skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boy recruiters sure do have a shonky reputation - is it deserved?

Why the heck would I, as a recruiter, be so willing to shit in my own nest?

Treat your clients - former and present with respect and integrity and you'll continue to get work into the future.

Value money over good relationships and you'll soon be out of work.

The thing that bugs me is that this is self evident, yet people keep assuming recruiters would behave this badly.
Wow... I never thought about the theory... just wow...
Obsolete isn't the word.

I've worked on remote engineering teams for companies that have their non-engineering workforce go to an office for the last 6 years.

There's tradeoffs. Remote is much better for some things and in the same physical office everyday is much better for certain things.

There's a ton of blog posts that have been on HN over the years that go into the details of the pro and cons.

But anyone telling you it better one way or another in general is full of it. All depends on the details.
Cut the alarmist nonsense. Anyone like me who has critical thinking skills isn't at risk of political radicalization. And I don't care to be told what the "right" choice is.
YouTube sets the rates it pays creators not the advertisers. A union would require YouTube doesn't arbitrarily change the rates it pays it's creators and also might be able to prevent them from instantly demonetizing videos. A union would create stability in the marketplace.

For example, if you're contracted to do a job, the client doesn't usually arbitrarily change the rates it's paying you unless you have some contractual agreement to do so(overtime, paid leave, etc.).

But that's built into the original contract during negotiations.

YouTube is just "here read this shit and do what we say and we can pay you or choose not to pay you or change what we pay you whenever we feel like it whether you like it or not"
> money-losing businesses subsidized in various ways

Whaaaat, noooo, we don't have any of those...
I'd say not similar methods. Koch Industires/1980s Conservatives spreading propaganda to limit any increase in govt (i.e. more regulation would be passed) lead to climate deniers. Anti-Vax discord was recently aided by Russian disinformation on social media. And flat-earth theories are another form of Christian science or Creationism by and large.
Nobody parties harder than CS majors.
All in all, I agree with your assessments. Its good to note that what you are trying to do is read the amount of light hitting the target. This could always be done with a ambient light meter placed in front of your subject (Studio).

The issue was the convenience of seeing it through the camera. The first automatic in camera meters were limited to high-key or low-key and tried to just make the picture's average lighting match the 18% grey card, a portion of it (center weighted or spot). Highly colored subjects could throw this off as the meters weren't always linear to all wavelengths. As technology advanced, matrix meters used multiple points to try and guess tricky lighting conditions. As more elements to the matrix were added, identifying where the subject became possible.

However, they all are just trying to guess at the level of light hitting the subject of the photograph.
You sound like someone who has total faith in your own culture's beliefs because they're yours. Many anti-vaxxers are that for religious reasons. Climate change deniers are on a spectrum from "It's not changing" to "It's all true but it won't be the end of the world so stop panicing". The latter is pretty well supported by science. But even "It's not humans" isn't that impossible. Believers put their worries ahead of uncertainty and demand belief in the worst case.

Are Muslims the same too?
I'm a new/novice photographer... As a technically minded newbie I quickly mastered all the technical stuff like the exposure triangle, and efficient operation of the camera/lenses. By far the most challenging thing is being there at the right place and at the right time to capture interesting, well-composed images. Even subjects that never move change under different lighting conditions, and it turns out there's near infinite possibilities to how you can compose a shot of the same subject.

I read somewhere that a common saying in photojournalism is "f/8 and be there", and that's really the funnest part of the hobby IMO.
They attach an RGB strip slightly above the keys on top of the keyboard (or for a grand piano/upright, they attach it probably somewhere on the key case).

Rousseau has been teaching a lot of other pianists how to do the same setup, so you can kind of see how its done in this other great piano youtuber, funguypiano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyQj7T6uLII

Then you obviously need some sort of bird's eye camera so that you can synchronize it with Synthesia.

Then you go into After Effects and add all the pretty colors and particle effects.

Sometimes they get fancy and add some RGB programming so that colors are changed on a beat by beat basis.
Awesome to see this, I still refer to his guide on the regular. I'll keep my eyes out for updates.
The other--more suspicious and dismissed as conspiratorial--benefactor of of this trade war Russia and the bolstering of Russian industries. America is importing a lot of Russian steel [1] and aluminum [2], and Russia is been ready to fill the food gap for China that they used to get from the US [3].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-25/under-tru...

[2] https://time.com/5651345/rusal-investment-braidy-kentucky/

[3] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3013549/ru...
> YouTubers with millions of views are wickedly underpaid.

You seem to be under the delusion that Youtube has an obligation to provide creators some level of income. They aren't even obligated to provide free hosting.

> My children have cared more about YouTube than Hulu, Netflix and Cable combined. They will be devastated with a large scale strike.

Maybe. If I was an exec, I'd be willing to bet there'd be enough videos left on the platform that they wouldn't care that much.
Pinterest probably has an amazing tech stack. I am surprised that it doesn't get more love around here.
> The decision to demonetize is Google's.

Yes, but the decision is based on feedback from advertisers. In YouTube's ideal world, every single video on the site would be monetized, but this isn't possible because advertisers do not want their brand associated with controversial topics, especially those that concern very heated political debates.

> Wouldn't a free market allow everyone to be in the mix, but advertisers would make the choice?

The creators and advertisers have no obligation to work through YouTube. In fact, all of the big creators work directly with advertisers that are friendly to their content by editing sponsored content directly into the video.
There are scientific, fact based reasons to be skeptical of GMOs:

- Intellectual property concerns

- Biodiversity concerns

- Glyphosate-tolerant modifications leading to higher pesticide usage

Blanket opposition to GMOs is silly, there's no real difference between selective breeding and scientific modification - but GMOs haven't yielded only positive results.
If they have only one flat model, then probably pole-to-pole might be the best to explain... the plain cannot suddenly go to the opposite continent, for instance goes to Australia then south pole then south America...
Memes and shitposts were funny right up until they started motivating mass murders.
Easily disprovable conspiracy theories like this have always existed, but it's funny (and sad) to see them actually convince hundreds of thousands of people through the momentum of social media these days. People really want to think they're smarter than the "rest of the sheep."

What's ironic is the real conspiracy they're missing is the people who publish & promote these theories (YouTubers, Bloggers, etc) probably don't believe any of it themselves and are just trying to make a buck from the gullible.
Thanks for this!! Much appreciated.
Only if it were that clean: "Finally, waste-to-energy plants have the potential to emit low levels of toxic pollutants such as dioxins, acid gases, and heavy metals." [0]

Just plastic is never "just" plastic. There will always be contamination of trash with potential for emission of pollutants.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/shoul...
I would argue that, due to merging different characters together, simplified Chinese is more ambiguous in meaning than traditional Chinese. So it's harder for someone more versed in traditional to read simplified, since there's a bit of guessing as to which "mapping" back to a traditional character should be taken. Whereas there's only one way to map a traditional character to a simplified character, so it's just memorization+recall if you learn simplified first.

I'd compare reading simplified Chinese characters after a traditional-Chinese education, to reading Japanese written purely in kana, and trying to figure out what kanji are meant. It's something that requires active use of your brain sometimes, where the opposite—translating kanji to kana—is a rote task.
Comparison with Monica?
“Tumblr was an example of how to do social media right and we can learn a lot from it.“

Except it lost, so by definition it can’t be right.

Update: there are clearly many definitions of right. Here I’m using right in the sense that it gets mass adoption (right in that people prefer it), and right in the sense that it also simultaneously does net positive for the world. Achieving both is difficult.
I work with a few software engineers who do not have CS degrees - they have extensive industry experience and are fantastic to work with.

At the same time, I do a lot of SDE1 level hiring and have found that while there are good bootcamp grads, it is just so much more work to sort through / screen the bootcamp grads. Some of them have been some of the worst interviews I've ever conducted (no idea what a class is), my guess is due to the variation in quality of bootcamp.

In the end I'd (selfishly) rather have my fresh grad pipeline coming through college rather than bootcamp just because I'll be able to get someone more quickly and with less effort. Not that there aren't good people out of both pipelines.
> injecting money into the economy by lowering interest rates

But there's still interest rates? People still lose money by taking out a loan to buy a car.

The reason nobody takes a loan for groceries is because groceries are cheap! There's 0 point in taking a loan for groceries unless you literally have no other money.

Meanwhile many people can't afford to buy a car/house with cash, so they're forced to take a loan (and lose money in the long run)
Yeah personal action isn't pointless, but it's probably only gets us 20% of the way there. 20% isn't nothing tho.

What I've been lead to believe is the elephant in the room vis micro-plastics is clothing. A lot ends up in rivers and oceans via waste water. Check your dry lint trap lately? That's the big stuff. All the micro stuff ends up down the drain or in the air.

Other than going full naked hippy how are you supposed to deal with that on a personal level?
Didn't realize the madVR NGU algorithm is proprietary.
A comparison of various upscaling algorithms:
https://artoriuz.github.io/mpv_upscaling.html
Are you counting the run up to the current prices in your 10% return calculation? That seems kind of circular.
Why? I'm 30+ and would love a good online image editor. All of the ones I've used over the years do something to make them inconvenient.

Granted my use case is doing minor modifications to graphics on occasion. But it's not like everyone that needs photo editing wants to have to install an app on their machine.

And there's nothing about photo editing that a web browser can't do fairly effectively these days. Video editing is definitely tricky but something like Windows Movie Maker I can see working well in a browser. But not anything for professionals.
How much cheaper are leather goods now then? They seem as expensive as ever.
Show HN: Swap-a-Doodle, a cross-platform social drawing app
Could this be used to illustrate the space efficiency gain with `fib-iter` over the recursive `fib` implementation?
Hi, all. OP / owner / founder here.

I’m finally launching a product that’s taken me years longer than I’d anticipated to complete. It’s a much bigger project than anything I’ve done before. My first app was the first battery indicator on Android, back in 2009, which was very successful by my standards (I didn’t have a college degree at the time and made way more money from it than I’d ever made from a job.) I also have a free instrument tuner on the Play Store.

Swap-a-Doodle aims much higher, and was quite an undertaking for me. It’s a cross-platform app (Android, iOS, and the web) for social drawing. I knew nothing about computer graphics when I started out, and just a bit about web programming. I learned so much along the way. I’m sure I’ll learn a lot more as the app grows.

The front end is written in Dart. The back end is written in Go and runs on App Engine, with Compute Engine for the websocket servers for live drawing (sharing a canvas with a friend to draw together at the same time). The Android and iOS apps are fairly small wrappers around the web app.

Feel free to ask questions. I’m of course open to feedback, or I wouldn’t post here — but I do feel somewhat vulnerable in this surreal moment of finally launching, so please keep that in mind and try to be kind if you do have criticism, and maybe frame it as “something that could be even better,” if that’s not too much of an ask. Thanks!
Why greatness cannot be planned
... and this is why it's impossible to trust the provenance of anything you buy on Amazon!
You're demonstrably correct, but that's not going to stop the "team work makes the dream work there is no I in team" types from insisting that "soft/people skills" are the only thing that matters in any sort of work.
Agreed that it’s not exactly the same but the larger point holds IMO. That is that the tech economy is more like the food web, where it’s not always obvious what chain effect will happen when something starts dying off
"f/8 and be there, for ages", would be my motto.

I've lost count of the times that I've got a great picture simply because I stuck around for half an hour or more, especially when photographing wildlife. Animals can exhibit some superb behaviours if you give them long enough and don't simply walk on after you've got the first shot.
A “Null” License Plate Lanted One Hacker in Ticket Hell
It's alright, I am used to being misunderstood, so I choose not to be offended and misunderstand the misunderstander's misunderstandings. :- )
Adjacent App's Solidarity Pledge Against Sexual Harassment
Show HN: I built a safer way to collect KYC documents
> I have worked with people who have master's degrees from respectable universities who have not used Git or a command line in their life.

I think you're too young to know that code management systems existed before git.
World's First Solar Road Not Performing as Expected
Deactivating your account does not erase your data.
In such an alternative approach, YouTube would still be taking a cut of the fees as the payment-processor interceding between advertisers and content-creators. Their business model would be equivalent to that of Patreon's, in the sense that when the content-creator gets paid, they get paid.

With current YouTube, any fees paid in by advertisers are theirs to do with as they like, and payment-of-content-creators is just a nice thing that YouTube happens to do, but can not-do on a whim with no ill effects. "Revenue from advertisers" and "expenses paying out content-creators" are two entirely independent lines on their balance sheet.

In this alternate model, the money they would receive from advertisers would now be a liability on their balance-sheet, something owed (except for the fraction taken as fee) to the content creator, just as if it was money in a savings account they were holding for the content-creator.
They're a twelve month old startup. In that time they've had the chance to see one career fair at a good school and a half a dozen batches of grads from a bootcamp.
First Jobs That Will Be Eliminated by AI
Actually I don't know why people are downvoting you. Weren't these the first people to be ranting and raving about Jeffery Epstein years ago, and everyone (myself included) thought they were complete conspiracy nuts?

Now those statements of theirs has been proven, and before Epstein has a chance to testify, he magically manages to commit suicide in a high-security prison.

And when you think about it, the whole Epstein story is ridiculous. It's completely fucking insane! Everything from the private island to the "suicide" reads like an alternate reality where everything is as stereotypically cliche evil as possible. But yet it exists. So clearly, the insanity of the conclusion of a theory is not grounds for ignoring it.

I am not saying conspiracists are right on everything, or even most things, but it seems to me that some of them have a knack for seeing problems from a different angle. Perhaps we shouldn't just flat-out ignore them before verifying said angle for ourselves.
Isn't really about those being higher cost - as the Planet people say, their approach is only possible because they're working inside Earth's magnetosphere.
> Add "Dex for Chrome"?

>> It can:

>> Read and change all your data on the websites you visit

No thanks
Curl –libcurl option generates a C file
Personally, I hate Pinterest with a passion, mainly because of how it pollutes image searches with useless, context-less results.
An open-source alternative, Monica, has been discussed before:

* (2018) "Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family" -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18318547

* (2017) "Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family" -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295
Where is it easier to strike it rich?
Or challenge them to a race between those locations.
Though not literally the same as loss of life, there has to come a point where software "glitches" that lead to this kind of release are treated in a way similar to a software "glitch" that leads to accidents with computer controlled machines. Boeing's majorly paying for this right now, but companies like this just get to say "Oops" and move on.

Again, it's not the same as people dying in a plane crash, but it's not in the, "The car I ordered wasn't the same shade of blue I thought I was getting" category either.

As a software engineers (if you are one), we at some point have obligations to our end users that top the obligations to the people who pay for our work. And if I worked for Boeing, it's not my personal obligation to safety that keeps that plane safe, it's Boeing's obligation, and their interest in a culture that manifests a mindset in developers of "There's a lot riding on your decisions."
Common ADHD Medication May Affect White Matter in Boys' Brains
Don’t Believe a Word
It's still pretty cool everyone can engage with the United States president or with an Elon Musk. Every user is aware of that reach.
To be clear: you're suggesting this is an improvement -- bulldozer-proof slums afford utility to the residents?

(I'd tend to agree.)
In light of the recent Binance and Capital One hacks, I thought I'd share what I'm working on. It's tool that makes it easier for businesses to collect end-to-end encrypted documents. All s3 buckets only store PGP files so misconfiguration is less disastrous. If a business uploads their public key, then there's no data in the cloud to hack. I learned a lot of awesome JS tricks while working on this. All the encryption is done in the client's browser using OpenPGP.js (which I highly recommend).
It’s a gregariousness thing. Humans like to be in groups, and modern life has strongly reduced the quantity and kind of groups we can be a part of, as well as loosened family ties which used to prime over everything else.

Flat earthers aren’t spending their time writing equations to justify their views - they’re posting in Facebook groups, going to conventions, etc. People become flat earthers not because of their scientific beliefs, but because there is a flat earth movement to become a part of.

It’s about the social group first and foremost, feeling smarter than the establishment is an added bonus.
Because he works as a rigger / repairer in the entertainment lighting industry, he has an unfortunate fixation with simple lighting devices. There are so many other interesting simple electronic devices he could explore. I used to subscribe, but got bored after too many Poundland LED lights.

His format is great, and he can certainly break it down well, but the content needs more variety.
To steelman what you said, you could fly a polar route over the south pole (say from the Horn of South America to the Cape of Good Hope) and time it out, then fly a polar route over the North pole and time it out. Both flights are short on a round earth.
agree or disagree with the actual existence, but this definition ignores politically active people in politically important and politically connected non-governmental institutions e.g. media, finance, think tanks, unions, etc, which i think is implied by at least some when using this term..
Thanks for your comment. I was a bit intrigued, also in light of the sibling discussion, so I tried to look this up without spending too much time on it.

This document "How is inflation measured?" from the Riksbank: https://www.riksbank.se/globalassets/media/rapporter/ekonomi... doesn't give weights in general but does say this (emphasis mine): "the method in which housing costs for owner occupied housing are measured are an important source of non-comparability, partly because they make up a large proportion of the CPI (around 10 per cent in sweden)". Note the "owner occupied" part, so this isn't even just rents! But then I don't understand the rest of the discussion that follows this.

Also Statistics Sweden at https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje... lists "Housing, water, electricity, and fuels" as one of the "main groups" in the CPI, though this only suggests but does not prove that housing does have a non-zero weight.
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Overall: Dex isn't open source, but integrates with your Google Calendar, has a Chrome extension that integrates with social media workflows.

We're definitely solving a similar problem, and in the past I was a user of Monica until I found it too much work to keep up with. Monica notably does have more fields and performs functions (like journaling) that Dex does not.
spoiler: this was extremely boring and stupid. Reading this, downloading the files and looking at them was a complete waste of time, this is a nothing burger.
https://www.principles.com/#get-the-books

Big Debt Crisis is an interesting read if you have an interest in his economic outlook. Still a free pdf I see..
I can't recommend pyroot highly enough. All the benefits of python while removing some of the worst usability problems in root. Compiling with cython meshes well, as it tends to provide the biggest performance gains for the types of tasks people frequently need to perform (like checking lots of conditionals).

Advice to people starting with ROOT who have lots of data to process: if at all possible dont mess with multithreading. Make a single threaded process that grabs only the data needed and makes its own output file. Then combine the outputs with the hadd tool. You can run the single threaded program en masse with HTcondor or a similar scheme and it 'just works' while remaining scalable.
Water is also vital to all life. Doesn't mean you can't drown in it or that you'll want too much of it in your basement.
Even if you delete your account, they probably still keep and sell your data to anyone who asks.

Is there any way to force a US company to scrub your data, including from logs and backups?