skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OMG, this is hilarious!!!
Some lessons are easier learned through parables/fables/stories than through direct teaching. That's especially true for children. I can tell my little daughter the story of "the boy who cried wolf", or "the dog that bit the hand that fed it", and that'll be a lot more effective than if I try to directly teach her the underlying lessons without the emotional stories attached to them.

If a higher power would try to teach me some lessons, I assume (by analogy) that those lessons would similarly come in the form of stories or parables etc. Just like my daughter understands my teachings better in that form, I assume I would understand a higher power's teachings better in that form.

If a book claims to be inspired by a higher power, and I read it and everything looks immediately feel-good intuitive/logical on the surface, than I'm going to reject it, saying: "I could have written that myself!"
Yeah, I was very impressed when a little over a year ago the French American Chamber of Commerce came to reach out to startups at Station Houston about working in France.
I've got lots of respect for Kenneth Auchenberg [1], the author of the library. I suspect he's a driving force behind VS Code's current amazingness. He also frequently has a lot of good insights about Chrome DevTools (what I work on) and the web in general.

[1] https://twitter.com/auchenberg
Because in almost every contract where an arbitration clause exists, it's because there's a gross disparity in the negotiating power between the parties, and the clause enables the more powerful party to deny the lesser the primary means of equitable redress of contractual violations stemming from this power disparity: the courts.
> Why not start UBI on a small, voluntary scale, and demonstrate its success?

That's what YC is doing: https://basicincome.ycr.org/

They have 100s of millions to experiment with ... the average person does not.

> Every one advocating for UBI could ...

Advocacy (and voting) are the most power tools for shaping the future direction of society. It's very effective as a way of bringing change, and we have many examples in recent history of this being true. If it weren't, you wouldn't see huge amounts of money being given to Super PACs to advocate for political positions.

> start transferring them a portion of their income every month...

This is a rehash of the very tired, and baseless, cliche against higher taxes that says that those who support higher taxes should write a check to the IRS.

It's a fallacious argument, because redistribution only has societal impact when operating on a society-wide scale. The most significant example of this, the Great Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society) wasn't built on voluntary contributions to the government.

Individuals of normal means making marginal contributions does little to move the needle on the relevant societal problems in any significant way, whether those problems are infrastructure, poverty, health care, education, etc. These things, if they are done at all, have to be done at a societal scale, and that means via government methods of finance.
I’ve been on both the customer and vendor side of these kinds of things. It’s easy to see this happening in my experience. Customers usually want their vendors to be competitive, because that’s better for them and lowering prices. Also, some people at certain customers have their favorite vendors for whatever reasons. (Sometimes it’s just history, sometimes it because some vendor spends a lot of money taking key players out getting them drunk and making friends with them, etc.). So this leads to information from Vendor A frequently finding its way to Vendor B via the customer. Vendors know this. Sending actual source code seems a little next level from the usual sharing of specs, roadmaps, decks, etc. that happens every day. But it’s not at all unrealistic somebody did that to me.
To be honest, I haven't seriously used Pandora since around 2006 or 2007. It was wonderful for music discovery before the rise of smartphones and streaming services. I've had the Pandora app on my phone for years, but I rarely ever use it. I don't see how it can compete these days. So Sirius XM totally makes sense.
please change the title to lowercase, thanks.
While I find Shazam to be amazing, I find SoundHound's capabilities even better in terms of identifying a song based on humming the tune or hearing a live version.

I was at a live jazz concert last night, and the trio started playing a riff on tune I recognized but couldn't exactly place. SoundHound nailed it (Sonny Rollins "Four"), while Shazam had no idea.
I’m a machine learning engineer. I’d love it if I only needed to worry about machine learning and application interfaces.

Instead, because ops / infra arbitrarily block me from what I need, I have to be an expert on database internals, network bottlenecks, app security topics, deployment, containers, CI tools, etc. etc., both so that I can “do it myself” when ops e.g. refuses to acknowledge some assumption-breaking GPU architecture we need, and so that I can exhaustively deal with every single arch / ops debate or bureaucratic hurdle that comes up for me to endlessly justify everything I need to do far beyond any reasonable standard.

For me, managing devops shit myself is a necessary evil. Far better than the case of unresponsive / bureaucratic ops teams, but worse than the unicorn case of an actual customer service oriented ops team that actually cares rather than engages in convenience-for-themselves optimization at every turn.
There are a number of applications built upon the scuttlebutt protocol, most use some nodejs somewhere.

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/applications
(For anyone else clueless about this acronym:) FAANG = Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, & Google.
I feel this probably also assumes that your time is worthless.
Well, you are. The statement is not wrong. It's just a terrible first market to go for, since there's just a lot more work required to penetrate it.
Indeed. Minimum wage laws will probably soon no longer apply, because nearly all laws are superseded by arbitration, including state ones. It will not be long until we reach that point where you can easily and accidentally agree to work for 1c/hr with a carefully contrived contract. And, as long as they can secure an arbiter to rule against you for signing that employment agreement, you will be subject to it.
> … he shoved everything into …

Did he do the same in C?
"If you want your software to be adopted by Americans"

Not to get too off-topic, but while taking the piss out of America is all good fun it should be emphasized that the original nature of the scandal wasnt just Americans whining about dirty engines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal#L...

20 countries, the EU included, filed criminal charges against high level executives at Volkswagen factories across the globe. the CEO himself was arrested in Germany.
No, it is not merely a difference in degree.

It is a wholesale difference in kind/type.

NatSec ops constrained by a robust constitution implemented by an elected govt, with different co-equal branches, including a court system with centuries of experience & tradition of protecting privacy of citizens from the beginning -- one of the principles on which is was founded (see 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Ammendments for starters), and a vigorous tradition of free speech and free press is one side.

The other is an unelected totalitarian govt with a tradition of actively murdering it's own citizens to consolidate single-party political power, decades (China) or centuries (Russia) of manipulating information to the people, zero free press with active suppression, and active programs in both the civilian and military heirarchy to restrict information and spy on the people.

To even remotely equate these systems and the threat they pose to the people is to either
1) deliberately grossly misrepresent the situation, or
2) display profound ignorance of the issues.

If you want to recognize that there is a vast difference of type and then go on to discuss how the US might be better about what they do, that can be a fine discussion. But the land of 'they're all the same just different degree' is so far from reality as to render discussion useless.
What's the memory consumption of pyQT compared to electron apps?
Similarly, I was expecting the GPU situation to come to a head, meaning : Imagination technologies starting a lawsuit. The fact that this hasn't yet happened, led some commentators to conclude that a confidential Apple-IMG settlement has taken place.
My experience with shazam is that it finds about a quarter of the tracks I'm looking for. It's really really incredibly good at finding anything that airs on the radio or exists in spotify. But outside of that the results drop off quickly.
PostgresConf 2019: CFP Open
I'd argue GTK is awful inside of Linux because of client-side decorations (removal of the standard title-bar) that you cannot disable, removal of the menu bar, and the mobile/tablet first design (some people do use desktops and I'm not allergic to text).
I agree, that would make it "clear".
> As a simple example, Uber has a legal department to create and review the contract; most drivers don't have attorneys to even review it;

I don't understand how legal system can be fair till the above is true. Individual, from the start, is on the loosing side. It should be illegal to sign things you are not qualified to understand. You can't get a prescription medication without a doctor reviewing your case first -- why can you sign a 100-page legalese? You are certain not to know what you are doing.

Arbitration is nothing more than a spectacle. Everyone is on the company payroll there, directly or otherwise -- house always wins.
Using the VW logo as "satire" would be a stretch.
Yes, password managers work inside apps for logins and personal info.
The implementation is bad for developers and bad for users. Check out the comments from the last time it was implemented https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17036803 and removed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079724
Volkswagen in this case has only trademark, unlike Nintendo in your example also having copyrights.
Erm ... it seems to me that if there was no free will then your beliefs couldn't have any actual consequences at all, they and your cookie cravings are just different aspects of the unfolding of the universe
I don't use Chrome/Firefox but this surprises me, as well. The presence of a private browser window (anywhere) will prevent it from deleting cookies when you close this private browser window? That seems completely counterintuitive to me. When else, in any application, does the mere existence of an open, empty window completely change the behavior of a different window?

Safari's private tabs are each completely independent.
To be fair I don't think deleting emails in accordance with their procedures is a crime. And that being the case why would anyone go to jail?
They could do that themselves and in fact they are - $5m/year goes into their endowment. Take a look at their budget:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...

Quite a lot of waste in there, e.g. $850k on "brand strategy" - kind of looks like they have more money than they know what to do with.
Since you brought it up, here's a shameless plug for something you might enjoy: https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/git-self-blame
Nice article!

Putting the more technical aspects aside, I found the games after Riven to be lacking something, and I only discovered afterwards (maybe even only after the second post-Riven game) that it wasn't by the original studio/team/brothers.

Uru, despite its many problems, seemed to recapture some of that magic. But I'll always wonder if that's actually true, or just because I knew the original team (or at least one of the brothers?) was involved again.

(Not that the Riven sequels were bad! I quite enjoyed Myst 3)
If you use the complete Qt installer, you get QtDesigner.

If you use the PyQT-provided wheels and/or you don'want to mess with the whole Qt, then you can separately install QtCreator, which is very simple and embeds QtDesigner.
I don't think that Martin Winterkorn (the former CEO of Volkswagen) was arrested. Maybe you are talking about Rupert Stadler (CEO of Audi, a Volkswagen daughter)
Thank you for not using Electron.
lol Its so buggy
You forgot the environment. NYC is full of garbage, not enough parks, and the rivers are so dirty, you're not allowed to swim in them. It's noisy and full of stress.

That's why I moved to Hawaii and never looked back. Working remotely is a lot of fun, and is just healthier, both environment-wise and mentally.
Not to worry, it's a social network. They'll pretend to be interesting.
I grew up in Srinagar, Kashmir, which is a really beautiful place - even though there’s a really good chance you’ll freeze to death here or get struck by a bullet.

Learning from life with each passing day.
Thank God for sapience.
did you see that custom build badge? saved!

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/866c6cc451845f3de1f1487c1...
Discussion/topic based, as in like Reddit or HN? Not SSB, but NAB ( https://notabug.io/ ) might be what you are looking for, also offline-first and P2P.
Volkswagen: Detect when your tests are run in a CI server, and make them pass
Given your beliefs. Why bother writing this? What possible point could you have?
Not really. That's too broad of a category.
comcast (https://github.com/tylertreat/comcast) is really helpful for simulating poor network connections. Particularly nice when used in Docker to do network simulations.
So A is giving you 7k more money after healthcare and signing bonus for the first year, and 17k more for subsequent years. B gives you a one time 20k (dollars?) worth of stock options.

I would take the cash, how many years do you want to stay at the next place? The math is pretty easy.

I personally choose based on who I want to work with, how I think I’ll grow professionally and is the company doing something I want to be involved in.
Giving Malaria a Deadline
Yes, which is why, for example, contracts waiving basic labor rights are illegal. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract#Illegal_contracts
Ask HN: What strategy should Snapchat have used against Facebook's copying?
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1. wxPython has inconsistent looks and layouts between platforms and monitor resolutions (or DPI). For example, on PlayOnLinux GUI app I cannot click an "OK" button while using Surface Pro because the button is hidden outside of the window.

2. QML is an amazing language. It is modern, declarative and reactive but still very simple to use. Personally I don't want to go back to the traditional GUI coding styles after experienced QML.

3. Qt Designer is a great GUI tool that you can quickly prototype a GUI app.

4. Qt has the best documentation among cross-platform GUI frameworks.

5. Qt is a much bigger framework having more features. For example, you can easily embed WebKit or Chromium very easily.
You can avoid many of these places if you let the recruiters, HR and interviewers know that your looking for a place with good work life balance. It is hard to find good companies to work for in the bay area, but there are a few that exist. Make sure you read the glassdoor reviews: don't pay attention to the star rating (those are completely messed up), but the truth tends to come out in the writings, especially the longer reviews. Read those very carefully. If the place is toxic, it often comes out.
As an American I find it endlessly amusing when Europeans poke fun at us, the history of the 21st century so far makes it almost too easy. The jokes write themselves.

But yes, Europeans should be as mad as anyone, the con of clean diesel that has been foisted upon them has killed at least a few hundred over the years.
I agree completely. Cost of living is dominated by your housing expense, so to scale you're basically just looking at the net delta in rent or mortgage divided by the tax rate, so like current_salary + rent_delta/0.6 seems a reasonable way to find a break even point.
Show HN: Cabyn.co – The Social Network with No Ads, No Tracking, No Hate
Both Youtube and Dailymotion grew in a pretty uncool way by not pulling down copyrighted content.

But Dailymotion was basically 5 years behind Youtube in removing that stuff. I was watching full movies and tv shows on Dailymotion even last year.
Are you sure that's a flaw? There is no truth. There is only Nature
Kenneth Auchenberg: Well done! I hope that Volkswagen tries to sue you for trademark infringement and totally embarrasses themselves by bringing even more attention to their scandal, then gets slapped down and you can sue them back for wasting the court's time.

Volkswagen should be a generic term for cheater, just like Kleenex is a generic term for tissue.
Functionaly it is fine, but its sure doesnt look native on Mac OS or Windows.

Qt looks at least a magnitude better (more native) on those platforms
I bet VW won't sue anyone about this soon to not have new negative publicity. And I agree, this is clearly satire.
And native code as well.

https://www.hopperapp.com

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/
Cabyn is based on three simple principles:
1. No Ads: A lot of issues with current social sites stems from one thing: YOU are the product. It all comes down to getting more users and getting those users to click as much as possible. This leads to more radical content as well as online and offline abuse. There’s also a vast treasure trove of personal data that can be leaked at any moment.

To combat this, Cabyn is set up as a service. Users must bid to post a message. The number of messages is limited to one per minute. Because of this Cabyn is self-sustaining and more easily moderated.

2. No Tracking: Because bids cost money, we don’t need any personal information. We’re not selling ads, so we don’t need to know every move you make online. We don’t use Google Analytics, or any other invasive tracking. IP addresses are not stored, and we don’t ask for emails. Credit card details are securely stored on Stripe servers, not ours. If there ever were a data breach, the only information would be the messages themselves, which are already displayed on the website.

3. No Hate: A lot of social media is used to attack, put people down, and generally not be that nice. We want Cabyn to be a positive place. That’s a big part of why only one message per minute gets posted. A maximum of 1,440 messages a day is infinitely easier to moderate than 8,000 tweets per second, or 15,000+ Facebook actions per second.

The other hard thing about moderation is that people will always disagree with what should and shouldn’t be moderated. We want to make Cabyn a friendly place, so the current guide-line is anything PG-13 or lower should be fine. To discourage inappropriate material, inappropriate bids will be charged, but not shown on the site. This adds a significant cost to inappropriate posting with no benefit.

We’re looking forward to any questions, comments, thoughts, concerns, etc. Thanks!
It is a denial of the agency of the individual to prohibit them from agreeing to something else.
To be literal and pedantic, the term of art that is being "enforced" here is "forced arbitration".
Yes, there is a part of me that seems solipsistic. There is also another part that sees myself as an automaton along with everyone else. And there is yet another who reasons that at some level of sophistication, it's impossible to distinguish between automatons and beings with free will; I no longer care whether I have free will and rejoice in living along with everyone else.
Large format prints aren't scaled to 8MP.
Computer monitor filters were very popular in post-USSR until 2000s, and whole paranoia about CRT radiation continued until CRT were fully replaced by LCDs.

And seems that such filters are still produced, and sometimes are marketed to be used even on LCDs!

- http://www.visioncarefilters.com/products_3M.html

- https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Glare-Privacy-Filters-Anti-Radia...

One of "folk" ways to reduce radiation was to put a pot with cactus near monitor, which "absorb" radiation, despite complete absurdity, it was quite popular in Russia.
I would love to see a chart of products offered vs revenue per product user over time grouped by products.

Seems like square innovates at a pace on par with Apple's early years.
Any suggestions for how to combine end-to-end encryption with document storage in a way that still allows me to access documents on my phone/tablet/computer and also share documents with others?

Unfortunately end-to-end encryption for email is completely impossible because almost everyone I interact with via email does not know how to use gpg...
I assume learning to build interfaces in Javascript allows you to port that skill to both the desktop environment (via something like Electron) or web environment through a browser.
Or at least there can be consumer protection laws which limit the power of such agreements, a la Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Consumer_Law#Scope

> "Unfair terms are void, where they appear in standard form contracts signed with individuals "whose acquisition of the goods, services or interest is wholly or predominantly for personal, domestic or household use or consumption."'

This would not apply to the Uber driver case, but it would be a welcome change nonetheless.
In order to define "free will" as in "I have free will" or "We have free will" first we have to define who "I" or "We" is and I'm not sure we have accurately done that yet.

Who (or more precisely what component of "us") is it exactly is it that has free will? The ethereal eternal soul (which is that anything but an imagined property of conscious beings)? The meat abacus in our heads? the nerves in our arms?
Azure Data Explorer
Yeah there's a big difference between encryption and a codec. Anyone can decode and use the proprietary digital voice codec with appropriate equipment which the licensing board has at least assured won't become a monopoly for one radio equipment company.
I think advertising reaches way more people and generates income, thus isn't useless.
Who are you to decide what is obviously bad for someone else? Leave contract contents to those adults who participate in them. If either of the parties think provisions are “obviously bad”, then they won’t sign.
Another limitation is the need to keep the whole database on the phone (mine is few gigs).

Solution ive seen many of the serious users use is raspberry pie running patchfoo at home and connecting to your rpi.

Added hustle and you are basicaly centralising it for yourself.