skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in this same boat, but 8... EIGHT YEARS LATER! that competitor went out of business, and I bought them, their customers, and everything because I know the way I had more efficiently solved some of the same problems will let me run that business profitably.
> but their mappings and underlying relationship are usually not explicitly-defined

wouldn't this be an issue no matter what you're using?

I'm not sure what you mean by joins scale with table size? There are few times you'd join more than say 5 or 6 tables.
> A common misconception about the FOSS ecosystem is that many similar projects is "wasted effort".

From a developers and users perspecive, it is a wasted effort. Users still keep wasting time 'choosing' a distro. There's 1 form of Windows and macOS to choose and support. For a software vendor, you need to 'define support'. I can support all Windows and macOS users, but I can only target a certain amount of Linux users on some selected distros which isn't all Linux users.

Perhaps the reason the Linux desktop has failed is because of the lack of a standard desktop or common SDKs other than the Linux kernel itself.

> In reality, diversity is what allows for progress and flexibility. Otherwise you end up with a single package manager which nobody can change AKA mono-culture.

Just look at the tons of distro configurations that a software vendor needs to test for which is why many companies place some Linux distros as under having 'unsupported' status and have to target a select few, unlike Windows and macOS.

The best "Linux Desktop" to support is WSL.
Well, in my case since both my salary and skillset stagnated from 2000-2008 - after 3% COL raises and bonuses being cut, I only made $4000 more in 2008 than I did in 2000, there is a lot of catching up with both I had to do. Especially seeing that in 2012, I went from being single to (gladly) getting married and taking on the responsibility of a preteen and a teen.

That being said, I was quite content with my pre-Covid salary which was pretty much average for a top end individual contributor locally. But I did need to make at least $20K more over in two years.

Then Covid happened, along with pay cuts and the local market dried up.

But now working remotely for BigTech means my base salary is a little more than it was pre-Covid and RSUs+Bonus is pure gravy that goes directly to long term savings.

It also meant my wife didn’t have to go back to work in the school system with a Covid going around.
What cost and time component? They go to a website like this (this is not an endorsement, the security of doing this is terrible):

https://receive-smss.com/

It costs zero dollars and takes the same amount of time as the SMS verification would on a regular phone. If the sign-up site is continuously vigilant enough to find and prohibit every number on every one of these sites (not so cheap to implement) then there are sites that give you immediate access to a non-published number for $5. Even this is not "enormous resources" by any means.

But the even bigger implementation cost is that there are many people who don't have a personal cell phone number to receive SMS, and you're either disenfranchising them or pushing them to use sites like that which obviously allow anybody to see the verification codes sent to the phone number which is now associated with their account.

> A significant amount of online properties use SMS for 2FA and authentication

Using SMS for optional 2FA is a mediocre security practice but is mostly harmless (because people can opt out; though it still makes it possible to lose your account if you use it, your number changes and then the site requires you to authenticate with it).

Using it for mandatory 2FA has the problems discussed.

But I also want to point out that actual major sites exist that use SMS as the sole and mandatory authentication factor, and they are very powerfully incompetent.
There is a link to the repository in the video details.
Is that really an apt comparison? My elderly mother pulls up youtube videos on the smart tv every day.
"""By default, your app is set to keep running in the notifications area even when the window is closed. Choosing not to leave the app running will remove the Slack icon and badges from your notifications area."""
That's not his point. People who are running were running before Strave, MapMyRun or whatever. These apps don't give a lasting motivation for others to run on a large scale. 1 / 100 maybe.
Starting with the first critique in your list of citations, the Vox article - third paragraph:

> He uses primarily stereotyped misconceptions about men and women to argue that “gender gaps [do not always] imply sexism,” and declares that “discriminating just to increase the representation of women in tech” is “misguided and biased” as well as “unfair, divisive, and bad for business.”

The question of stereotyping is addressed in the memo itself:

> I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions. If we can't have an honest discussion about this,then we can never truly solve the problem.

Can you point to where in Damore's memo he relies on stereotyped misconceptions? I've read it many times and I didn't see anything fitting that characterization.

Specificity would be helpful.
Do you happen to use sway? (Or maybe just Wayland in general does it..)

I'm using a tiled window manager on X and was rather confused by other comments here, before realizing my window manager must be giving me unintended control over the video popup. I just get a floating window that's fully draggable and resizable identically to other windows.
Every person is a section of the public. It becomes pointless to talk about what “the public” wants if what you really mean is a tiny slice of the market.
> It also strikes me that such economic terrorism could very well be the precursors to actual killing and state oppression.

They could also not be. Even the phrasing of "economic terrorism" stretches both the terminology of economy and terrorism beyond what most people would consider by the terms.

> People who don't respect the right to liberty or property of others probably don't respect their right to life either.

Which of the 'cancel culture' advocates don't respect the right to liberty? I can understand they have arguments against the right to (private) property, but this seems far more abstract.

>the objective is the purging institutions of dissidents and the destruction of all artifacts of the old order

I have some recollection of Marcuse's argument that the qualitative, historical, and social differences between terrors and movements are increasingly being reduced to nothing by the popular consciousness who is only acquainted with them through one-off facts and cherry picking...

>Whatever the people participating in Cancel Culture believe, they are still following the Cultural Revolution template.

What is sufficient to constitute a 'template' here? Let me provide a concrete example; the anarchists of old frequently argued against the notion of human rights, the state, and property. Marx and his followers did the same. Who is following who's template here? As another commenter in this thread pointed out, when most people think of the cultural revolution, they're really not thinking about tearing down statues or call-outs on social media (or even newspapers!) from a mob only given power by association (and not, say, the state or weaponry).

The comparison is almost entirely bunk, and it's a little surprising that Mao's atrocities are being reduced to tearing down statues of slave traders. BLM actually more closely resembles (again, I'm ignoring many qualitative differences here, since it seems to be fair game to do so in this discussion) the systematic removal of Marx and Lenin statues in Europe and especially Lukacs' and Engels' statues being removed recently.
> "Strictly speaking, I would classify this as user error, not a browser flaw, though it's an easy mistake to make"

I agree, but browsers should use console warnings to report when they resort to font synthesis or weight substitution. That would go a long way to help web developers understand this problem.

Similarly, console warnings to report character substitution when a needed character is not present in the font-family list would be useful.

In general, I want more transparency from text rendering engines when they encounter something that may not be what a professional designer or typesetter would want. The opacity of today's engines breeds ignorance among their users (web developers).
You should consider the hypothesis that the supposedly smart people actually are smart (as one might expect), and have put more thought into this than you.
Show HN: Switch from Jira to Kanception
Like Jira but less software specific and will soon have a Gantt chart for scheduling cards. Lots more to come.
What’s this about what the landlords are “suppose to do”? Most of the US isn’t rent controlled. My apartment that I moved into after getting married in 2012 went from $1300 to $1750 by 2016 when I left. It was $2000/month last year.

My mortgage is less than $2200 for a 3100 square foot house brand new build and that wont go up besides property taxes and insurance.
In what way would the user need to be educated? Social products like IRC, Twitter, and Reddit have accustomed users to seeing opaque, often-nonsensical strings next to every action taken by every user, and the only difference here is that a given user hasn't had the opportunity to select their own opaque and nonsensical string to associate with their actions. They wouldn't even need to remember this string to log in, because sites use email or third-party login services for that (and even if they did need to know their own username to log in, their browser would remember it for them).
That's a great argument for a more diverse set of search competitors, especially with their own index. Imagine if we had 10 viable search engines rather than just the 1 (or 1.5) we currently have. With multiple ranking algorithms a SEO-bait site would work on one or two but unlikely on all 10.
Looks like that link requires login. One of the UI people responded but it looks like Edgemax wont be further developed.

----------------

Hello everyone,

Like mentioned earlier, the EdgeMAX product line will still be supported and can be managed from the UNMS Controller (now and in the future). The EdgeSwitch and EdgeRouter products also provide an extensive Command Line Interface.

Hi @WISPConsult.com ,

We are planning on releasing many more WISP-focused UNMS hardware devices. The UNMS-S-Lite is only the first announced device that is part of an extensive line of products.

Hi @ednlcna ,

It is also possible to use a self-hosted UNMS instance (on-premises or third-party Cloud provider).

-Ben
The reason people share links from the past isn't some passive aggressive "UGH reposts amirite?!" like what you appear to be doing -- it's because past discussion on a fun read has lots of fun morsels of comments, and it's fun to revisit them alongside today's discussion.

HN doesn't have a rule that there should only be one canonical submission for every individual link or topic. That you thought your comment would contribute anything leads me to believe that you aren't aware of that.
I've had some good experiences in hiring by having a conversation with the other person like if they were a human being.

I know it's weird, but I just ask them what they're learning, if they have personal projects and just use that to see if they have experience writing software.

Some people are super-excited about what they're learning, want to talk about the technology and end up making a good impression. Some people are only able to talk about what they're doing at work, the technical challenges and usually make a good impression as well.

Whiteboarding is usually kept to high level concepts like normalization, data flow, logical architecture and things like that.
Tell us why you are so passionately disturbed about a four year old article about an organization which eschews formal organization and 99.9% of HN could not name who their “leaders” are?

And why is this relevant in 2020?
Firefox on Ubuntu here, also for months at least - don't remember when exactly though.
Yes, it is actually happening, and not just to celebrities:

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...
The book 'first migrants', which I recommend, covers this topic in detail offering several hypotheses. In particular, the founder myth ran and runs strong in our (H. Sapiens) blood.
Memory bandwidth (by using GDDR6 for shared RAM/VRAM) is impressive compared to PC but it's already done by PS4(GDDR5) and not special/difficult architecture like Cell. Just a difference comparing general hardware vs gaming hardware.

For normal PC workload, such bandwidth is not useful and GDDR increases latency.

IMO Interesting thing like HBM is happening in Server/HPC world.
> Just leaving the site is kind of a defeatist attitude.

I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
YES. This is exactly on point. In a top-level comment on this page I posted the same that we need a non-hypey view on robotics and shared a podcast worth listening to on this subject. I find the rosey view of VC on robotics to be completely disconnected with what's happening in industry.
Within the same datacenter, quite likely. Across datacenters, I'm not so sure.
Maybe something like

fold -c -s -w 80 | git commit -F - <<EOF
Fix issue

Hello world...
EOF
Hosting Personal Sites with Keybase
I downloaded the best BeachBody videos and have them available on my phone, and I can play them on my TV. I have some weights and bands and a pull-up bar.

They are dated, but that's part of the charm, and they are actually very, very good workouts.
https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2014/04/chomping-vs-champ...
There is a slight premium for Seattle and maybe NYC, but besides that according to Levels.fyi, I’m right in line with the average total comp.

I know someone who applied for a similar role (one level up) at Amazon who lives in MiddleOfNowhere Nebraska and he made about the same as someone who lives in Seattle.
What is happening in Robotics? (Why are Robotics firms collapsing) [audio]
I was a seasonal park ranger one summer during my undergrad years. I earnestly believe that was the most fulfilling work I have ever done, and will probably ever do.

My time was largely used to fix things around the park, perform landscaping, and working on new / existing trails. It was great to be outside, work with my hands, and being mentally engaged having to come up with solutions to problems with sometimes limited resources.

But the actual treat was seeing the work being enjoyed by visitors and knowing that for years to come untold amounts of people from all walks of life will be able to do the same.
If we agree that being able to own shares in companies is a worthwhile public good, that doesn't necessarily mean that options and other derivatives hold the same value to society.

Many options trades have an expected loss of nearly 100% - the same cant be said of holding stocks. Society has decided its OK to own houses, which certainly can decline in value, but outlaw ponzi schemes that for a substantial number of people are virtually guaranteed to wipe out their investment.

I don't think an age restriction is appropriate, other than 18/21/25, or some other reasonable definition of adult. But, I think it would be sensible to only allow options trades up to a certain percent of one's provable net worth - lets say 10% below $100k, 100% over $1M, or something like that.
> Take a look.

It baffles me that people constantly make this low-effort "read the article" remark as if (A) it's not explicitly against the rules here, and (B) it's impossible for two people to read the same article and draw different conclusions from it.

But I digress. I can put myself in the shoes of a VC for a second and know that based on a quick glance at the app's website and app store page, I wouldn't invest in it either. It's unoriginal, unlikely to be profitable, and the reviews are suspicious at best. No need to download it to see that.

Not reading or responding isn't unfair. VCs get inundated with proposals like hers. I'm a white guy who used to do freelance work. I've sent out hundreds of personalized cold emails to businesses looking for work, and got responses to maybe 5 of them, all of which were negative or "we'll keep your information on file". Maybe my sales pitch sucks. Maybe my portfolio sucks. Or maybe they just weren't interested in what I was offering. Maybe that's the case for her, too. Where's the evidence that either of us were treated unfairly? I am not entitled to anyone's time or money and neither is she.

Have we reached the point where not responding to a cold email is an act of bigotry? I myself get inundated with messages from recruiters. I respond only to the tiny fraction that are actually interesting and relevant to my skillset. It never even occurred to me to respond or not based on the gender or race of the recruiter. Does that make me a bigot?
I think it’s because there’s no good alternative. All the copy cat sites aren’t interested in a good user experience, they just want a place with less content restrictions.
Competing with free: Why Quibi failed to read the room
Even HTML without CSS can leak more things than one might want with things like pings and lazy loading, adding in CSS it's Turing complete again (albeit much clunkier).

The reason the web could and can never end up being a read only protocol is people like the little features that make it exactly not that. People like that a page can not load images until they are needed, people like that their food delivery status can update without constantly reloading the page, people like the "cool" page that has some wizz bang interactive graphic, people like interactive content with the stream, people like live web chat like discord or twitch. Plenty of people don't have any interest in those things, they just want a book with the occasional image, but that's not what the majority get pulled in by on the web.

And once you have those things someone will always take advantage of it. If they didn't have these things they would take advantage of whatever they could. Even now there are tracking pixels and a bunch of other things that have nothing to do with JS being in the browser.

The solution isn't to try to say a page shouldn't be able to do "complicated" (for lack of a better term) things. Most people don't find a page running code repulsive. Maybe ads, bad actors, tracking. Even then a surprising number of people don't mind. But the problem wasn't that the browser has Turing complete interfaces.

What is the solution for these bad actors and use cases? Don't know. I don't think anyone knows. What I do know is if all people want are books with pictures the web isn't the medium to try to find that content in and hasn't ever really been intended as such (i.e. it's not a new development it's just easier to make and/or abuse dynamic content now).
> They aren't "lying", it's the same glyph in many fonts.

While it might represent the same glyph, it certainly isn't the same sequence of bytes. I think the real failure is that's not made clear.
Is this the left-wing equivalent of the Pizzagate and Q conspiracy theories?
I've been seeing this canard for the last 40 years. When my ghost return in 40 years hence, things will be no different.

It ranks up there with "We will all speak to our computers instead of WIMPing or CLIing them". Yeah, right. There's no way we will speak to our computers until AI has improved to such an extent that the spoken word is truly understood in all of its myriad nuances by a computer. I don't see that happening for at least another hundred years.
Just remember Deja News.
In which a novice web struggles aimlessly before giving up?

Compelling stuff.
I don't think it's defeatist. It's just a website. There are good places elsewhere on the internet, and better things to be doing than reading a web forum as well. It shouldn't be hard to leave these sorts of things behind.
You don't have to, but it is the default, which means it sets the standard of design there. Unsurprisingly, most things you see made with Flutter tend to either be or be similar to Material.
I think you might have missed the point of the article. In various different ways it says that machine learning is capable of solving many problems better than traditional software designed by a developer. It says that it's akin to a new software programming paradigm or language. From this context, right now we're still all working in Assembly or C, and higher level languages are being developed that will allow us more productivity if we continue to build out the tooling and infrastructure.

I don't think he's suggesting your OS is going to be an ML model, but we will be surprised at how many problems they solve better than trying to do everything in a more manual way. I think this is pretty intuitive. Our programs used to say "Move this byte to this register" but now they say "Toggle this button". Eventually they will just say "Learn to produce results like this" with the same reliance on the developers who build the infrastructure as we have today for our compilers and interpreters.
I went from a company with 50 employees, I was not planning on making a move for another year at least and then Covid happened along with pay cuts. Why wouldn’t I try to work for one of the largest companies in the US?

There was no harm in trying.
Reddit was always cringe.

The best internet communities are ones that don't need to be a "company".

HN is a great example. HN is run by a rich guy as a hobby. There will never be ads, there will never be a board of directors, the UI will basically never change, there will never be consultants hired to figure out how to make money off of us posting. Yeah you probably could put ads on HN or data mine and make some money, but it won't be enough money for Paul Graham to get out of bed for.

Twitter is also like this. Jack makes his real money from Square. He can run Twitter like his hobby. That's what makes it so great.
I have something similar, with the folder syncing to google drive, you could encrypt if you want to before hand but I never got to it, I separate one file per month.

alias journal="vim ~/workspace/google-drive/journal/$(date "+%Y-%m")"

Then in vim I have this mapping, by pressing F2 it opens a new line at the end of the file so you can just start typing.
I add goals to the beggining of the week with the F3 map.

nnoremap <F2> Go<NL><Esc>i<Esc>"=strftime("\%A, \%Y-\%m-\%d \%H:\%M:\%S")<CR>po -
nnoremap <F3> Go<NL><NL><Esc>iWeek <Esc>"=strftime("\%V ")<CR>p<Esc>i goals:<CR> -

Monday -> Press F3 -> like a bujo, review what is still relevant and move to next week or drop it.

Week 10 goals:
- [ ] check connectivity with service x, splunk and service Y, from new environment
- [ ] xxxx

Then whenever I will change context in my mind I just go back to the open buffer and press F2.
I normally start my day looking at what happened over the other remote branches, and update my weekly goals task list

Thursday, 2020-07-09 08:25:52
- emails / slack

Thursday, 2020-07-09 08:36:13
- support x person

Thursday, 2020-07-09 10:00:00
- dog break

Thursday, 2020-07-09 10:00:00
- HN

Then at then end of the year I create a folder `archive/201X/` and move all the files under it.

I had a calendar event reminding me to review what happened over the week on Friday afternoon, but that is just lying to myself. I got to do once or twice over the last couple of years, that is something I need to improve on which is the whole point of article, review it while it is fresh and learn from it.

edit: code format
> (iterate through an array = OK; unbounded recursion = not OK)...

Right, so all we need to do is solve the halting problem... <smirk>