skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long list of states with maybe Georgia included. I really hope one of these tech companies opens an office in the southeast; every time I see an article like this I get my hopes up. It’s not like there’s no tech there. Georgia Tech produces quite a few CS grads and has a well ranked program. I currently live in the Bay Area but wish I didn’t have to make the trade off between career and being near family.
if you're an analyst, and someone voluntarily lets you into their house knowing you're there to collect information about their house, are you spying? doesn't spying require some element of attempted secrecy?
SLS Block I maybe, but definitely not SLS Block 2.

The Starship hopper will definitely be working long before either of those two take flight.
Modern UI design is awful. It might work for Joe Moron, who is just scrolling through video clips and short fragments of text, but I can't imagine why you would ever try to apply design principles designed for that case to professional users. Do people really think they can take the complexity out of these inherently complex business systems? I'm not saying that everything has to look like shit, but no amount of dumbing down an interface is going to fix the fact that certain software needs to display an intimidating amount of info, and that the learning curve for that software is going to be pretty brutal.

I want to wake up from this nightmare. Software like Bloomberg Terminal and CATIA doesn't need to be beautiful web apps with clean, !minimal! Material design, they need to tear through the issues they're meant to solve as quickly and easily as possible, even the reality of that is a little ugly.
"Damage to Canada's forests makes them emit more carbon than they absorb"

T,FTFY
What framework are you using?
Also, Americans and Germans have different definitions of "reliable".

Americans define "reliable" as "runs forever on zero maintenance". Germans define "reliable" as "runs forever as long as you stick to strict maintenance schedules".
Has it ever been the place to have an interview or 1:1 conversation? That it didn't work well seems like something that would be known in advance, and so the choice of doing it this way feels more like grandstanding on the part of KS.

Not saying Twitter doesn't have problems, just that this seems to be an interview constructed to support a narrative right from the start.
MOBAs were the top of twitch before. I don't mean to imply its easy by any means to become popular based entirely around twitch - but I do think its very possible to go entirely word of mouth if the games is good and fresh. Publishers have a lot of trouble marketing newer game types - they like to stick to what people know. Demon Souls/Dark Souls is a good example, though From Software does have a long history - just not huge hits in the US.
Haven't read Thucydides yet, but some of the reasons listed for reading him, seems to fit as well to Plutarch also. I think there may be more variety in Plutarch though, because he wrote about a more wider variety of people and things.
There are some weird and disturbing artifacts if in one of the composite images, the person was touching their face: https://imgur.com/a/ptgKbh1
It’s about time to market and iteration speed being important success factors, coupled with users accepting the costs in exchange for the benefits.
Possibly ethics and law (personal rights to the photo)?
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This looks neat, but hardly official. Let’s hope it doesn’t suffer a takedown-notice.

I might give this a try one day when I have time.
And from PostgreSQL 11, it supporting transactions within Stored Procs is killing. Earlier, Oracle to PostgreSQL required developers to re-write a lot of logic in application to make it for PostgreSQL. Now, from PG 11, it supports transactions and that made the migrations more and more easier.
Interesting part from the article:

"To compute a crash rate, you take the number of crashes and divide it by the number of miles traveled. NHTSA did this calculation twice—once for miles traveled before the Autosteer upgrade, and again for miles traveled afterward. NHTSA found that crashes were more common before Autosteer, and the rate dropped by 40 percent once the technology was activated.

In a calculation like this, it's important for the numerator and denominator to be drawn from the same set of data points. If the miles from a particular car aren't in the denominator, then crashes for that same car can't be in the numerator—otherwise the results are meaningless.

Yet according to QCS, that's exactly what NHTSA did. Tesla provided NHTSA with data on 43,781 vehicles, but 29,051 of these vehicles were missing data fields necessary to calculate how many miles these vehicles drove prior to the activation of Autosteer. NHTSA handled this by counting these cars as driving zero pre-Autosteer miles. Yet NHTSA counted these same vehicles as having 18 pre-Autosteer crashes—more than 20 percent of the 86 total pre-Autosteer crashes in the data set. The result was to significantly overstate Tesla's pre-Autosteer crash rate."
>I didn't know they used a tiny steam engine inside a V-2.

it wasnt steam engine per.se., it was catalytic peroxide decomposition.
Fantastic, thanks for the explanation. Can you please point me to a source? Need to send it to my dad who taught me everything I know but has now turned into a climate change denialist who says it's all a globalist / marxist / leftist plot to make money off solar panels.
When you say "Latino", do you mean someone who actually hails from Latin America? Because I'm Latino from the United States and I'd probably be just as lost when it comes to dealing with Latin America as a non-Latino from the United States.
I was playing with gcloud, particularly with deployment manager and have feeling that there are still many bugs in gcloud. DM seems like it has a good design and could be more powerful (especially ability to use templating and injecting Python code), but still feels buggy, error messages are very cryptic, and not feature full around updating (there is some rollback and preview functionality, but it is essentially useless).

Nowhere close to what Cloud Formation is, even though from design it is less powerful.

I was a bit skeptical why terraform is popular, doesn't feels like it brings anything new to CF, but could make a lot of sense to use instead of DM.
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Tab in browser provides way better user experience than electron app (or native android/ios app). With website you can to mind-blowing things like:

* Open other part of your app in new tab.

* Open other part of your app in new widow, and have time side by side.

* Open external link in new tab, in the same window (OMG!!!).

* I can send link from the web app to someone else.

* Consistent back button.

* Use browser extensions.

* Have cookies (i.e. I am logged out of most of the things in your in-app browser).

Composers are generally thing that are better in apps, but as long as I don't need to compose complex stuff, web app always wins. And if I do, I'll prefer to use native/electron app only for composing, not for consumption.
What if google used location services to detect I was in a burger king, and showed me sponsored ads on the top of my search page on my phone, and McDonalds happened to be the highest bidder. I don't think the trigger for the ads change things.
Ask HN: Coding bootcamp at 30?
Been in tech for a few years in various non-eng roles (analytics, product management) and have basic web development and python skills but want to level up and feel like deeply learning web development is important for jumping into entrepreneurship. I don't necessarily want to take a job as a full time SWE, though.

Anyone in a similar position? How did it work out for you?
Some people do, I believe generally the most acceptable (and humane) method is to spike the brain of the lobster before boiling it.
This is what always bothers me about demonstrations of the technology. There's almost always a extra hidden layer of human curation of the output so we only see the examples that are most interesting (90% amazing result with a mixture of hilarious/horrible bad results for flavor)

This work is impressive, I don't mean to take anything away from it, but if the author had to filter through 1000 images to select the 5 I saw, that's ... disappointing?
He's explicitly rejecting the notion that the already skewed nationwide tech population is relevant. One would think, that if I was a large company recruiting nationwide, with brand name that's a resume magnet, I would be drawing from the skewed nationwide tech population, because that's what's entering the pipeline. If controlling for geographic factors, that's not what's coming out, something looks amiss. He explicitly is saying that "talent" is determining factor. That seems odd, since that would be conditionally independent.
Very impressive! Congrats on shipping!
Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
But my point is that it's diversity of experience/knowledge, not racial diversity that solves those problems.
Not even that. It is designed for aesthetics.

That something I didn't realize until lately but aesthetics is hugely important. We once updated our internal issue tracker and everyone raved about how better it is now. The thing is: absolutely nothing changed for the average user besides the style. Things like more tasteful color choice, a more modern look with square corners, etc... nothing practical.

Also, from some guys at Microsoft: if you didn't change the UI, from the user point of view, you didn't do anything.

The problem with modern UIs for beginners is that too much is hidden. Panels that only appear when swiped from the side, parts that give no indication of being clickable, highly abstract icons, lack of consistency (ex: the "hamburger" menu can be anywhere, or not be present at all).
As someone who used to develop with some of those options, I'm frankly glad that I can use HTML/CSS and Electron + React. It's much easier on the developer, even if it's less performant for the end user.
One problem is that this has follow-on effects of reducing sentences for other crimes. For example, murder would be 20 years because that is the cap. What do you make rape? You don't want to make it 20 years since then that incentivizes the perpetrator to always kill the victim. Given the above, you are looking at 10-15 years at most for rapists. Then you need to differentiate the serial rapist (see Larry Nasser) from the non-serial rapist. All said, you are probably looking at sentences of 5-10 years for even the most heinous single rape conviction.
Beamforming and mmWave are approaches which could one day be used for indoor positioning.
So it is ok because money? I don't accept that reasoning. Computers today are orders of magnitude faster than they were in the past yet this concept of developer time being so much more important than everyone else's has them still feeling slow and unresponsive on essentially the same tasks we were performing 30 years ago.

This is why I hate this industry.
No, CTEs do not have local scope, at least not like variables. CTEs are statement-scoped; no matter how many SQL statements you have in your current scope, your CTE vanishes after the first statement terminates.
Gasoline. Bring on the 100% tax
Cheap things.
For example, Q-tips are $3 per box which lasts a us couple of years. If the price doubles (or triples for that matter), I'd still be buying that.
I guess so, and the fine would be proportional to how long it has been illegal.
> Open other part of your app in new tab.
Unless the developers forbid it... and always finding new ways to forbid it...

Man I hate the new web.
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> I would hope the same mindset applies, but maybe not - but back when I was using SQL, the idea was to let the database engine do everything it could with the data, before sending the results over the pipe.

We're a machine learning shop, and this is absolutely one of our core design principles.
Thanks! Most of my fun projects tend to be of the fiddle-for-years type, so it was great to find something small enough to polish off in a few months. And of course I had to resist the urge to keep adding to it, but the constraints helped...there are only so many bits to use.
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
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And the forest fires and beetle vulnerability are not unrelated to current climate change (at least in California last I read), so that might help close the non-anthro-centricity argument they are using for different accounting methods.
A friend's company actually films users using software/websites, analyse their reactions and build a thorough report on UX. All their science is based on the concepts from IA -- information architecture -- from a decade or so ago.
Revery UI[1] framework is like Electron but without a browser.

[1] https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
I mean I have been trying to do this for a while so I can put all my service tools on it and connect them to gas dispensers I service
Playing half a decade to a decade of catchup built on a war chest of windows and office b2b sales does not instill much confidence ...
> Electron is only the best way to do something when someone knows only javascript and web dev but doesn't want to learn a new language

and when you want to fire all the obsolete specialists while making a product with one person that works for everyone. I mean, you can keep one specialist, since they know javascript too
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My point is not that the best way to solve these problems is through racial diversity. My point is that they inevitably crop up due a lack of awareness when you do not have diversity.
> Slack and Discord building in Electron means they only need to maintain one codebase across web, desktop, and mobile. They don't need separate teams for building in Java, Swift, and C#.

Did you know that Slack has native iOS and Android apps, as well as a cross-platform C++ "LibSlack" run by another separate team?
>the answer from the dev team is almost always, "Works as designed".

When I say 'works as designed', what I'm actually saying is that I didn't have control over the design, go talk to the ones who did.
Google has had multiple offices and data centers in and around the Atlanta area, for at least 10+ years now. They have offices all around the southeast. I passed one on foot in Chapel Hill randomly which I didn't know existed. /xoogler
Here's what "AR" would look like if it worked. Watch "Hyperreality".[1] Best depiction of AR so far.

[1] https://vimeo.com/166807261
$3m?! No. This post walks through each of the terms in detail: https://earnestcapital.com/shared-earnings-agreement-digging...

We have a Return Cap which is negotiated on a per deal basis but we guide toward 3-5x the initial investment.
One specifically is just that Discord works well for me when used "natively", but doesn't work well (won't connect, worse latency, etc) when I used it from the webpage.
I thought the site's name was a sarcasm until I read their intro paragraph which makes me laugh that they're actually encouraging the use of jQuery with those examples.
The Straussian reading is "Google doesn't have good ideas on how to spend it's capital - might as well buy real estate"
Its not overrated, it is just scarce.

Yes, it is a status symbol, solely because of its high price and because it is scarce.

These aren't controversial things, you already figured it out, but somehow have cognitive dissonance over this.
Yep. America hasn't even started to reckon with the attitudes encapsulated in the n word (no, not that one, the other one).
this thread is amusing. so many people on HN should go get their amateur radio licenses and stop comparing a layer 1 radio connection to their layer 7+ they use in the browser.
> over 12,000 GLOBAL VARIABLES

How many global variables do each of Toyota's competitors have?
To be specific, if you modify actual Qt code--which you shouldn't be doing generally--then you have to release those modifications.

But if you dynamically link your app with Qt you're fine; you don't have to open source anything.
Honestly, this looks perfect for my case, I am too early for Indie.vc for example, but overall, I love what is happening in this space. Pretty much, you get to prove your business model somewhat and you will get support. Most of the time, this will result in much better growth and focus, and few of times things don't work out, it will not be as often as it would be without business being proven.

It is great time to be bootstrapper.
More Californians are considering fleeing the state as they blame sky-high costs
Yes, but again, the assumption is racial discrimination. That is the de facto assumption for every possible case. What about language, or culture, confidence, etc? If you are a foreigner to a country, of which many Asians are either first or second generation, you might be comfortable performing culturally agnostic technical feats, but not at all confident taking a leadership role. Or if we want to entertain that there is discrimination at play, how does cultural discrimination map on to racism. You discriminate culturally when choosing who to be friends with. If you like bros, hipsters, nerds, outdoorsie types, etc, you're making a cultural discrimination. If there is a degree of correlation between culture and race/ethnicity, which there is, then how might that come into play regarding the roles people assume in an organization? The presumption of racial discrimination in a vacuum is a refusal to content with any level of nuance or complexity.
Yes, users do lie all the time.

So ASK, but do not ask direct questions (e.g., what do you want?).

Instead, ask what are their problems, their pain points, and what items they rely on most.

And OBSERVE -- watch what they actually do. What items they most rely upon (i.e., do NOT change that stuff if you can avoid it).

These answers & observations can then form the basis of your solution, which should relentlessly focus on their needs (and not your own design conceits).

Story from a friend who wrote & sold software into IT shops: When he asked "Do you like these features and would you buy this software?", he got all kinds of "Yes" answers, would write the package, and find few buyers.

When he switched to asking (basically) "What are your pain points, what is aggravating, time consuming, etc?", then writing software to address those issues, he got plenty of sales and happy customers.

It's the indirect question that matters.
> and lets not forget, it looks like this

What are you trying to show here?
We only just had a similar discussion few days ago on Analytics. [1]

And according to issue [2], it does not plan to aggregate any OS, Devices, Locations, Browsers, Res, etc data in the future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19119868

[2] https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/82
Absolutely awesome! Some faces seem to have some weird horizontal asymmetry, though (I'm not saying that people are perfectly symmetric, but in these pictures the two halves of the face seem to belong to different people).
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>Part of the issue, and the thing almost no one realizes about Carpocolypse 2008 is that all these suppliers are 100% dependant on supplying to 5 vendors and that if one stops buying X module for 6 months, they fold

They didn't have to wait until 2008 to learn this lesson. They could have learned it in the 90s if they were watching.

This is exactly why it's so hard to source vehicle parts for old Chrysler products. Every time they go bankrupt their suppliers go bankrupt and 3/4 of the tooling winds up turned into tin cans.
Reminds me a lot of the Indie Fund in the game space, but slightly more profit-centered (which is not a bad thing).

How did you settle on a 3-5x return cap? Are you planning to tune that over time? Did you consider a graded return schedule? I don't know if you've published your profit share or if that varies by deal, but I'm curious if something like 25% up until 100% recoup, 10% up to 200%, 5% up to 3-5x target would compare to a flat 10-15% or whatever.

As a point of comparison, I used a portfolio loan to buy a business to run as a side project. The debt service on ~$125k is variable but roughly $500/month. At time of purchase that was about 20% of net, but that number will go down as the debt is paid and revenue grows. If I pay it off in ~5 years the total debt service will be in the range of $20-$30k... BUT that means almost all net is going to pay down the debt vs reinvesting in the business.

I know you're targeting more bootstrappers who want to go full time, but if this type of funding were available for side hustle acquisitions I'd probably consider it pretty strongly instead of taking on a bunch of personal risk (even though the rewards for me become less on paper).
Look for trims of vehicles designed for fleet use. Those remain pretty spartan.
There is no need for ranting, if you need to reuse expression from select you could simply use `LATERAL JOIN` or `CROSS APPLY`: https://blog.jooq.org/2014/01/06/the-sql-languages-most-miss... Please check comment section of this blog
Caution: To do this you need to run a rat's nest of a batch file that runs a bunch of different code obtained from the web.

If you're going to try this, try on devices you don't care about. Or spend innumerable hours auditing code.

Pass -- for now.
cryptographic hash^
Most forests in North America are not mature. Consider how tall redwood trees can get. Also, trees are converted into wood and paper. Generally that wood isn't burned and returned to the atmosphere.

Why not suggest the whole planet is carbon neutral at that point? It is meaningless because we only care about the carbon in the atmosphere.
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It's sad that these fish take 7+ years to mature and are harvested just for their eggs while their bodies are left to rot.
The article seems to relate only to data handling for Android, so I'm not sure your comparison and conclusions are relevant.
This is remarkably beautiful. Could you, perhaps, give some detail as to how it functions? I see wave propagation, but I'm interested in the state dynamics of a particular cell.
It is scarce.

Because it is scarce, it is a status symbol.

Because it is a status symbol only because it is scarce, it is overrated.

Therefore it is overrated.
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Have to agree with this. Too many times I've seen UX people brought in who see the ONLY path to simplification as removing things /they/ don't perceive as necessary. They're flat out wrong - you can simplify also by using the suggestions mentioned in this article.

Sometimes the strategy pays off. But for enterprise apps with high information density it often doesn't. New systems end up lacking essential features just because a few people who never needed to use the original system (and would not need to use the new one either) end up stripping things away.
I assumed because of the other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19154864
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Do you consider a laptop a basic human necessity ?
My understanding is that Windows has an odd memory allocation system where each DLL has its own allocator. Qt historically wasn't designed for that; it will allocate and return objects on the heap with the understanding that user code will free them.

They may have solved this since by using a custom allocator on windows for Qt types.
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