skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's why we built LimeStat -

So much of work communication revolves around the Question - 'What are you doing?'. This happens in meetings, standups, messaging apps, etc. All of this takes up a tremendous amount of time.

LimeStat allows everyone on a team to maintain their work status in an asynchronous way. LimeStat's purpose is for everyone on a team to know

1 - Who's doing what?
2 - What needs to get done?

Here to answer any questions from the HN community.
Buried a few miles away from my rotten workplace https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24091730/harry-whittier-...
I do not understand why Pallene is necessary if performance is the problem. Just use LuaJIT.

I suspect something else is happening here and possibly it has to do with autocompletion/intellisense.
Yeah I don't recycle anything that needs to be washed first. Quick rinse OK, but if I need hot water and soap it goes into the trash instead.
The option showed up for me a few hours after this was posted on HN. But as far as I can tell, in Tor Browser 8.0, it’s still using exit nodes when I access cloudflare.com and the site I activated the option on.

Does anyone know how to see this in action?
> I tend to disagree when someone speaks of the 1% as being money driven. After a certain point, you can buy basically anything and more money won't change that. Influence may be the next level for these people.

Money's still useful to the rich for "keeping score," even after they can buy "basically everything." If they're competitive (any they probably are), they gain satisfaction knowing they're richer than the other guy, or the most successful businessperson in their field, etc.
Show HN: SSM/KMS/ENV-aware Go template file fetcher and parser for AWS ECS
Debt is by no means a clear cut evil; it’s referenced in the article at the federal level as a good, which allows governments to meet the civic needs of the people in times of hardship. At the individual level, it allows people to have what they want when they want it; you needn’t save 3 years to purchase a car, buy it now and save over the next 3 years. Or 30 years for a house. Debt is a tool - it’s good or bad depending on how it’s used. The temptation is that people often want to live beyond their means, and it’s that instinct that drives many negative outcomes, but also it’s tempered at least in the US by bankruptcy laws.
Since ECS is missing k8s configMap/secrets style integrations for SSM and KMS I wrote this small tool to help get secrets into place without a bunch of ECS-specific custom entrypoint code. Scratches a particular itch I've encountered a number of times working with ECS and thought it might be useful to anyone else running AWS ECS services.
> If you can't vet the candidates, you probably can't vet the person you want to vet the candidate.

Totally. There may exist platforms or people that claim to do this for you, but between false positives, cronyism, and bad actors gaming the qualifiers those people and organizations use to vet them, none of those avenues make sense to me.

As I said in my other reply, having someone you trust that is in the same field of work talk to them, or strong referrals from people like yourself who can vouch for the outputs of the new candidate's work sound the best. Or give them a trial yourself if the candidates are game, although as some pointed out it's not always reasonable to expect they will be.
You wouldn't need more parking spots. For people commuting from outside the downtown core, Metro is already car-oriented, and operates 60,000 parking spots at stations (not including lots run privately or by VA/MD). For people traveling inside the downtown core, they could just take the bus--as lower income folks in D.C. already have to do because Metro doesn't go where they live.
1. It's not Apple, it was Workflows that wrote the tool... I doubt Apple knows about it.

The app is "developed by Apple". They bought Workflow last year. Nothing in the gallery view suggests that this shortcut is provided by a third-party.
The religious leaders who tried to teach their followers about their ideas of gods may have been wrong about a lot of things, and right about others, but both can be instructive to research.

I believe folks who are offered the responsibility of building and maintaining complex systems, or the skills to manipulate those systems even without authorization can benefit from studying different systems of ethics and morality as well.

Even if you don't agree with a particular theological system or its teachings writ large, it can be instructive to question and explore why that religion promotes each of those teachings. It can be interesting to see what each taught once, but now sweeps under the rug.

If curiosity drives you to hack, it may be rewarding for you to delve into the religious writings, traditions, and histories of cultures around the world! Give it a try!
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The CIA has declassified a bunch of jokes
This is one of the great things about many Go libraries; the language is so simple its difficult to overcomplicate a Go project. This makes reading any Go source code, projects, libraries, the stdlib, a joy. The only times I've found Go libraries to be a PITA to read is when they get autogenerated from some other language (protobuf compilations, parts of the compiler that came from C, AWS/GoogleCloud/Azure libraries, etc), but that's to be expected in every language.

Kubernetes is another great example of a project that is so unbelievably complex in its function, it should be completely impenetrable to anyone who isn't a language expert. But, go check it out; its certainly complex and huge, but actually grokable.
If you’ll only be satisfied with perfection (nobody is poor), I have some bad news for you - you’re going to be disappointed forever.
Tbh the main issues in the UK are 2:
Non-homogeneous packaging eg. Cardboard food containers with plastic windows - maybe a tax applied to this package type would help.

Inconsistent disposal/recycling between boroughs/counties - there should be a countrywide mandate for recyclability types for the consumer, regardless of how those types are actually disposed of. Eg. Everyone has a food wastebin even if the council has to throw it with the rest (it doesn't have the facilities).

Educating people to recycle is difficult enough without the inconsistencies.

edit Taxing packaging by weight and type would theoretically work to minimise packaging and encourage eg. Bringing a tupperware container to the shops. You'd also need to (countrywide) standardise container types so then you could eg. Put your standard coffebean container under the supermarket dispenser and do away with packaging.

The above is a thought experiment btw. Usual dicussions about personal freedom vs state apply, but the driving force there is valid :)
AFAIK, Zen robotics is doing exactly that.
https://zenrobotics.com/ has been doing this since 2007.

Robots are large and expensive, humans are small and cheap.
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Introduction to the Python Pickle Module
That's a nice idea, but it requires wrapping script tags around the "pixel", right?
>What other alternative(s) would you propose?

How about a system which:

1. Acknowledges the realities of automation and globalization

2. Does not have maximum employment and perpetual growth as primary goals

3. Does not create artificial scarcity

4. Understands the broken window fallacy
At which point why not just use buses and... trains?
You are in the wrong circle or culture. So act accordingly. But it is different in other circles/places of the world.
The best thing of all would be having the cost of recycling included in the price of the product. Then manufacturers would be incentivized to make recycling as effective as possible.
Our municipality will not accept plastic shopping bags because they say there is no market for them.

Some of the supermarkets do take them but I have to suspect that they just truck them to a landfill.
> Then the interview was nothing but deck of card puzzles and random riddles

That's really disappointing. Was the position you applied for Software Developer, or a specific deep learning position?
"Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power."

- A. Smith, 1776
> At Sourcegraph, we want to fix this and eventually enable everyone to build software. For now, we're revealing our master plan for phase 1: how we're going to make it easier and faster for today's developers to build software.

These are lofty goals, and sorely needed.

We've come a long way but there is a lot of "suckage" both in developing software and in using it still.

I wish Sourcegraph all the best :)
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18034241
> The internet is about freebooting until you hit a paywall.

Just because something doesn't have a paywall doesn't mean the content creator intends for you to take his/her work with zero attribution. That's why those "Buy me a coffee"/"Donate to my Patreon" buttons exist. It's a way for the user to consume the information for free up front but have the option to support the creator.
To make that statement, it means people massively overestimate how much people hates them.
So if I understand this correctly, it was a hard fork in version 0.15 (by the definition 'accepting a subset of blocks than a previous version'), but nobody exploited it. Similar the BDB/LevelDB incident documented in BIP 0050 (which actually had a chain split).[1]

There was a chain split due to a soft fork in 2010: the "value overflow incident".[0] Controversial since the soft fork was announced after the incident was exploited.

[0]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

[1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...
You've clearly never been on the Moscow or St. Petersburg Metro. They're astonishingly beautiful.
A geologist I know very well has remarked to me before that before a certain point, the geological records aren't good enough to know. The problem is that continents get pushed under each other, and their contents are recycled through the earth in complex (fluid dynamics) ways. So, we can be pretty confident up to a certain point (for some reason, 2 billion years feels right in my brain, but I might be making that up - I think it's correlated with the oldest rocks in Australia?), but after that point, the records are so muddled that it's pretty hard to come up with a confident picture. So saying "this is what the earth looked like 4 billion years ago" is an imprecise endeavor
As in Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua (L: A defence of one's own life)
Agreed on the testing fetish and usually they're not valuable. Uncle Bob wrote about this last year and its something I wish everyone would read https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/10/03/TestContrav...
Well-written overview of the excitement generating around quantum and topological physics. Databases of candidate materials numbering in the thousands are currently being compiled.

Superconductivity. Memory and computation embedded in braiding of world lines. Valleytronic stability in bi-layer graphene that scales to infinite dimension in the transverse dimension and could scale quantum computation to arbitrary numbers of qubits.

It's worth remarking that the highly dendritic structure of neurons in the brain and its exponential efficiency above what modern silicon photo-lithography based supercomputers are capable of today is no coincidence.

We are still very much at the experimental and early prototype stage for any topological devices. And it will take a massive re-tooling of current manufacturing. But somewhere in this space is room for the next Intel to emerge.

What is required is a ten-fold or more increase in current levels of funding for quantum initiatives. And not just computing, but quantum biology as well.
I wouldn't worry about SVGs. The vast majority of logos are usually made in adobe illustrator / affinitydesigner/similar in vector .eps/.ai format.

When it gets exported its almost always a .png file. The logo you have doesn't benefit from SVG. The only ones that really benefit from it are things like gitlab's animated logo https://i.imgur.com/FuxVepX.gif. SVG tends to overcomplex things, sometimes designers circumvent it using embedded font-families instead. https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery

Serif definitely is in the right ballpark for font families you are looking for. I really like the artofmanliness when it comes to older styles. https://www.artofmanliness.com/. They use "BLACK" found here I believe. http://www.fontspace.com/category/rustic. Other farmy rustic styles http://www.fontspace.com/category/rustic?p=3 → Altantida

I tend to think of "barber shop fonts" when I think of old rustic "farmy" feel, because farmers would cut their own hair. And barbershops are still one of the few places that still use old traditions of knife shaving. Other good examples would be "speakeasy" bars, cowboy style.

The font you have is more castle/medieval/serfdom font instead of old farmy rustic. Technically, its not actually a bad font though for what you are going for, actually I looked through it is one of the better options. The logos font height needs to be the same size as the logos height though. Example https://i.imgur.com/NEMKnhT.png . Change the size font-size here to 2.5rem. https://i.imgur.com/KJGAlxe.png

I wouldn't suggest using federant for your actual paragraph text tags though. Keep that part simple and use Arial or Google Roboto

Hope this helps out
I believe this is for "Remote in USA only" positions. I believe it's due to the bureaucracy of hiring international employees.
While others are talking about how "easy" the built in AI that can crush me is (I'm pretty bad), the part I found interesting is that they taught it to "see" the map from the data. Nothing new in the field, but interesting to me.

Part of me wonders if the techniques applied can be easily used on non-visual data. AI that "sees" what we cannot. (I realize we aren't talking any kind of actual AI here, but sometimes it is nice to just wonder... )
To follow up with my own thoughts on what would help: the cost of plastic seems fully externalized. Companies that use plastic packaging should bear the brunt of the cost of recycling / disposing of plastic. Properly priced, we might see more innovation in the field.
I live south of Albuquerque, NM and have taken my family to Santa Fe several times with the sole intent of going to Meow Wolf. I've enjoyed the experience each time. If you are anywhere near the area its definitely worth the price of admission.
And windows 10 anniversary update, Microsoft Edge, Direct Play 2.0 support (which can only be found on recent graphics cards or 7th gen Intel integrated and only works over certain video outputs). For example I have a 7th gen Intel cpu, I can boot into windows and use Edge, download the media extensions, update my graphic drivers, but I still can't get 4k Netflix because my GPU is a year or so older than AMF supports for Direct Play 2.0 and additionally I have my 4k 10bit color monitor using Display port for the higher bandwidth. From what I've read at this time Display port isn't even supported with Direct Play 2.0 by AMD.

Basically it's such a pain in the ass, you aren't going to have 4k Netflix on PC, possibly even if you try...
>It's a good thing the scooters are not slated to go to the US, where 'taxes' are a four-letter word, or they might end up in the Boston harbor.

Maybe Portsmouth harbor. For the past century or so the people of Boston have been generally welcoming to taxes, nosy government and all the other things the Bostonians of the 1700s resented the British for. Their northern neighbors, not so much.

That still doesn't make "tax-$anything" a good company name for any business that doesn't have to do with taxes. Better to have a neutral and boring name than a name that some people associate with bad things.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of LaTeX?

TeX (plain TeX, not LaTeX) has phenomenally good logging and error messages IMO — everything you need is there, each error message comes in a “formal” and “informal” form and points you to exactly the place the error happened, and TeX lets you fix things on-the-fly without restarting the program. All this of course assumes you use TeX the way it is described in the manual (The TeXbook). The experience is opposite with LaTeX, so I find it worth giving up all the convenience of LaTeX just for the wonderful experience with TeX.

As for “the TeX language”, there is no such thing. As Knuth has said many times, TeX is designed for typesetting, not programming. Sure it has macros to save some typing, but if you're writing elaborate programs in it (as is nearly inevitable if you're using LaTeX) you're doing something wrong. Knuth said:

> When I put in the calculation of prime numbers into the TeX manual I was not thinking of this as the way to use TeX. I was thinking, “Oh, by the way, look at this: dogs can stand on their hind legs and TeX can calculate prime numbers.”

But of course LaTeX does every such thing imaginable :-)

More on TeX not being a programming language: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/40282/115

On the TeX error experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15734980
In case you're wondering : this is a very worthwhile read.
Funny thing you've mentioned... The guys were from Bulgaria. Maybe the same group.
As a westerner living in Russia, I love seeing all the old soviet stuff (despite the dark history). Ok, maybe not the soviet apartment blocks. But many of the statues and brutalist structures are very unique and I truly hope they're preserved. None of the new construction here is nearly as interesting.
I disagree about the swift overthrow; it’s easy to say that when you go from pure democracy to pure oligarchy with no transition, but by boiling the frog, and one day the change could seem natural or even welcome. It’s not easy to see the pieces of the puzzle for what it is until it’s fully assembled.

Your argument re middle class disappearing is addressed in the write up; the argue by strengthening law enforcement and government that they can hold the populace at bay by force. There are many past and present examples of authoritarians retaining control by force, but it’s not as elegant a solution as convincing people it’s what they wanted all along imo.
No, like stealing bandwidth and services.
I think the French police and judicial system are about the same. They just aren't discovering the innocents they've put in prison because they don't have wide-spread, well-funded initiatives like the Innocence Project to do that work.

Remember, you can't really "look at the stats" when it comes to how many innocent people you've imprisoned until after the fact. You only know the count once you've actually put in the time to find innocent people in prison. My claim is that France is not doing this, so you can't really say they're 6x better. Unless countries are exerting the same effort to root out innocent prisoners, it's impossible to tell if a lower rate is due to an actually lower occurrence, or if it's due to a lower rate of discovery.

My original point was that I think all countries have an "imprisoning innocents" problem, and all countries have a racism problem. It just looks worse in the US because we're actually bothering to do the due diligence.
Agreed. Something as simple as TaxiDash would be more communicative while avoiding that obvious pitfall.
Schrödinger at 75: The Future of Biology
> While your approach is: "Here is my resume, now I demand you to give me examples so I can prove my point."

I already probed my point beyond what I said afterwards. You just need existing cryptography and don't need a blockchain to make secure agreements between parties.

> Ah great! Since your argument is that they can all be replaced, can you name a private blockchain solution that IS running in production that can be replaced?

I don't need to since I am arguing about the no sense of private blockchains.

> IANAL but AFAIK this is completely false. Do you have any examples of smart contracts running on blockchains being enforced in a court?

If the smart contract uses digital signatures they are enforced by the existing law.

Also, as you probably know, this field is very new and the law was not, in general, involved with this kind of technologies.
Scikit Learn comes to mind - not just because I can dig into the source code and immediately know what's happening, but also for the stellar documentation that goes above and beyond telling your what the functions do.

For example their Cross Validation documentation is amazing:

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/cross_validation.html...
It is neither explosive nor toxic – the byproducts are a small amount of water vapor and aluminum powder, which can be recycled.

Ardica appears to be ultimately searching for a rechargeable hydrogen storage medium. Fill a cell with aluminum. Add hydrogen to generate alane in situ. (or charge cell with alane to begin with) Discharge to re-form aluminum. Repeat.

There are many technical challenges on the way to this vision.

Alane as fuel would only be practical if it could be economically regenerated from the waste aluminum in situ.

Otherwise the waste aluminum would need to be purged from the system somehow. Waste liquids are easy to work with through pumps, but waste solids (and potentially pyrophoric powders) are very difficult to move.

The company claims that alane does not spontaneously combust. In its alpha form, this is true. But these materials are passivated through the addition of an oxide coating. Doing so could also render the material inert as a fuel.

From Ardica's issued patents, these challenges haven't yet been addressed.
Do you live in SRQ?
The alternative is to write new stuff in Rust and link as usual. And get the many other benefits beside lifetimes. Specially if, as you say "safe C++ is very very high on my list of \"important things\"". The safety Rust offers makes you a better programmer, because in C++ your focus is partially (mostly?) tied up to provide guarantees Rust provides for free. I presume you can't imagine the breath of fresh air that is.

The only price to pay is give up objects, and that may be a good thing.
Replicating Piet Mondrian’s art with code
They've had some updates since then: https://blog.openai.com/openai-five-benchmark/

(Plus two shorter / more recent status updates)
Yeah but I work in Pinellas Co
If apple cannot make the products they aquire conform to their own ecosystem, how can they expect users to?
If you tell someone how you feel and goes awry, some people cannot handle it. This is prime reason people don’t tell their feelings.
> My first guess is that the fastest route I can provide is Java through the Oracle's Java Programmer II certification and creating an original Android app for Google Play store.

Very unreasonable. You're expecting someone will be capable of making an app, making it usable (different skill than the programming part), and then you will be lucky enough to hit upon something people use a lot and are willing to pay for (also 2 different things).

I would say you can get to 60k a year a lot faster waiting tables or bar tending in many locals than a new person getting into development, let along trying to strike it rich on an app store. Many people claim the app store gold rush is over, with most people downloading only apps from major companies which don't even charge for theirs. I'm inclined to agree, outside of professional tooling apps, some games, although those are mostly in-app purchase and ad based (additional skills needed to gamify an app, and extremely high active user counts to pull 60k from simple ad inclusions).
Thanks for this. I was imagining how cool the presentation would have been with overlays of beginning of life & species. You've done it - and ended it with good humour! Thanks.