skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JS + node + whateverDB.

You'll need javascript for the frontend, so that's a given. Since you're using javascript, you might as well still use it for the backend. Node with express.js is super simple/fast to deploy and will scale ok.

For the database, just pick the one you're most familiar with...
I haven't used it this way in years. I click Start or Win key and start typing. And this basically works on any OS and the "Start equivalent" (like Spotlight on MacOS, or Dash on Ubuntu). It's far more efficient that visually scanning a list that can potentially have dozens of shortcuts in folders and subfolders.
I did this with the first Harry Potter to help me learn German, back when I was re-reading all of the Harry Potter books as each new one came out.
How much equity should I get as the first employee?
Hi guys!
Needed some equity advice. I am moving to a sister firm, which is a design tech start-up incorporated 2 months back, with two founders(CEO, non-technical and CTO, technical) and me as the first and only current employee. The shell prototype has been developed by CTO over 2 years (Concept Dev and UI). I worked extensively over the last 5 months and contributed significantly to major milestones, through which we gained significant traction with client/ VC interest. The company is still at pre-seed funding, with some money coming in from the CTO's family.

I am now formally migrating to this firm and negotiating equity. My skillset is kind of a rare find - I have a Masters in Architecture, I can code very well and am good at Math, three skills crucial to develop the core tech, for which there is a lot to do. I have good work ethics and am very reliable, something the founders are familiar with.

Given my formal education in Architecture but my job scope as an amalgam of coding and architecture, I am unable to pinpoint a base salary (coders obviously get paid higher, coders with archi background should get more?). I am also unsure how much equity I should be vying for. I am being offered 1%, which I think is rather low. Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
They brought it with them (in the form of food and water and what was already in their body), taking it back should have been in their calculations.
Because they're supplied by specific organisations (mostly Gideons International) in large quantities to hotels. You'll also find them in hotel rooms in central Sydney. It's neither a rural nor European thing.

(Literally their main goal listed on the site: https://www.gideons.org/about)
I don't think it's the government's job the dictate the structure of a company, which, frankly, isn't anywhere near monopoly status in my opinion. I can order most products from countless other stores, which allows me to easily avoid Amazon if I wanted to.
I think it exists already, but I make no claims as to the quality.

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/snips/
Do you know how much tardigrades DNA have changed since they first appeared on earth?
What happens to a body donated to science?
I definitely see where you're coming from, in terms of this being a worthy goal. But I think there are a lot of challenges:

* While a government system could cut out administrative paperwork, that doesn't mean they always do. Many government agencies have a lot more paperwork than their private equivalents.

* Negotiations are tricky things. On the one hand, negotiating for a lower price is great, because it means you save money. On the other hand, it also means you are paying a lower price, and that can come with a different set of consequences. Yes, loss of jobs as you indicate, but also potentially less supply of health care. The fact that government is the negotiator doesn't mean that the effect of supply and demand gets suspended.

* I haven't read deeply in the area, but everything I have read indicates that this comes at the expense of wait times. I think, for example, I heard the stat recently that the average wait time for an orthopedist in Canada is 22 weeks.

* I get the moral argument that we should provide care, but I think the single payer raises other moral issues. If the goal is that if a doctor and patient agree on a particular treatment, it's evidently not the case that in socialist medicine that's enough for it to happen (see e.g., https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-rations-operat... ).
Indeed. As I said, I've been doing this for awhile now so this isn't merely a theoretical for me.
Show HN: Pre-recorded, interactive video conversations with business coaches
Hi, HNers! We're a 2 people start-up interested in brutally honest feedback from the community.

We're working on something that can only be described as "Bandersnatch for e-Learning" - short, pre-recorded videos that resemble a real-life conversation - person asks you some questions about your problem/situation and based on your answers the videos change so that the conversation is most relevant to your current situation.

Current topics are covered by business coaches - we imagine them giving much-needed advice to junior managers whenever they face challenges. That way helping them become better leaders and develop their soft skills.

We're looking for early adopters - first 10-20 pilot customers (companies with ~100-250 employees) who would be willing to implement this at their organization and work closely with us (share feedback, shape the product).

What do you think about our approach to passing on expert advice? Why would we fail? What would you do differently?

More on: wiserstate.com
I am not even sure it is a legal problem. How can the prohibit the creation of similar devices and limit their use?

In any case the approach is new, but we have had targeted audio for some time. Another method used in the past was done by two hyper sonic waves that when combined would reconstitute into a lower frequency. I forget all the details but it it nearly placed the sound in your head.
If you wish to dive right into and experience the product, here's a demo session with an executive coach and former managing director of Accenture Canada - Marisa Murray on "How to address a lower performer on your team": https://wiserstate.com/topics/start/16

"Staying on Track with Competitive Coworkers" by Jewell Siebert gives a good understanding of the product capabilities as well:
https://wiserstate.com/topics/start/14
Millions of Qualcomm-powered Androids are vulnerable to OTA hacking
This title is clickbaity. The article asks whether replacing meetings with async digital messaging was an improvement.

[edit:] I suggest modifying the headline. Perhaps to something like: “Was Email an Improvement Over In-Person Meetings?”
Those were turdigrades, different class.
One easy way is to sign up for MSDN.
I think it’s more likely that it was in their calculations to not bring them back.
I am dont know so much about that field but I "feel" the same. It would be nice if someone who knows that stuff could reply here if this intuition is right or not. Eventually when we reason about our code "as standard" non-math programmers we are doing math & logic & proofs in our minds aren't we? And we capture the edge cases in forms of tests and hope for the best if we thought about and enumerated all the necessary ones.

So eventually if - a language but more importantly - an ecosystem like that will get leverage, every existing ecosystem can slowly fade into that and develop further in this path.

At the end (almost all) programmers are going to write proofs, because this is what works in scale.

Please correct me if I am wrong!
Back in the ‘50s or ‘60s, the U.S. government Foreign Service Institute put together a series of language learning courses that covered most of the popular languages at the time. They’re public domain and if you look hard enough, you can find them on the internet - they’re dated, but they’re still accurate (there are some here http://www.fsi-language-courses.net/ but the hosting sucks). I’ve learned Spanish and French well enough to carry on conversations in both from them. One thing about their approach is that they focus on memorizing spoken dialogues. It’s the standard goofy “what time will Mr. Gonzales arrive at the restaurant” type of dialogue, but the idea is that you’re supposed to remember what they say, even if you don’t understand the parts of speech, well enough to recite it from memory. I’ve found that, more than anything else, these memorized dialogues help the most with language recollection - if I want to say something, I scan through my memorized dialogues for something close, substitute a few words, and say it like they said it in the course.
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they probably had them on a strict diet and knew pretty well.
You don't need to use Twitter (or Facebook, google, etc) for them to collect your data. Any site with a Twitter embed, a FB Like button, and/or Google Analytics will gather and process your data.
One of those magic sysrq combination used to work for me. I used to use it a lot before I upgraded to 12 GB RAM.
8chan: Far-right site linked to shootings resurfaces – and is kicked offline
Before Apollo it is possible that missions like Surveyor 3 were contaminated with bacteria like Streptococcus mitis which may have been found on components of Surveyor 3 returned by Apollo astronauts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_3
It isn't. Most users aren't aware it isn't and blame the GDPR for worse user experience. Those that are aware are generally too lazy to report them.
It's super effective and is making all companies pretty damn privacy conscious all of a sudden - except they also still violate it. The problem is that they will find ways to skirt around the edges of the GDPR as much as possible - or straight violate it in the hopes that nobody will find out.
https://mycroft.ai/
>How would having money solve money problems? That's really the question?

I have shown that they do have $500 to cover an emergency but they have chosen to spend it on lottery tickets and tobacco products. You claim that this is due to being poor and how they have poor impulse control and that makes them unable to save the money and instead the immediately spend it. If I give them another $500 why wouldn't they just spent that on more lottery tickets and tobacco products?
I don't think we should farm them due to their intelligence, but I do eat wild octopi because of their intelligence. Octopi are serious dicks, so for every one eat, I'm saving hundreds or thousands of other animals from their abuse.
> It's not my Alexa I'm talking about!

The information about the ads are probably also not related to your data but to whoever's Alexa it is (and the connections to that user).
They also took a bunch of rocks with them, which had to be accounted for. I have no idea what their exact calculations were like.
>EIC ... doing pretty much nothing.

I'm friends with one EIC and a few associate editors and I can assure you they do a LOT of work. The EIC in particular, it's like a full-time job, and that's for a fairly obscure journal. It takes a lot of effort to do the initial evaluation of any given submission, just to initially figure out which associate editor to assign it to. Springer pays her a tiny stipend to cover things like personal printing costs. Think something like $100/month (don't know the exact number but it's around there).
Confucious would reply:

When the wise man builds an incredible machine that can bring us to the Moon, the fool looks at the bags of feces.

More seriously, because of the rocket equation, bringing more payload back would require a lot more fuel. Bringing this additional fuel to the Moon would also require even more fuel.

The Saturn rocket is still the biggest rocket ever made. Probably, the engineers back then did not want to make an even bigger one just to bring back the bags.
Our product roadmap includes adding deepfake, voice synthesis, NLP and others as soon as the technology will be ready for it. We're seeing those AI advancements as a way to pass on the knowledge of brilliant minds to newer generations, to offer a way to have an individual conversation with a "digital clone" of someone.
I think he means that it's "in your mind", not that it's crazy.
My feeling is that you need an incredible amount of repetition. I never really learned Spanish well until I took immersion classes in Guatemala then continued on backpacking through South America for several months. A decade later I still struggle to retain what I learned.

I’ve built many language learning Android and iPhone apps over the years. I still don’t have a great formula but I think my latest iPhone apps are simple and focused enough to help get people started.

Hundred Words:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hundred-words/id1469449237

Language Pairs: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/language-pairs/id1438817614?...

Pictures and Words: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pictures-and-words/id1459560...

Word Search: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4labs-word-search/id1311744...
> I gather you understand the topic, but I'm still left wondering: who is this for, and what will they do with it?

'Understand' is a big word. I've played around with Idris (which is a Haskell-like programming language that supports Homotopy type theory as well). I have a grasp of the underlying mathematics but don't really understand the stuff deeply.

Yes, I went on a bit of a rant and totally ignored your (totally reasonable) question. Theorem proving and proof checking are quite niche, both within computer science and mathematics. In computer science, the idea is that you can formally prove the correctness of computer programs to avoid software failures and have very robust programs. In mathematics, the ideal is to have

1. A universal language for proofs
2. A database of computer-verified results
3. Easy verification of new results

It's a mighty interesting topic, and unfortunately, I've also found it quite difficult to get more than a shallow understanding of it.
>This article seems focused on doing no harm "to code". To a degree, it's ridiculous. I feel like the bigger problem is how when I look at job postings for software developers they seem to be postings of jobs which contribute negatively to the welfare of the society.

I"m surprised you're getting so few responses with regard to this point.

Recently, I've changed up my heuristics for job seeking in light of a realization that many businesses out there aren't seeking to solve problems first and foremost; rather they are using technology to monetize solutions to previously solved problems that were not effectively monetizeable.

Creating middle-men seems to be the tech industry's favorite goal now. For the longest time, I found myself getting torn up by my conscience over what I was helping to build until I finally accepted what I was doing was no longer consistent with my moral compass.

Do no harm. Don't build things that can trivially facilitate violations of human rights. Don't build mass surveillance systems. Don't contribute to projects utilizing UX "dark patterns". Don't build things that intentionally target certain demographics for more effective financial extraction. Don't build that which is being sold as a solution to something it isn't, and for the love of little green apples, spare a second-thought when something comes to you that another person refused to code/accept.
This is from September 2018, should it have (2018) in the title?
Google's Advanced Protection Program Expands to Chrome
Alexa team wins best-paper award for work on tracking referring terms in dialogs
According to [1] 1-2% is common but IMO too low. Ask for 5%, settle for 3+%

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973060
Everyone expects you to have a phone number for some things. Certainly many online services expect you to be reachable via SMS for 2-factor auth. VOIP service plus a semi-decent data plan is at least as expensive as just adding on voice, and then you have two bills instead of one. You can simply ignore calls when you're not expecting one—if it actually matters they'll leave a voicemail. Those get transcribed so I don't even need to listen to see whether it was a scam or something important.

It has made phone calls probably the worst way to reach me, though. Not sure why I don't receive more text spam, which is nearly nonexistent—must be some technical reason.
One problem is that with books like Harry Potter the names tend to be "translated" as well, which will often throw you off.
All of my ire is focused on social media, especially instagram. I don't know if it's possible for me to care less about someone I don't know, or barely know, having been somewhere. Finding out what they ate there is even less interesting.
For the Buck
The AS400 is the only machine that has evolved through the times. In the stand point of development-- it only takes 1 person to create code in a short amount of time. Big cost savings. .....Oh, and you don't hear from AS400 shops "we had to reboot today".
> It is $2750 per article!!!

Elsevier and nature charge $5000 for full open access, and not even in their top journals. Cell reports and scientific reports have high impact factor but are considered second-tier compared to Cell and Nature (The editors of the latter will redirect you to pay to submit to those open access journals if rejected)

https://www.cell.com/rights-sharing-embargoes

And this is all paid with taxpayer money. Good thing that taxpayers don't know about this situation or we d have riots
There's a lot of wasted inventory yeah, but conversion rates are still much higher than they would've been without targeting. It looks terrible from the individual's point of view but from on high it seems to work well enough.
Heap Overflow Vulnerability Found in iMessage
IBM calling.

We had IT support outsourced for all (almost. some branch with government contracts was able to resist) our F500 companies offices. Local IT was let go and replaced by freelancers that have been hired by a company IBM outsourced local IT to.

So we're having: IBM (India) -> outsourcing company (local country) -> freelancers

The local freelancers obviously have no idea, experience or even motivation to stay at the job following phone orders from the operators in India.

This works if you have to do minor things like install a program on a client PC or similar. It becomes risky and ridiculous at server level.

In the end not even basic support worked. People we expensively recruited left because the laptop they've been provided did not work with the company network months later. System outages stretching throughout the continents or even worldwide. Customer satisfaction falling. Angry employees.

The guy who initiated the deal left the company. Probably with a nice bonus from IBM and management is stuck with the situation instead of dropping the contract comes up with useless justifications that are probably delivered to them by IBM.

In the end what might have looked good on that excel sheet ( IT staff salaries vs. IBM contract), causes costs that are not easily put into numbers (we had an account where we could charge time that was wasted due to IT issues. It was closed within a few weeks).
Perhaps yes. Unless you don't mind kids learning to code like it's 1995 again.
The situation is similar to what the parent describes in the Czech Republic (which is considered eastern Europe).
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New York City’s First Self-Driving Shuttle Service Is Now Open for Business
Can this be flagged as clickbait? They are not living, they are in cryptobiosis. Even though experiments have shown that they can come back to life after a long time in this state, nothing can guarantee that they are actually still alive.
Interest Rates: Naturally Negative?
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623562
> But it also means they are spending 65% of revenue on something

Who knows if these money ends up in lobbying, manager salaries, etc?
> I have shown that they do have $500 to cover an emergency

You have not. You've shown that after a year of not buying lottery tickets they might have that $500, with the caveat of the fact that we know that's not really how that works - any savings gets wiped out by the next unexpected bill long before that.

> If I give them another $500 why wouldn't they just spent that too?

Where was that suggested? That's a silly approach to the problem.

Far more comprehensive solutions are necessary. Better housing policy, living wage, national healthcare, better regulation (or banning) of payday loans, guaranteed access to banking services, etc.
It's true that Trump loves his superlatives; many people have noted that to him, something or someone seemingly has to be either the best ever or the worst ever with no middle ground.

On its own, though, that's not very relevant to the Tesla story. It might be made more substantive by linking it to a larger issue, such as how we think about the line between acceptable puffery [1] and unacceptable false advertising, and how that interacts with the mindsets of sales versus product definition versus implementation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
I learned how to turn a stream of nonsense (from my perspective) into words by listening to hundreds of hours of Spanish TV that I didn't understand. Spanish audio + Spanish subtitles (to figure out how to parse sound, and to map sound to writing), and then Spanish audio only (prevent reliance on reading). Surprisingly effective. Incomprehensible input appears to be quite valuable.

At some point I'll try applying my methods to learning a different language to see if I can generalize (for me and my ability to pick up a language, at least).
Maybe off-topic, but with the dates and places, it's hard not to think of this furiously paced physics and math work happening in the midst of World War 1, and not that far from it.

I wonder how the context affected their work. I would love for a physicist, a mathematician, a historian of science, and Dan Carlin to do a Hardcore History on this period.
Google Battling Banks Hard for Cloud Engineers