skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just had an idea. Script to convert code into markdown. Block comments become prose and code become code blocks.
When having to do architectural code stuff, then yeah quiet is usually best for me. But when I need to implement it (which involves a lot of "micro-creativity") then usually some pumping beats (but no vocal), fex[1], helps me keep the energy up and the code flowing.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwk9gsRlaPs
This is exactly why I like older cars instead of new ones.

The car company that make a simple, good, mechanical-& environmental-friendly car will earn a lot of money.

But they are so concentrated on high-tech and owning the vehicle/dealerships, that they forget what's truly important for their consumers.

I would love to see a modern Mercedes 190 Electric version, that is easy to repair.
From Medical School Rejection Twice to Google and Pinterest Software Engineer
Passing Lev Landau's Theoretical Minimum (2002) [pdf]
I think Mesoshpere/DCOS suffers from the same basic problem that k8ts does... instead of going for the 80% solution, it goes for the 100% solution. That is both systems try to do to much and are overly complex and hard to manage.
And two expended boosters and an expended fuel tank.
I remember back in the day I used to field security scan reports for a client I consulted for, and the amount of things I had to mark as "not actually a problem" because all they did was check Apache header versions was staggering. This is slightly better than and slightly worse than your situation at the same time. Slightly better in that they were looking for versions that had actual exploits known in them, but slightly worse in that they had no way to deal with distros that back-patched for vulnerabilities, like RHEL (which was the distro in question). "Yes, I'm aware that that the version of Apache you are noting contains a vulnerability. No, it's not actually a problem or exploitable, since I already applied the patched update. Just like last week. And the week before that."
The point isn't tax evasion, it's France wanting more tax revenue without pissing off the public. Remember that the yellow vests protest started because of a tax increase on the general public.
>It's gotten to the point where I'm considered "odd" because I use the command line. It's become a running joke among everyone.

That's... very bizarre. Amongst the engineers I work with it's always an "oh cool, you know how to use bash/terminal" rather than "weird, why are you using terminal".
When I can write

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv(filename)
print(data.sum())

and have the same result, I'm going to do the one that is faster to write, fewer characters, and lets me understand what's going on.

And don't get me wrong, I've written some gnarly pipelined bash before, although I'm by no means an expert, but that doesn't mean its always the right tool for the job.
I listen to lofi hip hop or a rain aimbient [0] while programming often. According to "Is Noise Always Bad? Exploring the Effects of Noise on Cognition" [1], this is actually fine. I think the rain ambient is fine, and perhaps even helpful, because it is steady and consistent, like the submission suggests.

[0] https://asoftmurmur.com/
[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665048?seq=1#metadata_i...
What are you going to do with that data you're collecting through hosting? Not forest for trees, more like, hidden monetization strategy with an otherwise more convenient package in the front as "opt-in". It's only missing something if you're thinking several steps ahead.
“If 99% of people who buy corporations for a living can't beat a monkey throwing darts over time...why do we believe people who run corporations for a living are any smarter?“

Because the 1st requires predicting what other investors think about a company or the economy (after all, the stock price doesn’t move in align with its profits/revenues). Not whether a company will be successful.

The 2nd simply requires knowing what consumers want, whether they be individuals or businesses. You just need to solve their problems in a better way than competitors. So understanding the fundamentals of a market is enough.
> Cool! I agree, but did anyone claim it was the first step?

Yes, the person I responded to said

"This is a huge first step on the ladder."

This is a tiny step. Come summer when there's actual people on board then yes, it's a significant step towards forward movement, having being going pretty much nowhere since the 70s.

I think the biggest step recently, beyond landings or space flight or even a lunar return mission, is the live streaming of launches on youtube. SpaceX feels more futuristic and accessible because they drive that engagement, something not seen since the days of Challenger in 86.

I disagree about the dawn. The dawn of the space age was October 4th 1957.
Floating Point Conversion Kills 28 Soldiers (1992)
I think that you are conflating 'capitalism' with 'market economy'.

Moving away from a 'centrally planned' economy doesn't imply 'capitalism', you can have a 'market economy'.

The original definition of a 'free market' was different to how 'the capitalists' use the words today. Originally a 'free market' was free from rent seekers, usury and monopolies. You put your work in and you got your pay and your profits. This was the definition of a free and fair economy.

Nowadays the interpretation of 'free market' in the West implies freedom for the rent-seeking class to exploit people with freedom for them to move their capital to tax havens.

Centrally planned economies had a problem with corrupt officials. The corrupt officials would take the role of the rent-seeking parasites we know in Western capitalist societies.

Modern China has a leadership that does not tolerate corrupt officials. If you are a corrupt official then you can expect the gallows in China, it is as harsh as that.

There is also Confucius and a deeper cultural work ethic that makes the Communist experiment with Mao a mere blip in the bigger canvas of Chinese history.

The rise of China is not because they have gone 'quasi-capitalist' it is because they have moved to a 'market economy' instead of a fully centrally planned economy. They have not allowed or desired their empire to be run by the whims of finance capital. Chinese people have collectively worked a lot harder than people in America.

It is easy for those left behind in America to trot out tired nonsense, e.g. about how the Chinese steal all of 'our' IP or Chinese political dissidents, without acknowledging that the Chinese people and leadership have worked really hard to transform the country out of poverty to be extremely educated and leading the world. This complacency only serves to leave America behind. Given your lack of punctuation and grammar I wonder if you might be stuck behind too.
Yeah, the US has specifically been criticized for this by the UN International Labor Organization. They definitely frown upon the US prison farms and allowing private organizations to utilize prisoners for below-market-rate work. If you want to see a great way of undercutting US blue collar worker salaries, it's hard to compete with "free and mandatory."
Look at org-noter if you want something as a substitute for polar with rough edges.
Ask HN: Recruiters for Remote Positions?
I want to avoid wasting time on companies that low-ball based on geography. One motivation for "remote only" is cost cutting, which I totally understand, but sifting through companies that want to cap pay at $100k regardless of ability doesn't sound like a good time.

The most positive experiences I've heard are from developers working remotely for companies in the Bay Area.

Are recruiters a good resource for remote opportunities in hubs like SF and Seattle? A company with a primary motive of saving on payroll would probably not be interested in paying a recruiter, so I'm wondering if this could be a useful filter for such companies. Unfortunately, recruiters can also filter for positive qualities, so I'm wary of companies that lean on them.

Does anybody have thoughts about recruiters for remote positions, or thoughts on finding good remote positions in general?
No picture you see is exactly what came out of the camera. As the author points out at the end of the article, if your camera outputs a jpg image, then it's already made its own decisions of how to manipulate the raw data.
I can't recall where I got this, but I find the generated noise really good at reducing the distraction from co-workers' conversations, and it's not as boring as straight noise

play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix synth sine amod 0.2 60

'play' is from the SoX package
I would recommend these videos. A German documentary with subtitles and this:
https://youtu.be/97hfRcrYBtE
https://youtu.be/Y2jiQXI6nrE
> The government kept a guard by his death bed to be sure he didn't divulge any state secrets while on mind numbing pain medications.

i am curious of the logistics of this. if they were there, outside of his room, to simply safeguard against the visit of unauthorized visitors during his weak moments, this seems like it could work in a way that doesn't interrupt his last moments with friends and family.

if they were literally at his bed safeguarding information, that seems quite intrusive for someone who did monumental tasks for the government. and it isn't even clear what their gameplan would be in this case. do they instruct a potentially non-coherent person to shut-up or the nurses to put him out?

hopefully it was the first of these.
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VAT in European countries is often the highest or the second highest revenue stream. The downside is that it's usually a flat tax and it disproportionately affects poor people.
npm is used a lot for front end code, incidentally. Node is an environment for a lot of build tooling.
Does it seem wrong to say the post-processing your phone camera does makes your images fake? What about cropping a photo? Are impressionist paintings fake because they aren't photorealistic? What about Ansel Adams photos, all of which were manually burned and dodged in a lightroom?

Cameras are physically incapable of capturing as wide an experience as our eyesight+mind so photographers must compensate. As a simple example, note how pictures of mountains taken with a phone always feel cheap compared to the experience of being near them. This can go too far, like making the Aurora seem as bright as the moon. On the other hand, how best to capture the awe-inspiring nature of an undulating aurora than by making it fluoresce against the night sky in your photo? If the image weren't processed then you would see nothing at all...
747 first flight was in 1969.

737 first flight was in 1967.

Both B-52 and Tu-95 first flights were in 1952, both still in service today.

Sometimes problem is solved, and there is no need to solve it again, it would be insane for Russia to abandon Soyuz and develop something new at huge cost.
Get paid for your data? California governor wants tech companies to share money
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> This is what you choose to believe, to maintain your internal consistency in your own ideology.

Dude, they're completely different. A corporation has to provide services people want to use of their own volition. A government takes money off people without asking. They are completely unalike and it shows in how the operate. Risking other people's money is something anyone can do. Risking your own money means you need to make smart decisions. The government are inherently less smart than corporations because they lack the business sense that entrepreneurs have.

Politicians are paid generous salaries, but they're hardly fitting of such salaries for their abysmal performance in their management. If managers in any corporation were like politicians, they'd be sacked! Politicians are unlike such managers because they get to decide their own salaries too. Directors can chose their own salaries because it is their own money they're risking. Politicians are not taking any personal risk beyond their career aspects. They have no skin in the game. (In fact, their incentives are to enrich themselves whilst in office, even at the cost of the taxpayer they purport to represent).

> I have to pay a government in order to live on land that they have physical control of

I noticed you originally put owned, by were right to edit. Most land is privately owned, not by governments. Even most of the publicly accessible land is privately owned easements.

Although government doesn't own all of the land, they are effectively part possessors because they have some rights to it (at the cost of the owner's rights). This is simply more evidence that governments overstep their reach and encroach on people's lives. Ultimately, they rely on that monopoly of force, because given the choice in a free market, those land owners might chose somebody else to be the stewards of their land.

You have to ask, if governments should be the sole providers of stewardship of easements in a geographical area, why shouldn't they be the sole providers of food too? You say that you need to pay a corporation to eat, but shouldn't that service also be subsumed by government? Why even stop there. Let's have full on communism!

Well, that has been tried multiple times and it failed miserably every time. On the other hand, free markets have been tried and they were hugely successful in drastically improving the standard of living for millions of people. The evidence is clear. Corporations generate wealth and then the governments spend it. Anti-capitalists would have you believe the opposite is true.
Except Digital sales take place in no-man's land, and are hard to tax. A federal tax hits Amazon, but would it hit Alibaba? The specifics are what make these ideas so difficult.
Your definition of fake doesn't leave a great deal of room for real photographs, though.

I'm not sure there's a professional photographer alive that doesn't run their images through Photoshop or Lightroom to make final adjustments to things like white balance and contrast.

A lot of smartphones do adjustments like these automatically, so that would make those fake as well.
I have my doubts and confusion about this problem statement

> Most of the operations npm performs are network-bound and JavaScript is able to underpin an implementation that meets the performance goals. However, looking at the authorization service that determines whether a user is allowed to,
say, publish a particular package, they saw a CPUbound task that was projected to become a performance bottleneck.

Oh, Really ???

So essentially Authorization service and I doubt the security algorithms computation are the main cause.

What i dont understand here is why is it not possible to write lower level JS or asm code to craft a well optimized code which V8 can totally nail to minimum CPU instructions required?
Thanks for the excellent link, discussed on HN a while ago [1]. For those that think an sslstriping proxy would solve it please remember that this would degrade the security for requests that really have to be encrypted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707187
I'm pretty sure 'theaeolist meant that, since von Neumann died young (53 actually), that he never had the chance to even reach an "advanced age" where you might expect the fear of death to have lessened.
it should be noted that the code to do this is actually part of matplotlib now. The author comments about it here http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/07/10/XKCD-plots-in-matpl... and refers to the code in the post here as "my ugly little hack."
I think the author means "collage" or "painted" in this piece.

As to manipulation in general, even the most pristine photo needs to go through demosaicing, luminance, and color balance adjustments before being shown, resulting in quite some artistic freedom. Most people don't see that, as it's usually done by the camera between the raw and "jpeg" stage. Apart from demosaicing, this is nothing new compared to the analog era though.

Considering that today's cameras also do destructive operations like denoising, sharpening, and possibly tone mapping, the vast majority of photos we see are in some sense maniuplated.
The fact is, as David Graeber observed, every country has a mix of capitalist and socialist aspects. Taking a loose definition of “socialism” as helping each other. (To each what he requires, from each what he can provide) Without such impulses society would quickly fall apart.

China can be characterized as a state capitalist society with quite a high degree of control and abuses, but some degree responsibility to its citizens too.
It means no objects are added, removed, or modified in the final image. Everything you see was there. The only thing that’s done to it is color correction, to make things look more accurate to the moment.
Looks like it's showing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_level_analysis
Which film?
I did read it thank you. The author, if he admits his photos are Photoshopped, should not get all upset when people claim his pictures are Photoshopped.
Governments need more tax revenue. Almost every country with social programs is on a timer to figure out ways to raise tax revenue to pay for those programs. Almost every developed country has a fiscal gap.
I listen to music because I find conversations very distracting so an audiobook is disastrous for me.
Well. Rust is about to turn into Haskell 2.0
Yes I am not in any way faulting the photographer or the article. Just reminding people of a counterpoint to a potential takeaway (which is rather obvious anyway, hence the smiley)
The Dunmow Flitch Trials
This is cool! I am working on something similar but a slight variation on intelligence augmentation and memory recall. Would love to chat with you, if interested.
It’s often not even the prisoners who are scammed - the people paying for these things are disproportionately the wives, girlfriends and children left behind.
Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy
Maybe you need to have a trailing newline? Not sure...
Yeah and Google was almost sold for 1m to yahoo. No one knows what anything is worth or how much it will grow, no one.
Fun fact: he predicted singularity first (as a point in human history that we approach):https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

He apparently was an advisor to the president and there was a reference to his game theory on: How I learned to enjoy the atomic bomb (movie). Game theory where by mutual distraction both parties don't start the war.

He was also close friend with Turing, he was very charismatic and the main person behind the Manhattan problem. He was humble to advice others that lead to development in many field.
So if a user changes all the settings to say "only ever share with my friends", and then Facebook creates a new service and sets it to "share with all companies", that's not a change of a privacy setting because the setting didn't exist before? Seriously?

It's a pattern of behavior on the part of Facebook to not act in the public interest until faced with overwhelming legal or public opinion issues. At least Google is smart enough to see which way the wind is blowing. But sure, continue to support a company that was complicit in the Rohingya genocide though willful ignorance to problems in general. I'm not a Stallmanite but there has to be a point where enough is enough.

This is not to take away from the good engineers who worked on React or HHVM. Just consider working for a less morally bankrupt company, please.
I was tempted to add (1104) to it, but the article is recent
A hill in Netherlands? No wonder people call it fake...
It's slow on my mac. I suspect it's the pdf.js rendering engine.
Using existing private containers as GitHub Actions
Reminds me of "White Collar" (TV series). It was probably based on this true story. I wonder if they really burned art.
>AI contributed a whopping $2 trillion to global GDP last year.

Attributing 2.2 percent of current global GDP into AI sounds high.
I used to hate C and thought it was primitive, ugly, dangerous, tedious to write in and annoying to read. While writing a big project in it (https://github.com/RedisLabsModules/RediSearch/) , I've discovered the zen of C I guess. Instead of primitive I started seeing it as minimalist; I've found beauty in it; and of course the great power that comes with the great responsibility of managing your own memory. And working in and around the Redis codebase, I also learned to enjoy reading C. While I wouldn't choose it for most projects, I really enjoy C now.
There would be no race to the bottom if there was a real, tangible benefit to being established in a high tax country - ie, better public services, a more educated workforce, more business friendly environment, etc. As it is right now, very few countries justify their tax rates and that prompts people and businesses to do the rational thing and go where they pay less for the same thing.

I think it's very concerning that European countries are so focused on taxing access to their market rather than asking themselves the question of what they can offer to businesses and individual to make them more interesting as places to settle down or establish a company.
Like it and will check it out.

Had similar thoughts and I named it knowledge graph.

The center is you, than you tag books, lectures, wikipages and have a visual representation of all of your knowledge.

I also imagined having your whole education in it and because it's a graph, you could import a path which you can follow. 1+1 needs to be done before you can do 1*1 etc.

I thought about it while learning for a university course and a lot of time was spent on finding good material which explained a topic. And after the exam I started to forget stuff again.

It felt really stupid.

I wanna be in control on what I know, what I want to know and what I no longer need to know.

And all tools out there are not that good. Anki is doing its job but nothing else. Memrise does it more playful but also misses stuff. Duolingo (most of online learning has this problem) feels more like 101 <topic>.

How is it possible that 1000thands of universities record videos of lectures every year and are often paid by all of us (Germany for example) but all those videos have one or all of the following issues:
- bad audio
- bad video
- horrible handwriting
- no slides

Should it not be possible to sit together and create small topics and build one ONE comprehensive learning page?

...

Edit: and such a platform could not only benefit a lot of people it would also be financially a good deal. From 1-6 grade it could support parents and teachers, than teachers and pupils and later profs and students.

Lots of knowledge doesn't change every year.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19094762
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