skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On your resume, list your time as a contractor as a single position (“software developer, contract” or better, “software developer and principal, $my_llc_name”). Then describe it the way you would a full-time employee position. Just list your big-name contract employers as clients in a single bullet point. It won’t help build your network but will make you look a bit less like a job hopper on your resume.
7 years after trading his kidney for an iPhone 4, Xiao Wang is dying
Easily building WASM projects and custom Prometheus metrics for Kubernetes apps
Mozilla DeepSpeech has had a release [1] that comes with a pre-trained model achieving 11% WER on clean audio in the LibriSpeech test corpus. That's close to the WER you're getting with Google, but I guess your audio quality isn't as good, so DeepSpeech would perform worse.

Mozilla Common Voice [2] is the project to collect more training data so that DeepSpeech (and other projects) can achieve the accuracy that is known to be possible with the same architecture trained on larger private datasets.

Then there's Facebook's newly released wav2letter++ [3], which claims to achieve better accuracy with the same training data. However, some people have been unable to exactly reproduce those results, getting "only" 5.15% WER [4]. Still better than what Mozilla DeepSpeech can deliver, though.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/latest

[2] https://voice.mozilla.org

[3] https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter

[4] https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter/issues/88
Not if you're British :)
I'd suggest you to wear https://www.mi.com/in/mi-band-3/ if you're depressed since you're susceptible to https://lifeinthefastlane.com/what-is-takotsubo/
"accept-all" style buttons are explicitly no longer allowed. This is a good thing as now on most websites I get a decline option that actually works, as opposed to previously where the options were "accept" or "gtfo".
Comparing Pythagorean triples in C++, D, and Rust
That's nonsense. If anything racism in China favors white Americans over regular Han Chinese. As a white guy who has lived in China extensively I can tell you this. Are there anti foreign sentiments which shift with political winds? Yes. A structured racism focused at keeping white people down? No. Keeping Chinese minorities down? Yes.
It's "special unitary" but I fully agree with the sentiment =]
Wished that was the case, mate. As a newbie, it's bloody hard getting gigs on marketplaces like Upwork, People Per Hour, Freelancer, etc. Not to mention, the market is saturated with many willing to accept much lower rates. By the way, right now I'm pulling in overtime to save up. So, it's not like I'm just sitting on my bum doing nothing. Nevertheless, I'll still fall short. I'll have to make up the difference somehow. FYI this small project really didn't take much of my time.
Anyway, I've gotten 7 sales so far since my post on HN. Yeah, most probably just pity purchases lol But hey, I'll take it :) Well, I'll be reaching out to some reporters for some press. We'll see if they bite.
That number could be inflated for social proof.
Dupe from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18792389
This setup is still the defacto standard in a lot of Factories in all developed countries, you will also see quite a lot of PCs still running Windows NT. If you have a production line the life expectancy is more than 20years with no need to upgrade anything including the hardware most of the assembly lines are controlled with really old hardware usually the hardware... The usual browser statistics do not reflect the corporate world they are some years behind... Fun fact one of the biggest Ie11 users is Japan, a rather developed country
Déjà vu? I spent a good 30 minutes yesterday on blogposts about how google/uber calculates the shortest distance and found conflicting answers oscillating between Dijkstra's algorithm and [0]Contraction hierarchies(which I didn't understand much).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_hierarchies
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Can you build a Win2k-compatible wrapper for a modern Blink or WebKit rendering engine?

And man, why aren’t they at least on WinXP?

You may have room to make an argument that this compatibility should be implemented in a separate contract/extension (that is, at extra cost) since compatibility with 20-year-old software that even MS no longer supports is not something that a vendor should reasonably expect as a requirement without it being explicitly brought up from the beginning. You may want to consult a lawyer.
Thanks for clarifying that. The velocity of this probe is really astounding!
35C3 recordings
The upside of asking candidates about their research is it does a good job of verifying what their contribution is in often highly collaborative environments. Too often I've seen candidates who've worked on super exciting stuff, but not actually been the key contributor. This is way more common in junior roles though.
> When my wife goes out onto another network

This is why I implemented WireGuard on top of it. All the traffic is encrypted through our home network (200/20 mbit) with DNS over TLS and adblocking due to Pi-Hole. LTE, open WLAN networks, all of these work. And roaming works very well with WireGuard. The downside is the 20 mbit upload.
This Year in Science 2018
Clang compiles much slower and bigger Firefox binaries than GCC 8/9
Impressive job.

Medicine is sadly too focused about the average, if you fall off the side you'll have to walk the distance on your own. I think many (including me) have experienced that.

Good luck
Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with GCC and Clang
Depressive realism is still a strongly contested theory. There is also a lot of evidence that depressed people rate themself worse than warranted.
I replaced an aging Apple Airport system with eero and I’ve noticed the same. They are somewhat aggressive about trying to upsell subscriptions (malware protection, filtering for kids, etc).

I hope they have a sustainable business on hardware alone because it’s the only system I was able to get working in this house and it’s very reliable.
In the UK injuries from football (soccer) are a significant reason for time off work I believe.
Hasn't something like that happened with French and France, whereby a multicultural nation was politically engineered into a monoculture.
> Even then, once a "program" gets complex it can get tangled fast.

In my experience with both visual and textual languages, the same happens in textual languages too, except we’re trained to use software engineering principles to attempt to manage the complexity (to varying levels of success). In my (somewhat limited) experience with visual languages, if you apply those same principles (especially some of the OO ones like encapsulation) and factor things into their own functions/nodes, it’s manageable too. Whether better or worse than textual probably depends on the use case and persons comfort level with either type of language and in practice most visual code I’ve seen was not written by a programmer and therefore the author did not know the software engineering principles that would have helped keep their code manageable.
That's quite probably a high factor indeed. I often felt like the value of social groups is to smooth out emotions. When you're with people you are a lot less stuck in your own mind and somehow you don't pile up negative thoughts to the point of crippling darkness.

Also something I've noticed when trying to meditate (just cleansing my mind, nothing fancy). You can stop thinking and in a few minutes you'll feel just a little upbeat feeling, maybe fun ideas.

It's a bit odd and paradoxical but your best choice is not to listen to your negative ideas..
The US is just returning to its traditional political economy, where the land is pillaged by elite interests, the rabble is dealt with as it can be, and any "freedom" anyone has is totally coincidental and mainly stems from the failure of elites to even pay attention to them because they are making so much more money subjugating and impoverishing rabble elsewhere.

The mid-20th century was a bizarre anomaly brought on by a number of non-repeatable factors, most notably WW2, the arms race, and Jim Crow, where we accidentally had broad-based economic growth that included a (almost totally white portion of the) working class. For centuries before that, the entire economic purpose of America was to be a literal extraction colony.

The infrastructure needed to run the wealth pumps (for example, the pipelines needed to pump crude from the Permian to the Gulf, or the West Coast ports needed to import Chinese-made dollar store tchotchkes) will not decay, but things like public transit, water treatment, and midcentury highway tunnels will probably get worse, at least outside elite enclaves like New York and San Francisco.
Kaggle?
Ensuring all layer 2 domains are loop free by design and moving all redundancy to layer 3 and routing protocols.
Probably something closer to RED-S: http://insights.annaboniface.com/post/102eqza/the-red-s-flag...
iptables' are easy to configure and available almost everywhere.
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That’s what they’re saying, just like sql, ML will be accessible to everyone and it’s having the data to make use of it that will differentiates companies.
Indeed, several mechanisms for passing this stuff to programs do exactly that. Notice that they are two distinct command-line arguments to these programs, for examples:

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/tcp-socket-listen.html

* https://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html

One of the principles underlying this design was, famously, "Don't parse". Don't have one string with a separator character. Have two strings that are already separate.

* http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html
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When did they decide that? I started getting 5 credit card offers a day as soon as I applied for college.
Microsoft Paint
Agree, which is why I would have never used the emergency number. But I am sure a single patrol car passing by and telling them to move on would have been sufficient.
Might be shadow rather than cloud?

Some appear to have white nacelles and black towers.
Actually the 1950s view of the future was nuclear based. Nuclear flying cars etc. Wind turbines and towers in general are quite ugly and kill birds, especially when concentrated like in the fields near Vienna. Offshore wind is fine. Trees are beautiful.
As someone who has come out of depressiveness, for me it was mostly about physical factors in the end: routine, sleep, always eating regularly (breakfast!).

I don't know what to think about the mental factors. For me they seem to mostly be symptoms of a bad physical state.

Some approach to both worlds is needed: Also I needed that the absurdly negative voices in my head would shut up, when I was trying to sleep. Some of that was just healing over time, I think.
M&Ms use natural colouring in EU, but artificial in US, even though the artificial ones are deemed more safe. Thank you, E-number hysteria.
Does this mean that Talon is based on private APIs provided in OSX?
Show HN: tascii.io – a multiplayer ASCII character grid
That should be obvious as sunlight though, if you know anything at all about IPv6 networking.
AFAIK both VLC and mpv use FFmpeg's codecs, so their attack surfaces should be similar.
I don't know where all these 300K jobs are, I have never seen one. PhD from R1 institution checking in.

My adviser in grad school made decent money but only because he was a grant whore and worked ALL THE TIME. He was never not working. His success was a culmination of many years of lean living, too.

This is my problem with all the high taxes we have, btw--they don't take into account how long and difficult a person's struggle to success was. You spend decades living on pennies and then you finally get going and then the government, your partner in your success (yeah, right) is there with its hand in your pocket.

You can't get ahead in America.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. There's research indicating links between gut bacteria and (among others) mental health:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4662178/

And of course one's gut bacteria culture heavily depends on what one eats.
Before anyone asks, I only need registration to keep track of characters. Feel free to make up any username and password you want!

I've been working on this side project over the christmas break
The original goal was to learn about real time web systems and to learn a bit more about web development.

The goal was to try and emulate what reddit did with r/place but using letters instead of pixels. It's a little basic, but I am overall happy with the result and I want to see what happens when this gets exposed to the wider internet.

I think that the "collaborative whiteboard" medium like this is interesting due to the fact that it is possible to implement other functionality through it. One example is the QuickMaths bot that I implemented, that will ask questions and listen for output on the grid. There is another more quiet bot that prevents certain words from being written also.

Would appreciate any feedback or bug reports!
Diet changer here, the first rule of diet, before you even look at what you eat, is that you need to eat. I started eating breakfast consistently. Often eating filling food like leftovers.
Mostly because of convention that the single identifier be a single string from the user. You might be able to get away with it e.g. in your home grown app but try to land that change in Chrome and you'll get pushback for not being standards compliant.

The explicit way to define a v6 URL was first defined here https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt and is to use []'s around the address portion.
I think I see where you're coming from, although I find it rather dispiriting, in that this point of view seems to be arguing against exploring and understanding the universe of different programming techniques.

It would perhaps be instructive if you could enumerate or point to what you consider to be a good set of concepts to work from. Clearly there are some absurd answers ("it's all NAND gates in the end"), but I don't imagine that's what you're thinking. Would you include functors? applicative functors? Different forms of memory management? APL/R/Numpy-style arrays? setjmp/longjmp?
Why not? China's history is one of growth by eliminating local culture via merging into a national culture.
Sometimes pushing into a vector is O(n), but typically not. So it’s the penalty of allocating new data memory when the underlying array needs a resize that’s amortized for multiple push calls.

Similarly with a typical hashmap, the keyspace should occasionally collide, meaning non-edgecases would amortize to O(1) for multiple inserts.
The TensorFlow tutorials might be a reasonable next step. Google created them to help working engineers learn the necessary skills to apply TensorFlow to Google's real world problems. So there's a meaningful intersection between the tutorials and "the real world."
I'd say pivoting to ML/AI is much easier for Math/Physics folks compared to pure CS ones.
> There was one notable exception, and that was my experience with Triplebyte. They have a much better technical interview process than any I have seen anywhere else.

I quite liked my Triplebyte interview too (all the better that I could do it with my own Emacs config and in Racket).
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There are many programs beyond browsers that use colon for ports.
Any recommended tutorial for setting this up? I have a Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole and would be great to add Wireguard on top of that.
Re: Entropy I was looking at a responsive thermostat component with an on/off control with a 4-state on/off button for a web miner. It had a ticker which displayed two metrics updating at time and framerate intervals intervals with time-based device status interstitials in multiple languages. XState is great for testing these situations.
No mystery. They get together and dont ask for more than they know is availible. That speeds things up. They still take a loss, generally, but just arent showing that in thier claims.
SPLC serves a very important role of shining a light on dangerous extremists, such as this guy:

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/12/20/longtime-anti...
Feds rely on private sector for mass surveillance of license plates (2015)
> > > I have some concerns about binding /tmp and /dev the way you do...

> > Can you elaborate what exactly the issues is? I use this quite often.

> It's a container escape. The chroot shouldn't be able to access the hosts tmp files. Creating a tmpfs and using that is a safer method. If you can read and write the hosts tmpfs, then you can impact the behaviour of the host.

ok ja, I know, I am also mounting /home. There are no guarantees that there is any security gain by using this and security is not the goal of this software.

> For /dev it's just because it has to be a proper bind, and I haven't looked deeply enough to check that happens.

I am using `mount("/dev", "./rootfs/dev", "none", MS_MGC_VAL|MS_BIND|MS_REC, NULL)` so a recursive bind so we also get stuff like "/dev/pts". I am using this regularly and it works perfect for me, let me know if you know of any specific problems with this!
Shared containers are also restricted by publisher – you can't share data with another publisher using them.

I believe the other container you're talking about is the keychain. You can store small amounts of data in there (typically secure auth info) and it will persist even after app deletion. This is hardware encrypted by the Secure Enclave and can't be shared between publishers.

Apple have shown that they are willing to remove big social media apps from the App Store just a few weeks ago, with Tumblr.

Also, collecting information for use in WhatsApp and using it for a different purpose in Facebook is a DPA and GDPR violation:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/14/whatsapp-...
This is wrong.

Your argument is incoherent so it's not clear if you're arguing for a common language other than English or no common language at all.

If it's the first one, that's a road that will lead to certain disaster. Requiring knowledge of a specific Indian language will automatically grant native speakers of that language advantage over other Indians. If tomorrow Gujarati or Bengali was chosen as the "national" language and every book was published in Gujarati, every movie and show was dubbed in it, every textbook was rewritten in it, every government form was written in it, wouldn't Gujaratis have an advantage over everyone else? Wouldn't everyone else implicitly become second class citizens?

That's not even hypothetical. This experiment of forcing a "national" language on population that never spoke it or understood has been tried before. It was a spectacular failure. Bangla speakers in East Pakistan didn't want to speak Urdu and didn't want to be treated as second class citizens because they couldn't. So they seceded. East Pakistan doesn't exist anymore.

No doubt you're thinking "no, not Gujarati/Bengali. Let's choose Hindi as the national language". Now understand this -> Hindi is a foreign language to me, though I am Indian. I studied it for 10 years so I'm reasonably fluent in it, but it is still a foreign language, as foreign as English. For that reason, states such as Tamil Nadu and Kerala will not accept the imposition of Hindi. This battle started in the 60s and continues today.

Of course, you might be arguing for no common language at all. Let's root out English and in it's place let's have ... nothing. I'm not sure what that would buy us, but sure.

English is a foreign language, but it is the only language is foreign to all Indians. That is why it is fair for it to remain an official language of the Indian Union.

FYI, you and I wouldn't be having this conversation if we didn't have English as common language.
> and all GC enabled system programming languages do offer multiple ways to manage memory.

Since "GC-enabled system programming languages" is an oxymoron, a claim about what such languages may or may not include is just not very useful. But it's definitely the case that properly combining, e.g. "traced GC memory references" and RAII including deterministic deallocation for resources is still a matter of ongoing research, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02796 That may or may not pan out in the future, as may other things such as pluggable, lightweight GC for a subset of memory objects, etc., but let's stop putting lipstick on the pig that is obligate tracing GC.
It's a disorder if it interferes with your life. It's an addiction if you are unable to separate yourself from an (external) source of disorder (like alcohol). (We don't say people with internaly manifested neurochemical/ behavioral disoi
rders (depression, OCD) are addicted to their imbalances)
Drink water. Want a coke? Drink water. Want food? Drink water. Want water? Drink water. The hardest part of this has been when I want coffee.
I count only thirteen broadcasts in German TV this year! Surely I'm mistaken?
A lightbulb is not an idea
As far as file access, no app should ever need access to the entire file system - just the users’ files. Even then, a photo/video app should only need access to the photo library a music app should only need access to your music library etc.

As far as generic files again the user chooses which files the app has access to outside of the sandbox via a standard file picker.

Besides the built in iCloud, if you install Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. you can choose any of those as destinations when you want to save or load a file from the standard file picker. They all just “storage providers”.

But if you want a local file storage solution that is accessible by all apps, you can install a storage provider for that too.

https://www.howtogeek.com/204010/how-to-get-an-android-style...

You can do SFTP etc.
They have the performance to climb faster if they wanted to, but they don't. They actually climb slower to save fuel. And the use of smaller aircraft means there are more of them, since they each carry less people, but there's more flying than ever. The result is lower noise level but much more frequent noise.
I've developed this notion that there's people out there who think there's a trick or shortcut that nobody else knows and that's what's going to make them rich. Buying from the wrong suppliers in China seems to be a very common thing these kinds of people do.

I guess part of the problem is that get rich quick schemes do sometimes work, providing a false signal to others.
OK, knowledge isn't progress. Why is anything else progress? Nothing lasts forever, is nothing progress?
Look Man, I'm not looking forwards to dying
Ways the world improved in 2018
So basically yes despite this author’s claim it will decentralize. It will make market leaders in any field stronger / less threatened as they have the relevant proprietary data.
Yes, I am actually quite glad that the US now controls the price of oil causing disruption for middle eastern regimes and Russia. Saudi oil money buys wars in Yemen and Syria and Russian oil money buys hypersonic nukes and SSBNs.
And if you do feel the need to engage, tell them:

"In time, come back when you have something good!"
I use WireGuard on my router (ER-L) and Pi-Hole on the router as well, with a primary DNS on my Synology which uses Pi-Hole's Docker image [1]. Docker runs on Raspberry Pi, so I recommend you look into that route. Jessfraz wrote a howto on running WireGuard in Docker [2]

[1] https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole

[2] https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/installing-and-using-wireguar...
- Antifragile

- Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
neither avenv nor bchroot (nor chroot by the way) claim any security gain. Bugs are in this case just bugs and I'll fix them. bchroot is ~ 200 lines C, avenv is 60 lines shell scripting. It's really no big deal.

But aren't we all a little beta anyway?