skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're currently big in consulting, but we've been trying to move into SaaS.

There might be a clue there. Consultant type people have a different way of thinking to developers. They want to solve clients problems and solve them quickly. They might be less focused on things that are about investing for the future, such as paying down technical debt. They might be more "just get it done".

The engineers might be more focused on building a solid platform going forward. The difference in tempo between engineering teams may be a result of their focus, e.g. "core architecture" vs. "urgent features/fixes" so maybe look at that.

I don't have answers, just more questions you can consider.

Paying more is the short term fix. If someone with a family would lose money by leaving they might consider staying longer unless the environment is so bad (bullying etc.) that they feel they have to leave.

I'd probably set up a 1-1 (with 99% listening, 1% talking) with as many people as you can, everyone in your team(s) plus quite a few people in other team, write it all down, sleep on it and see what you can figure out.
I'm interested in using graph databases to model history and the humanities. I guess knowledge management, which is something I find RDBMSs are weak on. Not due to the schema, but because if you want to make relationships between anything possible, you end up with one table containing all nodes, and one containing edges. Which if you have multiple types of node (e.g. People, Places, Battles) gets very messy.

I'm keen to hear from anyone who's worked in this field.
In terms of execution, I believe subscription charges are a distinct "type" of transaction.

I have a weird money management system that involves two bank accounts, one of which regularly can go down to a zero balance. When this happens, I rely on the bank to deny the transaction when I use my debit card, which they do—I have overdraft "protection" turned off—unless it's an autorenewing subscription. My bank has told me these types of transactions can't be blocked because they're considered pre-approved.

My point being, the credit card company knows which transactions are "subscriptions", so they should be able to provide you with a list. No provider relationship needed.

(I'm in the US, no idea if Australia is the same)
They changed from the previous version because they figured out how to have ten times as many shards, lower the minimum stake from 1500 ETH to 32 ETH, and remove code duplication that the previous version would have required.

It's incorrect to say they "can't figure out how to make it work." They figured out one way, then a much better way. Right now they have a near-complete spec; the remaining changes are small optimizations. Eight independent teams are working on implementations in various languages.
There is a big difference between using an object model designed for UIs and using the DOM or canvas, even with the same language (JS). An appropriate model can vastly simplify and accelerate layout and painting. I'm thinking of QML here - the performance situation is probably similar with XUL, ugly as it may be.
A16z: When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World
Tezos uses delegated PoS, so no, I don't think it qualifies. D-PoS is sort of antithetical to the idea of decentralized blockchain due to a small number of nodes and very questionable process of node (witness) selection.
The ports are rather important though. The Box is an excellent book showing how standardized containinerd revolutionized trade.

In developed countries the containers are multimodal: port/rail/transport truck

The oceanbound part is the cheapest. Without modern container ports it is very difficult to prosper.

Internal trade is also important, but I think your disregard for the ports is misplaced.
The default output of Scratch being on the stage is a big step up from text as far as intuitiveness goes, and it allows beginners to accomplish a lot more with a lot less work.

I'm not sure how it would work, but it would be very nice if Scratch emphasized creating functions and building with more advanced programming concepts. Last time I played with it, functions and "make your own block" were hard to access and not necessary for the target audience to make basic games.

Although it's gotten smaller, I think it's Scratch's responsibility to close the gap between it and a "real" programming language.
Could also be 100% if their Proof-Of-Stake
game theory does not work as well with real funds worth stealing as it does on testnet. Full disclosure I hold some ETH but I would not dare put all my eggs in that brazenly "do it live" basket.

One party can hold >50% of all funds and we would have no way of knowing.

I wish people would look at less energy consuming proofs of work that still allow us real world evidence of decentralization.

We need more experiments like Chia with proof of wasted disk space instead of proof of wasted electricity.
There is a browser API called Beacon whose purpose is to address this specific edge-case. Google Analytics supports it as an option.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Beacon_API
Landing rockets on autonomous drone barges, coming out with a sedan that beats a Lamborghini Aventador in 0-60 acceleration at 1/6th the cost, thereby pushing the state of the art across the entire car industry. Seems like a guy I would trust.
Ask HN: Where to Meet Technical Cofounders in Deep Tech?
Guys - I need to understand if there is any kind of "blind date" meetups where technical cofounders can be met? I know that this is not the best way to start a company but I've learned, the hard way, that without a technical cofounder things wont be so smooth ...
You could do the overlapping space part of this in the game Descent/Descent 2 since building the levels involved actually directly creating the space partition data structure. I always thought it was incredibly cool and underused.
I mined NiceHash for a bit. Made a couple of grand doing it (I also pay for 100% wind power), but I didn't really consider the impact it would have. I saw the $10 to $15 a day for little to no work and took it.
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The eyes don't have a framerate. A video at 60fps looks smooth but a single black frame on a white video is visible even at much higher fps. If I move my mouse quickly in circles on a 60fpx screen it looks like I have 10 individual cursors in a ring but if I move my finger quickly in circles it looks like I have a slightly transparent ring shaped finger with no gaps in between, I can see the smooth curve of the path that my finger took which would have to be captured at an incredibly high framerate to display on a monitor.
As I've said elsewhere, I'm looking out for my own students first.

One of my colleagues suggested setting up a "club" on PerusAll (https://app.perusall.com/welcome) or something similar that would allow people to discuss to book and/or work through problems collectively. (They have a club for CLRS, for example.) Right now all their "clubs" are restricted to books with Reputable Publishers (ptui), so they might need some persuasion.
Apple should have bought Tesla a long time ago. Imagine, what would Model 3 have done to their bottom line now.
VR has been out for ages and is fairly limited by the current available tech.
Im sorry man, you are misinformed

https://www.apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...
What a strange article.

The real issue is that 5G in 24–86 GH region has a range of about 1500 m, unlike LTE (and 5G in the LTE bands up to 6 GH) with a much longer range. So think of 5G more as a small-cell mesh technology -- I doubt you'll see it outside urban centers except for marketing -- your "5G" phone will continue to work but only at LTE speeds & bandwidth.
i remember a call from someone trying to sell me 3G internet. she had a very hard time understanding why the bandwidth they offered wasn't enough, i already had a fiber connection. its nice to only have to wait a second when downloading packages using apt-get, downloading free OS distributions, container images, training sets, software modules and dependencies, raw images, backups, installing a game from Steam, etc.
When I can buy a reliable $5k ICE car (which are the kind of cars I drive) I don't see an EV ever really making sense.
Has Google Analytics finally begun blocking referrer spam? I know Piwik/Matomo have been doing this by default for a while: https://matomo.org/blog/2015/05/stopping-referrer-spam/

The blacklist is on GitHub and is useful for other analytics software, such as GoAccess which is what I use.
we might even call them processes! ducks
Nice work, by the way! I didn't meant to be overly critical or "nit-picky".

The visualization parts of the post are _extremely_ well done, and it's a very clear example of how to apply mathematical tricks to practical problem solving. I feel like things like this should be in most AI practitioner's toolboxes, and they're too often forgotten.

I agree completely on the avoiding jargon point. Jargon is a real hindrance to learning something for the first time, and it's definitely best to minimize it whenever possible. (It is very useful when you're trying to find relevant papers though... I always find it fascinating/frustrating what different fields call the same thing...)

At any rate, nice work!
I feel as if the digital world is half drug and that cutting off will lead to a weird period of time until we can enjoy non electronics based good times. Still it may feel weird that such modern and sophisticated tech led to more problems than bonuses.
I am also suspicious of public usb charging ports. That's why I prefer to use my AC power adapter. Not only do I make sure to get full USB-C power capacity, I know nobody can hack my phone because the AC port has no data channel.
I can see it happening in Australia where the internet is universally shit unless you are in the lucky 1% of areas. My office is in the center of the city and has 10Mbit/s down. We would easily be in range of any future 5g infrastructure.
Ethereum claims to be the "World Computer" that lets you build "Unstoppable Applications". If that doesn't sound like an AWS competitor then I don't know.
Or you could go into the "blue collar" trades like plumbing, electrical work, etc. After you get some experience, the trades can be a very lucrative line of work. Albeit you have to sweat and get your hands dirty. Mike Rowe has a few very persuasive thoughts on the subject as well, and can do it much more eloquently than I can.
> Scratch also has a friendly, supportive community. Kids engaging in civil discussions, and building off other's ideas.

This makes me happy. There's hope for humanity yet.
> Firefox+uBlock on Android is soooo nice for a fast mobile browsing experience

I use BlockBear on safari. Any speed gains you may have because of uBlock are offset by the cpu speed gains on iPhone XS. Hell, hacker news loads faster(less than a blink of my eye) on my iPhone than 2017 MacBook Pro.
>Many people don't care about FaceID or OLED screens.

The OLED screen is arguably a downgrade because it uses flickering PWM brightness control.
Sure -- just go to tech talks and meetups that are centered around deeper technologies or tech platforms.

And when you go, meet people slowly. Don't make it obvious that you're looking for a co-founder. Just ask people why they're interested in the space, what they think of it, etc. Vet their intelligence, and get to know the good ones over time.
Serious question: why was the reward for mining ever so high? Wouldn't most of the energy consumption problems not be a thing if the reward for mining was drastically lower?
I imagine the BOM and manufacturing costs aren't as big as paying all of those employees at 1 Apple Park Way, their IP holding companies overseas, or all their construction costs on billion dollar campuses they're building, who are being paid in dollars.
Are you a paid GA user? If that's the case, you can ingest your data into BigQuery. Otherwise; you can't export the raw data, the only option is to export the summary data (number of unique users per hour, day, week etc.) from GA to your Redshift cluster via an ETL tool such as Segment.
I'd like to add the account settings section to the list. Whenever I want to change or review the server settings (IMAP/SMTP/POP), I always have to look for it like 30 seconds, since they are not in the same location (which is technically okay, since they are different services).
I knew quite a few people who had a dream of owning a specific nicer brand, like BMW. They started making decent money and bought one that was 3-5 years old. Literally 6mo later they'd dump it at a loss because during that time it was constantly in the shop and each repair cost was ridiculous.

I now know a few people who own nicer cars for peer and client status reasons (I'm sure they like having a nice car, too). Leasing or selling the new car after a couple years seems like the only sane way to operate.

A friend bought a Mini Cooper new and drove it for 10 years. It had very low milage because for quite a few years it wasn't needed much. For the most part it ran fine, but paying for expensive brake pads, run-flat tires (no spare), and other maintenance on a car where the glove box wouldn't stay closed and the cloth headliner sagged down just didn't make sense.
Internet of Dongs (CCC 2018)
14 missions to comets, 20 to asteroids, and around 50 planetary small moons imaged well enough to see their shapes. Under a hundred miles in diameter many have irregular shapes. I would guess this shape only occurs a few percent of the time.

Wednesdays news conference speculated UT shape is primordial, while the others may have been carved through four billion years of planetary evolution.
Did you even read the article you posted ?

Customs seized it. Not Apple.
If we're going that way how about not having an economic system that predicates social stability on growth? The very essence of how our society is structured is antithetical to environmental stewardship, forget a few people playing around on computers.
IIRC al-khwarizmi means `from khwarizm` a region near Irak
> See, common law somehow worked for UK and US, but apparently is not applied constructively in some African countries with British colonial past.

> I'd say that bribery "for the family", and building government structures that facilitate bribery, is a part of culture, of what is seen as normal and proper.

> Changing that seems to be the key to economic success.

This was previously a core part of UK and US culture, and is still popular with some atavistic types.
It appears the manager did not comprehensively 'arrange' this for the employee. Part of this job would have been ensuring that this information was transparent, and the decision fair.

If employees are complaining, it is presumably a mix of a) company culture issues and b) a lack of information that meant they perceived it as unfair.
Static analysis is easier on monorepo. At least one can run it on all code. Polyrepo has the problem that some code is off the radar. That might be the only advantage of monorepo in my opinion.
Presumably that requires work everywhere in the city instead of at a few key points like this project which makes it harder, even if more effective.
Neither of these articles relate to a pure AOSP install without Google Play services, which is what the poster was talking about.
This article takes a really really long time to get to the point. It raves and raves about how great the system is and then the final page it says oh BTW it doesn't work, too much flow, should have diverted that rainwater.
I still CANNOT believe the amount of people that want these gigantic ass phones. How are we in the minority for wanting a phone that fits in one hand??
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My understanding is that different cables have different capabilities.

I find a wonky cable a higher risk than shitty charging equipment, especially as it may work fine for low power needs.
My home network consisted of two subnets, and even in such a simple configuration I was never able to get Chromecast working, which also uses mdns.

Mdns proxy would have been the solution, but I was never able to get it to work. It seemed to me that no one actually managed to get it to work, based on my Google searches at the time.

Of course, getting it to work on the corporate network was even less likely.
Eh. I struggle to see what dealerships actually do at all. They don't make the car...why are they the only ones allowed to sell it?

Also, that quote is just wrong. They didn't make a "shittier dealership". They don't have dealerships at all.
Hover is not necessarily more hidden UI, but could actually go to making bits of phone UI that currently exists more discoverable. A personal gripe of mine is that press-and-hold on a button is a terrible way of discovering something new, you’re never sure if the button is just going to perform its default action (which is something you may not want to do, and without a readily-available “undo” key is kinda dangerous). Hover could go a long way to improving this.
On the contrary, I love ports and they are very important. But I find in African policy and business circles we overhype our ports and port cities, and forget that there is a huge world of development that needs to transpire beyond them.

It’s been a hugely busy decade in terms of port modernization in East and West Africa in particular, this report really gets into it if you like reading Port stuff.

http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/sectors/africas-port...
The fast charging network only exists in a few areas. If you happen to live there, great. But for the rest of the country, "range anxiety" is still pretty real.
c) they've been given an easy outlet to complain without taking the time to understand what's going on. Complaint as gamification. d) other.
Theresa May’s Anti-Christian Regime
Perhaps the Mac Pro is truly dead.
Because block rewards are in a fixed amount of cryptocurrency, not a fixed amount of USD or similar. As prices increased on cryptocurrencies, block rewards became more valuable - but not because the miner was issued more crypto.

These energy consumptions concerns wouldn't be as relevant if ETH was worth 0.01 USD, for example.
I’m not familiar with this. I have a X and haven’t noticed any flickering of the screen and really love it generally. Can you expand on this?
Most analytics providers have JS SDKs that persist the data to localStorage. When the user comes back to the webpage, the SDK tries to send the persisted data to the server. It's not an ultimate solution but it usually covers most of the cases where Beacon support is not available.
I think the point is that all cryptocurrencies that we have currently are experimental in that sense, and so it's a good time to experiment with unproven concepts. Maybe that means ETH will crash and burn, but so what? It's a minuscule part of overall economy, so aside from people who decided to seriously invest into it (i.e. alpha testers), it's not a big deal. But, on the other hand, we do want to figure out what works before we start using these things at scale, when it's much harder to change.
Forget about efficiency for the moment and focus on discovering the underlying recursive problem.

LOTS of people struggle with dynamic programming. But in my experience, 90% of the difficulty with dynamic programming is actually discomfort with recursion, which is why I talk about recursive backtracking first.

Try reading Chapter 2. My goal in that chapter is to show the process of deriving recursive solutions---how to think about the problem, and what questions to ask---rather than just presenting the solution as a fait accompli.

I do have to assume that you believe in the Recursion Fairy, though. That's probably the hardest step. Computer scientists are TERRIBLE at delegating.
Ha! As I was reading that and pictured my pirate I was focusing on getting the drape of his pantaloons correct, so they hung over the top of the peg leg just so. When I went back to check color I realized it was like a coloring book image, thickly inked, but colorless.
The headphone jack on my windows 10 powered Dell at work randomly stops "detecting" my headphones. I need to reinstall the drivers. Every week or so. And of course I don't because that's insane.

Now we're to trust the same bottom scraping hardware/software makers with an already overly complex serial port.
Proof of Stake is unable to deal with network partitions, the likes of which every so often happen to cut entire countries off the Internet

PoS is a disaster waiting to happen for Ethereum.
The VC Comics
The article is rambling so I'll digress to the title -

He wrote a big article on how no one else was allowed to use his Three Laws of Robots. Copyright him.

Which I always found strange, here was his chance to be the future.

Reality is no one will ever use them though, war is important to humans for starters. But he wasn't helping his chances.

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

[It was only the one article I know of, I'm not sure if he stuck to it, people make mistakes]