skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely true that "historically" textile making wouldn't have been taught at a university. Sure looks like a real academic discipline to me though, at least as much as say, law (maritime law being another of Soton's specialities) or indeed electronics. It so happens our culture prizes knowledge of electronics very highly and the development of new textiles much less so, but it could be otherwise.
That is not true. In fact the case if the steam engine highlights how harmful patents are. When the patent expired the amount of innovation flourished.

Patent law, like many other economic interventions relies on claims and arguments that have little to no evidence.
It would also make you an easy target for mockery by your opponents.
The guy who was responsible for firing the most number of founders from their own company is gone. RIP vulture capitalist.
New shingle roofs go up to 50 years for the higher quality ones.
I’d rather kill myself than work in greedy corporates thanks but no thanks.
Justice for Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman
Where do you see the labor demand going over the short, medium, and long terms for your clients? Ie what could happen to slow the market or accelerate it.
Remote XUL? Never even heard of that. My experience writing regular local client xul with HTTP calls went pretty snoothly
Twitch didnt get deplatformed because a mentally ill person streamed murder on it, and you wont hear a peep about the other big chan. That had nothing to do with "protecting" (seriously? wtf) people from reading some mentally ill person's note, it was a problem-reaction-solution to axe an inconvienent site.
If you don’t mind what kind of fishy stuff are you messaging that you want to hide it so badly?
Is there any age or location limitations?or any other restrictions.
Ask HN: What back end features are pain in the ass to build?
Baixar Along Came the Devil 2 – 2019 Terror Torrent
If I don't have FAANG on my resume and no open-source contributions are my chances doomed? Does age matter? What could I do to improve my chances?
Their policy is to reject otherwise-fine PRs if the site in question is not in the Alexa top 200K, so no this is not a good resource for either the stated purpose or for your stated purpose.
> My Kindle could’ve been a hub for all of my reading, from newsletters to newspapers to subscription sites to books.

Seems that a Kobo and https://getpocket.com would be right up his alley.

(The recent Aura HD is a 300 dpi pocketable device comparable to the Kindle Paperwhite)
Facebook: we can crawl you but you can't crawl us!
Not compared to FNG. A big reason for this discrepancy is enforceable noncompetes in Washington. In California, poaching is always fair game, so employers that compete on compensation have to pay accordingly.
Show HN: Post Your Jobs for Free
> the current state of dickheads in IT,

This is needless and hurtful
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19836/has-phil-...

Several references to the quote "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" can be found, such as Martin Fowler's blog and others.

I'm unable to find the source of this quote, has he ever said it?

- As his only son, and colleague with him at Netscape from 95-97, I can attest that my dad did indeed throw that quote around, on more than one occasion. I'm fairly confident that he originated it (he was fond of coming up with clever quippets), though I haven't been able to figure out how it disseminated so widely over the past couple of decades. I'll keep looking around in old web archives and mails to see if I can dig something up.
input redirection: https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html
>XUL was amazing

Yeah, you definitely have no clue or you are the worst programmer on Earth.
I'm only vaguely aware of this myself, though there are a few places I've learned to look.

A history of the Brooklyn Bridge and its builder notes, apparently as a form of admiration, that he designed every detail down to the nuts and bolts. Thing is, that's because he had to. There were no standard fasteners. (The book doesn't detail this, it's just a passing reference I happened to catch.) David McCullough's The Great Bridge: https://www.worldcat.org/title/great-bridge-the-epic-story-o...

Herbert Hoover, as US Secretary of Commerce, instituted the National Bureau of Standards (now the NTIS, I think), which among other things standardised weights, measures, and yes, fasteners. Rather hagiographically addressed here: http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/amrlhtml/inhoover.html

Joanne Yates has written on such thrilling topics as the evolution of the interoffice memo and standarisation of business communications (and though I'm writing tongue in cheek, I really do find the work fascinating), and has been working on a book on standards and their evolution. I've not read it but it may be of interest. Engineering rules : global standard setting since 1880 https://www.worldcat.org/title/engineering-rules-global-stan...

Simon Winchester has a book on machining and measurement, also not read, though based on his previous works it should be excellent. The Perfectionists: https://www.worldcat.org/title/perfectionists-how-precision-...

There was a fairly popular book on containerised freight shipping that came out within the past five years or so called The Box That Changed the World which looks at the standardisation of containerisation: https://www.worldcat.org/title/box-that-changed-the-world-fi...

Somewhere someone commented that one of the computer containerisation standards was simply a bunch of people coming to an agreement as to how to organise and and do things. My history with Linux has taught me that various packaging formats and systems (and the infrastructure surrounding them) have profound consequences and impacts, for users, adminstrators, and software producers.

I wish I could point to a single source and say "read this", but I'm really not aware of one presently.
This is a great opportunity to bash Spotify. For their abuse of credentials is abysmal. Not only there's no 2FA, but there's no email confirmation for password reset.

Yes, I've said it - if you leave an open Spotify running somewhere, someone can walk by and takeover your account.
The Ocean Cleanup Unveiling
Define wildly.

The Okl4 kernel in iPhones is extremely limited in its functionality, you could probably run that code even without an Os. It could also be argued if in its current form it is really a microkernel. Furthermore, sel4 and okl4 are not the same product.

(nothing bad on sel4, I have used it myself and I personally know the people behind the project. But it's not what you think it is)
The tools are free with a free developer account. If you distribute an app as open source on Github anyone can download and build the app to use for themselves. There is also a fee waiver program for non-profits, educational institutions, and government entities.

As far as programmer hobbyists, one has to buy a computer, disk drives, pay for internet access, food, coffee, etc. Most hobbies and passions have non-trivial associated costs.
No age restriction or location limitation. We work fully-online with flexible scheduling.

Our students come from all ages, cs backgrounds and locations.
The huge advantage of gif was that it went in the <IMG> element. It behaves like a picture that moves, and can be uploaded to picture hosting services.

Video, until maybe the last 5 years, didn't.
Pandas-Log: a new package for debugging pandas operations
Google:

Seen
3:24pm
It’s not a quote, it’s a coding challenge.
Vision scientists disprove 60-year-old perception theory
As someone who lives in a pop tourist place, my reaction is less about being angry, it s more ‘what the hell are they all doing here’. It feels like those lines outside shops on black friday that i used to see on US TV. How can it be ‘cool’ to travel when everybody’s doing it?
How does 9 reviews all giving 5 stars equate to an overall rating of 4.5 starts?

https://codebreakersacademy.com/reviews/
I am very much convinced —have been for about a decade— that this is the general way to go. To fundamentally give democracy to people in a much more direct fashion, a peer-to-peer design true to what democracy actually is. Starting with the local / small issues (if resistance is met at the top, unlike the Taiwainese example it seems).
I find your reply below the minimum acceptable level here; in fact I can hardly guess what you tried to say. Anyway, growth means that people who could not afford things before now can. For you it might be a new car; for somebody else it might mean a sanitation system or a reachable hospital. But who cares, you already have the car and the hospital, so screw growth.
Organic (Field Effect) Transistor
> Tor Browser in its default mode is starting with a content window rounded to a multiple of 200px x 100px to prevent fingerprinting the screen dimensions. The strategy here is to put all users in a couple of buckets to make it harder to single them out. That worked so far until users started to resize their windows (e.g. by maximizing them or going into fullscreen mode). Tor Browser 9 ships with a fingerprinting defense for those scenarios as well, which is called Letterboxing, a technique developed by Mozilla and presented earlier this year. It works by adding white margins to a browser window so that the window is as close as possible to the desired size while users are still in a couple of screen size buckets that prevent singling them out with the help of screen dimensions.
Is there any reason that’s not buying drugs or worse to use this? Honest question.
The demand for coders is likely only going to increase in the short, medium and long run.

FAANG companies have increased their employment of engineers by almost 10% for the past 3 years. I don't see the software engineer market slowing down anytime soon. Even if FAANG companies see competition from disruptive startups, those disruptive startups will need to hire engineers too.
Actually, Borges disliked translations. He read books in their original languages.
The whitepaper might be a better link: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rJxd7vsWPS
Hmm interesting. Is there an article that goes over Musk's internal production style or why he rejects the ones you've listed?
Conventional roofs do not have live power and electronic components.
Solar tiles (and panels) add "must not self-ignite" to the usual
install requirements like "must not leak for N years".

Good, fast, cheap - between good and fast, I want good first.
Cheap remains to be seen.
For a ~10kW (AC) system you're going to pay about that much, I just had it done.

It's misleading to look at the price of the panels alone. You also need (micro) inverters, you need to have it hooked up to the the grid, you need several inspections (construction + electrical). Getting all those panels installed on your roof and wired up is quite labor intensive as well. The installation cost is significant.
I think that any post that is technical and related to software* go through some process of being tear apart collectively by HN.

I have the opposite impression that HN collectively appreciate Rachel posts very much, judging by the sheer number of her blog's posts that are upvoted to front page recurrently. Not many personal blogs reach that number of upvotes in HN.

*Maybe even all kind of posts, but the ones that are technical and about software are just the sweet spot because HN is full of software engineers.
Which it sadly won't. It'll just cost the cities and the actual inhabitants of the places.
Related:

Organic Semiconductors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_semiconductor

Organic Superconductors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_superconductor
The new and updated Firefox Quantum has UI redundancy issues. I can't believe they don't let users customize the main menu!
This site should call out common 2FA implementation mistakes, like requiring a special app or device instead of using standard TOTP, not providing revokable printable recovery codes, not allowing SMS to be disabled when other 2FA methods are added, or not supporting multiple hardware keys.
While a nice idea, the problem is convincing people that compromise is a better alternative to winning.
Luckily, you fall in the textbook mainstream part of the adoption "S" curve. I think it's expected by any early adopter that you're basically testing beta products, I know technology taught me that in all regards.

I say luckily because it's a good thing that most people do not jump too quick on all bandwago... oh wait. Well, it's great when they don't, not too fast. Society isn't a startup.
With the recent customer desire of devices that are better at not sucking up our time & attention, eInk becomes an interesting technology. A few product attempts:

Light Phone: "dumb" phone (https://www.thelightphone.com)

Freewrite: word processors (https://getfreewrite.com)

reMarkable: notepad (https://remarkable.com)
Didn't this page used to say whether or not a site supported U2F specifically or was that some other very similar looking page?

Its unfortunate that they don't have this information. I would switch services to a site that specifically supports U2F/FIDO/FIDO2 but not to a site that uses a random proprietary hardware token that is still vulnerable to phishing.
I kind of doubt that. The Internet, movies, TV, etc would keep us all connected enough that we would still all be able to understand each other. This article[1] even mentions some grammar forms where America and Britain diverged that have joined back together (I assume due to the Internet etc) ("can I", subjunctive, and British slang).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293876
Subscription management.
Trustpilot uses a Bayesian Average to determine the overall rating which is the 4.5 stars.

Here's a link explaining their methodology - https://support.trustpilot.com/hc/en-us/articles/201748946-T...
Ah, yea, I got the argument backwards. I thought he was saying if content wasn’t blocked that it proved encryption worked. Can’t prove the negative.
Is it mirrored?
Thanks for doing this, looking forward to learning from you.

Is there a demand in FAANG for programmers but in Europe, and if so how much of a difference is it between US and Europe?

What would you say is a single trait which differentiates candidates to FAANG? Specific college, programmer from a young age, already established experience or personality, etc.

And finally, is it true that a lot of candidates are socially inept? I.e. lack interpersonal skills, verbal and non-verbal communication, if so, how big of a role does it play in an interview?
Each EV is estimated to save the country $20,000 (air pollution health costs, fuel etc) so if this causes 23 million transitions it would pay for itself.
You think that being required to pay in order to consume a good that was produced is what’s broken with the web?
not all companies have the same culture, maybe you should ask yourself why you’re willing to work with people who you aren’t willing to expose your daughter to
"We demand to be taken seriously!"
Exactly - a negative seo campaign against... REI’s website as a random example won’t do much.

But it’s not impossible to nuke a new-ish domain or a small business’s domain with tons of bad links through spam services if you know what you’re doing.
That excess capital being sent to shareholders clearly isn't being reinvested into stopping fires and maintenance. Because then, you know, cutting power might not be necessary?

It's amazing we're debating the pros/cons of public vs private utilities while we have an example of an incredibly corrupt private utility that needs to be shutdown and with execs thrown in jail for gross negligence.
Good idea. Unfortunately any 2FA using a phone number (SMS or phone call) is highly insecure -- see Jack Dorsey having his Twitter hijacked, or any number of people having bitcoins stolen from Coinbase. That implementation should be marked with a big red X, not a green checkmark.
I completely agree and have been thinking the same thing for a while now. Another reason you need the function language to be really integrated with the rest of the spread sheet (unlike VBA) is so that global variables are also visible in the dependency tree and topological sort. For instance, imagine a cell containing the following lambda function:

function (x, y) { return A1*x + y; }

It's clear that if the user changes the value in the A1 cell, any other cell which calls this function should be updated to reflect the new result. In addition to the arguments to the function (x and y), A1 is also an implicit parameter.
This is years ago and not my specialty, but I worked with a product line that manufactured what were essentially highly precise plastic washers. As they came off the line there was a clever bit of mechanical disbursement that slowly dropped them onto a conveyor under which a flashing light sync'd with a digital camera system took pictures.

Because all of the factors are known you could almost do pixel counts and compare to "true" circles (no need for AI models), any washers that didn't meet the critera were pneumatically puffed off of the line from an air hose.
Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste, a Nobel winner suggests
While I agree that find has weird quirks to my liking, your example is not a great one. I would write the find as follows:

`find /prog -type f -size +500k -name core -delete`

Alternative:

`find /prog -type f -size +500k -name core -exec rm -v {} +`

For extra context:

`-print` will just show you the results before `rm`'ing.

When the command ends with `\;`, the command will be repeated for every match. If the command ends with `+`, the results are appended until max args is reached (and then repeated). This is not always possible, but when it is, it's way easier to use. Less calls to the command, but certainly useful when appending the command after an ssh command, which would mean any number of extra `\` to escape the original `\`...
Is it possible to disable, or make the page render bigger behind the scenes but scale to display, or anything to stop the massive letterboxing I seem stuck with on a very normal resolution laptop?
Rich Californians are hiring private firefighters to protect their homes
Non-AMP link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christopher-columbus-letters-st...
From my experience in my city it is more like 90% women.
No idea. gif makers are a plenty on the web nowadays.
Cash for Clunkers 2.0
The Alexa top 200k seems like a good bar. Beyond that you're going to get a lot of noise.

HN ranks pretty highly, and we're a "niche" community.
Indeed, and graphviz's dot is really useful, too. It makes it really easy to make all sorts of graphs. For example, if I wanted to make a dependency graph of all the packages I have installed in Archlinux, I can use it like this:

pacman -Qq | xargs -r pacman -Qi | awk '
BEGIN { print "digraph deps {" }
/^Name/ { n = $3 }
/^Depends On/ {
for (i = 4; i <= NF; i++)
print " \"" n "\" -> \"" $i "\";"
}
END { print "}" }
' | dot -Tsvg > package-deps.svg
ok. then right, it's the vaguer question of whether his site deserves to rank higher than it does for a particular term.

on brief glance, it doesn't look like he optimizes for "polygraph". He does rank #1 for antipolygraph.
Absolutely not. We've worked with people of all ages and backgrounds, many without a formal CS background. So having no open-source contributions is totally fine.

Things to improve changes
- Find people to refer you. This pretty much guarantees an interview.
- Prepare for the technical interview. This does take time, but it's a really good investment. Websites like Leetcode are really good. If you can Leetcode medium's in 30 minutes, you're golden.
- Get people to mock interview you. This is something we make a HUGE emphasis on in CodeBreakers.
Have you seen this paper? https://openreview.net/pdf?id=ByldLrqlx

You can see some of the simpler programs that can already be generated on page 12.
Did a lawyer actually tell you they wouldn't give a password to an heir?
On a not-so-related note, a number of sites and messaging apps require login via phone number. This doesn't seem to have necessarily penetrated western apps, but is seemingly more prevalent in Asian/African countries.

Does this mean those applications are ipso facto vulnerable, via a similar attack vector?
I'm not meaning to suggest that algorithms don't have unconscious (WRT their designers) biases. I'm saying the algorithms used for compliance and compliance-adjacent tasks skew very heavily towards recall, resulting generally in poor precision. In many cases, the precision is so low that it overwhelms any conscious or unconscious bias in the algorithm.
The only way to make people care about fuel economy is if it hits them in the pocketbook, like a few years ago when gas was above $4/gallon.

Unfortunately gas taxes to force the price that high under current circumstances are terribly regressive and politically suicidal in all but the most secure jurisdictions.
It's not as bad as police dogs that 'find' things on-command, by the real police officer, to give him/her probable cause to search your car/etc...
> The practice, while not new, can be problematic, and not merely because of the income inequality issues it raises

How is this income inequality any more than the fact that someone who has more income can do many things that someone with less income can't? It's not like the city is decided to protect expensive homes vs. poor areas (they might be but my point is that might be 'inequality' but a private citizen paying for something (or their insurer) is not 'inequality').
The important revenue growth comes from new customers and new workloads. You mention inflation as if it is a meaningful driver of increased revenue, but AWS has never raised its prices for any service AFAIK. Growth is 100% driven by increased usage.
Sounds like a good pull request for Hacktoberfest
How does one individual with a full time job at Google provide 24 x 7 availability for mentoring?

https://codebreakersacademy.com/about-us/
> But that means you have to upload raw source code.

And what is wrong with that? JavaScript source-code-only is by orders of magnitude the most popular and successful software distribution method.
so sick
You could train a neural net to do it.
> Does that second option make any sense?

No, because the hacked sites only display the fraudulent content to web crawlers, and explicitly hide it from legitimate users.
I'd be more enthusiastic about this if it were about more than just 2FA. That's not the end-all-be-all of website security, and there's sites here which get the "green checkmark" of approval but I'm suspicious of for other reasons. Security is complex, and I wouldn't want my website to be shamed for not having someone's one pet feature. Especially if some other site got a thumbs-up for a flawed implementation.

A site like this would be great if it included columns for other security features so I can see whether they take security seriously overall.
Nothing wrong with promoting women owned businesses. I really do not see the need for that line given the title of the post. A post directed at men. Its a slippery slope, should I also tell my daughter not to drive cars made by companies owned by men, not fly in planes made by men. Definitely not the advice I will be giving my daughter. I will tell her she can be whatever she wants to be as long as she works hard at it.
Here’s a decent list: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/06/20/getting-2fa-right-in...

(FD: I wrote it)
I don't think its old fashioned at all, the arguments are solid. It's just like `uname -a` works under freeBSD, linux, darwin et all. The standard tools rule supreme IMHO.
yeah, this is unreadable on mobile.