skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some companies, there is a difference between developers (people who create new features) and L2 or L3 support (people who fix bugs and resolve problems for the customer). The trend is not to have this division, and I disagree with that.

I agree that it is good to try both things, and developers should try to be support once in a while, and vice versa. However, I think they are very different mindsets and doing both is making people less productive.

When you're a developer, you need to concentrate on the new feature you're working on only. The better you concentrate, the less bugs and problems you introduce. However, when you fix issues for the customer, it's often punctuated work where you wait for the customer, or investigate the problem, and so you work on many different little things at once. It is not a very good environment to do bigger decisions about architecture changes.
It is indeed true that the Buddha said that one should not waste time with some paradoxes to achieve enlightment because they aren't going to be ever solved (he assumed that 2500 years ago) one great example: I think from the discourses of Buddha was: the origin and definition of consciousness. You can tell how it feels to be conscious but one can not say precisely what composes it or even "how it came to be" ( which isn't not true, we kinda found that mystery)
What does your workflow look like in terms of Firefox? What all sites do you visit where UBO doesn't mess it up too much to not have any work done?

Just curious. I am on a similar boat but sometimes find some sites to be unreadable after having UBO and some other privacy adjustments through about:config.

Thanks!
I still buy from Amazon, however since I moved to Canada I was quite disappointed:

In Italy you get (from amazon), 2 years warranty on every product (yes I returned a phone that died on me at 1 year and 8 months old, factory problem), prime costs 40 bucks rather than 90 and the product quality is higher because there are various local products on it. The canadian one is very messy, has all the downsides of the u.s. one but none of the benefits (e. g. No family view, wtf).

Still, support is great
No, but I think it has to do with how you use social media. I no longer use any type of social media, but it didn't change anything, because I rarely used Facebook for anything, nor did my circle of friends actually post anything. My wife on the other hand is a member of several Facebook groups, either support groups for one thing or another, or selling of used items and she follows several companies. The volume of absolutely garbage opinions and commentary she sifts through everyday is astonishing. I mean how the hell are people offended by an offer from the local supermarket?

Reading volumes of (unjustified) negativity everyday has to affect your mind in someway.
How the Crypto Crash Could Be Good for Crypto
Exactly, for those who missed it, gilded means coated with a thin layer of gold over a much cheaper element beneath: extravagant wealth for a few at the top distracting from the poverty below.
So do you think Saudi Arabia will introduce a carbon tax anytime soon?
China became a net importer of oil in the 90s, and the negative externalities of petroleum production would naturally induce them to focus on demand reduction to alleviate that dependency. They also travel far and wide to drill (just as the U.S. does).

Is that "petro-politics", environmentalism, or rational energy policy?
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Fantastic, thank you! I'm going to add these to the reading list for this week :)
Software engineer here. I don't know ANYONE who would do that! I do know some people who spend $20 on lunch frighteningly often, though.
As a huge fan and patron of 3blue1brown's videos, does anyone have recommendations for similar high-quality channels covering other topics? Personally I'm interested in at least:

* History/biographies

* Sciences (physics, chem, astronomy)

* In-depth nonpartisan analysis of political situations, especially current ones. The breaking news cycle does a poor job parsing out useless or incorrect information.

* How we've managed to create the insanely complex technology we have today, starting at the basics
Is the public transport very cheap or expansive?
Is “Consent Verification” the new thing on the block and is it here to stay?
The increased number of chargeback frauds prevents business growth and becomes a source of frustration for clients and service providers, both. This means that there exists a need for a way to verify that the person who gave the consent is the same person that availed the service. In addition, this process needs to be recorded in a manner that it can be legally admissible in case of any chargeback frauds.

A full-proof method to ensure the identity of the user is to perform ‘Biometric Consent Verification’ during the digital KYC process. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, face liveness detection, and anti-spoofing algorithms can be implemented to ensure that its a real person with the same identity as the one who is about to purchase the service.

Biometric facial recognition techniques ensure if the person in the first and the last step are one and the same or not. If yes, then the consent is accepted and considered valid.

Currently, the only service provider offering Biometric Consent Verification is Shufti Pro (shuftipro.com).

Shufti Pro’s system effectively employs this process, knowing that there needs to be a proof of biometric consent verification available to the client so they’re armed in case any chargeback allegations arise. Therefore, Shufti Pro records a complete video of the entire verification process, without any pauses or breaks. That video could be presented in the court, denying any baseless claims by the user regarding the consent.

This system acts as a guardian for online businesses and service providers, securing their financial assets and helping businesses grow. Instead of having to worry about frauds and compliance with GDPR regarding consent, Shufti Pro can help businesses carry out safe operations with Biometric Consent Verification, and earn a positive reputation and legitimacy.
A little information is a dangerous thing.

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Sufficiently flawed journalism is perhaps one of the most severe problems in our society. People are fed half truths, and at times simply false information, and then go on to repeat it and base their world views upon as if it were fact. And in the era of social media false and sensational views spread incredibly rapidly while any 'corrections' are basically dead on arrival.

To give a very recent example of this, you probably read about a shocking new study showing that the oceans are actually heating up 60% faster than we thought. Turns out the study was mathematically flawed and its actual numbers are not particularly different than what other studies have shown. [1][2][3]. And the error was detected just hours after publication - apparently not quickly enough to stop the shocking headlines. This is not an implied comment on climate change, but rather just a very recent example of this phenomena of how people are misled without having their views ultimately corrected that happens to involve climate change.

The sites that rely on 'teasing' and then paywalling are some of the worst offenders in the state of journalism today, and in my opinion the world, let alone society, would be in a much better place without them.

[1] - https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-...

[2] - https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-oceans-...

[3] - https://judithcurry.com/2018/11/06/a-major-problem-with-the-...
How is it so ingenious? It's very common to tax the things you don't want your citizens to use much of. Like taxing alcohol or drinks with sugar, etc.
Perhaps ask Mozilla if they could have it not be displayed in the legal jurisdiction it's accused of illegal, but have it keep on being displayed in all other jurisdictions?

The backwards laws of one jurisdiction shouldn't enable take downs across all of them.
It is a similar case in India with only 1.7% of households paying the income tax.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
If you are interested in the plurals of Octopus it is interesting also this note from the Merraim-Webster's site
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-many-plura...
Since when is uBlock an Anti-Virus?

If you benchmark the latest Ferrari against a wooden boat for driving on water you will get the same results as this test.
Without researching it I imagine New Flyer's buses either have low real range or they are super expensive. Or both.
I don't believe that's the problem. Popular US market cars like the Accord have a few things in common: 1. They have a sunroof/moonroof, which makes the ceiling lower. 2. The larger sedans tend to have very slanted windshields to help with gas mileage. 3. The seats, annoyingly, tend to have a high minimum height "for a more commanding seating position".
I may have a box of amiga floppies in the garage, maybe an a500 as well. Wonder if populace is still in that mix.

are you looking for software for amiga or just your old floppies with saved data?

Had no idea people were still using them, after so many c64s were unusable with bad power supplies, I assumes no more would ever be made.

Now I'm glad I kept some of the amiga stuff and sad to think I gave away a box of c64 floppies.

Have a few xeroxed manuals for word processors and such from the commodore days I found while organizing garage stuff. To think that full blown word processors worked with such little memory so long ago.. and now we have huge code bases to save text these days.
10% of the entire UK's area available in mines? That seems a tad on the high side at first glance.

No mention of flooding, collapse and the many seams that were well under 6' high. I remember claims that many mines would be inaccessible thanks to flooding and collapse within days of closure during all the mine closures of the 80s. No idea how much of that was hype to try and avoid closures of course.

So what percentage is worth opening up again for possible agriculture? Based on the photo of two chaps using an old shelter the size of a poly tunnel, very very inefficiently, barely any.

Seriously, having seen commercial poly tunnels, I'd expect to have the staging shown but wide enough that a human can only just squeeze down the centre path, and another level, and the entire floor area allocated to growing as well.

I'm gonna need a bit more convincing on this. :)
I had 2x A500 including the commodore monitors that somehow got lost/thrown out in a family move somewhere much to my dismay :( Loved those machines, and AMIGA BASIC - between that and QBasic was the start of me learning to program.

Always did want an A1200
TypeScript Express tutorial 1: Middleware, routing, and controllers
The Ultimate Guide to Trend Trading the Forex Market
The title claims everything, but certainly it doesn't cover everything. It mentions const but doesn't mention volatile. It also doesn't mention restrict which is more confusing than const/volatile. It didn't mention the strict aliasing rule. It actually didn't even mention NULL.
It would be nice if education could experiment with different approaches and see what produces the most area under the curve in terms education achievement plotted across all students. Unfortunately contributors like 3b1b dont get rewarded enough.

Current education model keeps spending more money without any results(1).

1- https://fee.org/articles/government-spending-on-education-is...
History: see The Great War channel.
> How will the people react when they will realize they have to give away XX% of their pay when they never gave any $$?

The birth of a Chinese Republican party...
always the on-call engineer, me (the team lead), and then my manager and then their manager.

The best scheme in my experience is to have a 24/7 fully staffed L1 working shifts for initial response triage then waking the appropriate L2 to deal with the actual problem if it isn’t covered in the runbook. No good waking the DBA if you can’t login to the database because a router has crashed and failed to failover. The next morning the L2 guy updates the runbook so if possible if the same thing recurs L1 can just handle it.

What really doesn’t work is having the on-call support also doing out-of-hours work such as maintenance or whatever. That’s a recipe for disaster. People willing to make the sacrifice of on-call are a precious commodity to be used wisely, or they’ll walk.

Paying only in the event of a callout doesn’t work either, that person has still had to decline other activities in order to make themselves available.
This just moves the problem, it does not get rid of it. You'd still have to draw a line somewhere or you'd be just as lambasted - if not more so - by the ravenous hordes of Twitter etc: "odessacubbage.video hides nazis / commies / porn / jihadis / furries / whathavenots behind a smokescreen, get him!". They'll be calling your advertisers, scream murder at your registrar, boycott your hosting company, petition the government to do an inquiry and do all those other things the hordes do to quiet a dissenting voice. Those Twitter hordes did not exist in the days of video stores...
Interesting article.

I'm genuinely in 2 minds about this. On the one hand (assuming what he says is true) he was discriminated (in the non legal sense) for his beliefs.

On the other hand, this has almost nothing to do with his veganism. Anyone could point out that perhaps an anti hunting group shouldn't be investing in animal testing.

Now Uk law does offer protection to non protected groups (eg you were sacked for being gay, even if you aren't), so a non vegan could also bring a case in this situation. Doesn't that then open the net very wide though? I'm pretty sure many sackings could be linked back to something that could also be a protected belief.
Sacking a teacher for exposing himself to students? Discrimination because nudists.
Faraday Future dealt potentially crippling blow while almost out of cash
Employees are on the hook for their companies decisions when they are taking a vacation? That doesn't sound right.
I make less than 50k and I've lent ~20k to my brother within maybe 2 years.

Probably a combination of trust and me having no real big commitments that require using my money for myself. I think I put away ~1.5k USD per month in savings, maybe a bit less or a bit more.
Indeed, the unconditionality of the promise is one of my biggest problems with marriage. I’d be much happier with a conditional promise (“... until death so us part, or you hit me, or we cannot have children, or you become substantially different than you’re now, ...”) but eventhem it’s hard to list all the exceptions.
I have never seen a modern country that dares to host 9/11 terrorists, supports extremism ideologies, and openly fights countries that try to defeat terrorism.

They are out because they want to pump beyond their quota. An attempt to bankrupt Saudis after their marvelous breakout from Islamist ideologies.
Is this something like Lens in Haskell?
Why is it that nowadays all kinds of libraries go down the framework path by forcing/encouraging the user to adapt their workflows to use some kind of custom tooling?

I mean look at the readme: Getting Started? Just call "python boden.py new -n AwesomeApp"

Just provide examples in source form with minimal and standard instrumentation (like project files) and leave the rest to the user
a collection of themes and no screenshots?
After many years of winging it, I developed what I think is a pretty robust interview process, inspired by Pivotal's RPI. If the candidate makes it through a quick 15-30m remote screening, I call them in to the office for pairing session.

* The session takes place at a pairing station - two keyboards/mice, two monitors (mirrored).

* We work through a fake problem that is relevant to real-world problems that we actually work on. No brain teasers, no complex algorithms. Basic software engineering using some of the tools the company uses.

* The problem is exactly the same for every candidate. This is essential; you need to be able to compare apples to apples. You can't use "real work" because real work is different every week.

* The stuff I look for is pretty mundane - can they name things sensibly? Do I have to push them or do they naturally drive out behavior with tests?

It takes 1-2 hours. It's partly a way of evaluating candidates, and partly a way of communicating "this is how we develop software at this organization". Some folks really respond well to it. Some don't. That's ok.

At the end of the pairing session. I know 100% if I want to extend an offer. I've gotten some really great hires out of this. My bad hires ended up bad for reasons unrelated to technical ability (like, their life was a trainwreck).
For reference, this only works in places where the minimum wage is also a reasonable amount.

In the UK, the minimum wage is laughably poor and in Switzerland it's significantly below the amount needed to live.

A better threshold would be to look at the cost of living _in the area_ and pay a reasonable starting wage that actually lets people live there comfortably.
Not using immoral methods (like advertising/tracking) to generate income.
Tell me more about this “contract” you speak of. We must work in very different industries if you get anything remotely like what you describe.
I will try to be more clear next time.
Our Android dev task: write a login/signup dialog. Shows that you have layout skills, networking skills, general Java skills, etc. Candidates either bomb it or nail it, no mis-hires yet after about two years. You get a real good sense of experience level, confidence, and "I like clean code" attitude.
Same here, the very first thing I do on a new FF is install uBO, switch to advanced mode and default-deny 3rd party scripts and frames. Then I noop sites only as needed:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-de...
A Sketch App Plugin which I needed from ages to stay productive
As opposed to the space advantage of just farming on the surface, and not having to dig tunnels or build greenhouses?
> I used to find Quora interesting but it just has so much of this low-quality spam on it now.

I am an Indian and I concur. I honestly don't remember the last time I visited Quora since then.
Any recommendation for someone who cannot relocate but has an AWS solutions architect certification to work remotely?
The C faq presents as supposedly common questions and answers without saying what a pointer is.

In contrast I really like the posts definition.

> A pointer is a memory address.

Not perfect but for concision and accuracy it cannot be beat.
I haven't done anything in this area (except an fpga prac at Uni), but I think these days you can get a board with fpga and ARM core on it from a number of suppliers, for example the SmartFusion 2 SoC. That would make this kind of work more accessible.
Yes, it is very frustrating. The Dutch are exceptionally good at talking the talk, when it comes to renewable energy transition, having years-long talk about the opportunity to become the best, most innovative player (e.g. in solar), and then not walking the walk. Suddenly stopping subsidies because of 'unprecedented success' is the norm, leaving all businesses who had invested out in the cold.

Netherlands is now a laggard in sustainable energy in the EU. I guess we have 'pro-business' liberal-democratic ruling party (VVD) and greenwashing-only companies such as Shell to thank for that. They prefer 'lobbycracy' above democracy.
I wonder the same thing. But I watch and see the super successful places start by doing this. So either they care more about fame than about profits, or it works. Of course, for some places this absolutely won't work. If the product isn't unique, it won't work. People will just leave the line and go to another place. So I assume the key metric would be what % of people wait vs. leave the line.
No, divorce is better for children if there is unresolved conflict. You resolve conflict by the right kind of fighting or struggle (or some approximation thereof) or by splitting up.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. I think this is a point of view that is at least worth considering.

Personally, I really dislike emergency software debugging. I much prefer the kinds of projects that prioritize testing and code stability so as to obviate the need for an 'on call' developer. In these kinds of projects an emergency call should be so rare as to essentially be never.
I've laid out a stripline transmitter for 100 MHz, the transmission line effects are substantial enough that you can turn circuit traces into coils and resonant circuits easily enough. The fact that it in the analog domain and that this is digital is the big difference but during the rise and fall of the clock those effects are very much present.
http://abstract.ups.edu/sage-aata.html
Looks clean, although i'm interested in e-commerce, i'm mostly a c# developer. But would love to try out Elixir.

How long would it go to go from starting Elixir to modifying part of AviaCommerce for custom deployment?
GTRS – Google Translator Reverse Shell (POC)
How to Build a Customer-Centric Company
Geopolitics: the Caspian Report is really interesting and if I remember correctly some Wikileaks documents link in to Stratfor. Interesting combination of "amateur" presenter and private intelligence agency pretending not to push a certain worldview.
But willingly ignoring European laws does?
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Sweet lord look at that difference between the Chinese petroleum and Dutch Shell in terms of revenue / employees.
I get that it's for exposure, but does everything really have to be 'on' product hunt?
> I had 2x A500 including the commodore monitors that somehow got lost/thrown out in a family move somewhere much to my dismay :(

I totally feel your pain. All my family heirlooms got thrown out because someone decided to give away the $5 ikea box they were stored in marked 'keep safely' and put them in a gray plastic garbage bag instead.

On the plus side you might be able to find some replacement monitors somewhere. An easy way might be to tell your local recycling compound that that is what you are looking for, just ask them to toss anything labelled 'Commodore' or 'CBM' on a pile and promise to buy it by the pound once every month. You'll be surprised what turns up.
How is this at all better ecologically, considering energy costs? The electrical demands to operate a mine are huge, most of which are used in pumping water out of the mine and air conditioning to make the atmosphere breathable. Air conditioning would arguably go up, since it is possible for plants to suffocate themselves with O2 in an enclosed environment.

To me, this looks like a far worse ecological disaster than conventional farming unless we develop some form of truly free energy like practical fusion power.
> Peek and Poke

Now that's the words I haven't heard in a long time.
In general the trend is toward more complex architectures, which increasingly blurs the line between modular nets and sparsely connected parts of a single model. IMO it's only meaningful to talk about modularity if the modules can be separately trained, or at least have their own loss functions. But of course its always useful to train or finetune the entire system end-to-end.

A semi-recent success story is Tacotron 2, a speech synthesizer that has one model to convert text to a spectrogram, and a second model to convert that spectrogram into pcm (waveform) data.

Also, Francois Chollet, the author of the popular deep learning library Keras, has some interesting thoughts on the future of ML along these lines that I find compelling: https://blog.keras.io/the-future-of-deep-learning.html
I've got this list in my favs, I think it was posted on HN a while ago:

https://gist.github.com/0XDE57/fbd302cef7693e62c769

I had some problems with sendRefererHeader, so it can definitely break some websites