resume.pdf
Email: vimattei94 [at] gmail.com

Backend engineer with 3 years of experience. I am looking for remote work in startups, medium and big companies.

I previously worked with C++ in the automotive field.
I currently work with Python and AWS stack in the AI field.
I am also willing to change to another language such as Go or Rust, as I always easily adapted to new stacks and sectors.
But more often you either don't change them many times a day (seriously, how many do that?) or don't have PIN at all.
Peeking someone's PIN code and snooping around the phone while the owner is away is much much easier than reconstructing the fingerprint well enough to pass the TouchID.
It was said more than once: TouhcID is not perfect, but better than nothing, and before TouchID "nothing" was more likely, because all of the hassle with PIN.
In addition to the difficulty of rating teachers in a way that can be fairly coupled to pay, the fraction of teachers able to substantially increase their performance might be small. Identifying specific sources of confusion, inventing ways of explaining things to alleviate confusion, etc are non-trivial challenges.

What I think might be more effective than attempting to pay teachers for their teaching performance is paying teachers to produce very high-quality teaching material that other teachers can easily use themselves: detailed lesson plans, visual aids, interesting labs, textbooks, maybe even tables of sources of confusion and how to alleviate them.
Google web cache for those who can't get to non-standard ports: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:E3WJ19...

Some more interesting tidbits on how to write exploits: http://x9090.blogspot.com/2010/03/tutorial-exploit-writting-...
> Halo was a killer app for xbox 360. People bought xboxes to play halo, hence a killer app.

Really? Halo was well marketed by Microsoft as a leader game that ran on Xbox, but it was fairly average as an FPS - do you have a ref for this?
"The double is cast" -- Julius C'ster
The argument against standard test scores as the metric is that it covers two basic competencies, reading and mathematics. Which are of course fundamental but there are edge cases of people who have no interest in those fields but would prefer foreign languages, arts, etc. Teachers in the arts can inspire and help provide to students but don't have any standardized evaluation method.

Plus for students who are younger where one teacher teaches all subjects, the focus on mathematics/reading will increase compared to arts. The arts education significantly reduced during No Child Left Behind b/c of the requirements.

You can obviously argue that competency in basics should be achieved before arts too though. Just pointing out an issue
"I came, I coded, I crashed" -- Julius C'ster
char buf[1024]; /* should be enough */

I actually write this a lot in my code. Not code that I intend to share with others, of course. But I do find it amusing about the value I put in brackets. I find it amusing that I have an OCD-like predisposition to make it a power of two. And I find it amusing how the number between the brackets has increased over the last ten years, from a frugal 64 to an opulent 1024. This, to me, is progress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_linked_list
An otherwise perfectly bog-standard anything-port (USB or otherwise) can be switched into being a non-standard port using an arbitrary electronic protocol simply by the two endpoints negotiating a switch. This negotiation may take place via the "core" protocol if that's necessary, or it can send something that is a known "error" case that complaint implementations will ignore but the secret implementations will use, or various things in between. Using an USB connector doesn't physically obligate a USB protocol.

For some examples, look at the high speed modem wars, with various proprietary protocols often running ahead of the standardized protocols by using various signals to indicate that two products of the same brand should switch to a specialized protocol. I recall a BBS I used that had a modem that was 2400bps, unless you had a Hayes 14.4 modem. Which nobody else ever did.
To be honest it depends on the type of DDOS and the project in question. Different types of DDOS require different approaches.

I deal with this in my day job. If you're (or anyone on HN) is currently experiencing a DDOS I'd be happy to speak with you over email or a phone call. My contact details are in my signature.
what a big and beautiful system!
That's awesome.

You truly can play quake anywhere. I always liked ttyquake, which replaced the renderer with an ascii-art output. Actually quite playable if you set your font size small enough and your xterm large enough...
> Everyone I know just pronounces it vai.

No men allowed in town! </botw>

Jokes aside, am I the only person who's only ever pronounced it vee? I don't really interact with anyone else who uses it in person, so I've only ever really seen it in text.
That’s a dangerous mindset unless you’re actively pulling the check engine codes daily or more frequently. That one light represents many possible codes, and in all cars I’ve seen it’s on or off instead of, say, on and brighter.
The issues with Jira links don't have obvious connections to internal systems. I think the FIDEFE project is UI related.
> single click selects all in address bar and search box.

FWIW, this is fixed in Firefox 3.6; you should probably upgrade.
The data doesn’t fit that theory. Latino immigrants, for example, have historically had low levels of education prior to immigration. But for decades the trend has been for Latino incomes to converge with white incomes over a few generations. During that same time, incomes for Black people and native Americans have not converged at all.

It’s also not just a parental income thing. Whites in the bottom 20% of the income spectrum have much double the income mobility of Black people in the bottom 20%. The structural barriers to Black mobility go well beyond income: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353
Icon fonts seem like a good idea for non-web/native apps. Apple rolled out SF Symbols as a standard icon font across all of their operating systems. As I understand it, a big advantage is that the accessibility subsystems automatically handle SF Symbols, and they also automatically adjust to dark mode and other display settings (and presumably any changes or adjustments in UI design over time.)

Of course it's a bad idea to use SF Symbols in web pages since the font won't be available on non-Apple devices.
Whether a term is contentious may not always be black-and-white but it isn’t really subjective.
If all the spam came from a tiny set of hosts this would for sure be true. This for sure used to be the case. These days spam comes from millions of infected PC's and VM's. You will almost never see more than a few dozen connections come from the same host in a day, with exception to rented VM's because they have more resources. Spammers can control how much is sent from which classes of infected hosts. This also applies to the logic in their malware for things like brute forcing ssh/https/mysql connections. The victim rarely notice the malware any more, as it runs at lower CPU priority. Some of the malware is even polite enough to use a single core. Even telling ISP's and VPS providers a host is infected can take weeks or months to get someone to look into it.
> comparing the two doesn't make sense because for the majority of people iMessage isn't even in the list of possible alternatives.

However, iMessage is absolutely in the list of possible alternatives for Apple customers, and they matter even if you're not one.

I know more than one person who switched to iPhone, at least in-part, because of social pressure about the green bubbles.

That's probably a lot easier than a lot of other choices for a lot of people can make.

> I have no expectation that Apple will make iMessage available on non-Apple devices.

I think you should be more suspicious of where you got the idea that Apple should be the one to make iMessage available on non-Apple devices, because clearly the only one who benefits from Apple not being on Android devices is Google.

I mean, if I can get a license to send/receive iMessages on non-Apple kit, then surely Google can, ffs.
> For anyone who disagrees with the above - please show me market where I can go sell my USDT directly for USD.

Genuinely curious, as someone who has never used Binance nor USDT:

Why is the "directly" part here significant? If I can USDT (Binance) -> USD (Binance) -> BTC (Binance) -> BTC (Coinbase) -> USD (Coinbase) -> USD (My Bank), then whats the difference other than a few extra steps?
> USDT is only liquid BECAUSE there is no redemption mechanism

This isn't necessarily true, as in that event, although possible, wouldn't necessarily have happened. Much like banks with limited liquidity can survive for a long time. To your point, it's confusing how they managed to thrive after admitting that they were lying about being backed 1:1.

Edit: I haven't been paying too much attention to tether in ages. It looks like they're now offering redemption of $100k+ at a minimum of $1000 a pop?
> They are also not interested in selling your private information.

Trust me, they are interested. They are a private corporation. They are interested in every potential revenue stream. Today it may not be their strategy because of the potential for it to reduce revenue, but who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Also: Kterm – terminal emulator with embedded keyboard
https://www.fabiszewski.net/kindle-terminal/

"Kterm has been developed for Kindle Touch. It is reported to also work on Paperwhites. Generally it should work on any platform which supports GTK+, either version 2 or 3"
Kraken.com has an actual USDT/USD pair you can trade and use actual hard currency.
I am sorry but this seems like a conflict of interest.

Googlers are earning most of their paycheck from spying on people. This is a fact. And everything about google is moving into direction of earning even more - stock owners demand it and based on infinite hunger for more revenue, this is a lost fight. Whatever you do, from within the Alphabet, it is lost game.

Now some fraction of those that are not aware of reality might be really fighting for user privacy but your fight is like biting a hand that feeds you. And this is observed as crazy at best. If you want to talk the talk and walk the walk, stop helping them and allow to have public image that they deserve instead of defending them based on some strange minority that is clueless where they work.

Or if you want it differently, it is like selling weapons to Central Africa and then saying "Weapons dont kill, people do.". Sure. True. But you are making it more efficient.

Now we will probably move to the part "someone else will do it instead". This is the part of having moral and this makes a difference between someone who has it and someone who is searching for apologies.
UK also issued (another) notice requesting providers supply more today

https://www.current-news.co.uk/news/national-grid-eso-issues...
"Funding comes from Facebook from what I recall."

Not really. Original funding came from NGO sources such as the Open Tech Fund.
Bet: Anti-vaxxers will be a much smaller sub-culture after Covid-19 is done with us.
A toolchain for writing Nim apps for Android (.apk) without need for Android Studio (or JRE). Assembling minimal .dex files from scratch based on openly published spec of the file format, then implementing actual app logic in Nim via JNI. A sample WIP hello-world demo project is at:

https://github.com/akavel/hellomello