skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely Well deserved.

That's not Android fault: you're asking Android to give you access to an unrestricted storage area (e.g. because you want to edit photos shot with your Camera app), and the fact that other apps can read/write to it, is the whole point of that storage. Hence you need to treat it as untrusted, and validate that you're going to install the APK that you thought you were going to install.
Ping, Measure latency in real-time, directly in your web browser
I get an imposter feeling not because I feel I know nothing but because I feel like the tech world is closing its gates to me in particular.

When I am told by my software developer friends how quickly I've learned in the last year and when I get lots of users using my projects that reinforces the idea that I would be a great developer. But then when I apply for jobs and just keep getting rejection after rejection, it wears me down and makes me feel like an imposter who isn't cool enough to join the club you know?
I would like these themes to go beyond a simple article view. We have tags like <header>, <nav>, <main>, <aside>, <section> and <footer> now. Should be possible to build a complete app-shell with classless CSS.
Early data show Moderna Covid-19 vaccine generates immune response
The lathe is almost guaranteed to come with a long list of warnings and an entire section of the manual devoted to safe use. Learn C++ resources tend to not come with those sections in the same detail nor are they usually front and center.
It tends to be a fabrication of people miscalculating. You look at the total income sum "Wow!, 120k is twice 60k!" and you judge based on that.

It's similar to items appearing cheaper in the US because they do not include taxes, salaries "the sum" does not accurately reflect the quality of life. The number is higher but it doesn't reflect purchasing power accurately.

It's hard to explain, but I did these calculations a whole bunch of times because I keep considering moving to the US, but ultimately it comes down to:

A) Having a huge benefits package (which is not optional for an employer to avoid paying out for in the EU, especially Scandinavian countries)-- this includes insurances for loss of employment or sickness, but also pension contributions which are actually illegal to avoid in most European countries (5% matching contribution being pretty standard).

B) QoL differences up to and including healthcare, paid vacation time, paid sickness leave and paid parental leave. (from 2w-480d depending on country)

C) Childcare.

D) Taxes (and an accountant's time to file them on your behalf, this is assumed to be a minor cost)

Ultimately I did the math, and I'd have to dig it out again, but unless you're 20-30, very healthy, childless and a low-risk taker that enjoys driving: it is unlikely that you'll be better off working in IT in the USA.

Obviously there's 10x developers who would out-earn me there though.

If you want to earn large sums of money in a European country, that can still be done in Ireland or Switzerland.

FWIW: in my calculations 120k USD in Los Angeles was roughly equivalent to 55k EUR in Stockholm (50k SEK/mo)
This particular post was about the movie industry. Korea went in a different, much more competitive way, unlike China.
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Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers 0.8.0 released
If your argument against cryptocurrency could also apply to cash, why don’t you also say so? My point is that cryptocurrency has aspects of digital assets and cash assets simultaneously. So if your argument equally would apply to cash, which is commonly used, then I think it’s worth pointing that out.

Also, I don’t agree that my writing is unclear. I find your dismissal unjustified by your arguments. I simply bring up a counter-example to your argument with cash. You saying it is fringe and beside the point is not an argument. To then criticize my writing is to miss the point I was making. I don’t find that you are debating in good faith when you make personal attacks on quality of writing when your own argument hasn’t been made or won.
Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data.
For some reason the footnote link on sakura did not make my view jump to the note (neither Firefox 76.0.1, nor Chromium 81.0.4044.138 / Linux Ubuntu) although it works in Wikipedia.
You also don't like developing web frontends, you only like developing backends & games :p
When that nuclear powered spaceship blows up because we didn’t test it. It’s pointless. Testing Should be part of the r and d process, increasing as the product matures. To go fast you go slow. Would you let a surgeon operate on you without washing their hands, to save time?
If that's the case, shouldn't Youtube ban words like 'cuck', 'libtard' and 'snowflake'?
FYI: # is already "reserved" in markdown for headings. So in theory markdown is also not workable, in practice :-).

It's kind of like:

1. FC Köln - that's a football club name (and not a list marker). Try it in markdown - same gotcha :-)
FWIW, I've interviewed tons of CS Masters grads myself, US and international. Northeastern is not alone in awful coding skills.

Makes me wonder what the typical curriculum is in a CS masters degree? How can so many people get a Masters without actually knowing fundamental programming skills?

Not a great analogy perhaps, but you can't get a Masters in French without speaking the language right?
The vast majority. You have to go out of your way to find apps that don't scoop up all the data they can. Why not? It's not like consumers penalize it.
Uber reportedly to cut 3k more jobs
I mean practically, as in the only practical use of it is as an escape hatch for when your income isn't accurately reflected by the forms.
In the US, so many jobs, in so many industries, pay a complete pittance. It's one of the least regulated economies and people are seen as a fungible asset, hired, laid off at a company's convenience (in many states), and paid literally as little as possible. And yet, in this bizarro (for Europeans) world, devs are often paid a small fortune.

That's not generosity.

That's because they are recognized as bringing huge value, otherwise they would never be offered anywhere near those amounts of money. Europe just won't get it, therefore Europe is going to remain behind.
> Funding dictates this is impossible, so they make do.

Put another way: software quality is not valued in academia. Let’s say the code in question was in great shape. Would it have mattered at all in the trajectory of anyone’s career? No. This is probably the one academic code base in a million that has received any negative reputational hit due to its quality.
India has a significant number of restrictions on free trade, and they are a functional democracy. So maybe its unfair to us, but its a democratic choice.

Further consider the advantage US has from being the center of global finance, and having many generations of wealth accumation compared to India and China being recent colonies and having recent devastating wars.

Is that trade policy still unfair taking those variables in account
In a nutshell, what is the Strongtowns thesis?
Youtube doesn't censor most pejoratives in comments, as you can tell by reading any of the comments.
Not really. The whole market is up about 30% from its low. On top of that Uber Eats is obviously doing a lot of business right now.
Some tools are inherently safer than others. The whole difference between C++ and Rust is that it's a bit harder to shoot yourself in the foot while using Rust, the way you can with C++. It's not that you can't do it, but generally it involves purposely bypassing its safety mechanisms. You're still supposed to know what you're doing, but you know where you need to pay attention.
Think of the reverse. Will Mars be enough? Just one planet limits technology due to risk, for instance atmospheric nuclear testing. Is a year of space travel enough room for safety? Both planets orbit the same star.

Satellites made out of chemicals, or better yet, just one molecule have unknown risks. A really thin ring orbits Earth. Shoot a beam at it, transfer data. Instead of a ring, the easiest path could be:

- sheets of lightening in orbit

- going through the Earth

- orbiting the Sun and we get a faint image of the Earth one molecule lagging that we now have to push against

The most off the wall idea I have is to put a matter wave up in orbit that looks like star. I travel there and walk on planets and start life and then travel back. I get there faster by projecting that matter wave larger towards me, changing my internal properties and leaving that matter wave and the Earth alone. Because of what I did, the sun now has a bit of gravitational singularity to it and we all live in a different universe.

Maybe that's a better model of the universe. Matter waves emitted from a planet, and space travel as precise interface to nearby material instead of being lost in some great ocean.

Another planet will be immune. So I think of planets as thresholds of orbit application opportunity, like a tuning into a radio station, instead of a distant shore.

Bell's theorem is fun. Interact with solar probe inside the sun and a interstellar probe just the right way. Something in between, like an asteroid, yells out "PHOTON!" and blows up because the Sun think's it's now there.
Yes. I wonder why the Thought Police are going so easy on "Hate".
Exactly. The C++ code in the GitHub repo is absolutely frightening, but I'm 100% sure if would be pretty much the same in e.g. Python, probaly even worse. From my own experience code quality is inversely related to barrier of entry, which means I see a lot more terrible MATLAB and Python code than terrible C++ code.

The only conclusion you can draw from a repo like this, is the conclusion I've drawn countless times when the next piece of modeling code developed by some math or physics expert lands on my desk: these kinds of things can not be developed by domain experts alone, you always need to include skilled software engineers to translate the prototypes they develop (preferably in something like MATLAB) into production code.
RIP free, American speech.
Show HN: A Python tool for text-based AI training and generation using GPT-2
Price for performance. It plays the latest games at high resolution without being a CPU bottleneck. In gaming benchmarks the 3600 is usually within a few fps of the 3800x. https://youtu.be/9OXbhgnHvXQ
In fact, if I were running strategy, I would want my opponent to think I used a computer of speed x or storage system of size k, spending lots of resources chasing a false solution.
The landlord provides a usable piece of land close to these amenities. They, along with others, contribute to making the area worth living in. They aren't being paid for the use of any nearby amenities, just for having the foresight to develop land in the correct location to synergize with the surrounding improvements. Is choosing the location to build not part of their contribution? And likewise for encouraging the later development of facilities in proximity to their own property? Frankly the idea behind the "unearned benefit" narrative—that a landlord ought to earn the same profit for land in a bad location as for land in a good location—is a bit ridiculous. Attempting to negate the value the owner derives from good placement in the community is counterproductive.
Isn't this a natural result of how empathy works?

You can both feel the urge from your own brain, and far more comprehensively understand the consequences, of not doing a thing (employment, meeting a long term partner, friend, ...).

By contrast when you see a person on the street it's easy to think "rules say no hence bad".

As others state, you're also wired to think of the novel/interesting case and ignore the people holed up at home because they're invisible.
For fun, here's a little demo of aitextgen that you can run on your own computer.

First install aitextgen:

pip3 install aitextgen

Then you can download and generate from a custom Hacker News GPT-2 model I made (only 30MB compared to 500MB from the 124M GPT-2) using the CLI!

aitextgen generate --model minimaxir/hacker-news --n 20 --to_file False

Want to create Show HN titles? You can do that.

aitextgen generate --model minimaxir/hacker-news --n 20 --to_file False --prompt "Show HN:"
wow, three "google bans/deletes" on the frontpage today. Its never too early to start ditching everything google.
This Main St economy has as much in common with current public Wall St economy

Well obviously. There is a fundamental different in the economics of a single location coffee shop and a multinational company like Starbucks. The difference in these economics provides more than enough justification for one being worth a small multiple on earnings and the other a large multiple.
Proper enforcement would prevent TSMC from making those moves, we'll see how that goes. As for China being able to "quickly" produce a TSMC equivalent, if that's the case then the US never really had any control in the first place and at least this way China's disrupted for the next few years, and physically cut off from future IP.

China has proven it won't play by the rules, so let's make it compete on its own with its own resources. Given their dependence on imports for food and energy, exports and bottomless debt for the rest of their economy, for all its size China is not positioned to be cut off from the global economy and remain competitive.
Public project launch after YC Startup School
Hey!

We graduated from YCSS this Spring. What I personally like is a sobering look at your own progress and video lectures.

Before Adapty we've developed a top-10 educational app in App Store and we felt all pain of mobile in-app subscriptions and marketing that's why we started developing Adapty internally — service for growing mobile apps with subscriptions.
Now we decided to make it a standalone product. What we needed most and implemented in Adapty:
* unit economics calculator
* A/B tests for paywalls
* promo campaigns in push notifications

We believe b2b can be sexy and we make the product just like a b2c.
You can get replacement SIMs with the same number (source: I'm in Germany and on my third SIM with my current number after first not having a micro-SIM and then a nano-SIM) – I did get notofied of this by SMS, though, and no idea what other anti abuse measures may be in place. I can order one for 10 Euro via the website anytime and I suppose I could do it via phone as well.
> That was a shitty code review

Damn straight. The only sense in which it was not a shitty code review, is that it didn't actually review any code. Looking into the linked tickets is a time consuming faff, but people should actually do it before taking the blog post at face value.
Coz I have one.
I'm sure European governments love all the press that the US gets for this kind of stuff because it draws attention away from them. A lot of Europeans seem to know more about wiretapping in the US than in their own country.

A 5 minute search will bring up lots of examples. These are a bit old, but I can't imagine any powers have been removed since the laws have been passed. (I apologize for the tone of some of these articles.)

[1] 2003 Italy and the Netherlands top wiretap chart

76 and 62 wiretaps per 100k citizens, compared to 0.5 in the US (you could make an argument about the uncertainty in that measurement).

[2] 2017 New Dutch law allows law enforcement to digitally wiretap your friends and family to get to you

"Netherlands Senate passed a new surveillance and data mining law. The new law (available in Dutch) expands the government’s targeted and mass surveillance powers and were first introduced in 2015."

[3] 2007 Dutch Law Threatens to Wiretap Family and Friends

"The legislation under consideration allows for much more generalized information gathering—or “bulk” monitoring"
"And since The Netherlands is a major hub for the fiber optic networks that carry huge amounts of information from many different countries, including the United States, the new law would open the way for the Dutch services to suck in communications that U.S. law might prevent the American intelligence agencies from tapping directly."

[4,5] 2011 German politician reveals six months of private mobile phone data

[1] https://edri.org/edrigramnumber2-14wiretap/

[2] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/new-dutch-law-all...

[3] https://torguard.net/blog/dutch-law-threatens-to-wiretap-fam...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1EKvWot-3c

[5] https://www.dw.com/en/german-politician-reveals-six-months-o...
Ask HN: Websites with well-done dark mode
I'm looking for sites that have implemented a dark mode in an exemplary fashion. I'm interested in sites that feature a dark mode in contrast with a light mode and not sites that just sport a dark theme only.

Dark mode seems trivial at first but there are many subtleties and I seek good examples to follow and learn from.
Or stocks. Plain old classic stocks of established companies. S&P 500 historically is depending on which Google result you trust 4-8% per annum, it's hard to beat that on long term - on short term it usually is as many VC and other funds have proven but essentially that's casino bets.
Yeah, that's the best explanation I think I've ever seen of the I and D terms.
Despite salty liquid water on Mars, conditions too harsh for extreme life forms
I fully agree with this for non play store apps from a security standpoint.
As is the case in a lot of discussion that touches on Irish History, in this thread there are a lot of really bad takes - for anyone interested in a good, well balanced, summary delivered by experts in under an hour - i really recommend the BBC 'In Our Time' podcast on this subject - as with all of these shows, its pretty dense with info and facts from a number of sources:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003rj1
Or just serve them yourself.
> Just a few years ago, paramedics in Germany were routinely (and probably not entirely legally) using WhatsApp for communicating with the hospital

Here in Canada, WhatsApp is routinely used in the hospitals for doctors to communicate with each other about patient care. We aren't supposed to send identifiable information but... it happens all the time, of course. And for the same reason: no sanctioned system to replace it.
Can you explain? It doesn't seem that way at all.
Holy shit, it's true.
> If there is a world war/end of the world type event

then it would be highly probable that the least of your troubles is blending in.
With all due respect, Konrad can go f himself. Plenty of performant, non-foot-gun, alternatives to C++ these days. The choice of that language, and any abuses of it fall entirely upon Ferguson and his team.

And for this nugget:

“It’s also you, the software engineering community, that has made no effort to warn the non-expert public of the dangers of these tools.”

I say he deserves it without lube. Hardly a day goes by on Lobsters or HN where we (including many C++ devs) don’t complain at great length on what a reeking dumpster fire C++ is.
So many websites overflow a single screen width by a trivial amount. This is just enough to cause accidental horizontal scrolling which disrupts the flow of scrolling the page. Very frustrating!
> texted the owner about being miffed they hadn’t told me they were on DoorDash.

Why would someone do this?
> On the Gmail page, a pink alert bar appeared at the top, reading, “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer. Protect yourself now.”

Fascinating that Google does this. How do they know?
Because the full view is term limits + lobbying is illegal + any thing that looks like what you described triggers an investigation for something like "corruption of a public servant" + none of the money as speech + reduced campaign time + no pacs or super pacs + a few more other things.

There needs to be a multifaceted implementation of new policy.

Term limits in a vacuum are useless, but if we didn't have a government that was pretty much a proxy for large corporations we could do neat things that would make anyone engaging in that type of arrangement's life a lot harder.
"The book is not presenting to the patient, the book is presenting to another surgeon"

I like this analogy and I agree that the previous person saying the publisher was right, completely missed the point.
Yeah, that'll definitely end up as an iconic image.

For those that want a higher quality screenshot, I just took one: https://i.imgur.com/FzkO6W5.png

It's Jim Cramer's Mad Money on April 9th 2:00 in. (I do not recommend watching Cramer.)
Break my fucking heart
Very unfortunate - should be able to critique anything and not be censored.
Goto have money, goto have power, to be sensitive or gentil glass hearted.
Agree with you. Sounds too good to be True. IMO, Probably somebody had a mole inside GRU who was instrumental in getting the info. but in order to provide cover for its source, they invented a success story of the AIVD.
Where in my comment did you see me proposing that "being a fully experienced & knowledgeable software engineer should be a base requirement for all academic research (in any field)"

Go back and re-read it please. I'm saying you need to be capable of using the tools for your job.

If I was working as a software engineer, I'd not be asked to perform heart surgery. A more realistic example would be a software engineer being tasked to develop software in the medical industry, where I would expect them to understand the subject matter enough to ascertain their software is not crap.
Thanks for your comments.

I have used Thunderbird and Evolution mainly. They cannot
really do that afaik.

> Probably some good IMAP-Client supports this?
The Gmail clients do that (at least the last version's I remember 3 years ago). Haven't seen any other FOSS that does so too. That is what made going away from Gmail kind of "hard".

Currently I'm using K9 on Android and the web client by mailbox.org based on OX AppSuite. Both are ok, but usability could be better.
Just tried it, and after 30 seconds it was deleted
If perfect compliance was required we'd be suffering the consequence right now. Turns out, the American way of half-assing it has been sufficient to slow the spread of the virus more than enough to avert catastrophe. Even the predictable, politically-motivated free-riders haven't been enough to render our efforts ineffective (so far).

In the coming months, this is going to be more about endurance than strict compliance. Better to praise people for the efforts they do make than to berate them for failing to meet whatever strict criteria you've developed after reading too many fear-mongering articles. That runner without a mask almost certainly won't spread the virus, but a group of people having a protest or an underground party or church service will! If we drive people to abandon the cause because of purity tests, we will all suffer.
You can sell a proportion of you holdings to maintain the same ownership percentage thus acting like a dividend if you want. With fractional shares, you should be able to even do it with a small amount of shares. Albeit, I don't know of any brokerage that automates it for you. You can also just buy ETFs as they will sell stocks themselves in order to maintain proper weightings.
Warner music claimed video defending them in a lawsuit they lost the copyright
The issue with that solution could be:

1. Many (most?) of the population is too busy trying to keep their life together to be able to go after a corporation in the courts.

2. Corporations have dramatically more resources to fight in the courts.

3. Corporations are able to make sure that the laws that people could sue them for violating never get passed.
Do atoms ever touch each other? (2013)