skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're a person that prefers to just do some work and not talk about it much, this kind of sponsorship model wont work.

Marketing is a fact of life, I think. Of course, there's good marketing (making people who might enjoy your product aware of it) and bad marketing (annoying people), but if you hope to reap the benefits of having your work in front of a lot of people, you do have to reach them.
Branding Mistakes That Are Holding You Back
> piezo alarm

Yeah, that's why I don't own one. Since I'm not ready to invest in one with a bell/gong, at least my smartphone has a proper speaker. Piezos are good for smoke alarms and such, but waking up to one is awful.
Well, look at the Institute for Advance Studies in Princeton, and its siblings.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Institutes_for_Advanced_S...
My blink 7-8 years ago. Pretty crude, but was fun to learn CSS animation. For smaller mobile, use landscape mode:

https://technotarek.com/human
Imagine the systems that they worked with.

In the 1970s, dealing with primitive electronic systems, often without screen and most definitely without a full OS.

Goosebumps. To imagine that the tech phenomenon that we can only regard as recent (2000-) but there are people from as far as 30 years back before that, working on things that have lasting impact to us.

I recently read bwk's Unix history and memoir, it's a great read, to see many of these pioneers being old and passed away is a great sadness.
The Windows mail client was called Windows Live Mail for a while, and the mail service was called Windows Live Hotmail. The gaming platform, video editor and photo viewer were also all inexplicably Windows Live.

It surprises me that they didn't release 'Windows Live Office' in that era.
> have the state directly fund universities and don't charge tuition to students (or charge them a small amount)

See how well this works out in France. Overcrowding, declining facilities, students that have no business in college continuing to go since they have nothing at stake. The top tier schools are still pretty good, but normal schools are a crowded mess.
I've seen private schools promoting such aid, but for most there is no clarity on A) whether your student will qualify and B) what the amount will be over the 4-year period.

I've heard from friends with students already in college that there are often ad hoc negotiations between parents and financial aid offices about the size of the discount, which is frustrating, unfair, and open to abuse.
When I was in High School, we didn't have "advanced math" per se. You just went in to the next math. If you were advanced, you did Geometry as a freshman, and if you were remedial you did Geometry as a senior, but we were all mixed into the same class.

I ended up making friends with a senior (as a freshman) because I'd help her with the problem sets after I quickly finished them. This not only helped her, but it helped me master the material better because I had to know it well enough to teach it. The teacher encouraged this by allowing all of us time to work together in class, so this happened with a bunch of small groups.
Hi. You can get to know me. I'm an american and I regularly use bitcoin to pay for services, pay for physical products, and donate to causes over the internet. I've been involved in bitcoin since 2010 or so. I did not get rich but I still see the obvious utility of having a means to transfer value without trust or centralized control.

This was especially true after the US state dept. started using the big credit card corps as a means to impose their will politically.
Apple is doing nothing——nothing at all——that isn't being done by every single other large corporation.

They're doing this because it's what US tax law allows. People can whine about Apple being a "tax avoider" but that's just a fig leaf to cover the truth, which is that you can't call Apple a "tax evader" because it's untrue.

Want Apple to repatriate all that income? Great. Change the tax law, which means, get rich Republicans to change it.

Til then? Stop blaming the companies for working within the system that we, the voters, have set up.
What’s Up with the Graph Laplacian?
I had totally forgotten about that part of Anathem!

Stephenson has done a pretty amazing job at extrapolating the near future. I'm not sure if the idea of a crypto currency existed before he wrote Cryptonomicon, but that was 10 years before Bitcoin launched.
We also need to move away from the idea that nearly every non-trade position requires a degree and as a society need to stop looking down on trades works. College is expensive because everyone wants to go.
But this is not true. If this is true no reputable company would have employees staying >3 years. If you're hired at a reputable company >1 year, chances are you do get offers or you have a greater chance to get it. Good bosses are rare, but they do exist.
For 2019, the federal top rate is 37% and the California state top tax rate is 13.3%. You'll have hit the SALT deduction cap way before you hit the top marginal rate, so if you get there, you're looking at a marginal rate of 50.3%, which does exceed 50%.

Medicare adds another 1.45% as well.
I’d love to have this working for aarch64.
Same here. If Gemini offered DAI I'd be more likely to purchase it but GUSD only has a small amount of 3rd party services using it. The only one I can think of is BlockFi right now.
Were both the job and degree in SWE/CS?
> If you give more money to a bad manager, he won´t suddenly become a better manager.

If we increase teacher pay will the bad teachers become good teachers?
The thing with tech companies is their desire for most of their employees to be in-house.

Causing a mass of people to arrive at a location that previously did not have that.

Over time, of course.

People who, due to the nature of their job and their employer, earn way more money than the average working person.

And when 10 people like this go for the 1 available house on the market, guess what happens? The price of the house goes up. Up to a point where only 1 of the bidder is willing to pay that price. Or rent.

Notice that I said "willing to pay" as opposed to "what that person can afford".

Supply and Demand is nice in theory, but really, pricing is more a game of "ask the maximum amount you can get away with".

And of course, owners of property in the same region can't let their property sit at a value much lower than the property around them. If the property around them can go for a certain amount, then so can they.

And this process repeats unendingly. Making it impossible for people with non-tech jobs to get affordable housing. And if not for the big tech company, it never would have happened.

So yeah, it is 100% correct to put the blame on tech companies. If not for them, this would not have occured in the first place.
Normally, it happens when the work they put in doesn't match with the results they expected.
The branding is Outlook.com, but I think it's still the old Hotmail/Live infrastructure underneath.
It is covered in this Wikipedia article. It is called 'the incessant obsolescence postulate'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel

"It has been argued that an interstellar mission that cannot be completed within 50 years should not be started at all. Instead, assuming that a civilization is still on an increasing curve of propulsion system velocity and not yet having reached the limit, the resources should be invested in designing a better propulsion system. This is because a slow spacecraft would probably be passed by another mission sent later with more advanced propulsion (the incessant obsolescence postulate)"
I much prefer telling the store "no". That way, they they'll at least get the occasional reminder that there are customers who hate this sort of thing.

The funny thing is that in many stores that have "loyalty programs", when I tell them I'm not signed up and am not interested in signing up, they'll just use a different loyalty card number instead (I assume it's the clerk's, but I'm not sure).
I believe NYPD cops make similar amounts, but that's without overtime. They often get x 1.5 for OT and they can easiyl double their annual salary to $150k - $189k after 4-5 years in service.
To develop better fingerprinting methods.
Man it would be a real shame if someone's address dropped all tables...
But Apple does pay taxes. Apple paid $10B in taxes last year.
Fun, got the same issue. Clicking around & opening stuff makes it eventually disappear.
$30M Series C: Looking Forward to the Future at Crunchbase
My 3/4 bosses as intern were great. One guy was really incompetent, but he got me when the manager, who hired me, quit. So it’s almost ok.

After graduation the quality of managers varied greatly. There was a guy with 20 yeas experience, who took my mentoring very seriously. He fired me when I started my own company. Good decision actually! A boss before him was a great narcissist, if I were smarter, I would be able to play him and got higher. Not really the one to run from. Then there was a bunch of old dudes (totally incompetent) building big corp’s first electronics. They had no experience in the field and were really annoying. I quit. There was small company later with whole family in management: 2 sons, dad and mom. And a 2nd engineer. It was a part time position, so I was able to stay and suffer. No chance to stay with them for a 5 day workweek. My current manager is very restrictive. I can do things only old good way, all cost saving efforts and innovations are not needed. Heck, I could save company my early salary dozen times, but all the ideas were rejected.
The US might well be better than the EU for the top 20% of people or so, which often happen to be the ones making laws, so I can see how that would happen.
20 years ago right?
Spoken like someone that just uses a text editor to write JS. I used to spend a long time in massive Java codebases where the IDE would need some serious horsepower to index the code. Then I'd be running an application server for testing (inside a VM) and running another VM to for the SOLR index and another VM for the very heavy SAP ERP system. Then I've got Chrome and other apps asking for memory and processor power.

This setup is pretty common for people working on large integration projects.
Is Apple going to increase supply by providing free loans for their workers to build mother in-law apartments on to their houses? Or decrease demand by reducing their workforce in the bay? Or install high speed rail to expand the number of viable commuter cities? If they’re not increasing supply, or decreasing demand, they’re just shuffling money around.
I see, but I thought the selling point of docker was reproducibility, which was thanks to the image. The Dockerfile is not truly reproducible, and the image once created it is typically created with linux binary.

I think docker is a glorified zip file, but if that would help popularize FreeBSD more I wouldn't mind that feature. I guess linux compatibility layer could help here as well.
Yes, homeschool should be considered as at least an option if you care about your childrens' education.

The rest of the parent comment is paranoid drivel, which I do not endorse.
Once you come up with this “relatively easy” model I am sure any company would love to pay you good money for it. It’s a pity they never thought of that before.
For undergrad and professional education (which is the majority of higher education) that would work, but IMHO people who aren't doing proper research in their respective fields aren't really capable of providing high quality education on the graduate level because they'd get out of touch with the advanced topics of the field, so at least there integration makes sense.
I find it less annoying than using a phone for alarms, even not counting the fact that it doesn't have a phone as a pre-requisite.
I haven't got any idea if that degree will lead to a worthwhile career for your nephew, but that looks like a lot more fun than the four years I spent getting an engineering degree I don't use :)
The joke I heard attributed to Simons is that only the NSA has a better non-compete than RenTech.
> proven to work in many developed countries around the world: have the state directly fund universities and don't charge tuition to students (or charge them a small amount).

That would probably work if the system was designed that way decades ago. But we’re already in a situation where “free money” is driving tuition costs sky-high. Taking the next step and just having the government cut a blank check for “operating expenses” to every university will just kick the whole thing into overdrive.

If universities in the US were responsible and could a) keep expenses under control and b) not cry like little children when whenever the state demands some belt-tightening, it could work. But that’s not the world we live in. Universities just keep spending more and more and keep hiring more and more administrators.

My favorite experience with this was when I was in school many years ago at a state university. The state government said that their share of the funding was decreasing by 2% the next year (FYI, state universities are funded by state governments to some degree, it’s not all tuition). Two freaking percent! Basically asking the school to cut back to where they were two or three years ago. Sounds like a relatively reasonable ask, don’t you think?

Oh, you should have seen the wailing and gnashing of teeth that generated. The school was claiming that there wasn’t any fat in their budget (ha), and immediately proposed cutting like 10% of all class sections in math, science, art, etc. Then they riled up the students enough to have them march to the capitol and demand the cuts be rolled back (to be fair though, doesn’t take much to get students to get interested in joining a protest).

Anyway, my point is that US universities only know grow, grow, grow and to top it off they all have a fetish for turning campuses into lavish, over-the-top affairs. Getting them to cut back on anything is next to impossible, and giving them a blank check to be paid for by taxpayers in perpetuity would be a disaster.
FYI the link to their tutorial is broken. Went there to see what the code looked like, but got an extremely verbose 404 error page instead.

EDIT: Never mind, apparently it is abandoned. The last recent news item is from 2007. So I probably will never learn why a programming language would be given a name like Lisp Universal SHell.
Show HN: Automated online dead man switch
> Many of the high schools are tiered

Indeed, so people don’t spend a ton of time teaching that which won’t stick no matter what.

It’s absolutely possible to tier-up if you are so inclined, but generally that involves a lot of work on your part.
> The thing with tech companies is their desire for most of their employees to be in-house.

> Causing a mass of people to arrive at a location that previously did not have that.

Do you think this is more true of tech than other industries?
For example:

Sociopath: Adam Neumann

Clueless: middle management types who fully bought in to WeWork’s “vision”

Losers: Everyday employees just trying to make a living and go about their lives. End up just as hosed as the clueless, but at least they’re not surprised.
OP is me.

What is it?
Oh god, it's another online dead man switch. Yeah but it's better (I think) and free (with the ability to pay if you want to). You can have it send an email, or download the app on either app store and receive notifications via push notifications. It even tracks your location if you want it to.

Why?
There's a popular dead man's switch already out there (in fact there's a few) but they're old, dated, and limited. This has been a passion project for me that I've been building as a side project for nearly a year and today I completed the first thing that users might pay for - secure file storage that get released when your dead man's switch triggers.

I know what you're thinking for file storage - is it secure? How does it work? The short answer is - it's not secure unless the user encrypts the files and sends the decryption key to their chosen recipient (which is what I recommend in the 'Articles' section in a couple of written pieces).

Target audiences:
Initially I wanted to target myself. I'm going travelling soon and I wanted a way to tell my family if something happened to me automatically and I wanted the ability to track my location as I travel through countries and then see a nice map at the end of it. So I made a nice side project that was fun for me to build. Then my friends said it was a good idea and I should have people sign up. Then other people said it would be useful for their elderly parents so they knew if something happened to them. Then other people said it would be useful for them on nights out in case anything happened to them on the walk home. Then other people said it would be useful to make sure their kids were ok when they're away from home. The problem with current services is that they're not that friendly to the ordinary user. There's no explanations, there's no guides. Services like this that can bring real benefit need to be simple which is what I hope I'm doing.

And THEN before I even marketed the product (this is my first 'official' marketing of the service) a domestic violence non-profit got in contact me with a request to create an alternative version of the app that could sit on a victims phone without raising suspicion from their abuser. They could then safely trigger their dead man's switch if they felt they needed to to automatically send an alert to their support network, or have it trigger if their phone gets destroyed. This is what I'll be working on next and it's partially what paying users will be funding - so I can work with charities for providing real benefit to people that need it. In the future? I want to keep adding features that fit the service that benefit people and provide a quality niche product.

About me:
Obviously I'm not a designer. I'm a backend guy mostly with tons of experience in everything except design, so I keep the design simple.
there are very few people who don't consider themselves middle-class, so that's not really a useful category I'd think.
My old long dead relatives liked to say, you get what you pay for.
I had a similar experience. It was wonderful to be put into a magnet school filled with kids that were smart and generally wanted to learn (every one of them went to a college/university), and to be separated from the kids that hated school. That is the sad thing: so many of the kids causing problems in the normal schools wouldn't cause problems if they attended schools that focused on their vitalities in the way that the magnet schools focused on ours.
I remember learning in college ECON 101 that many companies strive for government regulation because it erects more barriers to competition. I was floored. But you see it happening all around you.
Elizabeth Warren has officially listed Apple as a company to break up.
Yes, its almost like those cash strapped, barely profitable telcos have to save all their pinched pennies for they day they need to out compete a legitimate, newcoming competitor's build out. Clearly the free market is working wonders for the totally competitive telecom industry. I mean Verizon and Comcast are just neck and neck! look at em go!

I can't stop remembering all those dark fiber stories from a bunch of years ago... All these dotcom dark fiber bundles must have just worn out from throwing off all that competitive white light/white heat in the last 20 years.
Really appreciate the feedback.

The core algorithm is a constraint satisfaction algorithm called "Cassowary", which happens to be the same algorithm used to layout UIs on iOS and MacOS.

If you don't mind, what were the most significant problems you encountered with the UI?
Submarines too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine#Diesel-electric
TikTok’s global social media takeover is starting to slow down
I followed peak oil back in the day. I think I agree with the idea that the oil cartels know there are plenty of oil deposits and they hold them off the market to support prices and otherwise pretend they don't exist till they need them.
did you go to public school? an ordinary one?
Online shopping exists in other countries too, and you don't need dollars to buy things online there.
Sounds like learned helplessness to me.

The only sensible inner practice I've found is refinement of character. It works both when practiced publicly and when practiced privately.

And aspects of character can be built, sustained and recycled. Like anything.
The Precision 5000 line uses the same case as the XPS 15 and is mostly the same. A bit more expensive, you choose the parts that go in it, and some different support plans.
Potentially. If the teacher is working a second job just to make rent instead of preparing a lesson plan or possibly working on their mental health. It won't help every bad teacher but it could help some.
I feel lost joining legacy software projects and how I help others to join
I'm looking at it through the lens of abstract possibilities (al la Christopher Alexander's "Pattern Language" et. al., and Paolo Soleri's concept of the "Arcology") as well as the beauty of (some of) San Francisco's historic architecture. (see also the "Wells Scale" https://firequery.blogspot.com/2009/05/wells-scale.html )
Thanks. Tantalizingly, some plain efficiency measurements seem to be contained in articles supplementary material.

> "Online O2 detection also confirmed quantitative OER Faradaic efficiency with and without the presence of a magnetic field (Supplementary Fig. 17)."

But it looks to me like this effect is demonstrated as really significant already, for all the catalysts bar one. Application of it cant be far away. A bit like sticking a magnet on an engine block and getting loads more horsepower !
VM with SAP, VM with SOLR, VM with application server. Massive Java codebase indexing in an IDE, Chrome and multiple other applications.

This is a standard setup that I've seen hundreds and hundreds of developers use on large enterprise / consulting and systems implementation projects.

It's still very common for many many developers to live in world that doesn't solely consist of a text editor with JS.
Yes, so? Nobody is concerned about the Chinese because they’re Chinese. Unless the CCP adopts principles like freedom of speech or other values that are foundational to Western countries, the CCP is forever going to be at odds with us. As long as they oppress their population and minorities and expand their influence on neighboring countries in undemocratic ways, and seek to extend that influence to the West, there’s a conflict. And the conflict isn’t race. It’s values. This tolerating undemocratic behavior because it might be intolerant only allows authoritarian regimes like the CCP to continue their spread.

It’s hilarious and depressing to see people using their freedom of speech to defend China, a place that suppresses any and all criticism in absurdly draconian ways.