skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use paid Azure DevOps for Source Control (although we're watching GitHub closely).

We tried to also use Azure Boards (Work Items, Boards, Backlogs, etc). Ouch. It is a complete UI mess of disjointed ideas. Instead of implementing one thing well, they implemented two dozen things terribly.

We actually migrated from Azure Boards to Office 365's Planner (KanBan) just because the UI wasn't so horrible. It is simple and gets out of your way. In fact O365's Planner, Teams, and OneNote Online products might be superior to anything Azure DevOps has produced.

The only nice thing I have to say about Azure DevOps Boards is that it integrates into Visual Studio, but frankly even that is barely passable. I'm predicting they scrap DevOps completely and just use GitHub as a clean slate.
> american culture war between red and blue tribes continues unabated

Not unabated, but at an accelerated pace. Social media has now been weaponized and we are approaching civil war levels of hostility.

I think it's not an even split. The right is being conditioned to hate the left to a degree that is terrifying. Check out the propaganda that the NRA puts out. It is "Divide and Conquer 101"

The majority of the liberal commentary I register is more puzzlement, sadness, and fear (guns, guns, guns, baby!).

I would love to have dialog across the aisle but it seems impossible now. I can acknowledge plenty of "liberal failures" but that is a one way street.
They’ve got product development costs to recoup.
We had a great time with Keycloak, using it as an OpenID Connect provider. I haven't tried the social identity federation or Active Directory Federation either.
This is my primary concern with the whole "charge your laptop through peripherals" trend promoting usb-c. My laptop ships with a ~200W PSU, so anything that wants to reasonably charge my it needs that amount in excess power. I just don't see it being economical to stuff that king of power into everything. Not to mention I can't even find a 200W usb-c wall charger...
It doesn't have to be just NN's. For example, stereoscopic vision (triangulation) or LIDAR can create a 3D depth map model (perhaps with certainty weights). NN's can also create one based on mass 3D training on flat images (non-stereo). The two models can be compared, and alternative pattern-match candidates can be explored for the spots that don't match well.

I suppose the stereoscopic vision system could use NN's, but the implementation can be swapped for something else as long as the result (interface) is a depth map. You could switch it from LIDAR to multi-eye stereoscopic translation and vice versa. The interface between the parts is something human analysts can inspect and relate to.

You may also have a 3rd module that attempts to model the scene using 3D rendering of the "guessed" objects (using a database of known objects) from the flat-image NN and depth-map first pass, using the match/non-match feedback to test yet more guesses. (Certain objects with semi-random shapes like a pile of cloth or mountains may be excluded from known-object-matching, at least as a test candidate.)

There might even be a genetic algorithm to "breed" the best 3D-rendered model that fits the depth map, the flat image, and the top flat-NN candidates.
Former H1B here. I'm convinced that this is the sole reason why H1B exists in its present form. Hire an experienced employee into an entry level position (based on level: you see, you can't hire someone into a job unless there are no local candidates, so lower the level, and therefore the offered wage, and triple the list of requirements to make sure local folks don't apply). Have them do the job that would otherwise call for a senior employee. Offer very little in the way of raises or stock in the company until they get a green card and dump your company for another one that's less abusive. Lather, rinse, repeat. That's how it works, folks, don't let anyone try to convince you otherwise.
The U.S. isn't a member state but the US government (through the NSF and DOE) contribute a ton of money to the research, development, and operation of the LHC and it's major experiments.
Developer can switch jobs fairly easily. Its a sellers market. Companies that don’t understand this are going to wonder why they have a hard time retaining talent.
It's totally fine to think or even obsess about a high paying job. It's not okay for that to be the only reason you're in the industry.

Plus, you really don't need to go to Stanford, MIT, etc. to get a high paying job. If I wanted to maximize my wealth ASAP, I'd go to my state school, major in CS and math/econ, graduate in 3 years debt free and then go into finance/tech. I'd like to hope that the people going to Stanford are doing it for more than just a 6 figure salary.
> They are a serious journalism organisation

BuzzFeed is? I only ever see them publish silly top-ten lists and click-bait articles.
Yes, it's got some really nice features but it is a little clunky/complex compared to Zotero. I would try out Papers first before looking at Bookends...Bookends can work great, but it does take some work to set up.

Also, Bookends annoyingly checks to see if you are running the same license on multiple devices on your network, and if you have more than once instance running it forces you to close it down. This may seem superficially reasonable, but for someone with both a desktop and a laptop it's quite annoying. I emailed the developer about it and they didn't seem to get why this was a problem.
I bought a 9360 and returned it because of the coil whine, it was so bad that I could hear it over music playing from the laptop. I returned it for a refund and got a 9370 about 8 months later and it has been so much better. No coil whine now. The webcam is in the same place, but I have never had to use it. I didn't have any issues with the Killer card in either the 9360 or the 9370 (and use it daily for multiple hours at a time).

I do really wish I could've got the laptop without the 4k screen because on a 13" laptop I would rather save the battery life and not have a glossy screen, alas, it wasn't available last year in Australia with 16GB RAM. It does seem that this year though it is available.

I use an external 4k screen and don't have any issues, although I am using the Dell TB16 dock. The more annoying issue is that you can use 4k@60 over HDMI since it isn't supported by the Intel GPU, you need to use a DP connector.
nice comparison.

I am waiting for the right time to buy an ubuntu laptop, but it still seems like a MBP is the better choice. You're just much less likely to run into some weird hardware driver issue.

I guess it used to be quite a bit cheaper to get a non-apple laptop, but it seems like the other companies have figured out that you can charge more for a "premium" product..... Looking at the above comparison, price would not be a differentiator for me. ( Do I really care about what amounts to a ~$300 price difference if we were looking at literally same specs? )

It's too bad because I'd love for there to be a real, price conscious alternative to an apple laptop, but that doesn't seem to be the way the industry is going. It seems like every year dell and lenovo creep closer to apple pricing.
I think he's just trolling...
Strong words. Can you back that up?

I could find no evidence, looks like the guy is an android developer of some sort.
This is new to me too. Thanks, I'll take a look.
>> she was making 40-50% less than new interns were getting out of college

This is called salary compression, and it's not unique to just minorities. Companies have to pay market to hire. They don't have to pay market to people who might be reluctant to leave, for a variety of reasons. It's fairly common for new hires to be earning significantly more than nominally "senior" employees who have been with the company for a decade or more.
> Hacker news has declined in quality.

Alright, y'all are getting virtual hugs. I agree completely as well.

I also agree that the changing trends are a biproduct of the increasing levels of access to software development as a profession. However, I do not think that computer forums should filter out "stupid people". I had the pleasure of hearing Code.org President Alice Steinglass talk about how her professor in undergrad told her to stop studying CS after she asked what a debugger was. If we begin arbitrarily filtering out "stupid people", we are no better than that professor.

> The most precipitous drop in my opinion was right after all the buzz about Facebook becoming less popular, musk joining mastodon and everyone in the comments brainstorming about alternative social media schemes.

I think it happened earlier than that. Around 2015-ish to be exact. That's when I personally noticed an uptick in "pat yourself on the back" posts instead of actual good signal.

> I’m really scared and disappointed by HNs decline. HN is the only good intellectual watering hole on the internet

I was a bit fearful as well. But after reading your full comment, I don't really fear that much now. My idea:

Let HN die.

More decentralized sites (like the one you proposed with hand curated content) will crop up. I'm personally investigating the Linus Tech Tips forum as an HN alternative since it seems to have the maker and hacker vibes that I used to see here (and on Reddit and JCXP before I found HN).

In short, yeah HN is dying. But I'm not really going to mourn its loss since it will free up room for better websites to come along. After all, that spirit of adventure and "what will we think of next" is what pushed me to become an engineer in the first place.

As for me, I'll probably leave here forever in a week or two if things don't improve.
I dunno, I feel like people who make this comment are talking about some mythical person who pays enough attention to get the buzzfeed report, yet who isn't paying enough attention to know that buzzfeed news is a thing.

like "Well _I_ know the difference but the random person does not and gets confused!"

These sort of circular meta-discussions in our politics get us so far from the reality that it makes it hard to know what people actually think
Conceivably you can see a backen server being built in Julia e.g. https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl

But I can't imagine anyone would choose Matlab or Mathematica to build a backend...
The problem I noticed with the system like this is that cashier is idling for a bit while the next customer walks from the head of single line to the specific register. Depending on the layout this can be a significant distance. There’s no such idling in multiple lines.

That is why some places started to use hybrid system. One single line until very end where someone marshals you at the end of many very short lines.
What do you think the article means by "shifting digital-media landscape"?

I've been thinking about this a lot. There are a lot of interesting developments happening right now.
> We've been investing heavily in our user experience and our CI/CD experience

I'm on the "new" UI and I'm not seeing it. You've just re-skinned the same buggy and broken cruft that was there before.

It reminds me of the Visual Studio 2019 blog posts about new icons, themes, and fonts as their big new features while ignoring the massive performance problems people have been asking about for years.

DevOps with or without the new branding/UI is the same poorly designed product that doesn't know what it wants to be and is super un-polished. It would be better if you made it really good for one specific user scenario rather than poor for dozens.
I was actually referring to the journalism bar but Buzzfeed News doesn’t do anything to refute my point, as far as I can tell.
> aren't really high paying job offers pretty hard to get these days?

Honestly? Not really. If you're willing to devote enough time to slavishly going over leetcode questions and apply to enough places, you can get a nice offer, especially for college students who can get their foot in the door via internships. For better or worse, tech job applications are a very standardized, simple system.
one thing to watch out for here, though- sampling bias works out in the kids' favor.

More kids are in neighborhoods with... more kids!
Oh well, can't let this pass...

Introducing TwoBasedIndexing.jl (https://github.com/simonster/TwoBasedIndexing.jl)

The point is, n-based indexing isn't really that big a deal.
yes, i definitely looked at noflo and thought it was a really awesome effort. my intentions with this had less to do with any sort of utility than it did with trying to reflect a specific aesthetic i had in mind. thinking that i'd want more control, i made my own type / serialization scheme as i went
Heh, it is kind of funny now that I think about it.

I know nothing about advertising, I wonder why that's the case? Is it just about the sheer amount of volume FB/Google control? Are they in the position to be able to charge higher prices?

I mean, I'd imagine BuzzFeed racks up a huge amount of exposures/ click-thrus. But I guess the big guys just control such a huge % of people's time share on the net it can't compare.
Tricky answer.
Robert Putnam studied[0] the civic engagement and social trust of diverse/homogeneous societies and found that factor alone sufficient explanation. Fewer Americans live in places as sparsely populated as those our ancestors did.

[0]: http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/...
Larry David hears you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2CFFULmONk
Thanks for the feedback.

Have you seen [1] and specifically [2]?

[1] https://pharo.org/documentation

[2] http://books.pharo.org/

Do you have a particular example of a site where the kind of documentation that you would like to find is published for other language (lets say Python)? This could help to understand better which are the expectations and why current books and MOOC are not enough.
"BuzzFeed launches a new website for its real journalism": https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/buzzfeed-news/

"Buzzfeed News adds a Pulitzer winner and top Pentagon correspondent to its staff": http://www.niemanlab.org/reading/buzzfeed-news-adds-a-pulitz...
Kodiak bears are pretty rare to see. Saw one in my 6 years living there. I heard plenty mountain biking, but they don't bother you as you aren't a predator nor their prey.
If they log keystrokes (for security, UX research or whatever) there's a good chance that they send enough packets to allow an attacker to infer a lot just from observing frequency and length of packets.
I also agree w/ you on this one.

I'd like OP to expand on why that's a red flag. Dockerization and using TypeScript seem pretty straightforward and logical additions to me.

Also, if they're only additions, I wouldn't consider them significant changes.

Using TypeScript can be a significant change but Dockerization? That seems pretty standalone isn't it?
How does this map to the idea that we haven’t unified the fundamental forces? It sounds as if we understand exactly where and how they diverge... surely it isn’t just that we haven’t experimentally verifies this?

Apologies if I am way off base
> Do only enterprises test their software?

Microsoft also has operating expenses. They need to bring home some income to keep the lights on.
It's still as bad as it always was, if that's what you mean. :P

http://hckrnews.com/ is much better.
it's easier to read.
> Blippar may have blown up in dramatic fashion, burning through more than $130 million in funding for its dream of building an augmented reality empire...

Wow

> At one point, the startup had more than 300 employees and claimed a $1.5 billion valuation.

Somewhat surprised I hadn't heard of them. Lots of posts about them [0], but it seems this is the first time they're being upvoted. I would have loved to see more of these posts than the common posts about Tesla, Uber, Apple, and Google, and cryptocurrencies that get so many upvotes. I generally just scroll through the "new" page now.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=blippar&sort=byPopularity&pref...
Contacts are even worse. Did anyone notice that online vendors in the US like the 1-800 one were well cheaper, and now somehow they all have the same pricing? And that a special contact lens check is required, at a separate price, to get a prescription for contact lenses renewed, even if the script is the same for glasses and contacts, and you just did the glasses? And that while you can buy 100 years of contacts, the script is only valid for 12 months on the dot? Oh, and you can't resell your unopened box of contacts on eBay or anywhere.

Regulations are good but these laws in the US are very cartel-y. I remember in the UK in 2012 or so I could order as many contacts as I wanted with no script, no questions asked, online.
People might also downvote it because they didn’t say anything at all.
I bet those unnamed sources had evidence though.
Literally the reputational concern I’m addressing up top
Am I the only one worried about how much easier this might make it to trick our less-tech-savvy friends into thinking their device "has a virus"? Might be enough to confuse my parents, at least.
Sequoia launches seed investment program in Southeast Asia, India
I cannot ELI5 this for you, but here’s more context:

beta8 := new(big.Int).Lsh(beta, 3)
beta8.Mod(beta8, curve.P)

https://golang.org/pkg/math/big/#Int.Mod
EDIT: "are any less likely ..."
Trump had the entire establishment, left, right and center, against him, and came out a winner. He still has the entire establishment, left, right, and center, against him. And he's still there fighting.

You can hate the guy--it is establishment policy to do so, after all--but he's a tough son-of-a-bitch. There's no way around that fact.
Your correct - that one doesn't propose an architecture but suggests that others do so. It also is arguably from "outside" the main deep learning community, and in the context of the OP could be interpreted as corrective.

However, that is exactly not the paper's own stance, which is explicitly constructive to the field. And it is reciprocated! Check out all the NeurIPS papers citing and relating their work to the suggestions here: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=8504723689348856287...

While I misspoke, my point remains that both this contribution and it's reception are part of a healthy community, not a case of "moving past" or exposing shortcomings of a field..
Whenever we see an apparent monopoly or a confusingly high profit margin, we should immediately look for barriers to entry. Situations like this are usually explained by the existence of a racket with government-enforced barriers to entry.

Optometry is a licensure racket with strong legal barriers to entry. The sale of glasses is ostensibly a separate business without the same barriers, but I suspect it rides on the coattails of optometry's racket. I think there's an inertia tie between the eye exam and the purchase of glasses.

The cleanest way to end this nonsense is to break the optometry licensure racket. Think about what optometrists actually do. Think about all your eye exams and the whole "1 or 2" procedure as they flip through lenses. Honestly, most adults could probably do that job and produce a correct prescription after maybe a week's training. I'm not saying they're inherently bad people or anything, and I like my optometrist, but it's a racket just like realtors, lawyers, and other guilds that use the law to prop up their prices and reduce competition.

There's at least one startup out there that wanted to do eye exams through a specially designed web app. Expect the optometry racket to lobby hard against this, just like taxi rackets tried to stop Uber. And there ought to be companies offering cheap glasses online any second now...
That may just be situational. My neighborhood has a mix of everyone from childless 20-50 couples, retired folks, and families. There's a basketball game going on right now out in front of my house, in fact, with a half dozen elementary/middle school age kids.
Some quick RE work:

sqlite_rekey_v2 is at 00CA1C13 on the Windows version of 1.19.3

Hooking it with Frida or similar should allow you to drop the 3rd parameter and set pKey to NULL allowing you to create a database which can be read by standard sqlite.

Keys however appear to be account-specific - I haven't looked into the full algorithm yet, but it's fairly pointless as you'd need a copy of sqlite3 with SEE support (which costs $2600 or so) to decrypt it using that method anyways, I tried briefly but was unable to come across a stray copy of sqlite3 with SEE enabled, the above solution is probably better for now anyways.
Interesting that your metaphor involves comparisons of speed...
Scientists design new solar cells to capture energy from rain
There's no need to get snarky. I've used similar parts before, for example TI's Hercules RM4 does not have an MMU either and so what I said wouldn't apply there. But that doesn't mean you would never have an MMU.
I have been a life-long vegetarian. Since, I never used to eat meat, I don't have a meat craving which people sometimes do when leaving meat behind.

I think I may have tried a meat imitation product once but didn't like it very much. I prefer sticky to the spicy, vegetarian food that I am used to :-)
I agree this would be positive. But the source only get's you halfway there though, you still need to actually be able to reproduce a compatible build system. And the longer ago the software was originally developed, the more challenging that becomes.

There are lot's of old projects out there relying on some ancient VS2003 installation. Same will happen with modern languages in a decade - code goes stale, and it get's more and more difficult to pull down the versions of software it was originally built with.
I have a feeling this will end in disaster one way or the other. Conditioning an army of ignorant script kiddies into believing they're suddenly system programmers who know better than everyone else isn't exactly a recipe for success. Most of them couldn't write a page of decent C if their life depended on it. I wish they would choose a different world for their fearless adventures.
I meant emotionally, that I'm solid and secure. That was not a reference to my code. The point of me stating I worked on projects that make millions and millions with thousands of users, is that, if I can do that and work on that with confidence (not ego), then why am I so scared to work on a tiny project and even release to just a few people.
Exactly this. Now they recommend “protein foods”.
Not related to this story but even the glass of juice is recommended to be replaced with a glass of water (and eating whole fruits and vegetables).
Maple Leaf is doing the right thing to prepare to adapt quickly.
>...use an on-premise solution like FusionAuth or...

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brokenwren

I see what you did there. :)

Good luck.
And then there’s how they wait in line in Cuba...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/in-an-onli...
Wow some days he works 20 hours, I imagine he handles all the staffs laundry as well? These kinds of people need to be featured more often, they are great role models for kids.
Solving Kelly’s Dilemma – How to Send SMS from a Spreadsheet
Truth. See http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/the-nonlinear-effect-of-c...
I'm going to try this with mountaineering boots. Thanks!
If every sentence ended in an "end" instead of a period, would you posit that that would be easier to read as well?

The crux of the issue is the signal to noise ratio. The more noise there is (syntax), the more difficult it is to pick up the signal (the semantics).
I have the last gen non-developer xps 13 running Ubuntu. No driver issues what so ever. Honestly most of the hardware are pretty standard these days.
Wow, it's crazy that those are still $3000 for essentially a microphone, DSP chip, maybe a small microcontroller and a BLE chip, and a driver. Something like the Airpods are probably on the same level of technical complexity, but an order of magnitude cheaper.