skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotify I can understand but Slack's client is hot garbage. Discord has more features and crashes less...
Propaganda doesn’t have to have negative connotation. In this case “all positive” results for the foundation’s capital allocations could be indicative of propaganda.
Music and chat apps have an extremely high barrier to entry, which makes it quite difficult for others to compete.
If you think unions will improve the situation, consider:
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2006/01/union_disillusi.htm...
where is this job located, that matters a lot in evaluating if you "got screwed" by being at total comp 225k after 2 decades. For comparison, 175k was my total comp at Bay Area job out of college.
Most people that work in trades can't be automated yet either (at least at a reasonable price). Commoditization is kind of difficult to imagine for what is essentially general problem solving (which is what software development essentially is). Some are just better at it than others.
> Personally if you are spending all that time and energy recreating the wheel just to say "you don't use JQuery "

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Consider a world, where there is no problem that required jQuery.

I refer to React and such.
Another tool to help increase focus while reading on-screen: http://www.beelinereader.com. Testing by CNET showed that people are 35% more likely to finish an article when reading with this turned on. Would be interested to talk about collaboration, if you’re also looking to help folks focus! [username] at email-service-starting-with-the-same-letter.com
Hilariously if you want to actually use Android Things on anything besides their supported hardware you'd still have to write all the low-level code to make it work, plus the Java code to make it work in Android.

I hadn't heard of it before either and I'm pretty sure I work in their target market, but that's because they're doubling or tripling the amount of work I have to do to get something working relative to Embedded Linux.
The great Roman emporer, Marcus Aurelius, says the following in the beginning of his book, Meditations:

To read attentively—not to be satisfied with “just getting the gist of it.”
I am skeptical about where you learned this. Concrete examples?
I would reccomend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Art-SQL-Stephane-Faroult/dp/059600894...
Can this recreate trying to figure out a way to host a web server in 1991?
I do get that point of view but there are as many exceptions to that rule as there are examples.

Take mobile app development: half the products that run on Electron on the desktop will still have native apps on mobiles. And even those that don’t would still have to use the native renderer on iOS and Windows Phone thus you’d be testing your common code base across multiple rendering engines anyway (which was the argument against the tool in this discussion).... and I’ve not even meantioned the slew of cross-platform applications that exist which have successfully avoided using Electron.

There are quite a few cross platform frameworks out there these days and different languages that can leverage them, however the next point I think is the real crux of the problem:

I will grant you that Electron does lower the barrier for entry (which is ironic because I personally find the web stack more awkward to develop in than native widgets - but each to their own). And maybe that’s where the biggest cost saving comes for the business; you can hire cheaper engineers to build and support your desktop software?

In any case, I’m not blind to the appeal of Electron; I just don’t agree with how important it is in the same way as the GP does.
Is it worth it? I am already pretty fluent using my custom-ish shortcuts for all navigation, will vim speed me up at this point?
> Lowering birth rates are correlated with more education and income.

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2018/09/22/...

the effect is much less for Africans.

also how can people consider high birth rate to be bad while not being an anti-natalist. Why the cognitive dissonance?
It seems fairly mainstream for Democrats to think people who advocate for a white ethno state ('the alt right') are everywhere, varying in their degree of support for violence towards the largely imaginary foes (who in reality could be anywhere from center left to center right).
It’s not surprising librarians use SQL. Library science is all about organizing (informational) data!
> Nobody wants to be testing against multiple browser/rendering engines in 2019

You mean like when building websites?
In over forty years of driving I have had only one flat that wasn't just a slow leak. And the weather was so bad that I chose to slowly drive home, about fifteen miles, on the flat rather than change the wheel. The next day I drove another couple of miles to a tyre supply company and just had the tyre replaced.

Not sure if I would be so quick to do it in a modern car with alloy wheels and an even mass distribution but the car in question was a tough old Volvo Amazon with steel wheels and the flat was on a back wheel; in the Amazon most of the weight of the car is over the front wheels so the flat really didn't stress the wheel much.

That was about thirty five years ago.
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Can we get a list of Skype alternatives going? I feel like it's time to dump the corporate behemoth mess.
I think the spectator is a valid part of any event like this - but the spectator should perhaps be a small percentage of attendees - participants being more important.

I'd love to attend Burning Man, but short of buying an RV, and driving down there, the time involved to do so exceeds my budget - even though there is a good chance I'd show up and end up volunteering my time in some way to help the collective whole. I like the participatory ethos, and it shouldn't be crowded out by the tourists, but the tourists are somewhat important too.
Ask HN: Is there any input method which can guess language
I often need to switch typing between English, Japanese (Romanji) and Traditional Chinese (Changjie). Is there any input method which can guess the language by keystroke?

For example, "apple" (English), "ringo" (Japanese), "tyhc wd" (Chinese).

Thanks.
A First Look at Google Maps' AR Future [video]
Yes, but the effort to package the sort of software that's causing issues in python for the Guix/Nix/Spack/Easybuild class of systems is herculean[0] and idiosyncratic.

The groups maintaining and promulgating 'bad' packages would have to relinquish control over some of the dependencies they're currently venturing in or statically linking, or packagers have to reverse engineer their build systems, do that work themselves, and maintain it going forward.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSemlYagjIU
You are too optimistic. Seattle's ST3 would cost 54 Billion to build 62 miles light rail. And I think such project in Bay Area would be more expensive. So, just pick one
The thought on top of my head is the giant set of default parameters that sit on top of pretty much every program, set by intuition by the original coders and then never touched again. Define a loss function, and you can start to optimize those parameters "for free".
Valuable yet fairly common.

I remember interviewing at FAANG and being asked to code up various tree traversal algorithms... and moments later I would be asked to write window function aggregations in SQL. And it was like this for all the interviews with that company - it was fairly bizarre as I wasn't sure what the aim there was. I understand that SQL is omnipresent, but surely people with algorithmic knowledge would be able to pick up SQL in hours or days, while the opposite doesn't quite hold.

(Oh and I agree with the article and I do like SQL for all sorts of workloads, that's not the point.)
does no developer care about Linux anymore?
Mentioning foundations are tax havens for private wealth it is not too surprising to hear they have hereditary qualities (jobs, dinners, receptions, business expenses, travel, conferences). There is an oddly positive connotation typically gifted towards nonprofits when in reality they are stateless sovereign wealth funds.
Nowadays you'd use fetch anyway which would reduce that code to not much more than the jQuery samples.

That is, if you don't need to support IE (And I feel like we're finally in the phase where it slowly, but steadily dies off). Otherwise you can ponyfill it.
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The interface between Lambda and your business logic is usually very thin so in case of simple REST APIs migrating from platform (as long as the target platform has a compatible language runtime) to another or to be executed in a web app framework is rather easy.

Serverless applications' reliance on other proprietary services like Cognito, DynamoDB etc is another thing however...
Yup, we haven't seen an issue with semi-transparent cards or maestro cards and have built-in support for the vertical cards as well (though we're still trying to optimize the UI/UX for that so let us know if you have ideas!). We don't support girocard yet, but we're working on adding support for that.
> Less resources, less platform-specific wizardry, more focus on core features with faster turnaround time.

Where can I request the "core features" of performance and usability?
excellent analogy
Ask HN: How to ask free trial users to convert once features are implemented?
Sometimes I get feature requests from users who've started a free trial. If those features aren't on the roadmap already I want to get commitment from the user that they'll upgrade to a paid plan, before stating work on the feature.

Do you have any suggestions for how to phrase that? This is what I've come up with so far, but I'm worried it might be off-putting:

"Those features aren't on the roadmap right now, but if you can commit to upgrading to a paid plan at the end of your trial I'm happy to build them for you."
Not at all weong - just saying there are ways around it. Respawn just launched Apex Legends with a (my estimate) $100k marketing budget to pay popular streamers to play it.
I'm not against Chapter 11, but whether or not the public benefits depends on the specifics of the case.

Sometimes unproductive companies are kept in business for far too long because there is political pressure.

In the long run, it's not good for anyone if workers remain in unproductive jobs instead of moving on. It depresses salaries, erodes skills and saddles the financial system with debt of questionable quality.

But Chapter 11 is certainly not a prerequisite for that. I think most zombie companies that are being kept alive never enter anything like Chapter 11.

So I think Chapter 11 is good and necessary to avoid the sudden death of companies worth restructuring.
From a Chinatown bus to Y Combinator's first IPO: Dropbox's 12 year evolution
I'm going to avoid installing Windows 10 for as long as possible, so I hope this never takes off. No offense.
Because if it uses the same browser binary as your other web apps (tabs or other DeskGap apps), the OS can share memory between them. Not possible with electron since every app bundles its own Chromium binary.
I agree with you, my comment is not totally relevant to the subject, sorry for that.
Personally at the moment I don't feel/need to ask upfront payments for my services, but in the event I'd feel that the payment should be upfront, I'd ask simply ask for it.
I agree with the fact that often asking for something just works.
His/her comment history is fairly interesting. Plenty of seemingly needlessly downvoted comments, which to me is a marker of a perceptive mind.
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The problem is that very few people can follow how a zero-knowledge protocol works. We'd all have to trust a small set of people to do it right. And then we'd have to trust the people implementing it to do it right. Then we'd have to trust the people who provision the devices it runs on to do it right. But then we'd have to trust the devices themselves too. All the people who worked on the devices must be trusted. In the end it means we can't know there was no manipulation.

Contrast this with a box where you can watch the pieces of paper as they are put inside. And as they are taken out again. As long as you can watch the box, you can can verify the process.
anecdata; I have never met a dev or a shop that uses Azure. Maybe the SF bay area is so heavily AWS/GCP that's all I hear about, but I have had the same experience as you
You can absolutely do that. Then you just need to do more custom work to enable route level observability and metrics.
There are examples quite far from neural networks, the ones I can think of are broadly optimisation problems:

Many physics problems involve trying to find a function which minimises something -- energy, entropy, action. Or the state which makes the difference between two things zero. Sometimes adjusting many parameters slowly down the gradient is a good way to find these.

In bayesian statistics, the basic problem is to sample from a distribution, which you know only indirectly, by some kind of monte-carlo method. But the space to sample can be enormous. If I understand right, advanced ways of doing this exploit the gradients (of functions defining the distribution) to try to choose samples efficiently.

People have hacked tensorflow to do all sorts of things which its creators didn't intend. Or written tools specialised for another particular domain (like Stan). I guess the excitement is that instead of re-inventing the wheel in each domain, maybe this can be pushed down to become a language feature which everyone above uses.
That's an interesting argument you bring up here. Why aren't more people open-sourcing their apps? Especially with a client-server architecture, you can simply keep the server part closed. I'm an iOS developer, but there's usually not all that much of interest in the iOS client.
This probably has something to with layer backing (and changes in OpenGL, if they're using it).
Seems like the kind of thing Buzzfeed would be all for
They have been interoperable for quite a while now: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/skypeforbusiness/set-up-sky...
Classic McEliece is 40 years old and still kicking.

The problem is the key size: 512 kb for normal use, 8.5 Mb against quantum computers. On the other hand, 1 MB is not that much if you really want the security.
Don't even think about it. Liberal would say you pollute the water/ocean.
"cloud isn't the big market" sorry lost me there
> Note how it doesn't actually say BuzzFeed was wrong.

It literally says Buzzfeed's statements were inaccurate.
If it's my money, why can't I choose who to give it to when I die?

Are you so envious and bitter that the idea that some people get given large amount of money is so painful to you that you think it must be forbidden?
The way you explain the Hollywood example, it sounds like the star actors are the linchpin of ensuring junior actors and commodity workers get union benefits - and yet, the star actors don't need the union's negotiating power, as their agents negotiate much better rates.

That's all very well for Hollywood, but surely it's a difficult model to kickstart in other industries.
If you’re concerned about RAM, using this approach makes a lot of sense. Every process of your system browser running, (different tabs, different apps with web view), the OS can share memory between since it’s the same binary. With electron, each app bundles their own browser and memory cannot be shared since it’s different binaries.
See an example of transport unions in the UK. Tube drivers are in the top 5%/10% of income in the UK, for a 35 hour or so week, and a lot of other benefits. The union power has done amazing things for them... but at a huge cost (albeit dispersed) cost to the rest of society.

Fully agree the ideal is where you have both. Germany seems to have good models where unions improve the efficiency of companies in giving a point of contact for negotiations, and helping the company succeed - winning together.
I build websites, and I don't want to be testing against multiple browser/rendering engines. I do it cos I have to, not for the hell of it.
Washington is another Democratic owned disaster.
GAN creating faces purely at the pixel level still seems a strange approach to me. In some years it will feel very restrictive. I guess it's the only tractable method at the moment.

Is anyone working on a GAN to generate bone structure then flesh and skin/mouth/eyes textures and pipe the result in a ray tracer?

It's incredible what can be done in 2D solving directly for the result, but imagine where this goes when this works in volume and multiple levels more driven by physics.
another option with more customization https://mycolor.space/gradient3
This policy is exactly that, an act of support to the employees - they are already granted work time and resources to participate in open source.

The policy was not created to shield the company - it is already covered by contracts and local law, this policy is made for the benefit of the employee to know what help and support is available.
Well yes, this is a huge concern.

Do we really want Jack and Zuck having the final say on what we can and cannot do?

I'm sure they do not want this responsibility. They've just painted themselves into a corner with it.

Given how deeply contextualized information is ... I'm even doubtful AI is on the horizon. And may of the 'decisions' made to ban posts/accounts theoretically require some heavy and contemplate deliberation, and even legal analysis.

It just doesn't work, we need to re-think all of this.
I can spend $1 on a ticket and feel an insane whirlwind of emotion imagining myself winning $1 billion, or i can spend $1 on a candy bar and feel some pleasure eating it.

If buying a lottery ticket is a waste of money then all forms of entertainment are.
My two cents (I haven't read the blog yet so there is that): everybody thinks it's important but when you mention table inheritance or materialized views then the loudest (how to call them not to hurt their feelings...maybe proponents(?)) are the most clueless of all the folks.
1. It's not even remotely a competitor, it's like saying BMW C1 is a Mercedes Benz competitor.

2. It's just a reliant robin with an electric motor
> SQL is troublesome to some programming types because it seems alien to ask what you want instead of telling the computer what to do and I find most programmers, especially ASD-types (who I think have an edge for some situations, like writing certain code in a huge org like Google) find this an unfamiliar and strange way of thinking.

That's basically how most tools work outside of software development. When you use Google, you aren't telling it how to find your result; you're telling it what you want.
Along those routes though you’re talking 3hrs max in the air, vs like 6 in a direct hs rail train with no stops. I’d love to ride a train mind you, ESPECIALLY to get around within metro areas or between close ones (sea to Portland is more time in security and preflight than time in the air). But the long distance ones seem like it’d only make sense along the eastern seaboard
StarCraft 2 perfected the classic RTS, but the genre was dead the day people started knowing Warcraft 3 as "Dota". I doubt it can compete with MOBAs until some real innovation happens.
no, it's much older, the osx skype redesign included this and that was more than a year ago (i don't know about windows). when i installed it, it suggested as a contact the mother of one of my colleagues. there's nothing in common between us, she even lives on a different country.
US national debt tops $22T for the first time
The policy is not the only thing provided, work time, resources, promotion etc is already available to employees.

And no, participation does not require a policy - except for those groups that worry about potential harassment - and these groups are drastically underrepresented in OS.
Shouldn’t We All Have Seamless Micropayments by Now?
I was not implying it's wrong to disagree here. It goes without saying everyone is entitles to their opinion. I'm just searching for the term to describe what I mentioned in my comment.
I'm not sure what do you mean with 'switch typing'.

On Windows, you can set Hotkeys to switch Input Language fast. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/cannot-switch-between-input-l...
Well, its a fancier API tool, which smooths out the flow between Backend and API consumers better (at a cost).

At its core, it is a project based around a _consumer facing schema_, that can be queried. You put in upfront and ongoing be work to give product/frontend/clients the ability to discuss data requirements around a first-class schema, and then once the resolvers are written, allow them to explore/experiment with the data, in queries that can be used directly in production.

From what I have seen, the first (only?) ones to feel the pain it solves for are Product/Frontend/Clients.

Hopefully that ^ waves away some of the haze
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Should've hired an Asian hacker.
> I understand that SQL is omnipresent, but surely people with algorithmic knowledge would be able to pick up SQL in hours or days, while the opposite doesn't quite hold.

As someone who knows essentially zero SQL, is this really true? How long would it take me to learn it well enough to be competent with it?
As somebody who deals with HTML and CSS often I like the idea to be able to use these layout skills in a desktop GUI.

But size and speed matter (you don’t see much elektron based games..). We as a humanity can’t just always build faster and more powerful computers and then let developers throw these gains away by building more elaborate Rube-Goldberg-machines, that take 100 times the space they need, running more things taking the same old time we are used to wait, with dependencies no single human ever checked at once.

Many of same people who waste tremendous amounts of energy and collective human time writing ineffective applications might end up to be really pro-environmentalists outside their job, but when it comes to computers suddenly we don’t care. As long as it is acceptable on a new machine, who cares, right?

It would be entirely possible to write perfectly fast and efficient GUI applications using HTML and CSS as layout engines without dragging whole browsers into this. Using system webview might not be the solution. But maybe something that doesn’t feel like it has been taped together with duct tape would help. A fully fleged browser engine for a desktop app is overkill in most common usecases and while I understand why one decides for Elektron, I’d rather see a really thought out solution than one that has been duct taped together.
they're pushing something else now: microsoft teams. looks like a combination of google wave and hipchat.
The majority of the country have been polled and consistently agree with the President that the media is intentionally creating a divide and often lie to the people. Conservatives undoubtedly make up more of that number but both political sides clearly think along similar lines in this instance. This isn't a "fringe group" that hate the corporate media.
If you think this is painful, look up his thread about his 10-day meditation retreat. It's insufferable.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1071575088695140353