skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where somewhere like Iceland is cooler than Rwanda

You are technically correct.
I used ZenHub for a long time, but being forced to use Chrome was a dealbreaker for me.
There could be bugs, of course, but the library is open source and developed by the Stellar network team.

Of course you are right in a sense - the core team also should not be blindly trusted. But, because your account is managed by the wallet and stays local to your machine, there is nothing much the library _can_ do IMHO.
I think it's arguable you can compress the complexity.

Certainly something like Project Cybersyn [1] would have a much better chance of success now than in the 70s. (Although admittedly, the CIA backed regime change stopped it then)

And when I say compress complexity, I'm using it in an interchangeable sense with "increase efficiency of those humans who do make decisions." There are a huge number of actions that need to be taken -- but many require little or no thought.

Automating those formulaic actions and only surfacing critical decisions with relevant data qualifies as compressing complexity, imho.

Sadly, in China, this is being done in a politically paranoid police state.

One wonders what could happen if you had a computer-planned economy, some kind of basic income, and individual freedom to spend the rest of ones labor.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
Didn't the investors have the choice to take the cash-out? I am actually surprised they agreed. It seems logical Buffer is not going anywhere, and growing, and an acquisition is still very much possible which would represent much larger returns.
As an operator or employee of a company that doesn't plan to raise further money from a VC, you want them to pay the minimum possible. Every dollar that goes to the VC is a dollar that can't go to the team.

Meanwhile, if the investor didn't want to sell at the number they came up with, they could presumably just say "no".

You are, yes, probably being too cynical here.
> Seventy-five years ago, tourism was about experience

75 years ago was 1943, there was no tourism in Europe unless you were flying a bomber or driving a tank.

The first jet airliner didn't fly until 1949 which enabled tourism for the common person.

I'm sure tourism was "better" in the old days when only the wealthy could afford to travel.
For last-mile infrastructure, anything between "just out of range" and "50 miles out of range" is of similar difficulty to expand into.

It's realistic to imagine a competitor could expand, but it's a far cry from actual competition.

These half-mile ranges shouldn't be lumped in with locations that have choices.
writeln(chr(7)) ?

or something more (e.g. playing different frequencies to sound like the happy birthday song)?

Related, and good fun for kids of all ages (first did something like this on my earliest home computer [1]):

Play the piano on your computer with Python:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/04/play-piano-on-your-compu...

[1] Lissajous hippo, retrocomputing and the IBM PC Jr.:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/09/lissajous-hippo.html

Western classic music fans may find the comments on that post interesting - stuff about octaves and frequencies.
Helium is extra special because some quantum weirdness happens, e.g. superfluid things
See, yes my friends told me I might have ADHD. But I was extremely good at school (I graduated from UC Berkeley with near 4.0) and never had a problem focusing at work/school. If I sit to study, I can do so pretty efficiently. I can also do work without much trouble. Also, I tried Adderall a couple times when I was a freshman, and its effects were almost unnoticeable to me since I usually don't have hard time focusing anyway.

I might have ADHD, but it just doesn't make any sense to me...
The Books - Free Translator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGjs8TCGvQI)
I searched blue and it returned some tan and green colors (but not bluish green or greenish blue).

I searched naked, expecting skin colors (I was wondering if it would tend to show "white" skin colors instead of a range of skin colors). The results were... strange.
I have heard people discuss 19th century America as an "ancient society". Personally I'm all for calling anything between the Sumerians and the last Pharaoh of Egypt ancient but then the Denisovans and Neanderthals feel left out.
I will also leave FastMail because of this, just need to look for a good replacement. ProtonMail is a bit too much for me, as I rely a lot on serverside search.
Tell me about this 10% per year risk free investment? Owning S&P historically has returned 8% annual, by no means is risk free.
I am 35 and do active software development. Most of my peers transitioned into management, but I don't like management.

But I fear aging out, not able to keep up with technology changes, not be able to blend with young team over time etc.
Agreed, but the question is if that is how he sold the company to investors and to employees? Employees at this point all know, or should know that stock grants are lottery tickets. But that said there is a very clear distinction between working for a company for that lottery ticket and working for the same company where management is actively negating the value of that ticket. Not to mention he slashed salaries 8 months ago. The part about getting liquidity for early investors and employees sounds nice but he had definitely better stick the landing on that one if he doesn't want to see a mass exodus. This act while possibly perfectly legit should be a clear indication to employees and potential employees that he has no interest in building the type of company that can turn equity into life changing money.
Did I miss it, or have you not compared GPU TF binary to GPU TF source? I thought that was the goal of your blog post as declared in the first paragraph...
That's still 6%, not 20%. (It also pays for college tuition, childcare, and parental leave.) It's also a bit weird to do it as gdp percentage instead of individual percentage, which obscures the individual/business split.
Sweden was neutral. Presumably Swedes would've had their summer holidays as normal (though staying within the country)?
What strategies do people use to make Airflow behave like an "event-driven" scheduler versus a "time-driven" scheduler? Like, for example, processing data as it is received versus processing data at set time intervals
I did therapy, martial arts and high speed sports like MX and skiing. Now I just know how to live with depression, it's easy if you learn how not to kill yourself and have friends that enjoy your cynicism.
You could still continue development on Github, and allow users to install the extension themselves. I believe this is the approach that some paywall bypass extensions take[0]

[0]: https://github.com/arthurpham/wsjUnblock
I started reading it, and I thought "this style seems very familiar". When I got to the first schematic, it clicked and I checked the header for the author's name; sure enough, Forrest Mims!
What. That smells of some ridiculous implementation, where rendering is modified after display...
It's not about property rights, it's about who is in control of and has insight into what is going on on the machine.
Don't worry, most people don't understand the physical infrastructure of the internet. However, from my understanding, a direct connection to the internet backbone is what gives tier q ISP's their God-like monopolizing power in a given region (like Comcast in most parts of Baltimore city).

However, the backbone nodes require maintenance, so the fee to connect directly is expensive. You can't simply move next to a backbone node and plug in. I presume that backbone fee is the primary reason for the individual's fee for hosting an NYCmesh node.
These financials don't look great.

They earned $219M last year and $205M the year before. That's a top-line revenue growth rate of around 6% -- more common for an old-line company like IBM.

SaaS startups are supposed to have revenue growth >30% when they hit IPO, and the best ones have even higher -- Twilio had ~70%.
Telecom-backed group defends anti-net neutrality robocalls to seniors
Nice non sequitor.

Maybe ignoring context and throwing out accusations wildly is why you get so much push back? People don’t really like that, you know.
Hug of death I guess
what are your websites?
I heard they are delicious, I hope I get a chance to taste it before they are extinct.
So if mr. Trump declares his Twitter account "not a public forum, but a section dedicated to publishing official supportive replies, that by default publishes all replies and selectively deletes those who aren't supportive", will that make things ok?

It's not like a town hall because there is no official charter for what the realDonalTrump Twitter is. It seems some people want to enforce their view that it's a public forum, while clearly violating mr. Trump's own 1st amendment rights by forcing him to promote on his Twitter page content that is damaging to him.

The "on his Twitter page" distinction is critical, because you can still use the wider Twitter public forum as before, and you can engage in the wider conversation, you just don't have the same visibility to his followers. You were evicted form a personal performance of the President juggling pink dildos.
I get the feeling that droughts have happened before, are happening now, and will happen again; and we are just not able as humans to control the climate.

Great! Hope you're not wrong. The vast majority of people who are in the best positions to know think you are.
Not only did we do just that, it was done for the first time 110 years ago, in 1908.

You can read more and see some pictures here: http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/wp-content/HSSN/2007-10-Van%20Delft-F...

Illustration of the helium liquefier at page 403.
Interviewing. I'm good at my good. My portfolio is at least decent, and I get a lot of responses on my resume, but I consistently can't close the deal. I also have a very hard time bettering myself with the lack of feedback. I've gotten better at all the stuff you can read about online and often made it to the final round, but I can't make it to an offer.
Tesla is reportedly having some network issues
I'm 21, never asked a girl out. I'm same as you, I think I'm pretty outgoing and generally social (not to social, but I'm ok I guess) and I'm good looking too (I go to the gym 5 days a week). But the whole dating thing seems almost pointlessly stressful to me, I don't even quite know how to do it and at this age it seems embarrassing to be this inexperienced.
it's really not comparable. SystemD is an init system (and you're conflating systemd with CGroups in Linux, which would be part of the kernel and not related to systemd at all) and a Hypervisor.

More comparable comparisons could be: bhyve for FreeBSD, xhyve for OSX, virtualbox for... everything. Or QEMU/KVM on Linux.
I got that too, reloaded a few minutes later and it was fine.
I bet you can name 20+ big name startups off the top of your head that made their product substantially worse and/or completely folded due chasing growth at any cost.

I guarantee you this has annoyed you more than a few times as a user of their products.

In a market where VC style multi billion dollar exists just isn't going to happen, trying to force it is just going to ruin everything good about your product and company.

And VCs would rather see you ruin it, with a tiny chance of succeeding, than see you have a successful small/medium sized company.
How is an acceptable use policy even relevant to the developer of this application? Its the users of the app who would be breaking the policy. At worst they can argue that he broke it while developing it... so they can go ahead and shut down his Slack account. Totally fair.

Change the name, obviously. But fuck these companies like Slack who think they run the world and that gives them the power to control what code you run on your computer.
Great article, thanks for sharing.

The first web page I made in about 1995 proudly sported an ‘under construction’ traffic cone gif. It was pretty classy.

There’s a sort of ugly/beautiful charm to the early web, a gigantic piece of outsider art.
I must admit this article brought forth my inner 5 year old. This reminds me of James Mickens’ USENIX keynote about the hazards of security and AI. We are deploying poorly reasoned and poorly tested technologies that are harming individuals. When will we take a step back and think about the consequences of the technology we are developing?
28 years! It frightens me and boggles my mind how something like this can happen after being married for so long. Looking back do you have any idea why? I'm sorry for your loss and I hope it'll get better for you soon. As others have said it's perfectly normal to feel depressed at such a life altering event and it probably does take a year or two to recover.
For a business, there's always choice. There's broadband via wireless. With enough investment, dedicated wires or point-to-point wireless could be run.

It's just a matter of "not yet cheap enough". Well, if you let the price mechanism work, the juicy profits will attract other providers.

Almost no place in the world had "retail broadband" just 30 years ago. By the current ever-changing escalation of what "broadband" is, almost no place had it 20 years ago, either.

But profits in bringing it places where it didn't already exist has brought it almost everywhere. And with 2+ providers in most places.

Let prices float, and it'll keep expanding. Replace profit-seeking with price-caps and regulatory judgements, and it'll slow down, and be at the mercy of dumb sloganeering politics.
All this may be true, but I can't tell one way or the other, nor can I determine if it's actually applicable to the context of the discussion/article. It all seems very low-level.

As a lay person (without EE or physics training), I'm still just looking for a high-level summary, as there's no way I'll learn anything useful, otherwise.
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about discord?
take a look at their VC history, could one assume the BAC, JPs, TRowes needed this exit soon? https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/surveymonkey
You're right - there have never been any communist re-education camps, because True Communism has never existed.
'Tourist jam avoidance', as you put it, is built into these products. Just go to places they don't mention.
Nope. Native Czech speaker here. The style is akin to a nursery rhyme or an old folk song. It doesn't carry any hidden meanings. A better English translation might be "..spray the field wet". The pronoun "your" is not present in the Czech phrase.
If Trump (or anyone) blocks you but you still want to read his tweets:

Chrome incognito mode or log out of Twitter

problem fixed lol
Or all the 42 year olds, ahem, who are currently learning JS/Node/React. :-/
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I like the code that plays a little lottery to assign a user a rare lobster color as the theme of the site: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/6553de202e36757047...
You can communicate using bidirectional LEDs:
http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2003-35
Yeah, but this problem exists even on Chrome which I have no extension.So Chrome has some built-in blocker interferring it?
Less than two days ago lerna left-padded out of being FLOSS and since Babel uses lerna we're having this conversation now:

https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/8579#issuecomment-4169...

I pine for the times when we could just place a few <script> tags here and there and call it a day.
When I listen to music I see colours in my head. Different keys have different colours.

Personally I find

Gm is a dark reddy brown

A is red

Am tends to be deep purple or bluey red

Bm is blue

B is greeny yellow

C is yellow

Cm is dark yellowy green

D is a bright happy green

Dm is a dark bluey green

E and em are different shades a light blue.

It's hard to explain but one is kind of darker feeling. E has more of a whiter tinge to it.

It's all kind of subjective though. It really depends on the son and the instruments used. Each instrument adds it's own texture and variation to the colour.

I dunno when I listen to music it's like a moving painting in my mind that changes with the different parts of the song.

It's one of the reasons I would like to try mescaline. It's supposed to give you visual synesthesia.

Also, as a side note. I'm also colourblind. Not too had, i don't really notice it much in my day to day life but I fail the red green colour tests and i'm not very visually artistic. Part of my job involves mixing colour and I usually need someone to double check and see if it matches properly.

I love music though. I've been playing musical instruments most of my life and I dunno I find music helps relieve stress for me more than a lot of things.
So how does this fit into the "Twitter is a private company" argument when users complain about their free speech rights after being suspended?

If one's account is suspended they cannot - by definition - access Trump's tweets. This is similar reasoning as that given in court: "comments on the president’s account [are] public forums and that blocking Twitter Inc users for their views violated their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution".

If Twitter suspends someone for their views are they violating free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?

Obviously there's many ways to interact with Twitter while suspended - similarly there are many ways to read Trump's tweets while blocked.

I don't have a take, I'm just curious as to what this may lead to.
I’ve been thinking how to make an HN killer for several years. (I’m not sure why — I love this place — but I also love a good challenge.)

The key might be to out-compete HN in Show HNs. It’s difficult to get your own projects onto the front page, and once there, most people tend to focus on business aspects rather than raw hacker / tinkerer aspects.

If you mix in some intellectually gratifying stories to fill the downtime, then you’d end up catching the interest of makers. And that seems like a recipe for a competitor.
Not applying is the surest way not to get the ml job. Or try switching roles within the same company?

If you find the time you can do an online masters in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech for around $7k. You can hack on your own projects and build credentials.

Some companies might be willing to sponsor the OCMS course.
If US prisons are equivalent to Chinese re-education camps, what is the equivalent of Chinese prisons in the US?
IMO, software interviewing is pretty heavily broken. I struggled with this and I decided (rightly or wrongly) that the problem wasn't me, it really was the process.

Whiteboard coding is nonsense for any other purpose than weeding out the truly incompetent.

Past that point, it's a crapshoot. I think homework / portfolio are the most reasonable evaluative tools, but there are some legitimate downsides there around the bias it can introduce into your process, and the potential candidates who may be turned off by it.

Things worked out for me, but not before I had some serious self doubt.

So, stick too it. You (probably, I don't actually know) are good at your job - don't let the nonsense process convince you otherwise. Look for companies that share your viewpoints.
How Two Men Tried to Start a Hate-Free ‘Gay Town’ in the Nevada Desert
This is as far as I've gotten with Google on a mobile phone. http://dev.bonfire.stackoverflow.com/beta-access
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Thanks a ton!

Tell your son that it took me a while, and a lot of work, but it feels great to finish something (there are a lot of projects that I don't finish...).

I began learning using Scratch a long time ago. They even featured me last year (the project was a solar system in which I used sine and cosine to calculate the rotation of the planets). I then used blocklike.js to move to JS.

I watch a lot of YouTube videos. I like The Coding Train, Carykh, and Code Bullet, and I get a lot of my ideas from their projects.
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones! - Albert Einstein
I have one of these instances (thanks Roman and team), and I have to say it's been a lot of fun re-acquainting myself with OpenBSD.

That said, I would consider this mostly a place for experimentation and hobby work, as I routinely am unable to connect or find that my VM has been unexpectedly rebooted.

Now THAT said, I think they are figuring things out, because the issues have been a lot less frequent since the big hard drive failure a month or so ago.

Anyway, if you want to learn you some OpenBSD, I highly recommend it as a place to experiment, and you help the OpenBSD community as well through their donation.
As someone with synesthesia, "typecasting" one sensory experience to some other sensory experience is not the same thing at all, and will almost certainly be considered the "wrong" result by anyone with synesthesia. That sound does not make that shape/image and vice versa.
honestly, I am 26 and I just cracked it (I think).
So I had a few relationships but they were mostly out of luck/randomness.

Then I realized, I care too much.. I care if I will "invade" their space, if they feel comfortable, if they will think I am a creep or so.

Nowadays, if I want to talk to someone, I just do. It works wonder, I think we create this "cage" of social fear on our own due to our insecurities.
CosmicOS: a next-generation Contact message
https://lobste.rs

Lobsters is a nice community to follow. It has interesting content for software engineers open to learning new things.
We have a guy with a mechanical keyboard on the team. After a while people just started muting him in Hangouts. It's not even the mechanical keyboard itself that's the problem, but the way it interacts with whatever noise-filtering algorithms Hangouts runs.
I think as a fully remote company doing VR development we're "living in the future" a bit. It's a possible if not inevitable future at least. We use a mix of technologies to enable a remote team working across multiple time zones, some synchronous and some asynchronous: Slack, Zoom, email, Confluence, Jira, GitHub, Google Docs, Dropbox, etc. We also make use of VR: Rec Room, Bigscreen, multi user functionality in our own app, etc. There's no one tool that does everything but VR apps are a useful piece of the puzzle for us.

As I mentioned, we all have high end VR gear and most of us have it at our desks and are already in and out of VR all day as part of our development work. The use case for our project also benefits from us having capable portable setups so yes we do have people joining VR meetings from Starbucks but I don't expect that to be a mainstream thing for a while until the tech improves.
Sure, but if anyone's built anything GPL-licensed on top of it, they're now unable to update to the current version.