skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get your kid on a sleep schedule. There are a few books out there how to do that or you can ask a doctor or sleep specialist. The key is consistency. Go to bed at 9pm, maybe even 8-8:30 if possible (if you get woken up at night). Wake up at 5am. If you consistently wake up at 5am your body will adjust. Sometimes your kid can help with that. Usually they are up at 6am.
Yes, this is a great point. If I "felt stupid" when I was in the office, that was fine. I would chat with colleagues or just look out the window. On the other hand, if the same thing happens at home then I feel guilty about it, "stop the clock" and then resume later.
Judges (like any actor) can be corrupted and benefit by the for-profit system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
Tires soaked in the blood of a white rino, but to make it meaningful, we first use crispr to modify the protein in the blood.
Getting messages requires an open TCP connection, hence it really is quite important (at least with IRC) that the app stays running in the background.
Not white westerners though its like how poor "workers" from other Muslim countries get treated badly compared to western expats on a full ride ticket.
> judges in the US routinely use sentencing as a means to do the same

American judges are fiercely independent. Where “messaging” is concerned it’s within the context of deterring future crime, not messaging to foreign states.
And the resentencing is suspicious.
These miserable WS tech gigs pay well right?
How Trump-Russia facts look from a counterintelligence perspective
Repeated radio signals coming from galaxy 1.5B light years away
>"Use a bouncer" might be the answer there.

Weechat and weechat-android are great choices here. Best CLI and Android IRC clients I've used, and I've tried quite a few.
That whole line (G) was great for many years, some of the best overall consumer cameras each model in those early years, and much more compact than a DSLR.
Layjet: Microtrenching in the Road Shoulder
> Some calls to that API on some OEMs device round alarms to the nearest minute, some to the nearest ten minutes.

WHY? What benefit does that serve?
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility)
I don't think late evening is the alternative. 9-5 links to "corporate" and "corporate" links to "meaningless job" for many reasons: first of all if you work for a company, the profit will come before the interests of your customers. If the company is big and profitable, it will be able to support more and more mechanism to detach its profit from the actual value brought to the customer or society or both. Also the bigger the company, the less relevant is the impact of most individuals inside the company.
We're in healthcare and we're going to the cloud! (still on-prem for a couple of years, but it's in the pipeline. My tests are all in the cloud nowadays)

I agree that it is rewarding, and it doesn't feel that slow where I work. We cover more than half the hospitals in our country, and a couple of university-hospitals. There's plenty of change they want - and (surely the university ones) - have plenty of ideas of what they'd like to see.

For us "but HIPAA!" is "but GDPR!" for quite some time though. But we're hardly unique in that.

It's definitely a nice industry if you want to have a meaningful job. But it does come with some stress as well though.

EDIT: Fix my English :D
Who is writing the articles?
I had a Agfa CL18 in 2000. The quality of the pics were awful but it really got me turned onto digital photograph in a way film photograph never did.

I graduated to a HP 618 a year later and the picture quality was excellent. I still have the camera and I could probably get by with it today if I needed to.

I remember my boss showing me a really early Casio camera in the 90's. That was the first digital camera I ever got to play with.

Great site, love it.
Is it really? It seems pretty widely accepted that the death penalty doesn’t deter crime, for example, which indicates that people (well, potential criminals, anyway) don’t see it as substantially worse than a lengthy prison term.
Same, I help writing systems to 'optimise advertisement effectiveness' == encourage consumerism and maybe creative negative value for society. It sucks but I have to support my family and extended family as the main bread earner.

On the other hands, I often donate to wikipedia, supporting local FOSS communities and mentoring young students. Currently helping my friend with his air pollution measurement station project too. All that I won't be able to do if I take a lower paying job but more meaningful job (previously I was working as a civil engineer, building bridge and stuff).
For a bit of perspective: on the other hand, as a brown Muslim man I won't be going to the US any time soon.

Also won't be going to China either due to their current genocide of the Uyghurs.
How are the phrases "healthcare is a human right" and "everybody should have affordable health insurance" even remotely connected?

Health insurance is supposed to pay for catastrophic losses, similar to auto and home insurance. Is health insurance a human right? What does "affordable" mean? What happens when hospitals and physicians reject your insurance? What co-pays and coinsurance are considered affordable?

Does the right to health insurance extend to people who willingly destroy themselves for pleasure? Do they pay the same amount as people who take care of themselves?

Can "healthcare is a human right" extend to Americans who travel to Europe for the purpose of obtaining free elective medical care at the expense of European taxpayers?

Can your idea of "healthcare is a human right" extend to other aspects of our economy? Can it be declared that programming services are a human right? Food? What kind/how much/which stores/including restaurants? Housing? How many bedrooms, bathrooms, TVs? Telephone service?

Why can some people claim a right over the production of fellow citizens' work, but others can't claim the same rights over other people's work (like programming)?
Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy
Yes. But that 400k is in addition to any other assets, payload, etc. That is the total page weight is higher. While Google tops out at a lighter side 400k.
99% of the tourism in China is domestic. Foreigner shouldn't have white cards on the law because of tourism, that's arrogant and unhealthy.

I was afraid of China because of these random news. But when I finally went there in September, I was surprised as all the internet fear mongering was wrong.
When you read your local newspaper and see a murder, are you afraid to go out ? No because it's an outlier, as is the case above.
I went alone for 1 month in China and felt much safer than in France.
But if you plan to go to China to play the game of law for money, then except to lose big. That's why the country feel safe, the risks are huge, that means dissuasion. Avoid political talk and don't be arrogant = 0 issues there.
Isn't equity research a training ground for working on the buy side where the money is made?

And isn't the work very interesting? (at least for the first 8 hours)
I work in IT at a large insurance company. Most days, I get to cheer someone up and help them with a tech thing they are stuck on. I'm not curing cancer, I'm not fixing the atmosphere, but at least I can detect when I helped someone out. It's mixed bag, but it definitely puts the needle over 50%.
So he smuggled 220kg of meth, while 50g is death penalty in China.
I think the question is about the meaning your job has for the system at large, not for you as an individual.

But gratz anyway
Not true. Browsers work with file addresses on your system. You can download an HTML file and all its JS and CSS and if navigate to the path of the HTML on the disk, the website would just behave as if it were served by a static server.
As long as you're not an organized drug trafficker.

Also our media is susceptible to surfacing up anti-China pieces so it'll skew perceptions. I think it could be healthy to visit to get a different perspective other than "that evil brainwashed country on the other side" that I feel is very pervasive. It's an interesting place to visit if you feel like you want to go to a different planet. Though the fact people are now getting scared to even visit makes it feel like the Third Red Scare.
I'm web engineering manager and front-end contributor for a small team inside a small pharma. I love solving business problems, but I witness a lot of self-inflicted issues outside my department that we are then tasked to fix.

So my knee-jerk answer would be, "no." However the salary + bonus + benefits from this job are providing me resources that will enable my family to be nearly debt-free in a year or two (mortgage notwithstanding). The pay is above tech start-up grade, even well-funded ones.
Sustaining Open Source Software by Stephen Walli
Honest Guide to Remote Work
Test Driven Development in Assembler
I came across this today. They are basically doing microtrenching but instead of opening up the asphalt they open the road shoulder and put lay the cable there. They started doing this in the rural parts of Austria and seem to be achieving 1.5km/day with three vehicles (open and lay, remove leftovers, compress) which from my understanding is quite a bit faster than the alternatives (more than double).

This is what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bfbh3ILLD0
Millions of Chinese CVs exposed on cloud server
Either China is doing this so they can have something to retreat on that seems gracious and careful (i.e., it's a complete ploy) or they're completely misreading Canadian sentiment. Canadians tend to give and give and bend and bend, but it really comes to it they snap in a way that I don't think the Chinese understand.

We have way more leverage over China than they have over us. We sell them commodities. They sell us electronics. You know what's the one good thing about commodity sales? Fungibility. If we start banning Chinese phones we'll buy American ones come in instead. If they ban Canadian grain it will be less efficient, but the world will shift around and that grain will be sold to someone. If they ban our wood, it will be less efficient, but we can make our own furniture or sell wood to Europe to replace the wood China is buying from elsewhere.

And if push every really came to shove there is a lot of Chinese owned property in Canada. Foreign ownership taxes can go way, way up.

It's a complete misread of the situation by them. We have extradition treaties with the USA. Our society runs via a rule of law. They're going to turn the entire Canadian business and political community against them if they keep this up. Take it up with the Americans for fucks sake. Even Maxime Bernier has walked back his pledge for a Chinese-Canadian trade agreement.
Related links:

Thirteen Canadians have been detained in China since Huawei executive’s arrest, says Ottawa
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-thirteen-ca...

China says detained Canadian Michael Kovrig doesn't have diplomatic immunity https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-says-detained-canadian-m...

You shouldn't be going to a country where they don't even respect diplomatic immunity
Teaching coding to adults. Fun. Interesting. Rewarding.
Is it meaningful? Not that much. We probably enable many use cases that won't really change much. Nonetheless the kind of expertise we are building might be applied to other fields with more meaningful impact. Will my company pursue these other fields? Probably not in the short term.

At least I'm not actively harming anybody and today in IT this is a huge privilege.
Hey HN. After 3 years of working remotely, I decided to compile all of my thoughts into 4656 words. I felt like the world needed a guide on remote work that:

1) Was not trying to sell anything
2) Highlighted benefits but also honest realities of location independence

We know it’s not all fairies and rainbows, so I created this guide to give a more accurate view of the lifestyle and address some misconceptions. To be clear, I am a big advocate of remote work, but I think it needs to be represented realistically.

Are there any key points missing from the article?

I split it up into 5 sections so feel free to jump to the section most useful to you.
1) Remote Work != End Goal
2) Can I Even Go Remote?
3) The Good and Bad of Location Independence
4) My Personal Experience
5) Practical Tips
Then alternative is what exactly? Working only in non-profits?
From pg. 75 of the Microsoft FY 2018 10K filing, which shows how their intangibles for LinkedIn acquisition were itemized. This is apart from the $16.8b booked as 'goodwill' from synergy.

(In millions)	Amount	Weighted Average Life

Customer-related	$ 3,607	7 years
Marketing-related (trade names)	$2,148	20 years
Technology-based	$2,109	3 years
Contract-based	$23	5 years

Fair value of intangible assets acquired $7,887	9 years
Understand that when it's up to YOU to keep the lights on, it's an entirely different beast. It's not glamorous, esp if you're a 'small business owner'.

You will need to learn that your goal is to NOT make a profit, because taxes will really piss you off.

Your goal will be to break even, or take a loss.
Show HN: AIFiddle, a Web GUI to Design, Visualise and Share Deep Learning Models
Hi guys,

For a few months now I've been working on a web GUI to build, visualise, train and share deep neural models. It's currently reaching a state where opening it for Beta release make sense.

Currently the tool support:

- Fully connected and Convolutional architecture

- Cloud and local, saving / loading of models

- Edit / delete layers

- Visualise Convolutional layers filters

- Freeze / Unfreeze layers

- More datasets: Fashion MNIST, QuickDraw(10 and 30)

The editor can be found here: https://aifiddle.io.

Your feedback, ideas, suggestions are greatly useful, so please don’t hesitate to share them.

Thanks a ton,

Emmanuel
Receiving messages (aka "listening" in server jargon) is essentially a background task, constantly probing to check for any changes.
you had to use the qualifier "proper" four times in that comment, to the point where it's basically a no true scotsman argument. the "proper government" you describe is a pretty specific kind that has really only existed at scale in the west for a few hundred years. states in the rest of the world and through most of history seem to satisfy most of your criteria for gangs.

i admit it's a silly argument to claim there is no difference between modern states and gangs, but it also seems problematic when your notion of a "proper government" only includes Western style constitutional republics.
The analogy works for many US states and even some city politics as well. There's just less bloodshed than when real street gangs fight.

Remember that limo that crashed and killed 20-ish people? The NTSB and the State Police gang are still fighting each other over who's turf it is.
Racket is an excellent language for DSL’s, compilers, and interpreters. I’m not aware of any other language that has as sophisticated and powerful tooling as Racket in this regard.

It’s also really good for creating GUI’s.

As I wrote in a previous HN thread about Racket, I think Racket’s strong suit is developing internal company tooling that is run locally on an individual machine. Great as tooling for analysts, data scientists, etc.

I wouldn’t recommend Racket for a server unless it was serving relatively few requests. The JVM would probably be a better choice.

From just a quality stand point (documentation, libraries, design) Racket is undoubtedly the best and most advanced lisp on the market. From a practical standpoint, clojure might be better in many cases.

Edit: PS: Typed Racket is really quite nice, though I found it to be too restrictive to use all the time. In a language like Haskell you don’t really feel constrained by the type system since the language is designed around it. In Racket this isn’t the case so you quickly discover that the subset of correct programs with static typing is much much smaller than the subset of correct programs with dynamic typing.

Fortunately as you mentioned you can use gradual typing and everything works fine. My workflow when I used to use Racket for work was to write a module, putting the types as comments. Afterwards, I would attempt to make those types real, skipping over any functions in which it was too onerous.

Also, Racket has runtime contracts that can provide similiar (or more powerful) guarantees as static typing. Though you have to turn them off for production because they absolutely destroy performance (orders of magnitudes slower).
All true. Yet somehow, as of today, they're still relevant. Perhaps not insane but certainly somewhat of a surprise.

p.s. Given what happened with the iPod / iTunes being behind isn't always a bad thing.
The Internet needs no such thing. The possibility to have different personas in different parts of the Internet is one of its best features.
"e.g. any time you mention the word "cloud" the C-level folks yell "but HIPAA!"

I worked for a former healthcare project manager in a completely unrelated industry and I would say 80% of her time was spend worrying about our industry's version of HIPAA. She viewed all new tech projects and software releases through the lens of "How does this violate our industry security standard?". The results were stagnated project releases and high developer turnover.
That is a good point. Again showing that economic forces are typically stronger than political ones.
Show HN: Subspace – A Simple WireGuard VPN Server GUI
That's a starting point. Otherwise publicly-funded projects or institutions.
Got laid off.
Started taking contract gigs. Found I preferred it.
Partnered w/ a collective of consultants founded by a friend and former colleague.
Established my S-Corp and committed to consulting.
Now I make more $ and have more autonomy than ever before.
It comes w/ some uncertainty and some downsides, but what doesn't?
I don't expect ever to go back to traditional employment.

I haven't yet reached the point where I only ever work on projects that are particularly meaningful in terms of impact on the world, but I have more time w/ my wife and daughters and dogs and guitar, and I take every July off to go sailing... so it's a lot closer to "dream job" than anything else I've yet come across.
Ask HN: Can I set a WhatsApp auto-reply telling I've moved to Signal?
Not possible in WhatsApp AFAIK, but maybe with projects similar to whapp-irc [0][1]

[0] https://github.com/lieuwex/whapp-irc

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18897347
That random teacher had some visa problem and was quickly deported. That’s totally normal in most countries.

The entrepreneur is a high profile person playing a very political game with business in North Korea. It does sound like his arrest was unjust, but it doesn’t indicate anything for regular folks like me. His story just reinforces my policy of “stay the fuck away from North Korea.”
I remember at one point at BT our disaster recovery plan for BT worldwides extranet was

1 Put test system in taxi

2 Drive to Heathrow

3 Walk Up to ticket desk at the BA Lounge and buy tickets plus one for the server

4 Install server in CAPITAL (main central office in Edinburgh)
Those apps are explicitly whitelisted by OnePlus. There's nothing to "fix" they're by the app developer, because the killing algorithm chooses based on app name, not app battery consumption. Facebook can kill your whole battery and you'll never get a warning.
RSS did not decline due to technical differences. By the time Google Reader was killed, RSS readers had advanced to the point where wide public usage was possible because the readers dealt with the incompatibility problems outlined in the article.

RSS declined because major tech companies convinced large media companies that they had a better future publishing to their walled gardens and not directly to the public.

The walled gardens only benefited the garden owners, not independent publishers. Now that that is recognized there is again a chance for independent publishers both big and small.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18869755
True but taking drugs to Asia is generally a death sentence, anything less is usually due to a diplomatic favor or bargaining.
Maybe instead of having one sub-page for each age group, why not transform the landing page into a chronological list of the five highest-voted entries for every age group, so we can seamlessly scroll from 20 to 21 to 22 etc. This allow for a much nicer reading experience with less clicks :o)
I look very close to an Arab person than I look like a typical US Citizen. My friends joke if I should get rid of my facial hair for the expediency of immigration. I’ve always been treated well and this goes for vast number of Americans and Foreigners that enter US.
Because then chefs would be even worse off because half would lose their jobs? A better solution is to provide them affordable housing.
"Payback" - The USA
Consultant at a global ERP provider - Its not that meaningful but some days are better then others. Most the time it feels like herding cats.

I make rent and have something left over to invest. Can you ask for much more?
I think the argument from this article is that the core business for AWS is not the OSS. Their core business is to provide "performance, scalability, and availability". So it is a financial reality that they can (and should) replace the software if they want to.
If you want a messaging app to work well, it should send and receive messages when the phone has network connectivity and power. Power is a prerequisite for running in the foreground, but network connectivity is not. Some people may in fact want messaging apps to only work while in the foreground and network available, but I suspect that's less desired.

If you're trying to run standard irc and appear online as much as possible, that's not going to work in iOS without a bouncer to stay online for you and send push messages to send notifications and allow the app to run for a bit to download the messages.

It's probably not a bad idea on Android too, it's technically possible to run as a background service and stay connected, but there's a lot of uncertainty, because other services can crowd you out, and you're at the whim of Google and oems with power management these days.
This.

All other "meaningfulness" is just pure bonus. And no: I am not unhappy, nor unfulfilled.
I used to do some Flash Game Developmemt. My gut tells me that most games had game assets that are self contained. It's a lot easier to author an SWF that way (from my own experience).
I enjoyed looking through this album, thank you for sharing.
Your work is more important than you know. Many people in large orgs are still afraid to talk to the "Trolls in IT."
It took me a little time to grasp the fact that this is a list of cameras that the website author OWNS rather than a list of all cameras that existed in 'antiquity'.

Once that sunk in, I was considering offering to send him my old Canon Digital IXUS II and my wife's old Fuji digital camera which we have the orginal packaing and manuals for, but it seems the owner is planning to sell up so I decided against making the offer.
didn't know Wadler was part of xquery et al .. interesting.

good read
I'm writing a project that will allow executives and business architects more insight into the structure of their company. Meaningful? For them, I certainly hope so. It's not something that a lot of people will see though.

For me, it's mostly a nice opportunity to learn about the structure of this company, about how to model and represent this data, and I'm doing it in a new framework. It's fun, and I've got tons of freedom. There are more fulfilling jobs out there, but this isn't bad.
You surely aren't suggesting that these employees have no say in which job they get, right? I mean, I personally don't have a job that requires me to grope and/or detain people. I personally wouldn't seek such a job. That raises the question: what kind of person would choose that job over any other, especially when government shutdowns and foregone wages are a known risk of employment?