skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, but how diverse was your applicant pool? I imagine you had to hire like 50% female applicants and 5% male applicants.
Speaking as someone with dual Australian / Estonian citizenship, I never saw it as racism that it's a PITA to get a Russian visa, however the Russian view that anything that is an inconvenience to them is 'racist' is sadly all too common.
Everything you just said is completely irrelevant to Assange's credibility as a journalist. Just because he's a martyr doesn't mean he's a good, ethical, or honest person.
33Mflops, plenty fast, probably used for hardware encoding CIF/QCIF MPEG1/MJPEG in real time. Now you just need someone to write you that decoder :)
I see you too read the article!
Virus and malware checks could be slowing things down
> I understand people who are afraid that loss of privacy would be asymmetric but I don't think that would happen

If Trump wants to know your tax returns - he will. You don't know his, no matter how much you want to.

And anyway, Trump insist he could murder someone and give himself a pardon. You can't. So, even if the information flow is symetric - the consequences aren't.
> "even at the sake of his personal life"

This is the wrong attitude. Musk doesn't sacrifice his personal life for work, his work is his life. If anything, he sacrifices his work life for the few personal connections he is forced to make.

I definitely don't pity Musk, he found his calling and is answering it, he can deal with the consequences.
Tik Tok is popular throughout Asia, including Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, etc. See https://www.quora.com/In-which-country-is-Tik-Tok-app-popula... for more.
That's why I opted for fewer cores but highest possible core speed. I can't stand any UI lag.
Perfect combination of a really useful mechanism to trigger an action when you're far from a computer, with an action that you never ever need to trigger when you're far from a computer.
This is a great related talk that explores how puzzles can be solved using SAT solvers, constraint solvers and dancing links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9DBG8x-ys
Vox can be entertaining and interesting, but it's pretty much the Breitbart of the left at this point in time.
DSP56001 powered Atari Falcon can also "run" Quake 2 :)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNs6Jw4V4vlvafSs0H3Ww...
I just use my real name now and try not to say anything stupid. I know my current employer googled my name before my interview, and seeing my personal blog, code snippets, writing, etc seems to have had an impact in their hiring decision (I was asked about my personal projects during the interview).
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ndespres people are different, and hope you are enjoying your life in your way. What Musk is experiencing is not extrinsic and he is not martyr for anyone. He does this because it is the most remarkable drive he has about life. It just happens to him because of his biology and it is not a calculated act. Fulfilling that intrinsic drive is the most rewarding feeling one can experience.
Ask HN: Does your company have training time? How is it structured?
We've recently started dedicating Friday afternoons to training but we're having some issues structuring it in a way that would benefit everyone.

Because we're all at different levels (Junior to Senior) we can't just focus on a course to study together and have the same outcomes.

I'm curious to know how training time is structured at other companies and whether you do training in groups or if you break off and do personal training on things that you find interesting.

Thanks,
Agreed. Anyone reading Vox would do themselves a favor to replace it with Jacobinmag.com
What do you mean by the shrinking web? Even desktop apps are now using html. It feels we are going fast toward a “all gui html”, for better or for worse.
I'm running Gnome and for the most part it has been excellent; Linux in general, though, still has a lot of trouble maintaining good UI speed at the same time as I/O throughput. I'm on Fedora, and dnf/rpm is an excellent example - even though I'm on an SSD, I can tell when something is updating in the background because stuff will lag for a little while. It feels like this has been a problem forever, and while it has definitely improved over time it's still not really possible to say, in a simple way, "I care more about interactivity than other stuff, prioritise that" (as far as I know, anyway).
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I think that if I played guitar all of my life, it would be relaxing to just sit and jam a bit for myself.
I wonder sometimes if legal = moral is just a labor saving device for most of the population.
> That was my first-hand lesson that unless you've ever lacked a certain privilege, it is near-impossible to be innately aware of it.

Not really true. I had a girlfriend with a "weak" passport. I have a British passport. I'm very aware of how much easier it is for me to travel and I've done nothing to deserve it. I didn't have to lack the privilege myself to understand it, though.
"Free" means someone else should be paying for it. Now, as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor and will vehemently oppose any move to pay for these would be rich people's education. If the degree is worth something, please pay it yourself.

>Countries like Germany show

All these kids are more than welcome to go to Germany and save $500K in tuition fees.
Me too. Now that I'm in an corporate embedded architect role, HN is less relevant to me. I'm looking for other communities but have not found anything yet.
I had a friend telling me "check out my new computer it's so snappy!" once and the darn thing was so slow it made my hands shake from the stress. Can't believe anyone on the internet telling they don't have any lag.
His quote on those shorting Tesla stock is a gem:

> “They’re not dumb guys, but they’re not supersmart. They’re O.K. They’re smartish.”
They have some decent videos. The one about the history of neon lights in hong kong was good.
I would really liked for Tesla and Space X to keep the hype down, then we could have discussed here forever technical stuff and not debate the hyped PR stunts.
Tyler Cowen goes into this in his book The Conplacent Class. Some interesting data he works into the theory: home interiors have gotten better while exterior architecture has gotten worse and is valued less, fewer teenagers are getting driver’s licenses, lots of recent tech innovation has made staying at home more attractive (on-demand streaming, flat panel TVs, internet in general, food delivery and Amazon).
I've come to really appreciate the difference between "syntactically correct" (ie: is a file valid xml) vs "semantically correct" (ie: does it follow a specific dtd if it's valid xml.) More than that, I've come to realize how many other people don't have this appreciation even though they will identify problems that directly relate to this distinction in every day usage.

To truly be able to have a portable file format, there needs to be a way to do both validations reliably in different contexts (eg: different languages). If you ignore this part of your design then it may become the slowest part of the eno ecosystem because your grammar will have quirks that you'll end up needing to support long-term. I suggest toying with this functionality now and providing something which is extremely pessimistic on what it will pass. Only loosen things up as people show a need and keep your entire spec as tight as possible.

I would imagine that you could even use eno syntax to describe document structure, much like xml/dtd has such strong parallels with each other. Then you get the fast parser in both places essentially for free!

Finally, on the format of eno itself, I'm curious on your thoughts relating to unicode characters that visually masquerade as common characters. eg:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff1a/index.htm

Sample usage:

---

author： Jane Doe

email： jane@eno-lang.org

---

Does this parse?

How about this:

---

author： Jane Doe:

email： jane=doe@eno-lang.org

---

What do I do if I want a "#" in a name?

---

# #twitter

@hackernews = 0xC0FFEE

---

or:

---

# \#twitter

@hackernews = 0xC0FFEE

---

Are quotes optional somehow? Can I put arbitrary things into an identifier?

Cheers and keep up the great work!
If you are not super rich most likely you are paying a tiny fraction towards the higher education of someone else's child. Plus if you have kids you benefit from the same system. I actually know several people with useless degrees that now have well paid jobs here in Germany, one studied Ancient Greek and Latin and is now at Germanies federal reserve the other studied art history and is now a SAP consultant. Those degrees are also much cheaper than training everyone in STEM fields.
Show HN: StateViewController – Stateful view controller containment for iOS
Last year my daughter was just learning to sound out words and write them, and was coming to me for help in spelling them to make little sentences. One day I was busy working, so I suggested she go ask alexa how to spell the words. An hour later she came back with a whole page story! After that, she'd go to alexa a few times a week to get help with spelling, and started exploring games and asking for other info.
Deep Learning for Dialogue Systems [pdf]
I've long resigned to the fact that there will always be ambitious assholes in the world. The best we can hope for is to corral the assholes in the right space. An asshole leading a tech/space company is far better than an asshole leading an oil company or running a country.
Big corporations are increasingly behaving like communist governments.

People there spend most of their time complaining and creating bureaucracy instead of working.
Certainly more environmentally friendly, although transitioning to those for public settings requires more maintenance and procedure than simply having a waste basket in the bathroom.

My girlfriend did exchange in Brazil and fell in love with bidets there.
It's simple: Bad Engineering is cheaper.

Just today on Patreon, I was going through a creators posts. After about 100 posts or so the page was barely usable. Animations took minutes to complete, loading more posts took 30 seconds and Firefox (Chrome quit after 80 posts when Linux' OOM decided that the fun was over) was struggling to repaint the view port, lots of white areas. At the end other applications were severely lagging too both because Patreon's webshit was pulling 80% of all cores when doing nothing on the page and the Linux kernel was shoveling everything into ssd swap like crazy. Animations didn't work at all (likely if I waited 60 minutes it would have shown the first frames) and clicking on links to open in a new tab took about 15 seconds until the JS behind the scenes completed.

It's simply shitty design that there is no obvious way to say "show all posts from January 2016" and jump back month by month. Or atleast UNLOADING posts I've long scrolled past.

I have 8 Cores and 32 GB of RAM at my disposal, a website has no excuse to have that much of a shit performance. Especially when it's a platform where lots of money flows.

But hey, it's cheaper this way.

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The issue is not thread priorization. Or processes. Your mail app and android studio are both competing for resources and either android studio will lag because the mail app is running on all the CPUs or the other way round. The OS doesn't have a way to tell which is more important and trusting applications to tell is not really reliable (devs will just say "I'm the most important").

A real partial issue is that a lot of modern apps are not engineered to save resources. They just take what they need and the user better provide enough CPU and RAM to do it. There is no sense in self-limiting in a lot of modern apps.

Frontend devs should wake up to the reality that they aren't running on the only instance of the chrome browser with only one tab open. There is other apps around too. There are other browsers around too. Sharing resources gives the user a better experience than just taking them all for yourself.
That wasn't an impossible task back then, you could've partnered with a good EE and got it shipped.
Angular Console, CRUD with Ionic and Cordova, Ivy, Microservices, Excel
Xkcd: equations
Similar news from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334001
It can’t have been made for that, since the IBM PS/2 series of computers was not released until 1987.
Now this is what I call a sane UI!
Starship Troopers had that sort of thing going on, in the sense that Heinlein portrayed the society of the novel as a militaristic, conservative authoritarian regime born out of economic turmoil of a vaguely sketched past that alluded to predecessors being too laissez faire, sloppy and permissive.

On some level it was a joke shot through with distortions, deliberately inaccurate misinterpretations of history, and willful ignorance among the characters of the xenophobia’s capacity to forge bonds among the ingroup of humans volunteering to accept the burden of fighting outsiders as a gateway to other privileges.

This part is glossed over with the premise of starfleet academy, or the motivating factors that impel characters toward their rank and status. So, we start to see that star trek is something of a cartoon, with “post-scarcity economics” being a deus ex machina for unlimited resources, leading to unlimited technology, leading to unlimited resources, with only a vague line connecting warp drive to first contact with vulcans, which then grants all other technologies for free as originating from alien discoveries.

Anyway, I think we’re pretty close to the idea of robots doing a lot of tedious things for us, if we play our cards right, which means we start to see a lot of things essentially growing on trees. Automatic hamburger machines mean less people slaving away over a hot grill in a low paying fast food chain, which is great, but this premise of automation won’t really save us unless robots can solve the human condition end-to-end.

It means we need a place to stay, clothes to wear, food and water, and something to keep us stimulated and occupied in such a way that we don’t get lonely. All this so that we can go out and find things that keep life interesting, once all our basic needs are met by default. That doesn’t seem to be where all our great inventions are taking us though.

With a harsh light and a strong lens, a lot of consumer oriented inventions do nothing for anyone. Business still seems to aim at bankrupting customers and competitors alike in furtherance of bigger business. Taken to logical conclusions those coziest with successful businesses get taken care of, and it’s near total neglect everywhere else.

But that doesn’t exist in a vaccuum. Really all the most extraordinary inventions have been miitary concepts. Preparing for war makes peace. Maybe that’s the proper inspiration at work here...
> while it has definitely improved over time it's still not really possible to say, in a simple way, "I care more about interactivity than other stuff, prioritise that

that's not what mainline kernel optimizes for, you have to use liquorix or another kernel (https://liquorix.net/)
Perhaps Vox should consider giving a Math 101 lecture to his editors.
On one hand, fuck the short seller bad news pushers. On the other hand, there are rules, Walter.

Like you say, there's nobody like him, nobody effectively pursuing the same goals, and we truly do need him, so I hope he gets out of this relatively unscathed. On the other hand, you can't just lie about material stuff like this and be trusted to lead a company.
On YAML, not if you enforce the usage of document end markers (e.g. an optional feature one could require if their use case demanded it). Though that's rarely a concern for configuration file formats in my opinion. If your transport (or storage) layer is that unreliable you probably don't need a human readable format in the first place.
Backends: App Engine NodeJS & Google Cloud Functions

Databases: MongoDB Atlas, MySQL & Firestore

Frontend: React for the app, Wordpress for the marketing site
> He scanned it, stamped it, and handed it back to me, welcoming me to NZ. Took all of 20 seconds.

Just don’t try bringing a bit of fruit across the border into NZ, seriously. Multiple sharp objects in carry on gets a raised eyebrow but a piece of fruit will ruin your week.
If codetermination boosts output, will startups use it?
WikiLeaks just publishes documents. Where does faith come into it? Faith is for the NYT congregation.
I've found alt-f2 then r (ie. restarting gnome) puts it back in as good a state as a fresh boot. Sometimes my extensions won't load and this also restarts those.
Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript framework
>3.5 million new cars are registered every year in Germany alone. If we can replace a significant amount of that with cheap, shared, swlf-driving electrics it'll be a massive step towards carbon neutrality.

Sell the electic cars today and sell the autopilot extension hardware and software where actually works, pushing the hype can have a huge negative impact like very strong autopilot testing regulations. because of dreedy corporation pushing things that are not ready or over the air updates that are not tested.
A fair question, but both SSDs so it's definitely not that. Since we're on hardware differences though the Macbook Pro is 3 years old and has a quad-core i7, whereas the Windows 10 laptop is 1 year old and has a dual-core i7. I'm not in love with having only dual cores but I don't think that's the issue either.
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Backup and restore is not an everyday DB operation, I wouldn't think?!?

I've got a small side project [0] (actually, am HN aggregation and reading tool) which uses RethinkDB [1]. Currently has 4.2 million entries (7.7 GB) in the HN posts table and really no issues that I know of.

[0] - https://tophn.info
[1] - https://hackernoon.com/tophn-a-fun-side-project-built-with-v...
And on a lighter note, Terminal (2004).
From personal experience, depends a lot on the age of the applicant. My wife got a 1 year visa. My in-laws got 10 year visas even though they applied together.
>>US Visitor Visa will let you visit the US for up to 6 months at a time for the next 10 years

Its entirely at the discretion of the customs officer at the Airport.

Sometimes they don't give you anything more than a few weeks.
Crowdsourcing workflows with PYBOSSA
> and just assumed that there must be some way to automate and streamline almost everything, as long as the demand is there

Scaling a solution to the travelling salesman problem would solve many other problems. The demand is definitely there. But many people believe it cannot be done.
> Yes, I am indeed arguing for free speech that's also free from consequences

I don't often see someone actually owning up to this view - good for you.

I'm not sure how it's possible to enforce speech that is free from consequences. Do you have a specific definition of "consequence" that you'd like to elaborate on? Anything could be a consequence (like, just hearing the speech in the first place). What is it specifically that you're trying to protect against?
Once upon a time when I was young and foolish, I was doing something [1] in C++, which has 0-based arrays. There were a lot of places in the code where 1-based arrays would have made the code quite a bit clearer, but a lot of places where 1-based arrays would have made it much less clearer.

I wanted the best of both worlds, and so overloaded the () operator so that if arr is an array, then arr(i) = arr[i-1].

This worked reasonably well, especially for arrays where it was always clearer to go 1-based, or arrays where it was always clearer to go 0-based, so that the array was always accessed with the same operator.

The only places it was questionable whether or not it made the code clearer was where I used both in the same section of code. E.g., something like b = a[i] + a(i) is arguably less clear than b = a[i] + a[i-1] or b = a(i+1) + a(i).

[1] I think it was implementing an arbitrary precision integer library using algorithms from TAOCP, but I don't remember for sure.
Math is pretty cheap too.
Ugh. Yeah that might even be the worst part. It’s far from obvious because it’s so far out of eyesight.
> DoorDash has started gouging customers with exorbitant fees - restaurant tip, service charge, delivery fee, driver tip etc. I stopped using service after that.

This seems to be the case for PostMates, too. I recall being sceptical when they originally were acquiring customers with free (or $1-$3 flat fee) delivery promotions, but I figured it could be worth it even for double that amount.

However, when I next looked, they had quietly [1] implemented fees that are a (high) percentage of total bill in addition to a higher flat delivery fee, that was a dealbreaker.

Distance-based pricing would have been OK, but not percentage of the order on top of a flat fee.

[1] A generous interpretation. Personally, I found it sneaky.
Hasn't technology throughout the ages always reshaped notions of what people consider valuable and not valuable, with some people choosing to hold onto prior notions and others newer ones (possibly because they benefited more from such)?

To me the biggest issue is the relative one way economic (let us set aside the intangibles, because one cant feed themselves on such) proposition of these devices (upfront cost of "paying" [more like renting since its default locked in to a provider] for the device, and the free "work" people provide with their queries). Reminds me of the proposition of the collect your dna as a service companies.

I guess the incentives of everyone running an instance of sphinx, and sharing models/feedback error corrections continuously with each other in the background with the ubiquity of torrenting now and decreasing reliance on the Amazons in the middle isn't here yet.
'New York Time's misguided quest to become a forum for everyone'
I really think the tweeting while on acid rumors are true. This is my first exposure to the pedo comment he made. I’m baffled how any non-drugged person over the age of 14 could ever think that was a good idea.
"A dancer"? He's played by Mikhail Baryshnikov!
A martyrdom complex isn't useful for anyone. Especially for Elon.
except that obligation to get visas for most of the countries (and paying some valuable dollars and euros for them), some of my experiences on having difficulties over my Turkish passport are:

- 3 hours interrogation when exiting thailand (some of my turkish friends are busted in their hostels in the 5 AM and taken to the police station for interrogation)

- 1 hours interrogation in china (then the local police handed me over to some kind of special police force for some more quick interrogation) and veeery detailed search on my backpack and stuff in public.

- had to enter separate line on entering Serbia with other (only) Turkish passport holders, where police officers asked why would i come to the country.

these 3 stuff happened just after the official saw Turkish passport.

some visa problems my friends had encountered:

- when Trump had sanctions over some Arab countries on visas, Turkey was unofficially in that list i presume since none of my friends got their US visa at that time. (some of them was living in the US before or got their MS degree in states)

- not being able to get schengen visa. (having CS degree in the most reputable universities in the country, have no criminal record per se)

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while travelling with foreign friends who have 'reputable passports', i realise, oh that is not the standarts. this is happening since i have third world passport + some bad reputation of my country.