skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rejection sucks for anyone, but I can see how it's worse when you suffer from depression. It's a kind of negative feedback that you really don't need.

The first important thing to realise is that depression is a disease; it's not you, it's a disease messing with your brain chemistry. It's a disease that makes good things feel pointless while making bad things, like rejection from a job interview, feel even worse than usual.

I can't cure your depression for you (but do talk to a shrink or at least a support group), but I do know how to make job interviews less stressful: have job interviews when you don't really need a new job.

That's not very useful for you now, when you really do need a new job, but bear with me: maybe you can find a different job, less ambitious, lower pay, not quite the kind of work you want, but something that will help pay the bills. A job at a place you like, where you like the people, preferably. A job that makes you feel happy and appreciated is more important than a job that pays well.

Then, when you have that job, look for a better job from the comfort of that job. That's hard, because you already have a job and don't really need another one right now, so why would you go to those horrible job interviews anyway? Because the stakes are lower. When you already have a job, there's no penalty for fucking up a job interview, and at the same time, you'll be more relaxed and less stressed, and because you need it less, you'll actually do better in the interview. And even if they want to hire you, you can reject them. Hold out until you find a job you want. But first, just get any job. Take a step back in your career, a big step if need be, flip burgers if that's what it takes, just to get in a position from which you can take a step forward again.

It's deeply unfair that finding a job is easier when you already have one, and harder when you don't have one. The human mind is weird that way, but you already have some hands-on experience on how weird the human mind can be. Use that experience to your advantage.
I think there are a lot more hustle-posts and a lot less quality tech posts than a few years ago.

Sadly the same happened all around...
I keep AltGr+8 mapped to × for just such an emergency.
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I've been using Linux every day for 15 years now. I love Linux desktop, not perfect, but neither is Windows. I started with Gnome 2, jumped over to KDE 4 and now KDE 5. Very happy with how well and smooth everything works.
I don't know what the GP was thinking. Hopefully exactly that.
> if you suck at interviews, practice interviewing

You know what's also a great way to practice interviewing? Interviewing for jobs you don't want. Just for practice. Because you already don't want the job, the stakes are low for you, so you can relax and just do the interview.
Corner shop economics is not a model for a nation. I take it you are still working from Reinhart and Rogoff.

> The deficit is already 2% of GDP and they're £1.7 trillion in debt.

This after ten years of austerity. It's not what they promised.
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Flash media has capacitance based charge that degrades with time, a CD will degrade approximately never.
Presently, no trackpad under linux will give an OSX-like experience.

This is mostly a software limitation with the linux desktop IMO... e.g. web browsers like chrome and firefox lack basic features like kinetic scrolling under linux:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=763791

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1213601

And linux desktops don't really have any kind of gesture integration (the only one I'm aware of is gnome on wayland, and it basically only has one gesture available, switching desktops)

I prefer using linux on my laptop, but this is definitely a big annoyance
You clearly haven’t read the book or even clicked on the link. It’s written by Jeremy Kun, a fantastic math professor who’s written several excellent posts on his blog on how to intuitively grasp mathematical concepts.
Cool setup, being able to mold your Linux desktop into what you need is a good thing!

I'm happy on Ubuntu LTS with a couple PPAs for latest mesa and some other applications.

More recreational though, gaming through Steam's Proton or Lutris, big thanks to Valve for sponsoring wine, dxvk an various other bits and pieces!
Please explain, I use Little Snitch too!
I guess GP actually meant ELWOT - Explain Like We're On Twitter.
I dropped a few pieces of turkey on the floor in my kitchen. The dogs gobbled it up. They keep revisiting that spot, but the turkey is gone.
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One thing I've noticed is that it's reasonably common for news articles to just casually drop in facts that completely contradict whatever narrative the waffle is pushing, and almost no-one notices. (Wouldn't be too surprised if I only noticed it a small proportion of the time.) People just seem to come away believing the waffle anyway. It seems somewhat likely that even the Pultizer committee has been doing the same too.
As far as I remember, the only advantages tapes had were the fact that you could record to them yourself (making copies, or recording radio sources), and you could play them in a car. The sound quality wasn't better than vinyl, it was just more flexible and portable. But if you're not making your own recordings or playing them in your car, what's the point in bringing them back?

The vinyl revival make a lot more sense. Of course, the biggest pop star in the world selling a few hundred cassettes may not constitute a 'come back' either.
I've been using Ubuntu on an Thinkpad L460 for about 9 months now full-time. While there is a curve and I'm always looking for new ways to solve problems. What running Linux has done for me that I didn't expect is to make sure all my code plays nice with other projects.

Example: I've got processes that make models out of stock data and does backtesting. Even though I use my own custom code for a lot of things, I make sure that in the end if someone wants to dump into numpy/pandas they can in just 2 lines.

I started out with Linux to use a free hand-me-down laptop and I stayed when it was powerful and I could still make a living coding with it.
Alas
You can still ship your native code. So you have two options instead of one.
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For some organizations unpredictable docker image releases are considered unreliable to use at all. Sometimes the image is updated the same day, sometimes after a few days, earlier even after more than a week.

The gap between developer tools and infrastructure support for them should be as small as possible this days. It's 2019.
Nah definitely Exchange. My old BlackBerry could connect to Exchange not via a BES server using the WebDav interface.
Ask HN: Any fun to program retro game engines?
I wonder if there's any game engines like pico-8, but which allow you to code in assembly.

Practically a portable VM with graphics and sound capabilities, which also emulates the hardware limitations of, say the NES.

I'm searching for such a thing because restriction breeds creativity and I'd like to learn an assembly language of some kind along the way.
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The software development circle of doom
> I wonder what theologians might say about this question.

Imho many theists are very aware of these alternative interpretations, but due to all of them being rather unsettling and potentially existential-dread inducing, they chose the "Welp, I rather go with the God thing, that's less hassle" route.

Nothing wrong with that, we all have a mind of our own that allows us to frame our world view in the way most convenient/understandable to us.

But sadly it seems these difference in world view too often prevent us from agreeing on a consensus about how to go about things or even where to go in the first place.
The intro and outro were part of the recording. It's like the three thumps on the floor with a stick, from a guy on stage before a moliere play.

I very much enjoyed an album experience and I try to relive it with a CD, but CD encoding de-humanises the inter-track moments. Even the fade-out is sometimes gone. "re mixed for your listening pleasure" as if the beatles didn't record in Mono deliberately.

What works for me, is Keith Jarret and Glenn Gould, because they mutter and fidgit while playing. But I miss that initial thunk,rumble, snap crackle too.

Another "porky" prime cut...
Philosophically, what does it mean to prove something correct? If it turns out to not be correct, does it call into question the understanding of what "proof" means with respect to software development?

While you see it as a curiosity, I see it as being in the same family as the Ariane 5 launch failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(spacecraft)#Launch_fa... . Software which was "proven" to be correct - original Bentley code or the Ariane 4 inertial reference software - was reused in a new context - in JDK on systems with over 2^32 elements or on the Ariane 5 with its greater horizontal acceleration.

The change of expected environments in both cases lead to overflow.
Slightly offtopic: the author says the background of https://hisham.hm/htop/ shows live statistics, that's not the case as far as I can tell, just 4 pre-recorded images shown successively.

Ontopic: Quite impressive setup. For me it would be too strictly regulated for a comfortable use, though technically I like it. To each it's own.
Also, our early CD drives for our computer had this, except the caddy could be opened up and the CD inside changed. We had one caddy for the computer.
Yeah it does. You'll have downstream users on it as soon as it gets released.
Please don't post grand ideological comments to HN, especially not the dark insinuation kind. This is the sort of thing that seems substantive but isn't. Plus it's flamebait and we don't want flamewars here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have been using a very similar setup for 12 years now. In the past few months I've been wondering what the Linux experience is like for newcomers and "normal" users. I am considering doing a clean install with a full fledged modern desktop environment such as KDE. I may not be able to manage such an environment, I fear that it's too constrained compared to controlling everything that runs on my computer. But I'd like to try.

Has anyone done a switch from very minimal keyboard first lightweight environment to a modern desktop environment? If so, what was it like?
The thing is it doesn't matter that much anymore, so people aren't working on it. Both AMD and Intel modern CPUs require proprietary embedded firmwares to even get to the boot stage (as you know).

And logically it makes sense - there is no real distinction between hardware and software - it should be an implementation detail.
I've been using Linux at home without any windows installation for a couple of years, and about 11 years in dual-boot. But my installation resembles a 'windows' computer much more.

I use xfce, but most of my time is spend in a terminal with tmux running for the window configuration. Though, I do have some 'snaps' installed. (Discord, Spotify). So I'm not running entirely inside of the terminal.

For me, this balance is perfect, for any serious work I can just use the terminal/tmux/vim setup, and for relaxing I just have spotify, discord, youtube,.. open on a second monitor.

As for distro, I'm running Debian. I've tried a few others (openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, #!) and by far #! was my favourite for some time, but when it discontinued I went for Debian. I should check out BunsenLabs :)
This also happened (and is happening?) in stereo imaging research.

For years, Middlebury was what you tested on, and for years that's what got you published. Nowadays Middlebury is viewed as solved by the top algorithms. If you try those algorithms on your own data, good luck getting similar performance; at least I've not seen any kind of advantage in using anything other than SGM (outside of specific research contexts like my PhD).

I'm more concerned that everyone is using KITTI as a (often the only) benchmark for deep-learning based stereo matchers, since those are all images of roads. At least with classical stereo you have some idea what* your cost function is. The other one people are increasingly using is Scene Flow, which is (entirely?) synthetic. Not a great situation.

* KITTI is a widely used dataset of driving imagery
Oh, body language! My 4 year old son is extremely expressive with his face and posture, possibly because of his verbal problems. Even when he could barely talk at all, he was very good at expressing what he wanted or needed. He's so expressive that I've always thought he should become an actor.

My older son, who is verbally very strong, is often nearly expressionless.
Im surprised there were no changes to the default git diff and merge tools.

This is one of the first things i do on a new setup, to chane them to use "meld".
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Wouldn't it also be useful to include companies that have conservative leanings?
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Similarly:
OS: openbsd (was slackware)
WM: cwm
Mail, file mgt, authoring: emacs
Agenda calendaring: orgmode
Writing: latex
Statistics: R
;-)
Kinda weird mixing a European timezone with an American date format. Parent means 2019-03-02T07:48Z
It's less than fake. You can't actually pinpoint it

This doesn't necessarily follow. Emergent properties are still real, even if you can't separate that property from the system that generates it.
Not just that, vinyl does have much higher bandwidth, up into the 50kHz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eC6L3_k_48) Of course we cannot hear above 20-22k but I expect the non linearities in the equipment to downmix some of that into the audible baseband. "warmth" is not a myth after all ;)
I did. It feels good. The interactions are smoother, file managers are more useful. Had to tweak some shortcuts to emulate some moves I am used to in tiling managers.

I went from awesome to KDE (kubuntu 18.04lts).

I do webdev, cm and reports at the moment.

I believe the terminal only approach suits most sysadmin, devops and the like ; not your run off the mill wordpress dev.
You are getting downvoted because HN has a vegan bias. Welcome to modern religion.
Scale is a big problem, though.

If it's cheaper to automatically create noise than it is to automatically remove it - public debate in internet becomes impossible.
CDs do absolutely degrade. CD-Rs are so unreliable they're almost useless as an archival medium, and not a few commercial CD run had manufacturing defects which affected long-term stability.

CDs are also imperfect. There are two levels of error correction. Both affect the sound.

The only perfect format is digital storage of a lossless source such as a bit-perfect CD rip or direct digital master copy, with multiple copies in different locations.
> I’ve taught public school teachers, who were incredibly bad at formal mathematical reasoning (I know, because I graded their tests), to the point that I had not realized humans could be that bad at math — but it had no effect on how they came across in friendly conversation after hours. They didn’t seem “dopey” or “slow”, they were witty and engaging and warm.

> Whatever ability IQ tests and math tests measure, I believe that lacking that ability doesn’t have any effect on one’s ability to make a good social impression or even to “seem smart” in conversation.

> If “human intelligence” is about reasoning ability, the capacity to detect whether arguments make sense, then you simply do not need human intelligence to create a linguistic style or aesthetic that can fool our pattern-recognition apparatus if we don’t concentrate on parsing content.

In the context of the article, these are troubling assertions for the author to be making. They seem to be implying that people who struggle with mathematics are fundamentally less intelligent that those who don't, in a way that cannot be picked up by chatting to them.

If I understand correctly, the author furthermore seems to be saying that a GPT-2 style text generator will sooner be able to match the conversation of such a person than of someone more well-versed in formal mathematical reasoning.

This seems factually wrong to me; I think the author vastly underestimates complexity of the subconscious processing that people do in order to come to the viewpoints they hold, and to transform ideas into coherent speech.

As a related point / analogy, the process by which humans do conscious mathematics (such as arithmetic) is inherently slow and inefficient, whilst at the same time it manages to perform incredibly advanced "calculations" in the process of being a highly-advanced motion-control system.

I posit that the human process for synthesizing ideas is happening primarily in this more complex underlying format, which we are still some way off from being able to simulate (though I do believe we will be able to, eventually).

The author's conclusion seems a bit like seeing that computers are better at arithmetic than humans are and thus concluding that they will soon surpass us in intelligence.

Furthermore, the author's reasoning seems demeaning to people who struggle with mathematics and explicit logical reasoning, and is a few steps from a claim that such a person is inherently less "conscious".

To claim that a strong grasp of formal reasoning is necessary for those in a position of policy and decision making is one thing. But to assert (without substantial evidence to back it up) that someone with low mathematical-logical reasoning ability has speech which is significantly easier to emulate because it fundamentally contains less content seems to be simply a form of intellectual/academic self aggrandizement.
Can you not do: for (size_t i = len-1; i < len; i--)? Isn't -1 defined to be the largest integer that the unsigned type can handle?

Edit: I guess that wasn't the point of your example (that it may not be easily recognisable as a bug?)
> Hello from Google Tag Manager. This text is being added by a tag running from GTM.

One should note that this inclusion, without an opt-in consent banner for instance, is not GDPR compliant. The URL https://analytics-bypassing-adblockers.netlify.com/proxy/htt.... sends personal data to a third party (Google) without my explicit consent. See Article 7 and Recital 32 of the GDPR:

> Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her, such as by a written statement, including by electronic means, or an oral statement.
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He has got a nice setup, especially as he's able to choose all of his own software. I've been using Linux as a primary OS since the 90's but I still need to interact with Windows for work.

I used to dual boot my work laptop, which was made easier by Office 365 webapps becoming more usable, but still there were lots of gaps.

This summer I got a new work laptop, and just cloned the existing M.2 drive onto a bigger, faster one I purchased. Now I run the work laptop as a VM image through QEMU/KVM on top of my regular Debian desktop.

This works remarkably well, and has improved my workflow a lot as I now never have to dual boot. Windows even runs faster this way, due to the faster M.2 drive. I'm not sure how I'm going to explain it to the IT department if I ever have to get the laptop repaired though.
Maps are so much more than pretty pictures
> It's easy to think that way, but environmentalism only started to have real traction in the last 50 years (correct me if I'm wrong)

You are wrong. In Papua and certain other islands it had started ca 3 thousand years ago. In Japan and Central Europe in XVII century, in parts of Italy in XVIII century..
Afaik the processor is a chip on the mainboard. I personally don't care which part of the mainboard carries the backdoor.
A fool's election winning strategy is putting more than a few billion people at risk of nuclear apocalypse!

Note that the Pakistani analysts predicted this a long time ago (Indian opposition parties also understand this) that the Indian PM Modi would create a war like situation with Pakistan before their upcoming elections.
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I also did not know this, so went digging. Looks like it's just small prop aircraft that still use leaded gas, even though most of them would run with unleaded just fine. How crazy!

Relevant Article:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lead-in-aviation-...
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Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN? It's against the rules and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which views they're battling for or against.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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If you continue to do flamewar like this on HN we will ban you. That goes double for your comments that crossed into personal attack.

If you know more than other people, the thing to do here is neutrally provide correct information, so people can learn. If you can't or don't want to do that, please don't post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> and it rationalizing everything down to its core isn't necessarily helpful.

Its why i promised myself to never try and understand how cars work. They just work.

If only i could apply that to just about anything..
It's crazy how much conscious breathing reveals about our day-to-day living experiences. While breathing consciously 100% of the time is the ultimate goal, many (including myself) fail to reach even the 10% mark on some days.

And why? Simply because of all the distraction we expose ourselves to.

In Yoga too, breathing is emphasized as the most important aspect of the practice. And most of the time, after those 90 minutes of practice, you don't necessarily feel great because of all the stretching you did, but because of all the air that you let inside those gaps that you were stretching out.
>> I'm certain that if archeologists found it 5,000 years in the future

I am certain they would not.
No it is not!

As long as you stay in the frequency range of the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem the source signal is indeed lossless.

There are a lot of misconceptions about this you should look it up.

Don't forget, that a vinyl has frequency limits as well.
Personalization of the fake text to precisely match what the reader is most susceptible to is probably a bigger problem, especially if the bad actor is able to target small groups (say, politicians?). An AI writer that could write what someone will believe, in the style they're most open to, using their personal information and a history of exactly what they've already seen, would be very hard to resist.

Couple that with scale and it'd be game over for distributing written information across the internet. No one would be able to believe anything they see online any more.

Although, weirdly, that actually sounds like a decent use case for a blockchain.
A part of my machine which I have no control over and which I cannot remove is a backdoor. Some would call that even malware. I don't care whether it has been solely used for the intended purpose which I can't even verify.
Excuse the original title being politics-related, the actual content is not much so.

Seeing topics about gender equality and workplace diversity pop up on HN from time to time, I'm hoping this might spark some good conversation around women leadership and not on the politics side of things.
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That was a good read, thanks.
I'm amazed by how we're constantly getting better at discovering the real cause of many things.
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