skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an american-centric view of the world.
Hi guys, can I also ask in general is it hard to find a programming job in London now?

My Background: a javascript (node/react) dev with 2 yrs of exp, a EU(portugal) passport holder living in Hong Kong
i.e. take the money out of it then. Pay researchers the same regardless of number of publications. Cut %30, at least, of the administration of a major research University and use that money to fund research, raise professor pay, and lower undergrad tuition. Then put a block on admin raises unless researchers and professors get an equal % bump.

Then elect better politicians that actually understand at least a little bit of science and how that correlates to bettering society so they're get bills past to fund higher education and research. We've got the money for it, but it's all in bombs at the moment.
Four DOs and DON'Ts for Software Systems Integrations
You seem like you may know what you're doing. Would you mind sharing who your DNS provider is? Do you pay for recursive service?

I don't trust my ISP, so I'd prefer not to use their DNS or to pass requests up to root servers over cleartext. I also had some performance issues with root server requests since they have to chase the authoritive servers.

Right now I'm sending TLS requests to cloudflare, but obviously since I'm not paying for them, I'm the product.
Websites are fine too.
9-to-5 coders don't need to aim for passion companies though, a job maintaining a logistics program for a pharmacy chain is good enough for them. The pay isn't amazing but if it sustains your life passion of raising a family or becoming an award-winning ice sculptor or whatever then who cares?
I put off upgrading my 3 year old laptop last year waiting for the 7nm Zen and 7nm Nvidia parts. Soo far it looks like it was worth the wait. Now it's Nvidias turn.
I have a friend that turns time allocated for other things into paid time. For example, she got certified as a Spin coach, so takes classes a couple of times a week and gets paid to work out. She also does yoga classes and gets paid for that too. Sure, you might not hit $2K/month but it'll get you part way there...

You can probably get about £200/day painting and decorating for people you know. If you're prepared to work weekends it'll get you nearly there after word gets around that you're trustworthy and polite...
Fandom (wikia) is pretty good. It's a big popup in the center of the page, with Yes and No buttons at the bottom, styled with equal importance. One click and it's out of my way, just as easy to decline as allow.

Of course, the gold standard is no tracking and no popup.
I liked Google Wave a lot and it is partly inspired by it.
IMHO in context of logic, the usual meaning of 'true' is 'true in theory' i.e. 'true in all models of theory'. Using it for 'true in standard model' is kind of sleight of hand to make more bombastic statement that it really is.
Battle Angel Alita. Cost $170m, Box Office $404m.

Don't bet on it. Also the live action Akira is currently on hold, but Taika still seems keen to do it.
The allegations are that the black hole image could have turned out to be anything, given different starting assumptions about what it would look like. The exact nature of this variation, along with the degree to which the other possibilities would be plausible, is up for debate. Unfortunately that debate is very technical and not suited for general-audience blog posts.
No. If you’re good then there’s lots of demand.
Hmm strange. I just tried with Safari 13.04 and it worked for me. Which version do you use?
This is awesome. Reminds me of Clojure's https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup which blows every template engine I've ever used out of the water.
You can whitelist certain private local IP's, however for any remote access it must be done through their app.plex.tv website or whatever unless you're going to setup a VPN.

I think that change was made a couple of years ago. I have ran plex on my freenas server for years and had an older version of it. When i upgraded my freenas to use iocage instead of jails recently, i was forced to update plex, and had no clue about this change. I was shocked to say the least and it is absolutely annoying compared how it was. Emby went closed source around the time as well.

I guess as they say, everyone's gotta eat, and filet and caviar are the menu items.
Russian scientist spent his whole career figuring out how to trigger quakes
If reproducibility is so important then why are we in the middle of a reproducibility crisis? [1]

If reproducibility was really that important then the scientific body would be more focused on replicating results rather racing to being the first group to publish an idea or securing funding.

Scientific foundations are seldom challenged or refuted. The last paradigm shift in physics or maths was over one hundred years ago. And as soon as someone challenges them (as the author does) the criticisms are refuted.

Say what you will, but science is mostly a social affair. Works of prominent groups are more likely to be accepted than works of groups with less status in the scientific community. Belief in scientific work may not rely on faith, but it is a far cry from pure scientific method.

I'm not trying to be cynical here and do think a good scientific body advances humanity, but the current state of the scientific community might be closer to religion than one hopes it should be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
I think this is one of the things driving the vinyl resurgence. Albums that release on vinyl tend to less alteration to the dynamic range... Ymmv I've not listened to everything out there :-]
Uncalled for, gatekeeping is a distraction. If you have quibbles with the argument then debate on its merits.
You've never been a scientist, have you?

Maybe she doesn't want to work as an extremely underpaid laborer. Maybe she doesn't want to take emotional abuse from incompetent Pi's. Maybe she just got tired of it. Maybe it just doesn't spark a joy anymore. Just because she stopped doing science professionally doesn't invalidate her voice; after all this work is mostly taxpayer funded so in the end it all ought to be accountable to everyone, PhD or no.
> ML multi-speaker speech-to-text every conversation

I honestly love this idea. Any suggestions on what FOSS tooling to use for said speech-to-text that's reasonably accurate? Or is training the ML the "heavy lift" of this setup?
The scale and intensity of the fires in Australia is unprecedented in the history of its settlement. There’s no record of this level of species or habitat destruction, nor do we have good models for what impact climate change will have on fire occurrence or intensity in the future. Your model of “nature” isn’t rooted in a real appraisal of this changing calculus, it’s just hand-waving masquerading as wisdom.
Ivanka Trump CES keynote address sparks backlash
Some rather sensationalist claims there. Other than infringing on the DFSG, I don’t really see the problem with those binaries.

If you’re downloading compiled software from anyone, you’re trusting them to not have put nasty things in the binary. There could be lots of interesting things injected to the binaries that are not part of the open source code.

As for the safe browsing thing, that looks to be a bug specific to Debian’s Firefox-distribution, not FF itself.

And as for DoH, it’s not exactly a secret, it’s been widely reported on and featured in the release notes. If you’re technically competent to play around with `/etc/hosts`, you should be capable of reading the release notes, too.
For Fucks sake.

The awful people in this world are the ones who know vaccines are important but just go on about anti-vaxxers while millions die who couldn't afford access to vaccines.

Any chance we could skip bullying anti-vaxxers, it's not on topic to this article and talk about how you can get vaccines to the people in the DR Congo. And it's not drones..... probably something to do with refrigeration and money. Or hiring remote people.
There is a beta client for Jellyfin as well which you can install via testflight, it may be this one: https://testflight.apple.com/join/TcFUEVEb but I just googled that and did not get it from an official page.
What does dark matter have to do with black holes?
Less notification requests in Chrome 80
24-bit for playback is a waste of space and bandwidth, 16-bit audio has plenty of dynamic range for any kind of music enjoyed by human beings.

In the old days, the recommendation for digital audio was to master for -20 dBFS average, use no compression (or very little) and let any peaks fall where they may in the 20 dB headroom. And nobody complained about the noise floor at ~76 dB below the average level.

I wish everyone would go back to mastering to that spec, instead of slamming everything to 0 dBFS with loads of compression and often clipping on top. Obviously still allowing use of compression for artistic reasons.
Video Platforms
Which cool Video platforms/apps are you using?
Apple scans iCloud photos to check for child abuse
Relevant Google Scholar link to what he did during the last 20 years:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=novikov+earthquake&hl=f...
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
If anyone else is interested in research on note taking, this is a survey of the research with citations: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/note-taking

Unfortunately it doesn’t look like there’s been as much research on specific methodologies (e.g. Cornell method), but it may also be the case that the methodology doesn’t matter at all, only that the strategies are employed.

I’m surprised it doesn’t mention the encoding and external storage paradigm, but https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/node/31875 has some additional context for anyone that wants some vocabulary and a very short “methods” and “strategies” document.
The post also includes some results for Java - check the analysis notebook linked at the end.

Java's HashMap doesn't have the oddities unique to C++'s unordered_map, but it has broadly similar performance.
So what, nobody at tech wants to be responsible for a Docker strategy decision.

The article still has no answer on why it is so difficult to actually get a Sonos to play nice with the two interfaces supplied by Amazon and Google. These are becoming industry standard functioning interfaces i.e. APIs that every consumer can hookup with IFTTT.
`ZQ` in normal mode exists VIM with no trouble. 2 keystrokes compared to `:q<Enter>`
There's software that can rename and sort your library for you though
It just puts the DB access logic behind a domain object, people have been doing this or a variation of it for years.
I wish I knew why notification request blocking wasn't the default behavior from the beginning
There is a much faster way, but first you need to build up speed for 12 hours.
Now please get some proper high-end laptops (HiDPI, 32GB, TB3) and a NUC clone that can be used as a SteamBox.
These fires are on a scale that is unprecedented. But they are also not an isolated event, and they will continue from now on, and get worse.

Forests have not evolved to deal with that.
Google has an API for this. Speech is a thing you really need big data for and thus IMO not suitable for FOSS. Why bother with setting up the whole custom data pipeline when plug-and-play is available for a fraction of the cost.

https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/
The article mentions it, but I stay consistently frustrated by my marriage to NVIDIA at this point. A heavy user of image processing, image mosaicing, tensorflow, et al - I should invest in NVIDIA stock.
> ML multi-speaker speech-to-text every conversation

Neat idea, do you know of any software that's capable of taking an audio file and producing multi-user text from it? Seems like it would be useful in a wide variety of situations.
Digital Transformation Opportunities for Financial Services
What's with the random apostrophe in the title?
These interactive tutorials are the only relatively painless way to learn the basics of vim.
> I trust my DNS provider.

Do you also trust everyone in the same Internet Cafe as you? And your ISP? And everyone else on the network path to your DNS provider? Because they all can see all of your DNS requests. Your ISP can even alter them. DoH ensures privacy and integrity of your DNS requests, so they are _only_ shared with your DoH provider.
It is not false information, we just live in different countries, and I specifically said I was talking about the CDC. Here is their info: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
>tl;dr people lying that vaccines always work for individuals is bad in the same way as those lying that vaccines don't work.

Fully agree with you, pbhjpbhj. The nuance in the discussion is missing(no surprises). To add to the confusion we have both the govt and pharmas involved, and both entities are know for coverups. So who should a person trust? Yes a vaccine can potentially work very well, but it is only to the extent that it has been well designed and tested, no different from any other product or medicine.
Setting PostgreSQL Configuration Parameters
I7 3520m is a 2012 ivy bridge CPU.
Salary/Cost of living ratio is not that good.
It’s the last sentence that is in need of a strong argument. Contemporary society hasn’t morphed in the past 30 years to make the only apparent reasonable escape be multiplayer video games. In fact, there have never been more options than ever for escape. And if they all seem too much and it’s the options that weigh on you, making a habit of going on walks outside has not gone anywhere.
I think this is probably far too nice, but what about

pkill vim
Robert Caro’s Papers Headed to New-York Historical Society
Trick to Prioritize Relationships
The hypothetical would be, as a thought experiment, what if Mars was colonized by a bunch of newborn human babies? Leaving aside the question of how they'd survive, would they develop languages like the ones we have today within a few generations? I think the very idea is ridiculous, but you may disagree.

Nicaraguan sign language was not developed in a vacuum, it was developed by children living in a completely normal human society with the full use of all their senses but one. Far from "nothing".
If you are going to expatriate, come to bay area. Sorry for this unsolicited advice, but life as a swe is much better here.
Tangentially related: I’ve always considered the “Streisand effect” to be vaguely immoral, even though I usually agree with the side it’s ostensibly helping.

That’s because it’s fundamentally (and often gleefully) negating people’s legal rights, and replacing it with the mob’s moral convictions.

Telling people they may have some legal right, but they better not even try using it is dangerous. I’ve heard about it’s abuse in smaller settings, i. e. “of course they did not give you a promotion because your are (black/white/woman/old/...). But if you complain about it, working here will become miserable”.
"window for task" is not the same thing as "tend to open links in new windows"
Boeing 737 Down After Taking Off from Tehran
x299 has up to 7 PCIe slots with only 28 PCIe 3 lanes. TRX40 has 64 PCIe 4 lanes. They could easily support a mode with 8 PCIe slots in PCIe 3 mode and full lanes. Instead we get 4 PCIe slots... My Deep Learning rig has 6 GPUs already.
Well yeah, but those are all rather old results.
This will actually be fixed in one of the next updates (once https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/pull/244 is merged)
Nope! Netflix does 10G tls on commodity hardware in kernel space. CPU can do a lot.
> The article does not say that health care costs cause poor health. It says that we have poor health in spite of our high health care costs.

I think the way it's presented in the article ("health outcomes") strongly implies that healthcare quality in the US is not as good as other countries with lower costs.
Yes. Not everyone likes to give away their personal information - especially (paradox) in exchange for access to a free resource.
Discovery apples look like that:

https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/discovery

https://www.quickcrop.co.uk/product/discovery-apple-trees

My dad has a small tree of them. I don't recognise the watermelon flavour, though - but then i don't think i've ever tried Jolly Ranchers.
Learn Vue by Building and Deploying a CRUD App
Indeed it does.
I have the same issue, and the only reason why i wont pickup earpods, they just fall off, have you found anyway, to keep them in?
I'm in the midwest and have friends that are farmers with old tractor collections. While I can't say I share their interest, it is certainly better than my coworkers plastic figurines.
Social Podcasting
Which podcasting apps or platforms are people seeing and what innovations are you seeing?
Today should be the Vim day!
I didn't believe the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's and I complained it was easy to p-hack all sorts of observations, and then I quit science.
Oh yes, Nokia E71. Brilliant device (obviously, with quirks). Keyboard did break eventually; got it repaired though. Before that a friend's Nokia Communicator.
I use what I know as the the "Bill Gates method". Separate things into:

* important points

* questions to ask, either during the meeting or afterwards. If it gets answered during the meeting, I put the answer under 'important points' and cross out the question.

* things for you to do after the meeting

* any commitments others take on which you want to keep track of

I do this by entering them on different areas of the page, others use different symbols at the beggining of the line (?, !, *, @).

As soon as I finish the meeting, I share the notes with everybody.
I have been waiting for mobile 7nm Zen 2 to get a new laptop. However, it seems most of the newly introduced laptops with Zen 2 are gimped compared to Intel counterparts. Some AMD laptops from Lenovo don't have a high-res display options (Intel versions do), 16GB memory options (Intel versions do). Acer Swift 3 with Intel comes with high res 3:2 display. AMD version comes with 16:9 FHD. I hope the next generation Thinkpad line will be more interesting.
AFAIK they simply mess up your mastering if you don't comply.
Depends where you live. Where I live in New England there are lots of local orchards and supermarkets carry maybe a dozen varieties. Probably more than the farm stands actually because some varieties like Granny Smiths are mostly not grown locally.

Of corse where I live is pretty much apple orchard central. My neighbor has an orchard and “Johnny Appleseed” was from the next town over.
High cost of living areas benefit SWEs and other in-demand professionals. I imagine they aren’t as good as mid-sized cities for commodity careers due to the cost of living.

Disclaimer here: I don’t know anything about London. And I won’t talk about Brexit, that’s a separate and important consideration.

The higher salary will almost certainly make up for the cost of living.

You just need to do the math. The information is readily available. Find salary information for your role and experience level, and then jump on real estate websites and find out how much rentals costs near some of those employees.

I thought San Francisco was crazy until I did the math. Sure, the rent is $5000 a month or higher, but that’s only $48k a year more than a $1000 a month apartment in the Midwest United States. But you’re looking at a salary difference of over $100k, maybe even $200k, and all that extra money means extra savings that could be taken to a cheaper city when you retire, or help you retire faster.

Not only that, but everything that comes from a factory, and things like plane tickets all stay the same price while your salary is way higher.

I personally think going from a mid-size city to a larger one is appealing. Larger cities have more things to do, more ways to explore niche interests, and better transit.

There are downsides but I think some adjustment is all you need. For one, you have to take your personal belongings seriously. If you have a suburban habit of storing a bunch of stuff you don’t need, you will need to change that. If you can learn to live in a smaller space and enjoy it that’ll go really far in allowing you to benefit from the extra salary without throwing it all away on housing.
But it's a silly system. As a corporate worker I have no social media presence, so you won't find anything I've ever worked on.

Instead I have a resume and references which can be checked to determine if what I'm saying is true.

Now being able to do that automatically is great, which means we should just take the whole process on our own hands as software developers and create something that represents us?
Ironically, I mainly use Firefox at work because of the Firefox Dev Tools. I guess we just prefer what we are used to.
I found that, being a special time set aside specifically for team arguments about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, the retrospective tends to produce a much more literal version of self-destruction.

I showed up long after they implemented it, so I'm not sure how they got there, but the most well-functioning Scrum team I ever participated in had effectively designated the nominal Scrum Master as a BDFL. The retrospective then became a shorter sort of town hall meeting where everyone aired their opinions, but, since we had a BDFL, we had no need to burn energy on consensus-building. Sadly, things quickly went to hell after she left and the team reverted to a more traditional consensus-oriented approach.
Output based pricing system for dynamic scope
My agency is delivering UX/UI design services to a client.
For every project, we agree on a fixed fee with two revisions rounds, and it works great for both parties.

My goal is to avoid hourly billing for UX/UI design as much as possible. My past experiences have been rough sometimes; the hour reports served as an invitation to micromanagement. Clients start asking why this task took so long while the seemingly more difficult one took shorter etc.
Now, the client needs us to iterate on some project ideas without a clearly defined scope.

I considered working on a fixed fee per mock, but that's problematic too. For instance: Should a mock that displays the same piece of UI but with expanded dropdown count as a new mock? Not sure.

Could you suggest some ideas on how to work with clients with a dynamic scope but with output-based billing, instead of input-based one like hourly billing?
Hey, I did too! Took a sick day yesterday.

And, today I learned of the existence of the heliospheric current sheet!

http://wso.stanford.edu/gifs/HCS.html

Last I heard, astronomers didn't permit current flow in space. Or, anyway, talking about it.
I’m with you. Indirection for indirection-sake is not a great idea. If this code should be moved anywhere, it’s to a scope on the model.
They are related topically in that yesterday new research cast the very existence of dark matter into doubt, and this blog post is kind of trying to do the same (albeit with less rigour than the actual scientific paper posted here yesterday).
Yes, even for such non passion company you still have to compete. It doesn't matter if the job if "easy", if there are 2 applicant which both are sufficiently qualified, the one which have that extra edge is the one who will get hired.
The entire course on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcmCgguL9rxPoVn2ykUF...