skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is lying but not fraud. Fraud is you pay me to do X but I take your money with no intention of actually doing X. If I take your money and tell you my 6 partner and I are going to do X for you (for values of X that do not depend on the number of people actually involved eg send out invoices to your clients or post to your social media) but do all the work myself then it most certainly is not fraud.

I get the temptation to misrepresent yourself this way, but I would not do it. My experience is customers really don't care how many people are in your company as long as you deliver something valuable and are professional in your execution. That said, I would not, in the slightest, look down on anyone that employed this tactic
How do we hack ourselves into better human beings?
Yeah, cannot they just do a soft delete or change a bool like disableAccount from false to true, for example? :D

I believe this is what Discord does. If you delete your account, or if you request it to be deleted, it does not delete your comments, your name changes, your profile photo gets removed, but the comments are still there. Are they not considered personal data? Call me paranoid, but I do not believe that your comments actually get deleted even when you delete them either, I would say they just get hidden.
We used that book for a course and I found it among my less favourite ones. its been a few years since I used it, but I remember it shallow and uninspiring. not trying to start an argument here, maybe just an outlier opinion since this seems a standard textbook.
Is that just actual static linking, or is bundling everything in a directory okay?
As he was preparing for an IPO that would make him a billionaire many times over, Mr. Neumann was surfing in the Maldives when executives in New York called to go over the all-important document that would be released to investors. Reluctant to cut his trip short, Mr. Neumann summoned a WeWork underling to the Maldives for an in-person briefing, according to people familiar with the episode.

The We controversy didn't catch my eye at all initially, but this is something else.
A C compiler can certainly also inline functions, as long as the definition is visible. Neither is there any guarantee that all C++ template instantiations will be inlined.
Probably most people upvoting didn't know about the NYT article (does everyone here read all the NYT articles?) and thought it was interesting.
Android Hacking with Termux – Dotweak.com
A century after Black Sox, baseball cheating goes high-tech
>I hope you’re kidding about the two safes thing. Either hire an attorney for this purpose or accept that your family will have little to no recourse for challenging claims

Silicon Valley: who needs accountants or lawyers?

Also Silicon Valley: how many safes do I need to ensure my spouse can access my KeePass database?
Why is it acceptable to submit an article which is selectively inaccessible to the majority of users?

All I see is:

How to Become the Best in the World at Something
With skill stacking, you don’t need to be at the top to be extraordinary
Tomas Pueyo
Oct 17 · 7 min read

It’s better to have three okay tools than a single, perfect one. The axe is great at breaking obstacles, but not that useful to jump over pits. The grapple is great to jump over ice or pits, but not amazing for slaying dragons. The only way to win is by having both tools. Illustrations: Tomas Pueyo.

CConsider what it takes to become an NBA player. Most of them have been honing their skills on the basketball court practically since infancy. Years of countless practices, camps, and games have helped each player develop a skill set based around shooting…

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It's still video-- unless you want to seriously compromise on quality or frame rate it's an outdoor camera will use decent amount of bandwidth. (I agree an indoor security camera with no view of a window can be awfully low bitrate).

Looks like my cameras, all outdoor, average about 7mbit/sec each-- most of my cameras are 2 or 4mpixel ones though the number is inflated by a couple 12mpixel wide angle cameras. I'm sure I could tune the bitrate a bit more if I tried, but already I turned them down until just before there was a noticeable reduction in face intelligibility at the end of their range.
I would recommend "The Number Devil" [1] for children (from 11 on) and adults alike.

It's a zany story, but in that respect it provides a refreshing intro into some math concepts.

In that vein, I also recommend "mathematical mindsets" [2]. A colleague developed a course inspired by this book. Though I only witnessed a tidbit, it radiated with the "new perspective/ new insights / gained understanding" that you'd get from the Feynman lectures.

Sidenote: neither is "now you know how all of maths work", but neither is Feynman thaf (foot physics). More importantly, all of them help you gain a new perspective on things.

[1] eg. https://www.bol.com/nl/p/the-number-devil-a-mathematical-adv...

[2] eg. https://books.google.nl/books/about/Mathematical_Mindsets.ht...
Much less than half would be women.
> I was fine beyond my eyelids and nostrils crystalizing.

As a fellow Canadian from Québec, this is how I explain the degrees of coldness to people whom have never experienced it.

You know it's really cold out when your eyelids momentarily freeze shut when blinking due to the accumulated moisture on your eyelashes spontaneously freezing together.
9-Year-Old Climbs El Capitan
I think the precise problem of letting this version go into a new form of volumes, is giving the people on meta a task of "improving" one set of rules.

I think the current SE site questions/answers should be prefixed, new namespaces should register with new COC/TOCs and we should allow a free for all of linked questions, answers, comments, etc with people deciding their own web of trust for what portions of the Q&A web they want to see.
Yep, that's the TASCAM [1] audio connector which is DB-25 and super common in the audio world. Traditional audio uses AES [2] using either XLR or BNC connectors and only carries two audio channels. The TASCAM cable carries far more channels and, if using digital AES, there is no downside since it either works or doesn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tascam_Digital_Interface
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES3
How Magnetic Refrigeration Works (2014)
This comment seems to have initiated a surprisingly long thread on the topic of guns. A worthy topic, but I was hoping to see more discussion on surveillance, privacy and related things. Perhaps someone should drop an inflammatory submission on firearms and let the flames frolic there.
> All of this may leave the modern reader wondering: What is a floppy disk?

Oh my! I feel sooo old now!

> replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution

I thought SSDs are not very reliable, no? Especially for the crucial infras. It looks like complexity and maintenance has also increased exponentially.
Quantum Consciousness – The Implications of the Incompleteness Theorems
The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam’s Nuclear Mastermind (2004)
> one might argue that those "modern hackers" you refer to aren't actually hackers as a result of their embracing those things.

That's one way to look at it, and judging from the downvotes my comment has been getting, the way a lot of people here see it.

But to me, hackers aren't as immune to political or cultural influence as perhaps they'd like to believe, and it's inevitable that the web and its culture (and the general rightward shift that culture seems to be undergoing) will have transformed hackers as it has everything else.
I'm currently reading "Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers
by Jan Gullberg" with my 3 sons (16, 12 and 10), and by taking it slow (one minor number per day) with lots of work together its helping build things up for them from first principles.

I read it myself years ago and it was a great and entertaining way to fill in the gaps from my meager math education.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/383087.Mathematics
What's your stance on antibiotics? Or did you only mean "recreational" drugs?

The reason why I bring this up is that antimicrobial resistance is an externality of widespread antibiotic usage. Unfettered access to all drugs would probably accelerate antimicrobial resistance, because people tend to overuse/abuse antibiotics when they have the freedom to.

(Not trying to be mean/inflammatory/pedantic, I'm genuinely curious how HN would reconcile these stances.)
> newspaper advertising has always been a low-return-on-investment marketing avenue

Back in the 1980s (in the Datalight/Zortech days), the only game in town was advertising in computer magazines. We knew it worked because the day the monthly mag appeared on the shelf, we'd get a big spike in sales, that would then taper off through the month. It was fairly easy to correlate which computer mags mattered, how ad placement in the mag affected results, and how the size of the ad worked out.

For example, we learned to never bother advertising in August. Programmers apparently all went on vacation in August :-) but September would be a huge month for us.

I tried print advertising in the aughts, but there was literally zero return on investment.
Living in rentals or apartment buildings would make it difficult to do that.
So maintain it as a third party set of patches.

So I can run proprietary apps (because that's what these self-professed app devs are talking about mostly)? Not gonna happen.

Just because upstream wouldn't accept it doesn't mean that it can't exist.

No, it just means it's a lot of unnecessary work for a framework that already has an arduous build process. I haven't found that killer Electron app just yet so what that means in practical terms is that VS Code goes bye bye when my MacBook Pro finally dies and I move away from Apple (and likely to OpenBSD) on the desktop.

I definitely prefer working Electron apps on Linux than just not having that app available in the first place.

That's what's known as a false dichotomy. Even if Electron were the only choice, how many of these Electron apps (e.g. Slack, Discord, Signal) would be better off just being used directly from the browser?
Ask HN: Just got sacked for not attending standups
So I've just had my contract terminated. As far as I can tell this is because I didn't work 9am-5pm every day and sometimes missed the daily standup call. I'd usually miss the standup because I was working on something and didn't realise the time.

Reasons given for termination were:

- Not adhering to agreed company working policies

- Not informing the line manager or colleagues about his whereabouts

- Taking unauthorised leaves

I would take issue with the first because I never broke any policy. In fact I have always been explicit that things like private keys shouldn't be left to me because I'm a contractor.

I would take issue with "unauthorised leave" because I never charged for days I wasn't there and I always make sure I don't leave people unable to do their work just because I'm not there.

My actual work has always been commended by other workers, and always on time.

So I'm having my contract terminated because I'm not acting "like an employee" and turning up everyday to make an excuse for my existence at a standup.

To be clear - there is no ill will. If the job is to make it look like you're working than actually working, that's up to them, and I'm best off elsewhere.

The question is - is this standard, even for contractors? It seems to go against everything that is agile about agile?
Ctrl-f "Wolfram"...58 results. Is this a new record? He brands his products like Trump would, only he's an actual genius.
I don’t know if Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, was the first person to really write about this concept, but he originally wrote about the concept he called the “talent stack” with the same exact arguments in his books years ago. I think this idea is really important: it’s smart to combine different skills. Additionally, having experience in different domains like economics and design and business and technology and more gives you a lens to see the world through that not everybody has. If you combine a few of these lenses, you’re able to make connections and understand things that most people wouldn’t see.
There are rumors that Wyze has a doorbell camera under development

Their regular cams are only $19.99, and I've been very happy with them so far. If they do a doorbell, that's definitely the way I'll be going.
This seems like a fun math game. Grise Ford is at 76.4 deg north, and the northernmost point of Mexico (near Yuma, AZ) is at 32.7 deg north, for a difference of 43.7 (45 would be half the distance from the equator to the pole). Round up to 44 and split in half, add 33+22, and your hometown is at most 55 deg north.

I guess it depends on what part of Canada. In Ontario and Quebec, 55N is the middle of the Canadian shield, a maze of lakes with no roads and almost no settlements (looking at satellite view, because I don't know the area). But out west on the prairie, Edmonton is 54N and while as a USian, I consider it the great white north, it has roads and towns all the way there. And settlements continue further W and N into BC. I have a friend in Ft St John at 56N. Ultimately, there are several roads (more recent) going up to the arctic Ocean (69N at Tuktoyktak, NT, and 71N at Barrow, Alaska).

I do get your point though, Canada stretches far north and has lots of empty areas and small communities with low connectivity to the rest of the country. After all, Canada is the second largest country by land area.
The article is accessible, but you've chosen not to access it.
> "I should add that I strongly favor candidate with open source experience, so most of the time I'll have also looked at their code myself and may have some questions about it."

So, that's the most important part missing from your original comment. From that, I would assume that you never hired a developer without looking at their code before/after an interview. Is that right to assume?

Basically open sourced code (and not the interview) act as a substitute for coding tests in your process
I think the theory behind the legitimacy is better than the practice. Sure, you can't buy ads in national publications for a fly-by-night level scam the way you can buy social ads. But outright scams can be as big as Enron, and people running scam ICOs/MLM companies etc can definitely afford the ad bill if they don't find the sucker ratio higher through more targeted digital channels...
I'd like to see a SO clone that has a subscription model that's optional but then when you upvote something you're giving that person some SO cash which they can cashout or apply to their monthly subscription.

Subscriptions would be a 'name your price' model, site would take like 10% + 2.8(stripe fees).

Questions would drop off indexes, related questions, etc after 1 year - but remain visible for 3 years, moderators can flag evergreen content as 'eternal', if they deem it likely to be relevant in 5-10 years, or part of pop culture...maybe have some flags they can give it like reddit posts. Archived | Popularity-extended-life.

Perhaps make invisible posts still visible to contributors, saved bookmarks, etc if logged in, but definitely won't show up unauthenticated or in google.

I think combining SO w/ something like codementor as well and code reviews would make for a good business model imho, really there's a lot of stuff in the 'learning to code space' that could apply.. could even have different views for questions --for instance people could post a video instead of text for a response, then you could auto load text or video or 'unified' views.

Lately I find myself using reddit more than SO, so maybe a customized reddit that's geared just for tech would be better... with slack-like communities built in, but the ability to wikify/read the chat logs online for further help/context.

Something that's broken by subtopics like reddit or into 'channels', w/ chat, wiki, and maybe built in awesome-lists, dev-docs, dev-tools, etc would be pretty sick.
Remember when seconds count the cops are only minutes away. Seriously, Cops do not have a legal duty to protect you [1] [2].

No gun owner needs to explain why they need their firearms to you. You need to get over it and realize that it's a constitutional right. That's as if one was asking another to explain their "need" for their freedom of religion or freedom of expression.

In a thread detailing Police abusing power, do you not see the benefit of citizens being able to arm themselves?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
My apologies if it seemed targeted at you; your comment was at the top and the post was marked as a dupe. The feedback is not against you.
Oh hey, they finally added vestigial Arm support looks at site for Linux.

Running Electron apps on Windows for ARM devices is possible by using the ia32 binary.

lol

Portability is not Electron's strong suit despite all the marketing hype to the contrary.
Internal Cybersecurity Memo: White House Is Bound to Get Hacked
Related to this, I wish more of Hulu's financials were made public. They have essentially concentrated on growing their ad-supported subscriptions by cutting the consumer price and doing subscription bundle deals with others like Spotify. Sometimes you could get Hulu for $1 per month (when it costs about ~$12 per month for an ad-free subscription).

Is it due to ad supported subscriptions being worth more to Hulu or is it just a subscription count growth strategy?
You're 43 times more likely to kill a family member than an intruder.

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/08/18/diana-arezzo-gun...
40 is about a six pack a day seven days a week.
I actually enjoy real-time meetings, as long as a few conditions are met:

1. A concise, realistic agenda is distributed to all attendees beforehand, and actually followed
2. A single person takes concise notes, with a heavy focus on action items and official decisions; the notes are distributed promptly at the end of the meeting (or better yet, real-time via a shared document)
3. Each action item is given a single assignee and realistic deadline

Your chat example seems like it could be solved with a 5-minute screenshare.
Anecdotally, I'd estimate 10% of floppy disks I purchased were DOA, and about 0% for SSDs. Would be curious for more rigorous data
An ad executive famously remarked: "I know that half of our advertising budget is wasted. I just don't know which half."
Non paywall link: https://outline.com/sRfTa9

But, FWIW, I do agree with you. Medium is the worst. Thankfully services like Outline are available to get around all that.
What do you mean by "inlines are not part of the C standard"?

The standard talks about visible behaviour of programs, never the concrete implementation.
He’s named the company after himself, which isn’t that uncommon. I’m sure you’d see similar results if you looked through a long article on Dell’s website.
I agree with you, but climate change isn't the casus belli here. It's more of the buildup of tinder that gets sparked by the proverbial assassination of an Archduke. Examples of this recently are the Arab Spring and Syrian Civil War.

The US didn't become involved in Syria because of climate change - rather climate change caused the conditions for the conflict to erupt, and at the time, it made sense for the US to deploy ground troops and get involved in that conflict as it aligned with foreign policy goals in the region.

With Bangladesh, you essentially have (edit:) 160 million people in a country where a third of it floods each year. Tens of millions on floodplains at sea level. Their political, ethnic, and religious borders are historically tense. When sea levels rise it will displace many of those people into Northern India, and possibly southern China.

The question to ask is what will the political response from the regional powers be when this happens? And how does it affect US goals in the region? What foreign policy tools will be available to realize those goals? This report points to the idea that the US military will not be one of them, which means if conflict erupts the US will be on the sidelines. Whether or not that's a good thing is impossible to predict.
McCarthy wanted a list processing language. He added list processing functions (which then later appeared in Lisp) to Fortran. He and his team then went on to develop and implement a new language: Lisp. The implementation ALWAYS was based on lists and s-expressions.

The paper http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html was published, when Lisp was already implemented, to present some ideas to a different audience. But Lisp already existed by then as a running programming language.

First and foremost Lisp was a real programming language implemented on a real computer.

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp15_fam...

See also: History of Lisp, John McCarthy, http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf

"My desire for an algebraic list processing language for artificial intelligence work on the IBM 704 computer arose in the summer of 1956..."

"The implementation of LISP began in Fall 1958 ... These included programs to read and print list structure. I can’t now remember whether the decision to use parenthesized list notation as the external form of LISP data was made then or whether it had already been used in discussing the paper differentiation program."

"The M-notation also used brackets instead of parentheses to enclose the arguments of functions in order to reserve parentheses for list-structure constants. It was intended to compile from some approximation to the M-notation, but the M-notation was never fully defined, because representing LISP functions by LISP lists became the dominant programming language when the interpreter later became available."

"Anyway, I decided to write a paper describing LISP both as a programming language and as a formalism for doing recursive function theory. The paper was Recursive functions of symbolic ex- pressions and their computation by machine, part I (McCarthy 1960)."
I noticed you looked at the marketing site which is completely separate from the FOSS and Enterprise offerings. Does https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/trending look better? That's running the enterprise code.
It seems as though there are approximately 300 pages' worth. https://www.amazon.com/Exercises-Feynman-Lectures-Physics-Ri...
Andrew Yang on Thorium and Climate Change [video]
> How do you verify no cheating with work samples?

You can't really, and that's the main reason most of the teams I know avoid them, or supplement them with onsite whiteboarding.
Open collaborative deep learning on drone data
so much angst, but for folks around here of a certain age this brings back a lot of fond memories of a time when the internet still felt wild and limitless.
Microsoft Phishing Attacks Target United Nations and Charities
Please don't feel bad! but if you'd take the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful. It doesn't necessarily come naturally...personally it took me years to adapt out of my earlier (much snarkier) internet commenting pattern.

In addition to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, these old links might also be helpful for getting the spirit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
Why open-plan offices get a bad rap