skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, global warming and poor land management isn’t a new thing. It’s hundreds of years old.

We start
This is the best book I've ever read about unit testing
Shipping is a conservative industry that's barely had to change to meet the digital revolution. It's not surprising it doesn't understand digital risk.

Also, as someone who used to work at Maersk, I can attest to the fact that for a Danish company it is extremely hierarchical. Decisions are not made by anyone with any technical competency.
UP42 | Backend Engineers, Senior Backend Engineers, Engineering Manager, Senior Product Manager | Full-time | Berlin, Germany

UP42 is changing the way satellite data is accessed and analyzed. It is the first of its kind open marketplace providing easy access to both satellite imagery and analytics from multiple sources. Developers and data scientists across all industries now have access to a platform to build, run, and scale projects in one place. Based in Berlin, the company is a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space.

- Hiring for Backend Engineers, Senior Backend Engineers, Engineering Manager, Senior Product Manager

- Tech stack: Frontend - JavaScript, Backend - Java, Kotlin, SpringBoot, Data Science Engineering - Python

- Open positions : https://up42.com/company/careers/
Hence this raise. It makes mystery bucks less mysterious.
> [...] so I assume even with GCC support removed, you can still build FreeBSD, if you insist, with an external copy of modern GCC.

Indeed- "external toolchain" includes gcc6[0] and gcc9[1] ports that can be used specifically for building the FreeBSD base system. These are mostly easy to use, install the flavor for whatever architecture you're building and specify CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=<arch>-gcc6 when you build. More/better/complete information (and examples!) at [2].

[0] https://www.freshports.org/devel/freebsd-gcc6

[1] https://www.freshports.org/devel/freebsd-gcc9

[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/ExternalToolchain
I have 1, 3 and 4 year olds, and I have to disagree. We actually have the Busy Gears you mentioned and they are excellent for the 1 year old. But the 3 year old can handle complex tasks if they are interested (that's a huge "if") and can really understand and talk about things. The 4 year old can follow picture-based directions, etc.
That was 1995 when a "new browser engine" was easy. Not long, however, open source web browsers developed a bad reputation.

Back then one reason was that 40% or so of all web pages had broken HTML (e.g. <tag) but that Netscape rendered them anyway. To make a usable web browser you needed to render broken HTML the same way Netscape did, which was undocumented.
Sir, this is an Olive Garden.
Elements | Almere, The Netherlands | Python & iOS developers | ONSITE, VISA, Relocation assistance

https://www.elements.nl/en

Digital agency with an international team of over 60 professionals (70% developers). We work with clients ranging from startups to media and telecom companies, building web and mobile applications. What we care most about: our people, flexibility, transparency, quality over quantity and innovation.

Our tech stack is mainly Python/Django, React, Swift, Kotlin... Check here for a full list https://stackshare.io/companies/elements

Currently, we're looking for:

* Senior Python Developer https://apply.workable.com/elements/j/4DCF348701/

* Senior iOS Developer https://apply.workable.com/elements/j/0DCF2806AC/
Show HN: LCUI Router – A router implemented in C with reference to Vue Router
Isn't it possible that, like human languages that evolve over time for multiple reasons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_change) such as language contact, principle of least action, and pejoration, that computer languages also experience similar shifts? All of this grumbling about how command line options have exploded or why doesn't everyone use language X or shell Y or OS Z that has existed for forever is similar in tone to me about people who grumble about Oxford commas or starting sentences with conjunctions or (heaven forbid) using emojis?

Of course some principles of speech and syntax should stay around (as they probably exist for a good reason), but it is foolhardy to grip tightly onto any language, human or computer, thinking it will always stay the same, when it plainly won't.
Eric S. Raymond (“ESR”, co-founder of the OSI) banned from the OSI mailing list
I recommend citizen journalists Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak who produce a twice-weekly media deconstruction on their podcast NoAgendaShow.com

There are no ads or corporate sponsors or outside influences -- and never will be. The podcast has run nearly 12 years strong and it has been 100% listener supported.
Inc-Query | Operations | Full-time | REMOTE (US/Canada only) | https://inc-query.com

Bootstrapped, profitable, very rapidly growing B2B tech company. We program surveys insanely fast for private equity and management consulting clients.

If you enjoy dealing with very smart clients in a somewhat technical and fast-paced environment, this role may be for you. The Survey Director exercises 3 different skill sets:

1. Client management/communication skills: Interact with clients all the time

2. Business acumen: Learn about different industries/niches and transfer learning across projects

3. Technical skills: Never-ending supply of short coding puzzles (think <10 lines)

This is not a software engineering role, but some coding familiarity is required. It's a tough role, but super interesting work!

If you're interested in learning more, shoot me (the founder) a note with either your resume and/or LinkedIn: hn@inc-query.com. You'd be joining a bunch of other HNers who work here.

PS: Yes I put this up every month because we are growing like crazy!
Hexagonal | Ruby on Rails backend/fullstack developers | Full-time | REMOTE from France or the Netherlands

Requirements: Fluent in French and good English speaking skills
Must work from France or the Netherlands, and be a resident from there

3/4+ years of experience in:

- Ruby on Rails

- SQL/Arel

- "Vanilla" JS

- CSS if you apply for fullstack

Good at communicating

The Role: You will be part of a team of 5, and together you will work using Faveod (macro-programming on top of Rails) on projects for our clients.

The Company: We are a company of experts in Faveod, which is a macro-programming engine on top of Ruby of Rails. Our typical clients are big french and worldwide companies.

We don't have offices, each of our 25+ employees are working remotely from France and Amsterdam, in teams constituted of a project manager, a lead developer, 1-2 developers, a frontend developer, devops and an artist. Teams change per-project.

You will meet your coworkers overs dinners, pool-table tournaments, initial kick-offs at the client's and 2x1 week long retreats per year. We are very keen on keeping the good vibe we have at the company.
The previous seminary was in Martinique (Caribbean island), the next one will be in Athens.

Benefits:

25+5 paid vacation days

Tickets restaurants (9€ per worked day to purchase lunch)

PEE (saving account where when you put money, we do too, with a multiplicator and threshold based on the current year's revenue of the company)

Flexible hours (although we try to all be present between 14h00 and 18h00 on work days)

CDI+cadre jour (good French status)

Email cv@hexagonalconsulting.com for more informations!
There's even a Platonic dialogue, the "Ion", in which Socrates converses with a rhapsode whose entire life career is reciting Homer. Seems unlikely that Plato would just make up something like that from whole cloth.
Personal CO2 Removal as a Service
>Australia’s been dealing with giant wildfires forever. It’s not clear whether the fires are getting bigger or smaller with time,

It's clear the fires are getting much bigger than in the past. The fires were called by Australian people "unprecedented".
Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 [pdf]
Location: Frankfurt am Main

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Ruby, Rust, Clojure;

Résumé/CV: www.sulg.dev

Email: resume@sulg.dev
"The U.S. is doing very little to prevent this. A lot of people, especially elderly people, will likely die."

At this point, what realistically could the US do to prevent this? It will continue to spread in other countries, and there's nothing the US can do about that. We can implement more severe travel restrictions, but that has its own issues and it's not recommended by the WHO. That will only be effective for a period of time in the beginning of the virus spread, and they are basically doing that afaik

Im no expert, but besides providing financial or medical aid to to the countries fighting the virus, and helping developing a vaccine/cure, I'm not sure what the US should be doing prevention wise
You didn't actually disagreed:

>Notetaking is great for remembering actions that you have comitted to doing

I would say that you use case fits there
Any tricks for decimal points versus noise? Its a terrifying outcome and all I've got is doing statistical analysis on the data you've already got and highlighting "outliers".
This is incorrect.

You can’t manager a tinder dry forest with fire anymore because the droughts and dry seasons are becoming hotter and dryer than in recorded history.

What land management would fix this issue because deforestation?

The only thing that probably needs to be reincorporated in Australia is indigenous cold fire burns when the time is right.
If JSON was almost right, why not EDN? https://github.com/edn-format/edn
Is there a tool that works for the limited subset of PDFs generated by Latex? Do those documents have more structure than the average PDF? Less? It'd be nice to extract text from scientific articles at least.
Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration
> Nothing changes in real economy, everything operates as usual.

FWIW,

"As time went on, though, it became clear that divestment was also squeezing the industry. Peabody, the world’s biggest coal company, announced plans for bankruptcy in 2016; on the list of reasons for its problems, it counted the divestment movement, which was making it hard to raise capital. Indeed, just a few weeks ago analysts at that radical collective Goldman Sachs said the “divestment movement has been a key driver of the coal sector’s 60% de-rating over the past five years”."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/16/divest...
Getting your point across with anything with a slight amount of creativity tends to work better.
A well-run company doesn't need "miracles". They paid the price of unpreparedness, and successfully rebuilding servers doesn't imply learning lessons and improving processes.
To be fair, that particular comic's 5 year task was solved shortly after it was posted, at least in part to prove it was wrong.
As far as I can tell no one drives cars like the Ami (Ligier, Aixam, etc.) to school here in Norway either.

Probably more likely in France. But my impression is that even there in the past they were mostly popular with people whose ordinary car license had been revoked for drunk driving.
Not in my 401k plan though. It's great for people earning 6 figures or more that have lots of income to throw at investments, but for the common man that is doing their best to even make the minimum contribution needed for maximum employer match in something like a 401k (if they even have an employer match, or access to a 401k) they are locked in to whatever funds their employer has allowed in the plan.

The median household income in the United States is around $63,000 with an average household size of 2.6 people.

Unfortunately many of us simply lack the luxury to invest in such ways, we do our best just to invest. At best I could throw 1-2% of my income into an IRA and buy some ETF that invests in renewables which would equate to a drop in a swimming pool and interestingly at 2% it would be about 1% of my gross income less than the amount I spend on gasoline annually at current prices (I pretty much only drive to work and church, I bought my 2013 Impala in 2013 and I'm at like 68k miles).
Wonderful examples at the bottom of the article.
The power vacuum at the top has existed since before then. Commissioners' terms started expiring, without being replaced, in 2007. It's practically impossible for them to devote resources to new things like online activities.

And the organization has always been under-staffed. Investigating a charge is difficult. They have to prove their case in order to sanction anybody -- and they have limited power to act even when they do. Fines in the tens of millions of dollars are couch-cushion money for wealthy donors. Or the organizations simply disappear.

The organization has its hands full just managing the many, many campaign committees that are actually complying with the law (or trying to). Its ability to track down violations is limited, and growing more limited by the day.
No system for you just an anecdote for what it's worth. I've never been a note taker and typically taking notes distracts me from extracting the essence of the conversation. In my professional life, I will write down any action items that are assigned to me but will typically instantly go do them and thus rarely have to reference them.

In an academic setting where you're being tested on both the book and what was said in class that may have been "extratextual", the don't-take-notes-so-i-can-listen didn't work as well because I couldn't remember every nuance that could've been tested. In this setting, I found what worked for me was to write down literally everything the professor said in shorthand but comprehensible sentences. This helped my recall immensely and then my studying involved reading the notes i had written (takes about 15-30 minutes total) and seeing if they answered the review questions at the end of chapters.

This worked for most classes except for Discrete Structures and Automata which was such a novel and abstract concept for me at the time that I had to intently listen and scramble to draw the automata and write notes about my thought processes and "aha!" moments that happened on the fly. This is usually great for me still today when I want to remember the revelations that occur in my head as I'm pondering a concept or solution in real-time with a meeting.
More fauna with hunter gatherers? They were causing mass extinctions since they picked up spears!

The whole reason they were usually 8nomadic was because they depleted local food supplies and had to move on.

Once they had better nutrition (the source of huge barbarian myths) but agriculture has advanced far past that now.
Collapse probably isn't the right word because they are still in business, but they certainly tripped.

They were forced to cancel their IPO, sell their stake in all non-core business, oust their CEO/founder with a billion dollar golden parachute, and lay off like a quarter of its employees.

What collapsed was the cult of personality around Adam Neumann.
I haven't used a Mac in years, but I'm wondering if iTunes supports FLAC yet. Until it does, it would be a non-starter for me if I'm managing my own music collection.
>but rc doesn't have built in regex and doesn't have hash tables

That's an advantage; Plan 9 provides awk for those use cases. There is a clear separation, and a simple yet powerful language for communication (pipes, file descriptors, and files).

>bash is trying to be a full scripting language these days

Arguably Bash over-did somewhere around the time they added support for TCP connections

exec {FD}<>/dev/tcp/news.ycombinator.com/80; echo GET / >&$FD; cat <&$FD
Takes a whole lot of discipline. Definitely much easier if you care about the subject being discussed.
To expand on this, and illustrate the dangers of speculation, would you not also establish a legitimate Certificate Authority when your lab geeks realized how critical they would or could someday be, then use your industry reputation to sell certificates like any other company in the industry?
I think "following the instructions" is a worthwhile skill in itself, and our 4 year old really picked it up.

But you're right, once she learned to follow the instructions exactly, she is having a tough time being creative. At the moment she's kind of obsessed with instruction-following. So there are definitely two sides to it.
powerpc64 switched over in late December; sparc64 never made the switch (unfortunately), and mips will make the switch with the introduction of llvm 10.

IIRC powerpc32 is currently using clang with old bfd ld, but lld in llvm 10 may be quickly reaching the point where it's suitable for powerpc32 as well.
Yeah, it does seem like it'd have been sensible not to list the account ID in this file. It's convenient if you know your account ID and want to pull out just your certs, but for most people this associates all their certificates together.

If you own both https://www.happy-rainbow-nursery.example/ and https://hardcore.bdsm-videos.example/ you probably go to some lengths to avoid visitors realising the connection. Nothing you're doing is illegal or even unethical - but it's obviously going to cause uncomfortable conversations so why not avoid that altogether. Let's Encrypt aren't doing you a favour if tomorrow a mom at nursery says now she knows why you sound so much like Masked Mistress Martha...
Building a smart pop-up [pdf]
Thank you for posting this. Although HN shaming not a very good way to solve issues, in practice it works pretty well, and when you've run out of options you don't have anything to lose anyway.
I do now and then, they have a perfectly valid perspective but they are obviously very biased to the right.
> Why would a “tax authority” be buying property?

Basically, to disincentivize under-reporting the property's value for tax purposes.

Many, many business manage to get away with egregious undervaluing to avoid property taxes today. For instance (IIRC) Apple values some of its headquarters buildings at $1 for tax purposes using an egregious tax theory, and they've gotten away with it for some time. They wouldn't do that if Cupertino could literally force a sale of that building for $1, it would be too risky for them.
Then you just end up just picking and choosing by what you want to believe.

Ethics and norms are the only solution.
Taking care of plants sounds good, if only I had that skill myself...
What is the problem of using a GPLv3 compiler? Only political reason, since FreeBSD is still an open source project and they can use GPLv3 software without any problem.

Not only that, but even proprietary software can be built with a GPL compiler, the binaries produced by the compiler are not considered derived work that must be covered by the same GPL license, so if Microsoft wanst to build Windows with GCC for example they can do that, provided that they don't link in the executable produced GPL code (e.g. glibc).
Rust NIFs in Elixir
They stopped making Dark Sister. And that was more in line with an English Porter.
You’re under arrest–and live on camera: police enter the streaming era
It's already there, I believe they have 5 confirmed cases at the moment. John Hopkins has an excellent tracker: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
I’m actually seeing it now. He’s teaching himself the alphabet. Of course, we kickstarted it by singing the ABC song, and counting objects/food with him. But he loves it so much, he’ll cry for the song and/or Sesame Street videos of Elmo singing it.

But he taught himself using a talking book. It’s an ABC book that has buttons on the side for each letter and a voice says the letter and some associated word. He loves one button the most, the one that sings the whole alphabet. He presses it over and over again. Sometimes, he misses and hits X, Y, or Z. One day we were playing and he started pointing at X, Y, and Z and yelling it out to me. I was floored because I never taught it to him.

Now he manages to recognize letters and numbers in the real world. Signage on end caps in grocery stores, license plates, etc.

Also, I have video proof so I’m not making this up.

It’s totally crazy. He’s 18 months, been doing this since roughly 15 months.

I can’t wait to see how far he runs with this.
Imagine if the entire IT department spent redundancy period self-isolating due to medical concerns of the current human malware going about.

Certainly make for a faster education in transition.

Issue is not offshoring, issue is the loss of business knowledge and experience and a pattern that's played out many times when things are offshored. The whole RBS bank disaster being one of many examples.

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2012/06/28/rbs_jo...
The op doesn't seem to know the first thing about advertising and is in denial of how it works.

Op asks head of facebook advertising if advertising influences people, their response "No companies spend millions on advertising with us because it doesn't work!".

> The gullibility of the latter two may have stemmed from wishful thinking: If Brexit and Trump could be traced to the malign influence of a single company

The media picked Cambridge Analytica as their keyword for the story but both Brext and Trump campaigns used more than one ad agency.

> most ad insiders express skepticism about Cambridge Analytica’s claims of having influenced the election

Citation needed. As an ad insider I know first hand that the tactics used by Cambridge Analytica and other agencies work, thats why people pay me to do it.

> and stress the real-world difficulty of changing anyone’s mind about anything with mere Facebook ads

Well no of course not, advertising cant change anyone's mine, thats not how advertising works.

You target people who already have the mindset and encourage them to act on it. Thats what ad men like me do and we keep making good money doing it because it works.

The whole tinfoil hat thing is a bit dramatic for my liking the reality is that if advertising didn't work people wouldn't pay for it.

Every election has millions spent on advertising to influence the result, thats the truth not some tin foil hat conspiracy.
I completely agree. I was only pointing out that even extreme cases don't seem to lead to proper valuations.

Many companies do things in a way where miracles aren't required - but the values perceived by those departments still don't seem in line with value delivered.
One of the traditional criticisms of Lisp, though, is that it lets programmers re-introduce a whole lot of accidental complexity in their Lisp code, and, worse, everyone introduces a completely different set of accidental complexities into their code.
Around couple of years ago I am working on a home project and utilised Tesseract and Laptonica for OCR. Storage and search HDFS, HBase and SolrCloud on extracted text. You can find the details here on my website. I was very impressed with conversion of hand written pdf docs with 90% readable accuracy. I have named it as Content Data Store(CDS) http://ammozon.co.in/headtohead/?p=153 . Source code is open and you may find steps on installation and how to run here.
http://ammozon.co.in/headtohead/?p=129
http://ammozon.co.in/headtohead/?p=126
A short demo
http://ammozon.co.in/gif/ocr.gif

I didnot get time to enhance it further but planning to containerize the whole application. See if you find it useful in its current form.
The persistent view that IT is a cost-center is why this happens.
Embrace the chaos of the blank text file. It's the most beautiful empty slate you could ask for, because you can so easily capture your ideas with a few keystrokes.

Don't overcomplicate it. The most important thing is the speed at which you can get your idea down in time, because ideas are often easier to grasp quickly than slowly, they kind of fade away exponentially with time, especially the more you try to articulate it.
Cybersecurity Metrics Simplified