skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe not specifically relevant to your use case, but one excellent open source program for ham radio sdr stuff that i have found is linrad. it's got a bit of a learning curve, and is pretty fun once you get the hang of it. the author is very interesting, and has a youtube channel with lots of info on linrad and other ham radio projects.

http://www.sm5bsz.com/linuxdsp/linrad.htm

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClmNy6VRE1YqOeBHwb3o0Yg/vid...
If I was going to invest $$$$$ in someone, I'd like an explanation for a poor GPA. For example, these are all good:

1. had a health crisis

2. the grades started out poor, but steadily rose and was getting A's by senior year

3. took the toughest classes in the school, not the easy A's

4. had a full time job to pay the tuition

Some not so good answers:

1. whatever, dunno

2. trust me, I'm good

I wouldn't want to invest in someone who would pay about as much attention to their work as they did to their grades.

After all, if it was your money, would you?
That's true. KSQL is another thing that Kafka wins at, which makes a pretty smooth experience for straightforward stream processing and general management over the command line tools.

Pulsar is working on Presto integration for querying which should be interesting.
this is an ideal example of "you know you need this, whitelist it" vs "this is always allowed". sites will definitely start messaging "whitelist or follow link from X" if default-block becomes popular, so I don't really think it'll break anything, tho it might be a bit more annoying.

(personally I get a small hit of joy every time I hit a site that is caught and blocked trying to do things it shouldn't, and vow never to return. it's better than it happening without knowing.)
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Electron isn't bad all the time, just when it's overblown in its usage which is in most cases. Doesn't seem like that's the case here.
He was rejected before they even asked for a statement justifying his GPA.

The statement (or just asking for it) gives the company a written proof to explain why this candidate is being rejected and allows them to defend their decision in a potential discrimination lawsuit.
So Falun Gong has celebrity drop-in centers? Aggressively pursues you if you leave? Has a central structure to where people donate all of their money? I'm not sure you know what you are talking about.
You'd miss out on a heck of a lot of promising candidates that way. Had a mechanical engineering friend who did FSAE as if it was his religion. He could run circles around the high GPA types. But if you asked him why he had a low GPA, you'd for sure get a "whatevs" in response.
Sunfolding (YC S17) is mixing rigid parts with soft pneumatic actuators to build solar trackers. This a real commercial product that is being deployed to customer sites.

https://www.sunfolding.com/products/
If it had todo with clojars’ URL resolving to localhost, I had the same issue trying to install recently. No obviously cause, nor a solution besides using sudo to install AFAICT. But yeah, not a good introduction to the language.
That was the spammy-est link I've seen in a month. I never even made it to the article behind a blitzkrieg of adds.
That article struck me (and the Googlers I sent it to) be incredibly naive and condescending, fwiw.
There are similar policy changes being discussed and or implemented all over the world.

In my opinion there should be a discriminatory reciprocal system based on the country you are from.

Meaning a high income country like Norway should set up a reciprocal residency for work program with say Australia that would have more relaxed conditions than the general program.

Similar to how visa free travel works.

The economic incentive in migrating from a poor to a rich country are just too dominating at the detriment of both the poor country (which looses educated workforce) and the rich country (whose citizens face heavily skewed labor competition in some areas).
Except the issue is that Git, which includes validation and history integrity, was invented in 2005 and predates the publication of the bitcoin whitepaper by 3 years.

The point being that all the hype about "blockchain everywhere" came about because of bitcoin. If people are now starting to refer to just the "hash of blocks with previous blocks" (i.e. the "Timestamp Server" section of the original bitcoin whitepaper) as blockchain withOUT the proof of work/stake part, well then you really are just rebranding old tech as blockchain, because it was the proof of work part that was really the new thing in bitcoin.
This is really cool. A little surprised on the choice of atom though.
If I were to guess it's because this was for Google EP, which focuses more on academics as a part of the interview process than the algorithm portion.
I have to say that "authoritarian policies" is a deceptively weak phrase for the stuff China is doing lately.

In any case this reasoning is flawed -- the correct analogy to "China has authoritarian policies but pulled billions of people out of poverty" would be "the United States had slavery but populated a continent while creating wealth for millions of people". So the story of slavery is "much more mixed".
Maybe they should get paid more to teach the rare language. Supply and demand.
Do you really think the team that made, say, Google Talk, were the ones who wanted to kill it and push everyone to a different product?

Man, for all the lore and blogging that operates around working at Google, the skills of people who get hired, plus the first-hand accounts of what it takes to move up the ladder there, I'd think they'd be able to release things by people who make their products less killable. Ah, but reality rarely meets the legend.

This is my point: what if what gets released by Google is just bad software engineering? Maybe SOLID-deficient. If products are killed because they don't have the features contained in subsequent iterations of the concepts, how come the products were not extensible, or capable of being grafted onto something else? I seem to remember reading about this kind of thing being a big part of software engineering.
The way I justified "serverless" to myself is that it's the same broad class of abstraction as saying that TCP transmits a stream while UDP transmits datagrams.
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I also made it all the way through "hiring committee" at Google but failed at "final hiring committee" ostensibly due to my low GPA (well in my case, decent overall GPA but a couple of shockingly low grades).

Main difference in my case is no verbal offer. My recruiter made it clear that the team wanted to hire me, but that I had to be approved by "final hiring committee" as the last step.

For this Reddit poster, it seems like the recruiter really messed up / broke protocol by making a verbal offer. (That, or the protocol has changed; my experience was 7 years ago).
As a googler I agree that passing on a "4.0 on all the tech topics, a brilliant person indeed, but has no patience or interest in history, religious studdies, English etc etc." is indeed google dodging a bullet.
Of course it's a fallacy. One has to draw a line at some point. To me that line would be a way, way cheaper expense than a big, polluting truck. But it seems that to you, if I can't own a truck, I must go all the way to living in shanties/favelas and dumpster diving.
> 2.6 is considered ok for engineering students at top universities

I don't know anywhere this is considered "ok". At my school my GPA was considered just "Ok" at 3.9+.
The equity compensation is nearly worthless anyway, so that's only fair.
We used the Google ecosystem for business for a while. It's good if you have really good internet; absolutely useless if you don't. Other conferencing software degraded more gracefully. I suspect Google is better at investing in and upkeeping their corporate internet infrastructure than most companies.

Other problem was that they never really added new features, and had the least features to begin with, so eventually the IT department and their feature sheet based comparison went with a competitor.
It seems pretty obvious that the end goal is something simpler for both the engineer and the end user.

I don't mean to be short, but...based on what evidence?
The hype of China has been done by the different investment bankers who were going on an on about China in the 2000-2005 time frame. The governments are lobbied by these investment bankers.
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Good thing they're giving a year's notice similar to their enterprise SLAs, right?
I work for the CubeSat program at my university, and I emailed him personally asking about why licensing was so strict, and if it would be possible to use the SDRs systemically with some API so I can downlink over other ground stations.

People have tried scraping broadcasts from his service without permission, and most of the places running software don't have the best internet. Scraping data from the station depends on who is running it at that side, although he did tell me he can't imagine why people wouldn't be okay with it (given it's for a university and not a private corporation).

Creating an open sourced API, although would increase popularity and satisfy use cases, would saturate the host internet and tap the physical limits of the hardware. I would really want some SDR network to exist that is open sourced, but physical limits would be reached pretty soon.
I've got four still running, although 2 are mostly shut down now, I just need to pull the Google Docs. The last two are going to be bigger issues as there is a ton of mail and no good way even for an admin to transfer that mail to a new server.

One being a family account also is even more problematic, they expect Gmail quality web interface and I can't really give that to them.
The second paragraph is somewhat directed at you, as you would be in this subset that believes violent conflict and warfare is inevitable, which you then used to argue in your comments that if it really is inevitable, you might as well aim to come out on top by contributing whatever you can.

Thus the resignation of fate, giving up, and falling into an endless cycle of destruction with which the second paragraph consists of. What parts do you find vague?
Salaries for other fields would rise due to the reduced supply of foreign labor. That is a good thing.
Ask HN: Standard renderable webpage archive format?
Why don't we have a simple archive format for offline html and its assets that can be rendered in browsers? We're stuck with PDF's which are a nightmare to impliment software for, and most of what PDF's can do can be done in a webpage it seems.

For example what about just a tar file that contains the navigated pages .html, and the assets for it (images, js, css, etc) which simply treats it like a local file in the same folder.

That's make it possible to easily use archive software to access the assets, and still be able to render the page in browsers.

Currently we have mhtml, which inlines assets, and we have HAR which is unsafe because of cookies, but again inlines assets, and only mhtml is renderable in chromium or internet explorer.
It is not an opiate, even if it has an affinity for the mu receptor (it may or may not) it is absolutely classified as an NMDA antagonist.
Wow, at least 2x larger than Methbot.
Great article.
Raw fruits are what I feed her. No vegetables at all. I started giving her some steamed potatoes recently. Bananas have become her staple food.
Added as the final column in this sheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qCOlor16Wp5mHd6MQxB5...
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Ahh yes! China, that benign and progressive of states.

Nevermind destroying all freedom of speech, oppressing minorities, actively engaging in destroying (mostly by actively diluting) non han nationalities within china. What are you talking about?
It’s college. You’re a kid. You do stupid crap. Then you get to the real world and you realize life isn’t college and you have to hustle. You get a GitHub account and you self teach. You get internships or junior positions. You give everything. You build up a good network and a body of work that is compelling. The FANG companies even relax the requirements for college degrees if one has a lot of experience and drive — and then the this. Goes to show some companies are very willing to miss out on great candidates in order to be extra careful not to hire the one slacker. What a shame.
I'm gonna take a guess that technically these disks were bought with Sierra money and aren't his except for the fact that they were lost to time from company inventory perspective
If your terminal goal was to see less carbon be burned, rather than to make a good financial decision, you could presumably accomplish more of that by taking the $15k (or ~$35k after investment) and using it to e.g. buy carbon offsets -- it's much cheaper and more effective to reduce emissions in the developing world than in countries like the US.
This is a great project; unfortunately the guy who writes and maintains it (regardless of his talent) is kind of a dick. Notice how there is only one "wideband" receiver despite the simplicity of the hardware? There is a reason, and it doesn't mesh well with the hacker ethos that we are all so fond of around here.

Anyway as a basic rundown, the implementation does a very large FFT on the high samplerate data coming in from the ADC and then individual receivers can be constructed by filtering and decimating in the frequency domain followed by doing an IFFT which makes the prospect of running many hundreds of receivers achievable on commodity hardware without having to process the full ~1+gbps dataset for each Rx. The specifics are a bit more complicated, but that is the general idea.

I would encourage anyone who is deeply interested in this technique to please follow the work of Phil Harman VK6PH and Warren Pratt NR0V who are implementing the same type of processing which they term "Direct Fourier Conversion Receivers" on top of the OpenHPSDR hardware platforms. The code including the software and verilog is all open, and there are open OpenHPSDR hardware designs as well.
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What hourly rate would you have charged someone else to build those hobby projects for them as a contractor?
I'd miss out on some, sure. But I doubt a heck of a lot. In my experience the list of crackerjack engineers who drifted through college is rather short.

When you're interviewing candidates, you can never be sure. You're always playing the odds, and hiring a bad candidate can be very expensive.

I won't claim that a high GPA guarantees a good hire, it certainly does not. But it improves the odds.

If by FSAE you mean the Formula SAE racing competition, some engineers have excellent intuitive feelings about machines that is independent of academics. But other kinds of ME require the math to get the job done, and for those you need an ME that can do the math.
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Logically, they will show you whatever is most likely to generate revenue (possibly amortized over time). As long as the probability of you reordering is higher than that if you buying a random item out of millions (and those odds are tiny to begin with), the logical thing to do is to show you the item you already ordered.
> I have to say that "authoritarian policies" is a deceptively weak phrase for the stuff China is doing lately.

Sure, call it what you want. I'm no fan of the Chinese government.

> In any case this reasoning is flawed -- the correct analogy to "China has authoritarian policies but pulled billions of people out of poverty" would be "the United States had slavery but populated a continent while creating wealth for millions of people". So the story of slavery is "much more mixed".

So, should the cotton gin makers of their day not have sold cotton gins to the plantation owners? What good would that have done?
From the famous Carlotta Perez book.

The reason tech adoption looks like it’s speeding up is that in that chart is just that they’re looking at more and more trivial examples. E.g. the cell phone might create huge changes in human behavior, but they’re not really a foundational technology. They’re more of an incrementally better version of a phone and a computer.
I found thinking fast and slow unreadable. Bored me too death.
Um, hole punching was used on 5 1/4" and 8" floppies, not 3.5".
"[Cybersecurity Tech Accord] signatories oppose efforts to [cyber] attack citizens and enterprises."

"No offense: We are committed to not knowingly undermining the security of the online environment, and to protecting against efforts to tamper with our products and services."

Signatories include ATLASSIAN (Jira) | CLOUDFLARE | FACEBOOK | GITHUB | GITLAB | LINKEDIN | MICROSOFT | ORACLE | HP | ....

I wonder why companies like Google, Amazon, Apple and Alibaba do not sign? Is it an indication that they are tampering and attacking?
People considered terrorists by the government will not contact or speak with journalists if they can't trust that their conversations with the journalist will not be seen by the government. It's not a matter of "just don't go on the record." The source presumably has built up trust in the journalist and trusts their judgement to not compromise the source. An example that comes to mind is Robert Fisk interviewing Osama Bin Laden in 1993. The interview was on the record. He was even at the time a major world figure. People wanted to know what he had to say. He would presumably been unwilling to do the interview if he thought that the CIA would seize Frisk's notes determine his location and assassinate him.
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I feel quite comfortable with ProtonMail controlling my email, BitWarden controlling my passwords, and Tarsnap controlling my backups because they all have a monetary interest in not selling my data because they're competing with "free" products.

You shouldn't trust Tarsnap simply because it has a financial interest in protecting your data. You never know when someone will come along with more money.

You should trust Tarsnap because it is cryptographically incapable of revealing your data.
I hope your (probably imaginary) neighbors literally eat you.
thank you for sharing, looks the size of js (gzip) is 43.5kb and for 2.5kb for CSS

This is really nice, very small for such a comprehensive library.

Jealous a bit, that library like this cannot work within React Native env.

I end up using React-native-web for everything that I can, and then, double-implement functions for web vs native, where parity cannot be achieved.
I wouldn't make the "the cloud is just someone else's server" argument here, or to a tech crowd in general. But outside the tech sphere, it's not as well understood as you may expect. I've had a decision maker on a tech project respond "are you sure?" when it was put to them.

I don't feel it's condescending to make sure people know what they are signing up for. I've had the "you can't store credit card numbers" discussion with people, who have said "but we're not storing it on a computer, we're storing it in the cloud" and genuinely didn't see the problem.
The blacksmith would indeed own his 'means of production'. The one and only reason he would have difficulty selling it is because of rules and regulations. This was rather the whole point of the example. As rules and regulations make it more and more difficult to access the market as a seller you move further and further away from what capitalism is.

As for Marx, something doe eyed students of today often forget is that academia can and does often go extremely far astray, particularly on social issues where a dangerous hive mind frequently emerges. For instance in the early 20th century we in the US, and the academic establishment in particular, were the biggest drivers behind eugenics. We were literally the inspiration for Hitler who saw his own work as building off our 'progress.' His work ultimately being the one and only reason that eugenics in the US was scaled back and gradually became taboo.

The rise of Marxist ideology corresponded with an extremely sharp increase in the number of individuals pursuing the social sciences and liberal arts at the postgraduate level. Unfortunately these studies, in this quantity, do not really correspond to being able to contribute to society in any meaningful way. That's not to say the arts and humanities inherently do not contribute as they most certainly do. But society cannot support a billion philosophers anymore than it can support a billion neurosurgeons or plumbers. Thus enter Marxism which is little more than a fancification of striving to live as Marx did: drink and drug yourself to stupidity while writing whatever you want. Time to put food on the table? Just mooch off Engels and your brother-in-law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/politics/george-hw-bus...
> cost cutting is the only way

Not always. If you provide a value proposition that a cheaper offering does not, say speed, you can increase volume.

Highway transportation will not likely get much faster, but high speed freight via rail seems like it might have some room to grow.
$9 / hour, the cream of what crop? What in the world are you talking about?

Nationally Walmart is at $11, Target is at $12 and Amazon is at $15. Outside of convenience stores and fast food, increasingly that's your floor now.

Your $9 would actually be $30 / hour, at the absolute minimum. And you'd never get enough employees.
I reported this in 2016. AgileBits is compromised.
I reported this in 2016. AgileBits is compromised. So is Apple and Cook. Not Trump.
Good comments. Just FWIW Strong Towns (StrongTowns.org) the housing you’re taking about is often referred to as “the missing middle” housing types.
On iPhone/Safari I can click in the 3 boxes to see more laptops, phones, or tablets. But if I click on the titles below it does work. I think you should add some “more” buttons to clarify there’s more than just the 2+2+2 in the home page. Good stuff otherwise, keep up!
Usually they are automatically checked off, and you have to manually uncheck every single one. Almost the same thing.
Tesla doesn't make ugly as fuck cars. Thats a huge reason I love my Model 3. Best looking car that exists in my opinion. Car companies: stop making disgusting hunks of metal.
That's still ~orthogonal to "hacked". Even if, in fact, it's illegal to print to a misconfigured printer.
I really don't understand the 'investing money into someone' mindset, companies (in my experience) rarely put in much of anything besides a few perks and benefits. Honestly if google wants to get the best of the best why try to hire them? Create them, make programming, IT, etc work apprentice based and let under performing apprentices get drudge work until they gain the knowledge/drive to do the more important work.
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> You're always playing the odds, and hiring a bad candidate can be very expensive.

Whenever I see one of these numerous HN articles about interviewing and hiring ("stupid whiteboard problems!", "stupid GPA snobbery!", "stupid brain teasers!") I feel that people really miss this point. With software I have definitely come to the position that I'd rather potentially miss out on a great dev than hire a sub-par one. In fact, the absolute worst hires to make IMO are mediocre-to-poor hires, as downright bad hires are relatively easy to fire, while mediocre hires (i.e. "well, he can usually do the work, it just takes twice as long") are much more difficult to get rid of and at the very least take a much longer, drawn-out process.

Thus, when I'm playing the probabiliy game for hiring, I fully understand I may miss out on some candidates that may be great but have big black marks on their resumes or interviews, but at the end of the day I'm going to look for qualities that are correlated with success.