skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of contact discovery and migration. The success of those apps is directly related to the fact you can instantly see all your contacts with it when it first start. Email wouldn't have the same effect because poeple don't have them saved in the contact list.

I think university should have a mandatory course where IT student go and interact with real users and have a budget to manage according to the success of their exhange. It would make those questions much less likely.
Aren't Signal and Riot both chat clients?
I put non technical users on Riot and so far working well, too.
I’ve been writing software for over 30 years. The distinction absolutely exists, but most devs don’t realize it, and are writing terrible software.
Liquor has zero cholesterol.

Only animal products have cholesterol.
Control of Information
Definitely. Formalizing even a fairly trivial and well-known proof is publishable work (unless someone has done that exact proof already, in a comparable system). It tends to reveal all sorts of interesting details that are entirely hidden in the original proof sketch.
You know step-parents do exist that actually have a good relationship with their step-children and treat them as their own biological kids?
I agree. But it isn't being right or wrong as in other engineering discipline, where there are scientific evidence for those facts.

The principles I was thinking of is the act of trade offs, cost, performance, time and TCO. And it isn't about which set of trade offs is right, it is about knowingly and justify those trade offs. Throughput Vs Latency, CPU vs Memory etc. A lot of these seems to be learned while they are on the job and from mistakes. I wish there are more of these thoughts being taught.
KTRW: The journey to build a debuggable iPhone [video]
Oh, but people care about privacy.
Just not enough, to pay significantly more money for it and suffer performance loss.

But this is also because a mobile is a black box for them, and it would give them a big headache to try and understand that site about that phone. In the end, for them, they still have to trust the developers, so they stick with the ones they know by the corporations.
> Einstein, Dirac, Pauli

It sure helps to be dead by now. Try James Watson for a really motivating example.
I doubt the bottom 20% of bios would be distinct from the bottom 80%. So, good luck figuring out the difference.
> Western companies tend to look at the ROI as a percentage, while Chinese businessmen at the actual profit amount.

Warren Buffett is actually pretty famous for optimizing for "free cash flow".
Well, let's look at the world's top two car markets: China and Europe.

The Audi e-tron and the Jaguar I-Pace outsell the Tesla Model X in Europe. The Mercedes EQC will probably also outsell the Model X next year. The VW e-Golf does well in Europe so the Volkswagen ID.3 might outsell the Model 3 in 2020 or maybe 2021: https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/12/europe-november-2019.h...

The Model 3 is outsold by a number of models in China. The Model S and Model X don't make the top 20. Maybe the Chinese built Model 3s will do better next year: https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/12/china-november-2019-up...
I'm somewhat the same way, but I've been looking at 4K TVs for ages and cannot seem to find a single one that isn't "smart". Maybe one day I'll find a good one that is dumb!
This is why I said that studio speakers *used to be notorious for . . .". Recording studios were notorious for having bad sounding speakers.
This is a pretty awful article. Programmers get paid a lot the same reason why managers get paid a lot. You can increase your productivity by increasing your node/headcount. While you're asleep you can still serve customers.

Other jobs don't scale like this and therefore there is a limit to how much a single person can make.
"--" is also invalid in json, as it doesn't deal with mutations.

The parent was talking about js.
My problem was with the books is the lack of depths of characters as the story moves forward - at the end they become mere tools to tell the impossible future. But there are astoundig amounts of fascinating ideas and theories in the books it's well worth the read - it became one of my favourite sci-fi next to Solaris.

If you can, read it without any previous info - there are big spoilers in almost every description of the book.
Note the word "wondering". She was not insisting, just discussing the implications of not changing her entire writing style. The situation is complicated by other factors I am not at liberty to discuss, but Monica was not at fault – or if she was, at much less fault than others in the room.
Big fan of BOFH but I’d never heard this, very funny, thanks for sharing
The first link I clicked was the one leading to https://rosettagit.org/tasks/bitmap/ . The first link I clicked there was the one labeled "write ppm file" leading to https://rosettagit.org/tasks/write_ppm_file, which 404s. Was I exceptionally unlucky?
This is the trick of repetition and probably why the list seems so obvious. There is no “secret trick”. Saying no and taking breaks is just difficult.
Creating Resilient and Sustainable Mobile Phones [video]
Not sure I agree. Although I’m not 100% certain of all smartphone implementations. But I definitely have emails for everyone in my addressbook/contacts list.

It’s the only thing that exists which can be anonymised properly and is static through many centralised providers.

Otherwise it’s back to usernames and the bazaar that is: does this person /actually/ have their names on telegram/skype/whatever
I never saw a section there for audio equipment, but I probably wasn't really paying enough attenton to that. I still think that for home sound that you're going to live with for a very long time, unless the manufacturer bricks them, it might be best to find a place that specializes in home sound systems.
Hacking Sony PlayStation Blu-ray Drives [video]
Saving makes sense if the security blanket it gives, gives you peace of mind you need. Beyond that, unless you are saving for something, it might not be the best thing to focus too much on.
Tar gz everything into a new 10tb portable drive n imagine you will come back to it later.
Google has $1.39M in revenue per employee, along with awesome profits. Apple has $2M revenue per employee. These companies are not typical. The public company I work for has revenue of $200K per employee, and almost zero profit. So, if you work for one of these outliers, you're probably safe. The rest of us are a different story.
Megatons to Megawatts: Military warheads as a source of nuclear fuel [video]
That's why I said, "not to mention". That means not specifically to what you were saying, but in addition to it.
I think I was also clear about the fact that it's not what I was doing, but what other people were doing. This is simple stuff.
The sustainability of safety, security and privacy [video]
This talk is basically an elaboration of Moxie's blog post from 2016 with the same name [1].
See also a response to this blog post by Daniel Gultsch, developer of the popular Android XMPP app Conversations [2].

[1]https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

[2]https://gultsch.de/objection.html
could do with a fuse to.

Those needles connected to active make me uncomfortable, though there's a 10M resistor, I'd have an isolating transformer on the mains - not an engineer though.
Replace "Google" with "your email provider". Even if there were many diverse email providers with significant adoption, the problem would remain.

Unless you're using PGP (and -- critically -- the other people know how to use it as well), then your email is stored as plaintext on your email provider's email server (and the email provider of anyone you send the email to, as well as any forwarding agents that passed the email along).
It's hardly a one dimensional thing though.

One of my coworkers is really good at churning out code in a short amount of time that will do the job. He's not so good at abstracting his code to make it more reusable, even when he has time.

Another coworker is a hard-working cleanup guy, he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty and spend several long days cleaning up a decade of cruft. But he doesn't always appreciate subtle differences in code, so sometimes introduces regressions.

Third guy we have has excellent domain knowledge which is invaluable, yet is an otherwise average programmer.

I've got my set of things that I'm really good at, and the things I'm not particularly great at.

We don't have a rock star dev, but we have people who are good at different things and we take that into account when planning and executing projects.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb thinks it's BS. There's been a lot of debate on Pinker's book.

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/21/8635369/pinker-taleb
The funny thing I noticed when living in Switzerland and traveling other European countries is due to the way lower obesity rate, most people are generally attractive.

The American obesity rate is something absurd like 40% among adults. A bunch of these people aren't actually half-bad looking if they were able to drop the weight.
Two European companies are mentioned as producing critical hardware for the process.
No thanks. What is the point you are trying to make? That alcohol-related vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among 16-24 year old Americans? (http://www.faddintl.org/nationalstats.html) For whatever it's worth, smokers generally have 25 years in which to quit, before any serious negative consequences arise (and often more like 40+ years). Alcohol causes massive amounts of physical and emotional damage to young people, directly and also indirectly (inflicted by drinkers onto non-drinkers), much of it fatal.
If any of the people you are communicating with are using an email provider that they don't personally host, then the problem is exactly the same. In fact, arguably a better comparison to E2EE is that they have to host an email server on each of their devices (which precisely zero people do).
You also have to imagine that India and China have increasing quality of life, more demand for their own software and (eventually) higher salaries.
Because Apple can command a premium. Something that very few brand ( if any ) does as well as Apple. At the same quality and price of high end high margin TV, you could bet Apple will sell more than Samsung or Sony.
I think you have it backwards. Most good programmers in non-first world countries should plan for much higher pay as remote friendly companies grow. The problem isn't that demand will diminish due to the larger pool, the problem is that the demand for good programmers outstrips the entire world supply by a lot.
You can usually get the compiler to tell you the inferred type of an expression, if only by writing in one that's obviously wrong, e.g. () and looking at the resulting error message. Some languages, e.g. Haskell support a "holes" mechanism that formalizes and expands on this 'trick' to enable a kind of 'dynamic', exploratory programming even in a wholly static language.
Reflections on the New Reverse Engineering Law [video]
Android 8.1.0 has at least support in the OS, but not in the Wi-Fi UI

I have Android 8.1.0 (LineageOS 15.1), and a generic 'barcode reader' app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi...) and it works just fine.

Open the barcode scanner app, scan QR code, and it says "Requesting access to network'
Listening Back Browser Add-On Tranlates Cookies into Sound [video]
The Proof Is Trivial
Omission (Law)
No roborders, no nation, or: smile for a European surveillance propagation
> The US spends nearly $700 Billion per year compared to Germany’s nearly $56 Billion per year on its military.

The US spends that much by choice, not necessity.

> All Europeans need to understand the financial burden US tax payers meet to keep us safe.

Safe from what? The US military hasn't fought to protect anybody since WWII and there's frankly no realistic threat that Europe needs to be protected from. The EU already spends three times as much on its military as Russia and two (soon to be one) EU members are nuclear states.
Framing digital industry into planetary limits and transition policies [video]
Agreed that this is not ideal. Would be nice to be able to express that the type does not change. Maybe even have the ability to make it strict, ie unless opt-out, it is an error to change type of a variable.
My hybrid's auto actually does a pretty good job (2013 V60 D6; diesel front, electric rear axle). And it's a simple 6 gear box, not a fancy 8 or 11 gear twin clutch. Picks a good gear, no hysteresis and the overall control intelligence seems to properly decide when to enter neutral and recuperate (on wildly shifting loads [steep uphill slopes] that "overall intelligence" sometimes tends to be too aggressive with shutting down the diesel altogether, but that's not the transmissions fault).
This idea of phone numbers being easy to use is baffling to me. Phone numbers come with so much red tape it's unbelievable.

I'm still paying for a phone service in a country where I previously lived (5 years after leaving) because I can't move all the stuff that's linked to that phone number. I even had to send them a government issued photo ID recently so I could keep the number.

And to use the number without switching SIM cards I have a separate phone that I'm booting up just for that purpose. I actually bought a third phone to manage all my SIM cards. This time I was smart. I bought an Android phone with dual SIM slots in spite of being an iPhone user.

After listening to Moxie's talk, I realise that many of his arguments sound entirely plausible from a US centric point of view but make far less sense if you live elsewhere.

Building on top of phone numbers also assumes that end-to-end encrypted messaging will always be permitted in the mobile app stores. It's a reasonable assumption as far as the US app stores are concerned. I wouldn't bet on it here in the UK though, and even less so in many other countries.
Signal is also the protocol, and there is only one official Signal client for each platform (and Moxie has been incredibly aggressive towards any alternative clients -- threatening trademark lawsuits in some cases, or just blocking the clients from their network). Matrix, on the other hand, is an open protocol which has many clients (of which Riot is the most popular).

This would be like calling all of email "GMail" or "Outlook". Sure, some people do say that -- but it's still inaccurate.
Agreed. Javascript certainly has more sharp edges, but if you stick to the good parts (or better, use Typescript) and throw in an fp library like Ramda, it's a lot more nimble for working with complex data structures than Python imho. And leveraging concurrency is of course much easier in Node-land too, especially since async/await have become standard fare. That said, Python has some great features (list comprehensions are awesome) and tons of great libraries, so it's still a solid choice for many use cases in spite of its data-wrangling limitations.
Harry Potter and the Not-So-Smart Proxy War (CIA Virtual Fencing) [video]
Interview with Rui Pinto of Football Leaks
Well, you'd have to do it secretly, buy them back from the recyclers
I think your Google account has a page where it tells you what it thinks your interested in and lets you opt out of mistakes. Not used it in a while so it may have changed.
Tim O'Reilly: The Internet Is Being Scapegoated in a Lot of Ways
Mypy is way more limited than TypeScript.
> Typically human hubris, why can't we recognize the most logical explanation for so much dark matter?

It's not hubris. It's rationality. If what you say is correct, we would probably see more evidence of alien life. You can't just see a star flicker and jump to aliens.

Why is that explanation much better than we're inside Matrix. And dark matter is rounding error or even worse our overlords manually tweaking parameters.

Both are untestable theories, which means they are essentially useless.
If unions have power in a free market, that would be absolutely fine with me lol

But you're being disingenuous and or are deluding yourself if you claim that union power wasn't vastly more limited before the advent of labor laws, and that what power they did have wasn't disproportionately as a result of the threat that they'd engage in the illegal acts that they were so well known for.

So to clarify, while I predict any transition to a free market would result in a drastic reduction in the power of unions, I would have no problem with a scenario where my prediction proves wrong and unions have substantial power in a free market. I just don't like the laws that overwhelmingly advantage unions at the expense of investors.
New Zealand, currently teachers with 8 years experience get 90k.
Life doesn't have external meaning. But that doesn't make it meaningless. We still have feelings and preferences. Some are short-term, some are long-term. The internal meaning of life is encoded in these preferences.

The preferences aren't stable, because we and others have influence on the meaning of life. You get some choice! Others can affect the meaning of your life. Hopefully for the better.

To say life is meaningless is wrong to me. Because we experience these profound moments of meaning on occasion. Either positive or negative. So to me, these moments of meaning are my guide. This means deep friendships, being there for people, contributing to society, trying to become a better / stronger person, and just trying to enjoy myself most of the time.
Packing up sounds like a great plan to save your insanity
Fuse would be good. Here in UK there’s one in the plug. The 10M resistor will current limit. Or probably flash over here.

Isolation transformer is not required if the enclosure is better. It also doesn’t help you if you stick yourself across it somewhere, only helping yourself with respect to ground. If you’re testing it or doing development with it I would use one. But I wouldn’t build it.

I used to hang around inside old valve radios when I was a kid. You learn respect for high voltages very quickly.
There is a video about laser rust removal which is quite amazing. It doesn't even seem to hurt flesh as the operator intentionally runs it over their hand, around the 1 minute mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGSzBXKONo
That doesn't seem to show that "Long conversations were instantly abandoned." The graph of "conversation life expectancy vs. normal" vs "where in the thread the photos came back on" does show a dip in life expectancy of 20%-30% if photos appeared after just a few messages, but the gap grows smaller the more messages had been exchanged.

In other words, the longer a conversation had been going on, the smaller the influence of learning what the other person looked like was.
I've listed all of the Telemetry servers that I could find my set connecting to should any of you wish to block them on your local network. https://factory-reset.com/wiki/Samsung_Telemetry_Servers

If you guys notice any others, let me know and I can update the list.
Mostly slow deep breathing and focusing on relaxing and trying to lower your heart rate, basically just trying to calm down. Pain is just signals in your brain like any other though or feeling. I’m pretty convinced you can exert a reasonable amount of control over it. I’m no expert on the subject and I haven’t trained to do it or anything, I’ve just injured myself a lot and that’s what has worked for me. It’s gotten me through a fair amount of serious injuries without much stress, the only trouble I’ve found is that I need to continually focus on doing it, and if I’ve been up in the hospital all night, I’ll eventually get worn out and exhausted, and it won’t work quite as well.

I don’t think there’s any limit to how proficient you can get at it. I think about that Vietnamese monk who set himself on fire and managed to calmly sit through burning to death, there’s no way anybody could do that without having total control over their pain response. I’ve obviously never experienced anything that traumatic, but I have been in situations where I felt the symptoms of shock setting in and managed to calm myself down enough to get on with things.
I know it's supposed to be a parody, but it hits very close to home.
I think it is a joke-attempt at getting him to reveal his wifi password :)
See second part of my comment. You are in the HN bubble.
Tested it on Chrome and Firefox on Mac, the Jank are all about the same. Left the site and couldn't be bother to read it.

May be we need a State of Webpage in 2019.
Programmers have high wages because the value of new implementation is very high. This is driven by innovation in business applications and practice, but also by (the real sense) Moore's law - real sense in that the improvement in computing power effectively available creates available value.

These factors mean that business can create investment cases, and investment cases provide pay.

If (real) Moore's law vanished today I believe that there would be 5-10 years more innovation before the train stopped. But real Moore's law isn't over yet so I don't think people need to worry.
Software is poorly explained by economics so I question the validity of economic considerations in hiring or paying developers.

The thing that makes software different is scale due to low reproduction costs. You can easily envision the costs of adding new labor, for example, in building a car and directly map those expenses to increased production quantity. In that case scale of labor to scale of product is not exactly 1 to 1, but it’s close. In software that 1 to 1 scaling does not exist.

Perhaps the big difference is that few people working a car assembly line are engineers. Most of the labor is produced by manual labor and robots. In software the actual engineering is equally as rare but the distinction between engineering and button pressing (the manual labor) is absent.

To really prove that point many developers adamantly fear and oppose producing any form of original code. If you are terrified at writing original solutions to a problem how could the work possibly be considered any form of engineering? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883670
A GitHub Issue Tracker Action
You're the first one to tell me not to get a Thinkpad.

I've heard nothing but great things about them.
Ask HN: Website for Ranting for digital nomads and remote workers?
People working remotely knows better that every day is not like the days, digital nomads are living on Instagram

What if there's a place for remote workers and digital nomads to rant/discuss about the problems they face everyday while working remotely like the daily ruts and stresses like their pet problems, distractions, construction noises, kids and much more.

You know the missing social & human interactions while working remotely, they can connect to other remote workers on those common points (rants) and ideas. Your thoughts?
Handling Webhooks with EventBridge, Sam and SAR
Also, for the most part, isn't yet monopolized by lobbyists, corporatists and government working together to use regulatory capture to corner markets. It's pretty extreme in some industries, such as telecomm with natural monopolies, but also in markets without natural monopoloes. People even get arrested/fined for ridiculous things like braiding hair, giving haircuts (such as to homeless), selling hot dogs, selling cookies, or selling diet advice, etc.

So in accordance with OP's theory, if this were to happen the salaries for devs would go down.
Just to highlight this, this is what Toyota does with its engineers (not limited to software).

Managers are engineers of towering technical competence.
You aren't wrong about that. I've used a couple late-model trucks (Silverados) at various points, but I prefer to early oughties Rangers and F150s for just that reason.

I don't think that the diminished utility of sideloading on modern trucks entirely diminishes the advantages of not having sloped bed walls, however.