skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the devil's advocate and they're good points. The fact is, I was operating under an assumption that the "trap" wouldn't result in catching my two jobs; you are thinking the opposite. I can't argue with that :)

I know for myself, I don't even have a good frame of reference: I have applied mostly for jobs that I have wanted but had a mental ranking in mind before-hand. Regardless, I have generally obsessed over the details. I am far from a perfectionist, I just hear the sound of my dad's voice in the back of my head directing me in exactly how these things are done.

That said, you're completely right about not hiring me if you weren't in my top 3. However, in my case, the company I work for was on the very bottom of my list before I had my first phone screen. My resume got there in a strange manner -- passed to their hiring manager for the purpose of passing to other hiring managers, he gave me a phone call and asked if I'd be interested in interviewing there. I hadn't heard of the place, but went to their site.

The site sold the values of the company in a manner that triggered the skeptic in me[1]; I assumed they were a code-mill at worst, but nothing near what I've found at best. I was also working at home for 12 years and was about to join a company that lacked desk phones/any voice communication outside of conference rooms -- and an open-office environment.

The phone interview put them back toward the top; I liked the two guys I talked to a lot. I arrived and saw the amazing office, which was -- unfortunately -- an open-office floor, and they fell out of my top 3, again. After the interview, they were top on the list. I've been there two years and found the company to be everything they claim to be. It's not that things don't go wrong or that I haven't had a 90 hour week (thrice, however, rarely break 42), it's the people. I'm past 2 years there, now.

[0] Which is kind of what this is: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/

[1] I'm accused more of being naive than cynical, but I worked 17 years at a large company and this place appeared to be bigger than it was. Identifying the company as a mid-large enterprise vs. an SMB is necessary context that was missing when I was reading their site.
“talking is extremely discouraged at work, in an open office, so even at work you're basically alone just siting there listening to music or podcasts all day”

That’s the nutty thing about open office. The thing that’s officially supposed to encourage collaboration leads to people sitting there with headphones trying to isolate themselves and rules to not talk to each other.
Taxes and insurance on that 1.3m house are going to be another $2800/mo I say from experience. Living here is much more expensive than you’re guessing, cost of living needs to be factored in.
Personally, I have gotten somewhat use to being alone. I can only imagine what it must feel like too someone who has spent the majority of their lives with someone else. I think I will start visiting a senior living facility with some of my spare time each week. If you are alone and its weighing you down then my heart goes out to you.
Quite a few of his MIT lectures are online, like the SICP lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FE88AA54363BC46
European Central Bank Worried about Facebook's Libra
While you make a good point, I think you're missing the distinction between people who choose to be alone and people who are alone not by choice.
I could consent to it using AI to answer. But how could I consent to it recording me when I was never informed?
Significantly better than nothing.
"You'll minimize some strangers' sadness with a piece of wood and plastic,
Holy fuck it's so fantastic playing ukelele"
Its not vapour ware no, but if you don't have an option to buy it...

The parent said "so its not on my radar, and they didn't bother trying to sell any" which is true, and from my reading, fairly neutral.
Tech ruined privacy, the internet, and large parts of democracy.

I think maybe it's time we put tech where it belongs: in the damn trunk.

Going to a YC company to fulfill a basic human need is exactly why tech belongs in aforementioned trunk.
This seems right to me. I would point out that you don't have to live a 20 minute drive from anything to be alone. Loneliness is as much a problem in cities as anywhere else.

Also, isn't loneliness also a major issue in other cultures, like Scandinavian or Japanese cultures?
Solar power system that works at night a renewable energy game-changer
That can't be right. How can you know if the document is confidential unless you download it?
After reading your comment and some other articles, you're right.

I guess I was just shocked by the relative difference even if it was fairly meaningless in reality.
I think the modern version of that is Shodan image searches for Port:5900, which return a load of instances...
> there is no gamma compression for red in the eye

What does this mean? Do you have a citation to a source explaining whatever this is trying to say using precise standard color science terminology?
That isn't really how the Swedish tax system works. A lot of that is paying yourself in one form or another.

The problem in Sweden is that if you for example you get $500k from you parents, buy an apartment that appreciates, go study for five years, have a kid and take parental leave for another two years you pay maybe 10-20% tax overall (on the appreciation mostly) and nothing for health care or education for yourself or your kids, which might go to semi private school.

While the average person who don't have rich parents, or maybe kids, and are trying to work their way up are paying 40-50% or more on their income and not getting much in return. And on top of that are paying for some of the highest property values and general prices in Europe.

Stockholm built the most expensive hospital in the world, yet has one of the lowest tax rates in the country.

I don't mind paying taxes, but I want them to be put to good use and not be some sort of discount system for those who are already well off so they can take more vacations. (I do realize that their is a lot of history behind that, but it is now getting warped into some form of crony capitalism).
I know this post is going to turn into a partisan debate, but I strongly urge everyone to read up about this disturbing group and recent CBP behavior and decide if this is acceptable for a armed and increasingly unaccountable federal police force, one that has had gained influence away from the border to regular citizens over the past decades.

This is not a problem exclusive to this administration, these attitudes and actions have been going on for years and are wholly unacceptable for a nation that claims to respect human rights:

https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-face...

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/05/border-patrol-facebook-g...

> On the topic of dead children, Eric Castillo separately posted a video of a large, child-sized portion of meat being wrapped in foil and then roasted over an open flame. The foil resembles the mylar blankets that unaccompanied children are given in Border Patrol custody.

> “Little tonk blanket ideas!” Castillo wrote.
["Tonk" referring to the sound of beating someone in the head with a flashlight]

>When a member of the group raised the point that “’I was just following orders’ hasn’t been an effective defense in about 72 years,” Bob Wilkinson, who lists his former occupation as Border Patrol supervisor and his current occupation as a U.S. government contractor, replied, “Are you a PA or a fucking snowflake.” Wilkinson went on to write that while he had “never killed anyone,” he had “used my share of force.”

“The fact that the President recognizes rocks as deadly weapons is a good thing,” he wrote.

> At that point, Castillo joined the conversation, lamenting about missing an opportunity to shoot a migrant while on the job. “Bro im gonna go home alive to my family and stop the threat!!” he wrote. “See it how you will. Ive been rocked before and missed my chance to pop a round before due to me falling to avoid the rock.. Fucker ran back to the river..But I learned for next time.. Don’t be a freaking debbie downer bro..”

> Before long, group members, including Gabriel Gonzalez, Zack Smith, Anthony Ramos, Rick Mora Jr., and Michael Scherer, were sharing photos of documents — including what appears to be intake forms — that showed migrants’ names. Christian Macias added photos of government IDs belonging to five different individuals to the comment thread.

> On May 31, a user shared an image of the U.S. embassy in Honduras on fire. “Easy enough to do the same thing to all their asylum paperwork…” Gamel Lechner commented.
They are reimplementations but sadly far from clean room. The ASM was often referenced and even used side by side as the projects migrated to their own code base.
While this probably isn't a practical way to do any real work, running it with --compile=min gives some idea what might be possible soon:

$ julia --compile=min -e '@time (using GR; plot(rand(20)))'
0.375836 seconds (368.83 k allocations: 20.190 MiB, 1.65% gc time)
$ julia --compile=min -e '@time (using Plots; plot(rand(20)))'
4.302867 seconds (6.41 M allocations: 371.485 MiB, 5.07% gc time)
This might be a little off-topic, but I wonder if the idea of nano-passes can be applied to other areas. For example, can we predict the future of technology by gradually evolving their capabilities? Or say start from some point in the future (interstellar travel!), and gradually work backwards what we think is needed?

Or how about predicting geopolitics/economics?

To use this method effectively, I think we'll need to fully specify, to the extent possible, the condition of each stage in time. That way, at any stage, we can see what constituents might possibly interact with each other and evolve something new.
You have to understand that this is more difficult for some people than it is for others. If it works for you, good for you, but it’s not an option for others.

I don’t have the ability to “just” go out and meet people and strike up a conversation.
Ditto here, though some of these people might end up distracted by their full time jobs. ;)
Projects like this seem like a great idea, but deliverability seems like a big concern that is hard to measure unless you have a reasonable amount of experience.

What are best practices for using/selecting an ESP if you were to use a project like this and want to ensure reasonable deliverability?
I notice this also with Teams. If I have it open locally and on a VM, only one of the instances will get the message.
My mother has been living alone for over a decade now. Luckily for her, she's very introverted--alone is her preference. Sitting in her rocking chair, reading a mystery novel, is exactly what she wants out of life.

I'm sure this isn't normal, particularly for extroverts. My wife doesn't understand it at all. But I take after my mom, and I 100% know that she feels fine with a minimum of human interaction. I do feel bad for the people who aren't like her, though.
So would a "different password for each device programmed at the factory" approach (as Comcast/Xfinity/Att and others currently do, at least in the US) be better? This would make it better in the sense that only Huawei would know about the default password for that piece of hardware [if they were to log it].
I don't think JS/TS is that bad, but it's certainly pretty far from elegant. TS adds decent type support which helps tamp down on dynamic complexity but rust, go, kotlin, c#, swift, ocml even java are all much more elegant languages. I realize that elegance is largely subjective so I won't belabor the point, but it's a pretty widely accepted subjective assessment.
> Unfortunately, last Tuesday’s update contained a regular expression that backtracked enormously and exhausted CPU used for HTTP/HTTPS serving.

One of those cases where they had 1 problem, used regular expression and ended up with 2 problems ?

Edit: I really like how much information is given by CloudFlare. 11 points in the "what went wrong analysis" is how every root-cause analysis should be done.
Luckily, we had the emissions fraud scandal. Gave a big push to the EV people in all those companies. The combusters still have a lot to say, since they are the ones earning the profits.

It's not meant as an excuse for the old guard, but making billions per year by selling ICEs doesn't make it easier to launch good EVs. Without Tesla, it would never happen.
Ask HN: Possible to transition from application development to embedded systems?
I'm 30 years old with a B.S. in comp sci and have been professionally developing applications (web and desktop) for about 5 years now. I can't afford to go back to school for a masters to focus on something that's really interesting to me (ocean related stuff) and I'm dreadfully bored with high-level programming and the culture of application development. I'm interested in making a career change to embedded software engineering but not sure how to make the transition.

- What sort of learning resources are best for picking up embedded systems?

- How dramatic of a pay cut would I be taking to jump into the field?

- Is it realistic at this stage in my career to make this transition at all?
Claims like this are essentially impossible to have a reasonable historical discussion about, because they do not concern history but rather alternative history, and the two are mostly disjoint. One is concerned with facts, the other – with fantasy. And facts are more interesting and meaningful.

When it comes to facts, it's worth understanding why Russia took part in the partitions of Poland (hint: as is well-known, Catherine the Great was the most hesitant of all the three rulers to take such an action). To have a better grasp of this highly propagandized (in typically Polish martyrological shades) period of history, I recommend the book The History of Stupidity in Poland by Aleksander Bocheński.
I think there's another part of it: It is easier to sell things to people who are discontent, and the human animal is a social one that isn't usually content with isolation. I'm not saying this is some kind of conscious conspiracy, but along with fetishizing rugged individualism America also fetishizes the market. We encourage things that make the amount of money moving around increase, and discourage the opposite.
I'm not following your logic? Are you saying I should join FB because everyone else is? Everything in life is ephemeral. Trends and apps come and go. This too shall pass.

My goal is to get people to question the relevance, time drain and impact to humanity that FB imposes on the world. I believe that if people did the calculus they would see the horror for what it is.
The promises to workers were certainly a contributing factor, but incompetent and apathetic management was a far larger problem. If management had decided to make efficient, high-quality cars the workers were capable of building them as perhaps only slightly higher cost than the competition. Union assembly line workers didn't design the Ford Pinto.
I know. I've written some of the programs on that page
Focus on the Important, Not the Urgent
Good catch. I search by checking M2 and NVMe then reading the product description on the SBC's website, but hackerboards should add a PCIe field.
I share your position, but it is unfortunate that the word personal is prompt to such semantic abuse nowadays. It is not personal liberty that is being preached, it is property liberty. Liberty bestowed not based on the unchanging measure of human personhood, but upon the measure of property ownership. The richer, the "liberior." A cult of the status quo in traditional service of the powerful, hiding its old age by dispensing the righteous aspiration among underdogs of becoming a great owner. And great property depends on a greatly powerful government (as Adam Smith claims when talking about the tasks of government in Wealth of Nations). Hence it is ultimately tyranny what they preach.
Right, the claim is that no one has actually demonstrated that, though. It sounds like it should be possible in theory but no microkernel has actually done so.

One big reason, I suspect, is that very little of the work in the VFS layer touches hardware. Reads of directory structure, metadata, and data are all handled from cache whenever possible, and writes are buffered. When reading, blocks are prefetched so nearby data is in memory, and when flushing writes, the kernel optimizes and orders them to be most efficient. A library that always handles reads and writes from hardware will be slower because it actually goes to hardware, no matter how many context switches it saves. And if you can't share a read cache and write buffers across processes, you're effectively going to hardware for all initial reads and when the program exits.

(Also, context switches aren't that expensive. They're not free, sure, but it's easily possible for software costs to outweigh it.)
Any way to download that entire list in a single file?
The JPEG was compressed to death deliberately, yes. That's the point of the comparison; for the same (tiny) data size BPG gives you a clearly better result. BPG is workable in situations where JPEG isn't.

> For goodness sake, just reduce the resolution if nothing else.

Reducing the resolution would not work and is not the same thing. You would still get 8x8 DC blocks in a smaller JPEG at the same compression rate, and higher detail in the BPG. The BPG is provably better than the JPEG, and since you already know that and talked about it above, I'm a little confused by your argument.
> it can’t store identities that aren’t just username and password, such as bank accounts and drivers licenses

For what it's worth, you can manually create a "Secure Note" in Keychain Access and put whatever you want in there.

It doesn't do any of the other stuff you mentioned though, just thought it was a nifty mostly-unknown feature.
OpenHMD 0.3.0 ‘Djungelvral’ Released
Tsar Alexander II had been killed by bomb thrown by Ignacy Hryniewiecki Polish person and part of Russian Narodnaya Vola conspiracy. Tsars bodyguard had been Polish noble.

I think people of XIX century would be laugh your narrow nationalistic schooling.
How do the logistics of being born alone work? In my experience, at least one other human is required.
Hey Coke and Pepsi, clean up your mess
They’re Not Middle Class, They’re Well-Off, and That Should Worry You
I'm glad you're getting out there, meeting people, and spreading happiness.

But if you wander past my bedroom window at 3am playing an instrument, expect to have something heavy thrown at your head. ;-)
At both universities I've been to you had to login through the central thingy with your student info to access journals.

(From Michigan)
I feel that's a bit of an overstatement, having studied them a bit is one thing, but most people here cannot comfortably communicate at all in Danish or a 4th language, and cannot read a book in these languages.
I don't do Crossfit, but with all that time in the gym, I can see why their community spirit is very appealing.

Edit. I also live with my retired mother. For her simply having the option to socialize with me is enough. She knows she can watch a movie with me at home or ask me to go grocery shopping with her.
Very well put.

Often when I hear about the older generation of my family, who immigrated and lived in Brooklyn for years before moving to the "burbs", I think they had good intentions but didn't do any favors for the subsequent generations.

My parents grew up and stones throw away from grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - a lot even lived in multi family, multi generational homes. When my mom had kids she had a support system that included people from 3 different generations, all willing to lend a hand. Their social lives revolved around interacting with all different family members, and get together were happening almost daily just because of the inherent (lack of) distance between them all.

Now, we all live in the burbs, with long distances between each other. The grandparents see the kids a few times a year and we all have to make concrete plans to have get togethers. Interacting with most extended family is reserved for weddings or funerals and the lack of true support systems takes it toll on all of us.

I could possibly be romanticizing the past, but when compared to the current lifestyle, I truly believe it wasn't for the best.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this is a field which will not adopt the new formats any time in the next decade or longer. Bioinformatics/computational biology is stuck in a local minimum and there is little or no incentive (or resources) to make a change like this.
I felt the same way until I watched some videos (like those by blenderguru, for instance) and once I did that, it all started to make more sense. Just watching someone else use the UI helped me get a sense of the basics.
Excel is a tool. It empowers those who don't know how to code to do their jobs more effectively than before without "learning to code". It's something you keep in your garage in case you need it. It depends on what their current workflow is. Sometimes I'll use Excel, sometimes I'll use R/Python.

What's important is that Excel gives you access to the computing power of modern technology with a lower barrier-of-entry/knowledge. That's one of the most valuable things that many people fail to understand. Not everyone is a programmer and for a lack of a better term, "doesn't really care about UTF-8 and just want the calculations to work". Also, in many cases Enterprise IT in critical infrastructures are resistant to supporting R or Python due to their security models (firewall rules prevents install.packages('tidyverse') for example).

This is what makes us specialists and someone they bring on board to help them out and explain to them about what the "best-use-case" is, and then watch as people try to cram a square peg into a round hole.
It’s only a couple inches shorter than Americans and a lot of that is still based on how much and the kinds of protein people eat.
Is it just me or will hackers use this as a guide of whom to hack?
Study Suggests Arthroscopy More Effective Than MRI for Chondral Knee Defects
> OpenHMD aims to provide a Free and Open Source API and drivers for immersive technology, such as head mounted displays with built in head tracking. Our aim is to implement support for as many devices as possible in a portable, cross-platform package.

> OpenHMD supports a wide range of devices such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Sony PSVR, Deepoon E2 and others. We also support a Generic Android driver and a External Sensor data driver to allow the use of our Sensor Fusion and features, while providing your own data.
Does the AGPL licence mean that every email (the recipient being a 'network user') needs a 'sent with listmonk, source code is here' footer?
I don’t know if they’d want to do that after what happened to Aaron Swartz
Python Advanced HTTP Reverse Shell
Bonobos’ penchant for aquatic herbs might be why we have such big brains
What I mean is that Nintendo is going to DMCA that link, but it's fine, we've got other copies.

In situations like this I highly recommend anyone with a spare 15.2MB of disk space to download this just to help preserve it.
A life or death situation, and you're worried about someone tapping someone on the shoulder.

I'd worry about karma!
When an employer releases an employee, the rationale imposed upon the employer ought not be ones motivated by social punishment, but rather pure business pragmatism. It's not the employer's job to punish individuals that society doesn't like, such as firing them for racism at McDonalds.

Should a racist never have a job?
A lot of it is completely undeveloped or surrounded by malaria infested jungle or rocky.
Irish person here.

It's not normal.
Hey man, I am like 35 and alone all the time.