skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations, they beat you into submission.

You now have accepted a fundamentally different world where anything you like, anything you say, anyone you are with or hope to be with, anything you hope to do, have done, didn't do, every mistake or misstep or misstatement or misunderstanding or fuckup, is recorded, analyzed, classified, and mined. You're being constantly thought about, by the machines, who, if you are lucky, are only interested in making a buck off you, and if you are not lucky, have targeted you for increased scrutiny, security checks, auditing, social classification, digitized karma, and eventually, all of this will translate to a significantly different experience through life. How will it manifest? Maybe it'll be something big like being denied a loan for a car or a house. Maybe it'll be a landlord turning you down for an apartment. Maybe it'll be a constant drip of ads trying to trick you into buying something. Or maybe one day beaker53 will say something bad about the government, or get involved with a terror group, or it will accidentally look like you got involved with a terror group. Or maybe they'll just come annoy you while you're sitting down to tune your guitar with an ad on how to make yourself a better guitar player, if only you did this or that or the other thing. Or maybe they'll pester you because your friends did something or didn't do something or should do something, or how you'll look better in relation to them if you did do something.

Speak for yourself. I'm sick of being watched and being "thought about" by all these damn machines. FFS leave me alone, like it was just 15 years ago. Just 15 years ago.
>Children need to be able to handle that type of environment.

Why?
Wonder if anyone of you who visited can compare it to Systems in Munich, preferably ~2000 - 2010?

I've never been to Cebit because I had the Systems right at my doorstep and it was awesome in the beginning and a bit meh in the end, so I stopped going.
The true cost of employees: The 101 guide for hiring employers
I only listened to the Queen song, but I don't think I like this. It's amusing and interesting, but I feel like it's an awful way to listen to music. Maybe it could have practical applications for other types of audio, but for music I find it distracting and it takes away from the original song.
Ask HN: What is the best DB for versioned time series?
Dear all,

time series DBs are a hot topic these days but given the focus on IoT -- or more generally measurement data -- the underlying data model typically assumes that for one time series there is only one data point per period of time, so it's really just one dimensional.
However, if you work for example with forecast data (say for a stock price) you might wanna store every version of a forecast and not overwrite the previous forecast.
What are in your experience the best time series databases that (natively) support two or more dimensions and also allowing queries on these other dimensions like "get forecast for delivery-time from x to y where forecast_time = z"?

Thanks!
sambucini
AWS just released a solution to run any programming language on AWS Lambda: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-...
How many patents the group or each employee gets awarded per year is probably one of their employee metrics (as in one application per X months). It's not surprising that someone would grab at low hanging fruit or develop unethical methods like that to fulfill performance requirements. It's probably not the first time the group did that.
I have the same setup as you
For an apples-to-apples comparison, you would have to compare this to https://play.rust-lang.org and https://play.golang.org
If you want to refer to a user by a "friendly" name, the registration form should have a "I prefer to be addressed as" field instead of ass-uming anything.
In practice, the shift to renewable electricity and the focus on reducing emissions means more demand for natural gas, since gas generators produce less pollution than coal and are better at responding to changes in demand caused by variation in the renewable energy supply.
Actual title: "Trapped in the Fire Zone"
> DNA is extremely important, but it makes no sense if [it is] not in a cell, in an organism, in an ecosystem. Other interactions are at play, and this application of algorithmic information cannot capture the extent of that complexity.

It reminds me of demoscene, specifically "A mind is born"[1], 256-byte demo which "looks" complicated and with rich structure, but it's just nudged/selected random data. Author said that he played around with some random generated content until he found something nice. Just by itself that 256 bytes is still not enough to replicate behaviour, it must be run on hardware, which is like "environment" for DNA. Without several supporting chips which are easy to access, that code would mean nothing and would not generate such complexity. Moreover, those "patterns" in demo are patterns only because WE interpret them as meaningful.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch charged with fraud over 2011 HP deal: report
I own C&C domains that have been dormant for 8+ years now, they still get a constant stream of bot traffic.
Read, Edit and Delete Metadata in FLV Files Using C# .NET API
I had a 10 year background in fire/EMS before getting in to tech, and have "sneaked in" ICS concepts and practices to several of my employers and teams.

I tried to introduce the ICS concepts formally and up-front, but met a lot of pushback; "we don't need that", "we're not dealing with fires" or "it's too complicated".

By using ICS principles without calling them such, people usually see the value. I even got a sizable promotion and raise due to my "clear and concise handling of several serious incidents and putting procedures in place to handle similar in the future". All I did was direct people in to ICS functions and act as an IC.

I agree that ICS concepts should use used more widely and outside of just emergency services, but getting past the "stigma" of the title is the hard part.
And that's why we have clickbait. Letting people cherry pick exactly what they want is seriously going to hurt quality content. Subscriptions to a wide range of stuff like Netflix and Spotify are perfect. There's something in there for everyone's taste.
>Overall, I think GraphQL is fine. But I also believe what we'll slowly discover is that "Company X" simply fucked up their REST API, then will look to GraphQL to solve all their problems. And it might solve some of them, but then they'll have an even more complex system in place with even harder problems.

This! So very much this!
You know that you can delete, opt in/out to most of that information right. One click, boom.
Is this something like couchdb/couchbase?
"I found that the manufacturer did not use the part I specified, but something else." - Everyone who works with manufacturers needs to watch out for this, especially if they're in the East.

I knew a small scale bicycle manufacturer and he worked with a well known & respected bicycle manufacturer in Taiwan. Even then he'd only get his bikes produced while he or someone else was on site as otherwise they swapped parts, or worse, change the alloy mix in the metals to something cheaper but a lot weaker.
Also see the curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in:

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
> before some stupid white guy tries to be a hero, provokes the Chinese government, and this beautiful region gets the Tibet treatment.

Way to denigrate by gender and race!

Aside from that, the architect of the police state in this region developed these techniques in Tibet, and the understanding is that once they are perfected here, they will be applied to the rest of the country.
The true ROI of UX: B2B redesign case studies
Also, lifetime annotations are not required on the overwhelming majority of functions. If you have, say,

fn substr(text: &str, start: usize, length: usize) -> &str;

the compiler will infer automatically that the return value inherits the lifetime of the `text` argument. I don't find that line up there particularly busy.
On one hand I’ve long thought this would be a good thing to have after seeing how often people can prey on others repeatedly but on the other I’ve realized that some people can and do change. The fuzziness of our memories over time let’s us heal and gives others a second chance. I’ve also learned over the years that things that are designed to catch or punish bad actors will instead be used by the very people they’re meant to punish to go after their enemies. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
An NDA is only as good as the lawyers backing them up.
maybe if china wins the next world war,doubtful otherwise
I've done exactly the same thing as you, read the Dear Polly part but couldn't get though the rest.

Since im replying to your comment you can assume i have worked through a couple of 100 replies here.

The situation is a little close to home and has left me with an overwhelming feeling of dread.
I wonder who's more unethical: The guy who comes in, smashes your stuff and leaves or the guy who comes in, smashes your stuff and leaves a check for you at his place.

I bet that's a common battle ground between consequentialists and idealists.

Fun aside, I don't think the comparison holds up very well. I don't think that anyone has a right to execute code on my devices just because I'm browsing a website. In this concept, "hijacking" ads is completely void of any ethical meaning.

Braves platform attempt is still not very good. A good solution for paying content creators would need to be open, decentralized and accepted by the stakeholders involved.
How can you justify your work in the middle as ethical, if it directly supports a rotten apple at the top? Your life's work turned into a support system for a beast, wonderful!
>Do they have internet?

no
I assume that statement has less to do with good behavior and more to do with doing something that can bite you in the ass when you have so much to lose.
This was an interesting list, but I’d be more interested in reading examples of how these assumptions are manifested as erroneous design decisions.

For example, many of the flawed assumptions are a variation of “Names don’t change/vary, ever”. I think most U.S. programmers are very aware of this — especially the many who have some variation of a name like “Mike/Michael”, “Dan/Daniel”, “Kate/Katlyn/Katherine”. But it took me a bit to figure out where a programmer would most likely forget that fact, in a way that’s a disservice to users — making a database system that assumes the first name/surname fields should never be updated.
Any cloud provider accepting prepaid?
I've been trying to create a test account with AWS and Google and they don't accept prepaid cards or paypal (Amazon does not even accept their own card!). I don't feel very well tying up my credit card on a test account (a lot can go wrong and I'd like to have the peace of mind that in worst case my prepaid is drained and that's that). Do you know any provider that accepts prepaids? (Note: I'm mostly interested in testing out kubernetes deployments).
Thanks
[cartoon about interviewing an engineer to solve a product design problem]
Hmm, when a guy approached me the other day boasting about 8D music I laughed so hard, it sounded so much like snake oil. I did some cursory research though but did not find anything.

Now that there's this Queen demo, I recognise the kind of rendering effect this is achieving, and such schemes making the sound more realistically spatial with headphones has been existing for years (decades), such as Dolby Headphones[0] or binaural audio[1] either beforehand or via post-processing (e.g Bauer stereophonic to binaural[2] a.k.a BS2B).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1bgMX4UCjw

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording

[2]: http://bs2b.sourceforge.net/bs2b_lib.html
Listened to one of these two weeks ago and I really like it. It's worth mentioning though that not all of them are the same quality or give the same feeling of moving sounds around.
You don’t even need to get that “modern”; feed back information and use some classic control theory and you should be able to have a system that compensates for change in tolerances.
No, what he's saying is that evolution doesn't always produce optimal species for the environment, if a species is so invasive as to out compete the native species, then clearly _it_ is more optimal than the one that literally evolved there. Meaning Evolution doesn't find optimal solutions unless it has the right starting configurations.
Sounds like a market for lemons (perhaps that explains the very low valuations). For an owner, barring some personal circumstances, it makes little sense to sell unless he forsees problems in the near-ish future. Otherwise, as holding the company for just 2.5 more years doubles his profits, it sounds smart to hold on to it for as long as possible and only sell when he feels that a decline is coming.
Ask HN: Could some one please send me a Lobsters Invite?
Email : http://scr.im/sepkjaer
Alexa Welcomes Apple Music to the Amazon Echo
Because you give up equity, that's why.

He is worth 10,200 million. Surely he could have provided 50 of his 10,200 to Asana instead of giving that equity to others. All the funding Asana needs is within his means to provide and even if the company were to fail he would still be a billionaire.

So, back to my original question. Why doesn't he self-fund?
And replaced with?

Industrial secrecy doesn't seem like a better system. Perhaps you'd like shorter term patents, or want to fix some other deficit?
> Software often has to determine if "Jon Livingston" is the same as "Jonathan M. Livingston"

wat ? what kind of software does that ? that's dumb as hell. You have one name and that's the one on your id card.
I read the article and I listened to the samples and I fail to see where the "8D" comes in.

Early virtual surround sound examples always seemed impressive, if gimmicky: a plane would fly over your head and you'd hear it move from back to front.

But the examples in the article sounded like someone had discovered the stereo pan knob on a mixing desk and was slowly going from left to right.
17 CSS Notifications with Code
The original McKenzie list was posted to HN many times from 2010 on. Original, 170+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472
It depends on how you define 'the quality'. Letting people cherry pick exactly what they want is the only moral way to provide the news actually.
Sounded like that but the radio is on a huge motorised lazy susan behind me. Yeah, truly mind-altering stuff.
The psychopaths at the top are a lucky minority of a mass of psychopaths, most of which prosper a bit less at middle levels in organizations. Only low-functioning psychopaths are exposed and thrown out, and usually only by chance because of specific incidents.
>they violated [...] their own AI at Google Principles

How so?
Go can serve as a sort of Java to people who don't want the JVM.
There's no rule that says only one language is allowed in a particular space. Go has several strong points and several weaknesses, which are to be addressed in Go 2.

Java didn't have lambdas until 8 and now it does. Its generics implementation is not what I'd like to see. Still, it certainly has its place.

Go has been used to implement widely used technologies like Docker & k8, so it seems to have found its justification for existing as well.
How important breaks are especially when sitting all day in front of a screen
You might think so, but Nim had to backtrack some on case insensitivity because it removes a very useful way to distinguish between types and things of that type ... so now the first character of a symbol is case-sensitive and the rest is not. If starting from scratch, as you suggest, I think most people would go for complete case sensitivity instead of Nim's now partial sensitivity. And the OP is also referring to Nim's "interesting experiment" of being agnostic between snake_case and CamelCase ... SnakeCase and Camel_case are matching symbols ... but notice how the case-sensitivity kind of kills the whole notion of agnosticism about snake_case. It's experience with this experiment that makes it pretty clear that it was not a good idea.
No, I recently graduated CS. I think I know enough to be productive. I also know developers that disagree and believe experience is the most important thing. That would be a more fair comparison.

I still think they're wrong though since (1) experience is a too crude metric, (2) development is such a broad profession that IMO any competent CS grad is able to make a CRUD app and that's still the rage today and (3) they are not taking into account that people are able to learn (especially uni students). But I digress, sorry about that :)
Or QSound. I remember my tape version of The Immaculate Collection sounding pretty fancy on my JVC boom-box.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSound

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/q-sound.12511/
A large part of corporate platform power is due to the ambiguity in decision making arising from the absence of clear and transparent processes or accountability regarding how the rules are applied.

That's just a giant gateway for despotism.
How much is expectations vs the reality of life circumstances? I’m mid-40s and almost surely slightly slower in raw intellect than I was 20 years ago, but being married with two young kids is much more of a limitation on my ability to earn a PhD or even MBA than any inate degradation.
This is absolutely amazing, and is one of the first things in a while where technology has made my jaw drop.

A lot of these vids are a bit gimmicky, and over doing it, but this is so cool.
If the endorphins you get reading the content from your list is more important for you, so be it. You decide what's important for you, and that's the definition.
Coming from languages that lack such a «convention», I quite like Context. Try implementing something similar in java or even node is also a giant pain
Why I Hate Answering “Where Are You From?”
I don't quit my browser for weeks at a time (basically the only thing I restart the browser if for updates) so I'd like much more control than what private mode offers - which is just a session where everything is shared until you close it.
I have to agree with you. While rust definitely is making progress, wasting peoples time by telling them things are ready is not done.
I don’t think there’s bad intent here, just a case of the interviewer wanting to offer up a challenge and taking the one that is top of mind.
It's actually even more annoying than an Owl City song that doesn't oscillate from left to right behind my head.

I think one aspect of it that adds to the annoying experience - it's as if the music is lurking around in your personal space right behind you, which is really irritating when a person does it.
The whole idea behind FM is that he doesn't get punched at all
Kanye West's current happiness using sentiment analysis
Apple Class Action Suit: Lack of Internal Filters a Design Defect
[cs50](https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction...) is the reason I am a software engineer today.
I am aware of projects which look for developer using any language. That doesn't make COBOL special though ^^
Most of the landlords are not the IT guys mind you. They are mostly the former farmers who have held large pieces of land around towns. I don't know about Bangalore, but farmer communities around Delhi have grown rich by coming together as vote bank and getting compensated multiple times for the same pieces of lad they.

> Also you don't even have to go that far, even in the 1990s, during the peak of onsite-money techies in Bangalore were swimming in, most currently high valued properties in the vicinity of ring-road today were available for almost free(Comparative to IT salaries of the day).

How many were employed in IT during that time? As far as I remember, IT scene exploded circa 2000 onward when likes of TCS, and Infosys started recruiting via truckload. Like 75 - 200 rupees/psqft.

You are implying that every single IT guy had the opportunity to earn mighty. Those few who had the opportunity have done exceptionally anyways but that is a minority.

> Most of the crowd either does not have what it takes to think in terms of such long durations of time.

Yes hence they think of the short term i.e. earning as much as possible via whatever means necessary. My original comment was an answer to GP's moralistic attitude. If that 18 year old kid wants to be a Doctor to earn as much as possible that is because he has seen dumb ass people around him getting richer.

How that is any immoral then someone profiting insanely from something their grandfathers hoarded?
Genuine question: which part, specifically, was amazing? I'm wondering if there's something some people perceive (such as yourself) and others, like me, don't.
Pleasantness is the most underrated quality in software hiring.
> The only justification for working at FAANG and not protesting against this is if you are there to actively sabotage the company from the inside.

Why does Netflix need sabotaging?
Ok, so I take from this that the post about specifically Python 3.7 doesn't make much sense really (as a HN post).
It is fun to listen to a few songs, mainly to see what is possible for sound localization with stereo headphones. But I really don't want to listen to music like this, i.e. moving left and right behind my head, all the time. Quite perturbing for me, but all brains are different (speaking knowingly, I have aphantasia), so maybe some people really like it.
I think a lot of it is rooted in the psychological warfare between Western liberalism and communism from the cold war onwards. Hell, postmodernism is largely based on socialist (actual socialist, not "left of libertarian") critiques of liberalism, and it seems to me that the postmodern tradition of criticising everything without providing a viable alternative is the root of a lot of dystopian ideas.

Human history has been on the slow crawl from worse to better for a long time. We're living in the greatest era in history, but we still act like it's a horrible time to be alive.
Firefox Reality VR browser goes global
You are reading this comment. The are billions of lines of text on the internet you will never read. Is this comment strictly more important to you than every single other text on the internet? A comment that includes a nonsense paragraph of just “banana”, repeated over and over?

Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana.
I’ll never understand why we collectively wag our fingers at individuals or companies that try to keep the likes of Amazon from building a profitable service off of their hard work then contribute back little-to-nothing. Would redis, mongodb and dgraph have even considered alternate licensing if companies like Amazon had thrown them a minuscule amount of funding and patches? We can’t know because they didn’t. And then we sneer at them for having the audacity to try to stay open but stop these giants from using them and throwing them away.
I wrote a semi-rant on mine years ago, http://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/arnt/ideal-office

If your office is yours, you're free to optimise it as the years pass. Mine has grown ever more colourless and quiet.

I'm struggling with keeping the rest of the family out at the moment. It matters to me, not to them. I want to feel that family doesn't exist when I'm in there. Not sure what to do.
Sometimes people needs money asap, or gets tired of the same suff...

... life happens ;-)
Here is what the creator actually said

>One of the community reviewers removed it from the store claiming it violated the ToS, which is BS. The ToS never mentions the word paywall once. Please support me in appealing! https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons#Getting_in_touch

Which sounds more like a zealous community member than Mozilla taking a position.