skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For chip design specifically, that's rather tricky. In my experience, it generally requires a graduate EE degree. However, there are a lot of affiliated roles if silicon interests you. With the rise of SoCs and other digitally controlled parts, there is a bigger demand for supplemental software for validation and configuration. You can also get into an Applications Engineering role generally with an undergrad EE or CE degree.
>This vague term actually encompasses a range of people on the extreme right who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of forms of conservatism that embrace implicit or explicit racism or white supremacy.

Unless you're of the opinion that "racism" and "white supremacy" are synonymous, the ADL does not define them as the same.

>So no, we are taking about the same poorly defined term.

To be clear, the "alt right" isn't white nationalist, it is, however, a white nationalist recruiting tool. Sort of like how you don't just start out as a random person and then the next day you become Jihadi Jane. You're slowly radicalized. The alt right to full-on white supremacist pipeline is the same way.

You start off interested in self help, so you read 12 rules for life; then get caught up in Peterson's weird ideas about western culture; then pretty soon you're seeing not just his youtube lectures, but other lectures about western culture; and then videos about the decline of white/western culture; and then you're watching Richard Spencer; then you shoot up a church.

Now absolutely, granted, not everyone follows the entire path, very few people end up radicalized, but while I'll absolutely agree with you that Peterson isn't a white supremacist, he's absolutely a useful idiot for them.

But again, let's stick to people who have been accused of being "White Supremacists" since you're the one using the term alt-right, not Facebook. Which innocent people are getting accidentally confused for "white supremacists" specifically?
sounds like you wanted someone to debug your code for free and were then surprised they wouldn't
> I believe we have more to lose than gain by attempting to be funny

Ouch... Seems like he’s just bitter about his engineers’ senses of humor?

I can name numerous Google pranks that were obviously stupid and legitimately made me chuckle and then move on with my day — their toilet-powered ISP, Rick Rolling YouTube viewers, Google Maps PacMan, even Contoso switching from O365 to Google Apps (there’s a list of dozens more of them on Wikipedia [0]).

Sure, some of them were a bust, like adding a mic drop GIF to outgoing Gmail messages without clear consent. Large corporations shouldn’t be literally pranking their users. But can anyone name a Microsoft joke off the top of your head?

Maybe I’m in the minority on HN, but I say if you’re confident that you employ some funny engineers who can limit themselves to obvious humor, especially if you’re a small company, why not keep this silly 500+ year tradition alive and well? :)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_April_Fools%2...
One speculator enters the market = one more buyer and seller. If you go to a stock exchange, you see the bids and asks. The more there is those, the better the liquidity. Each speculator adds either bids or asks or demand for them.
Absolutely! Aside from the plethora (never used that word before!) of videos on YouTube and courses on sites like EdX, you can pick up the theory books from Gloria St. Germain, grab a pencil, and go through them :) I use them in my classes with several students with good success, and my wife has been using them for years and years and years to teach theory as well. Those books will actually get you up to the level of being able to challenge (and pass) the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) theory exams if you want to go that far.
For a second, I confused it with Celestia and was thrilled it'd have a new version.
We've been using openresty in production at vwo.com at our edge nodes for quite a few years. It's really fantastic, allowing you to write custom logic and embed it within nginx itself, making things super fast.

The only real disadvantage is the lack of a good library ecosystem within lua and openresty. Over the years, as we moved some more logic to edge because $reasons, we ended up rolling our own libs quite a few times. Documentation can be made much easier as well.

That, and the occasional limitations of Lua as a language.

Overall though, quite an awesome project.
Yes, it seemed you were arguing those two numbers could easily be encoded using existing words.

If you want to make gibberish word like objects it's probably possible.
and the users locked out can't contact support, since it's also protected by reCAPTCHA
I try to, but honestly SO seems hard for interacting with newbies. Half the time I say stuff to newbies I never get a response, upvote, accept, etc. I don't know if they even saw what I wrote and they just don't have enough rep to comment (is this still a thing?) or if they literally got hit by a bus, etc.
The only way to improve things is to change the emphasis of the site. The guidelines were set over time to prefer improving the site as a resource over helping the individual. You can't optimize for both at the same time.
Ask HN: Is an MSc in Data Science Valuable?
The curriculum is one of basic undergrad/grad level ML, big data tools and distributed systems. Wondering if this is a valuable stepping stone into getting into a Data Science role? Especially if one has a software engineering background.
Learning Calculus through a historical lens
Why humans ignore the slow-motion catastrophes all around them
That is a similar issue Wikipedia has. Being a mod is fine, when your role-profile is clearly defined. But sometimes mods evolve into bureaucrats. And at a certain point, they take over a platform, mostly in a cultural/role-model sense. Then active contributors [also mods, but not obsessed with rules and enforcement] are being sidelined and start to quit.

This is a hard-to-solve problem for any community. Having lax regulation leads to scammers gaming the system. Having strict rule enforcement leads to a culture of punishment and death-by-process.

There is a place for people like this in organizations (controlling, lower management) -- here they actually can provide value being a process-oriented control-freak. In communities these roles can become toxic if they start to dominate the culture.

SO is dead to me since the bureaucrats have taken over, Wikipedia too for that matter.

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[0]: people who value 'processes' more than outcome.
When you make a revolution, taking the media is the first step.
Or the weather app is selling their location data to one or a hundred data brokers every 5 minutes. Mobile monetization via third party SDKs is a big thing. Likely 100k different SDKs to choose from (a number that came from a data aggregator).

Add in mobile operators, etc, and recombine the anonymous ids with the help of LiveRamp et al and it’s just a simple data problem.
Out of curiosity, and I don't have a family, what are your costs?

I suspect you can support a family pretty cheapily. The problem is everyone wants to "do everything possible" for their kids -- pay for the best child care, the best schools (or housing in a good school district), clothes and phones to keep up with the Jones' kids, $500k to bribe your way into USC, college tuition, etc. Yes, that all adds up, but I suspect you can also allocate an appropriate percentage of your income to retirement and just pay less for some of those things.
English cognate to "atreve" is "attribute".

~ов is an iterative suffix - like ~le or ~er in gamble and chatter. It's useful to know, because you can rationalise why it is always dropped in the present tense - you can't be iterative at the moment, unless you're an Englishman)
Tom Brady is in a union. That doesn't mean he gets paid the same as everyone else in the union, it just means the rookie he's throwing the ball to gets non-abusive treatment.
> "Australia Is Drifting So Fast GPS Can't Keep Up"

it's not GPS that can't keep up, it's people who who decided that this data was more immutable than it actually was, and now they're stuck with firmware that's difficult to update.

> A significant correction must be made by the end of the year for navigation technology to keep working smoothly.

4.9 ft is not significant for navtech to work smoothly. there are still people involved. because GPS is not something that is accessible everywhere at all times. 5ft is a correction that a human can reasonably make. although if you wanted to snipe an individual from orbit without human involvement, then 5ft is a big problem.

> The last adjustment there, in 1994, was about 656 feet.

now, that was significant.
Sorry, but I'm curious. I'm guessing white and ???.
"Choosing" is a very loose term here. No one chooses that type of situation, but are rather forced into it.
Blockchain? https://www.bitcoinfile.org . It's probably going to stay around. I hope. Gulp.
Perhaps with the rise in computer learning SO can someday try to determine the level of experience of the OP and then only show those questions to developers of similar skills and experience. That way veterans won't have to sift through "hello world" scripts all day and C# guys don't have to wade through tons of java posts.

kind of like a curated FB newsfeed, but for SO. More relevant content should make everyone happier while solving the hostility problem and making SO (dare I say it) enjoyable for everyone.
Agreed. I am reminded of this April Fools "Prank":

https://lineageos.org/An-April-Apology/

LineageOS added an irremovable notification saying "your software is not genuine" to Android for April fools. However, they have weekly updates, and I got this notification before April 1st. The only way to remove it was, as root, flip a setting. Needless to say, I and a lot of other users, were pissed.

When the April Fools prank is harmless, obvious, and doesn't affect users, it isn't a big deal. In the above example, has the notification had a dismiss button saying "April Fools", I would have not cared, and probably have been amused. But when your April Fool's "prank" affects other people, then it isn't so funny.
Is there something that SO can do to further segment the site and/or the question pool without making it too hard to use or driving too many questions into total invisibility?

The problem with SO as I see it is that every question is part of the same pool of questions, only differentiated by topic tags. Every question is held to the same standards. This is a contrast to the actual people who use the site: askers and answerers are all using, looking for and expecting a huge variety of different approaches and responses, and have wildly varying levels of experience.

Reddit's subreddits completely transforms the site for people who use them - people who browse the front-page have an entirely different experience and different expectations from those who curate. I wonder if there's something similar SO can do.
> most damaging inventions of the 20th century?

It would be impossible to say, without knowing the numbers - both of damage, as well as constructive, healing, or life-saving purposes.

For instance - think of all the things plastics have made possible, that no other material is capable of (or works as well). I'm thinking things like medical implants, as well as more mundane things like adhesives and tapes, and products based on those - for instance, how much infection have bandaids helped to prevent?

Then there's clothing, automotive interiors lessening injury in accidents, as well as use as a material that is lighter weight to lower fuel consumption for a variety of vehicles, among other uses.

I don't think you can paint plastics completely in a terrible light, just like you can't nuclear radiation, and any number of other things.

At worst, they are all double-edged swords, and we must as a species either decide to get rid of them entirely, or learn to use them properly. In the case of plastics, I doubt that the former will be the route we take for a variety of reasons - mainly though because their benefits seem to far outweigh their detriments (unless and until we have hard numbers for both, though, that's as unsupported as your original proposed claim - but it seems like that's what we've mostly decided).

So we need to learn how to better process and manufacture them, how to better manage their shipping and transportation, and how we dispose or recycle them (whatever that ultimately means).
Maybe tried to find in 51jobs.com
If you couldn't back out a feature change at will, and never fix technical debt, then you have far bigger problems.
Ask HN: What's your e-commerce solution recommendation? Why not WooCommerce?
Hello,

I need to find a new e-commerce solution for my company and I am struggling on what to choose.

I need a solution that can handle multi-store (different countries/websites/languages but same products); that seems to eliminate almost all solutions.
The goal would be to have a long-term solution and not to be forced to change in 2 years because we are limited by it.
I don't have 100s of products and never will have.

The big guys in the industry seem to be Magento and Shopify plus but they seem to both have drawbacks.

My understanding is that Magento is super powerful but I won't be able to create and manage everything by myself (I know PHP) and would need a team to set up and make changes.

Shopify seems more reachable but less customization is possible. I have the advantage of never really breaking the website but what if I need something outside of scope?

I have experience with both WooCommerce and WordPress multisite and was wondering what would be the reasons against using it. I know how it works (I developed for it) and can customize it however I want.
My understanding was that the scalability (if we ever reach 100 orders / minute) would depend way more on the server than WooCommerce. Is it wrong?
Woocommerce would be fed the products, images, translations and data through the API.

I am looking for reasons against using WooCommerce but can't find a very convincing one so far. What do you think? Is there another solution that I overlooked (developing my own seems more risky and time-consuming).

Thanks a lot.
Yes, I am quoting what was itself a quote from an earlier blog post . But it was new to me and is being cited as a challenge facing the next CEO. So I'm still glad to see he's treating it with a lot of importance.
AntennaPod is a great app. Open source etc but it feels like a paid app in terms of polish/attention-to-detail/UX.
I disagree. The old sites while sometimes had wildly varying answers, so does SO, especially in newer technologies that change frequently (React, etc...) you'll find answers that are 6 months old but out of date and new questions get closed pointing to the old ones. And the culture on the old sites was never as vile as SO is.

I won't be sad when the next gen Q&A comes around to fix the problems SO introduced, just like when SO came around to fix the issues of the other sites.
> Ada is still being used in some fields, especially in some Defense Department projects, avionics and air traffic control, but it isn't in the TIOBE top 20 list of programming languages. Unless you're planning on making a career of working on defense projects, Ada probably isn't a language you should think about learning.

I guess it depends:

1. Ada, associated with SPARK, constitutes one of the most cutting edge technologies when it comes to automated proof for embedded code. This has encouraged some very cutting edge users such as NVIDIA to invest into Ada/SPARK (https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-blogpost-announcement)

2. Learning a new language is always interesting. If you are interested in embedded programming in general, there are few languages more interesting than Ada today IMHO. I would probably tell somebody "Learn C/C++, Ada and Rust".
Wow Air Shuts Down After Failing to Raise New Cash
*try
Yeah, Madison researched every form of government in history, including native American government systems, as the backdrop for his constitutional work. To say we just copied the UK is not a true assessment in any sense.
I'm really curious... (I'm a sadist, but only with consent and permanent injury is a hard nope) did you try electricity? I've played with several folks with high pain tolerance, and electroplay really seems to "cut through" everybody's defenses. But it's not obvious how that would go, if the neurological signals are getting blocked...
Who is given the most space in media? Seems like those who do the most noise, no matter the content. It sells much more that some boring truth. If you see it all around you, after a while it becomes a norm.

Have you noticed? When you start to be angry and hate a bit, somehow it spreads and sucks all these bad energies like a sponge. And if you don't know how to recover yourself and clean your mind, it is easy to become a hateful self-centered person. I wish we could change the direction.
They do know how to make money. Many are even still profitable—just not by a huge margin.

Being that many were bought up by conglomerates as a whole, the publishers have had to answer—indirectly—to shareholder demands. Those demands are usually that they want to see continual, even exponential, growth every quarter. When publishing doesn't deliver such exponential growth, their cut of the budget gets reduced and reduced and reduced.

They're not failing of their own merit. They're being strangled by several different hands.
Thinkpad T440p Buyer's Guide
What are some better (more open, reliable) alternatives to sharing latitude/longitude-based locations? (Note: I'd never heard of What 3 Words before coming across this post.)
AI Performed Like a Human on a Gestalt Psychology Test
What about Bombay, Peking, Persia, Siam, Ceylon, Burma, Leningrad?
Yes, in an ideal world where everybody is nice and friendly there is no need for defense and money could've been spent on something more virtuous. In the real world countries need to spend money to have trained and well equipped people ready to fight back.
This response is honestly part of the problem though. I understand not wanting many duplicate questions, and wanting a well written question/response style. However, different people approach differently problems differently. For every person who asks a question there are likely several others who didnt bother to post or were intimidated by the requirements to even get involved in SO. It seems like it’s been gamified to the point that it excludes newcomers.

A newcomer shouldn’t have to know the subtleties of the guidelines. When I go to the library and ask the librarian a question they don’t reprimand me for the formulation of my question. They don’t refer me to the weekly research/reference class (which is great by the way). They try to help me find what I’m looking for. Sometimes I find questions on SO through google that are dupes, but if it weren’t for that dupe I may never have found the original with the search terms that I used.

This isn’t to say that SO’s rules are wrong, I just believe that there are those who are more concerned with the decorum than the functionality. Unfortunately it feels like those users outnumber the functional ones.
> It's very simplistic to say that (low, predictable) inflation hurts individuals.

Hurting might be the wrong term. Analogy would be something like having some bonus card which gives you 2% off for every purchase. Some people obsess about having that kind of card, but most people wouldn't care, because it is only 2%. Obviously the 2% difference isn't "hurting" most people, more like very small tax.

Btw there are cashback credit cards which give back something like 0,5% to 1%, I wonder how popular those are...
Do these companies foresee an upcoming recession? It seems big companies always try to tighten up before a recession becomes "official."
Emulating blinkenlight front panels with LEDs: Carl makes a PCB for his IBM 1130
No, it really did not. It became popular for the media and right-wing figures to claim it became a popular slogan.

Quoth Wikipedia: "The saying then went viral, becoming a favorite for reporters and columnists wishing to ridicule the young, the New Left, or the hippie/Yippie movement"

It's still being used that way. You're a shining example.
This is not news to anyone who own a Tesla.

Perhaps someone who drives a car with a different radar could tell us if any other real world systems (actually installed on mass market vehicles right now) does better.
Many were variants or specific implementations of other languages (like Algol), or assembly languages for numerous machines. Remember, this was pre-Internet. A lot of languages were developed because an office needed them for a specific application. Or they knew the theory (enough at least) of a language but didn't have an implementation for their hardware or OS, so they made a new one if they couldn't purchase one. And when you develop the language in tandem with the application, you end up with something custom and non-portable (or hard to port).
Apologies for the delayed reply -- HN's noprocrast setting is a powerful taskmaster.

What we do is search for deviations from Newton's inverse square law. Depending upon the distance over which an experiment is performed, the ISL can be correct to a precision as high as ~10^-10 [1]. In particular, our group works to test whether the inverse-square law (or indeed gravity at all) happens as predicted at distances shorter than 100 microns [2]. It still amazes me that at distances shorter than half the diameter of a human hair, nobody has any idea whether gravity even happens.

Newton's early observations (and Kepler's) have been replicated many times -- there is no risk of a major replication-crisis upheaval there.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0307284 (Figure 4)

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0611184
I just don't go there unless it's my last resort. I'll turn to irc, github, discord, quora and sadly even reddit before I go to SO.
Ask HN: Google locked me out of my primary gmail account
When trying to access gmail form my pc, I got served a brand new product page with a button to sign in, rather than going straight through to inbox.

I hit the button, provided my password. 2fa shows up. It says it sent a code to my mobile phone, but I'm not getting one.

Opted to have a text message sent to my phone number with an auth code. Punch in the auth code. Page shows up 'sorry, something went wrong, please try again'.
Tried again, same thing. Tried an alternative recovery method, same thing.

I can still access the account from my phone but the pc seems locked out of it no matter what recovery/access option I choose because they all go to 'sorry, something went wrong'.

Any suggestions how to get a human to help me or figure out what's going wrong with their backend that's causing it to spam 'something went wrong'? This is insane. I'll be migrating everything off gmail after regaining access to the account.
If you can show me the specific error, I'd be interested to look into this, since I work on Let's Encrypt, which provided the certificate for that site (and it's useful to know about browser compatibility problems or new potential kinds of misconfiguration).
> I can totally see how this wasn't anything malicious and just done out of pure ignorance of the law.

I agree that's possible, but that seems to be Facebook's goto excuse, and you're right, that's not something a megacorp should be allowed to reach to.