skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They probably did though. Except the ones who survived didn’t? :)
Serverless doesn't have a server like wireless doesn't have cables. It does, but you don't manage it.
I think and hope this guy is trolling. If not he will be left behind if a back end dev. Even if you have"real" servers this is how your micro services should be built.
Correct.

You can't get a contract without marketing/sales interaction with the customers.

Customers at a high enough level to sign off on a payment with 7-9 zeroes following the number are not generally programmers (or, if they were, they haven't been working at the coal face for decades): they're senior managers or civil servants.

A GUI front end is a really amazing marketing tool for any piece of software insofar as GUIs are designed to expose all the internal configuration variables and controls in a visually appealing, or even intuitive, manner that is accessible to non-programmers. Like the folks signing the big checks.

(Here's a second possibility: we know it's possible to use CAPTCHAs to crowdsource recognition of objects. Maybe they're trying to prevent export of a NN training system that uses unwitting mechanical turks for quality control?)
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I was part of a team who had to do two upgrades of the react native version. and every time, it was a pain taking weeks of developer productivity away.
...
i wonder if React Native fixed this problem... but their track record is not the best...
Reminds me of Google AMP push. They seem quite happy to break stuff as long as its someone else's stuff
Higher level of execution abstraction. With cloud execution granularity is an instance on a server somewhere that you have to deal with. With serverless execution granularity is your bit of code "function" and cloud now provides not only processor but also a software platform to execute your logic.
Does that contribution take into account their coal exports to other countries?
"I disagree; I think it IS their business. Healthier employees cost less to insure, and health insurance is a large cost of employing people."

Health information is private for very good reasons. Employers who don't understand medicine have no business gaining access to our medical records, making decisions, and potentially discriminating based on their ignorant assumptions about employee health statues and problems.

"If the American people don't like this, then they need to vote for health insurance to be totally separate from employment. But Americans won't do that, because that's "socialism". So we're getting exactly what we've voted for."

This "we" business is a very lazy argument. There are large numbers of people who have been against this system. "WE" are not getting what "we" voted for, without even considering that we haven't really had the opportunity to vote for it in the first place.

"If employers are expected to subsidize your health insurance costs, they have every right to your health information."

This subsidization is a pooled, monetary component of employee compensation. While population-based behaviors will impact the overall insurance cost, individaul behaviors aren't likely to. But since you're so bent on giving employers actionable information about worker lifestyle choices, perhaps you should focus on easy choices that impact ability to work like prescription drug use like Ambien, guys who stay up late to watch sports, or anyone who stays up late to watch late shows, drinking too much, eating too much, eating an unhealthy diet (which depends on who you ask of course) . . .

By the way: given that employer-mediated health insurance is part of the compensation package, if this mediation was no longer connected with employment, do you just assume that the employer keeps the money that was previously part of an employee's earnings? Or do employees get the compensation that was bargained for? Or is it sent to the government for the provision of universal healthcare? Either way, the employer is paying a wage for services rendered.
> You'll still need to make sure your docker images are updated and patched though

Of course. ;)
Stop trying to make neurotypical a thing.
Ask HN: Need for a tool for writing proposals and specs?
I regularly write proposals and specification sheets for potential new projects. Currently I use my own set of WordPress templates to streamline and simplify this process. I've drawn up a simple example of how these documents look like here:

https://bjoernkw.com/2020/01/04/example-proposal-pet-clinic-management/

While this works quite well for me, time and again I've been thinking about turning this into a product that further automates the process of creating, sending and gathering feedback on this kind of business communication. It'd allow me to compose a proposal from existing templates and snippets within a specific UI, rather than with a generic WYSIWYG / text editor. It would also have comment, follow-up and to-do features in order to stay in touch with the client.

Such a product would be quite similar to Recapped ( https://www.recapped.io/ ) but targeted specifically at IT consultants, freelance software engineers and small software development agencies.

My questions to other consultants and freelance software engineers are: Would such a product be useful to you? Would you consider using such a product instead of simple Google Docs / Microsoft Office / LibreOffice templates?

(The diagrams in the example have been created with Gliffy. Diagramming wouldn't be part of the proposed product.)
I’m not that other guy and I also haven’t read this paper but it seems quite thorough

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04838
Clickable link: https://bjoernkw.com/2020/01/04/example-proposal-pet-clinic-...
Ask HN: Where do you go for freelancers?
I’ve been asked to find an embedded software engineer for a short (4-6 weeks) project. Trying to weigh up getting a contractor through a recruitment agency to work in the office vs finding someone who can do the work remotely. Any good experiences with remote freelancers out there?
I kind of understand why you went with the veganism example, but it seems slightly bizarre that it's your first choice. I think it's fair to say that most vegans' decision to become vegan has nothing to do with being sanctimonious. Not a vegan, though.
Hi Sean, any recommendations for references or books to learn about webrtc since most of the books on webrtc seem rather old?
Sorry, but I find this to be very bad design.

Check this out [1]: kak script evaluating sh script which in turn call perl which constructs kak script commands and output them to stdout to be evaluated by kak.

Or this one [2]: same, as before, but now it's calling awk, which calls `date` binary (so it's kak → shell → awk → date → kak).

It seems that it's done this way because sh is not good programming language to use for manipulating text. Moreover, sh is not good programming language to write complicated programs, which later can be successfully maintained & tested.

For me, kak approach is past the border of unmaintainability.

Also, it raises question of why not to use embedded language like python or lua instead of creating such a limited editor-specific language.

[1]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/25429a905b717d29bdf92c...
[2]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/25429a905b717d29bdf92c...
The Iranian regime helped kill at least half a million people in Syria - possibly more, the UN simply stopped counting a few years ago - and is busy killing protesters over half the middle east including in its own country. All while sabre rattling against Israel and the Arab Gulf state.

The only reason Iran doesn't entirely fit your profile is because it's not a real superpower but merely a wannabe empire, not able to entirely get away with the evil stuff it does.
I tried to get into management because I was afraid of ageism and no-career-path in development, but I quickly learned that I actually love building things. So now I’m just sticking to being a developer and I’ll see where that goes.

It does seem like there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of people who are capable of being managers/project managers/business consultants while actual developers are rather rare. And once you stop caring about the corporate game, it becomes really easy to sit back and let those types squabble aboout for influence while you just build whatever is decided on.
Scripting layers could always be provided as .so extensions. The other way around is a bit more awkward.
With a GUI lol, phew.

Yeah almost nothing will fall under that. Build your own GUI (if you ever need one).
> Defaults are rare,

Because we've been living through a lengthy real-estate boom that will likely bust in the coming year or two. I'm sure you've kept that in mind, but that's the reason defaults have been rare.

I like the idea, however. How do you find your flippers?
You don't need to recognize every face on every frame. People move slowly compared to 10hz, so tracking "this is a person moving around" is way easier than identifying faces anew every frame.
> Russia is occupying the Crimean Oblast within Ukraine

Russia also occupying parts of Donetsk and Luhansk.

> many Russians were not satisfied with the resulting situation, including Russians living in Crimea

Pre-war sociology shows 38% of Crimean residents wanted to join Russia, that number declining over time: https://www.km.ru/world/2012/09/14/polozhenie-russkoyazychno... (Russian). 38% is indeed many people, but that’s still a minority.
Another drawback is that while yes, you can scale up fairly easily with terraform, your server can also fall over if you get a heavy burst of traffic, and you'll return errors until you're able to provision more machines. Depending on what you're doing, how fast you're growing, and how much tolerance your users have for downtime, that might be a pretty big deal.
Does that take into account the torpedoing of international climate agreements.
Same. I have a GP who takes 40-60 minutes per patient, and gets into detail of what’s going on. I felt he truly cared. Compare that to the ~5-10 minutes of my previous GP
Last October the U.S. Military replaced the eight 1970s floppy disks controlling all nuclear missiles.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/10/19/us-milita...
Show HN: A crowdsourced list of “buy it for life” products and brands
“This is a story of prosecutors coercing innocent people into pleading guilty”
I dont' know if it's a good idea to mix terminology from machine learning (or game theory?) in the subject of human learning, like you do. At some point the analogies become a bit too far-fetched. Parents and babies "are agents who interact to maximise rewards"? That just sounds like taking an analogy and running with it, and then putting it in a rocket and sending it to Mars. We have no idea why and how babies think or decide to behave how they behave.

This is one reason why I'm confused about the OP's use of "labelled information". Clearly that is a term borrowed from machine learning to describe something that happens in the real world- but, what?
But in the mind of the geniuses that make up the US Congress, it does.

How will anyone operate a computer without GUI? That’s impossible! /s
Maybe the writer should be understood here as criticising the hype around “AI”. AI is hyped as somehow allowing us to transcend our current approaches and find new patterns in the data, but what it really does is make us dig our heels deeper into our existing methodologies.
Indeed, I am not a patent lawyer; I am a crypto geek attempting to ascertain whether and to what extent this treads on current, and future, implementations of (edit: and enhancements to) the double ratchet algorithm. I believe that my tweets are pretty clear about that.

ps: other people have simply said to "read the claims", which is fine but does not help clarify anything.
Speak for yourself, maybe you're dead, i'm not.
The world is not black and white but I would say that democracy, with all its faults, offers more instruments for a good change and sadly people are not educated to play a role.
> While we already knew that brittlestars have photoreceptors all along their bodies, we didn’t know exactly how they worked until now.

> Using a combination of microscopic observations and RNA sequencing, the researchers speculate that in light, the animal’s pigment-containing cells constrict the photoreceptors.

Emphasis mine in the above quotes.

"To know exactly" and "to speculate" are just completely incompatible.

It bugs me how badly written popular science is.
But isn't “resistant to deviation from established norms” at least partly what conservatism means politically?
Refugees make great entrepreneurs and workers
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That "somebody" is Qrypt, Inc [1]. (I've never heard of them.) Denis Mandich is the CTO. Interestingly, the patent application mentions Axolotl, Signal, and what not. Not sure how this sauce is different? Because of quantum cryptography? I did find [2] from their website as well.

From [1] it says: "Kevin and Denis have hand-selected a talented team of seasoned leaders in engineering, physics, and cryptography to build Qrypt’s patented solution." I guess they can add "patent pending", too.

[1] https://www.qrypt.com/about

[2] https://www.ornl.gov/news/qrypt-licenses-ornls-quantum-rando...
India has a sim card system like this, but it is actually even less secure and shockingly easy to game. That's not even counting for the fact that not everyone has a cell phone (a minority, but still exists).
I took that from Encyclopedia Britannica:

> Ethnic Russians constituted a majority of the population in Crimea

https://www.britannica.com/place/Crimea/History

About other oblasts like Donetsk and Luhansk, I don't think Russia has a way to make those territorial claims look legitimate.
Really enjoyed the read! Two minor things I found: downgrade(&self) should be downgrade(self), and rw2 and rw3 have TCell parameters, should these not be QCells?
lmao this is hilarious. Imagine dealing with such stupidity while other countries don’t have to, instant competitive disadvantage
One of the things that characterizes our culture in Cybernus is language.

As we aimed to be an ever evolving civilization, it was decided that our language should then be, also, ever evolving. Once a month, during The Update -our most significant celebration where new discoveries, thought trends, etc, were presented to the population at large- a time was reserved for the ritual of language renovation. A number of random words, somewhere in the range of 30 to 50, were marked as outdated while a similar number, again from 30 to 50, of new words was introduced into the language as the words to show you were current with your civic duties of evolution and progress.

Usage of so called outdated words wasn't re-classified as a crime until much later, and only as a way to better enforce the goal of Continuous Progress. For some time you were just seen as an outcast or simply as one of the billions of poor people. Poverty was not so much defined in economic terms mainly because it wouldn't have meant much, with what happened in 2043 and all that. Instead being poor now meant you were someone that did not have access to enough information to participate in the careless happiness of Continuous Progress. But as I said, not keeping up with language evolution is now considered an offence and repeater offenders are forced to undergo re-adjustment.

Of course, after a short period of going through this, it was noticed that it's not so easy to continuously come up with new words and not make the language a unintelligible garble. And so words are recycled rather than discarded, which was a wasteful and unsustainable thing to do anyway.

-- Excerpt from "A Visitor in Cybernus" - a "recollection of future history" from Sean M. Ferion. 2007. Sadly out of print and very difficult to find.
Is an algorithm patent really a defensible claim?
That is not my experience from real codebases at all. Generally, developers start using new features as soon as they become available in the standard (or minimum supported) compiler for the codebase.
Yeah, it's a really dumb term.

> Serverless computing is a cloud-computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server

...so, there is a server? What's with the name, then?
Worlds largest coal exporter, at near 40% of the world's coal, puts Australia as the third highest global export source of CO2. Behind only Saudi and Russia (oil and gas respectively).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-19/australia-co2...
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What are these others then pointing out, regarding what's really happening? All I see is how Alec is advised to focus on the claims of the patent. However, I do not see how that substantially changes the situation regard the double-ratched/signal algorithm and this patent. Could you be so kind to elaborate, please?
When you cross that list with language usage, support etc, you don't have a lot left.

My point is that maybe most of those languages are not suitable, and that nobody really like those languages. Just cross all the arguments I gave about those languages, how they score, etc: C/C++ are the most used language that compiles to native and it gets criticized.

"There are languages people complain about, and languages people nobody uses" Meaning we only complain about language we use.
Oops, I meant C++'s macros. StackOverflow tells me there are subtle differences.
An honest question, what value does the government assign to the human life in your opinion?
In my experience the elites from countries with universal healthcare seek treatment for themselves and their families in countries which have private options, while the majority of the population is stuck in long waiting lines and substandard care.
In Micheal Moore's Sicko Slovenia was mentioned as role model because its universal healthcare. Well it just happens that if you need a thumb operation you only have to wait 13 years there to get your turn. [1]
Wouldn't the rational response be to asses both pluses and minuses of public and private healthcare, recognize that not all health related problems are the same and build a better system from first principles rather than shoot blanket ideological responses?

[1] - https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sl&tl=en&u=https%3...
Panama was ruled by a dictator who was in fact leaning towards the Soviet block. He also ignored election results against him. And in the world of realpolitik the US was not going to ignore the strategic value of the Panama Canal. The Soviet Union was very aggressive at winning over other nations with military aid, similar to China today with financial aid. And Panama was a lot cleaner than the mess in the Middle East today.
> On seeing a pink colour on the underground for example you can immediately tell "Hammersmith & City".

I just wish they'd strictly adhere to matching the livery and the line colour, though. It's SUCH a good idea, but with trains sharing the same track on different lines, it causes no end of confusion!
It should be sufficient if we hot-patch the end date to 2030 - we'll surely have updated or replaced those systems until then.

I'm curious what part of the system even required specifically coding an end date, and not just sanity checks relative to the current date.
For those interested, Jack Straw (former UK Foreign Secretary) wrote a book, "The English Job", about the history of the UK and Iran (but of course touching on a lot more) is very readable. Having been published in 2019, it's also pretty up-to-date.

There is apparently a joke amongst diplomats that 'Iran is the only country in the world which still regards the United Kingdom as a superpower'. There is a phrase in Iran, which translates as something like "It's always an English job", applied to something that has been botched and mishandled. I'd definitely say that for the layman, if you want to understand the relationship twixt the West and Iran (which is so much more than just the US and Iran) this book has a place on your reading list.
You think waging war is the way to bring democracy to Iran?

Iran is a country next to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. It's an enemy to _both_ Saudi Arabia and Israel.

And you think destabilizing it will be followed by a democratic government and not a rush of ISIS-Taliban-Al-whatever?

Iran is made of dozens of different ethnicities. What if it became a Libyia and different regions started a civil war?

This is sickening. You _saw_ what the U.S. did to Iraq and Afghanistan and you're "still" thinking the way to bring democracy to the country next to them is bombs?
Don't you think you should be more responsible than that?
What if you are wrong? What if another Iraq came out of this?

By withdrawing from Iran's nuclear deal, U.S. practically destroyed any chance of a peaceful path for Iran to democracy.

JCPOA was the last chance for reformers in Iran to have a say. After the U.S. withdrawal, they have 0 credibility left with the people. Now hardliners have all the power and noone talks about reform anymore. Diplomacy is dead.

Iran's populace is much better equipped for democracy. They have already started begging for it.

U.S. is basically suffocating Iran with it's sanctions and people are hungry. These are not people who want democracy or freedom of press or separation of powers. They are people who are burning banks and want blood. No democracy is coming out of this.

This [0] is an organization of Iranians in diaspora, trying to form a council to help Iran have a proper transition in case the Islamic Republic fails and even their current CEO believes at the moment, the chance of a peaceful transition are not high and Iran becoming Syria is far more likely.

In that regard, the current offensive action may as well be viewed as a breath of fresh air.

I know that you are not responsible for these actions and you are probably a normal software engineer or something and probably a nice person. But U.S. is a democracy and people who do have the power, get their power from your thoughts and your vote.

So I do hold you responsible for the actions of your government. Therefore,
if you find another war "fresh", please, fuck off. Your ignorance is harmful.

My apologies for personal attack.

[0] http://www.transitioncouncilofiran.org/index.html
I'm not sure it's fair to count a country's fossil fuel exports to its CO2 contributions. Arguably Australia could increase the price of coal by stopping its coal production but the effect would just be that mines elsewhere would reopen or increase production to meet demand.
You make such excited, highly normative claims about a phone, complete with involved speculation about the motives of anyone who might like it, and decide to insult people's eating choices along the way.

I could speculate about personal insecurity issues, but instead will simply note that not everyone comes from the same place you do or share your particular concerns or needs. It is a big world, exploring it some might be good for you.
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I don't think the government actually wanted to stop math [1] from leaving the border. It was just a tool to use against people they suspected being involved espionage. Just another reason to put you in a cell.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_algorithm
Wow, first world problems

I never had trouble finding my phone in my 150 sq ft apartment

TC 65000
The "there will be more" part happened last summer, but thanks to media propaganda/manipulation/disinfo[0] you didn't noticed it, your attention was on Evil Bolsonaro and the Hong kong protests.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/18/761591604/bolivia-is-fighting...