skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure my A99ii will never see anything cool like this.
Kubernetes Job Interview Questions: How to Prepare
Culturally, we are told to define ourselves by our jobs (what we do to provide money for our dependents or ourselves). We've lost the idea of vocation, and that vocation extends beyond the "9-to-5."

Parenting is absolutely a vocation, and your perspective toward it is quite refreshing.
It depends on the salary of the employee, and their personal goals. Personally, I find a 20% decrease in working hours is worth a lot more than a 25% increase in pay. The hourly wage remains the same, but getting a full day back per week is significantly more valuable than more money that I'm already not spending
Thanks. I was a bit too busy to go through all the court documents this time.
(I usually do)
Ask HN: How Can I Easily Collaborate on Researching a Particular Topic Online?
I remember having this argument with people who couldn't understand why I preferred using iTunes (Swinsian, these days) to organize a collection of thousands of albums, with automatic sorting based on metadata. File systems just don't expose what is relevant in a music context and re-sorting huge batches of music based on changed metadata is too difficult.
You'd also be breaking the law in many places, depending on how the cop feels at the time.
Facebook Wants to Make a New Virtual Assistant That's Smarter Than Siri or Alexa
Okay I appreciate you're still willing to engage my snarky commentary, but I really really disagree that 12k is going to be a good barrier to enable people to "get the domain they really want". It enables people with money to do that.

It looks like someone looked at this and said "well 12 grand is affordable but not at scale so people will think twice" - no this is just impossible for some people and amplifying unequal distribution. People with this kind of money already have a "I can get 1000 of em" advantage at $12 a year. No need to give those people more of a head start.

This policy comes from a place of privilege and I despise it. Period.

What's next, ReCAPTCHA bypass if you have Google One? (Ha I say that like it's not already implicitly the case that RC trusts a well tracked Google user more.)
I understand that's the stated purpose. I'm demonstrating how I feel types can pretty much become useless when integrating with an outside system.

If everything is optional, then you might as well not use a type system in the first place.
Jackson supports a workflow like you describe.

https://fasterxml.github.io/jackson-databind/javadoc/2.2.0/c... and related classes/functions.
what are you eating for the healthy fat?
They have to supply the money so that they can have something which can be collected with reliable value for taxes. If your government allows you to pay taxes with monopoly money, then Hasbro becomes King. If the government supplies the money, there is no external organization which can inflate the supply to gain control.
Gestational Surrogacy Is Big Business
You should still be able to recount what you did, past tense.

"This morning I sketched out three different possibilities for the new client check-in service. First draft of the spec is in progress, I expect to send it over to Jen and Andy tomorrow for their feedback."

"I made a dozen or so mockups for the new landing page. I have a couple more ideas I want to try out tomorrow, then I'll figure out what the best four or five are and show them to the team."

"Since we don't have any feature work pending right now, I've been experimenting on a branch with using $TOOL to do $THING better. It looks good because $X, although $Y might be a problem."

"We talked a while ago about doing $THING with the user's documents so they can $WHATEVER more easily, and I wasn't sure it was even possible. I've been looking into that today. It looks like there might be a way, so I'm continuing to investigate."

"We've wanted to replace $FRAMEWORK for a while now. I've identified the parts of it that we actually use, and I'm putting together a plan for what we can swap in and/or get rid of. It looks like, since we made $CHANGE last month, we can actually do most of it ourselves without much trouble."
Ultrasonic Motor
If a failure of auto-vectorization in a hot code path decreases performance enough for the user to perceive it as a bug, then it seems like explicitly maintaining SIMD/NEON code-paths would be preferable to dealing with auto-vectorization black magic.

But I've never done either.
In theory, you can get that here: https://dnpedia.com/tlds/daily.php (write "dev" in the TLD column)

Doesn't seem to have those listed in the top article, though, not sure why. Maybe it'll update later.

EDIT: The official source seems to be https://czds.icann.org/
Apple charges ridiculous prices for SSDs and RAM.
How One Scientist Coped When AI Beat Him at His Life’s Work
AI Safety Needs Social Scientists
> It's more of an issue that you have unreliable 3rd party vendors that you buy from/use.

It happens very, very rarely - but the problem is when it happens it can happen suddenly and be very, very hard to address properly.
Which is funny because trademark owners tend to not be "small businesses".
Yeah, I know. That's pretty much what I said.
Conspiracy theories are fiction which is protected speech, it's interesting how newspapers are thumbing their noses at the first amendment and smearing competitors who also enjoy it's protection as perhaps they sense an opportunity at regaining gatekeeper status.

It also can be said that "conspiracy theories" are part of internet culture as no one really believes the earth is flat, it's just attention seeking behavior and trolling.
Isn’t it more accurate that a seller is using Amazon’s publishing platform to counterfeit and sell other publishers books?

The title suggests Amazon has wrongdoing here. You could make the case that they need more policing and review but it’s not like Amazon is knowingly selling counterfeit here.
NYSE, Nasdaq, and CBOE Are Price Gouging, and We All Pay [pdf]
> This information can only be attained by a warrant, and doesn't change the fact that you are tried before a judge, by a jury of your peers.

Sure. But getting tried is extremely expensive, in money and time. And it tends to fuck up your life in numerous ways.

Me, I just don't carry a cellphone that's always turned on.
Yeah... the ideal purpose of universities and the way they have grown almost tumor like administrative arms, which seem to only take resources and not advance anything meaningful is sad.
What’s in a Face? AI Deciphers Emotional Mysteries of Ancient Buddhist Statues
> with phrasing like "bottomless well of need" there's also an obvious disdain for humanity

I think you are wrong to make that assumption.

There are tons of people with no sense of boundaries who will make contact over and over for very little reason.
It only takes one or two of those people to ruin it for the rest of us.
Julia Galef did a talk last year for the Long Now Foundation on the soldier/scout mindsets [1]. It's about 90 minutes including questions, and I found it interesting end engaging.

[1] http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/sep/12/soldiers-and-scouts...
> The community vibe alignment isn't quite there with Swift -- it had no history in numerical computation and it came into the scene because a team at Google said so, whereas Julia and Python grew organically from the communities that do the same work we do, and were trying to solve the same problems we were. There's skin in the game and depth as it were.

It's an interesting perspective, and I think my own tribal bias as a software engineer plays in to my gut feeling on the topic.

To me it's natural to see it in these terms: who's going to make a better saw: a metal worker or a wood worker? The woodworker might know exactly what he wants out of a saw, but the metal worker is a heck of a lot better making things out of metal.

But that's just my biased opinion.
My problem isn’t so much that Google is storing location data if people have agreed to allow it. The semantics of agreeing to enable location history are arguable, but by default Google’s location history feature is opt-out. I’d prefer it be not be that way, but that’s a debate for another time.

What I do have a problem with is what this line from the article suggests:

>An Associated Press investigation last year revealed that even with these settings disabled, Google continued to collect and store users' location data.

Maybe I’m missing something from the TOS, but it seems to me that the opt-out process doesn’t do what it describes; so what is it for?
Emoji Are Showing Up in Court Cases
I often get sucked in for entertainment value on those videos, even when I don't agree with anything they are saying.
Handling shouldn't mean "throw errors".

But the whole process of creating Beans or immutable POJOs and then decorating them with annotations seems to invariably lead you down a path where, if you're dealing with a particularly hoary API, you've either got to create a ridiculous number of single-use DTOs to handle all the edge cases, or define a manageable number of DTOs that unfortunately also place more stringent requirements on the input data than are strictly necessary.
“I Lost Faith in the Industry, Burned Out, but the Cult of the Tool Saved Me”
https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-t...

YouTube and Google have put out tons of comms lately indicating that it's at least something top of mind
Also it appears to me the same space could be utilized to stock much more books, which in my eye what a library should be continually striving to do. In general what makes libraries great are the size of their stock, the comprehensiveness and accebility of the catalogues and indexes, and presence of help-full librarians.
As bad as iTunes is, its still better than adb
And yet the US/EU relationship is at an all time low.
Actually I find ebay to be much better than Amazon for buying. I can read the seller reviews and I know they're generally legitimate. Particularly the negative reviews, which is all I need to see if I want to know what the seller does wrong, if anything.

I can look up a seller to make sure he's sourced an item properly, for example, newegg sells SD cards on ebay so I know newegg is sourcing SD cards properly and I'm good to go. Or I look up a seller and they claim to be a licensed Nikon supplier I know I'm probably ok or I could even call up Nikon to verify they're a licensed supplier.

If I want something fake/cloned I know I can just buy cheap from the chinese supplier and I don't have to pay a markup to a middle man. But if I want it right away, I can order from someone in the same state as me and pay a couple extra bucks, and I know it's the clone cuz the picture is the exact same.

You get a lot of information on ebay that you don't get on Amazon.
Is this really YouTube's fault? The President of the USA thinks China invented climate change as a hoax to reduce the economic output of the USA. Who can expect youth or anyone really to be okay in an age where the ruling parties are themselves the ones creating and pushing the wildest conspiracies?
Ubuntu 18.04.2 Refreshes This Long-Term Support Linux Distro
Samoa did the opposite in 2009. The main reason was to have easier access to the (relatively) nearby Australian vehicle market.
I am / was heavily invested in Apple hardware as well (MacBook Pro, iPhone, iPad).

I recently switched to an Android phone, because the price-point of buying a new iPhone is just not justifiable any more. Android feels a bit spammy, but overall it does what I need it to do. I will stick with Android for now.

I was looking at the iPad Pro recently, because I could need a second screen when I’m working e.g. from a co-working space. It looks beautiful, but things like no-headphone jack makes it too much trouble for me. I don’t want to bring my dongles all the time. As others have mentioned using Bluetooth headphones for music production just isn’t good enough because of latency. Also I prefer having devices without a battery. Less to think about when leaving the house.

I am using my MacBook Pro 2014 daily for 10+ for work and as a private computer. It’s about time to upgrade for me, because I could save quite a lot of time with a faster CPU. While I would love to have a more powerful device running macOS (so a newer MacBook Pro), from what I heard they are just worse than my 2014 MacBook Pro. I still use a lot of USB 2/3 devices, I want a keyboard, which feels good and does not get broken easily. I don’t care about it being thin at all. I want performance and an SD slot.

Because it is clear that there is no such machine produces by Apple right now (and probably in the future) I had to look for alternatives. The Surface Book 2 by Microsoft is really interesting. They even have a Nvidia GPU, which can be used for Deep Learning and graphical experiments. A big advantage over the GPUs used by Apple imo. Sadly from all what I hear Windows 10 just isn’t good enough to use it daily as a programmer. I spend many hours researching and found a lot of comments from former macOS user who switched. Windows will (still) drive you nuts if you are used to things just working they say.

The only alternative, Linux, would mean a serious commitment to figuring out stuff by myself, spending time making my system work. I am currently stuck with macOS, and therefore my laptop from 2014. I’m quite sure I will switch to another OS in the next two years, but it is hard to figure out which is the better option for me.
Yeah that is my worry reading that: interoperability is going to be a headache.
Some nice example animations here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Dm-5EfSAk
https://cloudnetworking.io :)

I write about cloud networking in general.
Somewhat. We've eyeballed the cost of living where we want to retire (NorCal Redwood Coast) compared to the many asterisked expected 401k returns and everything looks reasonable. The big gotcha in my mind is that I expect that once we get old then some big medical issue will hit one or both of us and drain any/all saving.
I've said for years I'd love to work at Home Depot if they came up $100 an hour on the pay.
GitHub personal website generator
Best Interview Questions and Answers
Looks like they were in a hurry with the page title too:

> Error 404 (Not Found)!!1
It looks very nice and clean. I like the design. A few thoughts that occurred to me immediately:

1. Who is the target market exactly? I know you say it's for DIY equity investors. However, I'd expect them to use tools provided by brokerages, which by and large already have plenty of alerts, filters and tools for maintaining large equity books.

2. I like the minimalistic UI design, but it loads 2.5 mb of data. That's a lot. Ok, 900kb of that seems to be fonts, but that still leaves about 1 mb of javascript files. On my work computer, it took 3 seconds for the page to appear (according to Chrome dev tools). Even after caching stuff, it's still 500kb of data loaded on a page refresh. That's a lot of scaffolding for such a neat and clean UI.

I'd expect a portfolio management tool to offer some tooling for working with the portfolio as a whole. Without delving into portfolio theory, at the very least a plot showing constituent metrics (sharpe, vol, returns) and overall portfolio metrics, and then visualize the change. E.g. how will adding ticker XYZ affect the portfolio performance?

Calculating an optimal portfolio curve (based on some user input) and then showing where the current portfolio is in relation to that could also be quite neat. I believe it's imperative to know whether a particular ticker is just going to add beta, or actually provide uncorrelated returns (and therefore diversification). I'd expect investors to consider many factors beyond those above, but I consider them bare minimum.

I consider benchmarks an important part as well. E.g. I'd like to know how my portfolio is doing compared to SP500, or Nasdaq. Again, tracking these can give a lot of information. If my portfolio has a beta of 2 compared to SP500 and no alpha, I might as well buy SPY and with 2x leverage. Conversely, perhaps my portfolio is not beating SPY, but it is providing uncorrelated returns to the rest of the US equity market, so it is a nice diversification to the US economy as whole.

I work in systematic trading, so I'm not entirely the target group for sure, but the above are tools I would personally find useful to get started.
I wonder if that is sometimes their intent. Sort of the "oh it's just a joke" situations you see, but the intent may be just normalization of it / a gateway to keep planting these ideas and doubts.
>Mr. Dawson unspooled a series of far-fetched hypotheses. Among them: that iPhones secretly record their owners’ every utterance

Yeah, but that's true.
As I said elsewhere in this thread, better Menu UI would be a side benefit. I’m craving for fast processor and powerful software on the back of a big sensor and glass.
But, is that a symptom of schizophrenia? Does it cause other symptoms? Is it caused by other symptoms? Is it common to all forms of schizophrenia?
Heck: for what it’s worth. If you or anyone else on HN is interested: I’m in college right now working part time, so I’m low on spare time, but I come up with seemingly profitable business ideas pretty regularly. If you want something to work on, drop me a line and we could discuss starting a side gig. I contribute leadership / project management, you contribute operations/ getting stuff done, split 50/50.
People Unsure About 'Virtual' Doctor Visits
I agree that Jesus stopping by and asking us wouldn't change this, but collective bargaining has already changed this in the past

It's not impossible! It requires people working together.
> “We’ve been treated like adults and I think as a result everyone is behaving like adults,” said Tammy Barker, a branch manager who was part of the trial that cut the working week from from 37.5 hours to 30

I imagine most of these studies that pop up, like this one, are referring to an overall total hours cut, not just cramming 5 days worth of 'work time' into 4.

4x 10s can definitely be hard, though there are so many coding jobs out there that 'require' unpaid overtime easily pushing that to more like 5x 10s or even more.
I think at this point the exodus will continue regardless of Brexit outcomes. The underlying social divisions and political mess aren’t going away, and the unpredictable reality of British politics has been thoroughly exposed. The ERG isn’t going away, the people who voted for Brexit aren’t going away (at least not quickly). Moving a business now will hurt, but less then potentially a decade or more back and forth maneuvering depending on who is in power.

I truly believe this spells the beginning of the end of us as a center for business and finance.
Anna–A Machine Learning Drum Bot
For background my claim against Yahoo being not a respected place to work is echoed in a 2013 NY Times piece:

>”Mar 5, 2013 · “In the tech world it was such a bummer to say you worked for Yahoo,” said a former senior employee”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/technology/yahoos-in-of...

I understand though taking issue with The NY Times as a source though, they do have their issues, with the recent Jill Abramson plagiarism case being a good example.
> I have directories on my filesystem(s), files in those directories, and amazingly powerful applications to navigate them (Total Commander / mc / Krusader).

I think that the problem is that a file system typically represents a single type of hierarchy. Maybe you have your books in the file system arranged by topic->author->book, but other arrangements like topic->year->book, book->year (for editions) or author->book->author->book->... (for citations) can be useful. Maybe you want to list books that relate to a set of multiple topics written by either of two specific authors.

In Unix you can solve this by using symbolic links, which may become tedious to maintain (but less so by using automated tools). Generally, you can sort of address it by including meta information in the file names (like the warez scene does), but that is tedious when you have a lot of potentially relevant meta information.

The benefits of throwing all the information into a relational database and querying into that instead of a regular PC file system is that you can define the desired hierarchy and what meta-data is important on the fly and effectively create a file system (in the pre-computer sense) and perform a search at the same time.

I haven't looked closely enough at this software to say that its "library" actually addresses these concerns, but for large libraries there are obvious benefits to 1) Using multiple hierarchies or faceted classification for information query 2) defining such hierarchies or sets of classifying categories on the fly. These aren't new solutions, and fundamentally the organization of information in a library is not a new problem, so I wouldn't call your position old school.
In the early days of the internet I thought all this "information" being available / soon to be available as a positive. I had no idea what the negatives would be at that point, let alone the scale.
The "add project" link on the FAQ page 404s: https://www.codeshelter.co/faq/ [fixed now]

How would this project approach FOSS projects that were abandoned, then sort-of-picked-up by another maintainer, but with no actual continued development?

Example: Meteorite MKV repair engine

Original site: http://www.mkvrepair.com/

Original code: https://sourceforge.net/p/meteorite/code/HEAD/tree/

"New" code (last activity 3 years ago): https://github.com/abarnert/meteorite

I would love to see this project continued, and even added into other FOSS projects like VLC.
"Approved every time without knowing how big and having no review process." is exactly like a blank check.

You seem to be implying that needing to go get blank checks with no meaningful questions asked makes something not a blank check. But that's exactly how checks work. They're pieces of paper after all. This situation is more like blank checks than if they had 24/7 access to the entire database.
Don't know that I agree that it's "never going to happen." Will everyone switch to the four day week? Probably not. But experiments like this normalize the idea of it. I negotiated a four day week and examples like these definitely helped me make the case to my boss.
Web devs aren't the only ones that need test/dummy hostnames. That being said, as mentioned in another comment, there are other TLDs already reserved for such use.
I purchased some wire cutters a year or two ago from Amazon and they were fine for the speaker wire I was cutting... Until this year when I tried to cut a guitar string with them and found a perfect guitar gauged hole in my snips every time I tried to cut.

I was irate, having paid $10 for these. So I go online to leave a review and warn people off... only to find that the seller "no longer existed". They absolutely did, and were selling their awful snips but had changed their name and paid for a bunch of 5 star reviews again.

I've been far more aware as of late that whenever I search for something (say the staple gun I recently got my wife) all I get are offbrand or knockoff results showing for often several pages. I have to go, figure out which brands are reputable and then come back to actually make my purchase.

I'd rather just go to a brick and mortar at this point. I'm definitely not renewing my amazon prime.
>Is this really YouTube's fault?

At some point aren't they responsible for hosting it?

If I were hosting it, I'd feel somewhat responsible.
It appears that dem party (and its mouthpiece NyTimes) has become a complete opposite of itself. Their obviously want to limit free speech to their liking.
I'm really glad the Nissan case went the way it did. It was the guy's family name after all, as well as a word in Hebrew.