skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, as a male, if I’m making significantly less than my peers at a job, do I also have grounds for a lawsuit?

Can I just sue to get any salary I want later on? What about past employers? In 2013, I was making $50K as a developer, when other developers, peers at my level, were making three times that amount, and I have proof.

Can I just bring that up in court, claim that I was singled out, and demand back pay?

What if that happens to me at my next job? I accept the offer letter, then a year later, I find out everyone else makes more. Can I sue? Or do I have to be a woman?
If anyone else was just as confused as myself, by not knowing what F* was, see this[0].

[0] - https://www.fstar-lang.org/
One possibility is this - the people who mess with Excel VBA are generally very smart folk who just never went too techy, but then got really good at Excel and just learned vba as the next logical step. That means the code might not be kosher but it will be thoughtfully written and encompassing all the practical use cases.

Contrast that with a 20something can grad who while competent isn't as smart as that non tech guy, and has indoctrinated the cs way of doing things w.r.t. test coverage and unit tests but often will lack the insight of what the program is actually trying to do. Frankly I would also like to choose the former than the latter.
No offense, but you claim you have been "officially coding for 25 years now". You state you are 36. Were you really, officially doing anything at 11 years of age. What does that mean? I was a solder tech at 13 years old. I NEVER throw that out there in any blog or write up, even though I was _literally_ getting a paycheck from a company. Does that make me an official solder tech? Hell no. When people ask how much experience I have as that, I usually start from the time I was 18. Why? Most of the world does not care what we did as kids. I find it strange you would throw out "official coder" at 11. Really, what does that mean?
Most countries allow driving under the influence of some alcohol. How much varies. Rules for other drugs are usually zero tolerance or observable impairment.
I bought the iPhone X because it was almost iPhone 8 Plus at iPhone 8 size. But if there were a iPhone SE2 that followed the “all screen design” and was almost an iPhone 8 in an iPhone 5s body? Sign me up.

I don’t think Xperia matters much here is it is sacrificing iOS and also to a lesser degree, an Android manufacturer that isn’t known for great software on that end.
Chasing Reliability in Automotive Electronics
I posted this on Twitter and of course kindly asked our followers to upvote it if they like the new version. This is something I see on Twitter every day and I really wasn’t aware that it is not allowed to do. https://twitter.com/getkirby/status/1085873516132605952?s=20
Though famously (I believe) it was HP calculators that were known for reverse-Polish notation.
This (or something like it) is always the top thread. I wish this was something the frontend community cheered about, not lamented. Those 200MB of node modules are developers ad-hoc cobbling together an alternative to xcode and android studio, except entirely modular and where we have complete control. Serious application development for the open web is hamstrung by limitations and definitely in an awkward growth phase, but it's marching towards a possible future of competing with native mobile apps and the two companies to which they're entirely beholden. To me, 200MB of tooling is not a sign of cruft, but of steady and imperfect progress.

Edit: and for the record, xcode is a 13.8GB install
Bio-Printers Are Churning Out Living Fixes to Broken Spines
Sure. Encrypted ZFS with FreeBSD, have a power loss, goodbye data.

Should have read the manual though, it does tell you to make a backup of certain data ranges in case of encrypted ZFS for this specific case, so it's partly my fault.

That said, I'm using ZFS ever since, but on top of LUKs with linux.
> indicating directions for taxes

That's what political parties are for. The current US duopoly on representation is a problem.
http://hyperfiddle.net
Pihole, Been running a few years. Best endorsement was wife remarked one day "it's really annoying to use the internet when I'm not home"
This is great, thanks
At the heart of the machine learning that I do with pytorch, most of the errors come from wrong sizes of matrix multiplications, or some matrix input that has a wrong size somewhere in the middle of the net.

How much an extra layer of wrapper of a functional language help with that? Pytorch is not much helpful in terms of the error messages. You have to print out the matrix sizes generated from intermediate operations to find out what is really happening.
I own 2 already, not sure I can justify a third.
The original artificial neuron, the Pitts-McCulloch neuron, was a propositional logic circuit, conceived entirely on the basis of a model of biological neurons as logic gates, with a threshold function that controlled their true or false value. It was even called the Threshold Logic Unit. The paper where it was first described is titled "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity". In fact, the perceptron too was a logic circuit, a function with two outputs, "positive" and "negative ... or "true" and "false".

AI researchers always used the tools that all scientists use to model their subject, in this case, intelligence: maths. Logic is maths, just as probabilities, calculus, algebra, etc etc.
A different target audience, but in the same spirit, here's an open source microscopy project from our lab:
https://andrewgyork.github.io/remote_refocus/

My friend André Maia Chagas is doing some inspiring work in open hardware too:
https://mobile.twitter.com/chagas_am
Out of curiosity, are most companies/devs disregarding angular or is it slowly picking up?
Not sure what you mean but who knows if they are programmers with so much stock photo usage these days.
Why are you doing this?

Money. SV won't hire anyone my age... erm... with my level of experience. And the benefits are ridiculously good.

Is this a side effect of your job or are you helping these communities?

The company helps these communities. I just push buttons so the people who really do the good work can do that good work.

I’d be interested in doing this kind of work, either domestically or internationally.

There's a stereotype on HN that all companies exist to make money and that's all. It's simply not true. There are plenty of companies out there that exist to make lives better for other people. My advice is to find a commercial venture that does good things, and has been around for at least a decade. Avoid government and non-profit do-gooder organizations that may get de-funded on a whim.

I'm not one of those "I'm going to change the world!" kind of people. If the money wasn't there, I wouldn't be there. But it's nice to overhear the stories of what's being done and how grateful people are to not be forgotten. It's only very rarely that I'm asked to pitch in on the front line, which I mostly find stressful because I'm not good with people. But there are rewarding scenes that stick in the memory and are not easily forgotten.
Data Storage is dirt cheap. Buy a 6tb for $100 every few months and throw important folders onto it. Place old ones at relatives homes for offsite.

Never worry about this again.
It’s the reason I’m desperate to get my pro-photographer best mate off her old Drobo and on to a new Synology. Should be happening in the next few weeks, and not a minute too soon.

The Drobo is literally a black box to me. It either mounts and you can see disks, or it doesn’t. And if it doesn’t ... well. Yep. Right-o. I’ll try rebooting it, I guess.
Great idea and implementation, btw!
> succumbs to the lure of magical get-rich-quick thinking!

When it works, it works. Is it gambling? Probably no more so than ISOs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/80e7x2/the_... (/r/wallstreetbets | The Big Long - Made $2.5 million in January off $100k options investment)
You’re increasing risk by writing it yourself too.
To me, it depends on how toolbox dependent your code is. Octave Forge has a lot of really nice libraries, but their interfaces tend to differ from MATLAB toolboxes, so getting codes to go back and forth can be a pain. In core MATLAB/Octave, most of the code is the same with some minor differences. For example, Octave doesn't care about wrapping a line with ..., but MATLAB does. Honestly, that's the most common issue that I have, but the MATLAB parser finds it and it doesn't normally take me more than a few minutes to fix things.

I recall there being some minor differences in how mex files are written, but I'm looking now and all the routines I typically use are mirrored between the two. I will say that I don't like building mex files using mex command inside of the interpreter. Personally, I find it easier just to use a build system like CMake. Mex files are just dynamically linked libraries that link either to libmx and libmex on the MATLAB side or liboctinterp on the Octave side. They look for name mexFunction on our end. As such, I have a flag in the build file to switch between MATLAB and Octave headers and libraries depending on what platform that I want to build for. Just be sure to separate out the binaries because those aren't really compatible between the two and the licensing between them is different as well.
[Urbit] Azimuth Is On-Chain, Arvo Is Faster and Aegean Is Taking Shape
The J-Curve of Startup Community Transition
And then the big players will use Hollywood accounting but for data - make a bunch of small companies with little revenue that handle the actual data and "sell" those services to the mothership.

The whole point of using revenue-based fines was to avoid such tricks, and you want to add them back in?
Well at least he's not putting it all on black :-) Pensions funds should not blindly put 100% in equity.

Btw I have had a briefing from a trustee of one of the really big UK pension funds and they in no way invest like that.

Given the briefing was under "Chattem House Rules" I cant say who and which major firm got sacked :-)
You can also do a search for getkirby on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Getkirby to see that we got quite a few very positive reactions to the launch there as well.
Eh. I did coding when i was 13, started a project that got famous at the time, was a well known member of programming community back in the day, and got semi famous in .net circles when i contributed to castle project and nhibernate at age 19ish. Nothing big, but we got more free time as kids, hence did more.

And yes, i think my engineering work was probably high quality even by my today's standards.
It's not just campaign contributions though. When people step out of government they're often stepping into very cushy and lucrative jobs provided by people they helped while in government. You don't get to make that transition if your primary motive is looking out for the average citizen. It never even has to be agreed to explicitly, it's just understood by all parties how the system works. Very hard to prove corruption in that case, as it's institutional rather than individual.
modern futures -> modern features
I don’t think the rings would be close enough for easily detectable effects, but in terms of Jupiter in general, the answer is yes, and Juno is on the job.

The Juno spacecraft's suite of science instruments will primarily characterize and explore the three-dimensional structure of Jupiter's polar magnetosphere, auroras and mass composition.[4] As Juno is a Polar Orbit mission, it will be possible to measure the orbital frame-dragging, known also as Lense–Thirring precession, caused by the angular momentum of Jupiter.[5]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging#Experimental_...
>CSS Grid: Miss tables yet?

It literally makes me feel like I'm cheating or something. What used to be an hour of fiddling around with floats and percentages is now two seconds of declaring a grid layout. Thank god for the evergreen browser revolution.
I understand your frustration. One thing I'd like to mention is that a comment similar to your comment is frequently mentioned in any HN post about typical frontend/JavaScript topics. So frequently, that I'm not sure what it adds to the discussion at this point.

It's possible you are not aware of that and just wanted to let you know.
You can bet that 2% will go up fast after a law like this would be passed. It makes a lot of sense actually.
Apple's a special case, but we're not seeing the various Android vendors (nor the cellular carriers) giving any appreciable retail space to small devices either.

They're largely relegated to Walmart's "I need a cheap burner phone" prepaid phone department.
I've deployed flow extensively and the biggest difference is that flow is horribly buggy (lots of false negatives) while typescript is mature. In theory flow's type system is stronger but it's so unreliable that 99% of the time I'd rather use typescript.
Pensions do pay out you know when people retire
Migadu. Pay by number of mails sent. Not by number of domains.
I was coding lots of games on the PC at that age in Basic. As I went into high school everyone had stories of getting drunk on the weekend. I was coding and learning C++. This guys article generally really resonates with my life. Glad he overcame the fear and posted this.
Fractal Audio does the same with their amazing Axe-FX guitar processor. All updates to firmware are supplied as MIDI file as a SYSEX data stream. I was amazed to see that they updated internal firmware the same way they uploaded patches, and even WAV form maps for Impulse Responses. Definitely a genius way to maximise the protocol.
2019 may or may not be the year, but I'm sure it's coming - this inexplicably expansive land grab of web application functionality by client-side technologies is going to peak, and things will start to swing back towards the server side.
Programming is a means, not an end.
The quality point is key here, unless there's some magic switches for NVENC that make better output.

There's a very visible quality drop when streaming with NVENC, but that's realtime.
Any chance there'll be a way to get a few channels of audio into the same container stream as MIDI 2.0, or at least down the same cable?
Nothing. Seriously, look at the graph of the temperature of the last 10,000 years and you will see that independant of humans, temperature was a couple of times significantly higher than today. Temperature will rise no matter what you do.
Hopefully one day we'll see fusion powered container ships.
Countries aren't fungible commodities.

The problem isn't if there's a spare bedroom, it's the political, social, and economic forces. And since we're talking about mass migration, we also have to talk about geography.

Think about it. In order to get to China, you have to cross the Himalayas, probably on foot. Then once you're there, you have to enter an economy (perhaps clandestinely) where you can't speak the language, have no large population of people that speak your language, have no common social ties, and if that wasn't enough challenges, the country is famous for clamping down hard on internal economic migration (i.e. the hukou system), and has no history of foreign immigration since... ever?

It's just not plausible. You can walk to India. You can walk to Pakistan. There are cultural ties to Pakistan. If you want to go someplace outside of South Asia, Kuwait and the other Gulf States have extensive Bangladeshi expat communities, due to the number of migrants workers. (Hell, 70% of Kuwait's population isn't Kuwaiti[0].)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Kuwait
He doesnt confirm that the drives are faulty, and it isnt clear that they are, as the data is accessible while maybe some partition or boot data was scrambled but repairable

The NAS should also have a warranty of some kind or the controller could be repaired for cheap

He was never in any data peril, so just fix that and then add an offsite backup to the mix
Swift is one of the most complicated languages I have ever used, similar in complexity to C++. It’s also adding features relatively quickly. I think some of the earlier releases didn’t focus as much as they should have on stability, and that this technical debt is being repaid now.
Happy path on all of this tech rocks. It's quite impressive.
I've been doing wordpress sites as a side gig for a while but I'm stuck with really onboarding enough new clients who have enough budget to work with. Could you elaborate on how you get new clients as well as charging the rates you do? And it's all non-local clients or how many are local face-to-face type businesses? I live in the middle of nowhere so there's not even that option.
MakeMKV first, then Handbrake after.
I do like having a /slightly/ larger screen for those tasks. Without going to a full tablet or laptop I feel that something vaguely the size of a Pixel 1 is perfect for viewing. However I'd still like an input mode where I can use functionality from either edge with one thumb. For me a mobile is mostly a media /consumption/ device and also a method of making a quick voice call or dictating (speech to text) a reply that can't wait until I get to a real terminal.

The next logical steps up for screen-size feel like 8 inches for a small tablet and about 12-13 for a full tablet or small laptop, and are both too big for mobiles; I feel like having an input mode that allows one-handed use would serve most of the market that does want a smaller device. The hold outs would prefer the smaller device for a combination of fit inside of other things and weight.
In Scotland there is no prescription charge.

In England if you know you are going to be getting a lot of prescriptions you can pay an amount upfront, then prescriptions are at no extra cost than that. https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/help-with-health-costs/save...

The state of dentistry in the UK is shocking.
Will these libraries continue to work after the 60-day mark?
Show HN: Fine Wordclocks: more than a time piece, they are a piece of art
I imagine this is going to be flatpak based
Used this for a project about a year ago and it was great. There was room for improvement, but it did what we needed it to do without any fuss.
I'm guessing that basketball shoes are extremely weight sensitive whereas snow board boots are not. Anything that adds weight to an athletic shoe better be adding a bigger advantage than self tying.
> Edit: and for the record, xcode is a 13.8GB install

Not to take anything away from your post, but you're comparing a complete IDE & Simulator with dependencies for building a website.
The irony being that for a long time beer was loaded with unfiltered yeasts, which made it far more nutritious. The advent of spirits and filtered beers, especially as it tended to arrive alongside whiter breads, was not good for the health of the poor. You see similar things occur for different reasons across different nations and at different times when key dietary staples change, or are lost. Pellagra in the US from over-reliance on corn, Beriberi in Japan from eating too much white rice and too little protein, and so on. The history of monoculture agriculture and emerging food science is a history of starvation, malnutrition, and gross misunderstandings of epidemiology.

Fortunately we’d never make the same mistakes today! Heh...
Hi Everyone. I have a Show HN that is a little different than what’s typical. My side project is building word clocks. I’ve developed the entire physical item including the mechanical design, the manufacturing design, the electrical design, and the firmware. Moderator Dan saw this listed in my profile and suggested I share it.

I was inspired to make my first word clock after stumbling upon a DIY design on hack-a-day[0]. I really liked the idea of a wordclock but felt that the designs I found online were too DIY or too modern metal and sterile. I wanted a design that was both elegantly styled and with a professional finish.

My first word clock was given as a present to my parents and it still hangs in their home today. I made more clocks similar to that first design which I also gave out as gifts to friends and family. Later, I developed a simplified design that I donated to AS220, my local Providence artist group, where I periodically teach a word clock making workshop[1].

After a few years of producing word clocks for gifts and fun, I developed my first word clock which is for sale. It utilizes a combination of fine craftsmanship and clever electronics to produce a one of a kind piece of practical art. I’m proud of the fit and finish of my word clocks and want to share them with people who want more than just a utilitarian tool.

I do all the fabrication myself in my basement. Now that I have the manufacturing process down, I’m ready to start marketing them. I’m promoting them as limited edition art pieces, not a mass market product. This first design is limited to 100 units.

So far I’ve sold one unit on etsy[2] without any promotion whatsoever. So I’m hopeful that with a little promotion I’ll be able to sell 2-3 per month. I’m not really interested in turning this into a large scale business. I already do that for my day job. My intent with this is to continue to expand my creative output. It’s also a great excuse to acquire cool tools (aka toys) that I can teach my kids to use.

Please let me know what you think and feel free to ask questions!

[0] https://hackaday.com/tag/word-clock/

[1] http://industries.as220.org/the-wordclock

[2] https://www.etsy.com/shop/FineWordclocks
I don't really know forth, but it seems like people who learn it really like it; can someone give me a high-level explanation to while it's easier to write Forth instead of C for low-level programming?
That's active investment, in that you have to actively select Amazon and not one for the hundred other companies that listed and went nowhere.
There are thousands are companies that exist solely as a tax dodge for some other company or in order to prevent paying workers at a different company. Some companies exist to just play games with money on the market, which has at best only very indirect benefit to the society as a whole and has a definite chance of being a harm to society. Some companies exist simply to drain all of the money out of other companies before they go bankrupt.

None of this is illegal, but it's hard to argue a benefit to society in general.
> With AI assistants seemingly the 'next big thing'

Are 'AI Assistants' the 'next big thing' in the same way that 'chatbots' where the 'next big thing' in 2015?

To me, it just seems that the market is mostly propped up by Medium articles and vendors trying to force the next big thing to make payday.
And that's good, because you'll get the wrong answer if you used the number with too many points (nit picking: more decimal points does not mean higher precision).

In fact, this is part of why you'll see physicists do all their reductions with variables and plug in numbers at the very end. This ensures that you doing get (what we could call) floating point errors. You don't have extra numbers hanging around (from real numbers like 1/9 or pi). There are also other benefits to doing this.
Looks really good, thank you.
>slowly picking up?

You seem to assert Angular is growing from a position of weakness? It's a very popular framework. Very structured, and with the introduction of the new Ivy rendering engine, I think it will get a bump in popularity.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vote-leave-re... seems to have some details on the presumed effect on the way people vote.
Why would someone need to preemptively learn both React and Vue? I can get saying you want to understand how they accomplish their respective roles, but is there an actual (non-crazy) scenario where your core, day-to-day job depends on really knowing both?

Or is that the whole point? Am I erroneously assuming "learn" means really deep knowledge(which for me really digging into any single one of these would be enough) when it means "known enough to pass a job interview when I ladder-up to the next company"?