skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I follow you here. You seemed to be implying that after witnessing Blackberry failure to properly make their own modem you found the idea of Apple doing it laughable.

I was pointing to you that :
1. Contrary to Blackberry when they started trying Apple has been designing chips (CPU) for some time and has knowledge internally about how to conduct this kind of projects and how to build a team for it ;
2. Apple already understands and masters the manufacturing part of chip making ;
3. Apple is so rich and has such a brand that they can most likely buy the people mastering the knowledge they still lack (anything modem specific) from their competitors.

The idea that Blackberry was doing before everyone else seems to only make my points stronger. Apple will have less R&D and engineers training to do.
I think you're being uncharitable towards OP's post; he doesn't make the case you're suggesting. Although I'm not sure that your broader point is too far off.
I would agree people are a bit too enthusiastic about microservices these days. The stack I work on is, IMO, broken into too many microservices (admittedly, I had a large part in the decisions that resulted in that). I wouldn't say it's made things terrible but it has slowed down velocity and makes the system as a whole harder to reason about. If I were to re-architect from scratch, I'd probably slash about at least a third of the microservices we have. In the future I'd be inclined to keep sufficiently modular such that various components could be broken out as separate services if needed, but only do so if compelling reasons to do so presented themselves.
> The answer: they assumed I was lying about my current salary and I was just bluffing. Recommended me that I lie in my next interview.

My first interview for a job after law school, first interviewer. Guy begins to look at my resume, tosses it aside, and says “I don’t read resumes. Everyone lies in their resume. Hell, I lie on my resume.” After that, the whole time I’m thinking to myself “what kind of moron lies on a legal resume? The bar calls every employer you’ve ever had since high school.”
In all fairness, it does not say that the GUI library itself is modern in that sense, but that it uses modern C++.
Is the source for Sciter available?
Hydrogen yields higher efficiency (specific impulse) with lower thrust. Larger-molecule fuels, such as kerosene, have higher thrust and lower efficiency. When in the atmosphere, the rocket engines are spending a lot of energy counteracting gravity, so higher thrust is important. Once in orbit, efficiency is far more important (indeed, some deep space engines such as ion engines produce only millinewtons of force, but are very efficient.)
> Antenna intuition is really hard to attain

For some reason this reminded me of musician Carolina Eyck playing a theramin on this Tiny Desk Concert:

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683943414/carolina-eyck-and-c...

It’s worth watching to see her demo how she plays the different notes and also changes the volume. And here’s more of a theramin tutorial by her:

https://youtu.be/MJACNHHuGp0
I think that it does not; it counts as artificial, instead. However, it can be used together with mammalian vision.
You're trying for a huge breadth of material, stuff that is covered in multiple specialities in electrical engineering. Multivariable calculus is really the entry point for engineering level antenna design.

Balanis is the book I used in my antennas class, https://www.amazon.com/Antenna-Theory-Analysis-Constantine-B... but you'll need multivariable calculus to get through it.
The assertion is adequately justified in the very first paragraph.

> The sight of wall-sized adverts for John Coltrane’s Both Directions At Once at train stations across the UK and its peak position of number fifteen in the album charts last summer became something of a story.
I know, the fight was prolonged to even get to that point. These days you still only have nurse practitioners in hospitals, at least where I live.
Big Box Collection
I agree with the author's aims, but for the average person the difference between a hardware and software switch is likely immaterial. To the uninitiated, there's not a great reason to trust that Alexa's "mute" button does what it says.

To gain trust, I think we need tactile physical interventions: a built-in webcam cover and a slider over the microphone. If it doesn't exist already, I'd imagine there's a market for a nicely designed phone case that includes both.
I've been on both sides. Depends on the company, of course, but all else being equal:

- Contractors don't always get the best projects. Often the coolest, most strategic projects go to employees. Of course, if no one internally is qualified, contractors then get the best projects.

- When cuts happen, contractors are at the front of the line, and when cuts need to go deeper, employees then are at risk.

- It is a pain to collect. You are often not the primary contractors, there is usually a pass-thru company that is well-connected and gets the receivables and then pass them onto you. Sometimes they delay payments 45 days. Sometimes 60 days. I've had some months paid 4 months late. On rare occasions you never get paid.

- You pay the employer payroll tax if you are in the US and on 1099 (on W2 you only pay half the payroll tax).

- Benefits you purchase are often not the best benefits. The benefits you would get at a large company are often well negotiated and much better and much cheaper than what you purchase a la carte.

Obviously for a contractor premium high enough, none of the above really matters. But contract work isnt worth it, for say, a 40% premium IMHO, especially with a family. At higher premiums (250%, 300%) it can make sense assuming you like what you will be doing.
Inflating one's salary on a resume was so common it's like the Tour de France - you have to dope to even get on the field, because everyone does it, and everyone expects it.

So I just sidestepped all that bs by including a paystub. And the resulting offer was a nice raise.

> I also don't want to hire or work with liars

I'm with you there. Lying on a resume is an automatic "no hire" from me. By including a paystub, I don't feel forced to lie, and the employer doesn't feel forced to assume I'm lying. It's a good start to the relationship.
My employer MITMs all content using the first approach. I don't think they have the storage to log all content, certainly not all downloads, but they do scan it for DLP, e.g., uploading stuff that looks like source code. It seems genuinely useful for things like preventing accidental pushes to GitHub (which is a thing I've seen happen multiple times).

Also, my employer provides a guest wifi for personal devices that doesn't do MITMing at all, and if for some reason I were watching Netflix at work, I'd presumably watch it on a personal device anyway. (Even if I was projecting to a conference room at work, I'd still plug in a personal device to the projector.)
Ask HN: Do you want 12 issues of Software Age mag (1968-1970)?
I'm cleaning my office, and found 12 issues of Software Age ("the magazine for programmers * mathematicians * analysts * edp * managers") spanning January 1968 to May 1970. They used to belong to my father.

I hate to throw these out, but cannot keep them. I'm in the Bay Area, and see that the Computer History Museum isn't interested in "mass-produced magazines or journals".

I'm doing a lot of other office cleaning and can't devote much time to hunting down someone who wants this, so I'm just going to post here. Willing to mail to any interested party.
Feynman – The Value of Science [pdf]
There's a weird moral element to these discussions though. Lots of people think this is "wrong," or that the CIA is accusing the Chinese intelligence services of doing something wrong, whereas other people admit that all countries play the game and simply are showing this as a legitimate threat. That confusion between morality and cold threat analysis confounds a lot of national security discussions.
Please!

We, as a populace, need to grow our own food and build our own quality things again.

If this means everyone is equipped to be an electrical engineer and low-level scripter, awesome for business and tech education in general.
> It is amazing that you aren't able to distinguish between your opinion and reality.

This is snark, and is not welcome here.

> my politics postgrad most certainly did not "include" the clearings (I am not even sure what this means

neffy is referring to the Highland Clearances which were a brutal and iniquitous time for tenants in the Highlands. I'm quite surprised that given your chastising tone and appeal to authority by bandying around your politics postgrad studies you hadn't heard of this.

> the result of the Civil War for Scotland was imposition of govt from England.

Whilst there may have been some ripples down through history as a result of the Civil War, there are more conclusive reasons why Scotland became governed from England. Perhaps you should read some Scottish history. In particular the bits about the Union of Crowns and the 1707 Act of Union.

I'd also suggest grabbing a copy of Andy Wightman's "The Poor Had No Lawyers"[1], he explains land ownership in Scotland and the reasons why it is difficult for ordinary folks to make inroads into fair land ownership here.

> It not only reeks of bigotry but is a self-destructive pattern of thought. Scotland's decline is a function of the nation and it's people. These "stab in the back" myths only help the weak-minded find (empty) solace in their failure.

Hoo boy....I'm shouldn't even grace this with a response it's so ludicrous and ill-informed; and I'd suggest you not accuse others of bigotry as it's downright rude.

Politically (not culturally) England has always been a problem for Scotland. I highly doubt you're a member of the SNP (I am and your claim from the comments above fail the sniff test), maybe you meant the BNP?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Poor-Had-No-Lawyers-Scotland/dp/178...
This depends on what you are releasing, and how much support you’re willing to offer to the community. For example, the microservices and libraries I worked on at edX were used by the Open edX community, but rarely at the scale at which edX uses them. The community offered new features, but edX did much of the big fixing because we had more extensive knowledge and use of the software.
Your linkedin shows zero experience (<1 year, but two jobs?) and a 4 year gap between college and any technical work, plus you don't actually expand on any of the technologies you've worked on.

Show continuity of experience over a long time (even if it's just a project, list it in your experience section) and put "Javascript" or "Python" in your headline. Talk about some of the things you've done, and skip the video game references imo. Don't let it get you down, 5 months is not really that long, and definitely don't give up.
I was on high-deductible plan a couple of years ago, and went in for an allergy test. After the test, I got a bill for $750 ish. Insane. This was in November as well, so two months later the deductible would reset in 2 months. In the same year I had a whole array of expensive dental work done, and I almost exhausted my HSA. I swore off high-deductible plans ever since then. Even though I'd selected a HDHP at the beginning of open enrollment (in Nov) that year, I was able to call HR in December and switch me to a normal PPO plan (which just had copays).
I find it hard to believe that anyone with any real experience would advocate having a Jr. interview for experience candidates. Are you sure you are not self-righteous Jr. yourself.

No disrespect, but what you are saying borders on unreasonable. You would trust a Jr. developer to interview a more senior developer? That is laughable. Think about that in the context of a law firm, or a federal agency, or the military, or basically any other context.
Couldn't Huawei debunk the allegations of having backdoors by just releasing all source code of its 5G equipment, along with a verifiable build? It wouldn't even have to be licensed as open source, just available for security reviews.

The CIA could still claim that Huawei is hiding backdoors in microcode, or even in the ethernet connectors, but it would greatly weaken their credibility.
In spaceflight, does 'anomaly' ever refer to something other than an explosive fireball? Because I've heard that term used for rocket explosions and I get that vibe from this announcement, but... But could it be that the computer just tanked and now they're going through a core dump? Would that be an 'anomaly'?
Nicely done. The same damp proof membrane and injection used in my brick terrace in York back last century.
Apple Owns Carbon.com
Agreed. We built cookiecutter templates at edX for the basic Django service and Ansible playbook. We built shared libraries for OAuth and other shared functionality.

That said, much of this did not come into place until we were on the third microservice. Starting with templates and libraries for the very first service would have definitely been premature optimization, and have resulted in wasted time and later rework.
Outing a book is a team effort and IMO it will always remain like that. There are so many things like handling the depth of subject, typesetting, line-tracking, accessibility and really hardcore stuff like contextual cover design, editing and proofing the flow and delivery of the message are _human_ level problems. No machine or software could replace that!

B.t.w have you seen https://bubblin.io?

I'm the developer behind it and the intent is definitely to disrupt books, albeit a little differently.
I saw an interesting documentary recently about the British Royal art collection, and it included the interesting quote: "At the root of every great fortune is a crime".
Fooling automated surveillance: adversarial patches to attack person detector
In tertiary education and the state and federal government system here in Australia the pay banding is well understood. Asking how a job equates in responsibilities and renumeration can work.
The 6-8% is for the ongoing maintenance and routine inspections. Usually leasing the property is 1 week's rent, however sometimes that is included in the management fee as well.
Trouble is you can't sell yourself 4-5x as often as a total job length without that starting to reflect poorly on you. You don't get paid per job. Maybe a valuable lesson for contractors, though: there's value in simplicity if it leads to volume.
This. I'd love if public policy researchers could find ways to end or dramatically reduce the (basically corrupt) regulatory capture the health care industry orchestrates.
Someone has to try it out first, before it gets frozen.
Not true; the cheaper blue "Security Key" model only supports FIDO and U2F.

https://www.yubico.com/store/#SKY
https://www.yubico.com/product/security-key-by-yubico/
At some level yes. But virtio 9pfs is still widely used. It's just that no one yet bothered writing up the spec.
I just built a couple things in Go using the Go bindings for Nuklear[0] - most of my GUI work so far has been with wxWidgets in C++/Python and I was very pleasantly surprised at how straightforward building the GUI was.

[0] https://github.com/golang-ui/nuklear
I've been at a Fortune 50 firm that thought they could do this. They went through two rounds of offshore firms, got burnt each time (large contractors delivered nothing, L1 workers cycled through every 4 months as they job hopped, etc., slick talkers did the sales and left the company holding a bag full of barely-legible-English workers actually trying to deliver the promised work)

After two cycles, they started treating their local employees well. This was a big firm with much momentum. A small firm could be ruined by this. Sometimes the firm just needs to see the grass isnt necessarily greener on the other side. I got paid well and my business counterparts always know that when I said 3mo, I meant 3mo.
Your last sentence is the premise of the novel Roadside Picnic
> Why in the heck would I turn down a bird in the hand for 1x in the bush?

It is a startup. That is what they do. They offer low comp but with more stocks. How is this a surprise to you?
> What's so wrong with your DMV?

Long lines, onerous paperwork, generally unhelpful/not caring govt employees
As with the liability of health and safety training and policy what they leave out is the part where it's often impossible to maintain targets and follow offical policy at the same time. If you really followed all offical policy to the letter you'd soon be fired for a lack of productivity.
CACs are just within the Department of Defense (+ Coast Guard). In the wider Federal government, they are called PIVs and use a slightly different standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_201
If you are conscientious and have some passions beyond making money, you will always be a sucker to the cluster B personalities that run many businesses. I don't think you can beat this system - the only way to win the game is to give up who you are. The main advantage of being careful and sticking to your guns is that you repel a lot of cluster B's, who do the filtering for you. You will be happier ending up with those who remain.

"Sucker" is a pejorative that implies you can beat the system if you're smart enough. You can only beat the system by breaking rules and becoming what you hate.
David Fickling: We Should Let China Spy on Us
Weren't hadrosaurs in the running?
This is why you have tests. So overall, if it saved a real loss in the future, it's a win.
Here is one that just pushed a launch out:

https://www.rferl.org/a/soyuz-rocket-anomaly-to-delay-u-s-sa...
If you go here:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/cs01/
you will find a version with changes from v1.0 cs04 highlighted.
In case you participated in a public review, changes since the public review draft are also listed in the specification itself.
> Fine them? The market already does that, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in the 737 MAX case.

Really? How? The day before the Lion Air crash Boeing stock was just a hair under $360 a share. Today it's at $380. How exactly is that punishing the shareholders?

The market isn't punishing Boeing shareholders because everyone knows full well that the U.S. government will not allow the last domestic producer of commercial jets to go bankrupt.
The idea of "no copies – everything exists in one place and has a unique ID" was new to me. I still don't know if it's a good idea, let alone practicable, but it's great food for thought!
> While I definitely don't want to discriminatorily let low salaries have a bad knock-on effect at subsequent jobs, I also don't want to hire or work with liars.

You may not "want" the discrimination, but if you don't allow everyone to say the magic words that get them treated fairly, "I was paid the market rate", you're encouraging the discrimination.

I think it's pretty easy to make a moral defense for telling a lie about what group you're in purely to avoid discrimination.
Absolutely. Those sorts of anomalies happen routinely. They just tend to get less public attention than anomalies that involve fire and loud noises.
This video is ripe for remixing.

Here's the (short) silly cut I made of it last summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuSZ37vMIks

Here's another (longer) remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
They lie in the sense that they take advantage of the fact that some people do not have the education or intelligence to think about things like asset depreciation, making them absorb these costs without being fully aware of the implications.
Ideally, computers inside rockets don't crash. The software should be that good when you're letting it handle tons of explosive fuel. Then again, Ariane 5 did happen...
This is a such a good solution in many cases and is often ignored.
BitKeeper
"Piecewise continuous functions can be approximated by differentiable ones."

It depends on how you measure the distance between functions. If you are using the uniform norm (as is used in the universal approximation theorem) then this is false.
It’s also an artifact of the leasehold/freehold system, most properties you buy do not come with a right to the land and you continue to pay a land use tax to the actual owner of the land.

This means that you for example can buy a flat in a newly built development and you’ll have to pay like £100 a month for the land use.

The lease itself is assigned to X number of years with laws being passed to force longer and longer leases as well automatic renewal as there have been issues with homes towards the end of their lease with <100 or even <50 years left essentially tanking in value since technically at the end of the lease the land reverts back to its owner.

Don’t get me wrong this system is completely shit but this is a click bait.
Scientist thinks she has the key to curb climate change: super plants
I haven't owned a microwave in 10 years and I do not miss it. It changes the texture and taste of my food while not heating it all the way through consistently. Microwaves are a gateway to processed junk foods. I don't mind waiting for food to warm up in my oven or a frying pan.
usually means something rather more mundane than a fireball. basically anything that happened that you didn't want to happen is an anomaly.

10 years ago the folks putting your reaction wheels together botched it, and now they're acting slightly weird? anomaly.

you charged your batteries too hard for years because you thought "max" was a great setting for your battery chargers, and now they're failing? anomaly.
It could also be that the last test they planned to execute resulted in the 'anomaly'.. Not every public communication is subterfuge even though the armchair detectives in the HN comment section always seems to think it is.
I don't know that I'd call it a replacement, strictly speaking. A different transport mechanism, maybe.
OMB memorandum M-08-23 released in 2008 already requires US federal government agencies to use DNSSEC.
I will provide some speculation, but first some back story, as I recall it: Max Headroom was, to start with, a collection of special effects to make a British talk-show host seemingly generated by computer, but still able to interact live with guests, etc. (A little bit of the same niche which the early muppets occupied, actually. See the early appearances of Rowlf the Dog on American talk show TV, for instance.) Anyway, the effect proved so captivating and convincing that the show became hugely popular, and a TV Movie was made (still in England) which provided a sci-fi style origin story for the (ostensibly computer generated) Max Headroom character. The character’s popularity was still rising, also in the USA (Coca-Cola famously used Max Headroom for their campaign for the now infamous New Coke), so an American TV series was proposed and made, with most of the same cast reused in the same roles, and the story of the TV movie was used (IIRC) as the two first episodes, except for a slightly happier ending to set it up as an ongoing TV series.

The problem, I guess, was that probably none of the U.S. people greenlighting the TV series had actually watched the original British TV movie; they probably only thought about getting such a popular character. They probably did not know that things like 1984, Judge Dredd and V for Vendetta are all very distinctly British things. The Max Headroom TV movie, as well as the TV series, are both essentially very dark cyberpunk; acerbically critical of prevailing trends in technology and also scarily prescient for 1987. It was also very critical of television itself as a phenomenon, which was probably what ultimately killed it, and by that time the huge fad for the character had passed.
You do realize that Gatsby was fictional, don't you? Adding him to your list does not make your case stronger...
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