skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why I didn't recall that :-P Of course you are correct!
Dismissing a successful person but seeming "dumb" person is a benefit to them. Now, they can continue succeeding with less scrutiny.

For a long time I thought many politicians were "dumb" based on their public comments, propelled only by their connections. Now, when I look up some politicians who's spouting objectively false / misleading statements and find they've graduated a top-tier university and have a JD I realize these are not intellectually stupid people. They're skilled in their field, have drive, and less empathy/morals than others.

Now, I watch these "dumb" people more closely.
I used to teach kids to code and REPL.it's multiplayer mode was the best tool! It was a little buggy sometimes, but in general collaborative coding tools are excellent for teaching.
I'd generally recommend making more than one card per topic. But yes, it will take more time, but (in theory) it should be more effective.
> If you look at a basket of well-being measures as opposed to raw GDP it's hard to argue

It is too soon to argue any of those measures.

You can’t take a single moment in time in the middle of a crisis to judge.
> I feel like YouTube is doing their best with a really hard problem.

No, they are not! They are treating this as another big data problem, ignoring the harm it causes.

What they SHOULD do is to held the accuser responsible. To make complaints you should have a verified account and if you make wrongful claims you should foot the bill.

Not rocket science really.
I'm a similar sort of age, and having trouble finding something this year - not that this year isn't a terrible time to be looking for anyone, of course. I was actually the oldest engineer in my previous place, out of over 70. I seem to have found myself in a couple of catch-22 situations - I have both wide/shallow experience and narrow/deep, but if I'm looking for senior positions that means mostly only the deep experience counts, which means I've got narrow skills. I'm also a Brit based in Hong Kong, who doesn't speak Cantonese - not a huge barrier, generally, but it just further narrows my opportunities. I've actually had a couple of people this week ask if I'd be interested in something remote for a North American company, but working at least partly in their timezone, which doesn't really seem sensible, given it would mean destroying my social life and/or sleep...

I'm recently mostly a backend web/API dev working in PHP and Python/Django, but I've done Unix kernel work, written a few Android apps, and a few other random things. I've worked in large companies, in a local unicorn, and as a solo freelancer.

I'm not necessarily sure it's age itself that's a problem, but maybe a combination of factors where age is part of the cause/effect chain?

To be clear, as well as my thoughts, this is also a "hire me, please?" post!
Can you write a minimal documentation on how to selfhost ?
It's an adjective, based on 'spectacular'.
It is to 'debacle' as 'spectacular' is to 'spectacle'.
'Spectacular' meaing "relating to, or having the character of, a spectacle" (Wiktionary).
So it would mean something like 'relating to, or having the character of, a debacle' - with hints of 'spectacular debacle'.
Measuring Fairness
How to Stream NASA TV and Launch America
People get that, they just disagree that it's a sign of political genius on his part.
Affected by economic slowdown? Use these steps for tackling unemployment trauma
I'm quite skeptical that any kind of deep insight can come from reading a prototypical Bharat Tyagi[0]. Reading Swami Vivekananda or even Gandhi would be a far better use of time.

0: https://devdutt.com/articles/hiss-of-the-pio-bharat-tyagi/
Wow this just made my day! I am building an open source data management software (aka admin). I am happy to see more software focused at data.

Yay!
Subscriptions Are Here to Stay
For a moment I read "Zoom" :D Would probably also make sense for amazon since they offer everything these days.
I agree, but luckily everyone is born with the ability to define what success means to them.
If we all use enough of things like NextDNS then all ads will go away. Oh wait, suddenly all websites except those with a paywall will exist. No more news reports of any kind. No more free services. Nothing but a few sites that sell T-shirts to struggle to survive. I don't like the present web either, but somehow people have to make money. Unless we build in an infrastructure that easily allows me to pay you to run a business online, I fail to see how in the long run this total blockage of ads is a benefit for all.

Of course we live in HackerNewsLand, where the rest of technologically illiterate humanity pays by watching ads so that we don't have to.

Somehow we have to use technology to find a way to balance the needs of those who are online serving us content/information/etc with a less irritating and horrific way to pay for it. Without a solution for that, the future is going to be a lot less diverse and a lot more frustrating, although in a different way.
Perhaps, but it seems a lot of this is basically building public profiles to gain credibility (and build your network) to apply for c-level jobs, more than anything else.
Grave diggers caught with five human heads in Ondo – YAWABASE
My GitHub handle is `dimitarvp` (and almost everywhere else on the net really). Thanks for the chat! :)
You agree pharmaceuticals should be administered judiciously and yet find the energy to disagree on... what exactly? Throwing around terms like "misinformation" in an attempt to discredit what amounts to essentially a common sense conclusion is baffling and borders on vitriol.

If you have personal history with mental disorders and anti-depressants, I in no way mean to diminish your experience, and hope things turn out ok for you - whatever the path you choose to take.
I'm too lazy to shift-tilde
First mover advantage snowballs: real-life client deployments increase the miles driven hundredfold and the revenue increases the resources devoted to mapping and to fix rare situations with manual fixes to either maps or AI.

The behemoth company with custom mapping of every road in your country and manual remapping of construction sites will provide a far better experience than the scrappy AI start-up. (And they can probably leverage that to gain better insurance rates, or to get driving licences in places where second movers can't.)
If you want to use Qt in commercial closed source product without paying for the license, it’s easy to do when you use LGPL version.

1. Do not buy the commercial version.

2. Do not change the source code of the Qt library. Use it at it is.

3. Provide access to either statically or dynamically linked object files with instructions for linking. Static vs. dynamic linking does not matter with LGPL. LGPL requires access to source code and the ability for the user to modify open source library and link it to your closed source object file to create binary.

You compile your commercial code into commercial.o then compile LGPL code into lgpl.o and link them into a single binary.

ld -o binary lgpl.o commercial.o -lc

When you deliver the software, you send the binary, provide access to commercial.o and LGPL licensed source code with instructions for linking. User has now the ability to meddle with LGPL version of Qt, compile it into lgpl.o and link it against your commercial.o without having access to your source code.

(note: of course you can modify the Qt under LGPL when you release modifications with the LGPL. But then you have to maintain the fork on your own and you don't usually want to do that.)
In my company (DK Based), the youngest SW dev(not based in India) is 38, so the companies are out there. I'm one of the youngest HW engineers at 35. My guess is that we average close to 50 in R&D.
Granted, we are in Medical Devices, so young gun speed is not our thing, but still.
As someone who used Chime, their conferencing service, anything would be an improvement.
Mastodon does okay. It's not as big as Twitter, but people who stick with it are happy with what they have. All it did was flip the model: interconnected, community-funded instances instead of one big, expensive to run silo.
Who writes this garbage?
Fiendish Python 3 quiz just kicked off by ManQuantTech
> Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains?

Catch-22

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8578531-it-takes-brains-not...
Yes, it would be good- I was only trying to reproduce the look of an authentic BBC Micro which was sort-of ASCII. The complete Teletext spec lists a lot more characters; probably all of Latin-1 and even Arabic and Cyrillic: http://www.galax.xyz/TELETEXT/TTXTSPEC.PDF

A few people have complained that it was missing characters for Danish, Swedish, and Finnish characters (they also had Teletext-type systems on their TVs. It's on the list of projects I'd like to complete.
> He also had parents that gave him a so-called "three hundred thousand dollar investment" (more money than most people see in a lifetime even while working hard for their family, dedicating most of their life to work and barely managing to enjoy life)

Jeff Bezos also had a teen mother, a biological father that abandoned him, and a Cuban immigrant father that came to the US alone at 16 with nothing and no ability to speak English.

After passing through a refugee camp, just six years later Mike Bezos was raising Jeff as his own and had successfully gone to college.

If - having survived all of that well enough to build a decent life for himself - Mike could afford to invest into his son's business, then it's a remarkable accomplishment that should be cheered, rather than attacked.
IOW, Hasura does authZ vs authN, right?
Except that ML and AI aren't new fields at all - they are over 60 years old and predate CS education by decades.

CNN, LSTM, and RNN are just special techniques in a much broader field that has been around for a long time.

Thinking ML/AI is new is exactly equivalent to thinking that electric cars are new...
I think a lot of the discussion in here is about how whoever wrote the title managed to destroy any chance of this interview getting any meaningful discussion. Which I think is appropriate, because it's a blog about marketing that manages to market their blog about marketing with the kind of deftness I expect from my 8 year old daughter's rendition of Let it go.
The X revenue/ profit per employee can be easily manipulated. Take Google, they outsource many areas of the business. You can virtually guarantee that any building security, caterers or cleaners who work at Google, don't work for Google.

Apparently temporary works and contractors make up around 54% of Google's workforce. https://www.vox.com/2019/4/4/18293900/google-contractors-ben...
> This is clearly not a human-written review

It could be a real review. I've seen far worse text from prominent engineers.
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> I run a massive Node application and never had any issues with memory leaks. I wouldn't even know how to forcefully create one even if I wanted to.

(1) I have no leaks and (2) I don't know how to create them -- These don't really square with each other.

Leaks are easy. TFA mentions the classic one in UI apps: when you don't remove event listeners.
So we'll have trucks blocking the street while people inside those trucks are trying on new clothes? Ugh.
Totally agree. Italics are hard to read. Main text must be in regular font.
The Way to Develop Your Team Isn’t Feedback
I see from the links that this is probably borrowing a bit from Postgrest? I've just discovered Postgrest in the past few days and along with Postgraphile it seems like all of these projects aimed at "getting back to the database" are a good idea, I like it. It always bothered me that the first order of business with any software development framework was to provide a root/admin database connection. It's like, this thing just explicitly said 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.

The lasting impact of Firebase is it proved to the world that being opinionated about the database in order to provide good tools is a viable business model, rather than force ORMs onto people to try and appease every different database flavor under the sun.

Good luck to you guys, I like the trend.
The Fall of Rise of the Robots
So, people are just supposed to start their 4-year undergraduate degree in Linear Algebra? I know HNers are rare air, so to speak, but what about Calc 1-3 and Diff Eq?

This is like a 4 year plan once your first two years of university are under your belt.

So a combined CS / MS in AI?
They're using those services to "grab eyeballs" and collect data for advertising. You don't need a ton of users to get enough data about a market via sampling. Stadia is pretty new but I don't see it sticking around for the long haul. Amazon (Twitch) and Microsoft are in a much better position in that market.

Fiber has been effectively cancelled; Google has been shopping it around to various telecoms since 2017 but because it's an overlay network and it's not very large, nobody wants the headache of trying to integrate it. Fiber was always an attempt to push broadband providers to update their networks to better support YouTube; Google was never going to throw down the $100B that it would have taken to be competitive. It was never designed for long-term viability because it didn't need to be to serve its purpose.
> Engineering is split. What’s the argument against doing it for medicine other than tradition?

One might argue medicine is a split-off piece from natural sciences.

A counter-argument might be that while the natural sciences are almost always split, where they aren't, such as at Cambridge, medicine is still of course separate.

I think the real reason is probably just that there's more value to most medicos in a whole-body understanding than there is to most engineers in a multi-disciplinary understanding.

I'd quite like to need to routinely design electronic circuits, CAD/CAM packaging for them with certain mechanical constraints, and develop software to run on them in my work, but I don't; that'd need to be a very small company working on a physical product for that not to be at least two people's jobs.
Excellent, thank you. This means a lot to me.
> These kinds of things require deliberate practice for the specific situations, when you are in the IDE, not in the SRS software

This is what checklists and reference sheets are for. After learning how to do something, file away a reference somewhere and put the existence of that reference in your SRS. When you come back to that activity after a long break, you then have a physical artifact to help jog your memory.
The message you get is an automatic message filled by Git when you don't provide one with the -m option.

Stashes are kind of sort of like branches themselves [1], but they are usually seen as a list, from which you can (cherry-?) pick arbitrary stashes with the apply or pop command, just name it [2]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18527171/how-does-stashi...

[2] https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-stash
Jesus christ... and they got the courage to call themselves VP of Integrity.

FFS
You have missed the point.
[perhaps obsolete now that the title's been changed]

> the author uses a witty title on an article on business strategy

> the HN poster keeps the title almost verbatim, as is tradition

> people in the thread commence writing about the title instead of the article's content

So it goes.
You take for granted that it should be Windows conforming to Linux. Why shouldn't Linux implement Winsock and COM and have Linux-specific PowerShell cmdlets and so forth? Windows dominates the desktop market more than Linux dominates the server market, and one of those wants 'cross-platform software' more than the other.
And now calls himself VP of Integrity.

Amazing..
New technologies are overestimated in the short term and underestimated in the long term.
But it has one...
> the deplatforming efforts have been comparatively minimal

Compared to what?

From my perspective the tech censors are already on thin ice - I actually don’t see how they could ramp up efforts much more without facing serious opposition.
> You can’t really let your creativity have free reign until the basics are so ingrained

Generally advice around art I have seen tended to be quite opposite. You need to train creativity as a skill itself. Plus you need to experiment and train courage to "just do it even if imperfect".

If you focus on basics only, you will quit out of boredom and never challenge yourself.

The experts know basics. But you are not supposed to be doing only basics until you achieved some kind of perfection.
Good feedback - thanks. Stay excited! It's something we will build and we will make the experience as simple (simpler?) than Firebase
I was confused by his description of WeakMap, because I hadn't looked at the spec in a while. For reference, the reason why it's not applicable to the task at hand is because it's not primarily meant to have the values weakly referenced. Rather, it's meant to not lock the keys in. I'm not sure what he means by "best used to link objects together". WeakMap simply allows you to keep data about an object outside of it and without keeping it from being freed when it's not needed anywhere else.
> He united the white German population in a time of great economic disarray

Rather, he united the country because it was in an economic disarray :)
> all the ones that matter

Could you explain? Dow we know of all the viruses/ bacteria/ trees/ insects that 'matter'?
By what criteria? PS is installed on all Windows systems and does all of those things.
Thanks, I think I will try again with Arabian. It’s been a while since I tried, I think Armbian was not available at that time. Something must have been wrong with the other Ubuntu/ Debian builds I tried.
Stripe has begun offering services in five new European countries
The article didn't mention Babel or Webpack, the first attempts to use the module were with Node, not in a browser.

There's blame to go around but I mostly blame npm for being full of hot garbage while obscuring what is garbage and hot.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/San+Francisco,+CA,+USA/@37...

A look at google maps shows the city is splits in large perfect squares of roads themselves split in smaller squares. It's typical US modern layout, the antithesis of European layout.
There may be a paywall for some. Here's the gist:

"The $36bn (£28.7bn) business, founded by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, will start processing payments for businesses in the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta. Stripe’s expansion will bring its international presence up to 39 countries with businesses using the service able to accept payments both locally and from customers abroad, vastly opening up the size of their markets."
Texas Instruments limits calculator programming support
That's cool! It is so annoying to just try to try something fast, and then the compiler stops you...
ChatableApps launches its hearing assistance app
Yeah, I'd probably remove compilers, and add classes on statistics, experimentation and actual data analysis.

I kinda find it hilarious that there is no mention of analysing data in this course, given that that is a core skill that all data professionals actually need. I mean, where do they think the models come from?

There's also little to nothing about ETL, which is pretty much all you do in most data sciencey jobs.

I actually think that this course is pretty revealing of the worldview of a lot of AI researchers, and may be why predictions of AI's imminent dominance across multiple fields appear to be not particularly accurate.
I was really surprised to learn how vague the concept of a species really is. Nature is so complex and varied that it is impossible to provide one definition of species which can be applied to all life.

The excellent youtube channel The Brain Scoop (from the field museum in Chicago) has a nice video explaining the basics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fOfFlMe6ek
For a little more context for those scrolling past, I'm assuming this is around: authentication vs authorization.

Check the person is who they say they are (authenticate), and then check they're allowed to access the thing they want to view (authorize).

The first is quite easy to abstract, the latter is basically custom to most applications (for different definitions of "custom").
Of course, but it's a great example - there is certainly a lot of progress in the other dimensions as well.

However this gain also directly translates to a real-world result improvement: You can now train a lot more at the same cost.
I don't thing most people are against ads.
What's the issue with a simple .png add in a banner or at the side as long as it's not screaming at you? or the occasional sponsored content.
There are 2 big issues that people hate about ads:

- Obnoxious ads that take away from you browsing experience

- Tracking, spying, privacy, monopolies from ad tech and all that stuff.

And those even combine, as all the tracking makes sites slower.

Hacker news works on the sponsored content way. (but it's just one sponoer which it's also its owner) The site is kept low cost as possible, and YC uses it to promote its startups
One YC posts on the front page, don't really bother us too much, as long as they don't become obnoxious.
In raw tech for "self-driving car" Amazon does not have the expertise or personnel, but they have wider transferable experience in cultivating the R&D of such a project what with their dabbling with SLAM-driven drones and their work in robotics.

So they're not starting from zero + a speculative acquihire if that makes sense, at least in my opinion
This has none of the features of firebase that I personally ever used firebase for (analytics and crashlitics for native apps). Moving along...
Show HN: RSA encryption explained with demo in Google Colab
A detailed explaination and python based implementation to understand RSA encryption algorithm. This is not to be used a production code as it uses a pseudo-random number generator.