skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
std::seed_seq and the SeedSeq concept look incredibly broken, also it looks way over-engineered. Why can't a random generator engine just get a Calleable as a constructor argument and call it as many times as it needs to seed itself? SeedSeq tries to be way more than it needs to be while failing its basic requirement.
Google is now openly pro-communist. Fantastic.
I like how there are a bunch of comments in those other threads insisting Google doesn't do anything moderation that's "political".
I looked at the job vacancies posted on the Society for Research Software Engineering. Those with salaries listed:

Senior RSE, London: £35,965 to £52,701

Web Application Developer, London: £35,965 to £43,470

Research Software Engineer, Hannover: Salary Scale 13 TV-L (AFAICT this is €41259 to €59545)

I'm the type to be happy to take a pay cut, especially if there are work-life advantages involved. But a 80%-90% cut is asking a bit much. It's not like London's a particularly cheap place to live, either.

Not sure how to fix it.
Depends on the jurisdiction - if there's no CGT, and prices have been trending upwards, then the increase in value dramatically offsets any rates you may pay.

Of course, the upward trend in prices relies on a bigger fool coming into your market, which of late has been Chinese money.
No it isn't, I just like calculus/analysis. I don't work in trading, my job is developing simulations in operations research.
Huawei admits uncertainty following new US chip curbs
"Allow this app to install other apps" and behind the scenes this means it adds the store's public key to "known sources."

Just because the parent is talking about the implementation doesn't mean the user-facing UI will actually expose any of it.
Use AI to figure out your next career move
Apple rejected my update for having COVID-19 related keywords, I removed the keywords and submitted again and it was approved pronto.
I wasn't trying to piggyback the pandemic or anything like that, I added the keyword because it's relevant to my app.

But as I understand it, Apple is not accepting any apps related to COVID-19 that don't come from an authority like a medical institution or a government body. In the face of the reality that there are many people ready to sell their mothers to slavery for profit(and even maybe likes or the LULs), I am O.K. with leaving the pandemic to the monopoly of institutions that can be held responsible for their actions.

You should try to re-submit your app without referencing to the pandemic in any way. Do not include any keywords that can get you flagged again. After all, the pandemic could have never happened. You are not entitled to profit from it, right?

Your description looks fairly innocent and I see how it is relevant to mention the quarantine and I wish you luck as your app might actually help people with it but it's not the end of the world not to use the word.

Unlike you, there are many people looking to rank high in the most popular keywords simply because these are popular keywords at the moment and it's likely that Google and Apple don't have a better way to separate bad apples from the good apples so they go for the crude but safe approach of banning them.
> A clear message saying “Unless you are willing to train for many years to become a software engineer yourself, this tool is not for you.”

If you say anything along those lines, you'll be dismissed as a "gatekeeper".
Well, according to some reviews the model did run into problems specific to amateurish use of c/c++. Specifically, it produced different results when running on CPUs with different number of cores and even single core but different CPUs
I think the incumbent power brokers are those with capital, but maybe I'm wrong. I think that there's capitalists on both sides of almost every issue you described, and that's how we ended up with the balance we have.

If not, who are these incumbent power brokers? And how does it benefit them to ban drugs, not build new housing, limit immigration, etc?
Money buys all things, including support for the Oligarchs.
Maturana and Varela 1987.consciousness like a pilot flying blind in conditions of very poor visibility relying only on the instrumentation in the cockpit where any environmental inputs are mere blips on the radar screen
XDA Labs originally set out to do a few of these things.

https://www.xda-developers.com/xda-labs/

It tries to provide an alternative to the 30% "platform charge", and offers PayPal and cryptocurrency payments (with real-time approval etc from what I recall).

It's hard to gain users on an alternative store, especially when most don't know what isn't available to them. And most also don't see the 30% fee being taken from the developer by the platform. Low cost apps are pretty much unaffordable to do at hobbyist scale when you factor in the platform charge, VAT, and taxes, and I fear for the future with app development heading down the route of only large professional outfits doing so (with their large, professional data gathering and monetisation plans).
They definitely don’t ban the word “commie” in English, so why ban the Chinese one?
Section 230 provides immunity to Google and similar for content posted by other users and services. The notion that section 230 requires that Google be neutral in order to maintain that protection is not in the text of the law, and appears to be made up out of whole cloth. I will quote the entirely of section 230 below, see for yourself.

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
Same, I went on some video that has very few views and it is a blanket, Youtube-wide censor.

This is gonna backfire so hard, Streisand effect is coming.

I tried 共匪 and 共.匪, both got deleted.
Whether the Imperial code is good or bad doesn't actually matter: you can derive the headline numbers analytically, without any simulation at all [1].

(The real problem with the worst case estimate is that it assumes people don't individually change their behavior in the face of a pandemic.)

A better critique of the software engineering criticism is [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1258879531022082049

[2] https://philbull.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/why-you-can-ignore...
Maybe a solution for this sort of thing might be progrsive web apps. You won't be subject to the risk of an app store knocking you off.
> Do you really think that eliminating tipping would do away with racial wage disparities and sexual harassment?

Do you really think straw-man arguments make any headway on HN?
Right but, "or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." is the part Trump is a traitor for and Mitch + a whole gaggle of flunkies beneath them.
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It would explain why they kept going out to restaurants instead of eating anything at the house...
Tried and was deleted after 30 seconds (3rd refresh)
You don't but you could make the point that since they are not open source, you will never be sure about it.

Even if GDPR should protect against it.
Can someone remind me why there is an "app store" that is run by the phone OS maker? Aside from the anti-trust/monopoly type issue, should there be a more market healthy de-coupling between the place I buy my apps and the OS maker?

Monopolies are almost always bad for consumers.

I kind of chuckle when I think about how Microsoft had such a huge battle over IE being integrated into Windows, and now we sort of accept a situation 100x worse on our mobile phones without batting an eye.
Saudi-Arabian oil (read: blood) money. With Peak Oil around the corner (if it hasn't already hit thanks to corona), the Saudi dictatorship is in desperate need for a way to finance their lavish lifestyle and handouts, or it faces rebellion.

The only thing buying the Saudi government peace at the moment from both religious salafi extremists on one end and a young Westernized population on the other hand is extremely generous handouts which in turn depend on an oil price around 80-90$ range IIRC. But cheap US/CA fracking and shale oil have been attacking that price level for quite some time which also is problematic for the Russian economy for similar reasons, so both SA and RU are hellbent on destroying the US/CA domestic oil industry (which is highly leveraged and debt financed), which complicates matters even more.
Auth0 Struggles: Access a Signed-Up User's App Metadata
April Tech Jobs Still Up Year-over-Year in Many Cities, Despite Pandemic
This escalated quickly, murdering elected leaders...c'mon guys wtf.
I’ve been using the open dyslexic font on my kobo reader for about a year and it helps me a lot

https://www.opendyslexic.org/
Show HN: Remote Tech Job Interview Cheat Sheet
Hey Hackers,

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You only have an hour or so to make a decision that will have a profound impact on your business and may potentially cost you tens of thousands of dollars. The trickiest part is assessing the soft skills: attitude, cultural fit, values. Is this the "right" person for your team? This question becomes even more difficult if the candidate isn't sitting in the same room with you and all you have is a blurry Zoom video. Which becomes a new 'normal' nowadays.
Wise men say - 'preparation is the key'. Yet in practice, it turns our tricky to allocate dedicated time to meticulously prepare for each interview. Few of us who are that perfect usually work for British Intelligence.

At YouTeam, we interview hundreds of engineers routinely - part of our standard vetting process. When you do something on a regular basis for years - certain patterns start to emerge. You suddenly see what works and what doesn't, which questions give you key insights and which are useless.

Today we decided to share what we learned for over 3 years with the world - in a form of the customizable cheatsheet. Usually, you only have time for 10-15 questions - so we made this easy to pick only what you deem relevant. The entire process takes just a couple of clicks - so if you didn't get to prep in advance (just like as most of us) - this tool can be your quick last resort.

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Interesting - the support ticket at Google is from 11/10/2019, and doesn't look like anything has changed since?
Deleted for me too. Wow.
Not the OP, but I know of at least one University that runs "Programming for scientists" courses at low or no cost.
Almost every computing app in the world supports JPG,PNG and GIF. Together we could only name 3 apps that can open webp and only one of those is an editor.

Shaking my head as to why this format has any support at all.
The cultural lines with the two parties seem to be changing. Back in early 00's, I remember the conservatives were saying you can't say ______ because God forbids it. Now it seems to be liberals saying you can't say _______ because it offends XYZ. I don't know why this is happening but it is kind of strange to see as censorship and silencing has never been a popular position
Dark mode design con­sider­ations
The business model is to charge both a delivery fee and a commission on the sales price. That way, you can make it profitable, even when paying a fair price to couriers, as long as you can keep your business lean and your delivery routing efficient.
> every single part of it is deeply flawed, and the best solution is to avoid using it completely

You can sadly say the same for a large part of C++ standard features. At least the core language is mostly sound, simple intuitive and performant, so having to file off some edges is not that big of a problem.
> but generally avoids the number one factor driving this development, which is middle class likes suburbs and continues to demand them.

The middle class can have suburbs, if they want, but they have to pay for them. Marohn's whole point is that cash accounting, federal grants, and other tricks are hiding the true costs of suburbs and keeping the price artificially (and unsustainably) low. And when prices are kept artificially low, of course there's lots of demand; that's a basic principle of economics.

But would the middle class still demand suburbs if they had to stomach the higher taxes to honestly pay for them? That is the open question.
It's been dropped since 2018.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-be-evil/2540...
I don't claim any expertise at all, but without documentation and tests (both of which are called out as largely missing for this codebase), how can the expert epidemiologists tell if the software is behaving correctly?
Getting Started with Serverless on AWS
I subscribe to a handful of positive newsletters to help counteract the barrage of daily negative news. Some of my recommendations:

1) The Guardian's Upside
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/the-upside-weekly-r...

2) Future Crunch
https://futurecrunch.substack.com/

3) Positive News
https://www.positive.news/

4) The Good Newsletter
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/goodnewsletter
But doing so is a classic Prisoner's Dilemma in the short term - if you don't acquiesce to Uber Eats delivery fees, but your competitors do, who captures the market share? Even if it isn't fruitful for them in the long term, it shafts you in the short term.
Springfield IL was what I had in mind, but I didn’t specify that. I used to live in Chicago, so to me “Springfield” obviously meant IL, but in retrospect I should’ve been more clear.
Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct

https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
I bought way too high, so when I sell my AcmeCo stock back to AcmeCo, I’ll get a tax refund!

If you want to tax profits, then tax profits. If you want to have cheesy loophole tax avoidance, stock buy-backs might be more your style.
> experts

Being an expert means you know your tools well. If you can't code well and coding is a critical part of your toolset, then you're not an expert yet. You don't get a free pass because you allegedly are strong in other parts of your craft, especially if the part of your craft you're weak in can be this problematic.
Yep. The offenders are usually really long un-line-breakable words, images, or videos. In this case we have:

href="https://newcss.net/theme/terminal.css">

Which is not being allowed to break to a new line because it doesn't contain whitespace. A CSS rule can be used to allow it to break, though that can also have other, unwanted ramifications.
wait... what makes Microsoft any better? I mean, the only reason they aren't flexing the same muscle is because they don't (today) have the monopoly power Google has.

...but when they did, they acted the same way. ...and if they do again, they'll do the same as Google.

The only correct move, IMO, is to self-host.
There's an interesting article (i forget the title, would love if someone could link it) where the author makes the claim that the true modern wealth gap is between the super rich and the upper middle class.

What the article says is that upper middle class feel that their potential income earned is stagnating RELATIVE to the super rich whose income is still increasing.

The middle and poor classes are already beaten into a silence that their standard of living will always remain stagnant and they will not enjoy the advances in the economy (since around 40 years ago).

It corroborates your point about why rich (in my definition, upper middle class) people would be against the idea of UBI. A lawyer making around 200-300k/yr has had his wages increasing around 5 times slower than a CEO / ibanker making around $2m a year. Instead of thinking, "hey I have a ton of money that poorer people could really use right now", they are instead thinking, "hey, how come THOSE rich people are growing their money soo much faster and I still have to slave away for 20 years before I can pay off my house?"

The term "rich" isn't good enough as a classification nowadays because there's a huge difference between the top 400 individuals in the US, the top 1%, and the top 25%, and they're all considered rich by the old definition.
I don't agree with this view because it assumes that all developers receive more positive feedback and attention than they deserve.

If nobody is giving someone good feedback about their work, then it's impossible for them to feel like an impostor. There are many great developers out there who rarely get positive feedback about their work and they have no idea what people are talking about when they mention 'impostor syndrome'.

You'd be surprised by how many people fall through the cracks of the system; these people will never understand this idea of 'impostor syndrome'. I've been coding for over 15 years, both in my spare time and full time job. I've worked 7 days a week on open source. I've build several significant, scalable systems. In addition to my open source side projects, I've worked for at least a dozen different companies of all sizes in different industries and different countries.

The main theme of my career has been one of feeling constantly undervalued. I'm confident today precisely because I've been constantly undervalued in the past and this adverse environment has been the main driver for me to improve.

Recently, I started getting excellent feedback for my work, but it's not because I suddenly became a better developer, it's just that I changed companies too often to get noticed before and also I got very lucky that the people I work with now are smart enough to notice and have enough money in their pockets such that their opinions are taken seriously.
My taxes are lower and I've made a considerable amount of money in the markets. Other than that not much has changed, I'm much better off than I was 4 years ago
Just stop using Google, they aren't America. Hmmm, maybe we should have enforced antitrust rules and not legalized unlimited political bribery.
So, are the people commenting 共匪 flagged at Google, now ?
One fascinating thing about being Very Online in the past 10-20 years is watching the messages of astroturfing campaigns slowly leak into public sentiment. I'm sure the same thing happens with other forms of media, primarily cable television. But as an example, with the whole 50 Cent Army, a few people have heard convincing arguments from them and turned into unwitting (or otherwise) propagators of the same rhetoric.
Is there a case study comparing American and European cities? Reading the article as a European, I do not find anything that is different from Europe.

Also, is going into debt to finance infrastructure really a problem if total debt stays at ~100% of GDP?

Overall, the article seems very alarmist ("Something is broken and we all know it.") without any data to back it up.
My initial response to this headline was anger as I assumed that the arb would inevitably screw over the small business owner. That anger quickly turned to glee upon reading the first couple of paragraphs!
WavyBubble, the keep your (social) distance app
Hi hackers, first post ever here. After social distancing went in effect in The Netherlands, I stayed at home. Only went out for grocery shopping, and that's where you see how hard it is to keep your distance. I thought to myself: there should be an app for that. I looked for existing apps, but there weren't any. So I signed up with a team for the Dutch Hacking Health virtual hackathon where we built a demo of an app that did just that. We won and decided to keep working on it based on all the responses. Yesterday we launched our beta for Android. It uses sound waves to determine the distance between devices. Currently it supports device pairs, so if you have 2 phones, you can install it on both and try it out. If the devices are closer that 1.5 meters they will play an alarm sound (the Dutch COVID-19 distance guideline, which is just under 5ft) .
Do check it out and let me know what you think. The biggest benefit over using bluetooth is the accuracy at close range (where it matters).
Do let me know if you have any questions!
Yup, moved from Germany to the US. Would never be able to earn in Germany what I earn here without going into management.
It wasn't just Leave it to Beaver. The father in The Brady Bunch was an architect and the family had a maid; in Happy Days the father was a business owner; Cliff Huxtable (The Cosby Show) was an MD; The Wonder Years dad was a manager at a defense contractor; and the guy from I Dream of Jeanie was a freaking astronaut(!).

Very few shows portrayed middle class families, and those that did often made the struggles of being blue collar into plot device.
The US is pretty close to a lot of the rest of the OECD in obesity rates (in particular, UK/Australia/NZ) https://data.oecd.org/healthrisk/overweight-or-obese-populat...) while costing twice what other systems pay for healthcare.

The stuff about pharmacy benefits and doctor salaries are artifacts of our weird way of paying for things. I'm not sure why you're portraying them as separate, isolated issues.
The primary purpose of a patent system is to maximise the benefits of innovation in the long run. Not necessarily to maximise innovation.

Each country's laws are meant to maximise it for its own citizens as long as the laws are applied without discrimination.

If you want to convince a large and poor country to accept your standards in patent protection, show them how a large pool of their population will be involved in productive R&D.
A good issue may have more value then $$
My memory of learning control theory at university was learning some super complicated stuff that was applicable to 99% of control problems. PID controllers, which are good for probably 95% of control problems, were effectively "an exercise for the reader". So trivial compared to the broader theory we were studying that nobody even thought to mention them. The expectation seemed to be that when you needed them, they'd just drop out of the maths and they'd need no further explanation.

We'd already done a form of proportional control with op-amps. It would have been enormously helpful to start control theory with discrete PI and PID to give us a practical grounding and something we could actually use before leaping off into the wider theory, but that's not how academia works...
I don't think there's a better way to motivate me to do better :)
I think the problem is that users aren’t given the option. Hence the original question of; what technical disadvantages do non-Play stores face?

I think we agree this is a crucial technical disadvantage. Do you think it would be fair for users to be able to make this decision for themselves on devices they own?
Would it have crossed the line if the OP had tweaked the Italian places website (say for example setting a 0 height div) to include fake prices intended for the scraper to misinterpret?

For me I think it would have. Which makes me pause to consider whether I find the whole scheme too close to the ethical boundary.
The flip side to having lots of parameters is that you have lots of knobs to tune beyond a basic lockdown.
In other news, Youtube will soon be coming to China. Pick your adventure, which do you want? Youtube in CN or write whatever you like?

You'll also get videos deleted if you include in them info against WHO advice.
This looks great, thanks for the link!