skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, our official mission statement is still "Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab." Yes, I think this is still worth aspiring to, though it's very difficult to do with very limited financial support (given how much money the Ma's have).

> which developments of the project surprised you most?

It was dramatically more difficult to get real funding than I expected. I remember my first NSF grant asking for funding directly for Sage, where I put in what I thought was a humble request for about 10% of what Magma operates with... and they cut everything except one single 50% postdoc. I definitely thought the math community would support development of a community owned platform for computational mathematics much more strongly, and was extremely surprised when that was not the case. Europe has been much more supportive (with OpenDreamKit), but I'm in the US.

That said, I'm also very pleasantly surprised that actual contributions to Sage have continued and grown in many areas of mathematics, and the project is successful and healthy today and supporting research level mathematics in many areas.
ACPI has been the bane of Linux on laptops for two decades.

If I can't trust that my laptop will go to sleep when I shut the lid and put it in my bag, it's not useful as a portable device.
Maybe they've mutated to be better at breaking down and ejecting the pesticides from their bodies? Or they live in remote communes where they grow all their own foods.
I noticed that my tendencies to procrastinate greatly reduced (though never completely vanished) upon me taking antidepressants, after a very unpleasant conversation with my boss (at the time) telling me that I was underperforming, and it could lead to me being fired.

I remember the feelings I had then; there was this feeling of "I'm not stupid, why am I constantly pushing things off to make it seem like I am?", and it became this vicious cycle of "I do poorly because I'm depressed, and I'm depressed because I do poorly". I could definitely see it as an act of "self-harm", as this article describes.
> Variable APRs range from 13.24% to 24.24% based on creditworthiness. Rates as of March 2019.

> Late or missed payments will result in additional interest accumulating toward your balance.

From the footnotes in the apple card announcement page.
Automating Image Generation with AWS Lambda and Puppeteer
Lucky you! I am from the Netherlands, but not presently living there. Maybe I should sign up with my Dutch credit card and put my parents address.

Thanks for the tip!
> You need Steel-Toed boots and Earplugs for some locations - I'm not sure how much of that is compensated.

For boots, compensation is not required as "this type of equipment is very personal, is often used outside the workplace, and that it is taken by workers from jobsite to jobsite and employer to employer" [1] -- though I know some employers who offer a "Footwear Reimbursement", and/or loan out steel toe guards when requested.

Earplugs, yes, by law in the US.

[1]: https://www.osha.gov/dte/outreach/intro_osha/7_employee_ppe....

> "what makes a white-collar job's comfort more important than other occupations, to the point they should be either compensated for purchasing items to maintain it or isolated with [cubicle] walls put up?"

First, it has nothing to do with money. I've offered at several jobs to pay to escape the open office space, and I've always been refused permission. Other jobs are often isolated, when there's a possibility for distraction, even at these same companies.

Second, it's not about "comfort", either. Distractions make it impossible to concentrate, which is literally my only job. If they hired me to do a job, they can't simply put me in a situation where I can't apply my skills, and then judge me based on my performance there.

You're being downvoted because you're trying to steer the conversation into "compensation" and "comfort", neither of which are the issue here.
Curated like Youtube Kids?
The reality of the situation is that living will eventually kill you someday. It's merely a matter of how quickly you get there and how much you suffer along the way.
May be the merchant absorbs them, may be the bank does not charge them..
I'd love to know how are those experts betting on their predictions ? Do they trust their guts enough to bet, by going long or short ? What is a good bet if you believe what they say? Go long robotics companies? Or maybe there's something less obvious ?
A third of Y Combinator startups branded on non .COMs
I made extensive use of Sage during a recent research project. The most useful thing about Sage for me is that it integrates cleanly many mathematical libraries, making it easy to export results from one tool into the other. The visualization tools are a bonus, and made debugging quite easy. In my case, Sage neatly connected graph isomorphism tools with group theory libraries, saving me a tremendous amount of work.

The main downside for me is the performance overhead of using Sage. It is great for quickly prototyping ideas, but I found that some components were not designed with performance in mind. For instance, I used the Sage interface for Gap for much of my group theory computations, and I found that this interface was incomplete (it does not natively support the product replacement algorithm, for example) and quite leaky (I needed to manually garbage collect to keep from running out of memory).
In the case of the last two it's the state making the decision, not the processor.
I don't think he's 9 weeks into a managerial position, I think those things he listed are just the things he's been doing for the last 9 weeks, sounds like they're hiring right now.
I've always said that same quote, as it is true and I have seen it over and over again, and if you aren't happy with your new career I would probably switch back to being an IC.
> Forgive me if I missed something, but nowhere in the article do they define what adult means in this context.

The two alternative conclusions presented are skepticism of any new neurons in the target area after toddlerhood and the conclusion that neuron development seems to be lifelong, though reduced in and with the progress of Alzheimer's.
I also did this on joelx.com. See my philosophy links at top.
The fee for the ANZ Cashback card is around $200, so you need to spend around $20k/annum to break even.
I think "psuedo-hallucinations" is the term for the experiences of having something apparent but not believe as in an LSD trip. "Confabulation" is used for bit of information the brain constructs to give reality a cohesive quality. "True hallucination" are described as things you see and believe in that aren't there - delusion is a false belief, so a true hallucination is kind of delusion.

The article seems to talk a lot about how people hallucinate after being prompted. This is pretty directly "suggestibility tests" studied by hypnosis. How much hypnotic effects involve actual delusion and how much they involve confabulation and "going along with the situation" is a subject of debate.
What I see in some countries is same price for cash or card.
Does anyone know of a good material to simulate a hand, for objectively testing a touchpad?

I've got a 2011 MacBook Pro and a logic analyser, which I'd be willing to use for a bit of touchpad driver testing/development. But, it seems like the missing link is a way to generate consistent signals that cause problems on Linux but not MacOS - I cuss my XPS15 w/ Ubuntu daily, but haven't figured out how to intentionally generate the touchpad issues.
He's just saying what he has done in the last 9 weeks. Overall experience seems higher to me.

(Using he in the gender agnostic way).
I've heard of raisins on a cupcake instead (I hate raisins on cupcakes btw), I assume since it's a 3D example. It's meant to show how it's possible for everything to be getting farther away from each other without anything being at the center.
I'd say it should just work or it's a bug. And I know it's tedious to file bugs and report required information but that's really the only way it's going to get fixed. You could start by asking on the list, just to see if this is a known problem that's already fixed in a later version.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel

For testing, you don't have to install if you don't want. I suggest installing the latest Fedora 30 beta test candidate. It's more reliable than Rawhide, and yet has the latest libinput so you won't be asked to build a newer version from git. Download the workstation live file, image to a USB stick, and do the testing from the live environment. Software installation is supported, it uses the RAM overlay.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_30_Beta_1...

While it's tedious to have to file such detailed bug reports, they make it pretty straightforward to figure out what is needed and how to get it. The devs have no way of guessing what the problem is. Plus, the fix eventually finds its way to all distributions, so people just get the fix rather than you having to maintain a local hack.

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/reportin...

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/issues
The point the articles continues to make is actually the opposite of what you're implying, the very next sentence says:

Consequently, the court (and the public) take the view that mere confession of guilt alone is never any sufficient ground for conviction.

Instead, for confession to be a valid evidence for conviction, the Japanese court requires confession to include revelation of verifiable factual matter which only the perpetrator of the crime could have known such as the location of an undiscovered body or the time and place the murder weapon was purchased, a fact about the crime scene, etc. Furthermore, to safeguard against the possibility that the interrogator implanting such knowledge into confession, the prosecutor must prove that such revelation of secret was unknown to the police until the point of confession.

I find this fascinating. Specifically, this part:

While it is impossible for an innocent suspect to reveal relevant information about a crime even under severe torture, a guilty suspect is likely to crack under prolonged interrogation in isolation and make a damning confession. Activists claim that the Japanese justice system (and Japanese public to some extent) consider that prolonged interrogation of suspect in isolation without access to lawyers is justified to solve the criminal cases without risking the miscarriage of justice.

This is so completely unlike any western approach to justice that is familiar to me that I cannot pass any judgment on it without knowing its efficacy relative to percentage of false confessions.

The argument of this technique's validity is somewhat undermined in the next paragraph where the authors notes that false confessions still happen, so I'll definitely give you that!

As an aside, as someone upthread alluded to, this is a fascinating example of an article that breaks almost all of the Wikipedia editing rules but is surprisingly informative.. probably more informative than it would have been if it omitted the synthesis and OR
Hiro Murai’s filmmaking offers a fresh look at modern angst
Yes, I meant LEO (weird, can't figure out how I made that typo) -- or VLEO is the new term for what SpaceX is trying to do.
Precisely. But we don’t regulate them into the ground because we like money. And Goldman is really really good at making money. Until the good of humanity is held in higher esteem than private profit, this will always be the case. I’m not holding my breath on that one.
Chromium is multi-licensed. None of the code is exclusively GPL as far as I know.
I'm currently using Ubifi[0] and the experience has been pretty great so far. I'm a few miles away from the nearest cell tower and I consistently get real world download speeds of up to 10Mb/s, with usage in the 100s of GB per month. To be fair, I did need to buy a Yagi antenna to get those speeds to be consistent, but that is a distance issue, not an ISP issue.

Costs $89.99 and I can use my router anywhere in the US if I want to. I've even taken it on a roadtrip and plugged it into my car's AC adapter, continued to work like a charm.

0: https://www.ubifi.net
I have used Sailfish OS as my only phone for 4 years now. The nice things are that it comes with a terminal emulator, you can get a (root) shell, call rpm, ip etc.

The not so nice thing is that the company obviously has no ressources to do anything about the browser. It is a seriously outdated Firefox.

The HW situation is not so bright at the moment. They still support the original models Jolla and Jolla C. But I guess all phones that have been used are showing serious signs of age by now.

Sony Xperia X is no longer sold. They are stuck at a 3.10 kernel and Android 4.4. I am typing this message on one.

Sony Xperia XZ solves these dead ends, but there seem still issues with the baseport, so the SW is only called beta.

For anybody considering Sailfish, if you are happy with F-Droid and proud of not running Google Play Services then this might be for you. Of course there are also real purists who don't even install the Android support.
I discovered Okular late in my dissertation-writing. I was pretty thrilled to discover that it could display annotations made with Acrobat. This was my advisor's preferred way of interacting, since I was somehow not able to interest him in learning git or LaTeX. At the time it was far better than evince. I've also found that it does a better job with big complicated pdfs produced by graphviz.
it is absolutely in alpha stage, and yes please use it as a toy and have fun

in the future my plan is to do 5€/m for 1TB which is pretty much glacier price
This is it. I picked "U.S. computer hardware, software, and cloud computing purchases made directly from select providers." As a software development company, this choice represents a meaningful discount on some of our biggest ongoing operating expenses. No brainier.
This might be a good thing for my wife and her habit of playing the latest "grinding game of the month" (ie. CandyCrush, WordSoup, etc.) If we can pay $10/month so that she can play whatever she want's without having Ads shoved in her face, sign me up!
I lost my AMEX on a beach in Hawaii (along with my other forms of payment) and they wired me emergency cash to hold me over until the replacement card could arrive. They were nothing but pleasant to me!
Yes, as cquery's README states it has a huge memory overhead because it basically just builds the project and keeps the info around. This is rather like how Visual Studio's C++ IDE support used to work, and it was not fun to wait for re-indexing after making edits.

Alternative Clang-based solutions reduce the memory overhead by doing more on-demand computation, more in line with how C# or Java IDEs work, at the cost of much higher latency because Clang is not designed for anything but batch compilation.

This also isn't a complete solution for accuracy, as it only really works if you're also building with Clang (or something close enough that Clang can emulate it).

Like I said, things have improved for C++, but it's nowhere near what other, more IDE-friendly, languages can do.
Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact (G8441) - it has a headphone jack, it runs Android Pie, the camera is terrific.
I've just tested with my old Dell Vostro 2520 on GNU/Linux with xf86-input-synaptics driver. What's interesting about this touchpad is that it's not a clickpad, but it has a physical, separate click buttons.

TOTAL SCORE: 302; TARGET EFFICIENCY: 63%; CLICK ACCURACY: 89%

The result is very similar to Magic Trackpad's one, although the movement "felt" a bit better (OTOH, the clicking was slightly awkward after all this time of using clickpads).

I forgot to mention that Magic Trackpad 2 got a bit handicapped due to Bluetooth connection, as I'd have to find that damn Lightning cable in order to test it via USB. But it's meant to be used over Bluetooth, so...
I think adictator's first point has merit, especially because it is couched as something that is arguably true.

The problem is the generalization-stated-as-fact that the second point tries to make: there are all kinds of things (e.g. building transit networks and power grids) that other countries do that are definitely on a comparable scale to India's efforts.
Hey I'd feel lucky. In some ways, being behind the curve on things means you get to keep your idyllic ways for a bit longer.

Took until mid-2000s before France got Neoliberal/Neoconservative (two sides of same coin) politicians in power for example.
> First, if you like Okular, you're stuck if you want to run on any
other platform. It doesn't work on mobile, it doesn't work on the
web, doesn't work on Linux, MacOS or Windows

You did directly say it doesn't run on Linux. Even with your qualification I don't think that's fair. It requires the KDE libs, yes, but that's not really a high cost apart from some disk space. Apart from that, it obviously runs perfectly well even in another desktop environment. I even use it on my Chromebook.
Attached to a Linux PC, it's pretty abysmal. Attached to a Mac it's much better.
First time score, Hard and Small on a Windows trackpad - 295

250 doesn't seem to be anything to write home about, but I get the feeling the limiting factor is not the trackpad / trackpad drivers (so comparing users doesn't seem to make much sense).
They are also using MasterCard's payment network.

Given the recent revelation that Google was buying everyone's transaction data from MasterCard, I would want to hear them match Goldman's promise not to sell or share your transaction data.

>Of course, Google has been able to track your location using Google Maps for a long time. Since 2014, it has used that information to provide advertisers with information on how often people visit their stores. But store visits aren’t purchases, so, as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607938/google-now-tracks-...

>Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
We all get Prime Video in Europe, but the problem is that much of the content is restricted to customers in the States. Unfortunately, Prime Video in Europe consists mostly of content produced by Amazon, because they have world-wide rights on it.
As a First-time Front end Dev I was having a hard time understanding Why React?
Having limited knowledge of the front-end and not used any front-end framework or library before, I completed the official tutorial but all the rich information at the official documentation or any other great article out on Internet was more difficult to understand for me, and there was few questions that i kept asking myself again and again

1. What led to the need for front-end pages to be componentized ?

2. What kind of problems non component front-end code face and how the React.js solves these problems ?

This post is my attempt to present that missing part of React.js with these two question in mind to novice like me in autodidact way.

https://blog.ankuranand.com/2018/03/28/The-missing-introduction-of-React-js/
The Capital One card I have is 2% back on everything in the form of travel rewards. Any purchase that is categorized as travel (taxis/ride share, flights, hotels, touristy purchases) can be instantly redeemed at the 2% rate even if you don't have enough points to erase the entire purchase. Purchases can be erased up 90 days after they happen.

If you want straight cash it's 1.5%.
None of the managers I've ever worked for would have agreed with you. I've offered to pay for private offices out of pocket, and when pushed, to a one, they've admitted "OK, it's not really about the money."

Is there a tech company which has an open floor plan for programmers only because they're cheap?
s/classification/decision making/

AI systems are better than humans at making decisions. AI systems can scale to millions of decisions per second and beyond. AI systems don't need to spend 3/4 or their time sleeping or relaxing. AI systems don't need 20 years of training to become experts in their fields, they can be replicated almost instantly.

While the scope of decisions the AIs can do is somewhat limited at the moment, the trend is clear: in the not so distant future AIs will make all economically relevant decisions.
Just use neural networks to train. You're welcome.

edit: this isn't a joke
The interest though isn't debt -- as soon as you sell the property, you only owe at that time the remaining balance, not the total amount of interest you would pay. In other words, interest is what you pay to rent the money used to buy the house.
I think it expands uniformly, so that, after time t, a distance of x becomes a distance of x * k, with k being very slightly greater than 1. Then there will always exist large enough x to outstrip the speed of light.

To illustrate, imagine the expansion factor is, say, 10^-20 per second. Then a distance of 10^30 meters will increase to a distance of 10^30 + 10^10 meters in one second, while light travels at 3 * 10^8 meters per second, so expansion would outstrip lightspeed at that distance. If the expansion factor were 10^-40 per second, then a distance of 10^50 meters would be increasing faster than lightspeed.
You can decentralize the internet on the ISM bands; for example, https://www.nycmesh.net/
9 weeks into this hiring sprint. Maybe a few more depending on how you count. ~2-3ish years into management, again, depending on how we count.

I agree with your second statement.

I suppose what I'm trying to vocalize is the following:

When working on code, the work itself is fun. Coding is enjoyable. That means an 8-10 hour day is largely 8-10 hours of enjoyment.

With management, those ~8-9 hours are no longer enjoyable. The end result is extremely fulfilling and meaningful, much more so than code... but I'm genuinely not finding the actual work of management enjoyable, quite the opposite.

I think I need a way to find the managerial aspect itself enjoyable, otherwise it feels like light suffering for several hours each day in return for the overall health of the rest of the team. And as much as I like these people, that's not long-term sustainable.

I think the way forward might be to fully commit to the positive aspect you highlighted. To consciously attempt to keep in mind the meaning and enjoyment that comes from the making of connections and improvements of the people around me.

I'd love it if a more experienced manager could chime in here and speak to whether or not that really can be enough to power one through the endless meetings, excel reports and politics given time.

And I agree with what other commenters have said. It is simply not possible to be a good manager, while attempting to stay relevant in technology. There simply isn't enough time each day for me to balance my life, keep up to date with code, and learn the management skills I need to improve on.

But that means consciously giving up on staying technically relevant, in this competitive industry..... for a new role which day to day, I'm not finding day-to-day enjoyable. That's a huge leap of faith, that quite honestly, I find very scary to take.

Meanwhile, it seems similarly risky to just give in and go back to pure code, and give up on this managerial aspect. I clearly do have an aptitude for it, it clearly is rewarding, and getting the opportunity to climb this high simply does not happen every day.

Hence, the feeling of being in need of advice, and somewhat stuck.