skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that is that it's just as easy to make evening writing sound cool and bohemian - look at the evening writer anecdotes like Hunter Thompson's (https://mentalfloss.com/article/33487/hunter-s-thompsons-dai...)! They're all like "after sleeping in to afternoon, I go to cocktail parties exchanging witty banter with New Yorker editors, and then at midnight I settle down in the darkness with my snifter of cognac and fine Cuban cigar and write immortal prose until dawn while the muggles snore away".
> In essence, I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer.

words of wisdom right there
Not sure what happened to you - but speaking anecdotally, but from someone who logs into Jira Cloud every day, and spends 20-30 minutes interacting with the interfaces over 8-10 hours a day, and has done so for the last 3 years - it's had a handful of outages, nothing that really rose to the level of being memorable though (and less than any internal issue tracker I've worked with) - and the performance is, fine? I mean, it's not <50ms twitch fast, so, I guess I'm losing a minute or do wall-clock time + whatever larger blocks of time that occur when I get distracted waiting for a ticket to come up - but it isn't at all what I would call "unusably slow".

In our case though, we only have about 50 engineers and a few hundred thousand issues. Jira has performance issues in the 500 engineer / 100mm+ issue space - or it used to, perhaps they've resolved those issues by now.
How to Manage Your Startup’s Advisors (With Template)
What does linking to this this even mean? How is it relevant.

All kinds of people raise funds. Most of them don’t get results.

One reason may be that they just aren’t as capable as him, but the other is that they are beholden to the people who funded them and aren’t really making their own decisions.

One way to think about the difference is to consider whether Boom’s CEO would be allowed to start 3 other companies while Boom is still a startup? The answer is no.

Musk is in a very different position from just ‘someone who raised money’.
HDDs already have higher data density on their platters. In excess of 1000Gbpsi
Interview with the founders of open source big data project Apache Kylin
Show HN: Query-Params.js
Will do thanks!
The cost of labour in Tunisia is not comparable. The environmental impact is also an issue. Capacity is also an issue.
Are Introverted Founders less likely to launch fast?
As in Indie developer, I need to build, ship and and also work on Growth. I have found myself constantly being stressed out at the "idea" of sharing blog, posts etc with external audience.

This seems like the digital equivalent of introversion.

Consequently, I have a very very high tendency to stop distribution, and focus on building instead. Every single time I share a post (like this), I flinch. If I could, I would avoid talking, like the last 12 odd months (not good for business ).

I care a lot about this because I also mentor startups on Product, and it's a pattern I have seen - "just one more feature then we'd release".

Interestingly, I always had a team to do most of the outreach earlier - or recruited someone fast enough to do this. So handling ALL of growth is quite new to me.

--

I am working on LightCat.io - a "Insights to Stories" tool for Product Teams.
not exactly, we're using a library that reverse engineered the Whatsapp Web api: https://github.com/Rhymen/go-whatsapp. I haven't had any problems with the API and I've been using it for a year straight.
BLAS libraries, oneDNN, OpenCV, Eigen, Tensorflow, PyTorch, LLVM MLIR, ...

AMD usually implements them but with a couple of years of delay.

For example AVX512 is not implemented, and we had to wait for Ryzen 3 to have the same AVX capabilities as Intel (2 AVX units per core instead of one).
> a man's age does not give him license to block police who have given orders to disperse

Giving orders to disperse to does not give police a license to physically assault civilians without provocation.

> if the man had been 20 years younger his stumble would not have resulted in a fall

Is this supposed to be exculpatory? If I throw peanuts on someone with a peanut allergy, is "they would have been fine had they not been allergic" an acceptable defense?
I know it's not much, but I made a very small, simple tool that fetches the query parameters passed to a web page and makes them available under window.location.query. I found myself reusing this a lot for different projects and thought that I'd share. :)
> but it's also true that we're really bad at avoiding risks.

I think we're good at avoiding individual risks but bad at avoiding systemic ones. Some mixture of American individualism and capitalist-driven consumer culture has led America to a place where we belong to few groups aside from our family and job, and where we relatively rarely work together to solve problems.

If we don't know how to fix something by spending money on it as individuals, we just don't know how to fix it.
You have - it's in the apps' settings screen called "Allow background activity".
Take the Vividness of Visual Imagery Quiz

https://aphantasia.com/vviq/
We have the Rule of Law for a reason. If there's an issue with the system where guilty people are going free, then fix the system. Letting people take justice into their own hands is a cure worse than the problem, especially when those people are abusing the authority that was given to them to enact the justice that was created by a democratic process.

A judge enacting a sentence based on inadmissible evidence is a violation of the rights of the accused, the Constitution, and the specific oaths and duties of their profession.
Ace your midterms and then build + (most importantly) ship side projects in whatever languages you want. Python and Ruby are both great choices, so go with whatever the jobs in your area use. I'm biased towards Ruby, personally, but the language you choose is less important than the projects you ship and can demo.
Bank limit aut
I'm sorry plenty of people would disagree with our taxing system, 99% of them not being drug Lords. I think most people would be better off with the ability to move billion of dollars anonymously, as it would also give them the ability to move hundreds or thousand of dollars anonymously as well.

I fall into that category.

Most people I know, and they aren't rich tax avoiders would also fall into that category.

Cryptocurrency liberates everyone in so many ways. And yes it liberates criminals as well. But hey are know how to dodge the system anyway.
Feel free to do with it whatever you'd like. I figured since it helps me out, it might help you out!
Check the vendors user stories: https://www.wolfram.com/system-modeler/customer-stories/
Check the Modelica conferences (https://modelica.org/events/modelica2019/proceedings/html/Mo...) and you'll see a lot of automotive companies (Toyota, Volvo, Bosch, etc)
So, that's the freshman-year CS view of the topic, but back here in reality land the "complicated" x86 instruction format has pretty much destroyed all others and none of the supposed advantages of RISC actually exist. Remember that the whole point of RISC is that the CPUs would supposedly run faster. That hasn't happened. There are no RISC CPUs running faster than state-of-the-art x86 CPUs. POWER8 comes closest, but does not exceed.

The whole RISC philosophy was a huge mistake. Yes, x86 instructions do not map well to transistors, and they have to be unpacked into uops to be executed. This is a form of compression. Having a compressed program image turns out to be a massive advantage. RISC proponents thought that x86 was so complicated they could beat Intel with their simple instruction decoders. That almost, but not really, made sense in 1990 but since then has made increasingly less sense, until today where the amount of sense this makes has hit zero. The x86 instruction decoder is a very small part of the floor plan of a modern CPU and every time they rev the microarchitecture it gets smaller. The number of transistors needed to decode the VEX prefix is like a speck of sand on the beach of a 512x512-bit multiplier.
I want my video games, email reader, word, youtube, IDE and general python code to run faster. None of those are parallelizing much of anything.
Lots of opinions here, but it's simpler than most people are saying. The display technology doesn't exist yet. It can't succeed in the mass market until it looks like regular non-dorky eyeglasses and has specs exceeding current VR displays plus transparency and sunlight-level brightness. To a first approximation nothing else matters.
Wow I guess I don't have nearly the knowledge of redis as many others here, but either way redis has been one of my favorite coding experiences! It works well, it's reliable, and it's very easy. Thanks so much for your efforts man!
Bank limit transfer over 10k. There are additional benefits.
I'm not responding to this comment, just pointing out for anyone reading, that this person knows very well that he and his buddies won't be waiting with a "challenge" for anyone who attempts to publicly criticize BLM or the movement, but instead with a likely doxxing and unpersonning.
The startups my dev colleagues worked in Toronto, the ones that got acquired none got any equity. I think it’s common in Toronto for employees at startups to not get equity. Ive also read canadian founders often sell below their companies worth
> Assume 10% of the cost of the furniture goes to paying people - in the USA that's a larger number than in Ecuador, but still 10%.

You're assuming without evidence the key supporting point of your argument? Why not assume something different and end up with the opposite conclusion?
> "they have trouble recalling sensations."

On plus side, almost everytime I eat sushi it's the best sushi ever.
I've built a not for profit multi-platform capable matrix client that is now in open alpha called Syphon (https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon). This is largely to address the issue of proprietary chat clients. Private, secure communication (with a decent brand and ui) should be accessible to everyone by now.

Signal does a great job of filling the void but if they fail or are blocked by a country or community, the application interface itself is not a protocol to which people could easily pivot. Standing up a viable and federated Signal server is not easy, though I know Session is working on it.

I’m hoping that Riot’s upcoming rebrand will mark the start of this transition. We need centralized efforts to spread usage of matrix, or a similarly accessible protocol, while also making it easy for people to create or maintain their own personal connection to that network.
I think there's some accidental synecdoche here.

At least for those of us endowed with the gift/curse of forming memories as life rushes by, they can appear to be composed of details our senses perceived around us enmeshed with details about how our wetware experienced that moment. Sometimes, we even have false memories of things that didn't happen, or that happened differently than we remember.

There's a separate world of practice where people develop mnemonic devices (spaced repetition, narratives, memorable nonsense phrases, memory palaces, songs/rhyme/prosody, hand gestures) to help memorize things better than we could do by accident, or just by thinking "remember X".

I would guess most people who are able to form memories can find a mnemonic device that works for them when they need to remember things. The very idea of a "memory palace", however, is so absolutely foreign to my experience of the world that I don't think I could have invented it on my own. Once someone describes it, I have an abstract understanding that the ability to arrange things in visual space could be a powerful mnemonic. I can, after all, remember at least a few things about many thousands of physical places I've been at some point in my life, even though I can't really picture any of them vividly. But, as a mnemonic, it's useless to me--I can't conjure it.

My partner can remember things like what shirt she was wearing when we went to a specific restaurant a decade ago. I have abstract knowledge that we have been to that place, but I couldn't tell you anything else about it. For her, memories like this are a springboard into conjuring many other details about the event. Sometimes her recall injects enough context to jog my own. Sometimes it's all lost in the fog.

Whether you are "good" or "bad" at memorizing things in an intentional way, unless you have infinite time to creative narrative mnemonics as life rushes by, I suspect aphantasia impacts your ability to recall daily life.
There's a real cost to government and society enforcing the copyright monopoly for the copyright owner. So why not have the copyright holder pay for upholding copyright?

Imagine differential pricing for enforcing copyright on a work depending on parameters:

- grow with every passing year
- change with the level of protection required

- zero for public domain and free (BSD/GPL/permissive CC style licensing)

- symbolical amounts for CC no derivatives or non-commercial licensing

- fixed amount plus percentage of revenue for other, more traditional licensing
The protestors burning and looting are not sanctioned by the state and funded by taxpayers. We already have laws for punishing them. The whole point of this repo is pointing out that the police are held to a completely different set of standards, and are almost always let off the hook.

It doesn't matter how much burning and looting happened, the police still cannot engage in indiscriminate brutality.
Oracle to PostgreSQL: Reasons to Migrate
The Innovator’s Dilemma: A Visualization
Well how about that, ask a difficult question of an abstract domain, and get two clear yesses. Does not happen often. Thanks @mncharity and @cinntaile.
Yeah, I got a 404 page when visiting it, too.
It wasn't even enabled until this release for video. It has been working on Chromium for over 2 years, if not longer.

The Wayland issues have improved after trying it out just now, but I still often get artifacts when resizing and switching between fullscreen and split screen.
>If I "steal" your book, we both have the book. I'm better off, and you're no worse off.

That's only true if 0% of copyright infringers would've paid for the book (either directly or via checking it out from a library that pays publishers per-borrow). That may be true for some individuals, but there's no way that it's true in the aggregate. There are some cases where copyright infringement might help with the bottom line (like if someone torrents a band's CD which inspires them to attend expensive concerts), but I for books I think that effect is drastically overpowered by the # of people that just don't want to pay.
I'm also aphantasia and never considered that people would do blackboard math visibly in their head. I, like you, use verbal memory to store numbers. But I've never been particularly good at doing math in my head. At the same time, I can map 47*68 into a rectangle and either add and subtract slivers to get the right answer, all without seeing it.

Something else which blew my mind, people who use image search preferentially to everything. Ironically the only time I use image search (unless I'm trying to find an image) is when I want a graph or tabular data.
Ask HN: Can you tell about the anti-racism events held at your workplace?
We are planning to have an anti-racism event at my workplace and I was wondering if people who had something similar at their workplace could share their experiences.

We want it to be impactful, that's why I'm seeking ideas out here to get inspired by.
Tweeten: TweetDeck with a better and more intuitive design
so.. a lighter react?
> If scrum is any process designed by the team the term is worthless.

SCRUM is a handful of tactics that a team can start off with to design and implement the “right” process for a given team. For example, I’ve been on several teams where through the use of retrospectives, daily stand ups were abandoned and replaced with other means to keep the team in sync.

> Sadly, scrum as I have seen it has been consultants preaching to the commoners how their rigid process is going to make them agile.

That sucks, but sadly this is the most common case. Very few organizations actually want agility, as they are culturally and practically top-down hierarchies that require command-and-control structures to function. These consultants are generally brought in by middle-management who are grasping at straws without any real buy in from the c-suite.

> Scrum is just flawed from the foundations for anything but very routine work where you can somewhat estimate subtasks duration with any accuracy. But if your job is that easy you hardly need any fancy process anyway.

I couldn’t disagree more. For “routine” work that is predictable, what value does agility provide? It’s either done correctly or not. Agility is only useful in dynamic environments when outcomes are hard to predict and there is limited prior art to reference.
Just a reminder that none of this is factual or evidence. It COULD be, but just because somebody writes something doesn't make it true.

You are not given any of the context of what happened in these situations. If there's video the video starts when the conflict is already full swing, you're not seeing anything that led up to the situation.

You can read "Police showed up and fired tear gas and agitated the crowd and caused violence", but you're not told WHY they fired tear gas. You're not given the context as to what happened.

Not only are you not given the context, but you're only given one side of the story. I'm sure if you asked the police what happened, their story would be completely different. But you're only being allowed to get the story from one side, and that side is insanely politically motivated to exaggerate, and do everything they can to make the police look bad, because it strengths their political positions.
I appreciate that and maybe didn't make my point as best as I could.

My point was essentially that you can run a native app without internet access most of the time (and can easily block the app making calls out by switching the internet off or blocking the calls its making) but a web app you have absolutely no control over, you just have to not use it.
Agreed. It seems like TikTok is able to violate COPPA and get away with it. Must have some deep pockets or blackmail material against politicians.
I did a Maths degree before becoming a software engineer, and honestly I think its really changed the way I think, just in general. There's something about being given a problem, or theorem to prove, and grappling with it until you really start to get a deeper understanding. After spending hours on a single problem, sitting there trying various ideas, getting flashes of inspiration, hitting dead ends, grabbing a drink, coming back and doing it all again. Finally actually getting to the point where it all just suddenly clicks and you realise that actually if you just think about it in these ways the solution is just, well, obvious! It's really intensely satisfying; just a three line proof of "without loss of generality we can assume X, which implies Y, and so clearly Z is true". So satisfying! (Then you realise you still have another nine problems to try to do before tomorrow, oh god...)

Anyway.

To me, it really taught how to tackle Hard Problems, where you do just sit there making seemingly no process for hours/days/weeks. When you first start tackling such problems it can feel really frustrating, but actually with experience you realise that progress is being made when you slowly manage to map out the problem space and get a better intuitive understanding what's going on. I kinda do imagine it as stumbling round in the dark in an unfamiliar place, slowing groping around, hitting dead ends, then slowly but surely getting a mental model of what's around you and how it all interconnects. Once you have that understanding and intuition the problem is often, kinda, easy? Or obviously impossible and you'll need to make some trade offs.

Changing the way you think about progress to be less goal oriented and more about expanding your understanding is really quite crucial to tackling such problems I think. Both just to keep you motivated through the process and stop you from getting discouraged, but also helps you realise when you've stopped making any progress and should take a bit of a break and come back with a fresh mind.

Most of the time this skill is entirely useless, but sometimes it really is quite powerful. I guess working on Matrix is a bit of a special case, but I would never have been able to sit down and spend weeks trying to come up with a new state resolution algorithm, to pick one example, without that sort of experience. I just wouldn't know where to start, and I'd become demotivated by the end of the first day and likely give up (knowing me).

All of this rambling is to say: I think Maths is really something you have to do. Reading books about it is interesting and great and all, but if you really want a deeper understanding you have to get stuck, get your hands dirty and try to solve problems. I don't mean problems where you take that cool theorem you just learnt and apply it or figure out how to apply, but problems where you actually have to come with ideas and theories on your own. (Now, I have no idea how feasible that is outside a formal setting and without supervisors, but that's really the dream).

I hope that in some ways helps, even if its probably entirely devoid of practical advice :)
I think mathematical logic is potentially a bit of a red herring. I could imagine it's easy to think, "I want to practice thinking logically, surely a good starting place is... logic?" But actually I don't think necessarily involves any more creative thinking or problem solving than any other area of mathematics, and is perhaps hard to appreciate until you've practiced mathematical logic less formally.

I'd suggest something like linear algebra or analysis (in the mathematical sense of formal proofs in calculus). Those are both a bit higher level than logic, but still very abstract.
the reason they are doing this is the fact they are going to lose. libraries are a relic of the past too in my opinion.
In addition to thinking about ways to back up IA, we can also start backing up our own content and things we visit locally, so we don't become so reliant on centralized datasets:

https://archivebox.io

https://conifer.rhizome.org/
Microsoft launches initiative to help 25M people acquire digital skills
I wish people would stop demonstrating new languages or frameworks using fonts with ligatures.

"Surely, you couldn't use an actual arrow here... right?"

I find myself having to copy and paste the text to find out for sure.
It's definitely not point-and-click. My thesis (and experience) is that it has gotten harder

Building & Deploying on clouds has gotten easier, and many dev environments have idle, underutilized resources that are paid for.
iOS 14 does not let you use a different default browser engine. It's just the skin that change.
It's still Webkit under the hood
Please stop equating owners of IA and EFF with criminals - copyright infringmenent is nowhere near equivalent to actual crimes that cause harm. It's a disgusting rhetoric that was paid for by rent seeking publishers.
Tapes are cheap. Tape drives are very expensive. I can buy 200TB of hard drives for about the price of an LTO-8 tape drive.
I don't follow that analogy. Mandating a behavior and banning a behavior don't seem all that related.
Interesting, I on the other hand remember things “geographically”. It’s like I have precise GPS locations in my head attached to memories. In order to recall something, I usually try to remember where the memory “happened”, once I figure out the associated location - there comes the vivid memory as well.
The copyright owner pays the costs of enforcing copyright already...