skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve moved three times since I had enough money and not enough time to justify paying for the help. The first time was pretty “meh”. We moved 15 miles, from 1500sqft to about 2000sqft. We did all the packing, they did the moving. They were an hour late, got lost and separated from us for another hour. But all said they were nice, didn’t break anything, and didn’t change prices on us.

The second time, about five years ago, my new company was paying to move us about 200mi, my wife was pregnant with our first child, and I needed to start ASAP so a company was paid nearly $12K to pack and move everything. What a freaking nightmare! Things were lost or broken in inconceivable ways and for no real good reason they couldn’t unload on Friday and don’t unload on weekends so we got to spend the better part of 5 days with an empty house when we’d been lead to believe we’d be up and unloaded the next day. And the waste! They used an INCREDIBLE amount of packing/filler material and so much of our shit still broke!

This last time, about a year ago, we just did it ourselves. The last experience was so bad we decided to do it ourselves with a two week old baby and two more kids under 4. Our awesome neighbors helped, my mom drove up grabbed the older kids and they spent the night with her (she lives where we moved back to), my sister in law and her fiancé helped because they lived in the city we were leaving, it was a village effort. It was stressful and tiring, but it was also a chance to really bond with friends and family.

We filled the biggest Uhaul truck with their biggest trailer, and two cars and were at our new house and un-packed in 24 hours. We had literally nothing break.

I would write a check to a moving company for $12K or more if I knew they were going to make my life easier. I’d absolutely rather someone else did all the work, but all I’ve experienced and heard about is massive ripoffs, horrible customer service, and generally unpleasant experiences.

I think in total we spent about $1,500 on packing material and a truck and trailer rental. So we were 1/10 the cost for 5x the efficiency in the moving effort.
They should put a tiny led that turns on whenever the camera is on, like in their macbooks. Would also be useful for notifications, which is a feature implemented on many android phones.
Yes, you set up Sync once on each device, with a password.
You can configure what you want to sync (bookmarks, tabs, preferences, ...). I only sync bookmarks, those just appear automatically. I never tried syncing tabs. I see now there is a "Sync now" command in the old Alt-menu, and a "Synced Tabs" window in the new hamburger-menu, but I never used those.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/QkhNQ

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/sync/
There is a standard and well-known joke that goes:

“The Axiom of Choice is obviously true,
the well-ordering principle obviously
false, and who can tell about Zorn’s
lemma?” — Jerry Bona

It's a joke because all three statements are equivalent, and yet AC seems like it should be true, and the well-ordering principle seems too much to ask for.

The submitted page is intended to help those who don't understand what Zorn's lemma is about, or how or why one might use it.

Some math required ...
This is basically the same thing I did, except that I worked as a programmer at a startup before going back to school for a PhD.

It was better than doing a startup by a stupidly huge margin. Startups are all about risk-minimization and risk-mitigation, since risky things mostly fail, and so use up your runway without moving you closer to success. So in a startup you are highly incentivized not to take big risks -- and research is always a risk. So you are driven to take an engineering mindset, where the apex of skill is to solve a new problem using only old, entirely proven techniques.

In contrast, after my first project as a PhD student, my advisor straight-up told me that I needed to shed the engineering mindset to succeed. Inventing new techniques was the goal, and so you need to adopt a mentality of confronting problems head on (rather than designing the system to avoid confronting them).

Basically a PhD puts you in an environment where you can take on big, poorly-understood and poorly-defined problems and attack them over and over again. Going from a blank sheet of paper to a solution (or clear failure) in six months 10 times over is an amazing way of improving your skills, and IME it's really hard to get this experience in industry (even though it's really valuable to have this experience in industry).
Probably they make news because they're still the main units used in the country

> Most of the nation uses Burmese units only, although Burmese government web pages in English use imperial and metric units inconsistently
Yeah this is not working with the iPad as main computer, it's just routing stuff to the main computer THROUGH an ipad.
A single eyewitness is rarely sufficient to convict, you would at least need some circumstantial evidence as well (e.g., a weapon, a motive, that defendant was in the area, etc.)
The title should really say "Using an ipad to be able to develop in one's underwear"... Outside of this key element, there is really no upside over using a laptop!
Ask HN: How do you implement “Free Trial” logic in your application/SaaS?
I've never had to deal with such a scenario, but out of curiousity, how do you manage free trial users in your (web)app ? Is it just a boolean column in the DB ? Do you actually delete their info when their trial expires ? (What if they decide to sign up a couple of weeks later and want to access their data ?)

Any gotchas maybe ?

Thanks for sharing.
Investigating alternative cloud back ends for PyWren
Such a huge update with lots of new features. I hope smoothness was improved.
The special context for this is the previous mistreatment of indigenous people and their artefacts; therefore researchers these days tend to go to great lengths to include indigenous people and seek their approval, as a courtesy.

> if you publish a book, I don't need your descendants or the descendants of a parallel bloodline to approve me reading it.

This is a fairly terrible example given the number of book and other intellectual properties whose publishing is being controlled by their estates.
Doing Reverse Mathematics, AC is waaaay to strong for me :P (We stick to weak subsystems of second order arithmetic, by and large) But this is a really nice treatment of the Lemma :D Thanks!
Not just possible, extremely likely. That's the whole point of the article: even if you wanted to stay in academia, you would struggle to do so.
I wish my vim could show ligatures. still - not enough to switch away from simple term
I had an IQAir for years. It was expensive, the filters were expensive, and it rattled a lot on certain settings because of the way the motor resonated.
The big issue is that the standard reference kilogram (the block of metal) is losing mass. If we take the SI standards literally, this means e.g. distant galaxies now mass more kilograms than they did last year. Which seems obviously undesirable.

The impact should ultimately be to make ultra-precise physics - and eventually, engineering - easier, because people reproducing an experiment in a different lab will have a closer consensus on exactly how much 1kg is.
So what's the solution? Hold a position for a woman and then kick out whoever fills it when the woman returns? Everyone has to make choices and this is one of them. If there's a way round this conundrum, a very very talented woman will find it.
Comments here went a bit crazy. Just think of the article as "The iPad Pro as main computing device for programming".
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Very interesting observation. I should do the equivalent comparison for Australia.
Here is a source: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/28/how-many-...
...and in another 100 years, perhaps we may see "Berkeley Uses Molecular Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from SD Cards"... but seriously, I wonder if any of the high-capacity data storage today would be recoverable 100 years later.

The technology, based on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable , has the same disadvantages of also picking up sound from the dirt and dust, so it requires plenty of postprocessing.

Also, as an amazing example of how the brain processes voices and tries to find meaning, at ~2:10 in the sample video it sounds to me like...

we're gonna see a ghost--- what the fuck! what the fuck!

...despite having already learned that it's in a completely different language.
Let's not forget this image of Earth from outer space : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
Conventional Interfaces in Functional Programming
When I am assigned a code test for a job interview, I publish my solution on github. It's not a side project, but that's code that I wrote that other interviewers can look at. No big deal
No, it's definitely not. Any lawyer who lies can be disbarred. It's something that every lawyer learns to not do first day of law school... that said, you also learn lots of ways of not saying anything, but implying quite a bit... e.g., you wouldn't say "we found the weapon" when you really didn't, but you could say "we're gonna get the weapon".
You state your opinion, but don't justify it -- could you share why you think it is important we list first author by contribution? What does this accomplish?

Obviously not everyone agrees (or you wouldn't have felt the need to post), so why not share why you think you're right, so we can discuss the issue?

Edit:

Well, we've proven that people feel very strongly about this, but I'm no closer to understanding why people care so much about it. (ie, what they think it accomplishes.)

C'est la Internet, I suppose.
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>For those who don't like it, that is fine. The ballot box is open as the prescribed means to effect a change.

Or for others to exploit those whose political protection only can guarantee very little actual security.

Such others who will now be even more emboldened, to levy attacks against those whose last line of defense now lies with words scribbled on a piece of paper… No prescription from the modern day effectively political skinner box needed.
Kotlin is super nice. As a former C# dev who went into Android, I was really dissatisfied with Java, and Kotlin was my rescue. I had to write some C# recently, and I have to admit Kotlin does feel nicer. (Admittedly it is still lacking some good stuff in comparison, eg. _yield return_).
> Not being a scientist myself, I'm struggling to understand the impact of these changes being made. Is it just a matter of increasing the precision of base units?

My understanding is the big benefit is that if you are a scientist, you can now generate your own SI units accurately in your lab. Mass has been the trickiest one for a while, as noted in TFA. The insistence of spelling metre incorrectly is just a minor inconvenience in comparison.
If your employees are angry and think that they're not paid fairly, that's on the employer to fix. Either it's perceptual, and the employer needs to clarify something, or it's a real gap, and the employer is at fault. This article suggests that the solution is to continue not telling people what they are paid. I concede that humans have terrible judgement in many things. This is why it's absolutely necessary to be as transparent as possible.
Tl;dr: If your employees are complaining about unequal pay, you're doing something wrong.
As you point out, there are already some limitations placed on other forms of private property. I don’t find this argument quite as compelling, at least with respect to the original premise of software destroying the concept of private property. There are restrictions which are independent and precede software, so one could suppose that software is currently the last vestiges of private property and SaaS and the like will finally complete the destruction of the concept of private property, but I’m not sure this has much weight with a lot of (or even most) people.

There are those who would argue that current encumberances have already destroyed private property; I think most people don’t find this to be the case, at least to the point of completely destroying it. We accept limits on freedoms and rights because we understand they need to be balanced with respect to one another. As absolutes they’re ultimately incompatible. Though this is now tending towards general ideology, so I’ll stop right here.
They simply decided what they valued more between later academic career and current family life (as you can have kids later). That's their choice, there's nothing to be saddened about.
Hi HN!

Inspired by the internal URL shorteners that many large tech companies seem to have (commonly known as go links), I wanted to try my hand at building a hosted version of the same so the rest of us can have this organizational superpower too.

goatcodes.com is a private URL shortener for teams. Links you shorten will only work for others on your team. The short domain is https://ga.tc. It's a pretty basic service right now, I'd love feedback on what features you would find useful.

Thanks for looking!
There are definitely problems dealing with race in the judicial system, but I think the comment above was focusing on economic disparities rather than race.

Not all justice systems are the same, some States and even cities have much better systems than others. Saying the entire system is flawed goes too far. The system is very imperfect but fixable.
well Duh you would expect a Technician to get paid less than an "Engineer".
Long story short? Lots.
This is a more subtle point about how cloudflare's flexible ssl works. The linked post describes a situation where the end user sees the ssl padlock, but the traffic is still getting MITM'ed between cloudflare and origin because it is not over https.
Interesting. Its different in India, where it's not the salary but the prestige that drives people to become professors. Even the research opportunities are limited, and industry pays much more.
Are you sure that's a problem with vim and not with your terminal (emulator)?
> Not being a scientist myself, I'm struggling to understand the impact of these changes being made. Is it just a matter of increasing the precision of base units?

It's not entirely unlike saying "we used to ship this as a binary blob, but we're moving to a source distribution". It buys us reproducibility and auditability.
I'm curious how you would relate in-browser WebGL performance vs. performance of native software such as Unreal. Is running it in a browser 10x worse? or 100x?
I think it's the kind of respect an anthropologist or similar should show when studying a community or a culture, not just ones that were almost completely wiped out (but especially then, as is the case here).

To be clear, I would hope the descendants will share these things with the world, and I expect they will. Many tribes have been working on language preservation and recovery of old traditions and oral histories and such for the past few decades. This obviously enables that effort.

But, I don't think tribes should be obligated to do so, nor do I think it'd be ethical to give away these recordings without some input from the tribes. They would have more than mere memories of their language and culture today were it not for an attempted and nearly successful genocide by European settlers, and many feel (rightly, IMHO) as though their communities have had nearly everything stolen from them. It's not an old scar for many; it is a fresh wound.
> The big issue is that the standard reference kilogram (the block of metal) is losing mass.

As per the article, there's several of them. Some are losing mass, others are gaining.
How can C Programs be so Reliable?(2008)
#FirstWorldProblems I face as a software developer
A surgeon is licensed. Many times they will publish papers etc. especially if they are trying to get ahead.
I think no one has said it yet, but I believe the diversity you bring with your non-standard hobbies is a very valuable resource. Diversity being missed by people looking "culture fits" of workers who like the same exact things.

For instance the fact that you write novels for fun suggests me you would be able to write good, long documentation or manuals if required. I've known good programmers absolutely incapable of communicating their ideas in writing to other human beings.

Some, when told that they needed to prepare a detailed, well written technical report on the software they are building for a client, looked like if they had received a death sentence.
The point you've missed is that when Apple stops releasing OS updates, all the built-in apps and programs also suffer the same fate, such as Safari web browser.

You are saying Apple's programs --- which programs besides Safari need to be updated to support "modern" standards?

The mail client on my first gen iPad can still connect to any mail server - including Exchange servers. The same for the calendar app.

You can still download the last compatible version of apps from the App Store and download any music, movie, or book from the iTunes, iBook store.

The Podcast app that was a separate download for iOS 5, still syncs playlists as well (badly) as the newest version of iOS.

The iOS Maps app that originally used Google Map data still works. The Maps app still works with my first gen iPod Touch and has more updated satellite data than my brand new iPad using Apple Maps.

Apple even hacked in a way to support two factor authentication in older iOS devices that wouldn't show a separate field for the authentication code - you enter your password+authentication code.

All of their productivity apps like Pages, Numbers, and Keynotes still work, you can still save documents and open them with the newest version on the newest Macs via iCloud.

You can still Airplay from a 1st gen iPad to a brand new Apple TV.

As far as Safari, if it crashes on complicated sites now and is unusable with iPads with low memory now, don't you think it would be more crash prone trying to render more complicated sites?

I'm using the worse case scenario - having the first generation iPad with the least memory (256Mb of RAM).

I've used my 2017 iPad next to my 2010 iPad. The only real difference in Apple's built in apps as far as usability is that Web pages render a lot faster, Safari doesn't crash and you can keep multiple tabs open without constant reloading -- all due to hardware improvements -- not "patching" the browser.
Here comes another exciting 3 days of fixing random crashes with our medium product build that builds fine on the command line.
I know I once dealt with a case where a senior manger (paid roughly 4x the median wage) was really upset as he no longer qualified for a business needs phone at home which was something like £15 quid a month
Interesting read I saw a similar post about this from July:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...

Redefining mass based on an idea as opposed to a physical object took me some time to get my head around.
It's not implementable by local devices: your LAN is much faster than your WAN link, in most cases. Your router/modem does the packet dropping. But only your router/modem knows how much unused throughput is available at any moment, so rsync can't know how much it can use. Sure, rsync can look at TCP packet retransmits, but that will still cause other streams to experience an (assuming a lot of things) "equal" amount of drops too.

So, you get a lot of complexity for not a lot of benefit. However, Fuchsia is destined for mobile devices, which may not have the LAN-WAN bottleneck, so this could see some benefit.
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>Admittedly it is still lacking some good stuff in comparison, eg. _yield return_

Is that similar to Kotlin's buildSequence/yield/... implemented with coroutines? https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.coroutin...
If the universe was just a sequence of random arrangements of random phenomena, then no physics would be possible - there would be no reproducible experiments, and so no way to predict the future based on the present.

Specific things may be variables rather than constants, but we can only ever define that in relation to some other constant. If the hyperfine transition of the cesium-133 atom starts taking longer, how could we measure that, except in relation to some other periodic activity, e.g. the hyperfine transition of hydrogen atoms (or, if we go back to Galileo, human heartbeats)? So we could equally say that the hydrogen transition has got faster or the cesium transition has got slower. Now if 111 elements "agreed" on how fast time was passing and one other element differed, it would probably make sense to say that it was the one element whose transitions were slowing down rather than the 111 elements whose transitions were speeding up. But ultimately there is no single objective measure of time in the universe; rather there are a number of periodic patterns in the universe that are mostly consistent with each other, and most easily explained by there being a single, consensus concept of time passing. If one particular pattern starts going against that consensus, it makes sense to say that that particular pattern is changing, and since we want our definition of the passage of time to agree with the consensus, if the pattern that changed happened to be the "official" definition of time (hyperfine transitions of cesium-133) then we would almost certainly just switch to a different pattern in nature that followed the consensus. But if the consensus itself broke down, well, at that point it no longer makes sense to talk about a single concept of "time" - rather we'd have to talk about the specific patterns we were talking about. And if the patterns went away entirely, physics itself would become impossible.
> picking up customers who don't understand merchant processing and are willing to pay an extra 1% or so to avoid ever thinking about it

I don't think that's particularly fair to Square, for three reasons:

- For much smaller merchants, it can be cheaper overall than traditional payment processing, as you don't have to buy expensive hardware.

- Not having to "think about it" is probably underrated, the cost structure of traditional payment processing is very complex and can make it more difficult to know how you need to mark up your products to maintain a target margin, whereas with Square you're guaranteed a flat rate which will make a lot of other decisions easier.

- They provide a lot of other services for small businesses, like point-of-sale (I think the software is free for that? Big saving for small merchants) and payroll software (again a time/cost saving).

I think it's entirely reasonable that a thinking person might decide to pay 1% for these things, rather than because they don't know any better.
Like this?

https://pasteboard.co/GQHSjW7.png
It was indeed an Optiplex system. You can find reference to it in this KB article[1] about replacement system boards.

[1] http://www.dell.com/support/article/be/nl/bebsdt1/sln145409/...
It's common for linguistics consultants to request that recordings be held private for a certain span of time after their deaths--- that may be one factor.

Another thing that is a factor for certain communities is that some stories or songs are the cultural property of particular families. In that case, older members of the family may make recordings to be held for when the descendents are ready for them--- when they're old enough, or perhaps when the language has been revitalized so that people can understand them again.
The latency really doesn't need to be that bad. If you can play games on an internet connection it's definitely good enough to type on.

(Someone will now come out of the woodwork to remind us of when they did all their development over a 300-baud serial teletype, uphill both ways)