skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone else not feel so good about a future of computing where everything but the application layer is rented from Jeff Bezos?
Attract clients through transparency with quotations on your WordPress site
I wanted to build something I could use to show my basic pricing but of course, no one wants just the basics.

I am creating an interactive quotation form to let potential customers build a quotation so they had an idea of the cost then submit their designs for me too review.

It can be used for web design, dressmakers, UI/UX, T-shirt printers, content writers, creatives and anyone that need to quote on customisation.

Embed it on your WordPress website, use your branding to interact with your customers.

Originally developed for website developers but
I have tweaked it to work for other industries.

If you want to understand if it could work for you, please ask questions, I would love to get some feedback

https://quotemewp.com
The other issues included software update cycles etc.. No wonder they were giving out android things dev kits at I/O last year.
Representing the interests of its citizens is "How it's supposed to work" but the way it actually works is that politicians represent the people who have real influence over getting them elected. That means anyone who isn't very rich or the leader of a big voting bloc has no influence.

As I mention in my cousin-comment, our system is set up to reward those who can organize, which the wealthy elite and large corporations are much better at than the population of individuals with divisive identity politics being shoved down their throats by PR companies. Breaking people's ability to organize is why there is such a push to convince us that trade unions are evil.
lol I love that the comment section is blank. I think it's reflective of how long our generation (assuming most people reading this are 20-40 or so), and in particular people in our industry normally stay in jobs which aligns w/ the two year marker the OP mentioned.
I think we are definitely already planning the first one.

The second one is super interesting.. I’ll have to think about it a bit but it’s a great idea for sure.
Good Books on Word of Mouth Marketing
Zoning and permitting are the subdivision rights that I'm talking about.

The trick is to zone the city as "X houses per acre", where X is a number that is not particularly profitable to develop. Then, hand out exemptions to developers, in lieu of cash. "Pay us $500,000, and we will change the rules, to let you make $1,500,000 in extra profit. Oh, and also, build out all the infrastructure that will service the area you're developing."

This is exactly how it played out in my village, and was a crystal-clear, above-board process. It was also one of the reasons that our property taxes were as low as they were.
It served a similar purpose, if no one else scheduled anything anytime soon.

The schedule task function in this particular embedded OS actually didn't guarantee it'd call you at the specified timeout, the contract was that it'd invoke the callback no sooner than the specified timeout!

Timer coalescing and all that.

Irritated the heck out of the traditional embedded engineers when they first got introduced to it though. "I know this operation will take this many microseconds, can't I just sleep until it is done and the results are waiting for me?"

Not allowed! Plenty of old school engineers are used to just spinning the CPU while waiting for something to happen!
the world (er, GPS epoch) ends a second time in 2019, it already ended once in 1999.
This indirectly illustrates yet another reason why game developers leave the industry. Gaming culture is toxic, unfortunately, and developers deal with tons of abuse. This post is a fine example of it.
For sure planning the rewinds by second but even more I’m planning sentence rewinds so one could rewind sentence by sentence and even saving snippets of one or more sentences..

I hadn’t thought about emailing that though, it’s a solid idea thank you.
Isn't that the whole beauty of it? You're learning what you've already learned on top without having to re-learn everything again. That's primarily why I've stuck with it. That and the fact that it's easily programmable even though VimL leaves you wanting more.
I've been at my current company for over a decade. The company has changed a lot over the years, going from a large public company when I joined, to private, back to public again recently.

The reasons I stayed are simple: I've learned a tonne, changed roles and responsibilities, interacted with many interesting characters, and continue to grow personally. No matter the tenure, if you aren't being challenged then your boredom will affect your performance.

Create new challenges that solve problems within your organization, and if that doesn't work by all means strike out for greener pastures.

Best of luck.
I worked for a company for 10 years. Never doing that again. My works history is 5 months, 1.75 years, 1.5 years, 10 YEARS, 1.75 years, 6 months (will be leaving asap).
Is there any reason you couldn't have multiple graphs essentially overlaid on top of each other? With proper tooling you could expose different subsets of the same schema in different scenarios, and still have one unified graph underneath.
Developer: artists, developers, writers, ...

Publisher: marketing, distribution, payment processing, support, ...
Autoware.Auto: an open-source software stack for self-driving technology
I never understood the appeal of violence in tv. Even some scenes in GOT I had very hard time watching.
Could this be a part of the move to Fuchsia?
Ya the longest I've been at any job is just under 7 years, and that is a long time nowadays.
Castle raises $9.2M for AI that protects consumer apps from account takeovers
I changed the whole strategy today. Kindle reports % done and some bizarre "book location" number which is like an order of magnitude bigger than pages, so it's easier to report on and comprehend my "percent" location in the book.

Beeminder is all about beating yourself up. But derailing is not failing. You don't fail if you set a new goal and start again. I decided that I will get from my current location at 32% completed to 100% completed in about 7 weeks.

This is conservative to account for the fact that I should be able to read other books in this time, as they strike my fancy! It will probably also help that I no longer have to count the number of pages, now that I've switched to tracking percent. I did the math and the new goal is a little less than 10 pages per day now. Thanks for the encouragement!
Novel Method for Representing Hierarchies in a Relational Database Using Bignums [pdf]
Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview
I imagine they share proof of concept 100% of the time, and if that is the case, I’d say it varies: target a window, say 2 months. At that point, show progress on the bug to Google (or whoever). If at the 2 month mark it is obvious it was low priority and not really looked at, the vendor of the application failed in which case I would say disclose away (bonus points if they provide something to mitigate it, if possible, though onus is not really on them either way). If they can tell the software vendor is making progress/genuinely attempting, then I’d say an extension would be fair.

In the Microsoft case that vaguely comes to mind, I believe the issue was one that required a bit of work because it was pretty low level for Windows. I want security patches on my system ASAP, but I also don’t want someone to release something that breaks my OS’s functionality or renders my files (or the ability to open files) fubared either. If memory serves, they were making progress on it, but it went past the time period Project Zero set and they were unwilling to give an extension and as far as was reported, didn’t seem to be exploited in the wild. But then you have something unpatched that is disclosed by Google. That doesn’t help users all that much.

That is all to say it isn’t being verifiably exploited in the wild. When that is the case, that changes things to the point users need to be made aware as soon as possible and if it means “turning off” a feature, if possible, as a stopgap, give that info to them.
Last year I cancelled my Audible subscription for much of the same reason: when listening to an audiobook it is too easy to get distracted, but reading a book is different. With an audiobook you feel like since your hands are free, you can go do something else like gym or household chores, and finding yourself no longer catching up with the audiobook. And that's not to mention you don't feel like you are in control: the narrator decides the pace, not you. But with a book, it's much harder to get distracted and thus easier to get into "the realm of duration."

Since cancelling Audible, I started buying paper books on Amazon and I have experienced much better focus, and much greater enjoyment from the books I've read.
I don't think working in the same company for decades is really an issue.

I just wouldn't recommend you do the same job for more than ~24 months.
Is Differentiable Programming just a rebranding of tape-based auto differentiation?
Hi HN,

DeskGap is another try to build an lightweight alternative to Electron. Compared to the existing attempts [0, 1], I choose not to go that far and bundle a real Node.js with it[2].

And to battle test the framework, I wrapped squoosh[3] into a desktop app[4] with DeskGap, and successfully submitted it to the app stores.

[0] https://github.com/pojala/electrino

[1] https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark

[2] https://deskgap.com/#faq

[3] https://squoosh.app

[4] https://github.com/patr0nus/Pym/
NIST Reveals 26 Algorithms Advancing to the Post-Quantum Crypto ‘Semifinals’
Meh. If they want to not perform on the arbitration clause, they get stuck with going to court. Seems like a win for employees?
Thx but well, this kind of goes frontally against the other 2 answers I got (I understood that nothing ever gets explicitly terminated by the OS and I felt happy with that approach as it kind of made sense to me, but some now strong doubts are coming back again...).
> then to top it off they cannot be volume adjusted because you cannot just reroute a train

That is not in any way how you plan trains. You don't build them for variable load. The baseline load becomes what the trains can supply, and the economy grows around that. I'd love to know where there is underutilized commuter rail in the US for cheap I can take advantage of by moving to for an unnaturally low cost of living - because that is what legitimately misplanned trains do. They self-correct by creating a cheap transit hub to pull people and business towards.

Progressive and developing economies the world over have reaped the benefits of high speed rail a thousand times over now. Saying "heavy rail doesn't work" is ignorant of how almost every first world nation and many others have a comprehensive commuter rail network outside the US and Canada.

> California has a homeless problem that is incredible and needs to get its prison population numbers down. spending the money to help the poor is a far better solution than funding a rich man's train.

State investment isn't a zero sum game, or one where you have a fixed absolute finite amount of money and can only allocate one central budget one way. There are absolutely limits to how much you can tax your economy, even selectively, without having negative consequences on your economy - and there are definitely plenty of arguments California is already past that threshold. But its way too simplistic to be in a discussion about state budgets and say "spend this money on X instead".
Are we really comparing video games to Nazi Germany now?
> attitude that front-end should be easy, and then people are rudely surprised when they find out that it's actually very hard. Distributed systems problems, cache invalidation problems, combinatorial scaling of complexity with every feature and source of user interaction...

This sums it up so succinctly I'm going to borrow this next time I'm discussing react with one of my C# teammates. :)

If you want to chat more my email address is in my profile.
I don’t understand view points like this. Why the constant itch for change? What’s wrong with just going to work, doing your job, collecting the check, and going home? People are so caught up in the rat race and keeping up with each other. Career does not have to be the definition of success.

I wish I could give perspective on working in the same job for decades but I’m only 7 years in. 34 to go and zero intention on changing employers or careers unless I have to.
In this case, social media directly makes reading difficult due to the share icons obscuring the left side of the text.

Seems a window resize event fixes their positioning.
Stop that. Stop that right now. We need to be serious or else we risk realising we are just another iteration of Tech Social Site that will come and go.
I found this paper that helps answer the question: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.10228.pdf
A new party would not fix the incentive problem. If a politician's personal career benefits when they do X, they will keep doing X. (Or they observe others getting benefits.) Skinnerbox 101.
Plus Vue.js 2.6.6 is 91K, not the 63K of 2.0.3 in that comparison.

It's easy to "win" internet arguments like this rolls eyes.
Wonderful, which one do you think they'll strip of useful features next?
I know I’m in a minority, but I have had a long interest and affinity with brutalism since performing in school musicals at QPAC in Brisbane Australia. It’s a version of brutalism I think has been softened a bit to make it more appealing to the general population. At the time it was built I believe it was received with negativity, but now Queenslanders love the Southbank precinct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_Performing_Arts_Cen...
Motorola is pretty good too. Maybe others?
That is a staggering percentage and given the current state of the app I don't see how it is warranted. Then throw in your bundled in there with everyone else who signed up so the pay back is what exactly? Seriously, if you a large news organization with a built up reputation and good customer base what is the pay off here?

and here I thought Apple might take a hint after companies started to balk at the 30% clip in the app store
Chrome has an overall whitelist on top of a user-specific one. I assume that ZDNet overall has a high enough MEI score across all Chrome users that it's allowed until you train the algorithm that you don't want to see it.

Additionally, if you navigate within a site (ie, click on another ZDNet article from that same page), that counts as a website interaction, and the new page will be allowed to autoplay.

Firefox's upcoming controls are user-controlled instead of based on algorithmic behavior, and they don't have a whitelist. They're available right now, but not turned on by default (yet).
When possible, one should link to the abstract page, if for no other reason than that it makes version tracking easier: Want, Wu, Essertel, Decker, and Rompf - Demystifying differentiable programming: shift/reset the penultimate backpropagator (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10228), a title which is entirely too cute for its own good.
Bezos likely wrote his letter on Medium to neither attach it to his ownership of WaPo (which could be viewed as some sort of conflict of interest), nor to give it to a competitor in the news media space.
This list looks positively anemic. How is this anything but a business insider esque PR puff piece?
Looking at the actual specification ( https://semver.org/ ):

> 1. Software using Semantic Versioning MUST declare a public API. This API could be declared in the code itself or exist strictly in documentation. However it is done, it should be precise and comprehensive.

I don't believe we can make such a claim about Prettier's output format. For example, how would you denote a backward-compatible change to the output format?
you laugh but people have literally been banned for making a few jokes here on accounts they've had for a decade. "up itself" is how I often hear this place described.
You'll probably find people working in one company for a long time where the company is large enough to swap roles internally. I've worked with people who did 30+ years in the same corp, but the environment obviously changed a lot.
That's the problem: in many fields, you won't be able to compete with the shitheads financially, because they can be much cheaper.
>Private investigators working for Jeff Bezos have concluded that the brother of the Amazon CEO's mistress leaked the couple's intimate text messages to the National Enquirer.

This is not surprising. People (Bezos) should know better than share information with anyone they don't want revealed. Besties always share salacious material, and given this, I suppose siblings do too.

Question of blackmail remains, I suppose.
The actual focus is on crime prevention. While criminals are incarcerated they aren't out victimizing other people. More rehabilitation would probably improve the situation in the long term, though.
The video game development industry already makes extensive use of contractors, dedicated outsource studios in various disciplines (art, audio and QA being the most common), and "support" studios (internal or external studios that work on large, cross-functional parts of a project). While I can see this increasing, the majority of the staff on the larger projects are not full-time staff at the "lead dev" studio but fall into one of the aforementioned categories.

I wouldn't mind seeing broader unionization in the video game industry - it already exists in some European countries - but I don't see it as a panacea to the issues often associated with it. Collective bargaining wouldn't have prevented a company like Activision Blizzard from making a strategic decision to move in a different direction, a direction that necessitates staff restructuring. Potentially, it could improve severance agreements, work rules, or entry-level pay, all laudable goals, but much of that is orthogonal to what is happening here.
How many actual non-coders are going to go beyond step 1?

Hard to say. Are we defining “non-coder” as a person who can neither use a command prompt nor code?
In Shenzhen, the municipality has no issues expropriating land rights of 20 year lease holders.

One my coworker ran into a situation with his landlord:

1. He gets a call from his family "Police knocking on the door, they have an eviction notice"

2. Guy angrily calls the landlord

3. Landlord say WTF and rushes to the scene

4. It was later realised that his flat, that was bought and sold god knows how many times, had its lease expired, and the landlord was not even aware of him having to extend it.

5. He had to relocate his family overnight to friends and coworkers
True.

I don't know anyone who uses Facetime and I know a bunch of people with iPads.
More roads? Make them wider? That’s what they said in the 1970’s when they tried to build HSR in California the first time.

If they’d built it then you’d be leaving SF at 180 mph today and we’d be 20-25 years away from replacing it with a 300 mph maglev.
I still buy paper books, mainly because the library frowns on highlighting and notes in the margins :)

Fwiw, I've been wanting to do a website where I - and others? - could share the highlighted bits (in an easy on the eye pull quote-y sorta way). More or less my personal notes in public. Kinda like Cliff Notes meets meme-y inspiration type quotes. But also as a sample of the book for those curious about reading it. That's why I'd want a transcript. For my records, so to speak.

I should ask mention, 95% of what I read is non-fiction.
I grew up with unlimited screen time starting at age 2 and used the majority of it to play 3d video games. I score very high on the VVIQ.

My story is antidotal, but your hypothesis is also not backed by data. I'd like to purpose a counter hypothesis: spending time in interactive 3d worlds requires building internal maps of the environment. Exercising these portions of the brain improves Visual Imagery Vividness.

There are lots of unforeseen consequences of screen time. I suspect this isn't one of them.
Are those population figures taken from the 60s when the trains were being built, or from now half a century later after the profound force multiplier of having high speed rail on that scale have enabled substantial density and growth along its length?

People talk about these train projects like you build them and take 20% of the cars off the congested highways and thats it. You don't build trains just to meet existing demand. You build trains to create demand, increase efficiency, and cause substantial economic growth and development as a result - in the long term.
> What’s wrong with just going to work, doing your job, collecting the check, and going home?

You spend more time at work then anything else, perhaps tied with sleeping. More than with your spouse. More than with your kids. More than relaxing. Why not make work mean something? If work means something, you can't just do it for 40 years as a punch in, punch out. That sounds horrible.
This article resonates a lot with me. I have always found great pleasure in reading but lately my computer and phone steals all attention and I genuinely feel less smart because of it.

It's a big reason why we're launching https://mypapermag.com/ It's an app (web only for now: vue/django) where you select great long reads selected from our partners, but the important thing is that you actually get them in print in your personalized magazine every n weeks. This way you get the distraction free experience of a regular magazine, the freedom of choice of the web, the best articles from our partners and the best tech for reading (paper) in one place. It's what we're trying to achieve at least, still in private beta and only in France for now but please let me know if you want to try it out or if you have any feedback, andre@mypapermag.com </ShamelessSelfPromotion>
I would strongly recommend against using any OpenVZ VMs. You're forced to use the same kernel as the VM host and if you want to enable any kernel modules (e.g. TUN, TAP) your host needs to do it.

Go with Xen or KVM and avoid all that.
Yes and no. In the case of China and the Chinese gov, well that's not Wall Street.
I never understood audiobooks to begin with. To me, reading is an intimate, personal thing. Listening to some narrator is more like being the spectator in some piece of performance art. When I read, I want to be left alone with my thoughts. I don't hear a voice when reading (like some people do, apparently) and I definitely don't want to hear some guy or gal actually speaking the words!

More importantly, I want to read at my own pace, not someone else's. I often go back and re-read recent paragraphs, for example.
>> we wont be covering conda or OS specific builds

so 'azure-pipelines.yml' is not operating-system specific ?
Reminds me of the very old Joel Spolsky blog post, Fire and Motion - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

> I noticed how almost every kind of military strategy, from air force dogfights to large scale naval maneuvers, is based on the idea of Fire and Motion. It took me another fifteen years to realize that the principle of Fire and Motion is how you get things done in life. You have to move forward a little bit, every day. It doesn’t matter if your code is lame and buggy and nobody wants it. If you are moving forward, writing code and fixing bugs constantly, time is on your side. Watch out when your competition fires at you. Do they just want to force you to keep busy reacting to their volleys, so you can’t move forward?

Still as relevant as ever.
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