skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sentiment is typical of the general HN population - a disconnect on the average person. What job wouldn't fire you for leaving in the middle of the day? Most likely a job where OP has a lot of freedom, trust, and respect - something that isn't readily available everywhere else.
That's kind of at the point where the solution takes so long to develop that you might as well count them manually.
Same, not even finnish but when I'm in the UK and people go "Youright?" I'm like "uuuuuuuhhhhhh".
That's a box of ≈21 cubic femtometers and the time resolution is one yoctosecond. The difference between that and a cubic nanometer-femtosecond is more than 25 orders of magnitude. And that's just simulating quantum chromodynamics. Add in the other parts of the Standard Model and scaling the simulation gets even more difficult.
> and quantum physics tell us that the former is also true.

True is a dangerous word to use in science, since our understanding can always change. What QM tells us is that our best understanding of the world at the micro physical is based on probability. Whether this is actually true of the world is open to interpretation.
Isolated changes aren't a myth. FAANG and others leverage the isolation brought by service separation every day. For very large services, a monolith makes it difficult to test services independently.

I personally don't like the word "microservices" since it implies that services have to be micro. For the last few years I have worked on service oriented systems where the individual components are sometimes pretty big - one could say almost monolithic :).

Splitting a monolith into separate services exacts an operational price. Engineers should be honest in assessing whether it's worth it. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
Hi, thank you for the questions and nice words!

We have a database of over 1000 Software Houses. On average, one Software House employs about 35 programmers and they are ready to be outsourced to our clients.

From our conversations with them, it appears that on the "bench" (programmers without a project) is from 5, up to 20% of programmers. Which gives us the 1 to 7 thousand programmers who can be available to our clients at any given moment.

When it comes to statistics, as I wrote, we are quite young. Nevertheless, we have served 32 inquiries in the last month and we are getting 5-10 new inquiries per week. On average, we had about 5 candidates per query.

The record holder, the query for node.js dev, within 15 days collected 40 offers.

Here is the link for this query):

- https://portal.grenadehub.com/portal/#/projectSurvey/8efd94a...

Those were candidates with over 90% scoring, that we found for this inquiry (not interested info means that client picked a different candidate:

1) https://portal.grenadehub.com/portal/#/projectSurvey/ef7a2cb...

2) https://portal.grenadehub.com/portal/#/projectSurvey/ef7a2cb...

3) https://portal.grenadehub.com/portal/#/projectSurvey/ef7a2cb...

4) https://portal.grenadehub.com/portal/#/projectSurvey/ef7a2cb...

5) https://portal.grenadehub.com/portal/#/projectSurvey/ef7a2cb...

6) https://portal.grenadehub.com/portal/#/projectSurvey/ef7a2cb...
This looks similar to YNAB[1] and I don't mean that in a bad way. I definitely welcome more envelope-based budgeting systems.

[1]: https://youneedabudget.com
i don't know i can tell by the tone of your writing you re spanish

and i totally agree that people are not stereotypical, but that goes mostly for the very recent generations. The world is heading to monoculture fast, yet when people talk about cultures, they refer to culture that is mostly expressed by the dwinding majority(?) of middle-aged people.
It's ok to be social and bond with your co-workers.

Work doesn't have to be about non-stop value delivery.
As far as I know, reservoir computing (liquid state systems) works with Spiking Neural Systems, which are different from "classic" artifical neurons.
In English there's 'silence is golden', but, lacks the 'silver' part.
It seems it exists p much everywhere in Europe, but I always understand it differently than the article implies. It's better to stay silent sometimes than to say something, because it can cause a conflict or hurt someone.
The load per user can be widely different in different application. We don't have a great measure for that, one cound use a combination of requests per user per day, and the sum of CPU-seconds used to serve them. The sum of CPU-seconds should contain the periodic (e.g. cron-like, not directly request-answering) tasks too.

At one extreme, you have applications that need horizontal scaling from day one (Scientific computing). At the other, a monolith serving 10^6 users from a single app instance.
I'm a German that lived in the USA for a while, and now that I'm back, at first the customer service was pretty bad in Germany. But I like it now. It can be pretty bad where you might have to beg the sales guy to take your money, but not being bombarded by sales people or way too much bs talking. When I was back in the US, I rented a car, and I didn't really say anything much just answered her questions, I didn't solicit any small talk but she wouldn't shut up about her life. It's like "just give me the car!!!"
Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs
> I don't get how this is emotional blackmail one bit.

Well that's your problem, not mine.

> He presents a solid well reasoned point on meritocracy and inequality that's reflected by many and has quantitative evidence.

Never suggested otherwise.

> I think the views on the subject that you're peddling might be a little emotionally manipulated.

Classic
they are anecdotal observations from my interactions with said people. i dont need help with my worldview, but thanks
It's most certainly not:

- you have to at least implement the destructor if you are going to use the abstract class across multiple DLLs - else, dynamic_cast won't work since each DLL may have its own type_info object for the abstract class

- even if a method is marked abstract, it can still have a default implementation: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/bAE7v6 though other prominent OO languages are slowly catching up with this ;)
Interesting, but I don't necessarily like their interpretation. I think the brain creates some neural paths to disengage memory when a camera is used, but this happens over time, probably after years of phone usage. The fact that they are forced to delete the photos and get the same results is understandable...you can't just tell your brain "please remember this painting now, because I deleted the photo". You need to train it in time.
Context: Nick Clegg was the UK Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 - 2015, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 - 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Clegg
i find the british are pretty chatty, even when its freezing. Yes, warm weather -> people being outdoors -> eventually chat more (and don't do much work)
Thanks for the response! I didn't realise BOOM was just one person. And i did notice that LowRisc has a lot of LLVM-related commits. Perhaps i've got the wrong end of the stick here. Maybe RISC-V is more 'subterranean' than is obvious, due to its embedded aims. Have a good one, thanks for the explanation :)
The Hope at the Heart of the Apocalyptic Climate Change Report
I've seen quite a few services like this and find them all interesting.

How do you prevent these from becoming popularity contests / friends boosting each other? Or do you not attempt to solve that with the view that it isn't your issue to solve (I don't mean that in a negative way)?

Also nice to see a service targeting Slack and MS Teams -- I am doing the same thing for a SaaS of mine. Best of luck and congrats on the YC acceptance!
Don't get too excited. Filing your taxes online in the UK is also still largely horrid, and often seems to require either starting afresh (the equivalent of "turn it on and off again") because some unknown error is reported on submission, or just phoning HMRC to talk to someone.

Whether this is because GDS haven't got their teeth into HMRC yet I don't know, but not everything over here is as shiny as some would have you believe.
https://newatlas.com/uv-lamp-reduces-lg-dishwasher-germs/127...
When you ignore degrees of in/equality, you're basically setting up a false dichotomy. Exact equality might be unhealthy, but so is the drastic inequality of the old aristocracy or (more arguably) the new one. As with many things, the extremes are stagnant end states, but they have their own sort of gravity (think "attractors" in chaos theory). Life is found in between.

> The idea that equality to another human matters as much ... is a fucking stupid remnant of our monkey ego.

Well, sorry, but it's not going away. Study after study has shown that relative affluence, not absolute affluence or any other factor, is one of the strongest predictors of happiness. In other words, relative privation is a predictor of unhappiness. It might not be suffering but, nonetheless, if you want to offer a superficial and unacknowledged restatement of utilitarianism ("the greatest good for the greatest number") then you have to consider what actually makes people who are not you happy or unhappy.
I've had a classic Dualit toaster since 2004ish. I can't comment on repairability since it's never gone wrong but it looks like it's easy to service with its 50s style screwed-down pressed panels.

On a side note, I like that they're seen as classically British but like other classically British things e.g. Dr Marten's boots, the original Mini car or fish and chips they were all designed by foreign born Brits.
> needed to rely on one another

You would expect that to result in much more elaborate social rituals
My workstation is a Ryzen 1700x running Ubuntu. It also runs two Windows gaming machines for me and my kids. GPU passthrough is pretty much painless, and since the NPT bug fix, they are very snappy.
Slack[1] is a communication tool that many teams use.

It is similar to Microsoft Teams[2] and Mattermost[3], etc.

[1]: https://slack.com/

[2]: https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat...

[3]: https://mattermost.com/
The point of the companies from the viewpoint of the demos is supposed to be to provide goods; your fix retains high profits.

Why not look at the life of a fridge and say the median current ownership period is now the free, transferable guarantee/warranty period; companies have to buy insurance against bankruptcy to maintain forward ability to repair (stops companies closing in order to clear liabilities, then restarting).

Rinse and repeat, minimum 2 year warranty for material and workmanship on all goods. Increase warranty to maintain medians.

Perhaps then we can start curing 'designed to fail' goods.
Libssh authentication flaw affects popular F5 load balancers
A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis
I read A Splendid Exchange which I believe was also on his list and it was one of the best books I have ever read.

He has a good taste in books.
Regarding HFT, how much is C++ and how much is FPGA? I always thought even CPUs often turn out too slow for that.
Rich Hickey
"Boreout" is an established term, it's kind of the inverse of a burnout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout
Also, even back in the day, X wasn't considered the best tech around, at least by some. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS was around.

However NeWS' licensing was proprietary and X won out.
I build weekendhacker.net which was a pretty successful community for a while but is not unfortunately dead.

I learned a lot but ultimately decided to wind it down.

PM me if you want to talk about my key learnings about this space.
Sometimes in Finland you see people from countries like USA talking with each other endlessly and often quite loudly. Many of us Finns find it annoying as it is against local customs (it resembles situation where somebody comes too close to my personal space). This constant chit-chat prevents me concentrating on my own thoughts. I wouldn't mind if they would talk about some important things or keep their chit-chat short, but I don't want to be exposed to this kind of noise about trivial things for hours.
>And there's really no reason to expect that meritocracy would fix unequal distribution of wealth

I never said it would.

>meritocracy hopes to fix injustice in the inequality of our world

Fixing the injustice in the inequality of the world isn't the same as fixing the inequality of the world. Kings and nobles having all the wealth because they were born with it is unjust inequality, while hard workers having all the wealth is just inequality (IMO).

In retrospect I realize this is hopelessly confusing wording and I really should have thought of a better way to describe what I meant. Dang nabbit.
Fiction Art collaboration with rewards – Whaleshares.Io
Why we believe in Wasm as the base layer of decentralised app development
"how are you doing?" is literally asking just that. You answered with what you had been "up to" recently - that doesn't make sense.

A better example would be your friend asking "what you been up to?" and you answered in very detailed manner when your friend might have been expecting a brief answer like: "not much" or "I've been busy".
The idea is you help anyone that needs your expertise, and in return you can chat with anyone that can answer your questions. They will probably not be the same people.

So you don't need to tell them what you want in return, but at some point they would need to list all experts they have on file so you can ask to chat with one.
Unless a random software update breaks it. A Hackintosh's Achille's heel is not hardware breaking down but software updates from Apple hosing it.
Writing safe, idiomatic C++ is hard.

Most C++ code found in college books is outdated and not idiomatic, driving students away from the language.

But it is true that C++ can also be your worst nightmare if you don't have discipline.

C++ will turn your bad coding habits into infinite frustration... and that is great. C++ is the proof you really like programming.
I find this as a failing, at least partially, of desktop monitors. Once the DPS is high enough you kind of stop caring about individual pixels. However most laptops and desktops out in the wild have screens which are 1080p at best. Nota bene: I'm talking globally, developed countries are doing better int his regard.
Why 2018 is the year of voice tech in healthcare
Which 3D printer do you have?
Russian people are similar in that regard. We also don’t ask how are you. It’s mostly transactional with strangers.
One should be careful basing observations on what is shown on TV. As an extreme example, it would suggest that most couples did not sleep on the same bed during the 1950s.

There was also a cultural fashion in the US to use a "Mid-Atlantic accent". Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent :

> The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent,[1][2][3] is a consciously acquired accent of English, intended to blend together the "standard" speech of both American English and British Received Pronunciation. Spoken mostly in the early 20th century by Americans, it is not a vernacular American accent native to any location, but rather, according to voice and drama professor Dudley Knight, an affected set of speech patterns whose "chief quality was that no Americans actually spoke it unless educated to do so".[4] The accent is, therefore, best associated with the American upper class, theater, and film industry of the 1930s and 1940s,[5] largely taught in private independent preparatory schools especially in the American Northeast and in acting schools.[6] The accent's overall use sharply declined following the Second World War.

On the UK side of the Atlantic, the Received Pronunciation was considered the appropriate form of English in BBC broadcasts, leading to "BBC English", which again reflected upper class use. As I recall, it wasn't until the 1980s when BBC announcers were more free to use regional dialects.

So when you view history through TV, remember that you are also seeing it through a upper-class lens.
Economies without large amounts of bulk natural resources are good targets for specializing in value-add industry.

It is both positive- and negative- feedback. There are lots of things Switzerland doesn't have which makes it specialize in the things it does – that concentration of specialization is it's own efficiency generator.
The thing is the markets don't optimise for global good, this is a sticking plaster ('band-aid') to inhibit the worst of the harm. The combative, capitalistic, market-led system is the problem.
I was mocking reddit as HN is on a completely different level. users are educated and helpful, the debates are good and the comments are almost always better than the articles

reddit this days is just mostly a modern buzzfeed
Completely agree, and maybe we should strive for it. Lunch breaks, smoking breaks etc are already a thing. Employers let certain employees leave early to go take their kids to the doctor or etc.

But the reality is that most employers are far less friendly, to their own detriment of course... but only in the long term.
> You can install any theme you want... This is linux, not macos. The point is for you to customize to your liking.

Not that easy without security risks. See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/854253/how-to-install-a-cust...

That's why I ask if it has been included by default, in the preferences menu or wherever the theme preferences are.

> Same for flatpack, I don't see why you expect it to be bundled over snaps

I didn't ask if it's bundled. I asked if it's in the default repos to install it remotely (opt-in) without changing the repos configuration.
Countdown to Python 2 EOL
> a million labs with $10 research budgets aren't going to be able to compete with one lab with a research budget of $10,000,000.

And yet, the idea that ten labs with $1M budgets might be better than either is a cornerstone of the free market. If everything is better when centralized, then why not centralize it in government (to which it would ultimately be equivalent anyway)?

> Concentration of capital and talent is how progress gets made after all

That's just way too simplistic. Sometimes concentration is better. Sometimes distribution is. It varies from field to field, from time to time, and the ideal is rarely found at the extremes. The problem Young sought to address is that various factors tend to pull us toward a non-ideal extreme, and that tendency must be resisted.
Cool thanks. I had a conversation with a debian developer recently and by what he said, I (mis)understood that Ubuntu was not including flatpak by default. Maybe he meant installing it (opt-out).
Did you check if the "nouveau" OSS Nvidia driver was still installed? Happened to me all the time, so I got used to always checking and removing it manually before letting him reboot.
[Off topic] Can someone help me understand why computer scientists call themselves engineers in the US? Is there a reason beside the fact that it is probably not regulated? Here that would be so totally illegal if you are not a member of the order which requires an engineering diploma.
Just FYI - it has not been called J2EE for 12 years.
That can be a problem with programs, too.
> They just have decided like Red-Hat did before them, that there is no money to be made on the Linux desktops

And can you blame them?
That's nothing but a hypothesis. It might very well be the case but it isn't proven at all. So stop spreading it as if it were fact.

So sick of bullshitism on the Internet.
People were happy before. Some societies were not happy before or haven't been producing significant quantities of happy people for a very long time.
Couldn't you just fake it in a container pretending it was ext4?

Creating a workaround for Dropbox doesn't sound like a problem Canonical itself should work on.
Slightly off topic, but a candidate applying for a general programming position who claims knowledge of C++ in their CV is presenting an absolute gift for interviewers: because, if they actually do know their C++, then they are likely to be a strong candidate overall; conversely, if they are bullsh1tting you it is very easy to find this out quickly.

True story: once interviewed a guy who claimed to know C++; set him a challenge that he couldn't answer, simplified it a bit, still couldn't answer, we iterated down until I discovered he didn't even know how to declare an int variable. Turns out he had been a tester on a system written in C++ ...
I'm glad to see this as I'm interviewing for c++ dev position after working with it non-commercially for years and I didn't even recognize a couple of the questions and wouldn't have any idea how to answer several of them off the top of my head. Certainly I could look any of them up and implement them if necessary, I really rarely code without having a book open next to me to look up the finer details of things I haven't memorized yet.
I use KDE with x1.3 scaling and it mostly works, but e.g. VirtualBox is unusable with scaling, pdf fonts in Okular look torn, some pixel maps scale poorly giving artefacts.

Still, I don't have better options: 13" FullHD doesn't play well with 2x scaling (and even 1.5x would usable, but too big for my taste).
Yes, that is a reasonable response and I should have preempted that.

For context: the product at my day job does something likely at an equivalent level of complexity to Shopify. It's just another SaaS business that handles payments, invoicing, etc. If anything, Shopify is more complex.
Ever use Xcode on a day to day basis? Clearly not the best talent there.
Thanks for the follow up i have ordered the book. I didn't find deep work lacking but still look forward to reading the shallows.
Ethereum Virtual Machine Implemented in TypeScript
I know that Eisenhower (US president) helped popularize that view. Doing a search now found https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?artikel=5924063
When the weather permits, I'd rather take 5 minutes to hang clothes to dry, and then other 5 minutes to fold them.

A lot like cooking food, that's a time to let your mind wander and breathe.
Ask HN: Best way to reasonably secure cloud storage?
What are best-practices for securing cloud storage? If you want to be able to be the only one who can read/view your documents in an online cloud storage provider, how do you set this up? From what I understand, there are several options:

1. Roll your own (Nextcloud).
2. Use a closed-source cloud encryption drive (Boxcryptor)
3. Use an open-source cloud encryption drive (Cryptomator)
4. Use something like VeraCrypt

All of these have benefits an downsides. Cryptomator decrypts super slow in Windows 10, making it useless for storing video or pictures you want to access fairly quickly. Boxcryptor works well, but is closed source. VeraCrypt volumes have to be entirely re-synced when one change is made. Nextcloud has all the downsides of needing to self-host something.

What are suggested ways of keeping your files private in the cloud to a reasonable degree? ("Reasonable" because I'm aware there are many avenues that a state agency could take hardware-wise, or many methods that would be secure but make your files essentially unusable in the real world).
My uneducated guess would be that someone who is so B12-deficient to require an injection (rather than just taking a daily pill) is unlikely to be able attend a Goop wellness event on account of the neurological damage :)
Conceits creep in if you only read one perspective. Think about all the people who think Western culture is the source of all civilization because they only read things that affirm that view.

Any given culture's canon is big in volume, but small in context.
I think the "I'm going to get downvoted for this..."-baiting leads to a lot of reflexive upvotes and downvotes regardless of the actual content of the comment.