skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I didn't read enough of it to realize it was a joke. That doesn't break the site guidelines as badly as going on some Mussolini rant would have, so I'm sorry I nailed you for the wrong speed bracket.
Use wifi or bluetooth to locate the sleeper, then have subscribing app users adjacent to the sleeper wake the sleeper.
Wow, talk about burying the lede. I'm not sure how I feel about Google's so-called "ambient computing" idea that they were all about at this year's Google I/O, but Flutter being championed for desktop and web are huge! Does this mean the end of Electron, finally? They say it runs on macOS, I hope they get to Windows and Linux soon.

I built a little Android/iOS app in Flutter and it was a real delight. I didn't especially like Dart at first, but it was easy enough to pick up and then got out of the way more or less. I'd love to be able to easily run an app like that on the web. I know Dart's original vision was to replace JS but it seems they backed off that a bit. But it sounds like it's back on the menu!

I don't know if this changes anything exactly, in terms of what Flutter can do right now. I think web/desktop have always sort of been there. But what's new for me is this perspective that they intend to support other devices beyond mobile. I wasn't really sure about that before, since it seemed mostly tailored to just iOS/Android when I was working with it.
It's been supported with VmWare for a while too, maybe a whole decade.
My blog runs on just a storage container, no app service. So the up-front cost is zero, only paying for the bandwidth. If I was lucky enough to get to the point where bandwidth is costing me more than my free 50 USD/mo credit, I think I should be able to recoup it with a few ads.
It probably would if you use the “unreadable” xterm font haha.
Is there an EU variant of it? I guess most of the offers are US only.
> If the market is efficient (and it isn't, but it can be) then following a buyback, one would expect the market capitalization of the company to be smaller, as the company has paid out money.

The company's cash flow is the same, but there are fewer outstanding shares, so earnings per share goes up. Earnings per share matters because when it increases that implies that future dividends per share will also increase.

If investors expect higher future dividends, that means that the stock is worth more, so it goes up.
The specific rules for key sales are covered here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3
Intel's VP: Moore's law is not dead
> It doesn’t matter that the LinkedIn feed is a stupid waste of time

Over time I found it to be very useful. It's my chance to see what's going on in my network and connect with 1st or even 2nd level contacts on specific topics like: events, product releases, partnerships, awards etc. It's very easy to use any of these topics as opportunities to approach somebody via the post itself. In 99% of the cases you get a response. So more than a job seeking platform, it is a business platform for the employed.
>Scanned the whole article, still don't know what "ambient computing" is.

As TFA says:

"In this emerging world, the focus starts to move away from any individual device towards an environment where your services and software are available wherever you need them. We call this ambient computing".

In other words, going from devices as siloes you use one at a time, each with each own apps, accounts, data, and so on, into using a plethora of devices that play together, can run appropriate versions of the same apps, give you access to your data from wherever you are, switch your workflow from one to another, and so on.

So like multi-platform apps + cloud storage + what Apple calls "Handoff / Continuity" or MS calls "Timeline" + IoT...
You don't have to "believe" if you are planning on getting out before the chumps do. It's like robbing a bank, only legally.
I think it’s actually simply evolution at work. That’s part of our evolutionary process as humans, building on historical achievements of our ancestors.
Still common. We have both: original (Version Originale, VO - with subtitles usually) and translated/dubbed (VF - Version Française).
Yes. Anyone who was involved with these bonds did or should have known. People loved that triple tax exemption too much.
Didn't know about the RN build for TV stuff, will do some research to check if they have the same vision. If they do, back to square one.

About your second point, I imagine it could be totally orthogonal. But I am especulating that it won't be. At some point there will be design decisions to be made around trade-offs and I'm sure Google's necessity to push "ambient computing" into the world will prevail over any modularity concerns.
Why would an Apple Authorize service center not be willing to take your money? Has there ever been widespread reports of Mac service centers refusing to perform supported upgrades?
> I'm curious of it's a net win, though, once all the costs (and benefits) are considered.

To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if there are additional benefits beyond the $117k. For example:

- Reducing the attack surface of fraudulent invoicing.

- Retaining staff/skill that are useful in other projects not discussed in the article.

- Seeding awareness/interest for similar projects in other departments of the state government.
Non Reddit link for those on mobile https://twitter.com/doamuslims/status/1204719146052857856
It's good to note that there's a difference between archive and (big A) Archive, as a practice and discipline. As far as I can tell, Archivists (like, people who went to school to be an Archivist), don't really agree with Jason Scott's agenda and approach.
Not to be overly pedantic, but tweets can contain links, including links that go directly to the fundraising call. The compact visual design for tweets make the URL and call to action very explicit and obvious. And people can choose to retweet/quote-tweet the tweet-with-a-fundraising-link for further emphasis.

For example, here's the thread author quote-tweeting the beginning of his thread, which allows him to prepend both a tl;dr and a link to "archive.org/donate"

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1204431184069058560

If he wrote a blog post that includes the fundraising URL (e.g. at the top and the bottom) and tweeted a link to that blog post, you believe that that call to action would be more visible and obvious to the average reader?
Someone from the Azure team actually just reached out to me and said they had raised my critique internally. Kudos to MS for listening to their users and reacting quickly!
Webflow seems to be a Wix competitor - and in spite of her mentioning it's "template showcase" in the article as example of some sort of next generation LinkedIn community replacement - it's really a place to buy templates - and I would bet that no one has ever "built an audience there" much less gotten a gig (that's not directly related to a template they sold (or gave away)).
Announcing omnibot: a Slack proxy and Slack bot framework
Issues in Gitlab, plus some wiki articles in various gitlab projects. GSuite really is on the way out for us, as only thing we utilize is email.
I write C++ at work. And that means I wait a lot for the compilation to end. Sometimes, there is also a big file to download from the other end of the world over FTP. Recently I've started spending this time on reading books. That's how I went through "The Little Schemer" and "The Season Schemer" so far. Now I'm going through "Real World Haskell".

I used to have second thoughts about it, but after some time I just thought fuck it, other people spend this time scrolling Facebook on their phones or whatever, there is no reason to feel guilty about it. Since I started doing it, nobody made a problem of it.
Brazil’s Rock Content Acquires ScribbleLive
To add to this (writing too much today), most people you will encounter have a positional bargaining approach because it's the default position of a buyer mentality. Persuading them to see value in an interest based approach is a lot of work and the biggest risk is they will walk away and find someone else they can bully. You dodged a bullet, but also the value was destroyed.

The more recent work on negotiations includes things like salience models, which are more about building coalitions to apply leverage on a point person instead of persuading them with reason and principle. It reflects reality better.

Enterprise sales are a good example, where instead of just winning a feature bake off or doing a good pitch, you need a full coalition of parties to prevail over the alternatives and move the sale forward. This makes sales more of a complex political campaign than arguing and demonstrating to win a judgment and verdict.

The strategy in these negotiations is different, and more about eliciting information about needs and motives of coalition parties to align them toward your decision. The tactics involve some traditional negotiation techniques like inventing options and proposing if/then points of incremental agreement, but they are part of a more abstract play.

So, learn negotiation , but short version: the map is not the territory and the fastest way to select-out is to go in with expectations that people conform to a map.
Then why are companies buying back at record highs? Surely they are not dumber than Joe the Investor on Main Street.
Service Workers with Rust+WASM for Image Manipulation on the Edge
Ask HN: Fun Tech Book Recommendations?
I'm currently reading Seven Databases in Seven Weeks [1] and finding it to be a really fun and interesting look at some tech I don't know much about. I'm wondering what other interesting books there are out there that focus less on teaching you all the technical details of a technology, and more on what makes it exciting and interesting.

What books do you suggest?

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13130963-seven-databases-in-seven-weeks
> it does wonders for my social circle

That's interesting as I've often heard the opposite view: you'd be quickly isolated socially if you don't have a circle of non-work friends. Great that it works out for you!
I am currently developing a knowledge management solution for Drive, and I am trying to understand what people are doing right now. This is why I started this thread.
I would be really glad to learn more about your needs. If you want you can drop me a mail: marco@fulcrum.wiki
Will China Buy America’s Fake Meat?
it is clickbait with contemporary characteristics.
It worked out great, but you have to want to do this. You have to set out time for it. No wonder why people from Lambda School get well-paying jobs: it's because you have to be motivated to reach the goal.

Educational materials/courses are out there, it's all about you, wanting to smash it on the wall and work hard for the goal.
I used to do this, and then we "switched to be more agile." (This just meant using JIRA and tracking sprint efficiency wrong).

Companies do think "It’s your responsibility to be on top of whatever’s going on in your field" and they might even claim that learning and development on the job is important, but when it comes time to log JIRA hours, they tend to show how much they really believe in this.
First all-electric seaplane takes flight in B.C.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Your mental model is correct: vCPU means hyperthread (except for shared core things like the f1-micro, g1-small, etc.).

We had a different measure of "relative performance" called GCEU (GCE Units) but stopped publishing that as it's pretty meaningless for most people. We do our platform qualifications at Google to ensure that for users that "don't care" which CPU platform that they're on, that they get improving performance/$ and so on. But for GCE, we clearly document instead the platforms and base/all-core/single-core frequencies we use [1].

tl;dr: if you want to choose your processor, stick with N2/C2 and our upcoming AMD machine types. If you're okay with us deciding for you and want a big discount, give E2 a spin!

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/cpu-platforms
Advice about Raising Goats
It is easier to find remote work if you are already senior developer. If you live in a small town 3 hours north of NYC like me and are trying to gain experience at a quality company it is nearly impossible to find a remote employer even if you agree to a very low salary and to go in to the city whenever they need you to.
Thanks for saying this. I emphatically agree with all points but wanted to add, even if you don’t have a CI/CD pipeline already, doing notorization is trivial locally.
It would take a first-hand report from an entity that I trust. MSM deserves zero trust.

For the entire postwar period, we move from one false flag intervention to another--Korea, Iran in '53, Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Iraq & Afghanistan, Libya--all mortal threats to the United States of America.

Tell me, in which one of these instances did the media tell us to hold our horses at the outset, rather than the aftermath?
iOS: Sign in with Apple, Part 1 – Apps
It's taxed, and the rate is $0. If it were untaxed, like when the estate tax expired, you wouldn't get the step up in basis.
Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Not Wrong
Quasar is a framework based on Vue that speeds up cross platform development. It lets you build for web, Andriod, iOS (using Cordova) and desktop (using Electron). It comes with a well-documented library of Material design components.
Another way of rendering lists is like this:

<ul id="example-1">
<template v-for="item in items">
<li>{{ item.message }}</li>
</template>
</ul>
> And they're really not ready for memory unplug.

What do VM-guest memory-ballon drivers do right now when the host suddenly attempts to reserve more memory than the guest has free? I'd presume the kernel would just consider itself to be in an OOM condition, and start killing processes to free up the memory until it can return OK to the balloon driver, no?

Because, from what I understand, that's closer to the scenario we're talking about here: you're not abruptly yanking DIMMs (like physical memory hotplug); rather, you (the hypervisor) are gracefully letting the guest know that some memory is about to go away, and since you (the hypervisor) have your own virtual TLB, you can let the guest OS decide which "physical" memory (from its perspective) is going away, before it happens.
This sounds like a good idea that I would really like to try, for my own sanity if for nothing else. For me, the issue—imagined or not—would arise in the Friday morning daily stand-up. I’m not sure it would go over well if I said that I intend to spend part of the day doing PRs (this is fine and expected) and the other part learning/researching (likely not).

Oh the joys of the JIRA sweatshop. We have JIRA pulled up on the big screen TV and the product guys cycle through the status of each dev team members’ items during each daily standup. This is my first development job, surely it’s not like this everywhere?
It seems like this cements Google Cloud's lead in the hardware/infrastructure side. But the real problem with Google Cloud - the lack of software feature parity with AWS - is not addressed. If only there was a provider with AWS services and reliability and Google Cloud infrastructure.
Ask HN: How your Ask HN has influenced your life?
I have been reading almost every Ask HN threads for years. People asking for an advice, solution, help, partnership or just venting off. Many of them behind throw-away accounts. Then HN community jumps in and shares invaluable experience, wisdom, hope, contact. These interesting stories die out after a couple of days in the stream of constant news, but I believe they have really not ended there for the one asking.

I am truly curious how your Ask HN thread influenced your life. What is your follow up story?
Nope. These are terrible metrics to use.
They don't archive social media content so this whole point is moot.
Can you remove the leading spaces so that this text is readable without scrolling? Even on my 4k monitor I must scroll to read each line.
From the amount of people complaining here, it seems to me more like everyone is now pissed off that the supplier decided to go elsewhere and stop offering gratis services, as means to pay their bills.
"a solvent news organization."...
I think I see the problem!
Professional networks are stupid. It's an HR circle jerk but everyone is expected to have a glowing profile just for "reasons". Shitty recruiters love it though. LinkedIn is terrible at trying to get your contact list and the fraudulently email you saying a contact wants to connect. It's a complete waste of time. My recommendation is to use when searching for a job then immediately wipe your account. Plus some bosses monitor it to see if you are looking. It's a lose lose for individuals.
Startup Growth and Venture Returns [pdf]
> I can sift a pile of 20-30 resumes in maybe 10 minutes and determine with near certainty the 20% or so that are even worth contacting.

Devil's Advocate: Do you contact the bottom 80%? When you encounter a dud in the top 20%, do you consider that a potential failure in filtering, or do you say "thank god we filtered out the other 80% who must be worse than this candidate!"

It sounds to me like a process rife with feedback loops.
Style Components in Mapbox Studio: New way to design completely customized maps
I'm very close to needing to do the same exact thing, would really appreciate a GitHub link or something do your Dockerfile
>I also wish there was a way to also say "not willing to relocate" (is there?).

Would that stop recruiters from asking?
Thanks, just played Xonix for the first time in a while. The other dos boxes I've found were too fast to actually play.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Xonix_1984
Ok, we'll change the title above to Text QR.

Please let's discuss something more interesting than the name now.
I'm considering launching a couple matrix instances this month,

any chance there are ways for me to dub a few users as moderators and give them the ability to silence / kick / ban users by ip, hostname, ip subnets and cidr?

I'll be looking into whatever bridge things there are for combining matrix with some microblogging, that would be a really perfect fit for 2 of the projects I've had on the idea shelf this year.

If it can connect with wordpress / buddypress for logging / blogging things from chat by user, that could prove interesting for some uses indeed. Of course if it connect to mastadon or anything else similar that could work too.

It's been a while since I've checked in on Matrix and what's new. I'd love to find someone who knows the code and could help me mod it a couple hours a month for a reasonable fee.
Yes, paying so much money is absurd. At least in many European countries higher level education is free.
My personal, obscure ISP user page (think the ~user/ era) from 1995 is preserved in all it's drop shadow blink tag marquee glory at archive.org with me doing nothing, it was just captured by whatever natural processes. The things I said on mailing lists, random forum posts etc. - it's all archived. That 90s stuff isn't/wasn't as ephemeral as folks think in my opinion, it's out there somewhere. $0.02 :)
F# compiles to native code via Mono AOT, NGEN (available since .NET 1.0 which many seem to forget), .NET Native (does require a hack and some care due to missing support for some MSIL opcodes), Unity's IL2CPP.

Naturally Rust could offer an interpreter of some sort, however it still isn't there today, so we got to use what is available.
Hodgkin–Huxley Model
US States are unable to declare bankruptcy.
It's just a re-branding of run everywhere, i.e. they are trying to replace JavaScript.
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown
This is exactly the issue here. I worked as a contractor for the State Department for a couple of years on software that basically held the record of every dollar spent over the last 20 years.

What seemed like a very small and simple problem initially revealed itself to be massive problem that even a team of 35 struggled to maintain. The purchase history for any given item spanned multiple systems with completely different topologies of data glued together by, literally, tens of thousands of lines of SQL.

The project had been around for ~17 years when I worked on it and while data was landed in a final format where a query like the above could have been done, I wouldn't bet any serious money that the calculations were correct.

Some five or six multi-million dollar rewrites had been attempted, but could never be done.

Not to say Ohio's system is that this level, but I doubt there's a giant table sitting somewhere that such a simple query could be applied to.

I like to think that somewhere in all that SQL was an Office Space-esque line of SQL syphoning off a few cents per transaction, but was never able to find one :)
I used an IBM Thinkpad from 2003-2008 or so, but never got used to the trackpoint despite several attempts. Was always wildly inaccurate with it. The trackpad, though a god-awful rage-generation device, was still much more usable.
> Why do people feel the need to standardize these things?

I'm of the opinion that these kinds of silly arguments seem to be made by people who like hearing themselves talk. They want their name on something. They want to feel like they were a part of something. It's all ego. The rest of us are happy with pragmatism and archaic things like text, which is made of glyphs which form words which we speak.
> I know how valuable the archive is

How valuable is it?
IIRC, even now they're still not allowed under the network rules.

A cash discount IS allowed. So, a $.10/gal cash discount for gas is OK. The register having a sign that says "we charge $.75 for card transactions under $30" is not. Not that you don't see that all the time...

(It's been a while since I've drank the regulatory alphabet soup on this, could be mistaken. )
At one company I worked with our external auditor knew SQL. My colleagues loved him because he would actually do useful queries that proved something instead of just verifying random bus tickets from Asia as certain others would do.
American Dissident: Noam Chomsky on the State of the Empire
The stock price doesn't reflect growth at least not directly. The price reflects expectation of future earnings. If the company is never going to grow but makes stable 1M per year in profit then that company is worth something. Let's say it's worth around 16M as that's around the break even point at which people prefer to have cash over company stock. If now that company uses 1M in yearly profit to buy back shares it's still worth 16M but every individual outstanding share is worth more as it now represents bigger part of the same pie. Therefore after the buyback the share price should increase. We can also say by exactly how much (barring any other new information).

This is finance 101 really. Buybacks are just more tax efficient because they are not taxed at the time of the buyback but at the time the stock holders sell.
Maybe make tickets for your learning activities?
This is exactly it.

It would be like if I made a website called "veggiebot" and the logo were a tomato, and everyone were getting up in arms about tomatoes technically being a fruit (berry).

Yes. In theory tomatoes are not vegetables. But in practice they are treated as vegetables and searching for images of "vegetables" in google will almost certainly yield pictures of tomatoes.

In theory ASCII is not Unicode. But in practice, 99% of people don't care about the under-the-hood esoteric intricacies of all the different character encodings. They see a picture made from printable characters instead of pixels and think "ASCII art"
We have quite a few parents on our fully remote team and generally remote seems to work well for them as it gives them the flexibility to deal with childcare and allows them to spend more time with their kids. It's not uncommon for babies and sometimes older kids to be passive attendees in our Zoom calls.
Do you know more about what they think?