skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use Evernote. It holds PDF scans of all my receipts, articles I read, scans of my snail-mail etc. I am not sure what I would replace it with:(
Programming Patterns I Like
The bar is 'appropriate for the forum', though.
Microsoft: put a good POSIX layer into Windows. The times are mature now, and this allows your platform to benefit from a lot of open source system software easily, without portings and compatibility layers. At the same time, now that developers start to be annoyed big time by Apple nonsensical Mac handling, this gives a lot of devs, not developing primarily for the Win arch, the ability to evaluate Windows as a development machine.
The Evernote page in Wikipedia says that Evernote has 251-500 employees.
Not a terrible idea. The beauty of public domain right here. You can curate a new collection and get paid for your effort.
Many large companies will let you take an unpaid leave of absence for a few weeks or months without negatively impacting your career. I also work at a FAANG and have seen colleagues take a months-long leave for personal reasons, then come back and get promoted within a year. I've also seen people go on leave and then decide at the end of their leave to either join another team at the company or just quit and not return.

It can't hurt to ask, and going on leave rather than quitting would mitigate risks #1 & #2.
Huh? They’re not strings. They’re an interface and you can create your own error type that implements the error interface, one of the requirements being that it has a string output available.
Supposedly a new 7nm fab in Taiwan is going to cost around 17 billion dollars just for the FAB.

Not sure Apple share holders will think trying to compete with intel and AMD is good use of their money
Or may be they pointed it out but got reply "just work as said, you're just $9 engineer"?
Or they were never told about the exact purpose?
Define computational depth. Non linearity? Parallelizable? Computational depth sounds like hyperbole.

You're still approaching stats problems with the same methodologies. Your just using NNs as your optimizer.
Why anyone uses this glorified "hello world" app, let alone bases anything serious on it, is beyond me.
MacBook models until around 2009 had a physical button at the bottom of their trackpads. Imagine that it's still there -- use your thumb to click, and your fingers for everything else. I'm pretty sure that's what Apple intended users to do (until they made tap-to-click the default recently).
For others wondering: TBTF = too big to fail
1. All systems can be gamed.

2. All systems will be gamed.

3. The people are not the players, they are the chips.
Third Time’s a Charm (A brief history of a gay marriage)
How did they make the calculation? From the same article:

> Research produced in 2016 by Drs Peter Witters and Eric Debold corroborates the link between the two conditions in a longitudinal study of 12 patients investigating blood metabolite balance in patients with PA and behavioral disruptions.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propionic_acidemia the incidence of PA is 1/3500 and from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum the incidence of ASD is 1/100, so assuming independence it's expected that you can find in the word 7000000000/3500/100 = 20000 person with both illness, and they are analyzing a group of 12 patients with PA and only 5 have clear ASD and other 3 have only some symptoms of ASD.
- As recommended by another post, The Art of Electronics is great

- Make stuff! Adafruit has some great kits and project instructions. Find something that looks interesting and make it.
Oakland’s Pothole Vigilantes address gaping problem, one road crater at a time
That sadly was a case of extraterrestrial death.

"In 1999, several Russian sources reported that Laika had died when the cabin overheated on the fourth orbit. In October 2002, Dimitri Malashenkov, one of the scientists behind the Sputnik 2 mission, revealed that Laika had died by the fourth circuit of flight from overheating."
I am pretty sure that if one would take the approaches you have outlined - e.g. quoting some TV show, making a 'provocative title', speakig in an exagerrated accent -- but with the people <colour> swapped, they would be flagged in a relatively short order. No matter how bening the motive, the message is not OK. The fact that you think that it is OK and make excuses for it is the illustration of my GP post's last point.
I don't even want them in or near the prison. I just want the salary/bonus they made while employed by Boeing, making the decisions that led to this.

And give them to the family of the victims, ON TOP of whatever punitive damage Boeing will be paying.

Holy crappus, what was Boeing thinking?
Just be an old man about it and keep a stickynote of all your shortcuts you need to remember. Eventually they will click.
Seeking Cofounder: $1m+ ARR SaaS Founder (Bootstrapped)
Hi,

I hope this doesn't come off the wrong way.

I'm the founder of a popular product in my niche. We do $1m ARR, bootstrapped and profitable. The business is growing, and I'm looking for a more challenging opportunity.

What I offer:
* I'm good at product (design, development), aswell as sales/marketing.
* I already have built a SaaS to 7-figure ARR, and have launched many apps so I have somewhat of a framework towards growing a biz to $xxx.

Who I'm looking for:
* Someone who also is good at product. If you are not a product guy, I most likely will not be interested.
* Someone who ideally has experience in design and development – but development is good enough.

What I'm looking to build?
I'm flexible. I want to bootstrap, and split it 50/50, regardless of your/mine experience. I'm ok with you not having much experience as long as you can compensate with eagerness to learn / try new ideas.

Is this you? Email me at hncofounder@gmail.com with why you think we'd be a good fit.
Also at one point "Windows Emulator": http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows-emulation/wine-faq/
Morons. Something is always outsourced to lower-paid engineers because not everyone is paid the same.
energy efficiency also leads to higher sustained clock speeds if your not using a fan to move air over a heatsink
Well that is an interesting result. Also bodes well for the pan spermia crowd, they are the ones that think an asteroid impact can bring life to a planet and kick off the whole life cycle. Certainly the center of an icy mass probably stays well within the survival parameters of these forms of mold.

Also interesting to see if we can deduce the DNA changes that lead to this resistance. It would be an advantage for astronauts to be highly resistant to x-rays and other DNA damaging events.

Of course I always think of "The Andromeda Strain" when I read things like this. At least this mold doesn't seem to "eat" radiation for energy.

Random observation: I guess the Canadians spell mold as 'mould' ?
Given that we have no idea whether aliens even exist — and that life on Earth both literally and figuratively revolves around the Sun — that strikes me as the ultimate premature optimization.
Was arguing the Government's position before SCOTUS in Korematsu legal malpractice?
not trying to spam, but i created a shared action item tracking list myself, free to use, my particular use case was to track everything in our family from buying things to other tasks. i could also use this for work, only iphone.

https://getsdone.xyz

regarding evernote, i use this religiously, but mainly for personal note taking with sync across devices.
No, not everyone is going to abandon Linux; I'm going to define Linux in this context as the traditional Linux desktop where people run some sort of X11 or Wayland window manager or desktop environment on top of a Linux kernel running on bare hardware. However, it would be interesting to see what impact the popularity of WSL will have on Linux desktop environments such as KDE, GNOME and its derivatives MATE and Cinnamon, and others such as XFCE. For example, macOS has long been popular with those wanting a polished *nix environment with support for commercial software packages and certain types of drivers, to the point that some high-profile developers such as Miguel de Icaza adopted the Mac. Some may argue that the Linux desktop may have evolved differently had macOS not been an option. Even so, the existence of macOS has not led to the extinction of the Linux desktop. Now, what makes WSL different from macOS is every major PC manufacturer ships their PCs with Windows 10 by default, and WSL can be installed easily on any PC running Windows 10. You can run Linux alongside Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite without having to use WINE. The barrier of entry for using WSL is much lower for a lot of people than the barrier of entry for purchasing a Mac.

This leads to some interesting questions. If a significant segment of Linux users abandon FOSS desktops such as KDE and GNOME for the Windows ecosystem, what will this mean for projects such as Firefox and LibreOffice? What will it mean for KDE, GNOME, and other FOSS desktop environments and window managers?

Now, there will be a contingent of Linux users who won't migrate to WSL for a few reasons. There are some Linux users who won't use Windows, whether it's due to certain features such as telemetry and ads or whether it's due to some other aspect of Windows they don't like. There are some Linux users who need to run Linux directly on their hardware and thus WSL wouldn't fit their needs. There are also Linux users who care about using a stack of software that is fully free and open source and thus wouldn't switch to SWL.

But will there be enough remaining users in order to justify further development of the FOSS Linux desktop in the eyes of major projects like LibreOffice and Firefox? We will see.
P+++
True, Intel's part numbering scheme has passed beyond all reason. Think about the i9-9900K/KF. Existing SKU, in stock at Newegg for $479. You don't get quite as many cores but you get a lower price and higher single-core performance, and it exists right now instead of being unobtainable hypeware.
Edge. Couple of years ago I was really pissed how they fucked up the merge between Hotmail and Skype, I lost so many "friends" because they killed MSN / hotmail.
Dismissing legitimate concerns as screeching is pretty lame. Try making your your arguments without emotional manipulation.

Microsoft was a bad actor and leopards rarely change their spots.

Edit:Forgot to mention the classic whataboutism.
Those who like epigrams may enjoy the poetry of J.V. Cunningham. His Collected Poems & Epigrams include "A Century of Epigrams", which in turn include someproposed epitaphs--for himself, and imagined others.
I dont have a scale, but last I checked, by the standard accounting I am obese (BMI 31) and I can do 20 handstand push ups.

100 push ups is just practice. I used to do 1000 free weight squats every morning. I do exercise a fair amount, but if you don't have any physical problems and are healthy, 100 push ups is like walking up a hill.
The real advantage is that, if all of the applications are written for linux, one day, society may notice that the binary blob is vestigial/removable.
The painful and lonely death of Laika, the space dog
Don't worry I’m sure high sec is safe
I just visited the Wikipedia page of "Slobodan Milošević" on w3m and it rendered fine. I imagine the terminal problem is that either the font that was used didn't support those characters, that the system locale encoding wasn't setup to support those characters, or that the terminal emulator didn't have support for the encoding used.
Now get GUI apps and CUDA working, and I'm in.
"Vocal minority effect." The vast majority of people quietly enjoying both HN and Reddit don't make a lot of noise about it. So the subset being loud and ugly appears to be far more important than it really is.
Which were often acquired, or clones of something that died when it had to compete with Google
"The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off"

http://lateralscience.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-radium-water-...
BMW Lets Slip That Its Electric Vehicles Can’t Compete with Tesla’s
sounds like what you're doing is exactly what delicio.us was doing before they were bought out by yahoo, i'm curious also to know what hn users have for this. i use instapaper, but it's more of an archiver, not sure if it supports tagging
Yeah. Stated another way, building new stuff is more highly valued than maintenance. Even though the new stuff may fail, or the maintenance may end up requiring more skill than building.

This is what our industry values; make your choices accordingly. It’s also one reason for the perception that developers are more obsessed with new shiny things than learning their older counterparts. We’re incentivized to act that way.

You can’t only look at your work in terms of what is most valuable for the business, because that may turn out to conflict with what is best for you and your career.
When we discovered that neutrinos oscillate, we knew that they had mass because we were able to observe a change from within our frame of reference, implying a finite time dilation. I thought that light was unable to change its physical properties in time (as observed from our frame of reference) due to infinite relativistic time dilation. How is it possible that we can observe torque, a change in angular momentum, for a particle moving at the speed of light?
What if the next windows kernel was based on Linux/POSIX and it had VMs to run legacy windows programs?
Should you be jailed for your employees crimes?
To be fair, plenty of people care more about the "Linux" than they do about the "freedom" part. Case in point: macOS. Basically everything that makes it "macOS" is proprietary, but it gained popularity because it was mostly Linux-compatible.

Unix compatibility is worth quite a bit on its own, Linux wouldn't have gotten half as far without it. And Unix is historically proprietary and closed-source.
They rediscovered circular polarization?

ED: No, apparently polarization is called spin angular momentum in this context. OAM can take a range of twist-rates while spin is either right- or lef-handed.

And to the mute person who thinks downvoting questions is helpful: please just go away.
My problem with it was that I typed things and Evernote would just delete them on sync.
I haven’t used Evernote to know enough, but at a 10,000 foot level, how trivial is it to scale any CRUD application to millions of customers? Considering scaling up and out, individual users, collaboration (if that’s a feature, I dunno), persistence and durability, i18n, personalization (if that exists in Evernote), and whatever metrics or information it captures about its users that might be sold to third parties.

Isn’t Google Docs CRUD to some extent? Any idea how much it is worth or even how many people support Google Docs?

Anyway, I’m not debating whether Evernote is actually worth whatever is it’s current valuation. I don’t agree with how can something be worth so much because its just CRUD.
If they're in offices right across from Boeing Field, you'd think that Boeing might be able to do actual face-to-face interviews with the real (not just representative) people. You also might think that anything less is definitively a management fail.
The op actually said 'Venus'. You're right about Mars, though.
I lost all of the notes I took while offline, reading on a plane flight, as soon as I connected to the internet again. I haven't trusted Google Keep since.
I am a network/systems guy so not being able to do full packet captures and such on WSL is the only thing stopping me from using it full time.
One more, assuming you mean meltdown. But that's the easy one to fix.
Cryptocurrency, AI, and Education Theses
Pretty much all paid music downloads are DRM-free now. There is usually a distributor like Bandcamp that takes a cut, but that's because most artists aren't going to host their own payment system and file servers.
I'd probably just give up computing entirely and go live in a cave, that's what.
Always remember to lift the goalposts with your knees, not your back.
Airtel Offers 4GB Browsing Data Free for Customers; See How to Get It
Ground Control is the real stuff:
https://www.craftbeer.com/news/beer-release/ninkasi-ground-c...
I have seen this kind of problem before (never in a case where lives were on the line), and I called it "pathological optimism". If you are in a corporate culture of the sort that lionizes "can-do" thinking, then saying "that won't work" is going to look defeatist.

I have to wonder if seeing SV startups go to multi-billion dollar companies on a regular basis, has given CEOs in other industries a case of envy. But more likely, it's just that pathological optimism works, really well, right up until that moment when it doesn't. Taking risks in order to lower costs makes the bottom line better, which seems to call for more of the same, right up until the moment when the risk explodes in your face.

It is not unlike the attitude towards software security, in many industries. People harping about security risks seems like just all cost and no benefit, right up until the point where you have a big problem.
I made a little video about meeting the developer behind Kid Pix for this exhibition: https://youtu.be/csalhuSixQU
You can do it over ssh with authentication.

That said:

- X is burdened by this abstraction layer for networking

- Since people are using ssh as an app to do it, a case could be made that the networking is not really necessary and a dedicated graphics specific app might work just as well.
This fails with more than one hole (as I said in the inital comment, two or more). A circle with two 1D points missing breaks apart, a sphere can have an arbitrary number of 2d holes and still be fully connected.
I had a wild thought, not 6 months ago, that angular momentum in light could account for all the missing dark stuff in the universe. I didn't know science didn't know light had angular momentum.
I loved this comment until “improvements in ... repairability.”

May I suggest referencing an expert’s opinion? Louis Rossman, an expert Apple repair tech from NYC has been documenting Apple’s aggressive anti-repairability tactics for a long time.

He has hundreds of YouTube videos — repairing Apple laptops and commenting on their quality and engineering decisions.

Here’s one of many videos https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vA_em-0VYWY
EU to run war games to prepare for Russian and Chinese cyber-attacks
Sadly, much like with the web, things have evolved such that it is virtually impossible to create a competitor due to all the accumulated complexity. The driver problem on the PC platform is pretty much insurmountable at this point, so any competitor would have to begin life, and gain massively in popularity somehow, on a much less flexible hardware platform.

It's a shame and makes me sad for modern computing.
There were probably microorganisms and fungi on Sputnik, and before that, things that didn't orbit, like a V2 rocket in 1944: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014
Like in the scifi books?
I think remote rendering is unnecessary and is mismatched for actualy application workloads

Nowadays, perhaps, but that's software bloat in action, software getting slower faster than computers gaining in speed. In the last millennium if one had a login one could connect to the computer in Daresbury, UK that had a copy of the Cambridge Structural Database and search crystal structures. Many people at British universities did that. It would render graphics on an X server. Once I tried it on holiday at the East Coast of the US, and it wasn't a painful experience at all. Then again, it was the old version that still had PLUTO, which was a program from the computing stone ages.
As a guy how should I approach this? I actually think women in their early to mid 20s (my peers) are more qualified to star business than most guys, because they “get it” sooner, where as guys take a bit. But you’re right when I develop relationship with women it can come off as something else. Unless I’m very very professional, which frankly puts a layer of ice between people so not ideal either.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/87978/how-and-wh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board
Do you want to become a consultant or a team leader?
Yeah until they randomly kill it one day because it’s strategically meaningless.
Most (my total guess) US states elect governors by direct election. Why are they not destroyed?
> Or Java?

Yes - that was implied in the same sentence where I wrote "(e.g. exceptions or actual compiler enforced error handling like Rust)." :-)

> As far as I know, race conditions happen and leak out into production with Scala and Java.

They do. But there are more techniques in those languages (such as immutable collections, as their type systems are actually able to model and implement them) to mitigate the issue.

> and really the lesson of programming in the large for the past 30 years, is that it's not enough to have mathematical or methodological power in guaranteeing correctness in a program.

I agree there. I actually don't abide by the ideas that using a language like Haskell or Idris or what have you will automagically grant you superior or error-free software. I actually like what talks like these have to say:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWdy_AngDp0

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449j7oKQVkc

However, that does not mean we disregard established practices, only to try to reinvent them in a bad way as we see golang trying to do (no generics - even though many other languages implemented them "correctly", bad error handling, no sum types, null pointers, and so on). They purposely disregarded these works without good arguments at all, and now they're struggling to find workarounds, or continue to dismiss them as non-issues, even though they clearly are.

The way I see it, the moment Java gets fibers and value types implemented, and GraalVM's native compilation is mature enough for use, golang's appeal as a devops langauge where it ended up (however low it is currently - as it's mainly over hyped) becomes even less. C#/.NET is the other alternative making very good progress, and they already have async, value types, and NGEN (though I don't know how mature the latter is for production).

> programming-in-the-large-human-factors

This seems to continually get mentioned without anything to back it up. Sorry, but from what I've seen, Java and C# are strictly superior for "programming in the large". Things like "fast compile times" aren't even a factor in front of Java and C# with their incremental compilation. And the fact that the language is "simple" just means that you will end up with more verbose and complex code, with more places for things to go wrong, and yes I've seen it in larger golang code bases.
Nope, I'm asking why such inefficiency exists and isn't exploited by competitors. I'm not suggesting it doesn't exist.
NASA makes a smaller RTGs for heating tasks, they can scale smaller if they don’t need to generate electricity.
No because it's not unusual for company founders to be any of those things in America.
I think an important point that hasn't been brought up is health insurance. You're likely covered under your parents' family plan until age 26. This presents you an ideal time to have no job while still having health insurance. Make this decision to leave a year from now and you'll likely find yourself paying an extra ~500/mth. So this may be the most opportune time to take a 6 month leave.
You know, it's funny. The browser world becomes a Chrome mono-culture and all the SV devs throw a fit, rightly, about the lack of competition. Then they turn around and cheer about the idea of Windows becoming just another chromium... er, sorry, Linux distribution.