skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that you haven’t been able to get meetings yet, it’s your sales approach. How many people have you called? How many have you spoken to? What is your pitch like? If you have a relevant product, a good pitch should be able to get roughly 5 meetings out of 100 calls, and if you’re doing in person meetings, which you should be at this stage, you should get higher.
I mean, if you want to work at Google and the likes, you need to indulge in the game right? And working at Google isn't just about the pay and the salary - thats quite a shallow thing to say. Engineers there handle data of astronomcial proportions, scale their systems every second to handle the ever-growing traffic, innovate on solutions that are used by millions of people around the world. I'd say, if you truly love programming and computer science, thats a pretty sweet deal.
I find it fascinating how mixing vocabulary and grammatical rules from two different languages can create something which is not understandable by speakers of only one of those language, especially when spoken fast.

In my circle of friends/family we're all bilingual french/english, so when speaking to eachother we tend to speak with a mix of both while conserving proper British and French prononciation. Sometimes conjugating English verbs in French and vice-versa. A normal sentence would be: "Je book a table et on se voit downtown". In an isolated society it would probably evolve into a creole, but our little pidgin will certainly die with us.
I wish I'd seen it when it came out he sort of stopped at the first hurdle when it came to trying to compile.
It literally says “we are aware that our application has underlying problems with large numbers of concurrent requests”. How much clearer than that so you want it ?
Huawei ownership murky as company lashes out at critics
This is dumb and you're obviously lying. Per Louis Rossmann & Jessa Jones, Apple will lie to customers when data is recoverable and tell them to buy a new device.
I've always wondered, how it could be that someone can be smart enough to write what on the surface is some fairly clean Golang, and yet at the same time, dumb enough to put secrets in the code.

I can forgive the use of MD5, because they probably just don't know their hashing/crypto but secrets? It's literally in the name.

There is so much material in your 5 links alone, that anyone who desires could utterly own their infrastructure, and then some.
Anybody here using QEMU? What is your use case?
Jessa Jones has retrieved photos from water-logged phones when Apple said it's "unrepairable" and "everything is lost." A passcode-locked phone might require more hardware hacking to reset or bypass, if it's even possible sub-megabuck$.
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There are still plenty of active private servers running.
I think that is part of the GSuite. I don't see it on my non-GSuite gmail.

Or maybe it is slow to roll out to old accounts.
> Apple paid taxes on all of those funds, in the jurisdictions in which the money was earned just like any other company.

Snort! https://www.cultofmac.com/302651/apple-avoids-paying-taxes-i... , no they pay taxes in Luxembourg and say they have little profit in other European countries. But can we blame them, I would also try to optimize my taxes, and even the guy who set up this tax scheme to benefit Luxembourg is now... the president of the European Commission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_Leaks
Sentry Launches Integration Platform
I have bad vision (something like -8), but phone is the device I don’t have any problem with. I just keep it at 10-15 cm from me eyes and I can use it very comfortably. Can’t say it about Laptop for example, not usable without glasses.
This article is from 2016, so it's a little old.

One thing I found interesting was that while the author makes a superficial comparison to the "Ugly American" phenomenon, he doesn't actually draw a comparison to the similarities in economic rise.

Both phenomena occurred during/after times of economic booms that created a much larger middle class with a disposable income that could leave a culture bubble and see other places, whether it's people from the country going to the city ("hicks" and gawpers etc.) or people leaving their country to go elsewhere. That kind of naive cultural conflict will definitely lead to these kinds of actions.

I find this kind of comparison much more thoughtful and to me, compelling than any kind of "that's their [crappy] culture" discrimination. It also makes me wonder if we might see a rise of "Ugly Indians" or "Ugly Nigerians" as the middle class with a disposable income in those countries rises.
The Killer Skill-Combination of 21st Century
Lawsuit: Hertz vs. Accenture, $32m+ [pdf]
> > I do think there's some signal in whether a candidate can get the syntax right.

> I know you're talking about software engineers, not data analysts, but:

(inserts self-pwn car crash here)

I've done SQL for ~20 years and I'd say I'm good at it. I don't make as many mistakes as you've described but I know exactly what you mean, and I'd never hold that against you because I don't give a toss about mistakes that the language will catch.

I've rarely interviewed others, but when I did I asked high-level stuff approaches. I wanted to see if they could grasp the solution, not the physical framework.

Actual example: you're given a large collection of words, which you're allowed to pre-process - you have plenty of time to do this. Later on you are given another word, how would you very quickly find all acronymns of that word?

(inerviewee programmer didn't get it, so I tried it on a non-programmer we had around - she very quickly worked out you ordered the letters and saved them - she didn't explain it clearly (to repeat, she wasn't a programmer) but in programmer terms it was a dictionary with keys as the sorted letters and the values as a set of the words).

In this case, would you employ the supposed programmer who didn't get it, or the non-programmer who did?

Actual example: Show me how you'd represent an arithmetic expression using objects, and how you'd evaluate it in an OO style (was after class hierarchy of (op, leftexpr, rightexpr and .eval method. With plenty of time and pushes in the right direction, he still didn't get it despite claiming good OO on his CV)

(True story: to same guy who didn't get the OO expression question, I started off with an SQL question. His CV said SQL was his strong point, so I gave him an easy one: "explain to me what a left outer join does". He shook his head in confusion "Never heard of it". Actually happened! I'm not even exaggerating!)
Well, they are listing what are obviously the most widely used languages in the industry - C, Java, C++, SQL, JavaScript, R, HTML&CSS, Python, C#, Go, Bash, Assembly; and a few of the better known but more niche languages - Ruby, Swift, Objective-C, F#, Erlang, Rust, Kotlin, TypeScript; and still a few others.

Together, these cover cloud programming, web, embedded, desktop, mobile, OS, networking, games, machine learning, data science and probably quite a few other industries.

The only languages I can think of that see quite a bit of use and that are missing are Lua and TCL; and some of the more obscure ones that would still have been interesting are Ada, some MLs, Haskell, and CommonLisp.

Why do you believe that this list is biased towards web development?

And, out of curiosity, what languages are you working with? By your mention of Emacs, I'm thinking maybe some kind of Lisps?
Python has one too now!
Most UK newsrooms just play the he said / she said game and then move on to the next story without really digging. There are very few with the collective memory and insight of Private Eye, which often connects widely-spaced dots to make sense of politics.

Interestingly Eye is very slim and only published fortnightly, which reflects the work involved in doing the job properly. And they are very seldom wrong.
Question for ICE owners: Is having to regularly visit a fuel station ever a problem? Have you ever felt regret from not being able to wake up every morning with a "full tank" in the car?

Point is, it's not a compromise, it's replacing one set of compromises with another. Yes, you are limited to driving for 4-5 hours before taking a 30-45 minute break (assuming your route has fast chargers) but that's fairly consistent with the needs of humans anyway. (Muscles, stomachs, bladders etc.)

[Not an EV owner.]
A lot of people here a like "Nintendo hates their fans", but seriously, this is a product that Nintendo is currently selling (Well, technically renting to subscribers) why should they stand idle as people pirate it?
Same for the the orthogonal matrices, or the diagonal matrices, or the symmetric matrices, or the unit determinant matrices, or the singular matrices ... They are all sets of Lebesgue measure zero.
After Accenture put on an impressive, one-day presentation for the Hertz team that included a demonstration of the transformed Hertz digital experience, Hertz selected
Accenture to design, build, test, and deploy Hertz’s new website and mobile applications (or “apps”).

39. Accenture’s code for the AEM component (the content management system that allows Hertz to create, edit, and change the content on its websites) was seriously flawed as well. The coding and file structure were not based upon the Adobe AEM archetype, which made the application unreliable and difficult to maintain, as well as making future updates challenging and
inefficient.

40. Accenture’s Java code did not follow the Java standard, displayed poor logic, and was poorly written and difficult to maintain.
Wonder why meta-compilation is not more popular? There are already some frameworks available like RPython for quite some time, Truffle is relatively new.
Just because the information is out there doesn’t mean taking remedy action is useless.
They are selling their old NES games still, both through Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions and what ever is left in stock of the NES Classic.

This is not some sort of abondonware.
I used it before to dabble in BIOS coding. Just for fun.
And yet, there seems to be more new music being produced, catering to every taste, creating new genres, than ever before.
When you are Cook and CEO of Apple, there is no such thing as personal.
SMH. No, you're guessing and you guessed wrong. Turning on a passcode turns on Data Protection. https://www.macworld.com/article/2029998/understanding-ios-p...

iCloud maybe a better/easier way to recover some, but not all, data.
I've used them too. Clunky but they worked just fine, the music got transported between my Apple laptop and my Apple telephone. What's the problem?
Virtualbox doesn't work with Linux 5.1 so I moved a bunch of VMs to Qemu.
Ruby is an example of it done so wrongly that other languages are chopping their hands off to avoid making the same mistakes. Apparently there is a namespacing in the Ruby repository and Github started automatically pushing every fork to the repo as a gem. So fnord123/cool-project would also have intertextuality/cool-project just because you forked it. And it was a nightmare to figure out which one was the right one.

Now the Rust team avoids namespaces like the devil citing the Ruby issue even though there are people begging to have something like Java's scheme since it works.

So really, Java is just about the only example of a registry handled correctly - distributed and namespaced and signed.
Kidnappings are a great way to redistribute wealth.
1) you signed into your work's google account on a personal laptop.

2) you quit the browser

3) three days later you open the browser to search for a new job

4) Depending on your works settings, they now know that you are looking for a new job.

-or-

1) you have work gmail on your phone (stupid idea, but hey)

2) Work now has admin control over your phone, with the ability to remote wipe, backup and inspect.

3) fatfinger/perv/abusive admin can now do what ever they will to your personal life.
This is a burden that lies with us all, individually. We are all individually responsible for our actions. Its absurd to suggest that somehow we should outsource our morality and the responsibility for our actions to politicians or legislators. Whether or not our system (and society) is horribly broken on every level (it is) has no bearing on the personal responsibility we all bear for what we do as individuals.
Last week, I intended to replace VirtualBox with QEMU for my personal use. The spartiate documentation made it really hard. I lack the competence to seriously contribute.

The official documentation just explains the numerous parameters. It also points to tutorials (wikibook, etc), which unfortunately are very basic and out of sync. Even Arch Linux does not provide a good documentation (lack of clarity, some obsolete syntax, "Networking" section is a mess...). Like often, Debian's wiki is obsolete, and even their QEMU images are 5 years old. I had to combine the following 3 sources and a lot of try and guesses to build my VMs.

QEMU Gentoo : https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/Options

QEMU official : https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html

KVM Performance : http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tuning_KVM
They used to be ok at holding the government in power to account before the Hutton Inquiry. Now they're slavishly obedient.

Worse than their bias, though, was the defunding for investigative reporting. These days the front page is covered with lazy reporting, clickbait and reprinted press releases.
You're getting your numbers mixed up. It's a 33% reduction in charging time which is equal to a 50% increase in charging speed.
I don't know why, but I find it amusing to see Miguel de Icaza say: " Hopefully I will beat my previous record of two users." It makes me feel a lot better about my catalogue of completely unknown software ;-)
I'm starting my own software consulting business. I only have about 1.5 years of experience (full time), mainly self taught. I just recently started to go look for clients and realizing that after learning programming, now I have to learn sales, lol.
Mainly playing with old operating systems, I'm a retrocomputing enthusiast.

While years ago I would mainly use Virtual PC (I do miss its great GUI) and VMWare (and rarely bochs), qemu improved a lot and has (somewhat decent) support for so many more architectures. You can run Solaris for SPARC and Mac Os 9, for example.
I do the same when I have to converse in 2 or more languages daily.

"On a besoin a room fuer zwei Personen por tres noches!" -- me to the housekeeper in the Dominican Republic (she did not understand it, but we had a good laugh)
My free time is the most precious, most treasured, dearest thing I have ever had.
We build our own Linux images (using Yocto) for various embedded devices and run the same images on QEMU for testing purposes.
Welcome to the Open Source experience... sadly.
Is X over SSH that important? Not really. Is it handy enough for me to use it on a daily basis? Yes, without a doubt!

Everyone has a different use case though. I could just as well be using RemoteApp or something along those lines.
I'm using it extensively, but as a build tool: https://github.com/multiarch/qemu-user-static

(See https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/04/21/2300 and https://github.com/insightfulsystems/alpine-python)
People really don’t know how to read opensecrets info, do they?
"...the median time to discovery for a key leaked to GitHub is 20 seconds..."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19602279
>Most of the economics profession is biased in favour of some regulated form of free markets and globalization.

>That's a bit like saying scientists are biased in favour of anthropic climate change: it's a rational bias based on 200 years of evidence.

The economics profession is biased in favour of that because the think tank money, sourced from corporate wealth, wants that.

It's a pretty irrational bias which has led to, among other things, the mainstream of the profession being completely blindsided by the financial crisis (famously called out by the normally apolitical Queen) as well as the meteoric rise of China via highly managed trade (an anti free market policy treated by most economists in the 90s/early 00s as largely self defeating).
If you are curious how databases are implemented, here is a simplistic implementation in clear abstractions https://github.com/komu/ahwen

It's a good idea to familiarise with the code in bottom-up order of layers.

Readme says this:
> The implementation takes heavy inspiration from Edward Sciore's SimpleDB, augmented by implementations of various exercises in his textbook Database Design and Implementation.
It's not always the latest. It could be that they are able to move faster than all the other companies by being willing to take much higher risk.

I bought two mid range Samsung phones and they were terrible to the point I suspected they were fake. Then I bought a Samsung refrigerator that broke down often. It's not niche or anything, they just make everything quite hacky.
This might be off topic, but why create an account just to say this?
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Much of evolution depends on historical contingency, too. The earliest organisms had many oxygen-controlling pigments at their disposal. But once lineages of organisms committed to using certain ones for certain jobs, it may have been difficult if not impossible for them to drastically revise that choice.
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Makes me feel better about all the technical debt I've contributed to over the years.
Haha ^^
My SQL skills are indeed quite limited. But most of my stuff relies on DynamoDB, mostly in a strictly key-value fashion.

Still; queries are a lot less to learn and much easier to fix when I do them wrong then also queries + taking care of (maintaining, scaling, fixing, backing up,...) the database itself.
It’d be interesting as well to know if someone from your family and someone from another family who were doing the same kind of thing with English/French would be able to communicate very easily, or if your family and the other family would be combining the languages in each of your sufficiently unique ways that the two families would actually struggle a little to understand the other.
Nowadays trades are lucrative everywhere.

The existent low competition is mind boggling but the career change is not that easy for people coming from intelectual challenging careers. It feels like a 'downgrade'. For the typical HNer selling is the only challenge there.
I believe the point was:

> self-driving taxis
I assume there's a mortality rate for software developers. Is it therefore the software developers fault if they die on the job? Should we shrug a point out that that career was their choice?

Does this thinking extend to other activities? The mortality rate for sleeping in non zero after all....
I'd rather have people communicate in English than not communicate at all (e.g. see Reds vs. Blues in the US).
It’s one of those things that you dangerously start when your project is small then when you balloon in size, you find that everyone is hard coding secrets in code and standing up some secrets infrastructure would take weeks to get right. It’s easier now with tools like Vault but let’s say you joined bilibili today - where do you even begin? You have a massive cultural problem before you even begin to tackle the technical one. Even a smart engineer may just resign to doing things the wrong way than trying to fight a huge political battle.
i use qemu/kvm almost everyday. i also use qemu-img tools quite often. and as other people have mentioned, building inside qemu is quite convenient, especially with tools like packer.
A former Tesla employee, who worked on their IT infrastructure and whose NDA has expired, has revealed the technical shit show going on behind the scenes at Tesla. (I'm a Tesla fanboy as well, but this is scary).

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376
I have not used it, but Drew Devault had a post explaining how to get started with Qemu : https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/10/Getting-started-with-qemu...
After reading about half of this article, I have two major thoughts:

1. It's interesting that a Japanese scientist would hypothesize that a high-performing athlete would be considered an "intellectual", since the Japanese word for "genius" can describe highly talented athletes as well as intelligent nerds. Sapir–Whorf in action?

2. I've seen strong evidence that "overthinking" athletic performance is negative; taking brainpower away from the subconscious and placing it in the frontal lobe is empirically proven to cause basketball players to miss shots and hurdlers to trip and fall.
I think the issue was that they sold it as a beta test, but it turned out to be a pre-alpha test.
Code Generation and Merge Sort
The design is impeccable and it's pleasurable to read; a rare combination.
We are happy that he lived to see the results of his passionate work. Not many ahead of their time do.
Does it matter what the motivation is if, at the end of the day, both set of people work equally as hard and create the same amount of wealth?
They are copyrightable as works, and even if they arent then they are as devices protecting works.

The level of creativity needed for copyright is minimal. A key pair is generated by machine, but at the request of a human according to parameters selected by the human. That is likely enough.
They can't "compete" because the batteries in EVs cost more than entire ICEs.
Probably a little of each. The repository "title" of swituo/openbilibili-go-common, when pushed through google translate, says:

"I don't know if these are embarrassing... The troubles of morality are going out and turning right to pay attention to 996.icu"
In the UK equipment varies.

I've seen smartphone based license scanners, Psion-based data entry terminals (they punch in each and every offenders license plate), but parking meters tend to have a paper receipt you place on the dashboard or stick to the window. But now they have a pay-using-an-app option ... They take your licence plate details always and check it against an online db, and if not then they look for a paper ticket.

Pretty much, if you park in a time limited street zone or a metered zone or a municipal car park ... You can be assured your car number plate is captured along with entry and exit times.

The data is likely sold on too
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ
It's not GSuite-only, it's available on my Gmail acc from 2009.
The Gnome Boxes app is excellent

https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Boxes
Test AMS Live Demo in https://antmedia.io/livedemo/
AMS Github Pages: https://github.com/ant-media/Ant-Media-Server
Thanks.
HeadlessCMSes and Gatsby. What is the best combo in your opinion out of these
What is it that enables companies to seek the boundary of what is allowed by law, whereas when humans do it they are called assholes?
SwiftScrollViews – An approach for managing text field over scroll view in iOS
This is exactly what I try to solve with https://wishpage.tv/ people can make a content wish, people can attach monetary rewards to wishes and then someone can pick up the wish and make a video for example.

So it goes two ways, citizens can wish for the news/content they want to see and content creators don't have to guess anymore what the people want to see.

I made it a bit like a social network where every user has an individual wish page so good reporters can build up a good reputation.

Feedback would be great, what do you think? Is there anything you would like to see on the platform?
Pretty sure they just wanted to be first in history to release a folding phone. No way someone at the top didn’t know.
Ask HN: What internal tool you you made turned out to be useful?
I currently have some time for focusing on the internal features of our platform (rather than customer features) and would love to hear some of your most useful internal tools.

I‘m thinking about administration, debugging, dev ops, etc. I know this can be very specific to a platform, but I think any feature has the potential to inspire something applicable to other platforms.