skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pay Mothers and Tie Increases to Child's Math Skills
That might or might not have been relevant, and the fact that something was changed as a consquence of the investigation argues strongly for the latter.

I do not understand the effort being put into arguing that this failure was largely inconsequential because it was a test. Clearly - and rightly - neither SpaceX nor NASA took it that way.
I wonder how the future will play out for these people. For the savvy it'll be fine, but for those who aren't I'm sure their appeal will fade in a decade or two. Hopefully they have a plan for then.
I would love some help clearing up something I never quite understand: does that depend on whether it's corrected for purchasing power? How does this relate to e.g. the idea that you have to work more hours on a minimum wage job to buy a house? So is it fair to e.g. express the price of a house in "burger flipping hours" instead of dollars, and see the price go up, implying that the poor do get poorer?

Or is that already incorporated in the concept of "purchasing power", and are you now double correcting for something?
Yes, this so much. Here in Brazil a basic meal includes a nice proportion of rice and beans, with some vegetables and for the onivores, a portion of meat.
> I doubt the military is as concerned about common shareholders as the Treasury was in 2008.

I doubt that's true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M._Shanahan

> He previously spent 30 years at Boeing in a variety of roles.

There are plenty of examples of this sort of revolving door between contractors like Boeing and the US government.
Posts mainly intended as humor are usually downvoted on HN.
If you're willing to trade away basic security for tinkerability, buy an Android device.
Nice project! Tried it with a screenshot from an eBook. Unfortunately the Os became Qs and the Is became |s.
y, it was a standard school lunch here in the midwest at my school. Chilli, peanut butter and honey sandwich and dill pickle slices were on the tray. So I still eat peanut butter and honey sandwiches, they are great. I also dip a peanut butter and honey sandwich into my chilli (add some hot sauce first), before adding dill pickles and crackers to the chilli, just like at school.
I was late to the game, but the last few years have been a steady progress for me.

I am not someone who can stick to a routine for really long. I am trying to build that skill and I admire those who do that. Building the habit is the best!

Now, things that have worked for me.
- The 7 Min Workout on weeks when I absolutely have no motivation to spend 1-2 hours at the gym was what I started with. Doing it in the mornings has worked out better. Because mustering up the motivation to do it in the evenings is much much harder.
- Note that just one set of 7-min is not enough and you should atleast build it up to 3-4 repetitions to make it worthwhile.
- Once I got comfortable with a few of the exercises, I switched them with a few kettlebell exercises like swing, turkish kettlebell etc.

I realize time is a factor with your commute, but if you can, the time you set apart will be worth it.

- Group classes worked a long way. Crossfit/Crossfit like intense classes of one hour. The group dynamic helped me push a lot more than I would have otherwise
- Stronglifts 5x5 - This is what I stick with now. Strength Training has given me huge improvements with just the few simple exercises.
If it's the same kind of authors as the register, I'd wager some already do. Also I don't think those that wrote for the inquirer are the kind of copy-pushers that gave rise to this meme.
We'll see if in another 20 years the government and law authorities have easy access to things like our Nest and Ring in the name of security.
Don't be shy – a few words about public speaking
Discussing voting/flagging is a violation of the site guidelines, which is itself enough of a reason to flag this.

But it's an irrelevant and juvenile point anyway, because it's not something you can change. Negotiation tactics, BATNA, etc are all things you can influence. Your race or how the hiring manager perceives it are not.
I agree. Sites like Reddit, with visible comment voting, can quickly turn certain communities into echo chambers. Disagreement with the "hive mind" can be punishing, discouraging debate and encouraging the melding of opinions. Secondly, seeing how others voted influences others to vote the same, causing a snowball effect. I prefer hidden vote count and the inability to downvote someone. I believe this makes an important difference when a reader is determining their opinion about comments, even if the comments are still organized by highest vote.

All media has its flaws, and I still prefer to check forums for the greatest diversity of opinions. Strangely, I have noticed an unintuitive aspect of forums: smaller forums appear to have a greater diversity in opinion than larger ones.
Improved batteries are a huge deal, so naturally there's a lot of coverage and interest.

Out of the large number of candidates, some will be successful. IBM is certainly a reputable R&D company, so this announcement has more substance than most.

I'm also optimistic about the new Goodenough battery design, with its non-flammable solid electrolyte and a version replacing lithium with sodium.

One thing that did occur to me while reading this article is that if a "five minute 80% charge" is possible, for a 70 KWH battery pack that would involve a 672 KW rate, not accounting for losses. That's a whole lot of power!

A 1 GW powerplant could support charging less than 1500 cars simultaneously at that rate...
You could say that it was “already there” when reality tv started in the 90s. The normalisation of attention whoring was quiet but universal ever since and Sociopathic behavior became an aspiration. Social erosion is a natural outcome of empowering the individual. social media identities do replace the old collective identities — there is only a finite amount of attention that they both share. This is not some temporary crisis either, its the new human condition , and friction occurs because our political systems have not adapted to the new realities.
My most pleasant surprise was that the B-Unit for detecting the flashes worked over remote desktop. I figured however it was detecting the frequency would not translate, but it works perfect fine even over a so-so quality remote desktop connection. Sort of makes you wonder how sophisticated it really is...

And this is not just once- I used it repeatedly over many years.
I've skimmed over the article, which seemed to give a rather sincere overview of the OCR market, then tesseract, the way it works, and how to interface it with python.

However, the article is also an advertisement for nanonets, so they also chose to highlight the complexity side a bit before putting themselves forward.

As someone who hadn't heard of them before, this could be written in the title. They seem to lease (I prefer that term) an API to do OCR with a couple rules and templates depending on your use case.

I am not entirely sure what they expect with this? Maybe SEO or to hijack search results?
I get what you are saying but this is a very narrow and uninformed view American life. Americans don't spend all their time in cars for god's sake. The digital age aside, there is and has been plenty of socialization at home, in neighborhoods, at church, and at the grocery store.
The alternative could be a Stripe-like model where as you start using your account more seriously, you need to start supplying more serious identification. Gradual identification or something like that.
Maff, Mht,
it's the best way I found to save snapshots of websites.
if you want to save an entire site, there's PDF.

I keep them yearly in sub directories marked by year,
it's pretty convienient and you can rename each Maff
to be most relevant to a directory view, special pages
go below the year directory.

currently only waterfox still has this option, since
the snooty mozilla guys can't bring themselves to carry
on a 15 year WORKING method that wasn't Not Invented Here...
I'd challenge your entire premise that it's easy to create those accounts.

The market price of low-tier bulk-created Twitter accounts seems to be $160/1k accounts. That's not bad. It's in line with services like Linkedin ($175), Hotmail ($150), Yahoo ($120) and Facebook ($150). The only large provider that does significantly better is Google ($300).
Things I Learned About Open Source Developers
The `direct answers` looks fascinating! Do we have some equivalent tools for c++ or python? I'm tired of step step step...
Lots of reasons:

It can be hard to get stuff that requires extended concentration during the business-as-usual part of the year. An uninterrupted morning is vastly more useful than six scattered half-hour blocks between meetings and seminars and helping students. The summer is actually fairly productive for most people for the same reason; very few people are actually off (as in at the beach); they're just not teaching.

There's a brief period of calm between the end of the academic year (which is chaotic with exams, end-of-year stuff, and holiday parties too) and the beginning of the "personal holidays." If you've been mulling something over, now is a great time to finish it off.

Finally, it's nice to start the year with less stuff on your to-do list. I don't think anyone expects more favorable peer review over the holidays; in fact, our lab lore suggests reviewers are grumpier now. In any case, stuff submitted in mid December probably won't even go out for review until next year.
Tumblr disclosed which accounts which were controlled by the Internet Research Agency. It was a lot of fun, get to accuse everyone of being a shill since so many people had reblogged from them.

They had gotten tons of reblogs, the most popular one largely posted about black social justice issues and Pokémon memes. Scrolling through isn’t that striking, but the blog did reblog others saying the shooter who killed Dallas police officers could be a mind controlled Manchurian candidate controlled by rfid chips? And some pro Bernie stuff.
That is somewhat hard to believe. Boeing/NASA have everything to gain by showing that they really had that capability and if they don't then I'm going to assume that they can't.
> I do not understand the effort being put into arguing that this failure was largely inconsequential because it was a test.

That's not what I'm attempting to argue... and why my post starts with a disclaimer that I'm not trying to argue that.

I just think it's important to keep the facts straight.
The terminal is extremely slow most of the time and constantly crashes. I agree it is very secure and the software is designed for power users (mouse almost never needed), but it isn’t exactly a marvel of engineering. It’s basically a giant piece of legacy code.
Yeah my point is, it's not solvable by the transport mechanism.

The application logic can indeed solve it, "eventually consistent systems" are a thing. My main goal was figuring out if this was impossible in SQL for some reason, but my understanding is just that the implementations are usually weak and do the "read-back" they need to, to recover late messages.
"Our emergency abort engines explode if you shake them a lot" is not a great feature in an emergency abort engine.

That they wound up redesigned indicates NASA and SpaceX agree.
They claim they could have made the ISS, but I find that hard to believe.
The Google SERP just keeps getting worse, I wish Amazon or Apple would start a search engine and just get back to what the Google SERP used to be.

I'd even be ok with amazon supporting it with ads for products, just don't try to blend ads in to the SERP. There is almost no organic search results left and the quality has gone down hill as well.
It's almost like saying, "Cars aren't responsible for polluting the environment. Our capacity for pollution has always been there."

Well, of course it has, but small nudges are responsible for a big part of the course of history.

But I completely agree with them on the isolation of car-based American culture.
Ask HN: Which were some of your biggest marketing challenges as a startup?
I’m all about ‘Making products users love’ - product market fit should be found before turning on your advertising. But I’ve also learnt the importance of clear communication in a professional manner, both to potential customers and investors. Without marketing experience, we've been struggling to develop a clear brand - lacking the budget to hire an expensive marketing agency.

What was/are some of your biggest communication challenges and how did you solve them?
Presumably "regular users" will not be individually writing XML parsing code to convert the notes. The developers of their "new favorite notes application" will do it (and if they can't be bothered, maybe it shouldn't be your "new favorite notes application").

Joplin, for example, can import notes exported from Evernote. It's just a menu option that even regular users should have no trouble employing.
Any space mission that doesn't end in "boom" is a success.
I like the general principle here of trying to keep website design relatively simple and self-reliant, but I'm not sure I agree with the idea that "link rot" is some horrible problem we desperately need a solution for. Good articles will be lost in time, but I think that's OK. New good ones will be written too. It's OK for content to be ephemeral, we don't have to be so obsessed with FOMO and making sure every blogpost ever made is etched into diamond to survive for 100 generations. If you read some article you thought was great, it's OK to just be happy you read it rather than spamming it to the four corners of the earth to give it as many eyes as possible.
Extensibleweb/Manifesto: The Extensible Web Manifesto
If peanut butter and honey isn't your thing, try a banana and mayo sandwich.
I disagree.

I think the medium shapes the message and we now have a lot of mediums that people use that incentivize trite, shallow, negative, outrageous, and even simply false information over other information.

Twitter is a good example of that.
Happy to be corrected but not sure what Microsoft has to do with the subreddit, I assumed it was run by non-MS related developers.

Either way, I rarely visit that subreddit, not sure why people opt to post programming questions there instead of Stackoverflow.
Here's a difference view - https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10464

And Twitter themselves are talking out being "excited" about the emergence of "social intelligence" - https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/insights/2019/the-stat...
Get a Jio account and hot spot it ?
'primarily a movement of low achievers trying to cripple the progress of high achievers, or falsely lay claim to the same rewards as them.'

People have different negotiating skills and different level of information about job market.

Knowing how much other people get paid for the same job can be an incentive to renegotiate one's salary or change an employer. Removing part of information asymmetry allows to sell your work for the money closer to its real market price.
any good or bad expernice? just go ahead write what is in your mind :-)
Ask HN: What things does your business spend money on?
I’m trying to map out the variety of things businesses spend money on. This helps those working on side projects to find problems to solve within current business cash flows:

View and add your company’s expenses here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hvuGvEvuWgL5j2mSTncyEc7mQLVV43vauQLux2d7yGw/edit?usp=sharing
Using BERT and ULMFIT to predict political bias
It's been dropping like a rock since opening.
Refrigeration, department stores, radio.

That's food, sundries, and information, the 3 main things that humans go out of their home to get, and before those 3 inventions you had to get into your community to get them.

Refrigeration allowed the growth of larger, depersonalized grocery stores.

Department stores were the first iteration of buying sundries at a place run by people you don't know.

Radio was the first non-local information source available on demand.

For most of human history, people lived in communities and had to interact with each other to live their lives. In the last 100 years out of 10,000 we suddenly don't anymore, and we're still figuring it out. And that's before you consider the impact of the Internet.

This has been a long, slow burn, and I worry that humanity won't be able to grow up fast enough to figure it out before we do something really stupid.
The protesters in Hong Kong were also throwing Molotov cocktails, destroying public property, and beating people up, but Western news media didn’t call it “violent.”

Perhaps that’s the new normal?
Good info. Still I think that they're not making a lot of money and the market's contracting too. Looks a bit like the situation with laptops about 10 years ago. They were dirt cheap and abundant.

--- edit ---

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/12/19/apple-earned-66-o...

66% to Apple, 17% to Samsung and the rest is fighting for the scraps. Which is actually better than a while ago where Apple + Samsung > 100% because the rest was losing money. Already quite a few brands have left the market.
It is also important to identify which facts are relevant.
If you need just one queue yes. If you have lots of queues it’s worth investing in a queue service of some sort and there are many of them out there which is a good thing but could turn into a bad thing quickly. In the past I worked at a place that had 3 different queueing services implemented by different developers and it became a pain to manage them or to even know what was on the queues.
the most reddit csharp community are working with Microsoft and Microsoft has allowed them to share and discuss in this community!
Off topic on topic but futures trading is pretty much the most useful actual trading out there. One can argue people are gambling (otherwise known as "investing") almost 99% of the time with trading.. but futures can actually be used for mutual gain.

You are a corn grower and want to lock in a price 6 months from now. You are someone who buys a lot of corn and want to lock in the price 6 months from now. Futures allow you in essence to meet up in a highly liquid exchange where you can lock in those prices for the buyer/seller. Win-win for both, because they get the price security they desired.

Of course the vast majority of futures is speculative, which provides liquidity for the hedgers..
It’s location-dependent. Crimea is shown as within Russia’s boundaries only “when viewed from Russia”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573069
network-idle-callback.js – load low priority resources at ease
Hi!

As a self taught musician I've always struggled with music theory. This has been due to the lack of true user friendly resources (the amount of nights I've spent down youtube/wikipedia rabbit holes...)

In the last couple of months I've set out to fix this gap for myself and everyone.

I've been developing Solfej, iOS/Android app to help self taught musicians/producers like myself learn music theory.

Solfej is now accepting early access users.

I'm so excited to share this with the community. Check it out and let me know what you think! https://www.solfej.io/
>> just saved my comment in 10 seconds, on the desktop for
later filing if it is deemed worthy.

someone needs to bring this feature back.

waterfox is only 64 bit, i wish it could be a replacement
for the rotting mozilla firefoxes that I can't upgrade.....

jr
I discovered the reg 3-4 years ago (while looking for more BOFH stories) and I don't feel like it's too much of corporate sponsored PR. YMMV, of course.
Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work”
My machine definitely doesn't take multiple minutes after login to load fully. I didn't count after that point because it's really the user (or administrators) fault after that point, and because I have a password which means I'd need to actually time startup, pause, and time login. Also, when do you consider "done"? How can I accurately measure that?
From what I've read it is analog to Waterfall (Boeing) vs. Agile (SpaceX)
> I never understood the kind of culture where salaries are secret.

Possible answer: Because you never ran a company and might lack empathy?

This subject is more complex and just questioning something from a personal, individual perspective won't give you an answer.
VS Code is getting flak for removing Santa hat emoji
Android phone. Contacts. Gmail. Less so, calendar. And search.
Yes, we don’t have too much data yet. All the data is crowdsourced.

I validate the information (current job title, company name and location) via user’s LinkedIn profile manually.

I don’t validate the "numbers", but I plan to implement an algorithm that’ll mark "suspicious" entries, and will hide them or delete them from the system. Additionally, owners of such records will be prompted to update them when they log in into the system next time.
I’m honestly surprised how little this is discussed on HN.

The government even shut off internet access. Even the Hong Kong authorities didn’t do that.
That's very interesting given that Tesseract uses Leptonica. I'm not sure if they use it for dewarping but all of my little projects with Leptonica really worked well. Dewarping, binarizing, extracting individual elements etc.

https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica
Original complaint which led to removal: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
>>I hope you can also brutally criticize everything else beyond the surface! :)

I recommend removing the word "cheap" from your landing page. I understand the sentiment (and love it), but what may be "cheap" in one part of the world is likely "expensive" in another. It also cheapens (no pun intended) your value proposition from an enterprise perspective. Be confident and drop the word.

Also, perhaps in some fine print (or even better - a clearly visible and simple explanation) defining the scope of the perpetual license -- limited to +K (where K ≤ 0) major software versions or all future releases (K = ∞)?
Clickable:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hvuGvEvuWgL5j2mSTncy...
No, it's untrue. Not that white men get paid more--that's true--but that it's an option. I can choose to improve my negotiation skills and my BATNA, so those are options. If you aren't already a white man, being a white man is not an option for you. We're talking about what our effective options are and that's just not one of them.

(Regardless of whether gender transitions count as a choosing to become a man, I don't think it would do much to boost income in our current society.)
This program revenue wise is a drop in the bucket for Boeing, much less than 1%.
Can this be merged with the existing discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21843988?
ah yes, your computer did this to you. Surely, you didn't do it to yourself.
I wonder if it's a side effect of prosperity. If you're poor, you depend on your broader family and community -- when you run out of money, when your car breaks down and your uncle can fix it, etc. etc. and if you have to sleep in the same room as your extended family, you're going to have "community."

However, dealing with people is difficult and inconvenient, so when you have money you decide to leave your family and isolate yourself from other people's problems as much as possible. You perhaps gain more peace, privacy and free time, but it's harder to notice what you're losing.

I'm not going to dredge up the numbers now, but in the 60s in America, I think it's probably safe to say a lot more siblings lived in the same room, a lot more people lived in small independent farms working alongside many family members, etc. etc. People were closer together because they had to be. People in cities didn't have to be quite so adjacent, but perhaps they were closer because it was normal in society to be closer.

Speculation on my part, but it probably wouldn't be hard to find those numbers and back up the argument...