skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That analysis is for a software developer, in the Bay Area, going straight to Google out of undergrad. That’s already the exceptional case.

The author of this post is non-technical, and from Austria, this path was not an option. Or speaking from my experience, as a software developer in Canada, starting salaries out of school at your average Canadian tech company are ~$60-70K CAD, and as a senior developer you’re looking at ~$100-150K CAD. Even getting to $200K (CAD, not USD) by 37 would be rare for a Canadian software developer.

Your comment was “Honestly corporate salaries will earn you 3-4 million by the time you are 37 or so”, as if that’s easy/normal. It isn’t, it’s exceptional and rare.

For a tiny fraction of the world, earning $3-4 mil by 37 in the corporate world is a possibility, but for the vast, VAST majority, like well over 99% of the world, it isn’t, at all. Globally, the annual salary to be in the top 1% of earners is ~$32K USD. In America, it’s ~$420K USD, but that’s made up largely of C-suite executives and business owners who are well above 37 years old.

Most startup founders are deciding between “work in the corporate world until I’m 60-65, or try founding a startup.” Based on that, some still give startup founding a shot, even though they know it’s going to be super hard and will likely fail.
Dan Sickles's Temporary Insanity
Why do you think people would use fake pictures on mass. If they wanted to create a profile with pictures that aren't themselves then surely it's easier to just steal someone else's?
If solar dropped to zero, and heating became free..
Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensions support
I think they mean UI stability, not reliability.
Corona and the mishandling of it by your government has already unnecessarily killed more citizens than all terrorists in the world combined could ever hope to achieve. I'd worry about my own government if I were you guys instead of being frightened by the big bad world.
Pi has nothing to do with our universe or the way it is tuned.

It's more fundamental than that. It would be the same value in any universe.

You don't need circles, or Euclidean space, to discover Pi. It arises in all sorts of pure mathematics that have no direct connection to physical circles.

That said I suspect you are right that we gave a name to it because it comes up so obviously in our experience.
United Fruit
Dutch East India Company
Show HN: Changelog Generation Tool
It's the Easter holidays here so I decided to finish one of the pet-projects that I had on my work machine.

https://github.com/bdryanovski/logchanges

This small package is designed to help me generate a changelog for my other projects and keep it up to date when it comes to update and handle it.

The JSON part is for the cases when I want to integrate it into Single Page Apps like for example inside https://docusaurus.io/ or https://www.gatsbyjs.org/ when I want to have a lot more control on how the data is rendered. Or even make it searchable.

I will be happy to get some feedback on what other people could need or is it useful for someone.

Happy Holidays to everyone.
I am probably biased, but I don’t think so. In the days and weeks after the duel it looks heavy, but after months and years it in most cases barely visible from walking-by distance.
There are some funny terms for extensive scaring on some cheeks like “Rangierbahnhof” (railway yard).
"There aren't many/any instances of single corporations causing >10M deaths, or oppressing millions of people."

If we look at historical instances of single entities causing 10M+ deaths and oppressing millions of people, since corporations were invented, I think we will find that a corporation is driving the death and oppression more often than you might think. Jardine Matheson, Dole Pineapple, Dutch East India Trading, myriad tobacco corporations, British Petroleum, Shell Oil, for just a few famous examples are each definitely responsible for oppressing millions of people at least, and some of them are responsible for 10M+ deaths. Sure, governments generally claim a monopoly on violence, and in these cases it was a government that actually did the wet work, but they were doing the bidding of specific corporations.
Even better would be for RPGs and things like Roll20. I’d love to deep fake different voices/ character faces on cue.
Try reading it as "muggle specs" - specifications which the majority of the population will read.
A Gentle Practical Introduction to USB: Basics and Terms Explained
Yeah, it's definitely not perfect, but at the same time IMHO much better than the responce in other countries (or the lack thereof).
I think there are more images than just the first two shown in the cropped screenshot.
I dunno; rewriting it in some shit tier EC2 FunNewLang framework that changes every year doesn't sound like a recipe for long term success either.

When I look at how mainframes work, and how "clouds" work, I wonder at how imbecilic IBM management (or one of their competitors) must have been to not capture that value in the first place.
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-ios-macos-tests-googles-webp...
The screenshot is cropped, there are more than just two assets that would benefit from being in WebP.
Yet an FBI agent can literally encourage the first ISIS attack in the US and it’s covered on 60 Minutes but no one bats an eye. We’re left just to assume this is the only time it’s happened. While the 3rd terrorist arrested months later assumed the FBI agent died in the attack — which is how involved he was.
I agree! The biggest difference is that your interaction with any given businesses is not compulsory.
"Dr Maria van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist, doubted the value of antibody tests"

I'm no expert, but usually antibodies mean your body can fight the virus, right?
Regarding 1, skeumorphism looks fake, because it is, since we're not using physical controls on a digital device anymore, so the metaphors are not as useful. Vector art, as you say, is less physical but conforms to digital devices better. Now neumorphism is up and coming, but I think it still looks bad, for the same reasons as skeumorphism.
Dear HN!

While the post is still somewhere around the front pages, I wanted to ask what do you think about the following potential applications for monetisation:

1) Desktop app with various visualisations suitable for displaying on screens at bars / clubs. Charge for subscription for extra (good) visualisations (made with proper graphics, not what I did).

1.a) Same but for making videos for YouTube etc.

2) Phone/Tablet app that can consume sound from other apps. Charge for extra 2D/3D dynamic visualisations (without user being able to move around), one time fee per extra visualisation.

3) 3D environments on Phone/Tablet, where things "vibrate to music", like leaves on the trees, waterfalls, etc. Charge for extra 3D environments. Very hard to make, but possible.

4) Apply machine learning to extract components of the tracks, and allow mixing different components from different songs using a new kind of user interface. Extremely hard, but potentially could lead to a DJ revolution, if successful.

5) Any other ideas?

Thank you!
Also worth checking out nameko, I’ve had good experiences with it
It's the combination of bureaucratic incompetence (the banks) and savvy malice (the large companies and rich individuals figuring out how to game the system and pick up some cash cheap).
"Apple can save the load time if they use the WebP"

Says the writer who use jpeg on his article.
Commentary on the Qt Situation
Why Video Chats Are Wearing Us Out
The Invention of Hiking
If we are going to use the Dutch East India company as an example of an unreliable corporation; what exactly is stopping the comparison being with the good old days of Communist China? Both of these are extreme examples of the worst of corporations and governments respectively.

Probably better to stick to currently existent companies and compare them to governments in the 21st century.
Exactly this. Treat the DB schema as you would any typical API schema. A lot of the techniques used for evolving application APIs can be used for sprocs and views as well, e.g. versioning for breaking changes, adding optional parameters or new result fields for non-breaking changes. Fundamentally I don't think there's much difference between say, a DB schema defined with sprocs/view or an HTTP schema defined with OpenAPI. Both describe an API contract between two remotely communicating processes, the former case just happens to use a SQL dialect/transport to do it.
I appreciate your carefully argued counter points.
The Q1 2020 Decentralized Apps (Dapps) Market Report
Ok, I try. We use Wavelet Transform instead of FFT because it provides suitable resolution across all frequencies. P.S. I've realised that I implemented Wavelet Transform after I've already done it :)
This had already been done with criminals posing as CEOs.
Remarkably, a spot in the close vicinity of Cape Canaveral was chosen by Jules Verne as the launch site for the moon travelers in his 1867 book From the Earth to the Moon.
1) “real world” cellular speeds at 30mbps? That sounds ludicrous to me. Maybe in America, definitely not in many countries across the world.

2) I don’t know a lot of people who are repeat visitors to apple.com. Mentioning the fact that the time is initial load time would be redundant.
Thanks for suggestion! Will definitely add in the next release.
Well, ok, then. Sign me up. I want one.
Taleb has to be one of the most narcissistic people in the world.

I remember reading "The Art of Thinking Clearly" by Rolf Dobelli, and there's a sentence in one of the chapters where says something like "no one could have predicted to 2007 housing crash (except Nassim Taleb)." Well, turns out that Dobelli is a "protege" of Taleb, and I can just see Taleb editing this manuscript and cajoling Dobelli into adding the parenthetical.

As such, I break out in hives whenever Taleb's name comes up. Even if he's right some of the time, I still can't listen to a thing he says.
I am old enough to have played as a child with G.I.Joe action figures, and they (all?) had a scar (on the right cheek) that looked like being "manly".
Why Apple has stopped making small phones–and why it should start again
They most likely didn't actually 'turn on' RPKI, but just began filtering the test range that Cloudflare are using.

This will allow them to pass Cloudflare's test page, without actually validating and rejecting invalid routes or even necessarily signing their own.
If you read through the Red Dawn email chain NYT pieced together through FOIA requests [1], which gives an overview of initial professional thinking (January / February), there's a great insight in the first few emails.

No other emergency grows exponentially.

Nuclear detonation, dirty bomb, power outage, hurricane, tainted food, etc. At worst they grow linearly at a high rate.

Consequently, highly contagious pandemic response must be fundamentally unlike any other response.

There are references to this bearing out in their prior wargaming of scenarios. All players (mistakenly) escalated linearly based on intuition.

When in reality you're talking about needing 10x resources every week, ceteris paribus.

[1] https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-r...
Less obviously commercial results. I can’t seem to search for anything on Google without getting the ‘buy X’ interpretation of the term, even if it is not something typically associated with buying something.
I really wonder what government agencies will do with deepfakes. Will they doctrine evidence like they do now at a greater scale?

They already distribute CP, encourage people to believe in Russian conspiracies, troll, encourage violence and the list goes on. So fucked up that we think it is normal.
Product of the day – Grab n'go CSS editor
“A web tool said 2.25 seconds and then I took it as gospel.”
The gendered history of programming is particularly interesting for anyone who wants to understand the nature of office culture for software engineering/IT and of computer science academia.

https://timeline.com/women-pioneered-computer-programming-th...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180110125934/

https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-... (Please forgive the tone.)
Ok, I guess my problem with clozemaster is - I am only really proficient in two languages - polish and english. There is no way to practice English to English with Clozemaster, and I guess Polish-English pair on Tatoeba is not that perfect.

I will check Tatoeba
Most anti-cheats and some "DRM solutions" do not allow you to run inside a VM, trying to mask the fact you do might be enough to get banned. Even with PCI passthru you can't expect full performance (CPU is also still virtualized).

It's much simpler to just have a second PC/laptop or dual-boot (less secure).
Mainframes - the original cloud computers.

I started on mini-mainframes but then worked mostly with networks of PCs. The old mainframes guys used to say 'just you wait the pendulum will swing back to centralized computing'. In the age of cloud computing they were right, and those mainframes are still there too.
> Sure, governments generally claim a monopoly on violence, and in these cases it was a government that actually did the wet work, but they were doing the bidding of specific corporations.

What about this inspires any form of faith towards governments? You've got an entity that controls/is the army and it is weak-willed enough that some company with money and a good story persuaded it to 'do the wet work' and kill or suppress millions of people.

What in this story makes you think that only corporations will direct that sort of power in a way you don't like? Are people with bad intentions only found on the boards of large corporations such as Dole Pineapple?

And even if they were why are you then defending the idea that the entity holding the knife, as it were, is the more credible and trustworthy of the two? Surely the government has some accountability for its actions?
I think that C-like languages wouldn’t be able to handle putting closing braces on the same line because of the lack of Paredit-style editor support. In Lisp, it works well.
VMS's command line is... verbose. It has nice completion and is well documented, though. And you can see where the '/' style of parameters came from.

e.g.

DIR/SINCE="1-FEB-1994 17:00"
My intuition suggests that you can't do better than simply angling towards the hoop for an average shot. The author simulated shots from tons of different angles and speeds, but I'd bet the shape is actually the same if you just assumed it was always coming from the center, at an average speed, at an average arc, aimed at different points of the board. So just shape it to make the average shot aimed at each points go in and you're probably at the same level of efficacy.

Similar to how the MLE of a gaussian curve is just... the mean. Could be wrong! Though fwiw I don't think the video actually shows him shooting from a variety of angles, and I don't think the board would actually work that well if he wasn't centered. Could be wrong again!
As long as it is not free software, as Libreoffice is, I don't need to even read about it. It does not matter how well or nicely some software is working, if it is not ethical to use it. Using yet another software and potentially file format coming along with it, potentially creating another network effect to use non-free software? No thanks. And if it uses open document standard, why make use of non-free where Libreoffice works just well?
Ran across this a couple of days ago:

"The History of Email"
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-history-of-email/
The case is just a skeleton. Is the computer still alive?
Go may be unique in being the only ecosystem built after Python that can't claim it avoided Python's packaging disasters.
Yes, for sure you can get good performance out of the box. It just takes a lot more time than other frameworks. In my experience it's a constant moving state up and down. Spending an insane amount of time to put state in the correct spot so it will be efficient. The easiest thing is to just put all state/business logic in domain objects and subscribe the components to it. That's how you're used to thinking about business logic of an application anyway. It's easier to reason about and it performs much better. This whole useMemo, useCallback, is just comical. Let the computer do the work for you.
Heroku with the Heroku scheduler addon.
If customers cared enough, wouldn’t someone just market their drives as PMR and this would solve itself? It would make sense to have a lower cost alternative that would fulfil most consumer needs though.
What do people think of services like www.undraw.co, or www.humaaans.com? I like them, even if they are overused.

I think we're beginning to see an evolution of this style to start using more gradients, as we did about 10 years ago:

- community - https://dribbble.com/shots/11051166-community

- Miracle - https://dribbble.com/shots/10836129-Miracle

- Together - https://dribbble.com/shots/10804716-Together
Some doctors and nurses turn into media stars. Some not sure it’s a good thing
Visions of Chaos – Windows Fractal Program
I would parse the free text version into something like your version. It could be used for user input from a text input field or the command line.
One aspect that people seem to be ignoring with the whole 'healthcare capacity' argument is the mental health of the healthcare workers. The capacity everyone talks about is IMO the acute capacity, not really the chronic sustained capacity.

That's because just like in a war, it isn't realistic to expect the frontline soldiers to stay in combat for longer than weeks at a time before they start to exhibit PTSD and their effectiveness begins to drop.

Unless we have large reserves of doctors and nurses to rotate in and out I think we should be very careful not to take them for granted.
TL;DR: “Epidemiologists don’t understand epistemology so listen to me instead”
Yeah I’m kicking myself over it. I knew enough to withdraw my money from the market on the 24th (took the decision the 22nd on a weekend).

But I literally forgot about puts. I was under the impression you had to be an accredited investor.

I was thinking about withdrawing on the 20th/21st of feb, when spread happened in Korea and Italy locked down some northern towns. Puts were still very cheap then.
Free speech is required for people in a democracy to question their government, hold it accountable, and redirect it.

It's required for the free practice of science, religion and commerce, and anything else citizens might put their mind to.

If a government can suppress free speech and punish people for it, then we can't control our government.

That's the democratic argument. But more generally, unless I'm speaking to the government or committing an actual crime, it's none of their fucking business what I say or who I say it to. Governments are, or should be, formed to serve people, not the other way around.

If smart people pack their bags and leave, where are they going to go? To another country that may fall into despotism? At some point people have to make a stand. Free speech makes that stand less bloody.
Phone Cloning
If you want an easier time tracking whatever latest fad is out there, you can look at the home page of Dribbble.

Everyone doing the same art style is some peak creative work right there.
Ask HN: Live Video Streaming Providers?
Due to current situation many live events are finding a way to be consumed in a digital form.

What is the state of the art of live streaming video platforms? I remember many ages ago using Ustream with some success, but from what I see it has been bought by IBM.

I know live streaming today is offered by most social networks (Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Periscope, etc). But I'm looking for B2B white label providers, capable of many thousands of concurrent viewers, that also offers some kind of SLA.

Do you have any direct experience or general recommendation?

Thanks!
Ask HN: What is considered an 'acceptable' wage?
First for a software engineer/programmer/developer, then in general?

Because I've seen a lot of different figures bandied around recently, and it's made me confused as to what people would class as a fair salary now. Obviously there's a difference based on the area, with places like London and San Francisco requiring someone to earn more than a small town in the middle of nowhere might.

So what would you say is an acceptable minimum here? $30,000? $50,000?, $100,000? Over a million?
Great job! The professional term is multiview(er), you might be better off in search results etc. by including that.
I wonder how much of the delay is due to their recent decision to offer breakfast items all day. Many franchisees were complaining at the time about how doing so would reduce throughput, as it expanded greatly the list of possible items a customer could order and necessitated pulling people away to staff tasks that were only required for breakfast, like cooking eggs.
Disagree.

There's various web standards that export to webp: web recording, video conferencing etc. [1]

Apple have effectively veto'd a web standard, pushing developers and users into their ecosystem yet again.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaRecord...
DeepFlash: Turning a Flash Selfie into a Studio Portrait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enLmReROhc8
A small phone with a battery that lasts for several days would be a nice option.
(I don't know Taleb personally.)

One of my parents is narcissistic. I believe that Trump is narcissistic, er, more narcissistic than .97 of the population -- let us say the US population since that is the only country I've lived in. William Shatner is more narcissistic than .99 of the US population.

Taleb strikes me as not particularly narcissistic.

He does strike me as very low (02 percentile or lower) in trait agreeableness.
> Logging in on desktop now requires "swiping up"

That's not how it works here. From boot I am presented with a list of users, I click or press enter and type the password. When it's locked/suspended, all I need to do is to start typing.
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it seems like most people can get pretty good at discrete or fuzzy (for lack of a better word) types of reasoning, but rarely both. I'm not sure if it's just avoidant behavior, relying on whichever mode developed faster to the exclusion of the other, or something more innate.

given enough time to read and debug, I suspect I could eventually figure out how any piece of code worked. but if you give me a book and ask me to pick a good topic for an essay, I might not finish before the end of time.
Oxygen and laying prone is not exclusive to hospitals. I'm wondering if we can get oxygen tanks ready for home use.

Reduce hospital load, reduce healthcare costs, get rid of the need to flatten the curve.

(Waiting for a my job to begin, waiting for my son to get his surgery)