skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved from Austin, TX. Toronto is a great town with lots of energy, looking for like-minded HNers to network in the area. Re: employment, for sure, I was shocked to learn about the developer salaries here.
They are specifically not flamethrowers.
> working out the logic flows in assembler

Not only assembler, but IBM mainframe assembler. That's way cooler than x86.
Maybe tangential question - but are there any open source/paid well documented text-to-speech libraries for Indian languages?
I'm not sure what you mean, but the root of graphics is graphikos, Greek for writing or drawing. Mathematical graphs are called that by analogy to their graphical forebears.
Agreed. That's the sort of rework that I think can be avoided by a good partnership between the PO and the stakeholders in the nascent stages before physical work begins.

I guess the reason why this happens is this weird psychological block in people's minds that software is totally mutable and flexible and therefore can change to whatever you want it to be, even after the fact. You'd never go into that mindset when building a physical structure, but the amount of re-architecture required to enact such changes in software can be just that monumental.
that's really nice. Looking at level 3, why is -start inclusive but -end exclusive? start = 1, so it isn't zero-based, that I get, but if it starts with 1, it looks like it would end with 3, but 4 is the answer (1 and 3 only sets the first two columns).

I get that that is CSS, not the game's rules, so not arguing why the game handles that way, I'm just curious what the motivation is for the CSS rule.
Are Retailers Prepared for the Operational Challenges of Multi-Channel Selling?
I think you're being a bit too sweeping, but your point doesn't apply only to tradespeople at all. The good ones are constantly learning and keeping up with new technology as much as any of us are. The lazy ones don't, and I know plenty of developers who only learn something new when they have to, and expect it to be delivered on a plate in the form of an offsite "training" session.

Home renovation is also where a lot of bottom-feeders end up. It's very easy to do and doesn't require much skill to get into.
I don't want to seem like a grammar nazi of sorts, but it seems to me that there are a couple of typos in the points 7 and 8 of the "How we did it":

7/ >the ->them?

8/ >ridicuously ->ridiculously
Firefox Quantum's Tracking Protection Gives Users the Right to Be Curious
Australia has of late had its own issues involving accusations of Chinese espionage as well as good old-fashioned palm-greasing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dastyari#Chinese_influence...

If the US starts clamping down on this sort of thing, expect China to accuse the US government of xenophobia, since of course "we'd like to stop so many Chinese agents and toadies from infiltrating our governmental and educational systems" translates to "we hate Chinese people" in Mandarin.

EDIT: To be clear to any Chinese agents reading this, my issue is not so much with the spying and soft power campaigns so much as it is the unfair accusations of racism.
3 decades ago the Internet didn't exist. 2 decades ago Google was a project in a basement. A decade ago smartphones were still thought to be a fad. Trying to predict tech trends 3 decades from now seems a tad foolhardy.
So You Want to Reform Democracy
Not really a practice but a lot of companies have adopted Netflix's HR policy, here are some famous slides they published on how they work and hire, one includes don't hire brilliant jerks
Indeed. And if you had an ad to market you want it targeted. Targeting can only occur if there is data.
After doing research I am finding that grants and scholarships are less common than I originally believed.

I did not go to the most prestigious school I was accepted to. I went to a less prestigious school that offered a much better deal. I suspect many students can receive merit based aid by selecting a lower tier school.
Everyone on that designer web forum smells their own farts. It's not local culture it's seclusion.
Show HN: Find It – Search physical documents using your phone's camera
Stop a 9mm @ ten meters from what?

Even if the bullet didn't breach the fabric, the fabric is gonna breach YOU. I guess it might make recovering the projectile from your internal organs a little easier, LOL. So there is that.
New Zealand has had similar issues - https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/339335/national-mp-...
Such complete bs. The media has always felt threatened by the Internet and has made it the bad guy over and over since it came into existence. The only way to put an end to this is to put an end to these breathless media outlets that promote mass hysteria. Fake news.
I've seen this go wrong a few times. It's absolutely better to hire no one than to hire the wrong person. Consensus is best for that.

You absolutely should be getting feedback quickly though.
I'd assert reading code being far more valuable, especially when dealing with others' unreadable code.
Also not taken into account is that light travels about 30% slower in a fibre optic cable than in space.
PARIS VS REAL MADRID
I'm fairly aware that the about half the management at this job thought I was inscrutable. Someone who kind of knew me was interviewing for a position and asked my boss about me. His reply was something to the effect of "He's the genius who we leave alone in the corner while he does mad science experiments."

I guess it's complimentary in a way, but I can articulate exactly what I did in a way that my mom, who is an artist and barely uses a computer, can understand.

I think a lot of the problem is that some managers are really inflexible. They only know one way of management, and if that doesn't work they don't know what to do. They are a lot like teachers in that regard. We've all had teachers who could only explain things one way, and they constantly confused students who didn't grasp that explanation.

I even got my boss and HR to admit that I was really self-aware, and was able to articulate what I needed to succeed. It was like that meme where you break a logical explanation down into atomic parts and get them to agree with every step along the way, but they just said "no" to the conclusion.

I guess it's maybe an example of the Peter Principle in action.
My eyes just can't stop staring at the animated wave form. I can't read the text on the right side. But the content seems to be very nice.
Competition is not just about price. The capacity of a corporation to be evil depends on alternatives people have.

The closer the competition the smaller the 'evilness' that would make people switch.

The same company can be perfect in one country and a 'evil' in another depending on the situation.
We absolutely should not. Advertising is almost pure rent-seeking; it's a horribly inefficient solution for the actual utility component it provides society.

I think this is one of those situations where an inferior mechanism has won (at least in this phase of history) because it disproportionately benefits power holders and platform operators.

Advertising is sanctioned manipulation and lying. It matches customers to products, but does so by focusing on lies, mind tricks and human hacks rather than desired customer outcome. It's broken at its core as a concept.
You find it hard to believe that a major world power is conducting both espionage and soft power campaigns inside the US?
I agree with the general principle you’re describing, it I’m unconvinced that it applies in this case. Do you see what I mean? How does this warning empower the public?
> And that third is really hard to show off in particular by doing something different than what everybody else does.

Is this not a little contradictory? According to several sources on the internet, 40% of working-aged Americans have 2+-year college degrees and only 33% have 4+-year college degrees. Going to college is the one that is doing something different than what everyone else does. Not going to college is the norm.
OMG! Bad guys used to send letters to communicate long distance. We must ban physical mail and the messengers who enable their dark deeds!
I love this! We are going to broadcast this on the screen at our valentine's day event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fancy-date-with-javascript-tick...
https://twitter.com/marriottrewards/status/95134403140508467...
> we can't keep assuming that a single type of interface will be a good fit for each and every person

Try arguing this with the NFB...
I like to go with master developer and not rockstar for the very reasons you state
It was anything but equal. My mother was well connected to a manager of a major supermarket, so instead of waiting in line for hours for a loaf of bread, she could go in the back door of the store.

My family were also property owners, so their wealth was not diminished as rapidly as the rest of the economy (though it certainly was diminished).

Hyperinflation is not a route I recommend if greater equality is what you seek :)
The other day I heard my brother say "Set alarm for 3:15" instead of "15 minutes from now" and when I asked him why he said that latter required Google Now which required additional permissions, so he would rather figure out the time to ask for rather than accept additional permissions.

If you say "Set alarm for 7", it will do 7pm, even if you use 24 hours time. And I know no one says 19 o' clock when speaking but it is interesting.

"Set alarm for 7 tomorrow" is 7am.
That a different company. Just the same Bond villain in control.
BuckHacker: A Search Engine for AWS
Very good educational experience. Even if you already know the concepts, the animations help with understanding it all intuitively.
Yeah, I initially got excited by the link for this reason too. You might be able to do something with Astrometry.net (http://astrometry.net/gallery.html), by first converting the logo to a set of points. But they might just reject non-star images (or images where the points don't exactly match).
I have a ZFS on root Arch setup, unfortunately Gnome 3 is such garbage nowadays that I hardly ever use it. It still doesn’t do display scaling correctly for 4K and it just crashes all the time.
They don’t seem to be terribly clear on what they are worried about, if this article is to be taken at face value.

The closest thing to a legitimate concern they can manage to cough up is that China might be stealing American research — but if that’s the case, why aren’t we more worried about other countries (say, ones that have less in the way of their own research resources than China)?

Edit: thanks for adding the link about CI — but I thought that seemed like kind of a sidebar in the article. They sound more generally concerned about the very presence of Chinese students.
For those curious here's the repo! https://github.com/ronik-design/love.ronikdesign.com

This project was a blast to create. Our team's slack has been full off design and dev puns for the past week.
Systolic CNN AcceLErator Simulator (SCALE Sim)
Yes but malintent is much rarer than oversight. Even for actions that hurt customers, are not truly a choice. Save for Google and Facebook, even CEOs that hurt the bottom line for a minor moral victory will be replaced with other people.
> China's GDP is expected to surpass American GDP in the next decade, and India will follow suit in another ~3 decades

Right but aggregate GDP is not as important to these companies as GDP per capita.

> If you're a company like Google, that is well established to last for another couple decades, you'd be foolhardy not to ride this massive wave.

Actually I'm pretty sure the big tech companies can make most of their revenue from high GDP-per-capita users. Not saying this is the moral choice, but financially I'm not sure that these less wealthy users will move the needle appreciably for the giants.
I don’t think that a constellation - lines and dots is under any copyright.
It’s like saying that python logo has a python so it validates all logos that has snakes in logos..
Remember, no actual logos were used, changed, modified...
That's great! It's also been happening forever (:
To quote Feynman...

When I was at Princeton in the 1940s I could see what happened to those great minds at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been specially selected for their tremendous brains and were now given this opportunity to sit in this lovely house by the woods there, with no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves, OK? So they don't get an idea for a while: They have every opportunity to do something, and they're not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. And nothing happens. Still no ideas come.
Nothing happens because there's not enough real activity and challenge: You're not in contact with the experimental guys. You don't have to think how to answer questions from the students. Nothing!
Perhaps if you're a researcher at a university and you get an interesting business offer out of the blue in exchange for access to something (maybe data you've gathered), you may be a bit more wary and consider if you're being manipulated by another government's intelligence service.
Companies aren't "evil" as such, but they can get complacent when not exposed to sufficient competition. Once SpaceX is a viable competitor, Comcast will probably fairly quickly "forget" that they are evil.

I seem to recall people reporting that Comcast is actually just fine in many areas with a second viable provider. With SpaceX, that would be all of them.
Yes, this. They tried to go from being a company that just licensed IP to OEMs (who would do the actual manufacturing and marketing of 3dfx-powered graphics cards) to being a company that did the manufacturing and marketing themselves, and in the end couldn't pull that off.

Acquiring one of the more prominent OEMs, STB, was supposed to get them the expertise they needed to do that rather than having to develop it in-house, but (as in many acquisitions) absorbing the new company turned out to be more complicated than originally expected. This resulted in the post-acquisition products (Voodoo 3/4/5) taking longer to get to market than planned and being somewhat underwhelming by the time they did arrive, which gave NVidia -- who kept on licensing their tech, now also to grumpy former 3dfx OEMs who had found themselves cut out by the STB acquisiton -- the opening they needed to eat 3dfx's lunch.
What I heard from an employee of the company Musk was trying to buy engines from, this was the initial pitch: global internet through multihop satnet, all controlled by him. He was told that he is naive back then and dismissed.
Anyone know what the downlink bandwidth might be for this system (i.e. not to the user, but to the Internet backbone?)

Seems like only a few customers at 1 Gb/s could saturate the network pretty quickly. Especially if the coverage area is a few hundred square miles.
Never. I for one, cannot be bothered to talk to my computer. Long live the mouse!
command lines are powerful, but only make sense for power users because they lack discovery and require more memorization than GUIs.

Simple voice interfaces suffer the same problems as command line interfaces while being less flexible and slower to use than even GUIs.

The best voice interfaces have made good progress on most fronts, but discoverable voice are still a big problem. Instead of reading a bunch of buttons, you usually have to guess what features might be implemented. Or you go the route of phone system menues, but everyone hates those
I would rather not have criminals in US government and agencies access my
personal data, thank you very much. This is much more important to me than
this "figthing crime and terrorism", which can show only modest results at
best and certainly doesn't make me safer in any way.
Ah, but phi measures integration levels, not independent survivability. The cause-effect structures are reduced by 99% in your scenario. The joke (and implied criticism) is that society itself (not the individual members) might have a high enough phi to pass some "consciousness threshold", and if we think that's absurd, it should cause us to question IIT.

Don't get me wrong, IIT is one of the best mathematical models of consciousness out there, but I don't think it's the final word in the matter.
During my undergrad university days (at the University of Utah), I took some Mandarin classes. There was a local Confucius Institute which provided various free materials in Chinese to the campus library. The extent of my direct contact with them was receiving a couple hundred dollars for doing well in a Mandarin speech contest they held for my class.

It was obvious that there was a certain propaganda aspect to this outreach effort; the reading materials provided of course didn't go into any potential negatives of the Beijing government, etc. Very much in line with the CCTV news network. My Mandarin teacher was Taiwanese and so I think that was good for me in that I wasn't getting all my exposure to Chinese from a single source.

I would not be surprised at all to learn that Chinese government operatives were using these various state-funded educational agencies for gaining intelligence and promoting their ideology. I assume the US is doing the same thing. It's a long game, with assets being put into place sometimes decades in advance. A healthy dose of cynicism is always important when dealing with state-funded groups; it's rare that countries invest such resources just out of the goodness of their altruistic hearts.
Population is not a tech trend.
Also here's a video from Strange Loop 2017, "Origami Software from Scratch" by Robby Kraft:

https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2017/origami-software-from-sc...
Not that I entirely agree... but bad culture fit can truly poison the well on any given project. Depending on the size of the company that can be even more influential.

In a larger company it can vary a lot. Also, many will do contract to hire, or use mostly contract roles.
10 years from now:

The fundamental problem with CSS Grid is that it is two dimensional. This makes CSS Grid great for two dimensional uses, like aligning content both horizontally and vertically, but it begins to fail when I need to align content with the user's hand. Instead I need real three dimensional layout, which is why I need CSS Matrix. Fundamentally Matrix is 3D.
and he finds this hard to believe after a power (russia) interfered massively in an american election? an in europe...
It states pretty clearly that there are Chinese operatives that are posing as students, professors, ect... Not that every student or professor is an operative.
Thank you for pointing those out! Fixed :)
I have been through waterfall, agile, scrum, "agile", "scrum", kanban, to-do lists. Yet, I cannot point to a single style of project management as a silver bullet. However, I have come to realize the following conditions improve the probability of success: small teams made up of scary-smart accountable people, given a well-articulated objective (not solution) and are left alone without distraction. Short of this, you almost always fall in the trap of micro-management.
> Google should be split up.

Agreed. One question, though: I somewhat trust Google's security, but is our data still safe after such a split-up?
Buying a Bay Area home now a struggle even for Apple, Google engineers
Many larger companies are risk adverse, so it's better to give no feedback (lot drop) then to give bad feedback. Microsoft is notoriously bad at doing this. They won't tell you when there's no interest beyond a certain point in the process at all.
This is excellent. I'm taking a paper engineering class right now and will learn a lot from this. Thank you for making it.
When production is gone, there are no goods produced. When there is a shortage of goods, you are willing to pay more for what there is, so does everyone else, and that leads to the spiral of money becoming worthless. What's the money worth when you can't buy anything with it?
The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use Huawei phones
350,000 students and god know how many employees. FBI apparently has around 35,000 employees. I know not all the students are spies, and not all suspicious ones get their own team of agents rights away, but looks like using a Patriot Missile to kill a $150 drone. Time and time again.
I'm not sure if the FBI is actually being honest

Examples?
Tests by definition are recursive, you need to know what to test for before you can test it.
6502 assembly is one of the sharpest smoothest most beautiful assembly languages, because all the opcodes are three letters long, so it doesn't have a jagged serrated right edge like most other assembly languages. Much less friction!
Most certification programs can be gamed. Generally there is a simulator - if you play enough with it and memorize the questions you will nail 60% or more in the official test. Take the test a few times and luck will kick-in.

Last year I worked with a certified LPIC-3 system administrator and deploying a trivial wordpress website at AWS took him 1 week. He was fired 1 month later. His CV is very impressive with lots of certification badges (I checked the codes of several badges and he is really certified).
We're deploying thousands of tenants to their own postgres RDS instances which are completely overkill for most scenarios. On average we use about 3% CPU... We still do this because of three reasons: security isolation, performance isolation and monitoring. I think Aurora serverless will be a game changer for us, but we would still need per-tenant monitoring.
The voice-only stuff is just building AI for the sake of it and romanticizing accessibility. What's actually going to happen is the younger generation in these countries will adapt to current technology and won't be caught dead asking their phone "Do I need an umbrella in Delhi today?". Voice interaction alone cannot possibly be the most optimal method, and Indian/Chinese companies that are more in touch with the market will define what mobile interaction looks like in the future.
> why aren’t we more worried about other countries

China is our geopolitical competitor. Other countries aren’t.
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Pineapple Fund has pretty much single-handedly restored my opinion of cryptocurrency to neutral.

Pine is pretty much the Alfred Nobel of the blockchain.
I have struggled a lot with depression and can assure you that all suicide is tragic.

edit: sorry, not trying to be argumentative. It's just a very personal topic for me having known victims. I wish you the best :)
My prediction:

AI will make computers able to understand people perfectly.

Gesturing, talking, writing, any input. The semantic gap will eventually be automatically traversed by understood intent.
he's a rabid trump-hating libturd, what do you expect from these deplorables?
Here's another good link, similar in message & medium:

Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals: A Compact Primer on Digital Signal Prcoessing, by Jack Schaedler

https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/
This article acts like SpaceX will be the first with non-geostationary broadband satellites. There are other companies like O3b Networks. I think their latency is not as good as SpaceX is shooting for, because they orbit at something like 6000km, but they play in the same field.
Another highly recommended presentation and an on-topic followup to waveforms, namely, how waveforms are digitally sampled ...

https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
There's no need to jump straight to racism here, given that this is coming from the director of the FBI.

The concern is that these groups report to the Chinese government, which would give the Chinese government the ability to control and suppress discussion of its policies abroad-- which is a bad thing.