skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large part of the drive to marketisation has been to destroy the part of the university that isn't technical training, since the part of the university engaged in thinking has a tendency to get political. The high point of the university as political venue was probably the late sixties; it was as recently as 1970 that the US sent in the Army to murder students.
With 139 billion he can buy a 10M home every day for 38 years straight.

So yeah. A line can and should be drawn somewhere.
Where there’s smoke – the cigarettes-and-Covid story is growing harder to ignore
Outreach, SEO and Partners – How Zapier Grew to $50m ARR Fully Remote
What if no one gets "x3blah" and we each get some random string, e.g., an ed25519 public key.

Handshake looks like it wants to create another "gold rush" for "vanity" names. We have already had that. We have already seen how it plays out. It has been a while since I read through the Handshake docs. Are there limits on how many names a single applicant/organisation could register.
From my own experience doing extreme diets I highly disagree. As soon as your own bodyfat starts getting low, being on a ~1500 calorie diet as an adult male is extremely exhausting by itself. No chance of enjoying physical activity whatsoever.
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Ask HN: How good is speech recognition software these days?
It's been about 15 years since I last tried to transcribe sound to text via speech recognition (I believe I used Dragon Speech Recognition).

Unfortunately, it wasn't accurate enough to use for transcribing long interviews, or even casual speaking (too many errors).

Is there anything currently out there that is accurate enough to rely on for transcribing and dictating?
>I imagine a lot of bands can credit their success to John Peel playing their records and inviting them to record a session.

That dramatically understates the importance of Peel during his heyday. Before the internet, Peel was the way for bands to find an audience outside of their home town. For an entire generation of musicians, sending off a demo tape to Peel was a peculiar act of secular benediction, a message in a bottle cast into the waters in the hope that someone might read it.

His death in 2004 left a void that has never quite been filled. Despite the stalwart efforts of Tom Robinson and the BBC Introducing team, nobody has been able to replicate Peel's unique eclecticism and his remarkable ability to sniff out new talent. His peculiar alchemy attracted a wide audience while also offering an open door to the unknown, the unsigned and the unhinged.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/25/how-john-peel-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYkQi8olPo
> As for fees, however, Bitcoin does not care how much BTC you're sending in a single transaction, whereas VISA charges 1-2% as a fee. So, if you want to transact in large amounts (tens of thousands to millions of dollars) across borders, it's hard to beat Bitcoin.

Bitcoin was designed to have lower fees than traditional payment processors. From the introduction of the Bitcoin whitepaper:

> The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions, and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for non-reversible services.

The current narrative of BTC being "digital gold" and "only for big transactions" is not what it was originally designed as. In this sense Bitcoin Cash (BCH) [1] split from BTC to follow the original plan of electronic P2P cash that works for transactions of any size, including cents.

[1] https://www.bitcoincash.org/
Neuroticism is is a personality trait, others are Obsessionality, Psychoticism, Disinhibition, Impulsivity, Rigidity, Alexithymia, Perfectionism, Sensory processing sensitivity, Novelty seeking, Harm avoidance, Self-esteem, Honesty-humility, Agreeableness, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Openness to experience.

I guess that a good deal of them are measurably more prevalent in one gender/sex or the other.

Damore point is that if you design a highly competitive system so that Quality A is rewarded but Quality B is ignored you are going to have an imbalanced workplace if
women on average have slightly more B and less A than the mean and men the reverse.

The only content of the memo are suggestion on how a workplace could be both fair and more naturally 50/50 by gender.

We should design our systems so that the minuscule differences between men and women are not overly amplified and not abused, not just pretend that those differences do not exist.
Once you're in a managing position, expectations can be high. Depends on the department however. Everything that is core business related (purchasing, logistics, store management) can be insane. Especially IT is a joke, mostly. But that's just my perspective.
For years Amazon has shipped damaged books, which caused me to stop buying there.

Groceries are the last thing I'd buy there, also there are online delivery stores by actual professional supermarkets.

Amazon has exactly zero positive influence on humanity.

What is with the embarrassing Bezos worship? These people organize other people's labor, take their economic surplus and take credit for their ideas.
I don't want to be on my own all day.

The best set-up I've ever had was when I had an office with just my team (and only the other engineers) so just the people who I was actually working with.

This meant discussions could actually be useful as we were working on very similar stuff, if not the same - and as they were other engineers we were all capable of offering solutions and not just being a distraction.

In my current open office the vast majority of the people have no idea what I even do and have such entirely different skillsets it's not like we can have productive work discussions. Therefore, it's just noise and distraction.
Ironically SAP is also a German company. I have no idea why anybody thinks that using SAP will help any company. One size fits all approach with hilarious failure stories. Still, some managers think it is great.

Amazon could not enter the German market that easily, people really like to shop in Aldi / Lidl and the online retail business is not as strong as in the US.
I didn't get that impression at all. What I walked away from was a feeling of dire unease at the popularity of Dawkins' opinion that human beings are machines that can be broken and manipulated by their environment, and that social scientists can exploit this fact to their own ends, in industry, culture and war. It may be 'true' inasmuch as the fact that applying his theories give predictable results, but even the most heinous oppressors of humankind were capable of such truth. When you remove the human spirit as a factor, eventually all you get is a pile of dirt. That, to me, was ultimately degrading in the end. I don't think modern science is as close to a solution of what makes life, life, as it thinks it is - but probably that's just my genetics, which has predisposed me for an interest in the metaphysical beyond test tubes and beakers ..
d3 is just a low-level combination of HTML, CSS, JS and SVG. It's seldom obvious how anything is easy to do "using d3," unless manipulating a table of data.

Essentially, if you're a raw d3 programmer, you're a front-end web engineer.
They can keep their wealth because the rest of us protects it, often with our blood. (Military and police, for a start, but that’s just scratching the surface.)
To sum up: intransparent pricing that depends on your Prime customer status and may change after looking at an item, so you may end up paying more than expected.
I always wonder about Google. I know they produce Android but if they disappeared overnight, the world would carry on working, e.g everyone would switch to using another search engine. There would be less tracking (thanks Google Analytics)!

If Microsoft disappeared overnight, how many businesses (not tech businesses but real businesses, like warehouses etc. not running Macs) would need a functioning version of Windows or Win32 software to get by?? I think Microsoft has a larger effect on the world than Google by a very very large stretch.

Even in development, Microsoft's products are used far more widely. How many Google development tools are people using? I've got Android Studio but my daily dev work is Visual Studio on Windows and VS Code on Mac.
He should grow a beard then. It probably helps.
Hopefully this is indicative of where Mozilla stands on this.

It would be great if there could be a net wide push to relieve ISOC of their .org duties, preferably before 2029. It feels strange to say this, because ISOC is a legitimate organization with more than 50k members world wide.

Mozilla and EFF have shown themselves to be very good Internet citizens with Let's Encrypt and are likely more than capable of running a top domain operation too.
Erich Fromm's "Escape from freedom". It is very well written and the subject matter is truly mind-bending: how can an educated people decide to throw their freedom away and give power to a dictator?
E. Fromm was German psychologist, and jewish. He fled to America in the 1930s. He writes with a composite point of view, at the intersection of psychology, sociology, and philosophy, without getting stuck in a narrow analysis, and I think this is what makes this books and others by him so good.
>First off, I don't understand how my stance is "speculation", but yours is not.

Because my stance (that sexism is a significant factor in putting women off from tech) can be trivially verified by, say, asking 10 women in tech about their experiences of sexism. Not to mention that it would be a minor miracle if tech were somehow completely isolated from the sexism that's clearly present in society as a whole.

Out of interest, have you ever tried talking to women about this issue? Or have you (ironically) formed your opinion that there is no sexism in tech without listening to their perspective?
I have this theory about very smart peoples. Intelligence is about making connection. When you're smart you're very good at it. Sometimes too good.
If you don't use you critical mind it's easy to fall in the trap on conspiracy theories.
I know a couple of very smart people's that believe the most outlandish stuff cause "they just can see it"

And I know it happen to me in the past. I guess it's a double edge sword.
Is there a PS or PDF version around somewhere? The HTML-output doesn't cover what is possible with the ms-macros.
Turning them on to acquire bitcoins at a higher cost to yourself than the market price just doesn't make sense, investment or not, it won't help you pay down your loan.

You're better off buying them from others at that point.
More interested in the “additional Linux distributions” comment in the release announcement.
I hope this means Apple’s iOS and iPadOS development tools are coming to Debian 10 and perhaps popLinux (“Pop!_OS”).
Crazy idea: Why don't ICANN hand over the running of .org to archive.org? It's a bit outside their expertise, but they do have knowhow on running tech to scale, and the extra revenue could be used to fund a very good cause.

Also, I'd trust these guys not to mishandle .org

(yeah, I know it's not going to happen)
Different amount of percentages. You're not killing 1% of your population and permanently disabling another 10% every year to support free commerce.
I think it's worth the effort just to make sure you keep familiar with the process for upgrading (including making appropriate backups). It's pretty quick and easy to upgrade and makes sure you're on top of deployment for your project.
Phhft, some aid. The people get just crumbs under the table. In Europe, many countries pay 80% or more of furloughed salaries. This is how it’s done. (There is shenanigans there too, but less.) The cares act is joke.

In the US, the megacorps got theirs. Now the populace has to work. No tests, just work comrade. For Mother US!
> I'd rather not have a motorcycle. I'd rather not have to suit up in special clothing to try and reduce the chances of injury from accidents which, from talking to motorcycle riding friends, seem to be strangely more common than accidents in cars.

It shouldn't be a mystery why motorcycle accidents are more common. A superbike like a Yamaha R1 is capable of 0-100mph in less than 6 seconds, all in first gear. Ownership of an R1 is within the reach of many under 25s and most enthusiastic under 30s. Contrast that with a supercar which, for most people, will be out of reach until much later in life, if ever, and even then is such a big investment that most just sit around in air-conditioned garages rather than hitting the B-roads of England every Sunday morning.

None of that means that commuting on a more sensible motorcycle is particularly dangerous in the grand scheme of things.
Subjective, I find the geometric interpretation of the determinant to be the "best".
Well what are the issues you are currently having with Postgres 10? It doesn't sound like there is any compelling reason.
Many delivery services are operating, or they could have a caregiver pick it up for them.
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And plenty of people disagree with Elon Musk on this.

That said, I see a lot more reports about poor working conditions at Amazon than Tesla, so it's entirely possible to criticise Amazon but agree with Tesla.
> Salaries are off the charts

Just to add another data point, Lidl is also the retailer that pays the best market salaries in the Eastern-European country where I live in (they actually included that in several of their hiring ads), and I'm talking about shop people like cashiers and the people that put things on the shelves.

> They are getting into the car sales and recycle business as well.

In here they've also opened a tourism agency that does quite well (or used to do before the virus hit).

I agree though about the big difference between the German and US management. I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" (I'm not sure how it translates into German) when addressing herself to her bosses on the company's hallways (said friend used to work for a big US company before moving to Lidl). She was lucky though because not a week after her arrival there was a company-wide email coming from the powers that be instructing the employees to use the less formal singular "you" instead of the more formal plural "you", to which all the employees in the company acquiesced.
In India there was one built by a company Reva[0]. Looks like it was not able to gain mindshare.

[0] The founder explaining the car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sDwGazHefM
> "Lucky imaging" is not a widely used technique in astronomy

True, but it is very popular in astrophotography.

Also, there are many recent advances in super-resolution imaging, compressive sensing, and sub-diffraction-limit pixels, often based on results from Donoho, Candes, and friends. Taking advantage of signal sparsity (i.e. that the set of physically possible signals is much smaller than the set of all possible signals, and physical systems have many constraints upon them) has led to a lot of surprising results over the past 15 years or so. Another approach that has yielded results is aperture synthesis, which has been applied to optical systems for at least the past 15 years. And in some certain circumstances for spysats, optical heterodyne detection can also be used to great effect.

> you are always going to be limited by the diffraction limit of the telescope

While the diffraction limit of a system is definitely a constraint, it's not as simple as this anymore.
> seldom get back the "best" conceptual answer, "the determinant is the product of the eigenvalues."

I found that the "best conceptual" answer depends a lot on taste, and what concepts you are familiar with.

In this case:

- Calculating exact eigenvalues of matrices larger than 4x4 is impractical, since it requires you to solve a polynomial of degree >4.

- The EV exist only in algebraically closed fields (complex numbers), while the determinant itself lives in the base field (rationals, reals).

How about:

- [Geometric Determinant] The determinant is the volume of the polytope (parallel-epiped) spanned by the column vectors of the matrix.

- [Coordinate Free Determinant] The determinant is the map induced between the highest exterior powers of the source and target vector spaces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior_algebra)

- I think there is also a representation theoretic version, that characterizes the determinant as invariant under the Symmetric group acting by permutation on the columns/rows of the matrix.
This wouldn't work for websites using more advanced techniques where ordering of requests matters.
The other big difference is that German companies prefer stability over pure profit, because it creates a better working environment and a happier society overall, where your job doesn't depend from sheer luck, especially the lower income ones.

They pulled out more Tesla's than Tesla will ever do, and they still rank on top of the carmaking industry.

Tesla, on the other hand, the first thing has done when they bought Grohmann Engineering was to stop the production for competitors, that led the founder to leave.

That's never a good sign for an established business.

That's the price you pay for having a "humanly deficient man" as a CEO.
Ask HN: Is it harder to code as you grow old?
My dad keeps telling me that I should stop being just a programmer and take more responsability, because according to him, when I will grow old, there will be younger better programmer out there, knowing the latest technologies, and I won't be able to keep up.

I have always been good at learning new languages / frameworks, but I see his point: when I work with older programmers, most of them are indeed a bit slower to adapt, and have a harder time learning new concepts (like Observables in Javascript).

But I am very happy with what I do now. I love being given technical challenges and solve them ; I don't want to manage teams or write documents about architecture. So I'm asking you, especially the senior developers out there: do you see yourself struggling to keep up as you grow older? Is staying "competitive" more challenging? Do you regret not taking more responsibility or do you still love being "just" a programmer?

Thank you all very much for your insights :)
Unfortunately in reality Windows doesn’t do much better. For instance the author likes to harp on about the insecurity of X11 while on Windows GUI programs have rather similar levels of access to each other, including to APIs that have impossible to fix buffer overflows that stem from their 80s style design.

Yes there is a (semi) Secure Attention Key but it isn’t required in many cases such as while requesting consent for elevation and you can set it to required but it comes with a warning that that breaks important things (and it does).
> I'm really curious for the hoarders, if they're doing it as a hedge against global financial collapse, how exactly do they expect to redeem their bitcoin for anything tangible?

You can sell and buy in OpenBazaar [1] or Purse.io [2] for example. In my opinion growing the native cryptocurrency economy and decoupling it from fiat currencies is the most important step to take for their adoption.

[1] https://openbazaar.com/

[2] https://purse.io/
This is an excellent writeup. Something that sticks out to me is that the Ember code feels much more readable than React with hooks. The "future" component at the bottom using inline glimmer templates with @use is especially exciting! To be honest I think that could be a game changer and get more developers excited about Ember.js.
Show HN: Solid, a free and MIT licensed design system / UI kit for Bootstrap 4
Of course it's degrading, but it's true and it's the world we live in. It's okay if you want to put your hands over your ears and keep your eyes closed, but don't expect others to do the same, and don't be surprised when they have a better grip of reality.
If you're into biology, Nick Lane's books will blow your mind. Two in particular I'd recommend:

1. The Vital Question - An explanation of the genesis of complex life through bioenergetics. Explains why complex life is likely very rare in the universe.

2. Power, Sex, Suicide - Why mitochondria are awesome, and also responsible for the emergence of sex, cancer, and mortality.
I always find that the best way to get something out of GEB, which I have consumed a thousand times, is to read it backwards.

;)
Also, at least German companies really don't like uploading data to US servers.
This may work and may be much cheaper than the overpriced Amazon AWS, since Germany does not pay her people well. Most salaries are are a fraction of US salaries. This is the main reason for the exorbitant and quite bad trade surplus of Germany, who exports both, goods AND capital.

Lidl has not quite a big reputation for IT:
https://www.consultancy.uk/news/18243/lidl-cancels-sap-intro...
Also some essential/nonessential reasons depend on your risk sensitivity. People start gardens for reasons ranging from mental comfort to hedging against raising food prices in the coming months due to how thoroughly shot the agriculture is now.
What is the point of wayland-keylogger[1] that is linked in the article? Do Wayland compositors normally run under a different user account than the one that logged in via the login manager? I see this as being an issue with full filesystem (or just home) access given to applications, but I don't see how LD_PRELOAD is the problem here. Yet the author of TFA seems to suggest that this is the issue.

[1]: https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger
I didn't say anything about STEM or non-STEM. Most of the things you listed would fall under scientific education (which I mentioned), not practical education. Knowing what general relativity is or how to discern gold from pyrite has nothing to do with the economics of getting a good job, which is what I am referring to.
I read his book and I would say his book work in complement with his lectures. It is not good enough on it's own.
Ask HN: What's the best stack to build a marketplace/ecommerce website?
Hi everyone,

I have to build a new website (a marketplace) and I am wondering which stack i should use :
- I need it to be server side rendered (for SEO)
- this is more like a MVP, so I need to be able to build it quickly

This what I came with :
For backend / static HTML page :
- Java / Scala with Playframework (this is the one I really master)
- Python / Django
- Php Symphony or Laravel
- Kotlin / Spring

For frontend animation :
- JQuery
- Vue.js

Does anyone have any experience with one of those ?

Thanks for your help :)
Ah, there you go, exhibiting precisely the moral authority I find repugnant in followers of the Dawkins cult.

What makes it true?
Not so long ago oil of all things went into negative price range. I wonder what fundamental values are out there underlying money.
The archetypes and collective unconsious - carl jung

The origins and history of consciousness - mircea eliade

Cosmic symbolism in genesis - mattheiu pageau

If you want to get deep into opinions on making art, symbolism is a great rabbit hole.
Rutger Bregman's "Utopia for Realists", changed my political outlook completely
"Origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind" by Julian Jaynes. Controversial, but interesting thesis nevertheless.
Coronavirus: How Sweden is keeping its pubs and bars open [video]
> Salaries are off the charts

Are they?

I received few offers from them and their salaries where in par with what I earn in Italy (around 100k) which is very good for Europe but not as much as SV
Most US milk isn’t ultra-pastuerized. The taste is very different, especially if you go for the really fresh, non-homogenized stuff.
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle https://www.amazon.com/New-Earth-Awakening-Purpose-Selection...