skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does. In a verticalized approach, if you pick the right sector (biotech for ex) and other founders see the value in your work, you can get rewarded even if your company fails for reasons to of your control.

Even in a shock scenario, there are sector winners (see biotech and funeral homes in covid pandemic)
Nintendo’s Break from Constant Hype Is Refreshing
i'll echo the other devrel people in this thread and note that this blogpost actually does not do a very good job of explaining what devrels do and therefore why companies have them.

there are very successful devrels with no twitter following. the blogpost also conveniently omits the importance of content marketing to draw inbound interest which works even without the devrel having a strong personal brand or rolodex.
"spam is hardly an unnoticed issue which one meeds to raise awareness for" - I thought so too. Until I tried to run a bulk email service. We had a countless number of people, good people, sending spam, not realizing it's spam. There's a ton of awareness that needs to be raised to email senders what spam is. There's also awareness that needs to be brought to the attention of developers creating email tools. They will be and might already be misused in ways you are probably not protecting for today. During this phase I also saw some very elite developers (not on Highrise) go through some "we've been hit by spammers and we never predicted they'd use our tool to do this". I could go on an on how we should still be educating ourselves on how to fight this and what I learned even being an experienced operator.
Publish Your First Node Library Using NPM
Procrastination is a mental state.

Start DO-ing something that is more or less interesting.

DO-ing is physical.
This will override mental state with physical energy that will in turn re-ignite proper mental state.
You could then call Nokia and Ericsson Internet companies, but they also existed for purely voice-based services. ARM chips go into all kinds of things like hard drives and microcontrollers that are not Internet based. Yes it's true that ARM has exploded due to cell phones, which in turn heavily rely on Internet-connectivity for their value proposition, but the Apple Newton used an ARM-chip well before 3G.

This article is talking about 'internet-vision'... I don't see how ARM fits into that vision, especially since it effectively predates it. Plus it's now been sold to Softbank at any rate.
I've made a COVID19 tracker with Firebase. Get the source for free
Wouldn't really count the UK as part of continental Europe, i see them more as a part of the anglo sphere(US,UK,AUS and NZ).
But wouldn't also say programming language can be claimed by a continent because most are global effort or contributions.

The scenario in my head is what if the US decides to put the same kind of sanction/embargos they have put on Russia,
Iran and China how well will the EU handle such a economic/technological warfare, can we in the EU continue to function by flipping a switch and have cyber sovereignty.
Because as far as i can see the EU tech sector got colonized by US companies, and i wouldn't be surprised if the same happen with India in 10~20 years.
How We’re Solving Data Discovery Challenges at Shopify
I was able to get my first letter (and solve the riddle) but after the second play through, I got the same letter, not a new one... not sure where to go from there.

Really fun, by the way.
I wasn't talking about lines of code.

Developers have perverse incentives, like endlessly refactoring the same codebase or architecting "scalable" and "abstract" solutions.
To not eat the elephant all at once.
This is pretty much what I was thinking about doing...

BUT. After almost 10 years without social media or putting out content, I do feel a very relevant impostor syndrome.

Clickbait and Medium ruined blogging for me (as a reader).

But I should start my own personal blog anyways i guess..
Success is about making luck
Put in a different motor, I'd guess. They're cheap compared to engines, and people certainly swap those regularly. New ECU perhaps, as necesasry. Modders are going to mod, for sure. And there's no guarantee that Tesla-style anti-consumer behavior will be prevalent with all manufacturers or that it won't get shot down by the gov't. Some manufacturers actually embrace their modding enthusiasts.
Good question — maybe both would work. Thanks!
She kind of described what people do when they blow on something to make it move. Big breath in though a wide open mouth followed by a directed blow out through pursed lips.
It's a federal commission that Schmidt co-chairs.

>haven't built universities like Stanford, Duke, Cornell etc.

I assume the answer is that they generally find that it makes a lot more sense to give oodles of cash to their alma mater or some favored school to get your name on a building and/or really beef up a department than to try to found a new school which would likely take decades to establish any sort of reputation.
Do the IRS really carry guns? The man-power needed and costs to enforce collection of coins means this doesn't scale well for the state
Well he died in 1990, so probably not much he can do. And it's safe to say it's not reality since he has many grandchildren in their 30s. Quotes like this seem to be more of a warning then predictive, and Dubai seems to be trying to diversify.

Meanwhile Eisenhower's warning on the military industrial complex has been ignored and seems to be coming true.
I already have 30k followers from a prior project, but can't rename the handle without losing verified lol
It's not an easy task to make an extremely efficient and sleek design, and still make it easy to disassemble/reassemble/upgrade/etc.

The strides Apple has made to make devices smaller, more efficient, and more powerful are incredible. Though they come with obvious downsides. Cramming all that tech into a small space means you don't have an easy "click to remove" battery cell any longer - or hard drive, or memory sticks, or floppy drive bay... ;)

Not to negate your point - battery lifetimes are quite poor compared to the lifetimes of all other electronics in a computer and making them easily replaceable would be ideal.

Do we want smaller, faster, more efficient computers, or do we want easily modable computers?

Obviously both would be ideal, just not sure if that's really feasible with the way the technology is progressing.
> also, what system(s) do you prefer / know of that handle multiplayer matchmaking well?

None, and actually I don't think it's particularly healthy for the game. For example, I had plenty of fun casually pubbing Counter Strike in the early 2000s. When I wanted to take the game more seriously, I made a team and joined a league which might include group play, single/double elimination, and exhibition games. Actual competitive play (scrims, matches, tournaments) is fundamentally different than what today we call "matchmaking."
Whether or not people agree on something is completely irrelevant to whether or not it is a fact. Earth will orbit the sun, no matter how many people may or may not be comfortable with it.

Finding out what is and what is not a fact can be extremely difficult. However, we've spent the last few centuries developing tools to tackle this problem in the for of the scientific method.
No there isn't, not for me.
I've been saying for a year now that EV will be death for hypercar price tags.

1500 HP for an ICE is a multimillion price tag
1500 HP for an EV in 5-10 years will be 1/10th that.

The design of this underlines that. the 1500HP is from just serially adding motors to the axles. It didn't involve a 10 year development cycle for a W-12 quad-turbo'd megaengine.

They pulled 7 motors off the shelf and attached them.
Hey Email First Impressions
TLDR: Likely in a common burial pit for Plague victims as has been thought for a long time.

> I had not found the remains of Holbein, but it did feel like a message from him.

This article is more about the author contemplating death and Holbein than about solving a mystery.
Lower the Cost of Producing Doctors
You can call a function that takes a string type argument in a strictly typed language. This has very little to do with needing boilerplate.
The same is true in Julia but for slightly different reasons. It's not just quicker variable lookup in Julia, but the fact that it will be JIT compiled. (Unlike CPython.)
You know that Silicon Valley was originally created as a government project? Government sponsored research and enterprises.
Nested Future blocks do not run in parallel in Scala 2.13.x
Battery improvements will drop the battery weight by 50% in 5-10 years I'd guess. Especially a super high performance platform that can be designed to swap out higher density but lower durability solid state or air batteries
He’s an extremely rich American that can navigate both government contracts to implement surveillance of people less fortunate than him (palantir) and the justice system to shut down press (gawker). He doesn’t need democracy, he doesn’t care for poorer people’s values, opinions or input, he prefers his version of “freedom” because he can buy whatever he needs.

Fuck everyone else, amirite? (/s)

Edit: when I was in the US I did use public transport, and it was fine, less convenient than uber, but fine. (This is in the context of cities and suburbs, even in europe people who live in rural areas are obviously less served by public transport).

(And yes public transport in San Francisco did kinda suck. But so did old-school taxis)
Indeed it's the exact opposite: as the supply of the dollar is a function of its demand [at an interest rate which can be varied if an inflation target is expected to be missed] its inflation is almost entirely predictable. cf BTC, which predicts zero inflation but has experienced more diminution in purchasing power since late 2018 than the dollar has seen in decades.
See also Tim Hunkin: https://www.timhunkin.com/94_illegal_engineering.htm
Xavier Niel is a billionaire from France built Free Telecom (big telco in france) and has 42.fr school, whichisnot a unibut kinda?
Lemonade's UX Is Beautiful
That page only accounts for electricity used at Apple-owned facilities. There's a lot more to the carbon footprint than that.
The question isn't whether it will rival Stanford and MIT, because it never will with a one year program. The question is whether it could incrementally attract more talent into the industry.
Instagram Will Become America’s Next Mall
What inflation in early march are you referring to? From my view the fixed supply growth and production from new blocks went right on schedule. Nothing unexpected
Not going to take sides but none of those are internet companies.
Can the people involved with the company note their affiliation? It seems like there are several folks chiming in, and some comments make the affiliation clear (eg, by speaking in the first-person about the company). But in other comments it’s much less clear whether someone works for the company or just got info off the website.

I’m also a little confused that this isn’t a “Show HN”, but they talk about YC with authority. Are they in YC? Some other affiliation?
I think it isn't recognized what a policy failure 401k and IRA plans are. If people had defined benefit pensions they would be a great supplement, but as it is, only a handful of people will get retirement security for them, but we all lose when money that could have gone into small businesses helps Wal*Mart and other publically traded corportations put them out of business.
Priced round is for indexing the value of stock being assigned to the pool.

If the founder has liquidity, before joining the pool, he would be joining the pool right?

Or did I misunderstand?
EDIT - When looking up Watch service prices I missed that there was a cheaper $80 battery replacement vs the general out of warranty service price. But that's still 47% of the current street price (S3 is $170 from Amazon, Target, or Walmart).

Similarly, AirPods are $50 each for battery replacement, another $50 for the charging case, versus a list price of $200 and having gone on sale for $150. So if your batteries are shot in both AirPods and the case it's 75% of list price, or the entire full cost of buying them on sale. And this is a device where when brand new the tiny little batteries were barely good enough.

If my car's transmission blew and it was $10,000 to get it repaired, I'd be taking it to a scrapyard instead of a mechanic. Same goes for a 2-3 year old gadget if I'm expected to spend 75% of the replacement cost to get a battery replaced. I'm just going to say "I guess it's time for an upgrade" and see if someone on CraigsList will pay me for the old one, maybe just for spare parts depending on how bad the battery is.

If Apple really wants to extend the lifetime of their devices, they need to get the price down for replacing the disposable components, or make the disposable parts user replaceable again.

I've said it before re: AirPods battery life, but this was a predictable outcome for something with a 5 hour battery: https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/28/airpods-battery-life/
> All of the above took roughly the same headcount LinkedIn now has. The technology team writing and running all that custom software was maybe 200-300 people.

> So even after I hear all the reasons LinkedIn has to be so huge (sales, support, scale, etc), I'm still left scratching my head.

The reason for your head-scratching is unclear. Your previous company had about the same headcount as LinkedIn.

LinkedIn, being an international company even before Microsoft’s acquisition, probably has a similar level of necessary personnel, including internal and external software development teams.

I don’t see the reason for your confusion from what you’ve written. Perhaps explicitly stating a point of difference between your previous company and LinkedIn would clarify?
You Are Greater Than You Think
Since when does Medium require an account to read articles? Guess I'm not gonna read this one.
The Lenovo Thinkpad X13 Gen 1 (AMD) has all memory soldered and no SODIMM slots according to its specification: https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_X...
The IdeaPad S540-13ARE is spec'ed with a 2560x1600 screen: https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/IdeaPad/IdeaPad_S54013ARE

But seems very hard to find a place that actually sells it around here (Norway).
Did... did kontxt.io write this?

Oh wait yeah.
Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library
Hello HN,

I’m Robbert, the creator of DataGridXL.js.

DataGridXL is a free (and commercial) editable data table library written in ES6.

My goal is to develop the most performant & user-friendly spreadsheet-like data table out there:

- It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL.

- It is lightweight (~200kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS.

- It has its own Virtual DOM implementation to prevent DOM errors.

- Developer friendly. Supports all modern web browsers

Please take a look at the performance demo (https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells) to see the difference with other data grids out there. And let us know if you have any suggestions.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments!
Sand the floors every 5-10 years should help. The worst dents and scratches might not sand out but that’s inevitable. It won’t look like new after 10 years but that’s probably acceptable.
If so they can build on established offerings like officer training programs that many countries have: get a free education at a military or civillian university in exchange for x years of service. The future of military engagements is likely to be heavily related to cyberspace, so you can enlist someone without the threat of field duty, which is likely far more attractive to many young people.
Indeed, the demos of GPT-3 should specifically tackle this.
If its your own password you can change from the web interface. If it is someone else's password you can send a password reset email from the web interface.

To actually set someone else's password to a specific value does require running a command line script (not the same as going into db). In my view that is a reasonable security-convinence trade off.

In any case, i would assume a large org would use a single-sign-on extension and not mediawiki's native user management, which would make MW's password management moot.

Disclaimer: am mediawiki developer
Try this link: http://archive.vn/jFoU3
I would define serviceable as replaceable with reasonable cost or effort, with reasonable being closer to the price of the component than the whole device.

In other words: if the part is a battery that costs around $70, I should expect a change to be around 100-150max, not 500-600, where I’d consider upgrading to the next device.

Also it would be nice if certain components would be interchangeable in the way chargers are, though I understand that there’s higher customization for things in the device and this might not be feasible.
I think I did not understand GGP the way you did, leading to me not making sense of your response. And of course it makes perfect sense not to rule on laws that have been repealed. :-)
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Founderpool are not affiliated with YC in any way. I am not sure who suggested that. I am part of the founderpool team.
Cool! Looks like SharedArrayBuffer will be re-enabled next week with the release of Firefox 79: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...

This will be big for Web Assembly. Real threads will make it possible to port more stuff and get better performance.
Windows has 125% scaling. Linux vendors should look into adding that. :)
Wow, this means linkedIn has ~16k employees? What on earth are all those people working on?
It says it right in the text of the article

"An angle grinder or drill bit will cut through the outer layer of a Proteus plate, but once it reaches the embedded ceramic spheres, the fun begins with vibrations that blunt the tool's sharp edges, and then fine particles of ceramic dust begin filling up gaps in the matrix-like structure of the metal."
That’s a good point. She doesn’t have that title but it’s definitely what she does.
Testing platforms charge the company tens of dollars per test, so it makes a lot of sense to have a person double check that the resume is relevant rather than sending tests automatically.
In one of my first laptops the battery lid was the battery. But this doesn’t allow for a sleek unibody. Apple sacrifices a substantial amount of functionality for the sake „sleekness“. Another prominent example is the keyboard which they not only kept long after they knew it was bust, but the repair was also made needlessly hard because of the Macbook’s design. There are some laptops where you can replace the keyboard without opening the laptop. I don’t expect Apple to make battery lids and swappable keyboards but the current design is user hostile and environmental unfriendly.
> deploying actual physical datacenters because the cost is cheaper than paying the profit margins of AWS

I feel like their parent company has a pretty good handle on that, and going to AWS wouldn't really be an option.
I would have gotten help with my mental health problems earlier
What I called ahistorical was the massive omission of how little changed in practice for the former slaves. In fact, it's important to establish how much the cost of labour even went up after all the manipulative methods to ensnare former slaves into a new servitude were applied?

Your entire reply are still ignoring that I'm not talking about what the best and most profitable "production method" turned out to be. You're applying the benefit of hindsight to prove that the former method was in-fact outside of the incentive structure of capitalism. That makes no sense. They are obviously not mutually-exclusive.

There's a lot of "correlation is not necessarily causation" points to explain in your argument too, but I don't want to be further ensnared in a "what was the most profitable" discussion since it's beyond the point. You can't cherry-pick the best outcome and dismiss all the other ones.
I have a hard time imagining such a world precisely because being a bad actor is a part of our DNA and the DNA of many many animals, plants, bacteria, and fungi we interact with. The unintended consequence of lack of selfishness could be mind boggling. Think about it this way: Silicone Valley mostly provides the last 5% of the tech needed to make any given product. You know where the rest comes from? Military tech that eventually makes its way to civilian use. Things like semiconductors, the Internet, GPS, rocket propulsion, etc. No conflict == no military == no tech == we wouldn’t be having this conversation. I am definitely not saying we couldn’t all be a whole lot nicer to each other. But I am saying that we wouldn’t be human if that was wired into us.
I don't think this is in conflict with the GP's point.
I am one of the devs at Bloomberg, and I'm quite glad not to be accessed by random customers ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story

> A True Story is a novel written in the second century AD by Lucian of Samosata. [...] It is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare. As such, A True Story has been described as "the first known text that could be called science fiction".
Not everything in the world can be measured by pay.

Sure, an FBI Criminal Profiler earns a tiny fraction of what a google dev earns. But one can take serial killers off the street, and the other just makes ads more annoying.

A Social Worker earns almost nothing, but they get to help the most needy of people get the help they need. A FB engineer earns 10x the pay, but just makes ads more annoying.

A teacher earns almost nothing, but they get to teach the next generation of society. An Amazon engineer earns 10x the pay, but just finds ways to sell you more stuff you don't need.

No one goes into government work b/c the pay, they do it for reasons they find more important.
You actually can define `main` in a library, as long as you handle the symbols right.
When you say

> Gravwell is developed and maintained by engineers expert in security and obsessed with high performance. Therefore our codebase is 100% proprietary and does not rely on open source software. We love open source, but we love our customers and their peace of mind a lot more!

does that mean you've even rolled your own webserver? Programming language?
Yes, that must be it
The $300 Kano PC, a “build-it-yourself” Chromebook competitor
What's the "turnaround effect"?
Wait till Spotify starts charging you for these new features ? In the end 99% of users will choose the free option.
I'd be surprised. Bags of toys in sugary cereals is a mainstay of the breakfast cereal industry
They have guns and a yearly budget of US$1.2 billion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_Criminal_Investigation
Not just because it's a lookup-by-name, but because globals are mutable everywhere, the interpreter has to assume that some other code has mutated the variable and has to re-fetch it in many cases.
> No mention of plasma cutters. I think a big enough plasma cutter will make the plasma go around the ceramic to reach the conductive metal and the ceramic will fall out.

Any method that lets you attack the aluminum and avoid the ceramic will be extremely effective.

I suspect the simplest effective attack is to just apply a shearing force - something like cable cutters although ideally with less of an edge so they're less vulnerable to deformation. As long as the tool doesn't rely on a cutting edge to work, it should be able to ignore the ceramic component of the composite material.
Looks like it was a 3mm thick plate.

Given that this stuff is half as dense as Aluminum, it's pretty impressive that the grinder behaves like it's cutting the most nasty steel (steel is ~3x the density of aluminum and much tougher).

If the plate had been aluminum, the grinder would have cut through like it was playdough.