skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to store my bookmarks, under revision control, in a simple file which I'd open locally. The data was wrapped with jQuery to make a simple filterable/searchable view.

However browser changes mean that executing javascript from file:// resources no longer works. So it became less appealing:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/

(Running a simple HTTP-server and opening "localhost:1234/bookmarks/" worked, but it was too annoying for me.

So these days I just dumped them all to an org-mode file, ~/Org/BOOKMARKS.org, and filter/search via emacs.
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Android 11 – New Features
Over the years, I have grown too weary of techniques/methods (that involve things like whiteboarding to prove one's worth as an algoninja) and a 2 hourish interview.

I have found good succes with the following approaches. Being in a small firm helped, but I haven't had too many difficulties following this in a large-ish firm too. (product unit in an Indian firm)

- don't hire in urgency. I believe in building a talent roadmap/planfor the team, capabilities over next 6 months, and thus hire someone who I see fit enough to grow into that role

- have a questionnaire sent before, which has open-ended topics ( views and perspectives on containers, infosec, cloud, imperative vs declarative, microservices vs monoliths, their fitment (and otherwise) to use-cases - etc)

- talk about a recent tech challenge the person was able to tackle and resolve, try getting to extreme levels of detail (to understand whether the solutiion was a true fix or just a patchy workaround), the tradeoffs made while going that route etc

- try to do a systems design session, jointly. the problem statement closer to the actual line of work

- try to use a seemingly open ended objective (cost optimization, reduction in MTTR. increase MTBF, increase scalability etc) relevant to our line of work or current set of problems and see if the candidate can find a good set of questions to find their way towards a workable solution, etc.

- for simpler stuff, hiring interns and then grooming them into productive, trained members of teams is often a useful way

- responsibility doesn't end at offer rollout. setting their teammates for success till they are in the system is the leader's responsibility

However, when am on the other side (am the one who is answering, pursuing a job elsewhere), I have come to hate the find-the-algoninja ritual so much that have stopped taking up any that forces such a deal. Am better off retaining my sanity.
May be a symptom of people sold on "blue ocean strategy" / "zero to one" narrative

"just start a monopoly" the literature says... implying every venture that's not would surely be a waste of time

but even (and especially) if you're the first mover, sharks will come

will you use their presence as a convenient excuse?
or are you up for the fight?
Take 4 pages worth of interesting/diverse parts of real production code (Non-IP sensitive) and do a 'code review' where the candidate is the reviewer.

For more junior candidates add blantant defects or bad design into the sample code.

I have experienced this both as a candidate and as an interviewer. As a candidate, I found this a lot less adversarial and less stressful. As an interviewer, IMHO this gives a lot of insight into how a candidate thinks, without being a huge time sink, like 4 hour whiteboard tests or take-home assignments.
And 'masterpiece' being a (presumably excellent) piece of work that qualified them for guild membership.

"Master Class" does sound sinister if you interpret it as a social class rather than as an "expert tutorial" which is its presumed meaning in this context.

But the article also emphasizes the subtext, that they are selling socioeconomic prestige and not just education, much as universities do.
No comment about the paper itself, but note that the first author is Alexander Ioannidis, not the John Ioannidis of Covid infamy.
Or you can just use EasyList Cookie list.
"damaging to the intellectual future of your students"

This might be true, if the teaching environment suppresses criticism of material presented. This is not what is supposed to happen, though: materials should be presented as an opportunity for critical evaluation and the multiplicity of views presented by students should provide the dialectical input needed, possibly supplemeted by interjections by the instructor if the students are showing groupthink. This is better that presenting two opposite claims and leaving it to the students to figure out on their own if one of them is correct. (Usually neither is entirely, and in real life, not every pirce of information comes helpfully accompanied by an appropriately matched opposing viewpoint).

You're quick to assume the worst. Why is that?
OP here :)

Version 2.0 is the largest ever update to Beadifier. I've completely re-engineered the application, added several exciting new features, and made many improvements to existing ones.

Beadifier is used by artists and hobbyists worldwide, and user satisfaction is always my paramount concern. This update addresses and satisfies many of the requests and suggestions I have received for the last two and a half years.

Features:

• New user interface

A completely redesigned user interface strives to boost focus and make every interaction frictionless.

• Dithering options

You can now switch between three traditional dithering algorithms or turn dithering off altogether.

• Better palettes

Bead color palettes are now more accurate and consistent, and include newly released colors.

• Integrated editor

A new widget for in-app image editing such as color adjustments, crop, flip, rotation, etc.

Additional features:

• Keep image aspect ratio

• Save patterns in PDF format

• Performance improvements

• Retina display optimization

• Improved responsive design
My pleasure. Hope you find it useful
It's not reliable. Large providers will black hole you and you don't know until someone says they never got an email. Even following all the rules you get hit and with Google, Microsoft, &c it's impossible to get to anyone to resolve the issue once you know about it. Even for small companies this is a nightmare.
that cant be the whole story... did you do something different marketing wise? its not just features, its also how you sell right?
You forgot the most important thing: it doesn't need a garbage collector. This is important because wasm garbage collection is a work in progress.

The solution other languages targeting wasm typically use is bundling their own garbage collector in the compiled code, which of course adds a bit of code bloat. E.g. C# blazor wasm applications are not exactly small for this reason.

There was a message yesterday in the Kotlin slack about them starting work on a wasm compiler backend for Kotlin (they already have java, native, and js compilers). https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/compiler/ir/... Interestingly they plan to depend on the wasm GC proposal instead of bundling their own: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/

So, things are improving on this front. But it's a big reason why Rust is particularly popular for wasm right now because they have no GC and lots of developer tools that are relatively mature because they've been working on this for a while.

IMHO, this will take another few years to fully mature but inevitably lots of people are going to be writing web applications that don't involve any or very little javascript. Kotlin is starting to look very solid for any kind of cross platform Android, IOS, and web based development (as well as server development, which is what I do). Swift would be another candidate and there already is a wasm compiler for that as well.
Talend is a leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, with French roots and a US-based HQ.

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With the current Covid-19 situation, we interview 100% remotely.
We’re not talking about the Treasury. We’re talking about Central Banks who lack the power to tax (directly at least).

> People seem to prefer inflation to taxation.

That’s because they’re not the same thing, not at all.
The number for copper is not a fixed quantity, it varies with the type of cable. Electric fields are outside of the copper wire, not inside. The copper conductor acts as a wave guide for the electromagnetic wave. So it turns out that things around the cable have an effect on the speed of propagation [1], particularly the insulator. Bare copper wire in a vacuum would be very close to c. In the case of fibre, the issue is index of refraction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor
Arm to Transfer Its IoT Service Group to SoftBank
A smart trainer (wahoo, tacz etc) connected to Zwift, Trainerroad, Sufferfest, Rouvy, Bkool or similar. There are loads!

I use Zwift and Trainerroad. However, I don't think these actually compete with Peloton. Peloton is like going to a gym class. You just follow allong, and show up when you want to and go mostly all out. It's a nice workout, but often not aligned with long term goals. But TR for instance one gets a tailored plan based on one's race goals that season.
> It’s basic aggregate supply and demand.

Okay, so then we have absolutely no idea in which way the demand curve will curve then. If the demand curve can be any polynomial, then we have no clue if this will happen or not.
I've been a Reddit user since about the time that the Digg Patriots poisoned the well over at Digg... At least that's what prompted me to make an account.

Reading through the comments here is a bit weird for me because it seems like I have a much different experience that most folks here. I suspect this is because a) I use the RES browser extension to filter out a great many useless or unpleasant subreddits and b) most of my time on Reddit is spent moderating.

The redesign however, is a bit of disaster. Even though I don't care for the look I would have used it but when they rolled it out and made it the default experience it lacked the basic functionality for moderators which is where I spend the majority of my time on Reddit. For two years every time the admins released some improvement to it, I would go back and try to use it and couldn't... so I gave up and branded it "worse.Reddit"

Anyway, I suppose it's about time to find an alternative to Reddit but I've yet to find a site where I can create and curate niche communities, like I do on Reddit or where I could somehow transfer the collected data and experience of the larger subreddits I moderate to some other site (which isn't already home to unpleasant extremists who left Reddit).

So far I know about: https://tildes.net/ and https://dev.lemmy.ml/. I sorta lean towards lemmy but I don't have a solid reason for that.

Lastly fingerprinting on Reddit seems like a very useful and very needed solution to problems that have little to do with targetted advertising or selling private user data.
Leverage PodSpec to customize the Fission runtime and builder pods
Did you even read the article? There's a link in there whith benchmarks it against elasticsearch. Read the conclusion on: https://redislabs.com/blog/search-benchmarking-redisearch-vs...
I read this story years ago and thought it was hilarious. Could've happened to anyone. In my book you're a near-celebrity and it's great that you can verify the story! Thanks for making things a little more interesting and a lot more fun :)
well, they started off actually going to credible sources, telling them to portrait them positively. i don't know of any proof for comment-style disinformation from them, but considering that its basically impossible to prove that.... i'm not sure someone could write a good article about that.
its a sad reality we live in, imo.

its also telling that very few published that attempt. i doubt it was only done to germany... others likely went ahead.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...
A few years ago I came up with this orders portal idea at work,which nothing special on its own,but was unique to the industry. My manager blocks it on the basis that it isn't easy enough to use and our clients would definitely need a,b,c features. Eventually we drop it all together. After some time, my manager quits and I took over his position. After a few months I have a meeting with sales,who are asking how long would it take to create an orders portal. I explain a bit about my previous attempt in a vague manner and they tell me that anything woul be better than nothing and should work on it. We launch after few weeks.I tell the rest of the management about my new ingenious solution. Clients love it. It's basic but it's zillion times better than anything they had before. The thing is now part of the offering to large corporates and it did help to win some nice contracts. The portal is still buggy,a bit hard to use, have very few features and so on.
Haven't have any issues. "You can't self host email" is the bad HN meme.
I would differentiate here between crypto (yes, there's a lot of scams and shady projects out there) and blockchain. Where the latter is getting bigger and bigger. Not just for crypto and financial services.
IBM contributes to the Linux Foundation (Node.js, webpack, jquery, etc.), Apache, and by owning RedHat, also major parts of Linux development, among other things.
WASM isn't "more ambitious". It is a spec for portable bytecode, nothing more, nothing less.

LLVM is one of the best toolchains for many languages.

They are completely different things.
Show HN: Testing VSCode extensions. Part 1
Well that depends. If it's preserving spending power (you were laid off) then it wouldn't be a spending increase. The supply was already there.

Inflation is an average of price increases. You get price increases when supply can't expand as fast as demand while keeping the price of inputs the same. This depends on whether there are supply bottlenecks and what the nature of those bottlenecks are. There have been some supply bottlenecks due to deliberate closures, but mostly temporary.

In a recession, the assumption is that there is extra capacity already, particularly for labor.
JIT is coming to PHP in version 8.
The Launch of the æmbassies Program
I do like CheatSheet, but KeyCombiner is quite different.

It is not just a utility for looking up keyboard shortcuts. KeyCombiner enables you to create collections of keyboard shortcuts and practice them. You might know how many words you can type per minute but do you know how many of your keyboard shortcuts you can type in this time?
FF is getting better, and it seems Chrome has started to frequently lock up in some of my devices...
PHP 8 adds the match expression
Adning Advertising WordPress Plugin Contains Critical Vulnerabilities
Maybe I'm missing the point, but why wouldn't a company hire a contractor to do the same thing you do for a one-off fee? I just don't see why this is a subscription model.

Of course, a company's usage will change over time, but I don't see how that's worth the monthly fees advertised.

> optimization process should be done automatically through a series of sophisticated algorithms

> ...then it's passed to a human that manually verifies each recommendation for correctness

So how much of the heavy lifting is actually done by the algorithms?
Larry Page's Java programming question (1996)
Yes, it would absolutely. Purchasing power is (roughly) the ratio of production divided by the money supply. If supply of money goes down, purchasing power goes up and vice versa.

In your example, these truckers have stopped producing goods (services in this case). That means that production has gone down. If the supply of money remains fixed, there is more money chasing fewer goods and services. This drives prices up.

Said another way: if those truckers had less money (or no money) then they wouldn’t be competing with other buyers for goods, and prices would fall (purchasing power increases).

This is an extremely simplistic analogy and ignores other forces such as velocity and trade balances, but illustrates the point.
On algorithmic code, idiomatic Rust + WASM is often about 10 to 40 times faster than idiomatic JS. The problem however is that each call between WASM and JS has a hefty cost of about 750ns. So your algorithm needs to be doing a significant amount of independent calculations before you will see these performance differences.
I’m interested in knowing more about your story.
Would you please take the time to tell us more about it?
You have to scroll up. It's absolutely stupid.
If I can't make a screenshot of the desktop, set it as a background and then remove all the real icons, well, then what's the point!
I'll take ugly if it means low, predictable latency. And even having lots of memory, I might have other uses for it than just one electron app.
What's really quite low? Ours hit 3,4% in May due to the virus, but June just came out at 3,2%...
I don't know which countries you're talking about, but in France 'renewable' energies are heavily subsided,
Howto "Show HN": post a project, ignore all best (technical) practices discussed on HN, update your site to "Unfortunately, we are temporarily taking the site down..."
There are many minerals which are ionic compounds of silicon oxides on one side and metal compounds on the other. Grind them up real fine and many of the metals will preferably react with carbon dioxide to make, for example, calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and the silicon and oxygen become silicon dioxide which is ordinary sand.

There are indeed a ton of rocks out there bound less tightly to other things.

High heat (say, magma) would break up the carbonate so thats why the rocks arent already in that chemical state.

(simplified answer from a non specialist)
> Lastly fingerprinting on Reddit seems like a very useful and very needed solution to problems that have little to do with targetted advertising or selling private user data.

Ohhhh cliffhanger!

Tell us more?

I suspect you're referring to abuse???
Thanks!

(I'm German as well. But for other people: Google Translate has gotten really good.)
350 million people. How many are pursuing medical research in any of its myriad forms? How many are posting 5g conspiracies, refusing to wear a mask or claiming that people dying years early on average isn’t a big deal?

The second cohort is a multiple in size of the first.
That looks really neat. I guess it doesn't even have to be offline if you deploy it somewhere. I doubt we're currently at the scale to utilise this to its full potential but I've saved it for later.
Migrating a web app to a static typed system programming language is asinine. I swear these fanatics will do anything to say they rewrote it in Rust. This site is full of language-specific indulgent blog posts that are no more sophisticated than arguing over Pokemon cards.

I want to see more posts about exciting new concepts like WebAssembly. So sick of hearing that the world would be a better place if the sky and trees were written in Rust instead of C++.

Incoming Rust wankers to downvote my post to oblivion.
That’s not really the AWS MO. There is enough genuine demand for computing out there. AWS isn’t really trying to make you accidentally waste money on AWS as much as shift real workloads there.
Implementing WebSockets in Rust
Before Age of Empires 2, Age of Mythology, and Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 were rereleased on steam I held on to my first Windows XP computer dearly, a Dell Dimension 4000 series PC and little VGA LCD from round 2007. Had to replace the battery at least once.

These games aged very well and I miss the graphical simplicity of XP. I used to edit movies on it in windows movie maker.
The JOP served me well for years of research work, but only little commercial success. This project is kind of stalled. JOP’s strength was worst-case execution time, not average case speed. No Java processor beats JIT on a modern Intel processor.
Academic research is very often political in nature especially in categories like public policy, history and sociology etc.
That's pretty interesting. Could you share you project?

There are benchmark which compare JavaScript and AssemblyScript:
https://github.com/nischayv/as-benchmarks
https://github.com/nischayv/as-benchmarks/issues/3#issuecomm...
> If I’m another potato farmer and all of a sudden all those extra potatoes are teleported somewhere else, I will in all likelihood raise my prices.

There seem to be two different scenarios being conflated here.

You describe producers acting in response to the risk of future price changes.

It seems to me that others in the thread are describing a scenario where product is discarded because the price has already fallen so far that it is no longer profitable after accounting for various processing costs (ie things such as packaging and transportation).

In the latter scenario, if someone were to foot the bill for the redistribution itself there should be no direct effect on that specific part of the market. This assumes of course that the producers aren't compensated for the redistributed good (so it isn't significantly different than simply disposing of it). It also assumes that people don't resell or otherwise barter the product they receive (it's food and they're presumably starving so that assumption seems fairly reasonable in this case). (And of course there are bound to be countless indirect effects on the market as a whole.)
What? Nothing I said has anything to do with the demand curve. This is all supply side. We hold the demand curve constant for any such analysis.

But it’s irrelevant anyway: a basic tenet of economics is that people are, in aggregate, utility maximizers. So yes, we do have an idea of some fundamental properties of the demand curve and it cannot simply be any polynomial.
If BD/Softbank could get the price of Spot down to $12K, it might sell. Softbank might even subsidize that to grow the market. That's what Softbank does, after all.

What the world needs is a good US$5000 assembly robot. Universal Robots has a good one for $23,000. Nobody is building good robots in high volume. Not even Foxconn, which tried.
Unfortunately even micro releases of the Go compiler break ABI, so Go dynamic linking isn't feasible for distros to use:

https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking#Go
Linux Mint 20 Blocks and Removes Snap Citing Backdoor to SnapCraft Store
How do you compare to CloudHealth?

I do cost optimisations for living and though there are a lot of tools, most of them are niche and doesn't scale well. For generic purpose I tend to use CloudHealth, but still we write a lot of scripts to do some custom managment.