skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're lucky.

I automated my deployments and test analysis, which were the most time consuming tasks (sequential process, with few quirks along the way) as a developer. This gave me reliably 30-40 minute forced breaks.

Soon I got notices that there were complaints that I do not conform to the office norms, and that apparently I "sleep instead of working", and people "ask if they can work like I do" (never got any further explanation). I got passed the slip and I'm moving on to a different job next week.
In the US voting machine decisions are also a very local decision. So even if it was a party decision... it really would have to be very local party decisions.

Often times national party decisions in the US do not translate into local action even by folks in the same part as obviously things change on the ground.
Yes, you can. To ever see the credit card number you'd have to be trying. But I don't see a way to implement stripe in such a way that the credit card entry happens on a separate page on stripe's site where the customer can look at the padlock in their browser's location bar to know that only stripe has access to the entered information.
Go already can be compiled to WASM, and it is likely that the Go GC will always perform better than the WASM one for Go applications (with some minor exceptions)
How the CSS markup fragment broke the C++ compiler
I like bantering and chatting too, but I definitely don’t think it’s that conducive towards me being a productive engineer. Sometimes it’s nice being able to freely walk about and bounce ideas off others, and I’m sure this has resulted in some positive benefits, but 70+% of the time I really just need to go heads down on something and not be distracted. Always being near people who are talking is very distracting. As a result I get more done when I’m not in the office.

I think it’s pretty obvious that you could have a hybrid approach where you have open areas for collaborating as well as a lot of private booths or rooms for people who actually need to get things done. But of course that wouldn’t be cheap..
Has anyone tried a word2vec like training with an L1 norm minimizing regularization?
This doesn't refute the point. If there's a royalty dimension and then you rotate it, there's still a royalty dimension. It just isn't a basis vector. In a blog post intended for introducing the idea, is that distinction really worth dwelling on? It could be a misunderstanding, or just a pedagogical simplification.
> I need to keep on relearning basic concepts I should have at the top of my head.

Who says you should? As an engineer you are a problem solver and not a hard drive to store every step of an algorithm. You seem to know what pieces fit together but struggle with the details, but that's fine. It's not a negative thing, you are just a bit hard on yourself. If you don't use a concept regularly, you are naturally bound to forget it. I can now confidently write xmlhttprequest and fetch without quick googling :)

> When I compare myself to my colleagues

Don't do that, that's a way to depression and anxiety. They are probably suffering too you just don't notice it.
I take it that you are not a Uyghur Muslim...
Yeah, sure, you go ahead and reinvent 30 years of cross-platform application APIs. I'll keep using the web until your new ones match maturity.
Precrastination: When the Early Bird Gets the Shaft - The last-mover advantage
https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiUmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndzai5...
Google Is Conducting a Secret Performance Review of Its China Search Project
If the ability to alter an election in your favor can be done invisibly, and you value being reelected over transparency, then buying these products make perfect sense. It's not an American thing, rigging elections is probably as old as having them.
Provide them with an actual sex education?

I don't mean talking about how the penis works and how to wrap a condom on a cucumber, because I think the UK does that already.

I mean actually talking about how to have great sex, what works, how to please a partner, etc. Feel free to have a final where students have to review some porn and point out the parts that doesn't work in reality.

Of course that would horrify parents and teachers, but the reality in 2019 is that you can no longer _not_ talk about the subject, you can only leave the discussion up to the porn producers and mind geeks search engines or get into the fray yourself.
> 1. Backwards compatibility with existing libc. (Maybe pick musl)

Honestly, that ought to be a non-goal. We already know that POSIX often enforces models that we don't want--filesystem permissions and the fork model are two good examples of things that are broken. So why start with "implement POSIX"?
I think it is a reasonable interpretation of solidsnack9000's request that it be something ideological as well. Pretty much everyone agrees that cancer is bad and should be cured.
I have my own office. Very happy with this! Everyone where I work has an office, so not that special here.

Where I worked before I fought tooth and nail to get an office, by the time I was leaving I had the smallest office in the building crammed in with 2 others, while other (non-developers) had offices twice as big all for themselves.

Management wanted to cram 10 people into an office space the size of the office for the boss. HR put a stop to that plan luckily.
I recently finished my Master's in Physics (with a minor in Applied physics, thesis in Astroparticle physics). I also have a BS in Physics. I've been looking for a job for a few months now and haven't found anything interesting.

Where do you guys search for jobs, in Europe? I was mainly looking for a Data-Science position, though I don't know ML yet (other than regressions ofc)
>you can only withdraw money in your local currency, and PayPal has quite bad conversion rates (you lose 2-3% again).

Someone on HN recommended TransferWise for that purpose. I tried it and it works well: PayPal can transfer to TransferWise and then from TransferWise money can be withdrawn in local currency with a very fair exchange rate close to real-time Forex.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with TransferWise in any sense.
I always felt laptop keyboards/key caps were ALWAYS flimsy feeling. I guess just the older ones you could pull off and replace. But I never was a huge fan of the earlier chiclets either.
History doesn't repeat, but it certainly rhymes, so the saying goes.

To anyone acquainted with the history of Christianity (or religion more generally) and the history of libre software, the parallels are simply fascinating.

From the Book of St. IGNUcius, 12:1-12:

Then began rms to speak to the people this parable; A certain person created a program for perself, and sent its code to other programmers, and went into a far country for a long time. When per returned, per sent an email to the programmers, now selling the software as a service, that they should forward any code that they had improved, so that other programmers might benefit from it: but the programmers ignored the email, and refused to acknowledge the debt.

And again per sent another email: and they ignored this one also, and maligned per on other mailing lists, calling per greedy and envious for prestige, and still refused to acknowledge the debt. And again per sent a third: and this one, too, they ignored.

Then said the creator of the program, What shall I do? I will send the code of my latest extension to the program under a copyleft license; it may be they will understand the obligation of using libre software and the reciprocal sharing of code when they read the license and modify the code.

But when the programmers saw the new code, they reasoned among themselves, saying, this is a vast improvement on the original: come, let us obfuscate this code and delete the license, that we may continue to sell the software without giving back.

So they added the code to their the program and deleted the license. What therefore shall the original programmer do unto them?

Per shall come with lawyers and sue these programmers, and shall then give the source code to others.

And when they heard it, they said, Google forbid.

And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The license which the engineers rejected, the same has become the backbone?

Whosoever shall fall upon that license shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

And Silicon Valley and their coders the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
Huawei phones are effectively dead as a development platform because Huawei stopped providing a way to unlock a phone's bootloader.
I think the GP's point was that the likes of Facebook and Google are giving tracking bad rap, and we're at the point of not trusting anyone trying any tracking for any purpose whatsoever.
2020 Taiwan presidential election based on EOS blockchain contract
AWS Keynote Livestream in Santa Clara
I don't see UBI in this way at all. Nothing would stop a UBI recipient from investing a portion of that income.

In my mind a UBI allows increased economic freedom. It especially benefits the people currently most in need of it.

That's not a bad thing.
The pedantic hill is the silliest to die on.
Tried to be careful with "up to". LA's city center has been measured at 59%. I'll try to find the source again.

But just consider:

- roads

- highways / major ingress/egress

- sidewalks (yup. Don't really need them without cars)

- parking lots & garages

A nice source with color-coded maps
- http://oldurbanist.blogspot.com/2011/12/we-are-25-looking-at...

A nice survey/writeup from Vox: https://www.vox.com/a/new-economy-future/cars-cities-technol...
Are you on the latest nightly? It will only work on the latest nightly, and going forward into the future.

There’s another sub-thread on HN about that, check it out :)
This is patently false. Without regulation, all goods are priced by what the market will bear. It might be true that if successful drug doesn't make enough to cover the cost of failed drugs the company will go out of business but that has nothing to do with pricing.

The problem is that without competition drug companies can keep raising the price as long as enough people will buy it at the new price so that they make more money than all of the people buying it at the old price. That is why really old drugs that have been around for a long time have their prices increase. Not because there was some new research but because the lack of alternatives means they can just do it.
Show HN: Zeus: A mobile Bitcoin Lightning wallet for node operators
Posting a follow-up rather than editing:

I also wonder if open-plan offices are a symptom of the increasing centralization of tech companies. These days people seem to think the first step of starting a tech company is to move to the Bay Area. If we were founding companies in Redding, Rochester, Yakima, Grand Rapids, or Albuquerque, could we afford to give everyone an office with a real door for the same price as a San Jose hellhole?

We've got better connectivity than ever before, but we insist on clustering up more and more. Cray was out in the Wisconsin woods. Microsoft got started in Albuquerque. DEC and Data General were both well outside Boston in small towns.
> So, until 2018 no DA was bothered by the human trafficking supposedly rampant on backpage during that time

Backpage was working hard at outwardly projecting an image of fighting trafficking; it's efforts to conceal and promote trafficking were hidden in its backend software and internal processes. To the extent Salesforce was involved in implementing that software, it's quite plausible that they would have had actual awareness of the details of those efforts well before any DA did.

(Also, DAs had frequently pursued sex trafficking allegedly being done through Backpage prior to the time they had uncovered sufficient evidence to charge that Backpage itself was actively and deliberately promoting it.)
Why are you writing your own 2s complement and Huffman coding? Better people than you or me have already written that stuff. The larger question is why did you get into computing in the first place? Focus on that.. everybody is a moron until 10 years later you realize people are getting answers from you.. and asking "how did you know that?", To which I usually reply.. "10 years of being a fucking moron with no social life. You're welcome."
Exactly this. And this is exactly the reason why we'll probably all end up pirating movies again. Pretty much everything mainstream (with the exception of a few artists) is on Spotify. Netflix, Amazon, etc etc. get more fractured every day. Every studio wants their own streaming service. How many will you pay for? 2? 1? 0? Everybody loses.
“System prevalence[1] is a simple software architectural pattern that combines system images (snapshots) and transaction journaling to provide speed, performance scalability, transparent persistence and transparent live mirroring of computer system state.“ — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_prevalence
Can anyone help me understand why we're even performing studies like this anymore? It would seem that all these years of "x can cause cancer" studies have just revealed that we generally know very little about what causes cancer. Is prevention really a viable avenue of control anymore? Shouldn't we just be focusing on early detection and treatment?
After reading about all the AMP and Google, Mozilla's blog is a welcome relief. Always a pleasure.
> why is WebAssembly outside of the browser needed?

It's arguably a better standard runtime than Java, for certain use cases. You don't see modern compilers targeting the JVM as an output target, but you do see them targeting WASM, there's probably good reason(s) for that (both technical and political/legal).

Furthermore, my understanding of WASI is that it allows standardization of _multiple_ runtimes, each domain specific.

For example, Functions as a Service. Currently AWS Lambda requires building a blob specially for them targeting their APIs and ABI. But what if Fastly, Fly.io, and the other "App CDN" FaaS providers come up with their own standard for "syscalls" for a WebASM-FaaS-1.0 spec? As a really bad example, the syscalls could be:

- 1 GET URL
- 2 POST URL
- 3 Cache Read
- 4 Cache Write

Meanwhile, in a totally different ecosystem, Ethereum can publish their own WASI for eWASM, where the syscalls are:

- 1 Storage Read
- 2 Storage Write
- 3 Contract Call

Again, these are bad/contrived examples, the real syscalls would be better thought out than an HN comment, but the point is that you have two totally different runtimes, running is totally different places (on a CDN server, vs. inside an Ethereum node), both using the same tech stack w/ different "system interfaces" abstracting away what things your WASM code should have access to at runtime. Any language that has a compiler that targets WASM can be used in either case.

Furthermore, the barrier for entry as a syscall provider becomes much simpler too! If I want to make a local sandbox for FaaS testing, I just need to implement the syscalls from WebASM-FaaS-1.0 using local stubs, now I can test my FaaS locally. Way easier than the months/years probably spend reverse engineering the lambda environment for local testing. And if I come up with a novel solution for servicing one of those syscalls, hey, maybe I'll take my own stab at being a FaaS CDN. :)

Likewise for Ethereum and eWASM. Maybe I want to make a local test environment sandbox. Instead of re-implementing the EVM I "just" need to implement those syscalls outlined in the eWASM WASI spec (if such a spec existed). So now maybe light clients ship those syscalls over the wire somehow, and don't need to keep gigabytes of block chain data locally anymore.

edits: minor formatting
They are expanding outside SF. Amazon's HQ seems to have deliberately avoided SF; Google has expanded significantly in Austin, Boulder, NYC. Uber has expanded significantly in Pittsburgh.

The challenge is that remote offices are difficult to work with. Logistical difficulties like time zones and remote conferencing aside, often you get an all-you-see-is-all-there-is effect from senior management who tend to bias towards the area they are in vs. remote offices which encourages the most ambitious people to relocate back to the mother ship. This then trickles down the corporate ladder - the remote offices will have less exciting or visible projects, so employees there have lower chances at promotion, which provides an incentive for them to move too. It's not a question of companies opening remote offices, it's how they can reduce the effect of gravity that pulls employees back.

Gravity aside, the problems described in the article also exist in these other cities too. I'm living in Boulder right now and the NIMBYism is strong here too - I definitely would not be able to afford a house in the city itself.
>Should we abolish home ownership and have everyone buy into a single rental market such that prices wouldn't be distorted beyond what median area incomes are.

Henry George would say so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
I loved Night in the Woods and actually wish they didn't include the end-game plotline and just kept it mundane, about Mae's life and her struggles with her mental health. Those parts were very touching and I loved every moment. The plotline later on was a bit meh (and rushed) in my opinion.
Look at the number of non technical end users who will determinedly download .EXE files, or run them from their mail client, and click through all of the Windows 10 "do you really want to run this untrusted software?" warnings in order to successfully install cryptolocker type malware on their computers.

If you give people a way to click "yes/accept/run" and they are determined to accomplish what they think is their intended task, they will just blow through any warnings.
Don't quote me on this because I only covered the topic briefly in some applied classes before doing 6 years of research, but if I remember correctly, you grab it with long tweezers and dump it in a shielded "garbage can" type container. And fill tons of paperwork that involves estimating the radiation dose delivered to everyone that could've been exposed. And probably present a post mortem at conferences about how you dealt with it.
If I had to guess, they reduce the censorship during the day to lessen the effect on businesses. In the evening it's primarily going to be people using the internet at home, which they'll want to control more tightly.
Anybody have stats on $ per stream? How does that number vary between premium/non-premium and on the region you’re streaming from?
Basically, redistribution only works well when the wealthy do it voluntarily for their personal glory and enlightened self interest. When they fail to do this, it might not be pretty.
I admit that the touchpad isn't as smooth and gesture driven as the mac but I'm not the user those are really meant for. I spend most of my time on the keyboard writing code and living in the "cloud" which makes using mouse a drag anyway. So all I'm looking for is a powerful machine that doesn't hog resources on useless stuff, with sturdy keyboard(physical keys please, none of that touch bar BS), can support dual/multi boot and works with all the peripherals I need. Thinkpads work better than most without the significant price overhead.
One of my dystopian future scenarios has no Thinkpad's in it :D
The argument is that people don't bother to keep their verified connections up to date. But come on, how often to MITM attacks happen? For those rare cases where people are doing stuff important enough that it becomes a possibility, I would guess the security conscious individuals would become more diligent.

For the rest of us, it seems that doing it on occasion is still worth it. As I understand, Signal is designed to never indicate over the wire who has checked safety numbers. Thus, a MITM anywhere on the network creates a risk of becoming discovered, which is a cost in itself.
Dell Alienware - "baller" would be my technical judgement.

Long key travel, large layout. Makes programming comfortable again.

Gaming laptops in general seem to be nearly "no compromise" products. Battery life is as good as it can be - they max-out the watt-hours permitted by airlines. Keyboards can be massive. Screens, sound systems. Recently the weight has been reduced through clever hardware engineering:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-alienware-a...
I honestly don't think they will ever fix it. Why should they? People keep buying the product!

At this point, I'm on a 2012 MBPr and I keep on deferring to the next year and waiting to see if it's resolved. They are pushing me ever year to say F-it and build a hackintosh.

I'm holding out some hope for the new rumoured 16" to come back to the original 2012-2015 design, but I know Apple is belligerent and will release an even thinner design!

My dream spec would be:

- the 2012-2015 chassis

- improved 4k oled screen and bezel less design

- arm processor which will do away with throttling and fans

- no touchbar

- 2012-2015 keyboard

- 2012-2015 touchpad not the massive one in newer models

- magsafe

I can wait a couple of years, but in 2021... Apple won't get my money anymore.
Even if you store in UTC and use a library you have to know what the user mean when they create a recurring appointment.

I currently have several recurring alerts in my calendar app. One of them is an alarm everyday at 10 p.m. This must be in local time everywhere I go. Another is a conference call at 10H30 a.m on Wednesdays, Pacific Time (not my timezone). If you treat them the same way one of them will be wrong when I travel.
As a ham with an Extra class license I'm understanding that it was a type of antenna and am now regretting this commentary but for just a moment wondered if it was an April fools page published early.

I do have an interest in magnetic antennas (antennas in general) and also appreciate the paper listed by tzs. Thank you tzs!

Sorry for dropping the SNR in here :)
(A very tiny fwiw): you /can/ create a backup in signal and use it to transfer seamlessly to a new device, without triggering new safety number checks. The user flow sucks, but it is possible.
There is a lot of more or less blatant bribery going on in state and local governments. My girlfriend does investigations in that area and she has a ton of examples (which I can't publish). As far as I know pretty much every state and country manages their own election system so they are very vulnerable to local politicians who often don't even understand what they are dealing with.
Running a Kanban Standup Meeting
Orbits are periodic. If it is boosted up, it'll come back down. Orbital decay will still happen.
In some countries PayPal requires users to create an account.
> It seemed like she was working from home

Significant portions of their phone support staff work remotely; they’re called at-home advisors. Seems to be a really well-run program.

https://www.apple.com/jobs/us/aha.html
The cost is lower, since you're looking at around 60-100 square ft per employee as opposed to 100-150 sq ft for an office. That said, even in New York or SF (say, ~$80 per sq ft per year), that's still well under $8,000 per year per employee. That is, less than 4% of the average software developer salary cost in those same locations.

Of course, the follow-on argument is typically "but we can't find enough sq ft of office space in one location!" to which I say: hundreds of businesses do this every day, what makes you special? Stop making excuses and invest in your assets.
Their solution seems reasonable, but why not allow export of an (encrypted) private key for use on other devices?
I live without internet at home now. It's amazing how much more space there is in my brain after reducing that single input.
You're leaving out a central part of the argument: where housing supply is restricted, a rational renter knows that any improvement in quality of life just raises their rent in balance -- making it no actual improvement. This doesn't hold where housing responds to demand.