skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm not sure why they don't lean in harder and embrace the design as the standard Nintendo controller.

I hope not; I've used it and a Switch Pro Controller and I much prefer the pro controller.
Atlassian IT service desk security advice during WFH
Optimizing Your Queries in Rails
The customers all wanted Pebble. Unfortunately, the VCs didn't want it, so it died.
I couldn't read the article because of ad blocker issues, but Logitech Squeezebox is going strong in this household. You can pick up the physical devices reasonably cheaply on ebay as people replace them with functionally worse and privacy invasive modern alternatives.
That brings me back! I loved boxee and was so sad when the company shutdown.
Because they're substitute goods.
Masayoshi Son Talks WeWork, Vision Fund and SoftBank Under Siege
> Many years ago sending links to site owners and asking for a "linkback" was part and parcel of how you grew your website on the internet.

Man, that was really a long time ago.
That won't work, because someone will setup a "assign me power of attorney and I'll get you something in return for 30% of the profits" service. That service will first file several thousands of arbitration claims, the company doesn't pay and then it will file a class action lawsuit and make it lawyers rich.
5% to 30% of the world dying?

Yeah, that's bollocks.

At least 80% of people don't even notice they have it (so the BBC has told me today).

Only 5% of cases require ICU, let alone 5% of infections (and if Imperial modelling is right that number is far lower). ICU saves at most half of the people who go in based on CDC numbers.

I have not seen any modelling by any source of even the slightest repute suggesting a 2 billion dead number is even possible. This alarmism makes people roll their eyes at all things COVID-19 and violate lockdowns, stick to the facts, they're bad enough.
https://blog.adityarp.com
Not much yet, but I am going to fill it with what I learned. And I don't know why You should read it.
Doing Philosophy as Teaching Philosophy
CoronaTasks – Earn money while quarantined
He's not really writing it for the bots emailing him, he's saying "this SEO growth tactic sucks, marketers should stop it!" in a creative way.
Cassandre, a trading bot framework for developping your own strategy
Scientists Identify Covid-19 Drug That Kills Virus Within 48 Hours -Ivermectin
My 2013 model is still going strong. I agree with the sentiment.
If you are regularly late to any meeting, it's problematic (assuming the meeting is worth having, of course). If I have a co-located team with good interaction that mostly works core hours, I actually don't want a standup meeting. Everything I would do at standup is easier to do by simply talking to the people I want to talk to. However, if you have a team where at least some people work remotely, or work different hours (either by habit or by time zone), then it is incredibly helpful to have a meeting where everyone can be together at the same time. People coming late to that meeting make it difficult to organise your day. If the meeting starts and you wait, it can be very disruptive. If you don't wait, then you don't get to talk to that team member -- who will often end up getting distanced from the rest of the team.

Having said that, many organisations have standup meetings that aren't worth the time they spend. However, I don't think you can say apriori that this is definitely the case.
https://chaoxuprime.com/blog.html

I write about algorithms.

You might like it if you like algorithmic puzzles. Some of the puzzles are actually in leetcode, but the solutions in the blog are through the viewpoint of a theoretical cs researcher.
“Enclosed Unicode Numerals”
No, I won't read this low effort blog post.
Even not great translation helps younger wanna be programmers. They have better chance to learn. It takes quite a lot of time to learn English well enough to understand documentation.
Seems to me that the audience is more or less arbitrary, it's the practice that's important.
I've ordered from other traditional retail places before, like Target and Walmart and Macy's, and I haven't had a problem. They care more about technology than most people think, even though their primary focus is in-store sales.

Home Depot just isn't as good at delivery as they are. Ikea is also pretty terrible. What they both seem to have in common is a coordination problem between their inventory systems and the third-party delivery services that actually get the stuff to the customer. Most of the time the stuff they sell is too big to send through the mail.
I worked on a simple cli-tool using crystal over the last few weeks, and it has been pretty great. The standard-library is nifty, and there are shards for common problems (not everything though).

Waiting eagerly for a way to cross-compile to Windows so I can build/release binaries the way golang projects do.
No, he doesn’t, he comes across as someone who is helping by trying to react to a serious problem in a way that, if we all did it, might go some way to solving it. I wish everyone would/could do something like this.

If you send me an unsolicited email you/your company goes on an avoid list and it would take a very strong, very personal recommendation for me to work with you after that.

Unsolicited email is targeted (or in some cases, pretty untargeted) advertising. It’s unprofessional, unpleasant and a hassle, and should be called out and heavily penalised whenever possible.
The sentiment is certainly shared.
Hi Everyone,

I've recently begun writing a blog post on how to get a job in tech in the bay area. I've written this blog from my own experiences coming from a small state school and what I did/ how I prepared to get a "tech-job" as a software engineer. I've also included some of my experiments/hacks and would love to know what you guys think!

I would be grateful for any feedback for the blog, content or anything else at all.

Thank you!
Yeah, if I wasn't already overwhelmed by stuff to be depressed about, this would be just the thing to push me over the edge. But as it is, this ship sailed a couple decades ago.
Schools Begin to Ban Zoom
https://www.ryankemper.io/post/2020-02-29-debugging/

Like many in tech, I made a blog when it was time for me to find a new job. And in typical fashion I paid for an overpriced .io domain instead of the equivalent .xyz or .dev. The blog only has one post and will probably only have one post for the foreseeable future (until I leave for my next job, I imagine).

I think there are parts of the above article that could use some work, but overall I'm actually quite happy with it. But, as you might expect, actually writing the blog post did not make a huge difference in my job search.

Given that my blog will only sporadically have content, the timing of that content corresponding to career moves, I would not recommend reading my blog since there won't really be much to read.

But hey, at least I've taken part in the time-honored tradition of the "oh shit I need to find a new job, better create a blog"-blog.
didn't know about this. Thank you for sharing. Looks really clean.
https://renatello.com/
I mostly write about Vue.js, front-end development and running.

I also build/write about small side-projects. Here are a few of them:

- Running pace calculator written in Vue.js https://renatello.com/running-pace-calculator/

- Tailwind UI components ported to Bootstrap 4 (wip) https://renatello.com/components/heroes/
Then why is this spam here?
It is also easier, California lifted WARN requirement, which required companies to give 60 day notice to employees when laying off a large number of them.
The "Bypass Paywalls" browser extension is effective on this article.
That exists. If a larger process is ok you can get 10 custom packaged ICs for less than $5K. It doesn’t meet your budget but it’s about the cost of a beater car. Depending on the car. ;)

https://www.planetanalog.com/design-a-custom-analog-ic-in-yo...
never dreamt I'd see an NMH reference on HN! :)
Abstractions are almost never self-contained enough. It's much easier to work within the bounds of an abstraction if you have at least a basic idea about the thing that's being abstracted.
Listed contra-indications for tylenol include:

caloric undernutrition

acute liver failure

liver problems

severe renal impairment

a condition where the body is unable to maintain adequate blood flow called shock

acetaminophen overdose

acute inflammation of the liver due to hepatitis C virus

Obviously doctors are experts and will make the right decision based on risks and advantages, but tylenol is a poor choice of example for 'effectively risk-free drug'. I've seen multiple people mention that their meds are laced with it even though it's contra-indicated for them
Two Dimensions of an Increment
Different Questions Concerning the DIY Plastic Cards
It doesn't seem to be dead. There was a PR commit only a week ago. You probably should poke the author again.
Am I a Real Expert?
Hacker brings video to audio cassette tape
What changes made after the MS acquisition do you dislike?
You could read the Hardware Hacker by Bunnie Huang and learn about its history. That might spur more ideas.
French here. I know lots of developers who don't speak English well. They know specific words that are used in language constructs (while, function, class) or usual software vocabulary (provider, database) but they lack the rest: the grammar, non technical vocabulary, everything.
I'd keep the vi disease to yourself.
Ask the former secretary of state how well that went for her.

It's not always an option, even if they can't read your email casually, your company may still have perfectly legitimate reasons to keep it under their control for reasons of auditing etc.
I just called this number to try it out. It's a phone sex line now. There are supposedly hot girls for guys to talk to, but I didn't investigate the veracity of this claim.
But website began splitting small articles in 20 pages you have to click trough instead of scroll and they disable back button.

I rather open a new tab from search results and close it instead of clicking the link and going back. I imagine many people do that.
Reading different sources doesn't help if all news is biased towards trying to report a coherent and easily understood narrative if the world is complicated and nuanced. In which case all you'll get is, to steal an expression, "the nearest common cliche" to the truth.
Ivermectin has been found to kill Covid-19 in the lab within 48 hours
https://mfkl.github.io/

I write about VLC and LibVLCSharp, detailing how to build fun and unique crossplatform multimedia app prototypes (all code is open).
I agree. Give me a slimmer Fitbit with less functionality and basic controls and I'm sold. I loved my pebble time.

I won't get back into wearables until they start slimming down.
If the service’s promise is to deliver warm pizza and they fail without compensating the customer (as these delivery services often do, essentially saying “tough luck” with fake, canned apologies and hoping you don’t bother doing a chargeback) then I don’t see why the customer shouldn’t be getting $1500.
So if my car breaks I am not supposed to say it is broken unless I provide detailed instructions on how to fix it and on how a car should be engineered to avoid being broken?
When I heard it first I thought Trump had clinched the presidency. People publicly rail against this kind of talk but emotionally look up to people who can not just talk but behave like that. I distinctly noticed women talking more positively about him after it came out.
https://tuananh.net

I wrote about cloud native, homelab, mechanical keyboard mostly. no main theme, just whatever I'm interested in at the time.
Back then, those emails weren't clearly spammed to a pre-purchased list of "key industry influencer".
https://eggonomy.com/ (not mine). Just for fun.
I have so many hours in smash bros for the gamecube, I just can't play it on a different controller. My fingers get lost in the buttons.

That doesn't happen for any other game, but there is just so much muscle memory for that specific game.

Also I still have a wavebird that is alive and kicking, shame it lacks rumble.
exactly my thoughts. yet in my country some especially non-essential people are still being forced into their offices. their only job is to increase future dividends. which, at this point, is a longshot to be civil...
I would assume that these scum companies would’ve already done so long ago if this was possible.
The concept is interesting, that he thinks he can penalize spammers by A) having a popular blog and B) shaming them.

In general I agree that hiring a bunch of digital marketers who go out and ask hundreds or thousands of sites to link to a blog post is not really a productive sector of the economy. I think most marketing is an unproductive sector of the economy. But it is necessary because of the way the economy works and in a lot of ways the business which shouts its vaguely targeted message into the void the loudest tends to win.

Maybe there is something to Troy's idea of "if you shout too many times and too loudly I will shame you." Wouldn't it be a better world if most business growth happened through organic customer referrals, as opposed to paid marketing?
That said, wristwatches are generally very very long lived. I own a Citizen marinaut which is powered through a solar cell in the face of the watch. I've been wearing it pretty much every day for 15 years now and I never had to charge or service it. Only the occasional shortening of the metal wristband.
> how is it that the community aspect of the web has atrophied away to dust?

You've answered it yourself. The web got commercialized. What was once a larger community became pockets of small communities desperately trying to hide from the cancer that is marketing, which has eaten most of the Web.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone is reviving it, I’ve seen it mentioned a few places recently.
I think I was into my second year in middle school in Italy when this came out... so it’s far from my experience in both time and space. And yet it triggers an inexplainable sense of nostalgia in me for the nineteen-nineties, grunge, early-New Economy, pre-9/11 world. Somehow it also makes me think of William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition, both because it features a protagonist who is hyper-sensitive to branding to the point of allergy, and functions as a funereal eulogy to the era.

It also reminded me of Pepsi Perfect, the fictional brand of Pepsi-Cola featured in Back To The Future II’s (now) alternate version of 2015: http://design.pepsico.com/pepsi-perfect.php?v=101#section2
Maybe it's time for a search engine developed and ran by the community in the same way Wikipedia is.
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Why do I have to put shields down in Brave to view Google Cloud Pricing
I can't see the "Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator" if shields are up in Brave - is this an intentional move by Google to force visitors into accepting tracking?
quick question, do you use it since the GameCube era?
https://abhadury.com/
If you are interested in personalization and recommender systems (and causal inference).
I agree. I'd think that salaries could keep fluctuating up and down, like in the oil market, rather than the number of people employed in the economy as a whole. After all, better to make 60% of your earlier salary than zero, for most people.

I'd also think that a job may not be worth doing at a given salary but worth doing at a lower salary. Isn't hiring just an ROI decision, which should theoretically make sense at a lower salary?
One of us solicited it!
While I have all the bloggers - please can I ask you to remember adding an RSS feed to your blog? This is what makes it possible for those like me to keep returning for the occasional new post.
Even though the new bumper is factory painted it doesn't necessarily mean that the new bumper and old colour will match 1:1 -> they might have to paint the new bumper regardless which is why it might be preferable to just fix the existing one.
https://nts.strzibny.name/ - Ruby, Elixir, Linux, and things in between. I will soon write more about deployments.

RSS feed is https://nts.strzibny.name/feed.xml.
https://blog.paulhankin.net

I don't think everyone should read it, because it's quite technical. There's articles on mathematics, game-theory, and computer science.

The highlight (in my opinion) is a series of articles on Fibonacci numbers, with relatively novel content:
https://blog.paulhankin.net/fibonacci/, https://blog.paulhankin.net/fibonacci2/, https://blog.paulhankin.net/fibonacci_doubling/

The first two in particular, are quite fun I think, playing with short integer-only computation of the Fibonacci numbers (and also the n-acci numbers).
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Lets fight the good fight for freedom from spam, or just use your spam folder.
A guy from a company with probably the worst history of unethical or even illegal behavior in the industry, got all worked up about guys doing link building outreach.
I wouldn't classify those emails as spam, as spam is unsolicited bulk email, ie untargeted emails going out to a large amount of people.

Personalised unsolicited email or any other type of contact can be an important way to make new connections, at least in my opinion.
You don’t think having almost every major metropolitan area in the world under some degree of reduced economic activity for 1-3 months qualifies as a Black Swan event? What does, then?
Sure, but they can say, this is the shop we will pay ourselves, or you can go somewhere else and we'll cut you a check. If you need the repairs done faster than they cut checks and don't have cash on hand, it's a strong incentive.
Hi all, OP here.

We think that hiring is stuck in the dark ages.

Engineering candidates have zero visibility into what it is like to work on an engineering team. They either have to have a friend working there, trust what the recruiter says, or invest a lot of time in the interview process.

As a result, looking for a job is like putting an offer on a house, but without knowing how many bedrooms or bathrooms it has. We want to change this and make it easier for smaller engineering teams to attract great engineers.

How?

Our software platform creates a careers site for engineering teams (the above link has an example profile). We show engineering candidates the team's culture, work schedule, technology, and methodologies. Plus a Q&A so candidates can ask questions before they even apply. The goal is to give engineers the info they need to get excited about the idea of a new job. And, give engineering teams a way to connect and attract more engineers who are a culture match.

What do you think?

Feedback always appreciated :)
my ATH50 also refuses to die. After more than 10 years of usage, they look like they've been in a war but the sound and the quality are the same.
if we all did it, might go some way to solving it

That's kind of the history of all the problems facing humanity, isn't it? If we could work together, we would solve all of them. But we don't. We have this complicated mixture of self-interested behaviour and collective policing via laws and social norms but it always seems like self-interested behaviour wins out in the end. Dedicated individuals will always find the cracks in the dam.
Totally get it. I wonder if diluting his page with irrelevant titles is going to have a negative effect on his own ranking.
No I mean literally just add a U button that undoes the last move.
At least in the US, rich foreign students shelling out big sums for US universities is one of the few legitimate paths towards immigration. You're paying 150-250k worth of access to an F1, CPT, OPT, a more streamlined path into the H-1B world, followed by permanent residency. You get to work for a US employer for a few years without having to bother with the lottery, while also applying to an H-1B at the same time. I believe this is most viable in the STEM degrees. My hunch is that getting hired into the US as an H-1B from abroad is more difficult since you don't know how interviewing in the US works, you can't easily fly out to dozens of interviews to set up a competitive bidding process, etc.

For others it's a way to build status back in the home country by having attended a US university, and then go back.

For others it's just a way to hang out in the country, while paying someone else to do all of the exam-taking for them. The wealthy Chinese-dense "626 area" in SoCal comes to mind as one of the big offenders in this underworld. They don't even show up to class, someone else does. There's no incentive for universities to police this, why bite the hand that feeds? The school gets a few hundred k in revenue, the wealthy student gets to live in the US for a few years, have fun. It's a win win, even though it corrupts the point of an F1 visa. Unlike H-1Bs, I don't think they're limited, so at least it's not a zero-sum game where some other "more deserving" students are screwed out of a place.

Just like decoupling health care from employment is a good idea, decoupling for-profit education from immigration seems like a good call as well. Unless we're on board with immigration being pay-to-play, vs using other markers besides family net worth in order to gate keep.
> But it is necessary because of the way the economy works and in a lot of ways the business which shouts its vaguely targeted message into the void the loudest tends to win.

That isn't really necessary, it's just a zero-sum game the economy is stuck in. A world of good could be done by enlightened regulators, if they would start curtailing the worst aspects of marketing and advertising space.

In today's world, you need a megaphone to have even a tiny chance of being heard in a space where everyone else is already shouting through megaphones of their own. If someone could step in and take everyone's megaphones away, maybe then we'd have a chance at having a conversation.
Are you working alone or with other people?
Doing anything alone can be very demotivated. Regular calls, chats are important for motivation and a sense of progress
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Ok, so top comment (currently) is about localisation. A really interesting topic, but has anyone tried it out yet and have opinions on the functionality?
https://ImpossibleHQ.com - I write about pushing your limits (physically) so you can change your mindset.

A few years back, this piece hit HN and blew up - https://impossiblehq.com/an-unexpected-ass-kicking/
https://www.nilkanth.com on the philosophy of technology.
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100% agree. The 3rd party imitation controllers are not just not there yet. Best bet for now is to mod the GC controller with a Bluetooth adapter.

Bluetooth adapter mod kit:

https://hackaday.io/project/165060-bluecubemod-bluetooth-gam...

Made my own "SwitchBird" using an 8bitdo gbros adapter:

https://imgur.com/a/e3OwU3I
Exactly. Containers were around for at least a decade before Docker, just like mp3's were around for decades before the iPod. Docker's simple, efficient way to package containers were the key to their explosion.
If you catch coronavirus, you’re roughly twice as likely to die this year as if you didn’t (this is true for most age groups).

Most people have a vanishingly low probability of dying in the next 12 months. They shouldn’t care much if they get it or not, unless they’re worried about the welfare of others.

This seems very similar to CO2 to me, except that global warming affects younger people more, and coronavirus primarily affects older people.

It saddens me that our leaders won’t act to prevent a planetary disaster that will that affect their children and all future generations, but are willing many more times the resources on a comparatively minor crisis that will last at most a year.