skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but also ex-Soviet: Russia is one example. Ruskis have been robbed blind by feudalism, communism, and lately capitalism - from both public and private sector - for over 200 years. This created a deep (almost traumatic) generational mistrust of any system or organized body. Since I was a toddler I was told that everything is my personal responsibility and to never expect external support. I live in NYC now and what passes for “self reliance” or “discipline” here is sweet.

It is the philosophical opposite of “safe spaces” that would make Jordan Peterson shudder, but it does create survivors. It’s an unhealthy environment that breeds mistrust and misery, and I would never want my kids to grow up in such Ayn Rand’esque culture.
In recent years, LocalBitcoins has become by far the cheapest, fastest, and simplest way to move money to and from my WeChat Pay wallet.

I used to give cash to local friends, but it was putting a strain on their (infinite) hospitality. I don't have a local bank account yet, although it is relatively straightforward to get one.
I made it as far as the "continue with Google" button before closing the tab. For one, I have no desire to add more Google-connected things to my life, I'm trying to get rid of Google. Second: You need to show me what your app does/looks like before you ask me to connect an account to it, because that's a significant burden to ask someone to do, and nobody's going to do it before they see how your app works.
Passing away only six weeks after retiring... man...
I guess I wasn't clear about my stance: I can't fault their grievances, but I can and do fault their methods. I'm pretty sure that obtaining the government permit didn't involve the constituency. There are ways of responding to that, without resorting to crime.
> These aren't even close to "typical moderate risk" investment vehicles.

In terms of average long-term returns they are, if not worse. Major index ETFs have a very inconvenient tendency to edge out actively managed funds as a general rule, and university endowments are no exception.
> Take one of the offenders and publicly shit can him.

I don't think this will happen because engineers are scarce, and everyone is to blame, kind of.

One of the worst offenders (who sent extremely aggressive e-mails to another team member, all trough personal accounts) left a few weeks ago of his own accord, so HR decided not to pursue him. Now that you mention it, that might have sent the wrong message.
What if my upstairs neighbour's washing machine overflows with water and drips all over my home? My son nearly had his foot taken off by a drier that was bouncing about in my apartment's common area. We should ban driers.

I don't want any of my neighbours to have washing machines. I didn't agree to this. They should ask permission.
I actually think capitalism is the problem. It's the best form we know to organize a society, but it has the serious problem when money tend to stick or gravitate towards bigger chunks of money. I'm making well over 300k and can afford a decent house that I'd have to pay off my entire life. What if I had 30M and was too lazy to start a business? I would just buy 30-40 nice houses in my area and would rent them. 10 years later I would have 60M in assets plus whatever rent I've been paid. Where did those 30M come from? Did I do anything useful to the society? No. I have done nothing useful. It's just the dynamics of capitalism where another 30M sticked to my original 30M by the mere fact of their existence. If I was seriously rich, I could lobby zoning laws to benefit from monopoly and drive my wealth even higher, while giving nothing back to the society.
The issue at hand was to define vertexes with relationships and look up and track those. More writes than reads. I wasn't lead on it after the initial review and testing, but if you're doing something super simple, do it on postgress, I'd say. If you're doing something medium complex, use an off the shelf graphDB but beware rough edges and newness bugs. If you're doing something large scale and unique, talk to smarter people than me - I can introduce you :-)
I'm not sure if they really care about privacy as much as they do arse-coverage. The sentence before that one:

>The emergency drivers in the Waymo vans that were attacked in various cases told the Chandler police that the company preferred not to pursue prosecution of the assailants.

If I didn't know any better, this statement reads as if the emergency driver doesn't exist to Waymo. One could argue that they aren't the target, but nowhere else can I think of someone attacking a vehicle because of the vehicle, and not the one "not driving" it.
I guess I must have missed the article "Why to Memorize the Largest Known Prime".

Memorizing lists of numbers in sequence seems like such a huge waste of time. We already have computers, and in a pinch, paper and pencils which serve the purpose of reliably recording large streams of numbers much better. I understand that there is some appeal in understanding ways to improve memory, but if you're going to spend that much time training your memorization, why not at least get pick a subject where you might get something useful out of it? Learn to memorize a new language with a different character system, or memorize how to play difficult musical compositions . At least those would also improve your ability to communicate in some form or provide value to other people around you.

I know I shouldn't be this irritated by what people choose for their hobbies, it doesn't really matter and this is probably still better than watching cable news all day. But this topic in particular frustrates me because it seems to serve no purpose other than to allow nerds to show off to each other and pat themselves on their backs for "achieving" something that is totally without value.
> I don't imagine that this segment would be interested in paying for "continuity insurance", but they might grudgingly hire someone for "tech rescue". I guess that's a very different kind of service; I'm not sure if there's anything in between the two.

Very sadly I find myself agreeing with your assessment in general. However I was once seeking almost exactly this service, and I have to say I struggled to find what I wanted.
The trick is body-on-frame light trucks with thick body panels and plastic fuel tanks. They are the most long lived in the snow belts and can last 25+ years with periodic maintenance as replaceable bits and pieces rust out.
To play devil's advocate, law suffered a supply/demand shift ten years ago. There's a steep drop off in career prospects below the top 14. The same thing will happen to TE if it becomes more popular (there's a lot of lower paying science and math jobs). The same would have happened to physicians without the residency bottleneck on supply.
You can block that on both platforms AFAIR.
Hundreds in ~2% cash back yes, but thousands by not building a strong credit score. All your major financial purchases will cost more if you're not using 1 or multiple credit cards.
Tying someone to the radiator and graping them in the mouth sounds like a reference to this "The Whitest Kids U' Know" comedy bit about an inappropriate grape soda commercial pitch [1], especially about 1:56 in.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmrDypTB_Y0
And then there will be a tide of amicus briefs making the same generic arguments about free speech and slippery slopes and parades of horribles, and it's a question of whether Joe wants to spend lots of money and time on litigating the issue, which may cost substantially more than the original libel, thus creating a market for lies which is effectively what we have now.
A friend of mine caused a huge stink in her village when she pointed out how two siblings had blue eyes but all parents and grandparents had brown eyes. There was much chaos.
We spoke with Square 1 a while back, and it seems that if you're not VC funded that they aren't really interested. They kinda gave us the run-around and I was not impressed.

Maybe if you are in fact VC funded, or have millions in revenue, it would be a fine experience. All in all, the whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth.

Anyway, we wound up going with Wells Fargo. There's nothing startup specific about their offerings, but that's fine. For us, all we really need is a checking account for Stripe to push payments into, with a debit card for paying bills. You can get that from Wells Fargo for $10/month fee, which is waived if you have a daily average balance of something like $500.00 (or something in that range).
I've never really bought that "Call of the Void" explanation. You can imagine fairly easily what will happen if you jump from a tall building without having the urge to do it. I've always viewed it as a legitimate momentary urge, just one that conflicts with almost every other urge we have to live, so we don't do it and don't even acknowledge the urge as legitimate (most of us, anyway).
https://qz.com/1158107/the-german-postal-service-has-built-i...
They've always been a superstitious bunch of savages.
No new nuclear units will be built in US due to high cost: Exelon official
Matrix-client.el: A matrix.org client in emacs
This is such an apples-to-oranges comparison that I can't really see how you'd come to that conclusion unless you were already biased against Rust/LLVM/Firefox coming into it. Mozilla is against all browsers, i.e. every single piece of software that can be used to connect to the world-wide web--the most important and influential piece of technology in the last half century, being based on the same codebase. The fact that a browser is compiled by a single compiler is absolutely meaningless, because it still provides another option over other compilers. This doesn't have any bearing on the browser monoculture, and it has no bearing on C++/gcc's feasibility because there are still a thousand other compilers and projects not affected by this. The fact that Rust only works in one compiler is also pretty meaningless because that's not the problem Firefox set out to fix.

And say Mozilla did care about what compiler they were using because it locks them into one of them. They would go ahead and develop a new alternative Rust compiler with an alternative backend. Oh no! They're all using Glibc still! And GTK+! And the X.org monoculture!!!

The current goal behind Firefox is to provide an alternate browser that isn't based on Webkit, not to make sure that every piece of software is equally competitive.
Oh cmon some guy breaking into others system feels entitled to want cash prize.

He should have been sent to prison for this.

Breaking into someone's house is theft regardless wether owner forgot to lock the door.

Same should be the matter with code.

Is this really what the world has come to?

Let's just break into neighbors house and tell them that their door failed against the latest gen plasma cutter. Now pay us bounty for this finding?

This is mad! It seems tech people only care about enriching themselves.
To be more precise, this was a decision made by the governor's office which essentially allowed these companies to act with very little regulation or oversight.

I think it's fair to say that the governor's office is less representative of (capital P) the People than, say, the state legislature or even a ballot measure. So yes, Arizona's elected government was involved, but that government opted to be as minimally involved as they could possibly be.

Personally, I would feel much happier with some dedicated oversight and some levers to pull if companies appear to be doing anything besides making the safety of Arizonans their number one priority.
> I don't want others to know i am donating to a preprint server which could be used against you in a court that you read competitors papers before publishing your own design patent.

How does a donation prove that? I'm not a lawyer, but I highly doubt this would hold up in a real court. arxiv hosts thousands of manuscripts.

Also, following your logic, having an arxiv account or posting a preprint would also require caution, so should they allow anonymous postings and remove the endorsement system?
Oh, they're well aware of all that. Also, the CEO knows I'm looking for solutions.
No more Facebook or twitter... or social media...
Tell HN: Simple ransom spam results in success
So I was going through my spam folder and noticed email below. Essentially, spammer told me they recorded me watching porn and bitcoin address where I should send 650 USD equivalent to erase these records. I was like "what a waste of spam". But then decided to check bitcoin wallet - it actually received about 1500 USD worth of payments - https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/17viZFKw1Xn8WQcpC6GwLqjzLTcE7qBJ93

Not sure what to get out of it, but found it is very interesting. Why hijack a computer and encrypt files, when you can just send a spam email and get the same result...

The original email: https://pastebin.com/JhtduV3W
Made one that runs in both Golang and Perl: https://play.golang.org/p/ZSUME3zTZFt
The rise of Flutter makes a lot of sense when you think about how mobile has evolved over the last 5 years.

The days of Instapaper and the like where you could build a really good app and sell it, are long since past. Nowadays I'm not sure it's really possible to make money as an app startup. Your best bet is probably releasing a game and being the one-in-a-million that goes viral.

Other than that, apps are the purview of existing big companies, and those mostly are concerned with lowering costs (since margins on mobile are so thin). With that being the case, something like Flutter that gives you a fairly good cross-platform experience are going to thrive.

It's sort of like Java in the enterprise. It doesn't matter if it's pleasant to use. There's a clearpath towards success, it's safe for cheaper developers to use and not screw things up to bad. It will never be the hot thing but it doesn't need to be; that's not its target demographic.
I imagine they get thousands of people applying a day. Sad you flew to Ireland, that's messed up that they forgot.

The bad practices for me, are their pivoting toward lootbox pay2win gambling designs.
Ask HN: Best Smart Speaker and libraries for hacking
I’d like to build an audio life coach. Plays me a few things I find useful at different times of the day. If I’m out I would have it call my phone and talk to me.

I’m interested in:
What smart speaker has great audio tech (ie microphone array) that I can use for my own apps.

What audio libraries are the best for doing speech recognition?

What are the best scheduling libraries that I can use to integrate all this together and have it add and remove things from a calendar, send emails, Eg ifttt type stuff.

I understand the answer is likely Google Home/Alexa for part of this, but I would very much prefer a solution where the processing runs on my hardware and doesn’t need to listen/send my audio to a third party.
This machine works better than carpet cleaner rentals, can be used whenever I want (I used it this morning to quickly pick up cat vomit residue :( ) and I can install a tool that allows it to work on bare floors
blocking exposure to the speech could have serious unintended consequences. It could people unaware of specific threats and expose them to harm.

'ignoring the trolls' suffers from precisely the same problem - more so, as passive awareness of the threat may be construed as acceptance thereof by the threatening party. Basically you're placing the burden of assessing severity on the recipient and removing any leverage they have to mitigate it once they're aware of it.

Do not suggest 'report it to the police' or I will start linking cases in which people did that, were ignored, and were then murdered - at which point the free speech evangelists are nowhere to be found.
I will just memorize there is an article on memorizing the largest prime.
I agree its way to high, at least programmers can hope for a well paying job eventually though. Imagine teachers or something similar. They get a degree to do something that society has a hard time going without (going to work is hard if I have no one to watch my kids) and then get a low salary and are told that they are being greedy and disruptive for going on strike to get raises.

We are also told from a young age that going to college is a requirement for getting a good job, perpetuating the cycle. Higher education has a great PR department.
Yes. In a wealthy country an economic downturn means you lose your job. When things go bad in a poor country the proportion of people who can't afford food increases significantly.
Building a Raspberry Pi bus schedule
I like Ruby one liner from https://commandercoriander.net/blog/2013/02/03/fizzbuzz-in-o...

puts (1..100).map { |i| (fb = [["Fizz"][i % 3], ["Buzz"][i % 5]].compact.join).empty? ? i : fb }
Summary: "cyclomatic complexity is a heuristic with degenerate cases, and some tools don't implement it correctly."
How is this different from Blazor?
The poem is too complicated. Simply sing the 1 in different notes to signify how far through you are. I leave it as a exercise to the reader to come up with a suitable scheme.

You can also say one, uno, eine, wahad etc. Maybe that’s bending the rules.

Or just do 10000 a day and keep an eye on the calendar.
I'm not sure how this will be received, but I'm learning a lot through following Jeremy Howard. He's a huge PyTorch fan and he's spent the last 3 years trying to figure out what people like you need. He launched a course called FastAI and a DL library by the same name. His aim is to help anybody do it that wants to, with or without code.

MOOC: http://course.fast.ai

I just found a resource a few months ago that I'd love to recommend, but haven't started yet. It's mentorship you pay for, but not up front. You sign a contract to pay a certain percentage after you're hired. I plan on going through this program if my current job leads don't pan out.

Mentorship: https://sharpestminds.com

I'm interested in comments about either program in general. Speaking as someone who also has an EE degree, went through a web development bootcamp, and was disappointed by both at the help in getting hired that was offered after the curriculum was finished, I am also interested in your findings and results.
What if another library uses v-if? Or there's no library loaded at all? What if I just wrote a new library that uses c-if? I imagine most IDEs approach this by looking at the string and trying to guess whether it's HTML code or not.
There is no possible reading of the First Amendment case law that leaves those parts of the Smith Act intact.

Almost any political ideology calls for unsanctioned violence at some point—where society deviates sufficiently from the moral principles of the ideology. For example, it is within the current Western consensus that one can or even should resist at least some kinds of dictatorship through violence. And more fundamentally, political ideology is about violence—how and to what ends society should use violence (e.g. what counts as a crime?—what are the valid bases for civil judgments?—both questions ultimately ask when it is okay to use violence to secure compliance).

Any restriction on political speech because it “encourages violence” is therefore actually a thinly-veiled restriction on particular ideologies for being objectionable. Such a restriction is not viewpoint neutral and almost impossible to legally sustain.

There is no question that free speech can threaten the political status quo, for better or for worse. All political power requires some measure of consent from the governed, and changing ideas can threaten that consent. The principle of free speech is that the ideas upon which such consent is given are not themselves matters for coercion, but for free discussion and debate. That is a radical notion, even a dangerous notion, but one at the heart of the American project.
Dallas, while the wages are quite high, also has a lot lower cost of living. And the average person is nicer, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxvzEfI0BFU
Not talking about Rust here, so not really an answer, but in the film VFX industry (rendering in my case) pretty much all the high performance code is C++ or CUDA, and before we moved to c++11, I'd worked out that for STL iterators, at least in the 4.2/4.4 GCC versions, pre-caching the end() iterator of an STL collection before the loop instead of calling it each time as a control condition of the loop made faster debug runtime builds, so I got into the habit of doing that.

In the optimised (O2/O3) builds the compiler effectively did that optimisation anyway, but not at O0.

It meant loop code in the source was longer, but made measurably (~10% if I remember correctly) faster debug builds on code which did a lot of vector iterating.

I have also noticed that often some of debug builds' slowness is actually due to asserts being on in debug builds as opposed to optimised builds, at least in some of the code I work on (which in some cases makes very heavy use of them) - removing asserts can in some cases bring things back to debug builds being ~5x slower than optimised compared to ~30x which is more acceptable.
Asking in the wrong place, please ignore
Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech
IPv6 was over-engineered. We need IPv5 which just fixes the address space, then have a rethink about v7 ... without all the nonsense.
No, that's absurd, and with the trend of depressed wages and increases in rent over the past few decades, workers wages are increasingly being stretched thin.

Moreover, I was responding to OP, specifically the conclusion I quoted and these two statements:
> Living paycheck-to-paycheck can be representative of good choices being made (and I'd guess it is, in most cases).

and

> Most people can't afford everything they optimally need while minimising their risk,
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I must not be human.
The postal workers I have met take their jobs very seriously, and are generally very helpful. Customer-oriented.

Sounds as if your father had a really good life. Thanks for sharing hise story.
This isnt true, you can achieve that easily with SPARQL using property paths. I've been doing that and much more with Sparql for years
http://www.martindaly.ca/uploads/2/3/7/0/23707972/cinderella...

>The most thorough analyses are from Canada, where data in a national archive of all homicides known to police indicate
that children under 5 years of age were beaten to death by their putative genetic fathers at a rate of 2.6 deaths per million child-years at risk (residing with their fathers),
while the corresponding rate for stepfathers was over 120 times higher at 321.6 (Daly&Wilson, 2001).

That is a very large odds ratio.
Firefox isn't moving to build with both, though — it's moving to Clang exclusively. It will not get the best of both worlds.
If the existing nuclear units in the US can be kept operational despite the economic challenges they face, and technology can be developed to store energy generated by renewable technologies, which are currently intermittently available, "then we won't need these [new nuclear units] at that point," Von Hoene said. "And we won't build them because they'll be too expensive."
...
Von Hoene's stance includes so-called small modular reactors, or SMRs, and advanced designs, he said.

"Right now, the costs on the SMRs, in part because of the size and in part because of the security that's associated with any nuclear plant, are prohibitive," Von Hoene said.

"It's possible that that would evolve over time, and we're involved in looking at that technology," Von Hoene said. "Right now they're prohibitively expensive."
Emacs in 2018: My Year in Review
The Octal Small Form Pluggable (OSFP) implements 400Gb Ethernet