skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the law enforcement is talking to you in the U.S., the only right answer is "I'd prefer to have a laywer here."

Not a joke, for real.

They are experts at getting you to talk to them even if you know this. They are experts at getting you to say things that incriminate you or your friends -- that you or your friends have done nothing wrong (in your opinion/as far as you know) will not protect you.

The only answers you should be rehearsing or thinking of in advance are "I would like a lawyer" and "I would like to remain silent." They are rehearsing how to get you to say incriminating things, a lot. Rehearsing or thinking up any other answers only plays into their strengths. Even knowing this, I've been tricked into talking to them, to my detriment. They are really good at it.
It genuinely astonishes me that people don't seem to have the attention span to get the title correct. It's just a few words. How hard is it to check the spelling?

Messed up titles are extremely common, even in areas where it matters enormously because most searches won't turn up an odd spelling.

This can't be an auto-correct issue because "codding" is not a common enough word to be corrected to.

Now this is where my comment gets risky and the group think is likely to take me down: if we're running so fast that we can't stop to ensure that a few words of a title are correct, we must be living life at a very fast pace indeed. I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that people who don't have time to check their titles also consume a huge multiple of the resources they actually need.

We all need to slow down.
Thank you, I'll definitely check this out.
As someone who has chronic maintenance insomnia (so bad that I've been off work for more than 6 months), is there anything I can do?
MicroProse Memories
What are your usecases, if you don't mind me asking? I am considering replacing our HTTP-heavy processes currently written in C++ with Go. However, after reading this thread I'm not so sure. Compilation time isn't that big of an issue for us, but having a simpler way of doing networking would be a win. I can't tell if that ease of use would be trumped by poor performance.
Sounds like you’ve got alignment on these things at your startup but no one knows how to make time for it. What have you done to step up and lead your team out of the jungle?

I am not being flip when I ask this. I’ve worked at eight startups because situations like this can turn into opportunities if you put your back into it. Most of the work at a startup is about turning chicken shit into chicken salad. If your team had it all figured out, it probably wouldn’t be much of a startup.
Right, but OC still called it "suckless idiocy"...

Also not sure how Go sacrifices utility and friendliness to end-users...
>> I was replying to "Just on History Channel you can see a lot of such cases about Hitler still being alive somewhere in Argentine"

I hope you don't expect me to give all the inner details in a comment. Here[0] is a small summary though.

How is this more bullshit than "your" covid lab theory?

[0]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_Hitler
Well, here's an anecdote for you. I am a US iPhone user and I use zero third party messaging apps. I know of no one in my friend circle who has an iPhone and uses a third party messaging app.
How do you suppose they would they do it, especially if all references that the code being Windows 3.0 were removed or replaced with something else?
All apps should work well on mobile. If you have a use for a table at all, you must also consider how it works for a mobile user. Whether that means dropping columns, replacing it with a list, handling horizontal scrolling or whatever, you should be doing it. If you pull in this library and then have to do that yourself, why not just implement the table yourself, since getting the advanced features like paging to work in such a dual view setup (table on desktop, list on mobile) would likely be more work than just making a table yourself....
Only in the same way that women can't have beards.
How does AWS not respect your data? And in which way is Lambda suckish? It’s the leader in serverless workloads and grounds for Firecracker...
Why is that obvious? My brain’s been infinitely recursing for years as far as I know
Interesting. I don't think that's the intended reading, since there are lots of references throughout to "programs", but JSON files aren't programs in the same sense as JavaScript files are. Also there is an explicit distinction between JavaScript and JSON in the article: "...a JavaScript program is not provided as a JavaScript object (or JSON object)".
https://jjbeshara.com/feed/
I don't know if it translated exactly right (also can't get my head around a spoiled, unbroken marble) but it still made me laugh. What is the stereotype that makes Poles do things which are impressive in a totally irrational way?
Testing is a skill to learn like anything else. Teams that dogmatically apply any new practice or process without making a genuine effort to learn that thing will never extract value from it. If your team can try, fail, and learn from mistakes, you are in a mature organization. If your team gives up quickly because of fear of dogma or has no strategy for dealing with the challenges of learning new skills, it's unlikely your team will ever extract value from testing until the team culture itself changes.
I believe it's also the case that there is no word for "uncle" in Swedish.

This makes more sense to me because your relationship to your mother's brother is actually meaningfully different to your mother's sister's husband.
The last one comes from "Situation Comedy"[0], in Portuguese it translates to "Comédia de Situação". Sitcom is just an abreviation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitcom
The talent is there, the money could be there if Europeans governments take it seriously, so why not? What's stopping EU from building an AWS equivalent? It's not rocket science.
If Europe could come up with companies like ASML which are at the top of chip engineering, they can definitely build software infrastructure.
Some of your points ring true but
A) What used to be doesn't mean it will always be
B) U.S has it's own problems as you can see
That feature will be coming soon :)
"too abstract to be relevant, but ALSO demonstrably false"

come on man.
It's not just Germany though. The UK is absolutely obsessed with making phone calls. Lots and lots of completely useless phone calls. Most of them could easily be replaced by an online booking system. Others serve no purpose at all, because all that's required is for them to take some action.

Same with US corporations. I recently tried to sign up for Microsoft's partner network because that's required for an Office 365 integration I was interested in. But I wasn't able to complete their byzantine signup process because there's a bug in the user interface that prevents me from confirming the tax status of my company. It's a simple bug, completely unrelated to the specifics of our company.

I wrote to them asking them to fix the bug so I can proceed. Predictably, they want to talk on the phone. They left some unintelligible message on my voicemail. Then they sent me an email saying they needed additional information from me without saying what that information was. They just want me to reply to arrange a time for a phone call.

I lost interest.
There are many countries it isn't legal in, which is a shame. The ability to get an anonymous phone ought to be something people care about preserving.
The magnetic field disappears in a nanosecond, the fuel pellet gets used up, and it explodes, destroying the coil that generated the field. So you just send in another target assembly and fire the laser again, every second or two.

There's nothing wrong with a pulsed system like that. Lots of fusion designs are pulsed. A gasoline generator with an internal combustion engine is a pulsed system too.

Add a magnetic nozzle and you could definitely turn this into a rocket. Thrust would be low but efficiency very high, so it'd be useless for launch but great for long-distance travel.
As I recall, there were a few "ambitious" projects on the UI side, application builders or frameworks or something that were failing around then. I think there was a real loss of management focus on actual products in favor of chasing the next big thing. We also forgot to ship 4.8 (MP) for months as everyone jumped to 5.0 (aka System 10).
> Once again since you haven't in several comments been very illuminating.

If you're unable to maintain a respectful conversation then perhaps Twitter is a better place for you to spend your time.

> If they weren't immune from lawsuits for things as simple as libel by their users there would be a 1000 meritorious lawsuits per hour

They could and would be immune if they did not editorialise. That's the whole point.

> What is the desired end result.

I don't have a desired end result because I'm not planning some utopian outcome. Let people be free to express themselves unencumbered and without meddling for overt political outcomes or some form of misplaced paternalism, that's it.

If that's not illuminating enough for you then you have my permission to reply to someone else.
Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
I'm a dev with almost no experience in a 3rd world country. Considering the COVID situation, In the worst case scenario I'll be without a job for a while. I have finances to manage for (probably) a year and a month or two.

I want to ask what are the ways with good probability of making ~ $1-1.5/mo (enough to live and still have considerable remaining in my situation)

I'm asking for ideas because the popular ideas are out of question:

- Domsetic Freelancing/Consulting does not have much scope, SMB don't seem to be doing well so site-dev work for them also isn't viable

- Making software for companies and govt. here isn't much of an option either, there's corruption and they don't particularly care about having a $99/mo solution when there are people willing to work for that rate

- More of a opinion, but overseas freelancing opportunities aren't gonna hire a newbie and fiverr is a race to bottom.

I'd appreciate any advice on how to proceed, any problem you think is a opporutnity to have a solution for or just your experience from another economic depression.

Meta:
Started coding 3.5 years ago and probably have enough under my belt to try multiple projects over this duration. Made a new account as I don't want to link this to my real identity. I'm not looking for job offers out of sympathy. This is just considering the worst case scenario, and I want to have something to fall back to if it turns out to be the case.
> If other people are so passionate about these social problems that they are drawn to riot then where was this passion more than two weeks ago?

Might be that they were busy working/worrying about corona? Busy making a living? Being under circumstances that were already straining the limits, but not straining enough to actually riot?
There's a lot of criticism of the US/VC model, sure it brought tremendous success stories but it's not clear if the model actually works.
For these B2B applications, it is important to have your potential customers in your network. One can argue that achieving such a network is easier in the US, where most of the potential customers presumably are.
It's not luck! :) https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/303073-pattern-of-ml...

Notably, you need to get this right on the first try (or at minimum the first try), or Apple appears to get suspicious for requests from your IP.
You you want code review and testing, then start looking for another job right this moment. It doesn't matter whether the company has a right to crappy-but-working code. They are probably not going to change their standards until the situation with their software becomes untenable for them, so I wouldn't hold out hope that things will get better in X years.

In the mean time, see what standards you can implement without their permission. If you can fit some tests in there without sacrificing velocity, I see no reason not to add them. What are they gonna do? Tell you no? That will be a litmus test for whether you have any future with these people.
Listening to French entrepreneurs, the usual suspects (labor laws, taxes...) are not so much of a problem.

They all seem to rally around an kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare of interacting with anything state-related... Especially orgs collecting payroll taxes... The stories I see, where you get nailed huge fines every year, for small nitpicky details. They all talk of nightmares where some admin comes and destroy their company with a single inscrutable letter...
Why did you resubmit this so soon? There was already a discussion in an earlier thread.

Context, another post from 12 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23423372
Telegram is not opensource, Signal is...and yes you can setup your own server with Signal. Why trust a Closed-source-Software? Do you even know that it is encrypted?
I've been reading The Dream Machine by Mitchell Waldrop and it tells the story of early computing centered on J.C.R. Licklider. It's an easy recommendation for the HN audience.

If your eyesight is less than perfect I recommend buying both the hardcover and the digital version of the book. The hardcover is printed by Stripe (yes, the payments people) and it's a beautiful thing but the text is small.
I would gladly answer but I'm not a theoretical physicist. Here's a video explaining it better: https://youtu.be/UjgGdGzDFiM
Being priced out is having the choice removed from you. This is about making the moral choice.

People know plastic bottles pollute, yet westerners continue to buy. Flint residents have an excuse. Most do not.
The time when you have 2 micro instances is the best time to implement terraform. You can do it in 5min, existing infra is obvious, and you likely can explain it to 2 other people and be done.

Once you're established, growing, and accumulating features it will take weeks/months. (And if you need a duplicate environment for staging, how many clicks will it take?)
I assume you're speaking of alphabet? Because the languages you just listed are definitely not descendants of Latin.
Did a copy of Penguin News[1] make it all the way out to you? I subscribed after my visit and I always enjoy reading their hyper-local news.

[1]https://penguin-news.com/index.php/headlines/all-headlines
I am much more comfortable refactoring my codebase and gradually raise standards of quality of it because of unit tests. If I change piece of code I will know if I modified key functionality of my software. When someone else is editing the code, he is also confident that the module he did not work on is still working as expected. He does not need check up with me and waste mine and his time. I am not sure why would you test your code manually. Total redundancy.
> if you're already using Emacs, it won't take you that much more work to decrappify your life elsewhere.

But, alas, it often does take more work, and often a lot more. It's gotten better lately with things like (use-package...) but the old yarn about a user's .emacs file being like a lightsaber that you have to make yourself, no one else can use it, takes a long time, and requires constant attentions and many failures to get even close to usable is no less true now than it has been since its inception. Email is HTML now, emacs isn't great at it. Use the right tool.
> Simply loading the REPL takes half a second for me. I juse it all the time as a simple calculator.

Half a second is precisely what is meant by "excruciatingly slow". If I need a simple calculator, I expect to be able to use it to compute intermediary results in a shell loop. If my loop has one thousand iterations, you are spending about 10 minutes just initializing the interpreter. This is absurd. Of course, you can rewrite your whole loop upside down, so that the interpreter is called outside the loop. But this kind of defeats the goal of considering julia to be a general-purpose calculator, orthogonal with its usage patterns.
Companies maybe, but there’s zero reason for me to move back to the Netherlands if they’re not going to pay me at least what I earn in Japan, and Japan isn’t even particularly high paying.
You are right, it is going to be removed :)
>family-owned business where your primary objective is to provide stable and fair employment to people, often for their entire working lives

Maybe that was the case in the '50s to '80s but I recently worked at two small family owned German companies that were leaders in their niche and their primary objective was to make their owners rich, not their employees happy(Kununu employee reviews reflected that). After that, I learned my lesson and moved to $BIG_CORP where at least I know it's all about the profits and they don't pretend to be your family as an excuse to pay you peanuts.
You can also say something like "sei proprio uno stupido" which means "you are actually stupid".
Yes, I know. My point was that a better term might help you make your point without sounding like you’re claiming something different.
Rapid prototyping does not mean abandoning established programming practices that help people feel confident about their work.
> turning chicken shit into chicken salad

and being sure to get paid for doing so (in the form of equity rewards). don't forget that and let someone else claim your hardwork.
Fun fact, I handled producing and validating the last source code SQL Server source code exchange between Sybase and MS.
The clue in your description is that you are a software engineer in management. I would guess that most if not all the other managers are from non-technical backgrounds. Thus they are directly or indirectly indoctrinated into MBA and/or McKinsey Management Consulting group-think. Only the insecure and their sychophants would instigate the sorts of practices that you describe.

Hate to put it bluntly, but you are attempting to swim against the tide by attempting any form of debate and examination of dissent. The management team around you have played their hand. It appears that you are vastly out-numbered.

You have two choices: go with the status quo; or the highway.
Everything makes perfect sense. But i find sort to have different culture meaning in english than załatwić in polish.

When someone sorts something out, he goes and solves something with available methods.

When someone goes "załatwić" something, it means he solves something that is impossible to solve or gets something that is impossible to get.

To sum it up, i think english vocabulary for sorting something out synonyms ends at some point english speakers can not pass. And than "załatwić" kicks in.
Yes. If you have access to a server with PHP, you should be able to run it yourself. We have a simple PHP file you can download to test the compatibility of your server.[0]

We sell the self-hosted version[1] and have a blog post with some instructions if you want to run it on a VPS[2].

[0] Zip file with PHP file inside: https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/fc_compatibility_test.zip

[1] https://www.fivefilters.org/pricing/

[2] https://blog.fivefilters.org/2020/06/04/feed-creator-2.html
I'm impressed by the other mentioned picker, for HCL this time http://tristen.ca/hcl-picker/

This tool is also useful https://vis4.net/palettes/#/9|s|00429d,96ffea,ffffe0|ffffe0,...

I have to mention this fantastic presentation on colormaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU (A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib, SciPy 2015, Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt). It is about perceptually uniform colormaps. https://bids.github.io/colormap/
For the popcnt example, I think that, if a compiler takes it upon itself to detect, at runtime, whether the CPU supports it, it also should make sure it does so reasonably efficiently. After all, the reason this was added must have been because it’s faster than a hand-coded version.

The alternative of doing neither would be fine to, and could better fit that “principle of least surprise”, but, of course, also would leave more low-level work to do for go programmers.
Wrong...they probably don't know your IP..but a agency that has global surveillance in place, can find your source IP quite easy.
Seems like it didn't made he list unfortunately : https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dor#Romanian
The point I think you're making is that "it depends" and I agree with it.

I've seen companies that have no funding issues building products that they know they will need to maintain in coming years and still follow a few or none of the best practices.

But I've also seen people building SW that no one can guarantee that will ever be used (and gets scrapped after a few months) spending days and weeks setting up the perfect agile CICD setup and arguing in endless pedantic discussions in code reviews.
Americans do not have WhatsApp on their phones.
I meant that you are directly communicating with moving satellites, so they can fairly trivially triangulate anyone using the service.

But yes, they will also have your shipping address, as they are producing the ground antennas in-house.
Not to mention the culture at work. I've never experienced a more stuffy, hierarchical, and old-fashioned IT "industry" as I have in Germany.

I've been hosting my server with a German company for years. They have recently opened a data center in Missouri - which would be great for latency (I'm in the southeastern US).

So, I send an email to the effect of "Hey folks, could you please let me know if it's possible to migrate server xxx.xxx to your MO DC? Thanks!" and that started an email-chain of mighty proportions. Every single email starts with "Dear Mr. XXX" (which is not common in the US, even with attorneys) and uses language that sounds like somebody fed a Markov chain with a fun mix between Nietzsche and the entirety of the German civil code. :)

(In all fairness, the company is fantastic and the end-result works great and was done on time)
Im working on this: https://tryoldster.com
How do you manage to send messages to your past selves?
Telegram has off-by-default E2E encryption with a less vetted algorithm that only works for 1:1 chats, and less focus on minimizing server knowledge. That's clearly not

> same level of e2e security
I was under the impression WMD designation is to prevent private armies from easily acquiring the device which in turn prevents a significant amount of secondary sales/proliferation of WMD.
Hm, I use Spacemacs particularly because of the easy config.

That said, you're right: you should just be able to use vim, and historically CIDER has been the dominant (most polished) environment. At Clojurists Together Foundation, we're trying to fix that though: a lot of our funding has gone towards IDE development including for vim. Some of it towards CIDER also benefits vim because they share internals.

[0]: https://clojuriststogheter.org
A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Believe me, the UK is ages ahead of Germany in terms of digitization.
I have something to hide...it's called privacy.
Oh, brilliant! This is exactly what I've been looking for. Didn't realize the syntax was so succint. So far I've preferred excel for my multidimensional calc needs but this fits my needs exactly (need to do simple back-of-the-envelope vector calculations time to time).
Breaking Up Big Tech ️
The EC exists for a reason and has functioned quite well.

Getting 38 states to approve eliminating it is highly unlikely.
> In less fanciful languages like C or C++, the programmer needs to check what the processor supports themselves.

I think by now most C++ compilers can target multiple combinations of feature flags and select a supported code path during program startup. The Intel compiler could do it years ago, but the resulting code was crippled on AMD CPUs.