skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect it's a similar comparison to chips and fabs. Apple designs their own chips, TSMC fabs them.

Apple maintains their edge because it's their proprietary design. Tesla may do the same.
I heard that advice from HN when I started freelance out of university at age 23.

I ended up embarassing myself a couple of times, by either:

- asking for a high day rate when I lacked experience (e.g., for freelance Rails work, when I kinda knew Rails but lacked experience with most of the tooling, testing frameworks, etc)

- trying to sell "consulting" work when I had only a vague idea how consulting worked.

So, yeah, while "charge more!!!" might be a useful message for underconfident programmers who don't know their own value, it's too simplistic and it omits many essential steps.

My takeway: if you plan to freelance long-term, you should treat it as a business, and plan to build a specialism. Once you've built a specialised skillset, and demonstrated credibility, then you should start systematically looking for higher-paying clients, and be confident in asking for what you are worth. But you have to know you are worth it, first. Once you've done that for a while, then you can start thinking about business-level problems and doing something higher level (which requires nailing a whole bunch of soft skills, too).

Another factor to consider is that if you're in a major city, there are probably other programmers doing freelance/contract work in your skillset, which you can use to gauge what a sensible rate would be, and what knowledge you need to gain.

Oh and - there's also the factor that as a newbie freelancer you often find the really crappy low-end clients that have a fixed budget and high expectations (e.g., small local businesses. I have nothing against small local businesses, but they're not good clients for freelance coding work). I went through a lot of stress working on such projects. Working for more high-paying, professional clients (digital agencies, banks that hire a lot of contractors, etc) is ironically a lot less stressful.
Yeah, Intel is just a bit over 2x the size of Nvidia, and yet they were outbid... to me this is like Apple not being willing to buy Waze and letting them go to Google. Think of what improvement it could have made on Apple maps.
>The fast hash functions tested here are recommendable as fast for file digests and maybe bigger databases, but not for 32bit hash tables.

Do people really try to optimize file hashing this way?
Do they contain any actual tobacco or are they "herbal"?
You're the one posting your own page to HN, so I think maybe you have the burden of proof here?
You're right, looks shady and not like a coincidence.
Making research papers easier for people to understand. What do you think?
So we all know how painful it can be to understand research papers. So I was thinking of creating this tool that allows people who have read a research paper to connect with each other. So potentially, all the readers who have read “paper A” can connect with each other and its author (maybe).

The connection would allow one to post questions about the paper, and the question would then go to everyone who had previously interacted with this community (people who have read this paper before). Past question and answers are saved to benefit new readers.

This way, we can benefit readers by giving them more clarity on the subject. And we can benefit authors by giving them insights into how their paper was received by the community.

There are many problems with this model - like why would anyone apart from the author answer etc... but the general idea is above.

What do you awesome people think about this?? Any comments will be appreciated.
Putting it here, for fun with a serious topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lh3aPbKDn8
For someone who isn't following the hashing function 'scene', what's misinformed about this rant?
The whole Rothschilds thing stinks of anti-Semitic slander and refusal of spendthrift bellicose nations to take responsibility. It isn't that the ruling classes were all greedy, inhumane and glory hungry that got into deep debt killing each other in petty squabbles for no lasting gain - it is our wealthy creditor's fault!

Especially since the two reason why jews were expelled were fundamentalism and avoiding paying their debts.
I'm not talking about the bid-ask spread. A bid is just someone willing to buy something for a specific price. An ask is someone willing to sell something at a specific price. The bid-ask spread is the difference between the lowest ask and the highest bid.

The point I am making is that the order books of markets don't accurately reflect the real underlying demand for the securities.

Let's take a hedge fund, who would buy apple at $5. It's incredibly unlikely that they will actually place a bid on the order book at $5 for apple. Instead, they will monitor the price of apple and buy it if they see a good price.

The value that human traders can provide is that they can tap into this hidden sources of liquidity that isn't reflected on the order book of the exchange. They can call up some manager and say "hey I can sell you something at a good price, you interested?"

Without human traders, there is no way to tap into this liquidity. This occasionally causes problems in thinly traded markets or during after-hours trading.
This is true for so many conflicts around the world sadly. Hate is everywhere.
It is probably just the addiction. Nicotine is super-addictive.
Ask HN: Has anyone completed a license agreement with Google Widevine?
I'm building my own Chromium-based browser with Electron [1] and I'd like to be able to support DRM-enabled content like Netflix.

In order to do so, the browser must support Verified Media Path (VMP) to verify the authenticity of the device platform. And to support VMP, a license agreement (LA) with Widevine must be completed. [2]

Contacting Widevine has been... difficult, with no response after 3 months. I know there have been a few others with similar experiences. [3]

Has anyone been able to complete a LA with Widevine? What was your experience like?

[1] https://github.com/samuelmaddock/metastream
[2] https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases#licensing
[3] https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/12427
> Running an internal CA those days terrifies me [...]

Better not have Active Directory then, because it has a built-in CA used by every Windows client bound to the domain.

Technically, X.509 allows for constraining things [1], but from a practical perspective [2] it's not really implemented.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.10
[2] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/31376/
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS media released with APT fix as end of support nears
Obergefell vs. Hodges: the database engineering perspective
This talks a good bit about how some of the default passwords the Morris Worm checked for in 1988 are on the list of commonly used passwords in 2018. Which is kind of sad but understandable and somewhat excusable because, we’ll, humans.

But it overlooks what I think is actually a way sadder and bigger issue: The Morris Worm utilized a buffer overflow in fingerd as one of its propagation mechanisms.

Here we are 30 years later and still dealing with code execution vulnerabilities because of various memory mismanagement issues. [face palm]
They're all taking their own easy option. The actual rift is between levels of pain tolerance. Grit.
E cigs are far safer than tobacco, so converting smokers to vaping is a good thing.

We don't know if they're actually safe, and we don't know how addictive they are, and so the precautionary principle tells us not to recommend vaping to people who are not already smokers. Small amounts of harm across an entire population adds up.

We have very good reason to be wary of any action taken by tobacco companies because of their many years of abusive practices. An abundance of caution around tobacco companies isn't a bad thing.
Use Gentoo to mix versions any way you want.
point to 1 such study on smoking, where they did actual measurements on an entire nation. i bet you they just sampled a subset and called it statistically sound. ;D
Thanks a million, never seen this one, looks quite awesome!
I dont think an anti to-do list makes me more productive. But I sure like to keep a log of things done in a text file so I can find what I did later. There is of course a limit to what I keep, but even one-liners etc can be stored in it. Especially when used seldomly, I dont remember all the bash tools invocations. And no, I wont "tear it up and throw it away".
That's some nice Russian propaganda you have there. With some pretty serious factual mistakes. It claims that non-citizens can't vote in local government elections, but this is false. Citizenship isn't a requirement to vote in local elections.

> former USSR citizens who lived in Latvia and Estonia and were deprived of the right to receive its citizenship after the collapse of the USSR

What right? Merely living in Estonia doesn't give you any right to citizenship. What's more, it's not that difficult to get citizenship. The main obstacle is learning the local language, as that's part of the test to gain citizenship. All these non-citizens refuse to do so. They take pride in being Russian and speaking Russian. They are openly talking about how great Russia is and how they are waiting for Russia to unite them with the motherland.

Estonia gained independence in 1918. Just because USSR occupied us [1] and transported a bunch of people here doesn't give them any rights to citizenship. The Russian population in Estonia grew from about 23,000 people in 1945 to 475,000 in 1991. [2] Now making up for a whopping 30% of the whole population! This is due to systematic transporation of people as part of Russification [3] where the Russians attempt to eradicate native cultures.

After the collapse of USSR it was possible for them to go back to Russia and/or get a Russian citizenship. Some did that, but all of these non-citizens still left are people who decided that life with fewer rights than citizens in Estonia is better than becoming a Russian citizen and living in Russia.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_state...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Estonia

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification
The btrfs resize command only changes the size of the filesystem. A fdisk or similar command is needed to adjust the partition size as well.
Cryptocurrency one of the worst invention of 21st century- MIT Technology Review
I'm palestinian and have family in the West bank and Gaza. What you're saying isn't true at all.

Funnily enough, I also have family in Jordan. Let me tell you, their lives are much better than those under Israeli occupation.
You are right but Blender is the exception rather then the rule.
No, because there is no such thing as servers belonging to Searx. Whoever wants to serve a Searx instance does so.

It queries Google and Wikipedia and the like. It's a metasearch engine, so doesn't crawl the internet on its own.

It's an improvement over DDG in that it's free software: You can't host DDG yourself.
> When people say happy holidays, they mean merry Christmas. “Happy holidays” is a form of erasure—a refusal to acknowledge Christianity without also acknowledging other religions in the same breath.

This is a bit much. I say “happy holidays” out of respect for the fact that a lot of people I know aren’t Christian, but still enjoy that time of year for whatever reason they choose, be it other religious reasons, nostalgia for family traditions they don’t believe in religiously, or just plain consumerism being fun.
Agree, it's like saying Europe. If you ask a geologist, it will include Russia. If you ask Macron, it will not!
And finally - I never ended up doing freelance work for that long. It was only something I ended up doing in-between other stuff. I realised that it was not a career path I wanted to pursue -- if you are a very ambitious person, doing client work can become a grind after a few years. However, if you want to run a nice small business, starting off as a freelancer and growing into a small consultancy or digital agency can be a very good path to take. You will not become a billionaire, but plenty of people become millionaires that way.
Military spending...
I can't believe I didn't know about column before. I've really been missing out.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say they don't want to die.
Unfortunately, how the FAA acted under a previous administration doesn't tell us much about how it will act under this one. While the permanent civil service has historically been pretty apolitical, that is one of many norms/institutions the Trump administration has aggressively sought to undermine. As a result, some agencies such as the FDA are severely diminished. Why would we expect the current FAA, under an acting administrator while Trump tries to install a Delta exec as its head (after failing to do so for his personal pilot) to act assertively?
Let's not forget about these bad boys, either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco-specific_nitrosamines

Wikipedia neglects mentioning it, but those are very much psychoactive.
This is a great description of a well organised, detailed hiring process that others could profitably look at as a model. I found the referenced article’s [1]finding that work sample tests add ~nothing to general mental ability tests especially interesting in light of tptacek’s extremely positive experience in using them for hiring in the past.

[1]The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical Implications of 100 Years...

> It appears that almost all of the validity of work sample tests is captured by GMA measures, because the incremental validity is essentially zero.

https://www.testingtalent.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/201...
Do Rotschilds have a monopoly on being Jewish? They did make a fortune on wars and they did own the London Stock Exchange, those are historical facts and they have nothing to do with race - why are you trying to conflate pointing out some historical facts with "anti-semitism"?
> it's well documented that in Paris through as early as the 1700's through now, that there was an enormous amount of capital concentration right beside extreme poverty

1700s-present France is not what comes to mind when one says the words "stable and prosperous".

What does come to mind is executing a bunch of people then spending 150yr trying to figure out the best way to replace them.
I do think there is merit in the waste-as-a-commodity view.
Agreed, probably not for business.

But the pros have $10,000 zero-radius, four-stroke machines made to run for 12 hours a day. Different beast.
I've been eyeing antergos. Any hardware problems along the way?
I've read this or a similar article before; the main thing is when a person's personal fortune is mixed with that of a country. If you'd consider idk, the value of the US and Trump to be one and the same, he'd have hundreds of trillions of USD (based on the US's $20 trillion / year GDP).
This article is great! Thanks for sharing
> Also, do not want Arch or any <distro-name> - I just want LINUX (or Desktop Linux).

What do you mean ? How can you have Linux without using a distro ? Are you saying there should be one official distro instead of many ?
That's a fairly small part of the problem. Think of all the other stuff westerners take for granted:

- plastic wrapping on goods
- frequent replacement of electronic devices
- rapidly changing wardrobe
- waste inherent in eating out
- large quantity of meat in diet

The western lifestyle is far more expensive than, say, African or central Asian lifestyles. We consume far more than other cultures.

Improving mass transit would certainly help, but the crux of the issue is that it's a culture issue.
I am palestinian and have family in the West bank and Gaza. And what OPs saying isn't true at all. They are an occupied and oppressed people, treated like dirt and without representation.

Gaza is literally a concentration camp that is extremely hard to get out of. Moreover, the Israelis block imports of food and building supplies, essentially trying to starve the inhabitants to death.

What OP is saying is similar to saying that black people loved slavery and then segregation, because their masters were so fair and kind to them.
This discussion is divorced from reality. These two fatal crashes were not caused by stalls. The first was for sure caused by MCAS incorrectly pitching the nose down and the second appears likely to share the same cause.
Vital Skills for Successful Android and iOS Mobile App Developers
I also keep a list of things I've done. Typically I just add those things to my to-do list and check them off.

There are other good ideas in this post and for me they're timely. I'm crunching on a business where I teach programming through art work. I'm definitely going to borrow some of these ideas for that. If that sounds interesting to you, checkout https://splashofcode.com
GIMP is an open source graphics program and Blender is an open source 3D graphics program. Both incredibly high quality products that are open source
I tried various video editors for Linux and found Kdenlive to be the best looking, but as soon as I used it I frequently lost work through crashes and corruptions. Tried again not too long ago and it's still very poor in this regard.
Toyota Has a Curious Justification for Not Selling Any EVs (Yet)
And Israeli children aren’t? Both sides use outrageous claims to fuel the fire, so to speak.
Dozens of companies leaked sensitive data thanks to misconfigured Box accounts
This distance that you speak of falls under my use of the word "classify" which now in retrospect is a poor choice of word.

However, as explained by another comment, it does not always become "meaningless". In fact, it becomes variable. For example, if you are interested in secondary structure in your data, you can plot factors 2, 3, 4 or higher against another factor and often the change in pairwise distance at different factors is meaningful.
Ask HN: What are some good quality 3D printers?
For product prototyping.
Tesla Scales Back Store Closings but Will Raise Prices
Which mower did you end up getting, if I might ask?
Buffer overflows will be an issue as long as code is written in languages that allow memory mismanagement. C, C++ and even Fortran are still here and aren't going away any time soon so this isn't going to change anytime in the near future.
Reg. MAOIs & addictiveness, there's another group of substances besides MAOIs involved:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19358678

Also, go look up why the tobacco industry used to add tons of sugar to their products.
Why this project is not on for ex. GitHub?
I’d argue that Debian’s “stability” should be a process/policy thing. It should be orthogonal to the tooling. Just because you have a “stability-first” policy doesn’t mean you should be enforcing it through crappy tooling.
Bleeding edge is development branch of some app like canary builds of chrome.

New version of Gimp available for all windows users at day one after release is not bleeding edge - it's just normal new release.

Meaning of "bleeding edge" and "stable" became strangely twisted in linux community.

New version of browser is not bleeding edge - it just normal life cycle of modern software (year 2019).
Step 1 is to build a specialised skillset.

Step 2 is to network with people a few years ahead of you in your specialism, who can help you figure out how to do more "high-level" work in whatever you do and maybe bring you on as a junior person for some of their projects

Step 3 is to demonstrate credibility (portfolio of projects using your specialism, professional online presence, know how to sell yourself to clients, etc)

Step 4 is to increase your rates and start labeling yourself as a consultant
I wonder about this. Let's say I create a really good blog about some niche subject, but I don't promote it in any way, so that no one links to it or even knows about it. In such case, if no page on the Internet links to it, will it even by indexed by the Google Search?
There were only ever two major Infiniband vendors: QLogic and Mellanox. Intel already bought QLogic back in 2012.

I'm not sure it would be in anyone's interest for both to be acquired by Intel, even if IB isn't very relevant anymore outside of supercomputing.
Of the article, or How to Lie with Smoking Statistics?

The article is sadly owned by the journal, which does allow authors to post pre-prints on their personal sites.

The book I'm not so sure about. I spent some time researching the copyright status back when I wrote the article, and the results were confusing. I don't think Huff ever registered copyright for How to Lie with Smoking Statistics, which was required at the time, but unpublished works were protected, and when the copyright system changed in the 70s unpublished works were given some statutory protections. The book only became public because of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, which I haven't read but presumably sets some conditions on the documents it makes public.

In the end I decided it was safest to link to the Tobacco Documents Library, though I was very tempted to typeset a new edition of the book so we could enjoy an example of corporate propaganda.
SymSpell vs. BK-tree: 100x faster fuzzy string search and spell checking (2017)
I think my point is: Toyota etc. may do the same, no?
Seriously? Would you say the American people are "jerks" because Trump was voted into power? That's not how any of this works.
Yep. Didn't want to compare Calligra and LibreOffice in detail, just tell that the GNOME office programs are much more rudimentary then the KDEs. It's a quite unobjective, unqualified statement about a consumer's expression of the state of an OSS ecosystem.
Regarding Gaza, what’s truly sad is that Israel allows more aid through its border than Egypt does...
But it most eloquently describes the problem. We shouldn't have to self-censor to get passed some prudish filter on a corporate network on which the reader is probably already not supposed to be reading for fun.
Nvidia is in a pretty shitty situation at the moment. Stocks down almost 50% after the crypto-bubble popped (or deflated I guess is the better word).
Effective 2022. So I haven't been hearing things.
This is probably my favorite Wikipedia list (List of Common Misconceptions):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
Yeah, I’m sure Palestinians living in Jordan have to go through military checkpoints everywhere they go.
This is melatonin, so it's not really dangerous, but you should be careful with breaking up pills that aren't supposed to be broken in two or more. The amount of active ingredient is not evenly distributed in the pills, so you're not really halving the dosage.

For some reason melatonin is sold i boxes of 30x2mg for $25, and you need a prescription. It's completely ludicrous. You're only allowed to bring a months worth across the border. It's illegal to order by mail. /rant
Thanks, the two articles linked to on that forum were very interesting and clear eough even for a non-expert like myself:

https://leehamnews.com/2018/11/07/boeing-issues-737-operatio...

https://leehamnews.com/2018/11/14/boeings-automatic-trim-for...
Why the “Learn to Code” Meme Is Toxic and Shouldn't Be Used
I'm referring to those people who, in the name of caring for "environment", are wont to do things like depriving themselves, and attempting to deprive others[1], of the pleasure of eating meat and yet has no hesitation whatsover in using their car for daily commute, spending a forture on fashion, etc.

[1] http://theconversation.com/yes-eating-meat-affects-the-envir...