skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a lot of good explanations for the status quo, but I'm surprised nobody mentioned the more fundamental problem that you simply can't overtake a train. Airplanes can fly relatively independently of each other, compared to trains who have to share tracks and more limited train stations.

This means you just can't compete on the level that budget airlines can. Spirit, RyanAir, etc: they helped bring down prices across the industry. Flying used to be $300, but after relentless competition, even the more expensive airlines are now far cheaper than they used to be.

The inching down of leg room, saving pennies on drinks and food, paying for extra luggage; that kind of brutal cost saving just doesn't happen without merciless competition. And it's comparatively impossible to start a RyanRail: you can't just dump your trains in between the other ones. It's an inherently hard field to compete in. Even in the UK and NL, where different private companies compete, they do so by winning bids for sections of tracks, and exclusive access to those tracks. That's not the same as airlines. If only one airline could fly LDN->BCN, it wouldn't be $25. (case in point: KLM & SLM had a monopoly on flights Netherlands <-> Suriname for a while. The day they lost it, prices dropped >50%).

Most of the other things (salary expenses, track upkeep, etc) would follow if they could compete harder. We could have said the same about flying two decades ago; nobody would have predicted a $25 LDN->BCN, yet here we are.

(this is just my theory, and it's hard to conclusively disprove, therefore quite a weak one..)
Is the company in question now mostly composed of minority hires? I am personally opposed to diversity quotas, however, whenever I've heard the suggestion that a company is discriminating against white men, the company in question also happens to be staffed almost entirely by white men, so I wonder how that ends up happening.
It looks like the site is just static content. The login/register form goes off to a different domain which is TLS secured.
I guess that the downside of that is that you'd be streaming audio instead of text?
"By detecting the subjects of interest, AutoFlip is able to avoid cropping off important visual content."

And they manage to demo it with a scene where a lady talks to a guy in a checkered shirt in front of a yellow background. The algorithm cuts off the lady completely and only keeps the guy. I guess she mustn't have been important. Next time she should try to look more like "interesting, salient content".
There are pages about how to use inkjet ink as a PCB resist. Apparently it's a bit trickier than the laser process.
I think getting good at debugging software problems is a skill much of which should transfer well to just about any technical problem. The key is to be clear about what you really know, what you only think, or assume, you know and what you don't know. Then to perform experiments which move elements from the latter two sets to the first until you find the source of the problem.

A second thing about programming that is somewhat unique and can influence one's learning style is that the computer can provide you instant feedback on what works and what doesn't. Very few other disciplines have that characteristic. For example I was never very good at proving theorems in math classes because it was always hard for me to be sure my reasoning was valid and I wasn't missing some loophole in my proof. Doing formal proofs in a proof assistant like Coq is much more like programming, the computer is always there to tell you what you've really shown to be true and what you haven't. I suspect that I might be a lot more effective at writing proofs that way, though it's not something I've yet had the time to explore to any great extent.
Why should the layman care about how HTTPS works ?
There’s a difference between pajamas and comfortable clothes though. One can wear jeans, sweats, workout clothes, or other things that you could leave the house in, while not getting into full “office” attire.

I think this is a critical item for working at home. You want to be wearing something that you wouldn’t mind answering the door in, or if you had to run an unexpected errand. (and contrary to what the People of Walmart site shows, it is not appropriate to be doing those things in pajamas).
I was just like this in the laser field. As an engineer, my skills were middling but my physics was good. I hung around the product managers, who were chemistry PhD fraternity boys. In return for understandable answers for the tougher customer questions, they taught me product management.
My team has also chosen Google Cloud.

Here's two reasons:
1. They have I think the most mature manged kubernetes service.
2. They have a managed Airflow offering called Cloud Composer.

If you are just using the basics (VMs, managed SQL, storage), then it probably makes sense to pick primarily based on factors such as price and customer service.

Once you get into more complicated use cases like say big data, distributed systems, or ML, there are important differences between what the cloud providers are offering.
I tried it. Its clean. One thing, after completing one category, computers, I tried clicking on others and nothing happend. Even after refreshing page. This was on firefox
Smaller company. Master their domain. Streamline all their business processes. CTO role or something like that.
You can buy conductive ink pens from Adafruit and many hobby stores.
Well, maybe I've had different experiences.
Probably not. It looks like that's primarily for gamma. In space, cosmic rays are much much more powerful and catastrophic for cells.

Water is actually probably the best shield, because you'll need it to support humans along the way. Gamma still is a risk but I think the concern has mainly been higher speed subatomic particles.

Anything with heavy nuclei actually produces significant and also highly damaging secondary radiation when hit by fast moving, heavy nuclei, cosmic rays.

Another interesting thing: Apollo astronauts could see sparkles in their eyes from the radiation effects of getting hit by cosmic rays travelling through their skulls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena
'Fact Check' in Google Search Results
Move into managerial/sales role.
You pretty much have to job hop. Look for opportunities to help sales with customer conversations. if you can be a bridge from engineering to the business then you will have a lot of value in the position. Communication is critical. You have to be able to make people feel your solution is not best. Peoole do not care what is technically best. They want to feel something is the best. And that is a hard but to crack because every customer is different.

There are some technical product management positions. If you are looking for training and feel like that route and MBA will almost certainly set you down that path. Though I did not and got to a PM position. Luck is also involved. Haha
Lift free weights, start young, make it a life-long habit before your strength starts to wane with age. Look up Alan Thrall on YT for some vids on good form for the basics like bench press, overhead press, dead-lift, squats, etc. that and core strength work and stretching should keep your posture in good shape.
I agree, after I learned Blender using any other 2D or 3D software felt like a dinosaur after.
I know it's annoying but I enabled it for some time to compensate for the website maintenance expenses. However, I assure you that there would be only one ad per page, not more.

Lastly, if you know any other easy way to monetize then please do let me know.
The closing (and reasoning for closing) of the linked issue on GitHub is absolutely bizarre.
You could consult if you enjoy the human relationship and light project management aspects of being a jack of all trades.
> I think it's extremely naive

> Almost willfully so.

> I don't expect you to say anything bad about the hand that feeds you. Given Huawei's reputation, they're probably monitoring you as we speak.

I think your post would have been just fine making your point without these remarks. It's just someone sharing their experience, that's what I'm reading the comment threads for. We can all see it's a new throwaway account without you lashing out at them.
What part of "they don't know where the calls are coming from" don't you understand? Are they supposed to just close down customers at random hoping they close down a scammer by accident?

Do you really think you're smarter than everyone at the FCC, since you apparently think nobody at the FCC thought of this?
> Synthesizing that much fuel would require about 1 MW of electricity for 500 days, requiring in turn 5 hectares of solar panels. Per Starship, per launch window. At 50 kg/kWe, the solar farm would weigh 50 T.

Given those power and mass requirements, would it make sense to deploy the PV in earth orbit and use it to power an ion drive? Those things need a lot of electricity to be useful, but 1 MW is a lot of electricity — not the 200 MW for the VASIMR 39-days-to Mars proposal, I’m still thinking of a standard “slow” journey, but this could also mean only one LEO refuel (for powered landing) required.
If there is WiFi, the radios will be much much less active or even switch away from LTE/5G.
I would like to port OpenFOAM over to Blender. It’s very powerful software but a mess of dependencies and rubbish documentation. An implementation within Blender would make life so much easier.
There is a human element in the new user signup path on a lot of Masto instances. For a while I had mine set to “there’s a form on the front page to fill out with an freeform text field to say why you want an account here” until the day a whole bunch of people with suspiciously similar email account names all requested new accounts and filled that space with links to buy viagra and cialis. Now it’s gone back to “ask me elsewhere, or ask a friend who is on the instance, and I will hand off an invite link”. An admin can leave her instance set to open signups, but eventually she’s probably going to turn that off once it grows to a size she starts to feel uncomfortable handling.

You could always set up your own instance to spam people, but you’d quickly find the entire instance blocked. There’s a few hashtags where admins tend to share bad actor instances they’ve run across, and you’d start seeing instances you’d never made contact with blocking you preemptively.
Expulsiones en caliente: una mala sentencia
I’ll try to summarize the major points a bit better.

The two parents don’t feel anything for one another, but are great partners in terms of parenting. There isn’t any attraction, affection, etc. Just a joint desire to enable their child to blossom, succeed, and flourish. Not married, relationship started like any other, baby came, parents raised child.

Both 6 figure incomes from remote jobs.

Although not married, both parents live and pool their incomes together.

Both parents also decided to pool and tackle their debts together (refinance, balance transfers to joint accounts, joint auto loans etc.). Both accepted the responsibilities of that. They were both okay with it because their incomes and debts were practically identical.

Overtime lifestyle inflation became a huge problem and a burden on the relationship. Both individuals come from completely different backgrounds which translates into their different monetary habits which they clashed over...

If separated both would be free to do whatever with their $ Which both have expressed is an overall net positive since they each disagree with how the other spends.

There’s no major toxic behavior. But again also no desire to be together. The dynamic is essentially all of the restrictions that come with being in a relationship with none of the positive aspects except for the stellar team work when it comes to parenting.

The child would, upon separation, leave and reside 4 hours away. There are multiple avenues here. One is stay as a family unit but leave for a place my friend personally does not want to move to. Split and follow the child considering remote work and income allows it. Or split, co parent, and live elsewhere (which is what friend would’ve done otherwise considering their situation)?

Should they stay together FOR THE CHILD? Yes or no and why is what my friend is really wondering.
I'm not sure whether I should be thrilled or embarrassed about my own similar situation... people post on here about making very high six and even seven figure salaries at FAANG, and I assumed he would be among them
Consumer ticket prices seem like a poor proxy for operating expenses per passenger km. For one, as you said, the quality of service is better.
Which works fine for a renderer where you're typically serializing the scene and transferring it over anyway.

It's not as tenable for things like deformers etc that need to feed data back in to the scene every frame. Well.. at least not without severe performance repercussions.
Finally. The extreme slugishness of webpack&co has always bugged me any time I ventured into JS development, to the point of me getting immediately discouraged.
Better upvote my own work ;) I will be happy to answer questions. Especially about the motif motif alignment with regexes.
What do I do if upper management seems to be driving this process?
How to Use Google's Closure Compiler
>Disclosure advantages people who collude to apply political pressure (gang up) instead of appealing to principles or leveraging their skill and the value they bring

wut. how exactly do you imagine people that don't have union contracts go about doing this?

>Contrarian view: salary disclosure destroys value for people with negotiating skills

and conversely how are you at an advantage in negotiations when you have no price discovery? e.g. i bought this tuna sandwich for $10 and i feel great about it because i have no way of knowing that the sandwich shop next door has the exact same tuna sandwich for $5.

>Disclosure lowers all boats in that it causes mean-reversion in the sample, and reduces opportunity and incentive for people to apply themselves and succeed

what a hot take - "more transparency from the executive class actually hurts the labor class". brilliant.
Chromebooks will soon use PWAs for Help app
I tackled that project about two years ago. Asked around and a friend had an old laptop with FW port, so I installed Ubuntu on it and copied all my old Video8 and Digital8 Tapes.
Bail asap.
Yeah the indignation is a bit over the top. If we’re going to complain about every little imbalance in the hiring playing field we have to first acknowledge how systematically unfair it’s been to certain groups and realize that there is a huge amount of subjectivity in qualifications for all white collar or creative work.
You mean the kind of big companies that repeatedly break the law, engage in unethical behaviour, and put growth above all else? Yeah. Only the US has those. Congratulations.

Plenty of tech companies in Europe either way; you just don't know about them. Do you think Europe is some poor underdeveloped continent with uneducated people who can only "write spreadsheets?" What a patronizing comment.
Try looking for a top digital agency. I know they get a bad rap from HN, but good ones do a ton of interesting work for a big variety of different clients and product types and there is usually wide open opportunities to dip your toes in pretty much every aspect of every kind of digital product. They're also active in a ton of different markets so don't need to be in SF or NYC.
There is a skin cancer pandemic since health authorities started warning people to avoid the sun. It is found mostly in people who avoid/block the sun and not eg people who work outside everyday.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20231499

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20541680

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1694089/

Also, tobacco smoke seems to be an exceptionally weak carcinogen. It is near impossible to get it to cause cancer in animals (while eg, radioactive dust easily does so). Think about it, people expose themselves almost 24 hrs per day for decades and still less than 25% get lung cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15765916

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29370344
Is virtue signaling so much worse than discrimination, that people should not perform acts of social good or encourage others to, because somebody might interpret it as "virtue signaling"?

There should be a term "iniquity signaling," for going out of your way to derail a conversation about systematic discrimination to complain about other people "virtue signaling," as if it were the worst problem facing society (or even a problem at all). And why doesn't flag waving and bible thumping ever count as virtue signaling?

Isn't writing a resume and a cover letter for a job application the purest, most self-indulgent form of financially motivated "virtue signaling"? How are you supposed to get a job and pay the rent without doing that?
Much of this describes some of my past experience at a Fortune 100. That company is now undergoing much discussion at a senior level about agile delivery. Senior executives are walking around talking about tribes and chapters and have no idea what that really means or of the day to day work of teams. It’s unfortunate what will come out of it in the end is some people doing stuff now that will have new titles and maybe more ceremonies but not a substantive change from what they do now or the way work gets done.

Middle management thinks they work in a factory and treat people like numbers. If you trust the same group of people to implement the change then you can bet their sole goal is to make it look good. Unless you change the middle then not much will change.
> it focuses a lot on concurrent operations

It does but not to the exclusion of other computation models. I'd agree with GP - I found it a wonderful book. It builds different models of computation successively by incrementally adding features. It's a bit like SICP[0] in that it starts with declarative/functional fundamentals and brings in mutable state really late. The coverage of dataflow was the first one that gave me an "aha!" moment.

It's easily 10 years since I bought it and I still dip into it every few months or so. Every time I do, I get something new: insights, deeper understanding, etc.

Really wonderful book.

[0] https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/
There are a lot of statistical fallacies like this:

> The current age-adjusted mortality rate for all cancers in the U.S., 152.4 deaths per 100,000 people, is just under what it was in 1930, according to a recent analysis.

The US is a very different population than it was in 1930 in ways that go beyond age. If you want to make a statement like this to point out that changes to lifestyle (e.g smoking/obesity) can totally offset medical progress, then go ahead and make that argument explicitly. But simply citing the headline mortality number to argue "LITTLE NET PROGRESS AFTER 90 YEARS" is unjustifiable.

Edit: As far as evidence of efficacy, here's a more-or-less random clinical trial showing a meaningful survival benefit for melanoma patients given ipilimumab (the first cancer immuotherapy):

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT00636168?view...

Note that ipilimumab is no longer the standard of care for melanoma as pembro has even higher efficacy.

There are a lot more trials out there if you're inclined to spend time looking through results.
Interview with TikTok Head Alex Zhu
Big discussion a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22077019
I really can’t more strenuously disagree. At Giant Search writing “subtle” code is very strongly discouraged. The very last thing I want is candidates with a penchant toward subtlety.
>see how powerful and versatile GPUs have become because they didn't carry that legacy.

GPUs are the best example for why C is a good lower-level high-level language, seeing how CUDA is programmed in C/C++.

Do you have any examples of architectures that could exist if only they weren't constrained by legacy C?
Trust is the most effective attack surface.
with a few years of experience expect over 200k for top tech in NYC
Despite the dumb name, the new "AI"-Denoiser is also a huge improvement over 2.81.
It’s a natural cycle though. New bundler created that is fast and simple to use -> New features are requested and added to the bundler which makes it more sluggish -> New bundler created that is fast and simple.

I wonder how this compares to ParcelJS.

I’m a big fan of Go but there are usually fringe benefits in having the bundler written in the language that it is bundling I.e. JavaScript.
Have had several orders with this timeline. I’m in California.
Many of them don't feel particularly smaller, either. I've had literally no desire to move to San Francisco; senior+ jobs here in Boston pay more than enough to comfortably pay a mortgage somewhere nice.
You have to distinguish between screening detected cancer and symptomatic cancer. 5yr srvl rates say little in the former case but they are relevant for the latter. You'd really prefer having skin cancer today than ten years ago.

Your short exchange of arguments is a good example of what goes wrong in the public discussion.
Preliminary medical report details male vulnerabilities from corona virus [pdf]
Not to disagree about the quality of SAP's product but realistically if not for us based cloud providers they're going to be stuck with Yandex cloud or Baidu.
Self hosted, privacy focused Analytics platform – PHP Based
Does anyone know why 60 bits and not some power of two? How did that work? Or am I just being silly and it doesn’t matter? :)
There were a ton of crypto startups around that time...haven’t seen any press from them since, with the exclusion of Coinbase, which seems to be doing well.
So everyone got what they wanted?

You did the project you wanted.

AWS and Google got the code they wanted.

Your friends for the jobs they wanted.
HN doesn't remotely begin to matter enough for companies to waste money on propaganda efforts.
I like how the web site has overridden the default scroll behaviour, it's so much better this way.

Said no one ever.
Flat payment scales that don't vary by location and are benchmarked to more expensive areas do exist. [1] But companies that do that certainly aren't typical and I assume are all pretty small--including being in a position to pay well above local market rates for lower cost-of-living areas (and/or putting up with a much-reduced ability to hire in high CoL areas).

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-people-at-basecamp/
Given that multi-layer PCBs are effectively laminations of individual boards, hobbyists have already made their own multilayer boards [1]. I don't see anything particular about milling as a means of copper removal that would stop you layering up boards?

[1] https://www.instructables.com/id/Flexible-Double-Layer-OR-Mu...
If women behave differently, why would you expect universally equal outcomes?
Show HN: I made a website to help you track the conronavirus outbreak
The article is not for the layman but for beginners who are interested in knowing the internals of HTTPS. The explanation is in layman terms. You can find plenty of literature on https online but it's not necessary you would grasp everything in a blink of an eye.
Yeah, shipping in the US is much faster. Here in Greece you have to pay 3 euros minimum on shipping charges and shipping from anywhere in the EU will take at least a week.