skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trade shows, sales events, all the way to going to a bar and it turns out some guy is a decorator you might call on.

Hm, in my experience for sales stuff you need a card. There's no real way around it. And that's only halfway there, the real thing is when you make the other party take a picture of the card, or .. if you ask their email and send them a hello with your signature containing your info. (Yes, it's awkward, seems dumb, but works exactly because the effort the other party put into it. Just taking a card and putting it next to the other taken cards is just a one-way stop-shop to a dead lead - IMHO.)

Decorator guy? Just type it into your phone. Or send yourself an email with call decorator guy, Tim, [number]. or something.

Sure, maybe there will be some amazing system/solution/app that does this. (Technically it's easy. For example you can just fire up a Bluetooth BLE beacon - eg. a Eddystone URL one. You can switch broadcasting on/off with a toggle. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.alea.beaco... And others can scan for them easily.) But it seems to me the biggest hurdle is simply that people don't want that. They want maximal certainty that they get the info from the person they are actually talking to. (NFC could help with that.)

... and let's say a trade show can start with everyone setting up their contact app. And I think some already do this. (Some already hand out name tags after all.)
Linear Algebra is quite self-contained. You'd need Calculus in there to really make sense of the probability and stats, though. Not sure about the vector calculus part and diffeq's, maybe that can be cut and the whole thing might fit in 4 years.
I don't think it should matter all that much if your stuff gets pirated. The reality is that if they're pirating your book, they probably wouldn't have paid for it anyway. I feel like most people I know pirate books to get a feel for the book before they go ahead and purchase it. Almost like an extended sample. All my friends who end up liking their pirated books typically spend the money (given they have money) buying actual copies afterwards.

The real number that would help you is finding out how many unique user downloads there were of your book and asking yourself if your marketing was strong enough to get that number of sales naturally? Or worse, is it that no one is downloading your book even with it being free?

I am biased since I write free content and believe in getting sponsored by supporters, but being the distributor of my free content and able to view download statistics, I can see that marketing is my biggest problem and no one wants to consume even my free content
Sweden's death rate is below Italy UK Spain and Belgium all of which enacted full quarantines.

Not sure why you're giving incomplete and somewhat sensational fear inducing information.
The article doesn't really use a strict equality between being "intelligent" and being good at making money. It's more an implication, that being good at making money implies being probably something like "intelligent".

Now having this established, your examples of playing the violin and Hollywood stars doesn't make any sense. They are reading the relation backwards. The implication holds the other way round.
YouTube stealth censorship still going on (now it hellbans)
Original situation:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/05/26/1738201/youtube-is-deleting-comments-with-two-phrases-that-insult-chinas-communist-party

After they say they "fixed" the "error": comments are hellbanned rather than deleted, only the submitter can see them. I didn't even know that Youtube had hellbanning in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EIdkhvNEBM (See if you can see my comments here, if you cannot, here's a proof screenshot:

https://f3.to/quickgal/1590579834unknown.png
I think a lot more maths is needed. "CS109 Probability for Computer Scientists" does not look like a sufficiently deep study in statistics.

Spending time studying operating systems and compilers (both things I've studied) at the cost really submersing yourself in the maths of probability seems to me to be a misallocation of a scarce resource (time).

e.g. a course in Bayesian statistics, and also in traditional statistical inference would be useful (for instance, this gives a good foundation for understanding the EM algorithm.)
Look for bosses 40 and over who will appreciate the experience.
Linear regression, correlation and general statistical minimisation approaches are almost a century old.

The only real difference is that computer scientists are cool and have hip new terms (and money), while statisticians are boring and uncool.
Our docs are a bit outdated and overly focused on the realtime server. We also have auto-generating APIs (with docs that update as you update your database), a query dashboard, and we are building a table interface like Airtable.

The next big task is auth, which we are working on right now.
No soul and a background check performed by Russian intelligence
I second this. I am much younger than you (Early 30s) but very old looking for my age. People regularly guess that I'm 10 years older than I am. This has only worked to my advantage in the consulting space.

Companies want young naive employees who will work lots of unpaid overtime but when they hire consultants they want someone who's done the work before. There is a poise and sense of assurance that comes with age as well which you can definitely use to your advantage.
Qt for Python 5.15
very neat! You can crop and convert to mp4 using ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i test.avi -filter:v "crop=250:250:260:0" out.mp4
I would like a language that allows seamless piping to and from programs, specifically Unix tools. Just now my favourite language is Bash because:

- concurrency is so simple that you forget you are doing it,

- I can easily use other tools that far smarter people have written.

The ability to execute other programs and capture their output always seems to be an afterthought in most languages.
I've never had a Medium account. I had no idea an account was something you'd need, other than for posting stories. I use Pale Moon as a browser, with Noscript, uBlock Origin and Flashblock. (As a rule of thumb, if I can't read it in Pale Moon with those running, it's probably not worth reading.)
I'm on HS too, but finding that occassionaly apps require 10.14+, which is making me consider upgrading.
Ask HN: Do you think you are smarter than average person?
Alternate questions:
- Do you think you are smarter than average citizien of your country?
- Do you think you are smarter than average HNer?

This type of question has been intriguing me for some time, as I feel almost everybody deep down thinks he is not a genius, but he still knows better than average Joe. I would be really curious if there were surveys with this question and how would different countries compare in results.
I feel like this is close to what I'm looking for but not quite there in terms of minimal boilerplate backend. Basically what I want to do is write a GraphQL schema and have that be the ultimate source of truth. The schema then should generate the full DB (honestly I don't even care if it's SQL, NoSQL, etc. the idea is that part is abstracted away). Then the schema can generate fully typesafe queries for the front end and serverless functions, similar to what graphql codegen does. I'm almost there with Hasura, but Hasura still requires definition on the DB side and generates the GraphQL rather than the other way around.
In my personal opinion, it is insane to use qt for a Mobile or embedded environment based on the fact that the license for that kind of devices is quite shady and that they have a clear history to do major breaking changes at each major release.
Keep your functions running to schedule with the cron-connector
There are multiple perspectives here: the customer, the support engineer, the senior management, and more.

"Absolute certainty" aside, OP basically just said they saw the mountain from the base (only has the view of the volume of tickets pending in their queue) and most of it is in a cloud, they can't even see the top, it looked big, hard to drill, impossible to shave down to ground level. The "absolute certainty" confirms the point of view.

Senior management see it from above (see the big picture) and see total volume of work, a mathematical division based on resources, the value of each work area, which are core or not, where to focus more resources, and which parts to cut down because they set the end goal.

The customer sees the paid promise of a flat terrain. No mountain, no resources.

Now I don't expect the support engineer to know or care about more than what comes in their queue. That's their only job. But I do know management almost always sees support areas, especially for the "low value/impact" segments, as the best candidates for some savings when you have shareholders to please. Successful management will strike a balance between saving more money from cutting costs than they are losing by losing customers and image. Anything else is considered shortsightedness: they either leave money on the table, or they choke the business for short term gain.

In this particular case YouTube could solve the issues but they have deemed this not worth it. The amount needed to fix this is higher than the return so it can't be justified. Fixing one offs and high visibility cases is cheaper than eliminating the issue entirely.
You could try Atlassian, even though in the EU they only have an office in Amsterdam
Whataboutism, and false equivalence between movie makers distorting their own country's history (of which PRC is even more guilty than the US), and movie makers giving in to a foreign country's threats and whitewashing that country's crimes.
Sweden has a higher density of day to day human interactions than any country with full quarantine lock down.

How do the other data points apply to a country that's been on quarantine for months and another that has never been on quarantine?

The exponential explosion of coronavirus cases hasn't happened in Sweden and it's not happening so far when people reopen their economies. there's not even a second wave in economies that have been reopened since early May like Florida.

The model was flawed.

Time to face facts quarantine was ineffective response.
The Online Learning Experience – Keagan Stokoe
If you don't want to pay then roll your own solution or use this startup
When programming in Java, I routinely run code that has compile errors in it.

As long as my execution path doesn't hit any code containing errors, I can run debug and even modify code in the debugger.

That's exploratory programming.
Compiled data from the Hadley's supercomputer shows alarming climate trajectory
You are over simplifying the world. You are doing a mental exercise and reducing everything to a single variable: Talent.

So if someone success without talent, you explain it with another monovariable: luck.

By the way, for me being talented in something is just another version of luck. So we can say that you believe in just one variable: Luck is everything.

The world is way more sophisticated and complicated than a single variable.

Because of my work I have met people that are today highly successful. For example I have met motorcycle's world champions when they were children, that now earn tens of millions of dollars.

The most interesting thing is that for every world champion I know, I have met way way more incredible talented children that never became world champions and don't earn much or work in other areas.

They are human beings that took and take different decisions in their lives.

Some of them were very hard workers(and did not success after all the work), some of them were lazy(and succeeded anyway).

Some of them loved going to parties, others prefered to play guitar or read. Some were very social, others had few friends. Some were impulsive, some were analytical. Some were perfectionistic, others only care about doing things as fast as possible. Some had impulsive sex, other preferred stable relationships. Some accepted others helping them and listened, others refuse to learn or advice from others.

At the end of the day, there are hundreds of variables out there. There are usually some patterns that emerge on successful people on each specific discipline.

For example, in motosport you find that most successful people are highly competitive. They are obsessed with winning. I played ping pong with one of the kids and won. He could not stand it and trained and trained until he could win me(a year or so later). This kid is rich and famous now.

By the way, Success is different for different people. For me success could be not having a boss, working in front of the beach everyday without stress,and able to support my family.

For other people, being successful means earning millions of dollars, even when this means living for work inside a concrete hive watching numbers all day on a computer screen, and not having children until you can pay for a house that you never have time to visit.
RV Jones's book is a great read about scientific intelligence of WW2.

Also, the NRO have previously given away classified orbits of spy satellites on their mission patches.
Tests are useful. Why no one is bothering about humane side of tests outcome? E.g. who compensates effectively lost airline ticket for someone positive right before boarding? For we stop him/her for public safety but also punish like criminal, what for?
Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard
Bluetooth Standard Vulnerability: Bias
It seems to me (as an outside observer), that this normally happens for the two years after a new President is elected.

Normally they don't get 60 in the Senate though, which means that the system is working at intended (you need to stay consistently popular for 6+ years to start swinging the Senate).
US politicians often act "dumb" because Americans mistrust intellectualism and "book smarts," but they trust plain-spoken cowboys who shoot from the hip and speak like common people.

Hillary Clinton attended Wellesley and Yale, and speaks like someone who did, and many Americans hate her. GWB attended Harvard and Yale, but he played up the stereotypical Texas country-boy stereotype and fumbled over his words, and got two terms. Donald Trump went to Wharton business school, but speaks (and shitposts) at the level of a common Reddit troll, and he was elected in large part because of that.

You'd think Americans would stop falling for it at some point.
Timeless Tuesday #1
>Try changing the mouse pointer speed starting on Settings[1].

Oh, thanks for that! I was looking for that recently and just gave up.
From Windows 95 to XP (and maybe Vista?) I could find that setting in 2 seconds.
Now? no chance.
Bitcoin vs. U.S. Dollar: The One Based on Thin Air Is Not the One You Think
There's a lot of weird choices here. The lack of math/stats is glaring, the inclusion of compilers seems to be at the cost of more relevant material for someone focusing on AI (speaking as someone who studied CS with a specific focus on PL/Compiler type things). You don't just throw project based in at the end (this should be through the entire degree), and there's two systems/OS courses included but no networking?

Generally I think having an AI degree is fine, but at the end of the day its a CS degree + a concentration no matter how you slice it. This isn't like CS splitting from math, etc.
The day app get died
> "There's also little to nothing about ETL, which is pretty much all you do in most data sciencey jobs."

Maybe one could design a custom "Databases and ETL" class for this, to make it useful for more than just data-sciencey jobs. ETL is usually covered to some extent in stats classes though, AIUI.
Fine with what, that his parents helped him start a business or that he's so enormously wealthy?

I hope people don't mind the former, but the latter is a bit problematic. When individuals can control that much wealth, democracy breaks down, they can control politics. It wouldn't hurt capitalist incentives at all if the richest of the rich were limited to earning say $100 m.
You're right about PostgREST. See my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23321132

> we're supposed to ignore all of the security work that went into making that database software for the past however many decades, and turn it into a dumb storage medium instead

I couldn't agree more
If the license of the device is shady then it's not a qt problem. If they do major breaking changes then qt should abstract over them and alleviate the problem.
Curiously, all the material out there today can cause a sort of paralysis.

Similar to how we used to argue and banter and have fun about factual disagreements at the bar, while today we can take our phones and look it up (upsides are obvious of course) sucking out part of the fun.

Now if you have some faily simple question today and Google it, you'll find tons of adjacent advice, articles, perhaps even a community dedicated to that sort of thing, libraries etc. Now you either deliberately shut it all out and go ahead with your project, explicitly ignoring all the above, or you start learning it, standing on the shoulders of giants etc.

It can be kind of discouraging to see how much you don't know but is out there, while in the 80s and 90s people had no choice but to rediscover lots of stuff on their own and feel as if they had actually invented the thing, simply due to a lack of Google and Wikipedia.

But overall it's no reason to give up, there is always stuff at the edges to look into, we just have to climb the tree a bit more because the low hanging fruit is gone. Or just pretend we live pre-Google and program away, without checking the answer first. Your boss may not like this latter strategy though.
Would be very useful for me
I don't see how it's FUD. Yes, any system can have security problems, but some are more likely to than others. "Just try harder" is no solution. With equal effort, better (suitable) tools still give better results.
This is my perspective from the US. I think it depends on the industry. Two industries I've been in that don't care what age you are; Transportation and Healthcare. There are interesting jobs in both depending on what your interests are. I'm near 50 now and nobody is ushering me out the door yet. I do think that as you get older people expect more of you. You need to understand the business and be able to provide solutions to real business problems. You'll be in contact more often with upper management/CTO and you need to be on point.
Same thing in Sweden. Does US employers post the salaries in the ads?
Empathy / morals seem to be the key thing here.

I have be forced to leave a number of potentially very lucrative deals because I refused to scam little old ladies out of their life savings.
NASA: We’re going back to the moon, and beyond
Hong Kong crisis: riot police flood city as China protests build
FB is backed by CIA even if you had a billion dollars they could easily squash your tiny voice
Whatever you do, do not use the flag library in a package that might ever, EVER be imported. Google did this in the horribly written glog port to go which until recently was used everywhere in Kubernetes. The only way to determine the value of the "v" flag they define globally for your entire executable is to call the V(n) function with n incrementing until it returns false.

pflag, which is used by cobra, is a much nicer library.
The implication you are pointing at still an assumption.

If we can't assume that Hollywood stars or concert violinists are intelligent (even if not all intelligent people can be those things), then why would it naturally be so with financially successful people?

The examples still make sense under the premise that the assumption is off.
No great advice other than to look for tech roles in non–tech companies.

The FAANG gang will never see your resume or application as their automated screeners will silently reject you. Startups will advise you that you cannot possibly understand the complexity of the problem space they are solving because no one in the history of the industry has ever tried building complex software, which is why they are writing their own version of make in two week sprints.

I wish I had better advice but after seven years of trying I’ve moved on and out of the industry.
This is nice. Lots of wacky but good ideas. It's made the front page of Podnews today. https://podnews.net/update/rethinking-the-podcast-app
Would be amusing if they integrated it into Recaptcha. "To proceed logging in, please select all the inappropriate images"
Show HN: We created over 200 PHP packages
"Hey, guys, what I do is just reference a 1GB object, and then wait for 1GB to disappear off the heap!"

Wow. A 1GB resolution blowjob hack DIY memory inspector. That's really great. Thanks.
You can find out for yourself, if you're curious. Grab some vernacular fiction from the time period. Watch some movies. Even better, drop by a library or used book store and pick up some popular humor magazines, you'll be pretty surprised.

It wouldn't shock if after some digging you find that people of thirty years ago were barbarians. This wouldn't be the first time someone felt that about those in the recent past, but at least you'll start to develop an understanding of how quickly culture can change. The more you read, the more you'll get a sense for what changes are superficial and which are more profound. You may even begin to recognize the currents that took us from there to here.

They say the past is a foreign country, and they say it for a reason.
Somehow I had the impression that Task Manager was rewritten when the guys from Sysinternals joined MS (who had the excellent Process Explorer app).

And with that in mind, I actually think the new one is better.
Interesting view. It raises the question: What takes in each domain to be taken seriously? How do the prices of admission compare on each level (from deserving of attention to established theory)?

Anyone knows of a cross disciplinary study that benchmarks this?
Does a Zillionaire Have to Insure Their Motor Vehicle?
It's that time of the year again when the tedious process of ringing round to get the best quote for renewing my van insurance is nigh and, as ever, a random thought flits across my vacant skull:

Would a zillionaire, such as a Bill Gates or an Elon Musk be able to drive a vehicle without insuring it?

As well as getting some of our money back if our vehicle is stolen or damaged, the main reason vehicle insurance is compulsory is to guarantee that we [via our insurance company] will be able to cover the costs of any damage, injury or death we inflict on anyone else.

But what if you're a Gates, a Musk, a Zuckerberg, or suchlike? Your own personal wealth far exceeds that of any insurance company. So, if you were stopped by the police and charged with driving without insurance, would you have a valid legal defence in saying "I don't need insurance. I can cover any liability that might arise, from out of my own pocket"?

And, if so, how far down the monetary food chain would that defence work? I havent got my current insurance docs to hand. But, in the small print, there's usually something to the effect that you're covered for up to XXX hundred thousand £££s of 3rd party liability. So, could a very rich person deposit XXX hundred thousand £££s in a deposit account as an 'emergency insurance liability cover fund' and then use the existence of this fund to avoid having to take out insurance via an actual insurance company?

If so, it would also have the advantage that they'd actually be earning interest on the money, so their home-rolled insurance fund would actually be increasing with each passing year. A real "no claims bonus"!
That's not a general java attribute though, is it? I suspect that's because of the eclipse compiler.
You're right. I have added a description. Thanks.
I just found that a Unicode working group cited this page! They are considering adding Teletext glyphs to Unicode:

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18235-terminals-prop.pdf

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf