skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, and what should I tell?

I want to code and I want money, more money the better. Oh, and I don't want bulshit meetings (1on1s included).

That's basically it for my career, I don't want to be a manager, I don't want to be a tech lead (been there, hated every 3 years of it). What is there more to talk about?

My manager thinks that to be a better individual contributor (go up a ladder) I should do something outside my team, I'm not sure I want that (or know what to do outside) - so most probably when I hit pay rise wall I'll switch jobs again.
> theatrical demonstrations of disgust near smokers outside on the sidewalk, and so on.

We are disgusted because the poison in cigarette smoke is extremely harmful to young lungs.

Smokers should have to go into designated areas they should have no right to pollute the air of those around them.
In context, allow me to share this gem of a comic: http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park

I won't say anything about it, because I don't want to spoil it for you.
Writing Grant Applications
They should be illegal when used for that purpose. They're extremely loud and damage hearing directly. It's like blasting an air horn in someone's ear.
We consider it pretty ridiculous if a browser were to inject its own ads.

Ridiculous or not, Brave does exactly this.

I don't care, personally. If Reddit wants my eyeballs, they should stop with the user-hostile behavior that's driven me away from the site. As long as they serve an API, I'm in luck, because someone who cares about their users can build a better interface on top.

If they stop doing this, well, no big loss; I have enough ways to waste time.
Show HN: Pathlab is pathlib for archives, images, etc.
`pathlib.Path` is Python's object-oriented interface to local filesystem paths, but it was invented too late to be used in modules like `tarfile` and `zipfile`. It also does a lot of magic that makes it hard to extend.

I wrote this package to help others write their own subclasses of `pathlib.Path` for any sort of embedded/remote filesystem. I've included built-in support for `zip`, `tar` and `iso` files (inc. SUSP+RR but exc. Joliet+UDF) and JFrog Artifactory. Hopefully it's helpful to someone.

Source: https://github.com/barneygale/pathlab

Docs: https://pathlab.readthedocs.io

Cheers
Early-Stage B2B SaaS Founders: Why Channel Partnerships Suck as a Sales Strategy
I love the work project zero does but I wish google would do some basic security things would android like streamlining the patch system to get to phones and providing more support for their older phones with security updates and more stringent security requirements for android. I feel like project zero is really good PR for them but they could really do more for the security of their apps and phones :/
I don’t have any kids, but I can’t figure out what people are actually
complaining about here. Most comments seem to be referring to breast feeding in the hospital in the few days post birth. Is it just hospital culture we’re upset with? My understanding was that breast milk is generally pretty important to do as it helps transmit antibodies and the like. But, having some formula is fine too.

I see older cases about nestle misleading women in developing markets to suggest formula was better, which led to deaths. However this seems to be due to nutritional deficiencies which I, perhaps naively, would assume they have figured out by now.
its the basis of a dewey decimal system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification

it lends towards keeping a system in your head for catalogueing where in physical space an item on stack will be.

this could be where in a library or where in a NAS array or where in a directory structure or network domain.
Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach
Thanks! I didn't know about :jss and will happily concede that's equivalent to the Clojure version.
If Donal Trump tweets something that has word "Turkey" then I immediatly get notified. If it is something negative I sell my Turkish Liras and buy Euro.
Original discussion is here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341138
Korea doesn’t value software engineers like Silicon Valley does. Over there, it is considered menial work and the pay is VERY substandard. This has been true as recently as 2018, but it is (too slowly) starting to change. The only FAANG with an engineering office in Seoul is Google.
I think most people (parents) do not in fact distinguish between screen activities. In particular, games are bucketed into the same box as tv regardless of the game.

I'm not aware of any studies indicating learning something from a webpage is any less effective than learning it from a book. I'd be interested to see studies targeting that. Even more so if it had breakdowns by age
Might be a reaction to the eighties. My mom tells me how doctors were pushing that mothers should wipe their breasts with antibac before babies could have milk.

With stories like that as background you can see why people are sceptical.
UI Kitten: A React Native UI Library
Nice protip
It isn't the local secret service we should be wary of (they can already easily get access anyway); it is commercial companies who profit of data, and hostile secret services.
Those renderers should use some kind of viewport rendering / virtualization so that they're not creating DOM for the entire document.
I use unrepentant coal-powered spaghetti until I get nukes and bots. Then I auto-deconstruct my shame and let the bots deal with my blueprints. :D
I think most of us are impressed by computational parlor tricks (and indeed raw computational intelligence in general -- being able to process information and compute quickly and accurately), but for me, genius goes beyond that.

Genius is about having rare and useful insights that the rest of us are incapable of, and that a computer is unable to easily replicate.

For instance, there was this thing on Twitter recently about all percentages being reversible (7% of 50 is equal to 50% of 7, but the latter is easier to mentally calculate). Most of us are aware that multiplication is commutative, but it takes genius to recognize and frame that insight in a useful way.
That’s great of your dad, and it seems it was well fitting with your personality. Did you ever want to change your goals based on opportunities, once you got out of school and your dad had less influence ?

I rarely met people that had actually viable goals while in school (not that their goal was unrealistic, just missinformed and ill fited for them), and we all took our first years out of school as a discovery period to find something that was working for us.
I always pick Zapier for automation these days, even for production-level projects. Before that I once searched across several other alternatives and came across Tray.io for my project but they seemed to be very expensive and also had less integrations compared to the likes of Zapier, with no free trial.

I'm not sure why anyone would choose them over Zapier for the prices they were offering but perhaps that's the reason why I wasn't surprised why many developers and businesses keep choosing either Zapier or IFTTT.
> posts have always been paramount and what attract people to the site, even though the discussions are great too

FWIW, the comments are the main reason I go to any social media site (Reddit and HN included).
I would be interested in seeing a data set for the risk of SIDS from cosleeping (even on the baby's back) vs. the risk of various other problems from indescribably exhausted parents and a baby who will scream bloody murder for hours and hours and hours and hours if you try to get them to sleep alone in a crib.

Also, not to be all hippie but would we not have evolved to want to be held as infants? What species just leaves its young to sleep without physical contact?
In the USA all works of the government are considered public domain. The idea of a public copyright is a legal contradiction in terms. So it's perfectly legal to take PDFs of official government publications and republish them if you think there's a market for it.
Israel Accuses Hamas of ‘Catfishing’ Soldiers to Plant Malware
He said the drills are misguided though right?

Not that the US obsession with guns and lax gun control that enables school shootings is defensible.
Factorio is apparently Tobi Luetke's (CEO of Shopify) current favorite game, and in a podcast he mentioned it helped him hone the faculties needed to run a company.
You shouldn't. But let's not make the problem worse?
it doesn't show any land masses at all, only the density of humans - you're brain is likely filling in the familiar land borders
Cigarette smoke is not nearly as bad or gross for the average person as you make it out to be - how do you think smokers could possibly stand it otherwise? If you didn't know it was bad for you you wouldn't be making such a pearl clutching fuss about it.

This post is pure hysteria. You're rationalizing a conditioned, exaggerated reaction.
This is really fascinating to me. I've often wondered what exactly makes an artist/musician. Is it the person who can create it in their head, or the person who can actually write it down and/or actually play it on an instrument? Up until now, it's always been the latter. Not everybody can read/write music or play an actual instrument, but most can create it in their head. Like, I'm sure most of you can create a simple tune and hum it, and don't know how to read/write music or play an instrument. This kind of thing would allow you to. I wonder how many hidden artists throughout time have created brilliant masterpieces, but just could never express it.
Fantastic article that explains the math (and physics) very clearly.
Tetris is also bundled with emacs.
See: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TetrisMode

Not that I'm an emacs proponent...
A Beetle Math Puzzle
I really identify with his home cook metaphor. I love cooking for folks and often get compliments that I could be a chef. Mostly because I’ve been cooking since I was a child. Ironically I’ve become a “software engineer” in a similar manner, 10 years of just trying things out and making things for friends and family. I do agree we’re getting to a space in software development that’s making it a bit easier to play and experiment with ideas. I think it would amazing if folks could get a BlueApron like expenience and make an app that would be useful
You're describing a situation where the screen is a secondary activity in the background. A conversation by adults could be just as distracting and yet you hopefully wouldn't advise that adults conversing is harmful to childhood development
Top of the second page: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00165-012-0269-9

My understanding is that both Needham–Schroeder and SSL had formal verification prior to the breaks, but the breaks relied on properties outside of what was proven (which was thought to be complete at the time).
Go global Day 1 or not
We are in the final stages of developing our care management and communication platform and are completing a small beta with some key users. We are unsure if we should launch our product globally day 1 or focus on launching in one particular region. Can anyone share any wisdom or advice? Also if anyone could recommend any case studies or guides that would be cool...
Perhaps. But far from practical for mass consumption.
Oops, I must have just cut and paste from another project. Yeah, all this is not necessary in this case. I will update it.
GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective team up for sustainability
The "Admin Key" would seem to be a serious security problem.
I've been hacking language learning for about five years, and I've spent ridiculous amounts of time trying and reading about different strategies. I've been to Cuba, Mexico, Spain, and Puerto Rico to try immersion in different settings.

Getting to a solid level of competency in a language actually is not that hard. It just requires dedication and consistent practice.

That said, native speakers operate on a different level entirely. In my recent visit to Barcelona, I had no problems asking for directions, talking to the hotel staff and people in bars, chatting it up with friends in Spanish, etc. However, walking into a noisy / crowded restaurant where the language is going 100 miles an hour is a totally different scenario.

As much as I want to believe otherwise, I'm of the opinion that getting to a level of "automatic" response where you can fluidly handle any situation requires living in a country where the language is in your face all day every day--and even then it still takes real effort.

A friend of mine, who's a US ex-pat living in Madrid is of the same opinion. After three years living there, he still doesn't feel 100% confident; although, he admits that he has spent most of his social time around English speakers.

None of this is intended to discourage anyone at all. In fact, learning Spanish ranks as one of the best decisions I've ever made; however, I think it's important for folks to go in with realistic expectations, as there's big difference between functional competency--with a language and fluency with fluency being a "white whale".
I think his point is that back in the day manufacturers were happy to provide the resources needed for users to repair their products (or delegate it to a third-party of their choosing).

This is not the case anymore. You are not going to find a manufacturer-approved source for schematics for most modern consumer products. The only way these schematics surface on the web is by being stolen and leaked by factory workers and this could take considerable time from the release of the product.

Manufacturers also try to corrupt the law to their advantage by lobbying against bills such as the right to repair with completely insane arguments (often involving safety, etc - the typical “think of the children” nonsense) which sadly work against clueless senators (or whatever the people at these hearings are called in the US). You can check out Louis Rossmann’s YouTube channel for recent examples of this.
There could be several reasons why it is "not likely" that a researcher would leak. But is the existence of an NDA really one of them?

Putting aside the likelihood of an intentional leak, how would enforcement of an NDA work in the event of an "accidental" leak.

Has anyone ever seen Facebook file lawsuits against academic researchers or their employers. When leaks have happened, has anyone seen Facebook file lawsuits to enforce an NDA in order to protect or provide compensation to Facebook users.

Of course we have all seen Facebook file endless lawsuits to protect Facebook.

What sort of "relief" are users going to get under an NDA between Facebook and an academic researcher if their data is leaked.
I’m not sure what the dilemma is here. They made the rules, should they apply them or not?
Dunno what you learning style but some folks appreciate this site

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/
There's also this news channel (works in Europe, don't know outside): https://www.bfmtv.com/mediaplayer/live-video/

It's a typical 24/7 news channel but that's real, everyday French and, well, the latest news.
> The future perfect is very much used both orally

The past conditional, maybe. The future, really? Do you actually say things like nous nous verrons demain or il l'aura fait avant in casual speech? Well I don't know if you do, but the vast majority of French speakers would say something like on se voit demain et il l'a probablement fait avant. Instead of using specific verb forms to convery meaning people instead rely on context and adverbial cues, as do the speakers of the dozens of languages that do not use the byzantine tense and mood system of the Romance languages (see: Japanese, Chinese, etc.) and are certainly not the worse for it.

>I've noticed that the subjunctive is used less in writing since some change to 'simplify' (i.e. dumb down) the language.

You're aware that the argument you're making about the language getting "dumbed down" is literally millennia old, right?
In the case of a thermostat you could define a goal temperature for a given time range (e.g. 18C during the day, 10C at night) and then your loss is, say, the squared difference from goal and current temperature.

But I agree that in many cases it is difficult to define a goal.
I’m no longer in the field since this was written, but there was certainly a huge move towards criminal treatment of what should be wholly civil copyright law:

https://williampatry.blogspot.com/2007/06/over-criminalizing...
I'm not concerned about performance nearly as much as regressions and breakages post-release. Not sure if this is for better or worse, but I'm the only one actively working on this, so I'm trying to streamline the develop-test-publish so I focus more of my time on delivering value when this company properly starts.
It's a wiki, so if you're sure enough about your understanding of it (I'm not about mine, otherwise I'd do it) so you can fix the unfortunate wording!
Thank you for posting. This is a huge problem. The FDA is under regulatory capture by the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Contrary to what many believe, a lot of drug studies never see the light of day, if they show null or negative results. And decades go by with companies knowing but not publishing about certain side effects.

There are a lot of great people in this industry but the incentives are often so horribly misaligned against consumers’ best interests that it is shocking.
Annual subscriptions are a terrible thing for a bootstrapped business without a huge runway because a sales of annual subscription is a liability from the accounting and legal perspective. Just because you got cash does not mean it is yours. In the first month only 1/12th of the money is yours. By spending more than 1/12th you are basically borrowing the money from the customer based on the terms ( whatever your service was ) at the moment of subscription sale.

If you have a runway, already then it is great and optimizing for the cashflow is great. If you do not have a runway, the last thing that you want to do is commit to a long term delivery of something rather than charge the customer monthly.
Yes, the JSON version is for use in a website or app.
I think it's essential if you're serious about learning. For Spanish at least you can find people $4-$6 an hour which can fit into some seriously lean budgets. I think it's one of the best ways to spend an hour.

I currently chat with my teacher every morning on my bluetooth headphones while exercising in my backyard (of course, confirming first that this wouldn't annoy her). Most productive hour of my day, and I she likes the certainty of me committing to a daily time slot.

Cool way to build friendships too. In April I'm visiting her in Venezuela. Though I recommend using a service like https://www.conversationexchange.com/ for a more overt way to meet different people while practicing language.
If your boss is taking the time to give you a 1-on-1, then there is an opportunity for both sides to listen to each other.

If you have problems/complaints and you never say anything about them, then don't be surprised if they never change.

If there is a 1-on-1 meeting happening, then a communication channel is open. I suppose you can choose to cynically shut it again, but if you make that choice, then don't be surprised to find that you don't have a voice.

A person could try hard to avoid being the squeaky wheel. They could take no curiosity about themselves, or their surroundings, or their organization's goals, or how their boss sees them, or how others see them, or how their habits affect their work, and basically stay the same for years on end, doing the same job, at basically the minimum quality and execution to stay employed.

And then "at the next round of layoffs" that person will find themselves surprisingly replaceable. Probably by a cheaper, more junior person who can do the exact same work at the exact same minimum quality. No reason to keep the guy who hasn't improved for years, and basically tells you to F-off any time you ask him how you can help him.

Guess what: Being invested in your work can make you more valuable. The cynical route often doesn't pay, and frequently fulfills itself.
Transitivity is not an issue: "obéir à ses instincts" and "suivre ces instincts".

So "s'incrire à" is not incorrect per se, e.g. "s'inscrire à des cours de danse". Even, you must say "s'inscrire à la mairie" (e.g. for poll lists) and not "s'inscrire dans la mairie".

I think that what is technically correct is to use "à" when you talk about where you sign in or register (usually a one-time action) and "dans" when you talk about signing in to perform a recurring activity.

That little à word derives from the Latin words "ab" and "ad", which you can find in words ("adjacent", "adverb", "addition", "adventure"... hemmm I mean *aventure"; sometimes English is more Latin than French) which tell the idea of proximity or direction.
I'm glad I'm not the only one struck by how bizarre those seemed as headline features. Compare to other toolkits (I'll use macOS) where automatically transitioning between windows and tabs is a standard feature of the GUI toolkit, and emoji support is provided for free by the operating system's text subsystem.

I would've imagined this to be the case on Windows, at least for Metro apps — isn't that where the new GUI development is going on?

I'm probably way off-base, but it always seems like problems that should be solved system-wide on Windows are solved in different ways by different teams at different times.
Perhaps. But if Linux went mainstream it would probably undermine Apple more than Microsoft. A colleague, who is far more technical than I am, recently said, "I use Apple because it smooths out the bumps. Otherwise, I'd using Linux locally."
> while in Word, you feel like you’re wrestling with the layout engine.

That's an understatement, the UX for that in Word is pretty awful without some deep familiarity. Even using tables to format stuff was difficult and choppy.

Although I've never had to use Word professionally and fortunately most of my education just required the standard format + some spacing requirements, which were easy.
AIUI, the IEEE 754 standard does not guarantee exactly-reproducible results for transcendental operations, because of the "table-maker's dilemma" - the mathematical fact that given a result that's arbitrarily close to being halfway in-between two floating-point values that differ by one ulp (unit in the last place)[0], it may be computationally infeasible to determine the "correctly" rounded result. So this outcome, while perhaps undesirable from an intuitive POV, is not "wrong" in any real sense.

[0] Assuming round-to-nearest, of course. For directed rounding, the problematic case is a result that's arbitrarily close to some exactly-representable value, but not yet determined to be "apart" from it or not in the rounding sense.
I think the dilemma is "but money". I agree, the situation is ridiculous.
Monty Hall's Letter to Harvard CS Professor Regarding the “Monty Hall Problem”
Summary repo here: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/powerful_questions

These questions and practices are very relevant for startup teams and tech teams, such as for strategic project planning with limited resources, or issue postmortems using blameless retrospectives, or pitch deck presentations for choosing the big questions to tackle.