skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Stockholm hot desks are €450 and fixed desks are €550. Their hot desk proposition is pretty bad but for fixed desks they are pretty close to the market rate for central Stockholm if you want to rent 1-4 spaces, either in an own office or just desks. Their list prices for offices are a bit high but I know they can be negotiated.

Sure, you can rent for much less in the suburbs, but for companies who want an office which is central and easy to commute to the price is pretty close to market rate.
Mind the Gender Gap: The Hidden Data Gap in Transport
Greybox Fuzzing with Grammars
May be add to that list writing blog posts? About usage of the project, detailed description of internals etc.
That's a simplistic way to put it (or just have a jab at stackoverflow).

Overall, if your question has an answer there, it's not a hard one...
Let me guess. You don't have a coordination problem?

I do. I received about a year of therapy for the fact that my left hand quite literally doesn't know what my right hand is doing. That helped. But being clumsy still made school sports really unpleasant for me.

Just because sports was right for you doesn't mean that it is right for everyone.
SymCrypt is the core cryptographic function library currently used by Windows
Battle of Winterfell Was OK. Darknesswise. For Me
Why of course they do this. This is meant to boost market share and scare the tech-illiterate into using Chrome. And it works.

Unsupported browser is a bit of a joke anyways in times of modern web standards...
40 years of TeX! At this point it's worth emphasising that if you're a regular user of LaTeX - even and especially via Overleaf - and have a bit of spare change, please consider supporting the development of the project and the community by joining the TeX Users Group (TUG).

https://www.tug.org/

Or a local group:

https://tug.org/usergroups.html

One of the perks of TUG membership is that you get free TeXLive install DVDs sent to your door every year (as many as you need, in my experience).

You also get a subscription to TugBoat, the TeX Users Group Magazine, which is full of curios for the TeX aficionado.

[Edited to replace UK TUG group link with link to global TUG directory]
VW ID Electric Hatchback Will Be More Expensive Than Anticipated, Sell at a Loss
I have a ten year old personal website that does not appear to be indexed by google at all anymore. There was an article about this that made the front page, that some old websites are being dropped from the index. If you search my name from duck duck go its the first hit.
Would the question(s) be better if it asked it in a different way, i.e.

instead of "Dividing the poem into two stanzas allows the poet to―"
the question could ask "The division of the poem into two stanzas has the effect of-"

rather than presuming to know what the author's intent was.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

Some lazy engineer probably added the feature as a remote monitoring/debugging tool with no regard for security because it needed to work before the next big release. Disabling the feature before the next release would probably break all kinds of support and monitoring, potentially leading to instability or them being unable to service failing equipment.
Dunno about the US, but in Europe, most stations have shut down, or significantly reduced their service. Sad when you live in a valley where you can't get local radio over FM, but where Middle-Eastern and Russian shortwave stations come through cleanly.

Everyone out here listens to Internet Radio or Spotify.
What's the source of the pirated version?
The article is pretty light on technical details. As well, it lacks a definition of what is meant by "on a scale". Does it mean mass surveillance (malware installed on every phone they get hold off; or malware installed remotely with help of ISPs)?
Ask HN: How to encourage a disabled software developer to produce better code?
Hello HN community.

I am the team leader of a group of Rails developers. All of them are self-taught and I have been encouraging them to produce better quality code by working with them, using quality checking tools like Rubocop, Reek, etc. Most of them are improving (even happier) and I am pleased of that.

The problem I face is that one software developer does not work by the standards we are pushing and is extremely slow to code the features of the sprint. Scrum master does not count with him to plan the sprints and assigns him low-skilled tasks like code maintenance (fixing small bugs), set configurations in the web applications, minor things.

The main issue here is that this developer is a disabled(1) one. His disability(1) is a neurological (cerebral palsy, I think) and visual one (very high myopia, screen is magnified). How can I make him improve his code quality in a compassionate way? Furthermore, should I push him to improve to a standard developer status?

I don't treat him differently with respect the others (I know stories about blind developers that were great). Thus, his teammates are improving and he is lagging behind (I don't want him to feel undervaluated). The worst thing I think is that everybody excuses his faults in one way or another, so every time I say something to him (in the same way I would to somebody else) I feel like a "jerk".

Could you offer some advice on that delicate situation? Am I wrong?

(1) Please, forgive my English (not my first language), so if terms like "disabled" or "disability" are insensitive, I have used them without ill-intent because of my limited English lexicon.
> "My final reflection is this: any test that questions the motivations of the author without asking the author is a big baloney sandwich," she wrote. "Mostly test makers do this to dead people who can’t protest. But I’m not dead. I protest."
I mean UA strings are such a mess. I can't even imagine what it must be for a browser called "edge chromium"...
Japan became so patriarchal and what that means for the throne
>the list of those paying zero roughly doubled last year as a result of provisions in President Trump’s 2017 tax bill

The gripes seem to largely a political issue which I guess is down to the voters as to who they vote in.
I've always said that Silicon Valley is the Hollywood of the tech industry. When one wants to make a film in Hollywood, and the script calls for a special piece of equipment or prop that's never been made before, one can walk down the street and find three people who can make one for you in an hour because Hollywood is where the movie people congregate.

The same is true for the Valley.
Here is a data point for you. The high school dropout rate among kids with an IQ of 130+ is approximately 20 times the high school dropout rate among the general population.

Gifted programs reduce that.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifted_At-Risk for more data points.
I have explained why Bloomberg's story would have been vehemently denied by all companies involved even if it was completely true:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655803

Many people in tech, including John Gruber, seem to lack a basic understanding of who makes decisions concerning national security and international politics.
There is a reason for this as there are a lot of customers in on place. Satellite based internet allows you to have your infrastructure where you need it, even this requires a close control of your orbits. And then question is whether satellite internet will be a) faster b) be more reliable and c) cheaper than ground based fibre and 5G. If yes it might give these two alternatives a hard time even in metropolitan areas. If not satellite based internet will only be interesting for rural areas. Not sure if the potential higher prices off-set the smaller customer base. And in developing countries higher prices are basically off the table anyway.

Satellites still are in space, so everything is more expensive up there, getting things up, repairing things, building things for space, operating things in space...
Really have to start taxing over revenues. It's long due.
To do that though we'd need to solve the problems of manufacturing bandwidth (for-profit drug manufacturing as it exists now wouldn't work in a patent-free world) and drug discovery (a large amount of which occurs in for-profit environments that seek to file patents). How do you address that in a pure-capitalism system? Drug discovery is incredibly expensive.

My personal preference would be to set a hard time limit on drug patents (insulin is so old that it should have gone generic decades ago, but the drug companies cheat) and ban the government & universities from selling patents/derived patents to for-profit companies (insulin, for example, was one of these cases). A hard time limit makes it possible to manufacture things like generic insulin but companies can still keep developing and monetizing new treatments. I don't think that would probably fix things in the long term though, they'd find ways around it. Banning patents from leaving government/university hands would mean more new treatments would be developed using public funding and then any company could manufacture them and compete on the merits.

There are so many opportunities for drug companies and medical care organizations in general to cheat patients - you don't have the freedom to shop around for alternative prices and quotes if you need an expensive therapy Right Now so that your liver doesn't shut down. How can you protect people in that position just using the Free Market? There have to be regulations of some kind, so which ones?

One popular suggestion lately is to just nationalize health care, because the government can tell pharmaceutical companies what it's willing to pay and if they want to charge 5000% more they can pound sand. It's my understanding that some countries have also just started ignoring patents and manufacturing their own drugs, which seems like another option. Could either of those solve it here, though? Who knows. Likely not as long as lawmakers love drug companies and patents.
Try this: https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin
Probably should have said _a_ redesign rather than _the_ redesign. But even so, if they’d been up front about what they were doing and why and put proper safety systems in place I don’t think it’s that different to other planes is it? They just did it badly and secretly.
I would like to see a proper SUV as model Y. What they revealed was just hacked model 3 with some custom plates at the back (the door gave it away). I don't believe that's what Y will actually look like (it won't sell if that's the final form as most people wouldn't consider it SUV).

They rushed the reveal because they are probably trying to get some hype going in order to raise capital soon. But I really hope they are planning to design Y from ground up as a proper SUV, not just a slightly modified model 3.

Although I get that having as many similarities with model 3 as possible would make it cheaper for them to manufacture it as they would have lots of parts in common. But when I think of SUV, I imagine a much bigger car with higher seating, model Y is not an SUV in my mind and in minds of most people I know.
>I am sorry that your experience was so terrible, but the plural of anecdote is not data.

Actually it is. Data is just many individual anecdotes collected. They just need interpretation.
https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin
I swapped out China for US, Huawei for Google/Apple/Amazon/Facebook, Asian for South American, and it all still made sense.
This is an unbelievable attitude.

"Oh so you call yourself a mechanic, huh? Well you aren't blogging about cars and mechanic-related things in your free time, so I'm suspicious".

"Oh, an architect, huh? You don't have an online presence, which is worrying".

I'm baffled as to why people expect programmers to spend most of their time behind a computer, and to make social git commits or blog about it on top of that.

I program professionally. It's true that I sometimes program after work on personal projects and write for my blog, but I also devote my time to studying Korean, and Japanese kanji. I also draw, spend time with friends, or occasionally play videogames. Programming is exhausting and oftentimes the last thing I want to do is look at code or write about it after work.

And of course, people have things like kids or other responsibilities in their life. College students may have extracurricular activities or work. Not every college student has oodles of free time as you so broadly assume.

We shouldn't have to justify NOT blogging or pushing to github. How dare I have any interests outside of computers and programming. Blegh.
That depends on the meaning of “these treaties”. The texts have probably been in the PD forever, assuming they were drafted by government lawyers (somewhat likely judging by the content), because everything created by the federal government is. Barring that, copyright would have long expired. So go ahead, I really want to see an adaptation of Indian law to VC term sheets.

The physical documents are not PD, because the concept has no meaning in the physical realm.

Photographs are works separate from the objects they show, but the same limitation as to government works as above applies.
What are the safety concerns? How is bombarding earth from semi space with electro magnetic waves is safe or healthy?
As opposed to backdoors in:

- The SIM card for remote operator app provisioning.

- The baseband processor (that supports over-the-air
fireware updates, "typhoon boxes", and other horrible crap)

- The GSM spec, lulz (that allows for binary SMS app pushes signed by certain keys, "silent" SMS to track location, and so on by protocol standard.)

- Obsolete, broken, and purposefully weakened crypto that remains in use for backwards compatibility (and spying.) Not that it would matter anyway because traffic is unencrypted over core links.

Vodafones entire business model depends on backdoors for controlling customer equipment and tracking subscribers. Also, China numba wun!
> I don’t see, for example, this sort of venom directed at sports, even though I have heard more anecdotes about the dread of PE classes.

PE is hard for those who're not fit and/or don't particularly like sports. But PE classes don't carry the air of intellectual superiority and don't hold the banner of truth the way humanities classes do. Also, people like me who dislike all kinds of physical sports know enough about human society to keep their mouths shut on the topic.

> I could also make the same sort of claim about science and math: namely that school did little to inspire any sense of wonder and appreciation for the subject

Observe the general disdain for maths and STEM among the general population.

> To not extend this sort of benefit of the doubt to the humanities them seems baffling.

It's not about rote learning, it's about truthiness. Getting burned by a math class leaves you with a perception that math is hard and probably useless. Getting burned by a literary analysis class leaves you with perception that the field is arbitrary and bullshit.

Note that I wasn't bad at literature classes at school. As long as I at least skimmed the work we were talking about, I could think on my feet fast enough to bullshit my way to B whenever asked. But I was acutely aware that I was bullshitting, and that so was the interpretation the teacher was reciting. This wouldn't be a problem as long as we both acknowledged we were spinning up interpretations, but became a problem once an interpretation became "the truth" (and one we'd be tested on).

As for humanities in general - and I tend to classify most psychology and social sciences under it - I thought a lot about it, and traced my own mixed feelings to them being essentially a hatred for bullshit. I enjoy the works of art, I enjoy introspection, I enjoy spinning up countless theories and interpretations - but I hate when someone takes what is an arbitrary interpretation and tries to pass it as fact about the real world.
Bitbucket and Jira Extension for Visual Studio Code
Top Operating Systems for Hackers, Pentesters, Blue and Red Teamers
ADL is important for customization points in modern C++.
But how do you support a browser that hasn't been released yet? Give them some time.
Yes, for example the dual of join (called 'sigma'), which only exists for databases in categorical normal form. There are many academic papers and an open-source project ('categorical query language') here: http://www.categoricaldata.net.
Business processes. BPMN model extraction from the document. Part 1
That video does not show the removal of the harness.
It depends on the website [0]. Which I guess means that Microsoft is going to add Google Docs to list of special cases where they need to pretend to be a different browser.

[0] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/the-new-micr...
>Most of the people who are accessing the web for the first time are from poor countries like India and Indonesia

That must be why paid clicks are up 39% but cost-per-click is down -19%.
I started my own online journey as codingbbq which is my alias. I wanted to write articles and have my share of online presence, without connecting to my actual identity. If I wish to look for job or apply to a company, I can always share my website with them. http://codingbbq.github.io
No, it really isn't.

Having a representative sample is essential to being able to do statistics. And collecting self-reported anecdotes does not constitute a valid sampling technique. It doesn't matter how your massage your observations afterwards, GIGO still holds and what you received was statistical garbage.
This is not surprising at all to people involved in the battle for privacy. Most software we run on desktop/smartphones is riddled with spyware and other "analytics" tools.

Don't trust me? Check out the Exodus Privacy project which runs static analysis on compiled APKs to find out about trackers (so yes some tracking tools can make it through Exodus detection):

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/search/

You would be surprised just how many of your favorite apps spy on you!

But what's more worrying to me is this trend of phone operators and constructors customizing their Android builds to fill them with malware. Samsung/HTC/Huawei/Sony... they all do it with the excuse of giving you a cooler GUI.

But what's even more worrying is Google and Apple's total control over 90% of smartphones. On Android, Google spyware is prepackaged with every smartphone as "Google Play Services", but these "services" are designed to spy on users and let Google remote-control your phone: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45546276

So running a free-software stack on our phones is really the only option to avoid mass-collection of our private data. Phone operator can still log our calls/texts but not much more.

So to recap: most people use a phone with Google Spyware, bundled with Samsung/Huawei spyware, to use apps that come bundled with even more spyware. We deserve a better life.
You have that in basically every city after after a certain period of time. In Europe even more as some settlements, like Paris, go way back. The city I live apparently can be crossed undergroung in everything ranging from Roman relics to whatever was added. The historic center at least
Please see my reply above where I disagree, and please watch for willvarfar's response where he's likely to point out that for his case I'm probably wrong.

I've got experience with 'large' datasets (it's very relative! Mine have been tiddlers in industry terms!) and I'm happy to pass on anything that may help. Even if you don't scale up, smaller data is likely to improve response times, all else being equal. Anyway, feel free to ask.
> One of the benefits of taxation is taking it and using it for the collective good

Which is true no matter if the tax rate is 1% or 75%

> He could be taxed at 99.9 percent and still have millions left over

I realize this is hyperbole but do realize that no 99.9% tax would be complied with

> tax on every dollar over $100 million in profits they earn anywhere in the world

oh the American hubris, so lost in the goal of catering to their constituents that they think this institution has a valid claim on assets, and income. Lets take a cut of everyone's productivity IN A MORE FAIR WAY crowd cheers.

But alas, the US rule of law makes it secure for you to do business and these corporations benefit from this society and use its services - but thats also true whether the tax is 1% of 75%, so it isn't really an argument

> article shows graphs about tax rebates

Article doesn't talk about how the corporations used tax rebates at all. It talks about the outcome of paying no tax, talks about all these proposals, and none of the proposals talk about tax rebates. Even the most ambitious proposal here would probably not effect how these corporations operate. Are people - I dare say - stupid? Is this a mass reading comprehension issue?

It is interesting that people who can simply read can play tax games like this for another 100 years before anyone catches on.
For better deep neural network vision, just add feedback (loops)
There might be a really strong correlation, but the deviations from that correlation might not be totally random.
That is, there might be people who consistently test above or below their skill level. This creates some weird imbalances that are far from fair.

It would be a lot more acceptable if deviation of test scores from skill were to be totally random for every test.
The article is reluctant to mention the reason why they got those tax rebates, and focuses on the way people feel about it. This seems like bad journalism.

According to CNBC, “Amazon's low tax bill mainly stemmed from the Republican tax cuts of 2017, carryforward losses from years when the company was not profitable, tax credits for massive investments in R&D and stock-based employee compensation.”
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-feder...

These are the actual things we should be talking about.
I was reminded of this passage from Plato's Apology of Socrates:

"I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. And there, I said to myself, you will be detected; now you will find out that you are more ignorant than they are. Accordingly, I took them some of the most elaborate passages in their own writings, and asked what was the meaning of them - thinking that they would teach me something. Will you believe me? I am almost ashamed to speak of this, but still I must say that there is hardly a person present who would not have talked better about their poetry than they did themselves. That showed me in an instant that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them. And the poets appeared to me to be much in the same case; and I further observed that upon the strength of their poetry they believed themselves to be the wisest of men in other things in which they were not wise."

So my expectation is that seventh graders would outperform the poet on this exam.
“Y Combinator, like Silicon Valley itself, tends to produce great innovation with a generous pinch of bullshit.”

Interesting way to round off the post!
Supposedly higher density makes 5G more important, not less, since it supports way more devices in the same area, while it doesn't really improve on the coverage distance, which is more important for more rural areas.
Iridium is not their competitor. Different market. Even the CEO of the company said so.
That's... not how the web is supposed to work.
I smoked cannabis for about an year, every night just before dinner. One fine day, I had exhausted my product and didn't smoke. I woke up next day just fine. Didn't have any noticeable withdrawal symptoms worth mentioning. That's one anecdote from me. May be my body is designed not to be physiologically addictive.

I was living in a country where marijuiana is illegal and kind of smuggled in an year's supply.