skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entry level software job market in the USA is completely saturated, not to mention the scores of talented developers from over seas waiting to come here
I use Bear Notes on macOS + CodiMD for nice markdown + code notes that can be directly published as blog posts. https://docs.sweeting.me/s/blog
I'm not positive, but I think GP intended to refer to idea that you would need to multiple compilers to compile the project rather than cross-compiling to another platform.
This is a textbook in probability in high dimensions with a view toward applications in data sciences. It is intended for doctoral and advanced masters students
and beginning researchers in mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, computational biology and related areas, who are looking to expand their knowledge
of theoretical methods used in modern research in data sciences.

A typical graduate probability course
is no longer sufficient to acquire the level of mathematical sophistication that
is expected from a beginning researcher in data sciences today. The proposed
book intends to partially cover this gap. It presents some of the key probabilistic methods and results that may form an essential toolbox for a mathematical
data scientist. This book can be used as a textbook for a basic second course in
probability with a view toward data science applications. It is also suitable for
self-study.
Space X Brief History
I was talking about the kind of helmets bicyclists wear. The only thing a bicycle helmet would save you from in a car wreck is hitting your head against the windshield/dash which is what we have airbags and seatbelts for.

Also, race cars aren't really comparable to normal driving situations since they go much faster and have a different set of constraints than normal cars. The racing helmets, rollcages, and 5 point harnesses aren't really as necessary at 70mph as they are at 200mph
Fatty acids are not carbohydrates, but are hydrocarbons.

Lignin is also not normally considered a carbohydrate.
Sad that one of my current banks (Chase) won't add TOTP to their login.

Edit: https://twitter.com/skunkworker/status/1131297869703438337

@ChaseSupport
Hey Chase, when will offline TOTP be added for a more secure login?

Thank you for reaching out! What we have is the multi-factor authentication on all online accounts. You can visit https://tinyurl.com/y7r2fztd for more info on how we protect and secure your information. ^AA
Here's the other two boxes:

https://imgur.com/a/yJH9QYu

(Which Imgur also finds erotic and NSFW. Odd)
Great questions!

1. How would you keep it discussion-centric (not GoodReads) ...?

2. How will this be any different than a simple online forum about literature?

To answer your first question -- the idea is to use the guided questions as a basis for your discussion. So, you already start on firm ground followed by questions/prompts for the group you're in. A lot of this is dependent on the UI/UX however, I am considering having structured responses which aren't entirely free form or even, a series of responses with a mix of both.

Why is this not just a forum about literature? Literature forums typically are composed of, essentially, smaller book clubs. The problem is that book clubs will have a group of people that you'll have to edge your way into and they'll be going at a specific pace and roadmap. On the other hand, with Qitab, you're not beholden to the whims of a book club etc. Instead, you start with structured questions to engage you with your text so you have the upside of a book club without being a part of one _and_ when you're ready, you can search out other people on Qitab who are also reading the book so you can engage when you want.

I hope that answers your questions! It would be awesome if you could visit http://qitab.club and sign up (you're e-mail is 100% confidential and _will not_ be shared with advertisers etc.) -- that'll be a really great vote of confidence and I can follow up with you as we're developing.
What Is the Future of On-Demand Mobile Apps?
> So hypnotically could he have done it if he had 50%+ vote? Or could he still be sued?

Could still be sued.

> And by watching everything burn, I mean he could try to spin it as he will take drastic action to improve on the situation and refuse Softbank's offer.

Having a spin can help in court, but a court is likely to see through it.
While the article makes some good points, it conflates the variety of distinct components that comprise a truly sherlock-proof product/application/codebase.

Better to build full native but rely on cross-platform architecture, design patterns, common backend/infrastructure, etc than settle for hypebeast cross-platform abstraction magic with dependencies on overburdened and leaky by definition integrations back to native SDK.
The former yields all the proven benefits of native apps and strong platform vendor support with a contingency plan if said ecosystem launches a competing product. The latter leads to a world of hurt.

Specifically, the article misses the mark wrt Swift. Swift is open source and truly cross-platform. SwiftNIO, Tensorflow, and the server-side Swift projects are a great example of how far one can go assuming a willingness to invest in the language completely devoid of any Apple API involvement.

It truly seems like the next major breakthrough would be if SwiftUI could (relatively easily) be implemented for desktop Windows or *nix. Sure, the article notes people tried the same thing with GNUStep or WinObjC, but you were always truly tied to or ended up missing Cocoa, Foundation, and the Obj-C runtime. Conversely & ironically, swift-evolution, spm, and many of the most "Swifty" parts of the Swift ecosystem come to the other toolchains long before they make it into an annual Xcode release.
The Constitution is just a piece of paper.
"The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Alberto Brandolini
nope I took US history multiple times after that, still thought the bill of rights had 10 amendments
Yet this is a fight worth fighting.

I must say it is great that they are confined to rather obscure parts of the wikipedia whereas they could be on pages about much more important or current events.

And I must say, HOGD is a page where I would expect a lot of contradictory information. It would take several courageous scholars to put some order in the various versions of the various ego-maniacal members it had. I would argue that this is a subject that has relatively little importance, given the small amount of people involved and the general irrelevance of their actions but for some reasons, this order became pretty popular in magic folklore...
C+=0.5
The vast majority of relevant privacy-sensitive information is not IP addresses. The ISP can't read the full content of every page just from IP addresses.
I’m not suggesting that you upgrade to Catalina yet. The removal of support for 32-bit programs was long coming, but I can see how it’s a big deal for some people running legacy software that may never be updated by the developer.

You can run the latest (or any recent) version of iTunes on Catalina and use it to manage your iThings and content. There’s a forum post on Macrumors with a nifty AppleScript that will install an older version of iTunes (that you’ve separately downloaded) and make it available for you. It does require disabling SIP temporarily. It doesn’t seem like the determined user is forced to abandon iTunes, as of now.
I would prefer not to see GitLab employees all over this thread on every comment like those PR folks on Twitter.

Let people speak, and listen.
It’s about time
Society is 10x as productive as it was 30years ago. The number of people is irrelevant. Just need to spend more on elder care from the huge economic pie.
Our nonprofit, Open Law Library, works with governments to do exactly this. For example, the DC Council uses our software to codify and publish their laws in xml and html on github: https://github.com/dccouncil/dc-law-xml. If you're interested in getting your government's laws published using git in human- and computer-readable formats, feel free to reach out to me at dgreisen [at] openlawlib [dot] org.
Believing "People just don't care" is both factually incorrect and counter productive. This is on the top of a site that's read by millions of people.

Your hopelessness and cynicism towards "99.9%" of people does not actively contribute to the problem.
Don't know why they can't just drop an empty battery w/ a parachute once the plane gets to a high enough altitude.
> Paul Machle, CTO

Paul is the CFO.
I own Product Pix (https://www.proproductpix.org). It removes the background from product photos, with the intended audience being mostly people who sell stuff online and need to set their background against a white background.

It makes $1300/month right now, up from $0 6 months ago. Living in the Bay Area, that would put me well below the poverty line if it were my sole source of income, so I'm not gonna call it "successful" just yet.

How I got started: I do machine learning, and I methodically searched for places where people buy a service transactionally on platforms like Fiverr and that I think can be automated away (or greatly automated with human reviewers in the loop) with state of the art machine learning models. There are hundreds or thousands of such opportunities that individuals can solve on their own.

I'll be more comfortable giving sage advice once I've crossed the $10K/month threshold, but still I'd say a willingness to try a lot of shit out and get digging on stuff you have 0 familiarity with is mandatory. In this project I've had to learn javascript, frontend, photography, google ads campaign management etc.

Another tip I wish someone had told me is, build a pricing page from day one. The temptation to get _some_ signal you're useful to people will drive you to offer stuff for free, but that will end up getting you a lot of unwanted attention from people who will never ever pay.
> a CLI text editor like vim, emacs, nano, or any of the plethora of existing tools that work out of the box to edit documents.

Asking a world that is used to what came out of Xerox PARC to switch back to 1970's technology on teletype emulators is...the only word I can think of is Quixotic.
An F-15 can exceed 59k feet and 1200 mph. It has a service ceiling of 65k feet, and a maximum speed of over 1600 mph.
I thought the MODE command could do this.
Securing one entrance well is easier than moving along with revolving one. It is way simpler to stand still and aim with a gun than walk along shifting door way and aim a gun.

Serving food is simpler since you can just carry a cart with say a soup pot on one entrance and hand in bowls of it while the thing rotates. With moving door you'd have to keep moving the pot or pre-laddle the soup.

Same goes for all other housekeeping tasks. When the prisoners take their linen and clothes to wash they can not have any contact with other prisoners as they don't walk past their cells.

Bringing prisoners in is easier since they will always move along the same exact route no matter what since that is where the door is.

You could also potentially keep the prisoners from knowing who is in the same jail as them if you don't let them see one another. Obviously sound still carries, but some prisoners might not want to talk, so you could also consider it a privacy feature.

It also means you can firmly attach the bars to floor and ceiling making the cells more secure.

These are just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are others as well. While I can not think a single good reason why the bars should move.
Turn off contact sync in Telegram and delete your uploaded contacts.
This was truly lovely to read. A peek into how cultures change.
The plan to bring gene-based treatments for HIV, sickle cell disease to Africa
Had this happen to me last week. Thankfully they only tried to get into a few e-mail accounts, which I was quick enough to get into, kill their session, and recover them before any real damage was done. AT&T of course claimed it was impossible for that to happen, despite a different phone showing up in my account, a bunch of unexplained SMS messages I never received, and two calls accessing my voicemail that I didn't make.

Currently working on finishing moving passwords from a Google account to my password manager and resetting them all, as well as replacing anything that uses an SMS 2FA with a time based authenticator or other alternative where possible. Planning on getting a FIDO key to use where I can. Also setting up a Voice number on an account that's used for nothing else besides 2FA in the instances where there is no better form of authentication.
Ah yep, that's definitely true. Thanks for point that out.
The other thing I had a really hard time finding an answer to is how SameSite handles sibling subdomains like www.foo.com and api.foo.com.

Apparently browsers will use the public suffix list to determine what constitutes the first part of a domain which is identifying, and anything beyond that is considered SameSite.

So www.foo.com is the same site as api.foo.com, but user1.github.io is not the same site as user2.github.io. Because github.io is on the public suffix registry.

That is according to web.dev anyway...

https://web.dev/samesite-cookies-explained
facepalm thanks for the correction. Edited.
Could this be like the time Apple switched to Intel and gave up the animosity against The rest of the computing industry?
Stripe to move to South San Francisco
> We actually don’t use placeholders ... what matters is the code ... we all got used to it pretty quickly

This is what my gynecologist says too.

> I’d say given the size of the product the team size is lean to average.

Given the size of the product, most teams would look diminutive.
Mozilla has officially said [1] that it has no immediate plans to implement this kind of content blocking and removing the requests API for extensions, but I think it’s a matter of time before this is done. Mozilla’s FAQ on this [1] is extensive enough for the moment.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest...
Please see my reply below at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21341599
These two comments are about nursing homes, different from adult day care / community centers.
Furthermore, the rats that lived in enriched environments drove for the joy of driving, whereas the standard caged rats only drove for the food rewards.

"As hypothesized, the animals living in the enriched environment performed better at the driving test, indicating that they did a better job at learning a new complex skill. The enriched rats also maintained a strong interest in the car, even after the reward of food was removed.

On the other hand, the researchers were surprised at the lack of interest shown by the non-enriched rats and their level of underachievement shown in the driving task. "
Indeed - smearing anyone who is skeptical about central banking as a KKK member is not a good way to build credibility as a historian.
Build a Fashion-Mnist CNN, PyTorch Style
A thread on the MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) Principle
Show HN: Space Cloud – GraphQL Compatible Firebase
Every Day Americans Tell Google They Want to Do a Mass Shooting
I don't really buy the quote. You could mitigate a fire in many ways and on top of that unless it takes you minutes to move from a cell to another evacuating 8 prisoners wouldn't take that much time.

Only real fire related threat I can see is if a prisoner for some reason wants to set himself on fire and succeeds. Putting him out might take too long.

As for the inhumane part. I personally don't see it and I think our prisons are little too nice currently, but I'm from a country that doesn't run for-profit prisons.
Yep. Newspapers are laid out in columns because that's simply easier for people to read.

Since you're into dead tree editions, here's a fun fact you may not know: The fibers in newsprint are aligned vertically so that you can easily tear out an article vertically along its column. Tearing horizontally cleanly is significantly more difficult.

Source: Worked for two major newspaper companies.
Employees of Microsoft's GitHub demand company cancel its contract with ICE
Is WaPo profitable? I thought they were a Jeff Bezos charity case?
It's interesting to imply that the US Government should (or does) exist to serve the states instead of the people. The first three words in the US Constitution are "We The People".

For the record, I don't disagree with the existence of an upper house (in Australia we somewhat copied the US Senate design, though territories get fewer representatives than states). But its practical purpose is to facilitate less partisan discussion of legislation (and in Australia we only get that benefit because we have a preferential voting system). And it should be noted that many countries have abolished their upper house and become unicameral, and have continued to function just as well as before[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicameralism
What if you promote this service with a name that starts with "You" and ends with a word referencing one of the most dominant media of public record for over a half century?
One of the Chisel/FIRRTL devs here available to answer any questions.

tl;dr: Chisel/FIRRTL is trying to be "LLVM for circuits".

Concretely, Chisel is a domain specific language for describing hardware in Scala. The Chisel front-end generates circuit IR (Flexible Intermediate Representation for RTL/FIRRTL), FIRRTL IR is then transformed/customized by the middle-end FIRRTL compiler, and finally emitted via a Verilog backend (and then fed into FPGA/ASIC tooling).

It's not High Level Synthesis, just powerful hardware description. You get all the features of Scala (object-oriented programming, functional programming, first class functions, parametric polymorphism) to write programs that generate circuits. Sadly, the last 50 years of software engineering is traditionally not available to hardware designers in classic languages like Verilog or VHDL. Chisel/FIRRTL is one solution to that.

We just released Chisel 3.2 and FIRRTL 1.2 which was a massive update. Notable additions include:

- Asynchronous Reset/Reset Inference: https://github.com/freechipsproject/chisel3/pull/1011

- BoringUtils (synthesizable cross module references): https://github.com/freechipsproject/chisel3/pull/718

- Strongly Typed Enums: https://github.com/freechipsproject/chisel3/pull/892

- Refactor of Chisel and FIRRTL as Stages of Phases: https://github.com/freechipsproject/firrtl/pull/1005 (and others)

- Aspect Oriented Programming: https://github.com/freechipsproject/chisel3/pull/1077

- Lots of documentation improvements: new website, dramatically increased Scaladoc

Going forward, we're trying to get the release cadence up and are pushing to make the verification problem easier. Others have mentioned Testers2 which is one effort in that area. A code coverage/assertion library is another effort.
How did they know your email password and phone number at the same time?
Too bad the "amendments" to the constitution are all really just "appendments" tacked on to the end rather than actual amends to the main body of the text, which would make the Git repo more interesting.
Amazon Machine Learning
Very similar topic discussed about 6 months ago.

Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes (theatlantic.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864994
Yep, if we can get self driving cars and people are actually willing to share that space with strangers it will be a big win for transportation efficiency.

However at the same time we should be investing in density and figuring out ways to make that work. Urban sprawl is massively innefficient by it's nature.
Not really surprising.
From what I have seen of rats, they are very good at spatial perception and physical manipulation of their environment, where they easily outperform most cats and dogs I have had the pleasure of knowing.
A smart rat clearly enjoys exploration and challenge, and likes to be in control - it would appear more unexpected if these joyrides didn't relax them.
Most notably the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th, but both texts are still present in the amendments section of the US Constitution.
A friend lent me a copy of Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler" which I would strongly recommend if you're looking for something a bit different. It's written in the second person (the protagonist is you, the reader) and is alarmingly postmodern.
Would love to see this as a movie. Or at-least a book
One of his primary arguments in the book is that trauma is not always a dramatic event like those usually associated with PTSD. Instead, trauma, especially as experienced in childhood, can be sustained abuse, degradation, neglect with a cumulative impact equal to that of a dramatic event.
The point is not that I want people to switch, it's that software developers have choice and lawyers / etc don't.

To write software, I can use a CLI text editor, a basic GUI text editor, an advanced text editor like Sublime or Atom or VS Code, or a full on IDE like the JetBrains products. I have so much choice, and all of these are interoperable with each other and have different places where they shine. All work with git. I just don't think the same thing can be said for the document-creation workflows around law and such.
He may be biased for using Tor but it does come with a lot of problems even for non-Tor users, the 5 seconds wait it forces on a vast amount of users[0] have cumulatively wasted thousands of man-hours world-wide, sometimes I even close the site before the 5 seconds and click the next google search result because that is a bit faster (or at least less annoying).

In the same vein there are thousands of users complaining on Twitter[1] -and everywhere else- every day about the captcha CloudFare forced upon them

[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/154975/what-is-...

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=Captcha%20cloudflare&src=typed_...
Suface Laptop 3 is more reparairable without being thicker
What is my SaaS web app worth?
One of my paying customers has offered to buy my web app and wants me to give him a price [I assume where we can start negotiating], but I don't know how to calculate it's worth.

My customers are small businesses in a niche market; there are about 3000 of them in North America. I have 7 paying customers who pay a subscription each month. I got these customers via an email blast I send every few months. Once signed up, no one has ever left. Over the past few months, leads have started to contact me after finding me on Google.

It's been live for 2+ years. Revenue varies per month but has averaged $100 per month since going live.
September 2017 it made $50.
September 2018 it made $107.
September 2019 it made $155.

How much is it worth, or how can I calculate it's worth? Thank you.
What I read from this is that Microsoft tainted the word "telemetry". If they had called it something else they wouldn't get people mentally associating it with Windows 10.
Do you mind sharing what you moved to? I’m curious about the hardware you chose and the build quality.
By way of warning: I was burned several times by relying on proprietary 'solutions' that disappeared (Hypercard, for one). It was clear that I needed a customizable, long-lasting 'free' solution.

For my needs text files were that solution. Indexed entries, with or without HTML, that I can custom-search and display in a web browser. Adding links to great online resources takes little time. Adding 'features' is the other dangerous fun.