skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's definitely a market for something like this, the question is how big. I used DabbleDB back in the day, and it was great, but perhaps a little early to the party. The competition to Airtable is not just SalesForce and Sharepoint, but also all the janky access db's and excel-macro laden informal systems that get built at big companies. It's not hard to be better than that. And if an Airtable app grows to the point of needing a rewrite, then congrats-you've just got past MVP...
They're not mutually exclusive, but they are negatively correlated.

The more enjoyable a job is, the lower the salary the boss can offer before people balk at taking it. It isn't something you can suss out in individual cases, but statistically speaking it holds up.

When I sysadminned in the turn of the millenium, I could definitely see the pay gap between running systems for corporate America and doing it for scientists in academia.
I still like Facebook, but I get all the hate. It is an annoying product and can be addictive. And it used to be less annoying, more about persons and not products, and they don't care about not being addictive. They seems to be trying to cope with thinks like fake news, though. It is part of being a totally new product.

But yes, the reaction is exaggerated.
> “The public we were serving, in a broad sense, said, ‘We’re organic, we’re healthy, we’re vegan, we’re whole-grain,’ and then we’d roll out these whole-grain breads. … Everyone would say, ‘Woohoo!’ and then they’d show up and say, ‘I’ll take the baguette. I’ll take the ciabatta.’”

I think part of the problem is that after 100+ years of increasingly industrialized bread, most people today have rarely if ever encountered "real" bread (including bread that is actually 100% whole-grain). I can't find a citation at the moment, but I've heard from multiple sources that in the US, commercial bread only needs to contain 51% whole wheat to be able to be marketed as "whole wheat". So in reality when you see "100% Whole Wheat" on the shelf, most times it's really more like a blend of white and whole wheat (plus a whole bunch of other preservatives and other junk). If you actually bake a loaf at home with only whole-wheat flour you will get something that is much darker and denser.

There has been a similar phenomenon with "rye" bread in the US. Most bread labeled "rye" that you see on store shelves here is a variant of a deli-style bread originating in NYC. It is mostly white wheat flour with a little bit of rye flour and caraway seed added. The flavor people associate with "rye" bread is really just the flavor of caraway seed. In contrast, true whole-grain rye bread is a very dense old-world style bread that you almost never see anymore except for maybe in very niche artisan bakeries. Example: https://i.redd.it/bhwihp6j7dr01.jpg
> If one disregards the counter value, they can just outright drop the whole U2F.

It's not pointless. Disregarding the counter only enables replay attacks, that is: the attacker must previously have captured a challenge/response. The phishing resistance is still retained because it relies on the browser passing the origin to the u2f device and the browser can't be fooled by similar URLs while a human entering a TOTO token can.
It is not about being better than your teams. It is about knowing the field of work to ensure that you can use your teams to build something better (or at least supposed too).

I have the experience of an accountant who never knew how a software development was supposed to be done, the next is the typical non dev nightmare manager, unreasonable deadlines, confidently adding epic features each week because his team was delivering.

In the other hand I have seen people without any knowledge climb in the corporate, an aunt of mine could not finish high school so no university degree, patience and self learning in home for about 2 years and now she has 5 years of experience as consultant of environmental security for metal industries.

Both parts must be willing to work to ensure good works, but when one of the sides does not know and do not care to fit to the job, company objectives and field of work is when everything starts to break.
From what the articles are saying it seems like they're either making an assumption of or are working in some non-Euclidean space, and the visuals are merely Euclidean projections or representations, which are necessarily curved.

(Warning: likely butchering the terminology, am not a mathematician)
Show HN: Using deep learning to synchronize lip movements for video translation
And that's exactly why your colleagues at Facebook are likely to care less about ethics. Another reason to not work there.
The system that won the bidding is called DUBU.
https://www.kombit.dk/dubu

The system that does the same thing DUBU does today, and the next DUBU will, good enough is called sbsys.

It’s not a secret, the 120 million might be 128 million though, but it’s not completely unreasonable for what it’s meant to do, the politics involved and so on. It’s just hilarious that communal co-ownership of software did it for 2 million. I mean you could argue that it’s illustrating how silly enterprise software companies are in general, but it is what it is.
I had to look this up, but apparently "sea level" on Mars (called "topographic datum") is decided using the average elevation near the equator.

http://passporttoknowledge.com/lfm/ask/terrain-geo/Determini...
I don't understand what you're disagreeing with exactly. I say "unpaid overtime" appears to be legal. I didn't say "unlimited unpaid overtime".

From everything you quoted, "unpaid overtime" is legal as long as it's clearly transparent from the contract and it's within other laws restricting the amount of hours total. Unpaid overtime is statistically common as per the other sources I linked to.

Obviously, if unpaid overtime clauses were clearly and entirely illegal, the lowest court would've immediately ruled in favor of the plaintiff, not against him.
There's way too much stock placed in comp-lit inspired intersectional comparisons and reading of hidden meaning in every little facet of reality. It's getting schizophrenic - in the literal sense of the word.

Perhaps they think it sounds smart and provides an excuse to pontificate on their pet peeve for the nth time?
_side note:_ the way the header navigation of the linked site comes back into view on scroll-up is much more pleasant than the typical "jump down" effect. Still think the need for the header on scroll up is a bit absurd but hey, this is the best implementation I've seen.
This is.. odd to me.

I graduated college not too long ago, and you hear stuff like this all the time. A big one is Financial Tech-- people talk a lot about how they don't want to work for those companies.

Some people are against working in big-tech, or AirBnB because of the housing crisis, Uber because of the sexual harassment and competitive culture, etc.

This is however the first time I see a NYT article about this. They're really going after Facebook with all they can find.
Organic does not necessarily mean nontoxic
From http://www.shecology.com/soap-nuts/ , a company located in weaverville NC selling a "natural cleaning product":
'Of all the varieties of soap nuts, Sapindus Mukorossi is the best for cleaning because it is loaded with the natural surfactant “saponin.” When dissolved in warm water saponin transforms into a foamy substance that removes dirt and odors from most any surface – from textiles to tennis shoes!
Shecology Golden Soap Nuts are 100% natural, safe for people, pets, and the planet, & gentle enough for people who are sensitive to chemicals and scents. "

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Contrast that with Wikipedia Article on Saponins:
"
Most saponins, which readily dissolve in water, are poisonous to fish.[10] Therefore, in ethnobotany, they are primarily known for their use by indigenous people in obtaining aquatic food sources.

Since prehistoric times, cultures throughout the world have used piscicidal (fish-killing) plants, mostly those containing saponins, for fishing.[11][12]

Although prohibited by law, fish poison plants are still widely used by indigenous tribes in Guyana.[13]

On the Indian Subcontinent, the Gond tribes are known for their use of plant extracts in poison fishing.[14]

Many of California's Native American tribes traditionally used soaproot, (genus Chlorogalum) and/or the root of various yucca species, which contain saponin, as a fish poison. They would pulverize the roots, mixing in water to create a foam, and then add the suds to a stream. This would kill or incapacitate the fish, which could be gathered easily from the surface of the water. Among the tribes using this technique were the Lassik, the Luiseño, and the Mattole.[15] "
I'm Italian, for what it's worth the translation seems fine, even if the writing quality is not as good as the source and maybe the joke about "Bayesians being allowed to make such statements" is a bit lost
There is the <noscript> tag, but its usage seems extremely low. I'm half surprised that it made it into the HTML5 spec to be honest, similar ones such as <noframes> were left out.
But this one doesn't looks bad, the Italian translator even goes beyond the article by providing visualizations of the concept.
ZoneTracker: Tracking JavaScript Performance with Zone.js
Huh, I didn't know that, thanks for the tidbit!
AIUI the plan is to build everything for each Python module (plus system-python).

However there are two things that mean it's not quite as good as you would like:

(1) Base RHEL 8 will only have a fairly minimal set of Python packages (indeed, packages in general).

(2) Products on top - things like OpenStack - will settle on a particular Python version (ie. module) and only be built against that version, and will require the corresponding Python module to be enabled.
> it relies on manipulating and measuring an absolutely astronomical number of

"Manipulating" yes, that is the whole point. But you don't measure all those astronomical number of variables. The measurements stay sane, the state does not.

> it deserves something more thoughtful than a dismissive response

To me this article is itself a dismissive response to quantum computing.
A GPS receiver is constantly switching between the satellites in the GPS constellation. This sounds like that, on a bigger scale.
Thank you, that's the kind of concept I was looking for.
Why. China can just force SpaceX to turn off over China.

How? By shooting down satellites?
I remember a discussion with Drew on HN a while ago. I held that the GitHub model was more inviting to small contributions given the overhead of figuring out how to get said small contribution integrated was paid for every new project outside of GitHub(-likes), but only once for GitHub and friends [1] (see discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17803588).

sr.ht takes a very good stab at that problem, while maintaining that old-style approach. (For example through predictable mailing list names, should the project choose to use lists.sr.ht, which is likely.)

Kudos, Drew.

One intriguing thing about sr.ht is the way builds.sr.ht is described: amazingly powerful [2]. It's been a while since I configured myself a Travis workflow, but remember it was YAML based as well and one could do quite a number of things with it. What I'm missing is a description of exactly how builds.sr.ht towers above all the rest.

[1]: By approximation, some projects hosted on GitHub have more specific rules and will not consider those who deviate.

[2]: https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit...
"Come to our island, life is so relaxed even criminals are cool"
This mostly. But also I don't self identify with a strongly held ethic. I identify more with a balanced approach where sometimes ethics are a guide, and other times the outcome is as or more important, just depends on the situation.

In the case above, both my ethics and the outcome pointed me in the same direction. In others the might conflict and I do a cost benefit analysis.
As someone who has worked for five separate startups, I have to disagree. While you do get close to your teammates, in my experience the managers in startup-land tend to be a lot less flexible because they have their vision of how something is supposed to be done.

I work for a giant evil megacorporation now, and I honestly feel like I have more freedom here to explore new stuff than I ever did as a JS/PHP/GOLANG/MONGODB Ninja/Rockstar/Guru in startup land.
This situation is actually similar to the black Saturday bushfires in Australia - also caused by power lines. The utility eventually settled for half a billion dollars.
Meaningless if you look up the loss of life.

(Maybe somewhat different because every type of bushfire prevention strategy was in place / overwhelmed and I don't know what the situation is in California.)
Whoa, Men kill themselves many times more than women.
I thought this number would be closer.
You had me until the end. Do you really believe a Chinese alternative to PayPal would be more open and less prone to censorship?
The bandwidth of geosats can be vastly improved with spotbeams:

https://www.montanasatellite.com/support/satellite-footprint...
I have a Dragonboard 410c, which was based on what was a good smartphone SoC at the time. A downside was certain features like GPS and Bluetooth only worked on Android, not Linux. I realized one of the biggest advantages of the Raspberry Pi over similar and even more powerful <$100 single board computers is its huge community.
Ask my 3 adopted children.
This reminds me of an 1999 article in the New Yorker by Tim Ferris called "How to Predict Anything"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/07/12/how-to-predict...

> Princeton physicist J. Richard Gott III has an all-purpose method for estimating how long things will last. In particular, he has estimated that, with 95% confidence, humans are going to be around at least fifty-one hundred years, but less than 7.8 million years. Gott calls his procedure the Copernican method, a reference to Copernicus' observation that there is nothing special about the place of the earth in the universe. Not being special plays a key role in Gott's method.
You can also use Doppler measurements to get your location, although this tends to be less accurate, especially if you're moving quickly

There would still be a market for lower cost lower resolution location.
I have and the response I got was, "if you feel like this is a serious risk, you should go to the hospital." To be fair I don't know what else they could say.
Either you don't have any dependents or you and I have very different ideas about retirement. To me it sounds like you're only talking about the "RE" part of "FIRE".
Thanks for sharing your experience. I don't think enough people understand the complexities of apnea. That said, I'm curious why you don't think pulse oximetry is enough? Isn't the ultimate goal to ensure proper oxygenation(and CO2 removal but I would think that would be correlated)?
To jog your memory and for the curious reading this, a chapter of the new 'learn Ada' interactive tutorial by AdaCore introduces tasking: https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/task...

The whole interactive book deserves a look. You can then jump to the Spark book :-D https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-spark/index.html that sadly doesn't seem to talk about tasking but Spark supports part of it.

I'm actually looking forward the next few years, as AdaCore seems to be working on memory ownership-based guarantees a la rust (at least partially) and this might make Ada (or Spark in a first pass) a good candidate for truly fearless concurrency :-D.
I loved this quote:

> “Employees are wising up to the fact that you can have a mission statement on your website, but when you’re looking at how the company creates new products or makes decisions, the correlation between the two is not so tightly aligned,” said David Chie, the head of Palo Alto Staffing, a tech job placement service in Silicon Valley. “Everyone’s having this conversation.”

I call these anodyne mission statements, false mission. Mission that feels good, but that doesn't have teeth in incentives — or selectively ignores inconvenient facts.

Beware False Mission

https://www.nemil.com/snippets/beware-false-mission.html
I was thinking it might be good for RTOS alternatives, a tiny Linux, or (relevant here) something to deal with SDcard problem. Tell users about it with suggested action.

And you said 8MB. I just named off a range at different price points to help answer parent's question. I dont know embedded enough to assess what's needed here. Thanks for tip about NOR flash.
I think poor education, stagnation of living standards and rising inequality is a lot worse in that area than Facebook.

Granted, I think angrymob-media would be a much more fitting description than social-media, but it’s not like humanity wasn’t perfectly capable of making really shitty decisions long before the internet.
Yeah I personally have no problem with AirBnB, but a lot of people blame them for high rents and removing rental stock.
Avakin Life the Full Story
> but at least Americans readily admit we're weird and fucked up.

Not exactly. As we saw in the duopoly article posted here yesterday, yes, there are a number on both sides that will say "the system is broken" but that is very different than acknowledging American exceptionalism. The left in the US is very aware of the structural issues, the right continues holding firm to their nationalist beliefs that do not make the admission you suggest.

I concur that it would be better if more Americans could acknowledge how odd we are in relation to the rest of the world. This goes from our abstinence from the metric system all the way to continued push-back against single-payer health insurance.
What do you mean? I have two of them which work flawlessly...
In a similar vein, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that it’s hard for people to get to the message if they can’t get past the presentation.

And that a killer presentation can even get you trust from people that you shouldn’t even be getting, bypassing what may otherwise have been great difficulty to earn their trust.
"The more enjoyable a job is, the lower the salary the boss can offer before people balk at taking it. "

This is not in line what I saw when I worked as a contractor. The higher the pay was, the better people got treated. The worst places were non-profits where people took really low salaries. They not only didn't make money but were also treated like sh.t.
It’s not just about brush clearance, some of their equipment was found faulty and unmaintained, further implicating them.
Wild guess: if they do well, they're going to be either acquired by Amazon (Go), or crushed by them.
Uber is betting that it will consolidate all that. Always give it's drivers something to do: food delivery, package delivery?, transportation, etc....
No doubt Gretzky was great, but part of his greatness was the way hockey was played at the time - his greatness was as much a product of the rules as it was his passion for hockey.

He was a hockey “hacker”, he exploited (intentionally or not) all sorts of rules that forced the NHL to update them. Today’s game seems to be fairly well guarded against this, though it does still happen (they had to rule against the 1-3-1 defense recently, for example). And teams are now very well aware of superstar players and will shut them down very quickly (eg. Sydney Crosby basically getting beat up any time his skates touch the rink).

It’s a better game now, but a shame that we probably won’t see hockey superstars for a while.
I'm a picky sleeper and I was dreading the CPAP. Now I love it. Sure, the hose can get in the way, but on the flip side I can breathe while fully under the covers and I never have to smell my farts!
That will substantially increase the cost of power lines. Is PG&E allowed to decide that running expensive lines through rough, fire-prone terrain isn't worth the cost, and
to simply stop distributing power to cities like Paradise?
This isn't new to STEM jobs and ethics
Mechanical Engineers - Defense contractors
Chemical Engineers - Chemical companies
Geological Engineers - Oil and gas companies
I didn't happen to see install instructions for dispatch on that page. Is that an oversight or is dispatch a component of builds.sr.ht?
> Satellites can and do collide despite the vast amount of space in a given orbit.

Excluding planned collisions, or collisions during failed docking, I found 4 instances of collisions between satellites and space debris. Ever. Now, a couple of things:

* Yes this larger constellation will increase those odds in the future.

* No, a catastrophic doomsday scenario did not occur when those happened.

* SpaceX will have complete control of these satellites through their operational lifespan (excluding collisions or malfunctions).

* Orbital decay for debris at the altitude they're operating at is ~10 years.

Also, have to ask... is all this concern a result of reading Seveneves? :)
Scouring someone's Twitter history != Googling someone's name and browsing the first page of results.

The former is overkill, the latter is done by everyone
Be careful - in some states like New York this can cost you the ability to ever purchase a gun and be able to defend your life.
> I mean you could argue that it’s illustrating how silly enterprise software companies are in general, but it is what it is.

Enterprise software companies know exactly what they're doing - fleecing the government for every single dime they can.

You can't blame them - they're just acting on their natural capitalist instinct to maximize their return to shareholders.

Blame the government for its ridiculously bloated procurement process, uncompetitive career opportunities and a broken management system.

Government waste is utterly gobsmacking.
Are you kidding? The worst pay, worst perks, and worst working environment I ever had was at a large defense contractor, and I didn't see any of our competitors offering anything better. Almost any established tech company can beat them easily.
U2F isn't as trivial to implement as RFC4226 OTP. It takes effort. Implementing the counter check is trivial. Disregarding the counter and stating "that only enables replays" is absolutely unacceptable. If one is so irresponsible to the point they're enabling a replay attack - then there's no excuse and no valid argument to support the use of U2F at all. If you (not YOU, personally) can't implement the protocol fully, don't half-ass it and plant mines. That's my take on it, and anyone who implements this protocol to secure people's accounts MUST (not SHOULD) think the same. There is NO excuse for deliberate irresponsibility.
That doesn't respond to the 'public safety issues' the GP was discussing.

Being on the streets is a spectrum of bad luck and bad choices. Yes, that means there are generally examples of people who are mostly one or mostly the other and plenty in between. Usually what happens is a few things go wrong at the same time from either category and life spirals out of control.

The problem is that it's hard to get people back on their feet again and the criminal justice system is quite terrible at it in general, but that doesn't mean that people never learning that there are consequences for their actions is a good thing, either.

Part of the problem is that various criminal societies have developed and need to be dismantled so as not to self-perpetuate the harm they cause to others.
>The stuff we argue about is the stuff that falls below the level of conscious verbal communication.

Since I'm not completely clear on what you mean by this statement, it makes for a wonderful thought experiment.
>The conclusion that free markets work better is empirically supported

Better for whom?