skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see why Alexander might desire anonymity but even his list of reasons why he is deleting his blog post contains several pieces of potentially identifying information - far more than the hypothetical NYTs article would have contained, including details of his housing situation.

I find his response confusing. Full marks on managing to get of lot of publicity off the back of the NYT not writing are article though. He is really getting is very-slightly-obfuscated name out there.
Sounds like a typical corporate move by Microsoft. I side with slack on this one in that Microsoft is using its position with Office as a dominant productivity tool and wedging their Teams product in there.

Vox had an article about it a year ago: https://www.vox.com/2019/10/14/20910510/microsoft-government...

It's the long game they can play because they have the resources for it. If they bankrupt slack by offering an alternative that's free and almost at feature parity, then it's an easy win for them to absorb the short term running costs of their own chat product Teams.
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Ask HN: How do I set-up an iPad for my grandma?
Hey HN,

After much back and forth, I decided to get my grandma an iPad (32 GB, Wi-Fi). She's been using a cheap 7-inch tablet that I bought her, but I found the screen to be low resolution and too small, battery life to be too short, etc., so I want to get her an upgrade.

Primary use case is to facetime with the family (incl. me, who lives thousands of kilometers away) and chat with her friends (whatsapp, viber). But she also liked playing games on the old tablet (simple ones like chess, mahjong), and I want her to continue exercising her brain.

How do I best tune iOS for an older person? What to look out for when it comes to accessibility features? But also, how do I make the UX as simple as possible for her?

On the application side - what apps/games I should teach her to use? I will have about a week of time to teach her everything when I'll visit her.

Also, is there a way to make a remote connection to the iPad for troubleshooting, since I will be very far away but don't want to leave her alone with it after the initial set-up?

Thanks!
Of course mathematicians would also consider brackets used like ]0,1[ and [0,1[ as valid notation for open or half-open intervals. And if you try hard enough you can even make your braces {} look like a ξ and write some monstrosity like {ξ∈[0,1[}.
I assume it's referring to people who're using the incubator as a networking opportunity, with no particular intention to build a successful company / product from it.
> Because there are many, many langauges and idioms in the world, and AI isn't good enough to do this accurately at the moment.

If they cared they just wouldn't use AI and hire employees to review listings. I love how these big tech companies pretend like using AI to filter things is necessary while they sit on absurd margins. Maybe they can't support the same volume, but so what?
>still differentiate between in and out of state tuition.

They do this because your taxes have already paid part of your tuition for every in-state University.
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Well, without a strong opinion either way, I'd just point out that IE was free with Windows (where their competitors were not,) and that point didn't work out all that well for Microsoft in the end.
I personally see this as a weak move. Surely a bundle of software can include whatever they desire to include.

What next a law suit for bundling Access? Don't get any ideas Oracle...
What debugging technique did it take you too long to learn?
E-Fun v0.1-beta is released
E-Fun is a fractal inspired experimental content management system. It follows a minimalist slack design, implementing only necessary parts needed to publish arbitrary static site.

Using E-Fun, content pages are arranged in a manner of zoomable fractal of ovals orbiting around each other in parent-children relation system. Operations of navigating sites is implemented only by dragging ovals, thus navigating horizontally or vertically through the tree. As a special curiosity, E-Fun implements optional real time curved magnifier effect to show its contents.

If you look for distinctive, progressive, and adventurous way to publish smaller static sites, make sure to check out E-Fun at least to satisfy your curiosity.
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A Review of Automattic's Internal Tool for Organizational Alignment
I did an online MS at Georgia Tech. I paid full price tuition for the program. Literally 3 years after I graduated, they announced a slash in price by 80 (EIGHTY!) percent. The program was excellent, and if not for my company offering to pay for it I wouldn't have considered it. I can absolutely recommend it now that it's so much cheaper, but it was also designed to be a remote program from the start.
Are there any alternatives to matrix protocol right now?

I use matrix and like it but I would love to see more competition in the federation space.
How's the documentation for your rest endpoints?
Good that the world has learnt from the music industry migrating from CDs to online or they'd be charging more "because it's more convenient"
They're issues, but I think they're fairly minor issues. I paid comfortably more than twice as much for a MBP and I only use one of the USB-C ports, admittedly for charging too. And it's pretty permanently plugged in for power - once in a blue moon I need to be mobile with it.

I'd probably have bought two if they were out when I was looking last year. Wish them plenty of success, because there aren't many competitors out there with Linux as a first class OS.
The idea that check sizes should be small so people should be forced into dire financial situations is a terrible one, and one that would absolutely hurt diversity. You're going to end up with a bunch of rich white dudes as founders (because very, very obviously the other way that people can afford to take smaller checks is if they have a lot of money in the bank).

The smaller class size issue is probably fair, but reducing check sizes as a filtering method will absolutely filter out socioeconomically disadvantaged people. Just a terrible suggestion from somebody who I would wager heavily is not unsure of where his next meal is coming from.
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"for Microsoft to <snip> go embrace Matrix"

This may not have come off as you intended ...
I find this quote as important as yours:
"This mechanism ensures that high connectivity in a specific area of the brain, possibly manifested through some special talent (e.g. sports or music) is always countered by relatively low connectivity in another part of the brain"
Medium does have consent from the author and the vast majority of page views are going to authors who know a lot about what they are doing. I think that's worth noting. A Medium link is most likely to an article that exists to be behind the paywall because the author thought they could make some money and get good distribution that way. A lot of these articles wouldn't exist otherwise.
Most advantages that quantum computing has aren't practical for most people outside "the HN tech bubble". It's meant for specialized types of high throughput computations.
the link to the article was posted on this page.
I'll post it again: https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo...
European approaches to antitrust differ to the American approach. It is much more about fairness to market participants and the result is that we avoid Microsoft having an unchallenged avenue to dominance in yet another market. Optimising markets is a vital role of the state in any country where inhabitants don't want to see regulatory capture or market dysfunction (as with say, the American broadband and mobile data markets). It is likely to preserve choice, encourage innovation, and allow new market participants if Slack's case is accepted.
I’ve done this and created overlapping regions to repartition the NAND. Mtd devices are frustrating because their partition layout is set at compile-time so if you want to change layouts you have to recompile the kernel. And if you need to migrate from one partition scheme to another you have to have partitions defined for both schemes in the same kernel.
There are leaked government slides about how they were monitoring Wikipedia traffic (illegally).
I have seen many a TDD enthusiast create many more problems in terms of test maintenance than they solved in code quality. Doesn't mean TDD is bad, it just means like anything it is not a silver bullet
> The concept is very simple. A junior dev graduating from a bootcamp can create UI's, CRUD, etc. but should not be expected to have expertise in algorithms.

I find the idea that "you should expect less out of bootcamp grads" more harmful than helpful. The stigma of coming from a bootcamp is real in software, and this reinforces it. In my experience, there are certainly bootcamp grads out there who have strong algorithm skills.
I think they're making a distinction between 'competition' and 'anti-competitive behavior'.
Consensus.

Which means promoting education and intelligence is critical to having a functioning government.

...and the first rule the consensus should pass is that experts in the field should provide the consensus within their domain area. ie. Climate Scientists should decide whether Climate Change is real (as a matter of policy) - not the general public.
The article contains some examples - the relevant section is in the first half of the page. I'm not sure how trivial they are though
A PhD program is not a trade school. It was originally designed for the intellectually inclined aristocracy to put their minds to good use. If you understand that, you are fine.
I’m surprised that an MRI scan can allow a synapse-level reconstruction. So surprised that I suspect I’ve misunderstood (I can’t read the original paper — I probably wouldn’t understand it even if it wasn’t paywalled).

Is MRI really that high-resolution now?
Yeah, you are correct.

But I have become rather cynical about the motivations of a lot of organizations, these days.

Everyone seems to be promoting an environment where there's a constant circulation of relatively inexperienced (not always low-paid, but inexperienced) developers, staying at companies for short periods of time, then moving on.

This requires a codified, ingrained structure that needs to be documented and supported. It applies to modern, "agile" companies, as much as it does to more traditional, "hidebound" corporations. People that come in need to be onboarded quickly, squeezed for every ounce of productivity possible, then let go, when they are no longer useful.

This is supported by the employees, as much as by the managers. The salaries can be quite high; especially for people that are quick to adapt and come up to speed.

But there is absolutely no substitute for an experienced, cohesive team that has developed a shared vocabulary and focus.

I was fortunate to be a member of such a team. The person with the least seniority on the team had a decade. Everyone had over 30 years' experience in software development, and we got some fairly intense stuff done. Sadly, we were still subject to the kind of structure I mentioned above, and a lot of our product ended up being housed in substandard wrappers (we did "engine" code).
"When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:

music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery"

Neither music, movies, nor microcode are moated. If you all intend to race to the bottom, is exploring variations on high-speed low-prep food delivery all that remains?
That seems like a perverse incentive.
Ali Doukali talk about his current project, style and much more
Most regulators play pretty much that role, and the EC has that sort of power. Doesn't seem to actually achieve much though - they stop short of breaking up companies which is probably the issue.
Some food for your gut:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sweden-didnt-impose-a-lock...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11775892/coronavirus-ravaged-s...

It's way too early to say what the best strategy would've been, but with hindsight-information it's not far-fetched to lean on a scientifically sound middle-ground. It's also too early to tell all the direct consequences of the virus itself.
Yeah, you're right. I had two different Komatsu PR things open and one was talking about regenerative braking and the other was for these electric drive trucks. Doesn't look like they have any sort of battery. Just alternators to generate electricity from the diesel engines.
There are many years thereafter to make up for any gaps in this process. Speaking as a parent of young children, the kid is going to do better long term if the parent is socially permitted to allow a baby to cry sometimes- because feeling like you must answer the cry at the drop of a hat every single time lest ruin your child for life, is how people snap. Sometimes you just need to lay on the floor & cry yourself for a few minutes.
This is a website detailing various UI components whereas storybook is a development tool where you can manipulate and view components you are building locally (although some people end up hosting a static version of their storybook somewhere).
Thanks! That was interesting to read and gives me hope for a better workplace. So it's basically a much more thought-out Github issue/corresponding PR, would you agree?
Possibly that these smart young people view everything like highschool. Everything is a formula driven contest to outshine your peers for the limited spots at prestigious schools. Get the perfect grades, study nonstop for the SAT, find the perfect volunteer experience, get dad to shmooze with his senator friend for that shiny recommendation letter, get into Harvard.

Same thing on loop. After the prestigious internships and summa cum laude, they graduate into a FANG job at 21.

I think the criticism is that these people are conformists. They're good at following an obvious system to the T but has never innovated or taken risks in their life.
Yes it seems so! But it's different to the browser wars because the browsers used to used sensible amounts of RAM, and these "modern" chat systems seem to like ballooning quantities of RAM for displaying text and pictures, eg. Slack on my Mac is using 365MB of RAM via its 5 processes.

If only the wars was about efficient applications then we would all win.

I recall using MSN Messenger on a machine with 64 MB of RAM I think and it did approximately the same - instant messaging.
His perspective seems built around ego. It's no longer the special club he wanted it to be, it's not "hard enough" for the people he sees as "wrong" to participate. He liked YC when it was a band no one else had heard of etc. etc.

Without knowing the metrics for how YC judges the performance of its intake and their future objectives, there's no way of making sensible recommendations for how (or if) it should change.
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Either that or they are fishing for an acquisition offer from Oracle.
How often do you need to use a join from the client? It's not like "rest" has built-in joins either.
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I remember coming across Refactoring after having already adopted it for some years. I wish I had come across it sooner. But with my initial experience under my belt I was able to realize what a gold mine it is. Anyone working in a higher level OOP language especially should give it a read
XMPP and ActivityPub are the other obvious federated communication protocols (albeit with very different emphases; XMPP being message-passing at its core; ActivityPub being subscribing to activity streams at its core; Matrix being history-replication at its core).
State data reporting on the coronavirus is falling woefully short
The stats are nearly completely meaningless. Once you've read the review, the stars say nothing relevant to you.
Of course IANAL, but I wonder if that letter can be used in court.

"We ... know you’ll be a worthy competitor."

Yeah, until we sue you...
Why were you hired? Did you outright lie?
Isn't the final result a r-tree?
so why didn't your "acquaintance" sue him for libel then?

I'm sorry, but i'm calling BS on this. if someone wrote something damaging about me (especially a well known figure like Krebs), i would sue the living crap out of them. this isn't some dude on twitter that no one listens to making a false statement, this is a credible and world renown journalist making a false statement. that right there would be enough for any lawyer to sue based on libel and seek damages.
Cynical me figured there wasn't much other purpose for those approving funding.
You can disable the license, but it keeps nagging all your users to ask IT for a MSTeams account/license...

"btw, teams is installed, try here"
"login failed, maybe you are not allowed by your admins, nag them about it"

repeat every 2 weeks
I found this interesting: "Our study revealed a universal law: Conservation of Brain Connectivity," Prof. Assaf concludes. "This law denotes that the efficiency of information transfer in the brain's neural network is equal in all mammals, including humans. We also discovered a compensation mechanism which balances the connectivity in every mammalian brain. This mechanism ensures that high connectivity in a specific area of the brain, possibly manifested through some special talent (e.g. sports or music) is always countered by relatively low connectivity in another part of the brain. In future projects we will investigate how the brain compensates for the enhanced connectivity associated with specific capabilities and learning processes."
Despite what one may think, I agree with most of what you said. Only with some additional observations:

1) We would expect attachment problems to be a risk factor purely based on genetics and environment. Which is indeed what we find. Personality traits like that have stronger correlation with a) your biological parents than the parents you grew up with, and b) your friends' parents than the parents you grew up with.

2) Absolutely. The way a child views their relationship with their parents is a huge signal about what their relationship with their parents is like.

3) Yes, because environment effects are the next most important thing, after genetics.

Genetics and environment outside of the home is strongly correlated with parent relationship, which is why this is so hard to study and get right. It is possible to control for those factors though, and the result is surprising -- but makes sense from an evolutionary hunter-gatherer perspective.
heh; i'm thinking of embrace in the same way that MS have embraced Linux (which hopefully isn't a run-up to the other two Es ;P)
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It has fallen off because most states have decided not to use an app. The exposure notification itself can only be leveraged by government/health officials.

I released a blog post (10min read) this past weekend breaking down digital contact tracing in the U.S. I also discussed why Google and Apple's solution isn't sufficient.

https://tolusnotes.com/state-of-digital-contact-tracing-in-t...
Is this as big of a problem as with IE6 back in the days?

I haven't been using MSO for years now and most companies I work with use Google Docs.
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Yes, I am personally disgusted that installing Office FORCES a word processor and spreadsheet to be installed when all I wanted was WMF clip art!
there was also his Thaddeus Zu/Ashley Madison story, which was pure conjecture
> complex apps like gmaps and Google docs were written entirely in JS

I always assumed complex Google apps from that era were built with GWT, which would mean Java.
Concorde was only 26 tonnes an hour, although it did use two tonnes taxiing to the runway.
Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
This last year I finally landed a SDE job at a FAANG company! However, I'm considering quitting because I am not happy.

The good: I get paid better than my last jobs. I can browse internal resources to satisfy my curiosity about how things work.

The bad: Basically no work gets done and there's no motivation to do any.

The dev tools, docs and tech debt impart such a slow iteration speed that even when I am working a full 8 hours, only a few very small changes get done, yet somehow this is even more than most of the rest of my team can muster during an entire week.

Because of this, I normally work about one day trickle out my changes during the the week. The other days I only open my computer for standup and if I get an IM. As far as I can tell, if I can be just barely the best on the team by doing there's nothing the company will offer me to work harder. If I get asked about why it takes long to make a simple change I can point to the environment and shrug my shoulders. Of course, it's possible the rest of the team is doing that too, but I have no way of knowing.

This amounts to a glacial development pace and when I look back at the progress made since I joined and estimate the cost to the company (salary, servers, etc) it's frankly disgusting. I don't feel what I'm doing is ethnically wrong, because the company is evidently pleased with my current productivity, but I find it unsatisfying and like a waste of my time on earth.

So my question is: Is all of FAANG like this? If the market value of such incompetence if FAANG salary, how can I do good work and get paid preportionally?
I think -- from experience -- that in traditional IT organizations this is absolutely not true. The PMO is responsible for business requirements, and almost not time is invested in the creation of detailed DDs. You're essentially left trying to move from a PRD to writing code ... and if you have the luxury of an in-house SQA team and a relatively effective CI/CD process, you depend on quick feedback from stakeholders to certify whether the guesses and assumptions made by developers are correct or not. Since in many cases the business owner(s) had never actually considered many of the edge cases (stupid, basic example: previous company required CFO approval of all international travel requests. Tool was built with this logic. No one considered how to handle it when the CFO was unavailable for whatever reason, so the first time the CFO went on vacation it created all kinds of stupid chaos while a manual process was created.), flexible logic paths aren't designed into workflow apps. Similarly, for reporting/BI tools, there are frequently gaps between the answers executives want to glean from the data, and the business processes the ultimately result in the data creation. Because of this, nearly all reports are faulty, but unless you're close enough to the processes you don't have explainability and uninformed business decisions can result. Ditto from CRUD apps, where form validation rules can be insanely complex for stupid reasons, with the result being the data entered is impossible to use.

Apologies for the diatribe. Big fan of design docs, but an even bigger fan of software engineering cultures that focus on simplicity and usability, rather than being everything to everyone (or worse, being a pet project of an exec who changes their mind every quarter about how things should work).
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