skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How come they weren't losing the boxes all the time? A string under the belt with only a small stone preventing it from sliding down seems unreliable.
It's very hard to get paid by colleges. It's a kind of enterprise sales, with the usual problem that the decision makers have little contact with the end-users of the software. So having better software doesn't help you make sales. The industry gets dominated by companies that are great at sales and not very good at making software.

If your software is so jaw-droppingly awesome that professors will pay out of their own pocket, you can make some money that way. But not a huge amount of money.

You may be better off making the website free, and making money some other way. Charging employers to show job postings can make money, if the students are in high demand.
This is so accurate it makes me want to cry. Devops has become "run Jenkins & take page outs". 99.99% of enterprise devs (99.99% of those code in Java) have 0 clue what happens to their code after they commit it to Stash, and worse yet, they don't want to know. It's so bad now I'm embarrassed to have it on my LinkedIn profile.
That's just not true. The US emits 16 tons of CO2 per capita. For many African countries, that number is 1-2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...

The greatest polluter is everybody living in large single family homes full of things manufactured on other continents, with AC, multiple cars, eating red meat every day.
Data breaches should be treated like oil spills
You should’ve just checked my profile. Yes, we run at the complexity of Google [0]. We do almost exactly the same thing with a bit different use case.

There are not many people that could work for us at the scale we run. [1]

[0] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/22/video-search...

[1] https://cloud.google.com/customers/pex/
I tried to automate my most recent Ubuntu PC using this Ansible playbook as a starting point:

- https://github.com/lvancrayelynghe/ansible-ubuntu

It has some bells and whistles I stripped out (or wished I did).

One of the problems I haven't really solved: ongoing updates. Say I need to install a new apt package. Do I update the Ansible playbook and rerun it? I probably should. But more often, I just install it from the command line. Now my image is out of sync.

Also certain applications like Jenkins seems surprisingly hostile towards reproducible builds.
How does one operate a touch screen when wearing anti-flash gear?
Have you run it on the competition dataset? What’s the size of the executable + compressed data?
> emberassingly parallel

What is embarrassing about being parallelizable?
> You can replace me with one of your mass shooters.

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Talon is great. It practically saved my career as a coder. There is a learning curve, but it's aided by the #help channel in Slack (https://talonvoice.slack.com/messages/C7ENXA7C4), which is a good starting point after installing the (currently Mac-only) package at https://talonvoice.com/. It took me a while (several months) before I could be reasonably productive, but that's because I was trying to avoid usage of my hands altogether, the available community commands were still fledgling, and I was transitioning from another voice control system.

It'll be easier if you can still mostly use your hands since you can incrementally move over to voice coding/control, and the built-in functionality and community commands have truly progressed. There's also the eye tracking functionality if it's difficult for you to use a mouse/trackball etc.

There is a community-maintained Talon VSCode plugin, but no explicit TypeScript integration. That's a great idea, though! I think some folks use VSCode snippets to help their workflow. I personally want to get to the point where I can utter commands that can write the correct code in whatever language/context I happen to be in, and maybe something even higher level than that. The Talon author and community members are already thinking along those lines, as evidenced by upcoming APIs that make Talon easier to use and even more configurable/extensible than it already is.
Neat, although I’d like to hear some motivations and maybe how it stacks up to other open cores.

> Numato provides a GPL-licensed python3 tool to flash bitstreams onto their board. [TODO: port to python 2]

Well, they have a great sense of humor.
For Windows, I use a PowerShell that launches a install of Choco followed by a bunch of Choco installs. For Mac, I have a bash script that installs homebrew then runs a bunch of brew and cask commands, installs xcode utils, and then command lines some App Store installs that aren’t available from cask.
Well, that's alright.

UK disapprove of UK Politicians.

Need a source? Course you don't[1].

[1] https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/politicians-remain-le...

They can't even bloody solve basic stuff like building houses or you know, that EU thing. DNS over HTTPS is probably down there with encouraging uptake of Klingon.
True, but ... this explosion and this embarrassment of riches also led to people not engaging with a "community of some interest group" (so a subculture), but just paying for it. In and out in a few hours.

To acquire friends one has to get to know people, and also people have to know one. It takes time to open up.

I'm not saying bars were this magical place. No. Bars were the place people who for some reason spent enough time together to get to a bar went to.
ELI5: Given this, how does an ion drive work?
What happened to "free as in speech, not free as in beer"?
Yup. H1-B has been over-scribed for close to a decade I think.

When a friend applied post-9/11, they didn’t even use up the quota each year.
There are probably some rare cases of this happening on gas vehicles over the years

Unfortunately, the majority of cases I remember were due to flaws in the electrical system:

https://www.autosafety.org/ford-ignition-switch-fires/

https://www.autosafety.org/category/vehicle_fires/ford_cruis...

https://www.autonews.com/regulation-safety/ford-recalls-f-15...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/08/07/gm-reca...

In other words, the (relatively small) battery in ICE vehicles provided the initial energy to start those fires, and not the fuel itself. I suppose one could say that a safety advantage of ICE vehicles when parked and off is that even a fuel leak requires a source of ignition to cause a fire (also, diesel is very difficult to actually ignite), whereas with an EV there is always a huge source of electrical energy available and a lot more components which are always supplied with power.

My guess is that once they become as common as ICE, EVs will continue to catch fire at roughly the same rate if not more.
What's unfortunate is the small size of enwiki8.

A decompressor with a high upfront cost (say a pretrained model) and otherwise higher compression ratio would be more interesting than tweaking yet another PAQ8 variant, but I'm not sure this contest's rules make that very viable.
Coroutines and C++ DSLs for Human Scale Concurrency
Robert Anton Wilson describes a process of using only the third person in speech and thought for psychological change, and IIRC he got the idea from Alestier Crowley, so the idea could be nearly a century old.
Hey!

I'm not a developer ... I studied business and work on marketing. I barely know how to code.

The whole backend for this is a google sheet and I'm using sheety.co. This is one of the first times I've coded a whole page and I'm really really lame with javascript.

By the time I had finished creating the divs with the startups and the code that imported them from the API I realized I didn't have any links to the startups, and since making the site responsive had been such a challenge for me I searched for the easiest way to patch things up.

This wasn't over-engineering just me being lame at coding and I have no problem with that ... not what I do for a living so nothing to worry about.

It might be a usability nightmare but it reached product of the day on product hunt yesterday and 2nd position on hacker news for a while today. So don't worry about those issues too much on your own projects, as they say, "If your website is perfect, you've launched too late"

Hope you have a great sunday afternoon and thank you for visiting the site and taking the timea to give me some feedback. I've definitelly learned a lot from my mistakes during this first launch.
Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
Homo Ludens
Surely you can find various ways to reason or calculate these unit conversions.

But for practical purposes adding a half goes a long way. And it's even easier to add the missing 0.1, if you really need to.
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Do you think he would notice if the test machine downloaded a ~100MB file from the web?
Exactly. If they gave it an ounce of thought, Right-wing guys would be PRO H1B visas because they brain-drain other countries and maintain western dominance.

H1B visas are awesome for the west and terrible for the countries the immigrants come from. Brain drain is crazy
This sounds like a good thing to me, as long as the visa denials are targeting the low-skilled Indian coders. I've been at companies where we contracted with Infosys, Larsen and Toubro, and some other Indian shops. We ended up having guys in our office who couldn't speak English, lacked an understanding of basic fundamentals (they've never used source control of any kind or write 2000 line Java methods). Ultimately they delivered garbage and it gave IT a bad rep at the company. But we kept them on the payroll to "cut costs". The contracting companies literally don't give a shit (senior managers and directors would get ball game tickets and other perks under the table), and management on our side would hold these jobs for these incompetent coders instead of qualified local talent.
Lots of overlapping between different categories. Misplaced app within a category -- hiring app inside Project Management. And so on...

The idea of putting together such list is noble, though. It just need more consistency.
This is exactly right.

My monitor has one plug (DVI-D dual link). My monitor has 5 buttons.

But thankfully the manufacturer removed basically all software, so only the power button does anything, and the other 4 buttons are unconnected in the background. (Unfortunately this means the brightness can only be controlled by the connected computer's software)

The chassis is the same as more complicated monitors though.
> 2) (I assume) it needs to be self-extracting (and size includes the compression logic).

Size includes decompression logic, which may be what you meant but it is important to distinguish between compression and decompression.

http://www.hutter1.net/prize/hrules.htm#rules
I'm not sure. Currently the compression variables are somewhat inefficient. I've compressed similar files down to about 17mb using hardcoded variables but I've yet to stumble across one that will reliably compress a variety of data. I was hoping to test it enough to come across patterns that would enable me to develop heuristics, changing the variables according to different input file characteristics. This is simply extremely time consuming. I have a non-open version of a listener for server applications that I've sort of moved my testing over to since I created the client compressor/extractor above.
Is this a joke? "Full-stack" implies much broader skills than banging together Javascript frameworks (even if some of those frameworks are unrelated to websites).
They were useful because they can be reconfigured on-demand to different interfaces - e.g. you can route helmsman's responsibilities to a different bridge station in case of hardware damage or human casualties.
It happens fairly routinely. Google "car fire in garage" for numerous examples. One particularly amusing one: https://abc7chicago.com/17-cars-catch-fire-at-newark-airport...

You have a complex electrical system that gets constantly temperature cycled in a fairly extreme way, sitting right next to a bunch of flammable material. Not a big surprise that it goes wrong sometimes.

I doubt it's common enough to be a real worry in either type of car, though.
Thereby causing global climate disruption, likely ultimately causing billions to starve.

Nice work.
Sarcasm is not the same as snark. I'm not engaging in a content-free sneer, I'm trying to make a real point: Wannabe capitalists are whining about being on the losing end of capitalism.

But whatever, mods r gods. I think I'll take a break from HN for a while.
Sure there is a reason - diversity. The “no country can get more than 5% of immigrant visa in any given year”, was done so that large countries don’t dominate the immigrant mix.

Same reason you can’t get a green card through the lottery if your from Canada - it’s only open to under-represented countries.
Can't he just disable the Internet interface?
It's quite possible that the US is at an inflection point. Now those hyphenated groups are spread so thin that they lost all their meaning. Now you can't find comfort in sameness, because yes, you share some common history, but you are also very different in other ways.

And thus people can't seem to find their place, can't seem to find friends, and the default fallback of going back to your people is no more.

This is just a very wild hypothesis of course.
Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Imagine someone you love and treat well. You need to treat yourself with the same respect. Take care of yourself, your room, your things, and have respect for yourself as if you’re a person with potential and is important to the people around you. -Jordan Peterson
> Discord deliberately offers (and this project uses) an API for posting from non-bot accounts, which implies that there are at least some legitimate use cases for using it.

The official client uses the exact same API as bot accounts, with the exception of a few endpoints being restricted to certain account types. Any form of "use a user account via API endpoints" outside of OAuth is discouraged, to say the least, although in general they won't actively hunt down people who do so.
One of the definitions of wisdom that I've come to appreciate, similar to the article, is that "wisdom is taking your own advice." Upon reflection I've noticed that most of the time any advice that I give to others is tinged somewhat selfishly with advice to myself for a similar situation.
Brewfiles [0] get me 90% of the way there.

[0] - https://coderwall.com/p/afmnbq/homebrew-s-new-feature-brewfi...
Thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405129

2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143704
Modal interfaces can work very well, if used wisely:

- with experienced users, e.g. people who are used to vim

- with a sharply limited number of modes, e.g. the three modes that vim has

It's just really easy to get carried away when you have the enormous number of combinations that touchscreens allow.
I'm having trouble thinking why an undemocratic government would have any more of a right to decide. We don't believe in the divine right of kings anymore.

In this particular situation, the protestors are demanding free elections, exactly what would give the government legitimacy. Seems to me the easiest policy to justify would be for corporations to support democratic governments and movements, and ignore the demands of despots.
Hey! I'm ordering them by the number of clicks they get. None of these startups are mine.

You can see a screenshot of my Google Analytics data here: https://ibb.co/THtnDtX
I'm not sure about brand new vehicles. Cars have a bathtub curve like anything else. I expect car fires are mostly very old or very new cars.
Build a sustainable slow growing business. Just don’t take VC money to do so.
No need to over complicate things. I just have my ~/.dotfiles and if I remembered I saved a list of installed packages on my old install that I can go through and pick whatever I need. Could add some scripts for the things I know I need to do but that's already adding too much. My feeling is you'll end up working hours and hours to create the perfect setup (which doesn't exist so you just keep tweaking it forever).
Discussed in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1083567
I think the 4th picture in the first carousel is a desktop background I had once.
You could try experimenting with Guix. If you take the time to set it up and if it works for your needs, you can just use the config file to get the same installation on every device.
>> No they didn't steal it. They don't even have access of Google!

I didn't say they searched for it. Stealing isn't a Google search.
It is good thing overall. If a resource becomes more scarce (programmers in this case) companies learn to use it in more effective ways.
DDT was, and is, toxic to many other animals, notably birds, and very long-lasting in ecosystems.

Anyway it doesn't work on ag pests anymore. They evolved to tolerate it. Birds didn't.
> This leaves out the Netherlands

I think Belgium ( Flanders) is close enough. A lot of bike riding here too
People in poorer circumstances save at a higher rate elsewhere in the world, and used to in the US a few decades ago.

The main issue is perhaps what you hint at the end there. Credit has gotten far more available, so people are no longer used to saving to make purchases, and are in the habit of going into debt.
Hmm. Solid hypothesis. Any evidence?
You can pay them with American Express too.
This would totally be understandable and every expected if this lack of sleep were part of stress weeks meant to mentality prepare you for real world operation conditions, but I take it from the parent comment that it seems it's part of normal operating procedure, which is detrimental.
No worries, I'll create a new one!
That's also possible with a common set of hardware controller devices. Just like multiple games are played with the same controller on a console, or the way we use personal computers with a keyboard and mouse.
"And some of us prefer the pleasures and pangs of gradual self-destruction to the quasi-religious cult of self-improvement."

Bravo!
This has been fixed. French people won't get any new green cards.

https://www.sanjoseinside.com/2019/08/07/house-passes-zoe-lo...
I have used VMWare as a base on Mac, Linux, and Windows hardware over the last 10 years. I do everything except for video conference in VMs (running Fedora), use multiple per purpose VMs at a time (eg segregate banking from client work and from email/social media), and just migrate the VM images when changing hardware. Recommended.
Things that don't support the ad business are never going to be very high priorities for google. Is a medical resource routing system going to pop out of someone's 20% time? Doubt.
We moved this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20669214 to this thread, where it seems more at home.
I live nearby in LA and (when I was looking) submitted my resume with twenty years experience. Didn’t even get to a phone screen.

My guess is you’re making the same mistake so many companies do. Hyper focused on tech X rather than Y or Z. Refusal to train for a month, but would rather wait a year and chase HB1s to nowhere. i.e. Looking for a unicorn instead of developing them.

I’m happily employed on the east coast working remotely now. Had to pick up a new skill or two. Never used Solr before, now I have. Took a few weeks to get proficient in between other responsibilities.
The issue could be that the potential employer is not willing to hire someone under a non-compete even if the person under the non-compete is willing to challenge it.
For simple and immediate relief you can change the voice to have a silly accent or be cartoonish and/or play ridiculous music behind it. Like Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYu7c4Vkmp0

For long-term relief you're going to want to talk to a therapist, I recommend trying a bunch until you find someone that "clicks" for you and gets results. You have likely internalized some BS somewhere along the line, not too unusual on Earth really, nothing to worry about. But get it looked at sooner than later, eh? You should be able to localize the voice to particular place or places in your body that are tense and/or numb, where you have been "storing" tension or trauma in your musculo-skeletal system. Once you learned the internal auditory-linguistic feedback channel, your body started using it to get your attention. Sometimes a nice massage or hot bath is all that's needed.
I don't think this is an unpopular opinion really, but that you are getting a bit hung up on the semantics.

Most businesses that you start, are not "startups". And that's good, for all the reasons you outline. It's ok to look at companies that are trying to find exponential short term growth as a different thing, and talk about when to pull the plug if you aren't going to achieve that.

The more interesting question I think is when you should try to initiate that sort of company, vs "a viable, sustainable business the founder wants to do", as you put it.
And literally export all their garbage to China.
This is correct, the vague measure of how many people and how much pollution does a country produce is not very good. It's really about how much a country consumes and the resulting worldwide pollution.
The Google VIP party that became a joke
As someone who designs ans builds modular synthesizer modules: so can mechanical interfaces if designed appropriately.

Add labels on the display and use a set of generic controls and boom, you can use the same hardware for a ton of functions given the right abstractions.
That's interesting, though your example of the Amiga team -- they weren't there under Tramiel, so would have nothing to do with him in particular. Though I'm sure the culture there was rotten.
Language models trained in a predictive fashion achieve ever closer to human compression rates (humans would only get ~0.7-0.8 BPC on Hutter), and are responsible for not just the creepiest & most realistic text generation to date but also setting SOTAs across all language-related AI benchmarks like SuperGLUE, designed to test language understanding and real-world reasoning, or chatbots. If that has nothing whatsoever to do with progress towards AGI, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
With the type of things I put into my work journal I think everyone benefits by me keeping it private!
It would cost billions to be a global competitor to Uber. But nearly all rideshares are local. A local company can compete at a much more acceptable price, and use its local knowledge and connections to gain an edge. There isn't much advantage to being global in Uber's market.
Some of them have multi-categories, that's right. I believe the app you're talking about offers project management functionalities with freelancer hiring options, so it's part of both.

Let me know if you see an app that logically should not be in one of the categories. This is curated by hand, so errors may happen.
Insulin was discovered and purification methods developed at a public university 100 years ago.

https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-diabetes-how-insulin-19...

https://prospect.org/article/insulin-racket

It seems there are information technology products which are produced outside the corporate-proprietary sphere as well.