skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GP was suggesting that, due to having children at home, many people will slip on their deadlines. It's natural to ask what happens to people who do not have children.

> You are likely hinting that it is a choice to have kids.

I did not, and my view on having children is not relevant here.
Weird Al repeatedly says he gets permission before creating his works, and feels bad about the one where he didn't ("Amish Paradise").
My setup is a 3K landscape and a 1200p portrait. Having a portrait screen is really useful - I can use the full height for documents and paper, or test runners, or I can split it vertically. It's a great setup.
> No one uses AGPL for libraries,

I actually do. If I write a library, I definitely don't want people to put a web UI on top of it and get away without any obligations, like so many people do for e.g. website that are just ffmpeg frontends.
I've seen `main` being used quite often.
Or he was the greatest batter of all time because of his dedication to these principles, and willingness to do the work to make them habit.
I take it you work on some "government" projects? I wonder if that is all TEMPEST grade shielding.
Fat shaming?
Yup. It's fairly standard. For classified work the rooms and entry/exit protocols have to meet certain security requirements based on the classification level. No windows and no electronics are standard. No walls that is exposed to the exterior. I've been in room within a room setup when it was warranted.
> So, the problem we'd like to solve is what set of 250 or so cards has the highest predictive value in that similar answers lead to the best interpersonal matches?

I think ideally you should somehow allow users indicate what kind of "interpersonal" similarity they are looking for. Perhaps right now I want to find intellectually similar people -- but maybe later I want to find people with the same sense of humor. Hell, maybe I just want to find people interested in eating the same food.

Here's an abstraction that I think could be a killer feature, and could solve a lot of "problems" around matching, privacy, etc: Cardsets.

A cardset would be a set of cards with its own theme. My answers to the cardsets can be hidden/shown at will. I can view similar users based on responses to a single cardset, and my "overall matches" would be a weighted similarity across all cardsets, where I can toggle how important each cardset is.

So now imagine the following cardsets:

- Politics. Swipe left for "bad idea", right for "good idea".
- Humor. Swipe left for "not funny", right for "funny".
- Food. Swipe left for "disgusting", right for "delicious".
- Aesthetics. Swipe left for "ugly", right for "beautiful".
- Hobbies.
- Activities I want to try.
- Places I want to go.
- Fashion, technology, programming, ...etc...

I can now find people that have similar fashion taste to me. Or that want to travel to the same places as me. Or that like the same food as me. There's also the nice side effect that I don't have to swipe on cardsets I don't care about, and that there's a lot of swiping I could do, which is potentially fun. Sky's the limit here!

Furthermore, if you want to get "advanced", add a way for me to find "custom matches", by which I weigh the importance of each cardset. Perhaps I want to find people that match based on "Politics" and "Humor" ... so I'd set those as having high weight and the others lower.

You now have a channel by which you can add endless amounts of content, and can iteratively improve your matching and engagement. Adding a new cardset opens up an entirely new set of matches to all of your users, and gives them something to swipe.

I think this concept is extremely powerful and valuable, and opens up endless avenues for future growth. Imagine brands being able to fill out cardsets for "aesthetics", or "food", etc. Now you can match users to brands they care about.

Lastly, to light a fire under your ass, if you don't commit to doing this, I will. The more I think about it, the more I think this is something that could catch on, especially if you let users create cardsets and add other viral features (eg: ability to send a link to someone to fill out a cardset to find out how much they match me).
For the past two years (2018 2019) capacity factor of nuclear power in France has been around 70% mainly due to maintenance according to RTE (1)

For reference best UK offshore wind farm had 55.3% capacity factor in 2019 and UK offshore wind average capacity factor was 40.6% in 2019 (2)

(1) https://media.rte-france.com/bilan-electrique-2019-2/ 379.5 Twh produced, 63.1 GW installed, 68.7% capacity factor

(2) https://energynumbers.info/uk-offshore-wind-capacity-factors

Not far from so-called "baseload"
Recursion can solve problems using larger objects than the input.

For instance, a parser for telephone numbers of the form (123)-456-7890 might plausibly convert the case 1234567890 into this form, which is several characters longer, and then call itself recursively on that form.

So that is to say, a recursive term-rewriting system can be used to solve a problem, and in a term-rewriting system, the path through the rewrites can involve growth as well as shrinkage.

It meets the definition of solving a smaller instance of the sub problem if we take "smaller" as being, simply: "fewer steps remaining".

Recursion can also divide into smaller objects which represent overlapping subdivisions of the input space, but that are together larger than the input and end up creating more work. For instance, naive Fibonacci recursion.

Though, pedantically speaking, the numbers starting from N and the numbers from N+1 are sets of the same size ("countable infinity"), it's still the case that {N+1, ...} is "simpler" than {N, ...}. The latter contains all of the elements of the former, and also N, making it a proper superset, in spite of equivalent cardinality.

Recursion that proceeds from a superset to a proper subset (though they be of the same cardinality) meets the definition of identifying and solving a "smaller instance", though we cannot insist that "smaller" is interpreted in terms of raw set cardinality.
The "monopoly" is the right to put stuff into your USPS mailbox. A lot of apartment communities have package lockers where private carriers can put stuff. And homeowners are used to receiving packages on their porches - so it's no big deal if letters are left there too. So that monopoly doesn't seem like much of an advantage in today's world.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu2Go8aYbsY
Pretty much, “entitlement” isn’t a technical term but it refers to government spending on pre-defined benefit programs. A better term above might have been Non-discretionary Spending, but most of it is entitlement spending. And yes, Social Security and Medicare are the two most significant components, followed by Medicaid as the third. Those three plus interest on debt constitute the majority of the federal budget.
I recently wrote a very simple and naive filesystem in rust for a toy OS I'm building and it was quite an interesting thing to do: https://github.com/vinc/moros/blob/master/doc/filesystem.md

Then I implemented a little FUSE driver in Python to read the disk image from the host system and it was wonderful to mount it the first time and see the files! https://github.com/vinc/moros-fuse
Related "Ask HN: Has the market for software engineers diminished at all?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23721268 makes a good point that the H1B change might mean less candidates for jobs
Expenses scandals are a pointless distraction. The lowest hanging fruit of corruption in the UK is the stuffing of the House of Lords.
I love the AGPL, and I love that it is more and more used by larger and larger projects. For example, the widely used Overleaf. This is a good world.
Aside: To give readers an idea of the financial pressures I have an example. One of my former professors told me that the lab spaces costs ~$45/sqft/mo from the university, 300sqft minimum. That's ~$160k/year just for the floor space in just the lab, not the office space either. Now, electrical, heat, vivarium, elevators, janitors, security, etc. are all rolled up into that. Bit that's not specific equipment costs, reagents, grad students, and the profssor's own salary. Granted, every university is different (just look at patent ownership clauses).

It's not cheap and you must win grants just to pay rent for your own apartment. Especially early on in your career, it's a real struggle.
DDG always omitted terms as far as I can remember (definitely 1+y).

I can't say for sure if this got more frequent in recent times or not.
You need multiplication, but you don't necessarily need a multiplier. The trick was to do everything with the log of the signal, so you could use additions instead of multiplications, and then use an antilog lookup table at the end.

The sound was pretty lofi by modern standards, but it had a kind of pseudo-acoustic bite and slap that made older analog synths sound like mush.

The DX7 series of synths hit a sweet spot between being too clean and being too grungy. Game FM tended more to grunge. The later and more complex versions FM synths sounded a touch sterile.

A descendant of the tech is still being used in Yamaha synths today. And if you want to play with a VST emulation, try this:

https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
Well, we'll see when it's done. Iran obviously does not want to do anything against India, including make them lose face, and they probably don't want to become too reliant on China either, however it is obvious that China is much better positioned to develop a strong partnership with Iran.
Thanks—for some reason I thought the App Extensions were uniquely App Store-locked, but what you said makes much more sense!

I think I was getting confused with old-style extensions and the Safari Extension gallery, for which sideloading was truly blocked for around a year.
More representative, but difficult to draw any "real" predictive power
Won't someone think of the spoon operators?!
If you find a magic cure, let me know. I'm stagnating too. I was once told by a former manager that not everyone has the potential to be more than a midlevel developer.

My guess is that comment doesn't apply to you and that you are working in a marketable technology (I'm not) so you could probably switch companies. That will give you a fresh start that could give your career a jump. I would guess that moving from a midlevel FAANG role you could move into a senior role at a non-FAANG company. I'm not sure if that would be consider a positive career move or more a lateral one.
> you can look at digitization and automation as a cost cutting exercise to improve the bottom line or instead view it as a way to invest in and improve the customer experience

Also as a way of 'getting rid of the boring bits' of a task allowing system users to spend more time on tasks that add value to the business and / or the customers.
I know caselaw isn't settled at all on all this but I'd absolutely avoid posting anything on the web mentioning D' and the black and white mouse again unless you are interested in finding out firsthand how the law gets settled here ;o).

Not legal advice, of course.
Plug for a friend's book that is forthcoming later this summer, "Topology: A Categorical Approach". [1]

I can't speak to its contents per se, because there isn't a preview yet, but I can speak to the quality of exposition in the lead author's math blog. [2]

I haven't ever dug too much into category theory for its own sake (usually just one-off chapters or appendices that get included in books on other topics), but my understanding is that it unites a lot of mathematical topics. As such, this book might be of more interest to you than, say, a classical point-set topology text, given your desire to uncover connections. That being said, there may be other category-theory-flavored books on other more strictly algebraic topics that would suit your fancy more.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/topology

[2] https://www.math3ma.com/
Let's be real, if they're using it it's because it's cheaper than doing it themselves. If you were to offer them millions of dollars I'm sure they'll use a custom system.
NIST study finds that masks defeat most facial recognition algorithms
There is still plenty of new development going on in Java, and I hope that continues. But I'd be afraid that if Java is all you know, you're going to increasingly be stuck on critical legacy JEE / Spring apps at banks, insurance companies, etc. Right now that's okay - there's still a lot of innovation in these frameworks. But in 10-15 years, it might be the worst kind of gig left, stuck with offshored and contracting teams of the lowest bidder.
Is this a story lawyers tell around the campfire to scare new law school grads?
Exactly. If you type "I am a dangerous asdhfjahdsff velociraptor, rawr."

There aren't entries for

- asdhfjahdsff

- rawr

I added around 500 new words, but I missed a lot of stuff.

The ultimate fix is to have grapheme -> phoneme prediction so that all unseen words can be mapped to potential phonemes (polyphones).
> Consequently, the private sector abandoned pensions because they were unaffordable.

So a pay cut by another name? Because even if pensions aren't available, individuals still need money to retire on
Very interesting work, what do you do nowadays? Did you have your own firm?
Weird. I would think that while it's not worth the government's time to go after individual companies paying off ransoms, it would definitely be worth their time to go after a business professionally focused on paying illegal ransoms who tell interview candidates that they are aware that what they do is illegal.
>Someone writes a blog post with an 'IANAL' disclaimer on top saying that what Google's army of lawyers have gathered from reading a legal document is false, and I should favor his interpretation instead. I don't know, I'm not exactly convinced.

Microsoft with their giant army of lawyers also said GPL is a cancer and they promoted this idea a lot but today Microsoft "loves" GPL. I think you can conclude that you should use your own brain to decide and not let a giant company decide for you, they might have a huge financial interest to promote a certain narrative. It is clear in this case that Google would prefer their employees won't work on their free time on AGPL code.
Yup. As Tommy Lasorda famously said, "No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference."

Of course, the Mets went 40-120 in '62. I'm fairly certain the Orioles didn't win a third of their games for the last couple of seasons either. But it's not as nice to say you're going to win one-fourth of your games.
What's your estimate then? I mean... I'm here in Portland. I can drive right by downtown (drove straight through Ground Zero at main and 3rd just this morning). I see the hippies. I don't see violence. Show me the violence. Tell me why I need to support tear gassing these kids every night for two months.

No one will. But I see people vote up these posts about "yay lasers!" instead. I'm out of patience here. I can see with my own eyes who the bad guys are, so can you, and yet... "look! lasers!"
"The PDF and video can go pound sand; you get to fully explain things here."
Wow, this explains it all! I currently live on the beach in Dakar Sénégal. About 2 weeks ago, I was up late on my balcony and saw these dazzling green lights coming from really far out in the ocean. For one I was wondering what it was, and two, I was surprised that the green lights seemed to be coming from so far out from the ocean, but yet they were lighting up the beach like someone was standing right there with a flash light. And I'm talking super far!

I had a hunch that it might be military related. It was fascinating to see how powerful the green lights were after they bounced off the water and hit the sand.

I'm so glad I caught this article here. I was going nuts for a while there lol
Teach as You Learn
This is great advice.

> Document every critique you make to create a code guidelines document.

It helps more to have as much of this as possible in lint and style checkers, so there's no arbitrariness at all.
I can come back and post a write up. Please refresh this post later today.

I scaled for today, but it's pretty cheap to run day to day.

I also have some architectural optimizations to make that will greatly reduce the costs. Right now, nodes are responsible for two speakers apiece. This is an under-utilization since most speakers don't get used.
But expenses scandals result in public perception of corruption (which is what the study's about), so logically, based on this definitely real and very sensible study, thinner PMs should lead to fewer of them!
In Lithuania we often call them 'beavers'- a standard picture of a man in his mid 50s, fat as hell and equally corrupt. At least we are having fewer and fewer of these. However,these occasionally get replaced by the other type- the 'slick ones'. Men in their mid 30s early 40s, outspoken, well looking and equally full of shit.
That's a fantastic suggestion! I'll get to it!
What I've heard about game development (correct me if you disagree) is that it is typically higher demanding or lower paying than gigs in other fields. What I've heard is that it's only worth being in that industry if you're passionate about it. I think older engineers will trend towards less demanding or higher paying industries, and are less likely to have as serious of passions towards gaming
Use Markdown for Confluence
> So why does the LGPL/Linking Exception exist at all?

Because RMS wanted a long time ago to have a bright line in the sand that differentiated between a single derivative work and two works that simply communicate with each other. As the story goes he initially thought that linking was two works communicating with each other, but after consulting with a lawyer, the lawyer presented the following scenario. A person goes in front of a judge and say: this piece of software which can not start without my work, (if statically linked) can't be compiled, can't do anything useful by itself, is not an independent work. What will the judge say?

RMS then agreed with that scenario and decided that this served as a good line for enforcing the GPL, and for projects like the standard library and similar tools an exception was needed.
One of my family members works in hardware engineering here in the valley. They have been going to the office seven days a week for weeks, but only four hours at a time (and then working another six at home).

Their labs are open but at 1/2 capacity for social distancing, so they have to trade off who gets to be in them (and have to wear masks the whole time, temp checks, etc.)

Their deadlines haven't changed, and their counterparts in Asia are working normal hours, so they have to work seven days a week just to try to keep up since the lab is producing 1/2 the work it normally does.
I once ran a 45 person dev organization that used waterfall to ship a half dozen commercial applications a year, including dozens of localized and enhancement versions, and never missed a ship date over five years. And won numerous industry awards.

It can be done with waterfall.
I'll be a bit contrarian and say that I actually do enjoy the sounds of traffic, but only some sounds. Most late-model cars emit what I'd consider noise, but the low burbling of big V8s or the bassy notes of big trucks are music to my ears. Maybe it's just nostalgia...
City and state pension managers only need to change their stupid formulas to account for actual risk and variance in annual returns -- not some mythical 8% annual no matter how good or bad the economy does. Yes, some cities have been underfunding even the contribution amount and they should be held to account.

But the claims of unfunded liabilities are far overstated. The worst of them assumes that you have to have the pension fully funded for a new employee on the day they start working which is ridiculous in any business.
* Homebrew, obvs.
* Alfred
* Bartender
* Movist

Not obviously apps but y'know:

* Little Snitch
* Backblaze
N = 15 is a lot larger than you think when the highest possible N is ~200.
This is really awesome, the sort of thing I love to see on HN! Thanks for writing & posting it.
Do you think, after reading this article, that if you were in a situation like that again you would feel more responsibility to speak your mind?
how then would propaganda be defined? It is the attempt to sway a targets opinion in your favor. Propaganda is "the formation of peoples attitudes"[1] as is marketing.

[1] Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda:_The_Formation_of_M...
How web development is like making hip hop beats
Show HN: Type someone's name and find out how to pronounce it
Hi HN,
I've created sayoname.com, which allows everybody to create profiles and record first and last names. You can video chat with people and search for names and last names. It is free.

Why this idea? My name is Maciej and, after moving abroad, I've found that my name is hard to pronounce for others and might make them uncomfortable when starting a conversation with me. Hopefully, if you work in an international environment, you can make people's life easier by recording your name and sharing your profile in email footers or Linkedin.

There are around 300 recorded names—a hundred recorded by Chinese native speaker surnames, about 150 Polish and 50 Ukrainians. If your name is missing, record it, others might need it one day.

The app is Node.js + React. I hosted it on AWS Beanstalk. I can share my experience on how to setup SSL, auto-scaling, CLI tool and answer more questions here or directly on a video chat call.

If you are up for it create a profile, record your name and call me so we can test how the video chat works :)

Currently, there is a 5 minute limit for video calls but the first 100 users to create profiles and record names get this upgraded to 60-minute calls. Just let me know, you can use the form here https://www.sayoname.com/contact

So if you are curious how to say Maciej go to https://www.sayoname.com/me/maciej :)
google's majority revenue is from search. So bit better than google, particularly if it is integrated into bing (as microsoft has invested in openAI) , and allows bing to capture market share from google, would be really lucrative
I renamed all mine to 'senpai'.
Same I haven't seen that before and I hope the op is stealing this. I'd like to see more people thinking in this way.
Maybe, maybe not. It's technically illegal to grow or possess any amount of weed, but in practice you don't get prosecuted (by the feds) unless you have over 100 plants or thousands of pounds. Until ~2004 it was illegal for native Americans to be within Boston city limits.

There are thousands of things that are illegal, but in practice are rarely or ever prosecuted, even in cases where people are violating those laws at pretty significant scales.

In my case that's not a risk I'd be willing to take, but I can see why other people would. The reason it's not prosecuted though isn't because of companies, it's because there are lots of wealthy people who travel overseas and then get kidnapped, and the government isn't going to prosecute their families for paying to not have their kids dismembered and the videos posted on YouTube. The reason companies aren't prosecuted is mainly because once you decide not to prosecute families for doing this, then anyone else can make an equal protection argument.
Unfortunately, it does.

A farmer can convert now, and pay the extra price of doing so, while missing out on the easier aquifer water.

Or, they can do what everyone else does: pump now, then convert when their hand is forced.

Absent some group collaboration, this bad deal is the correct choice: anything else would be worse for an individual farmer.

That's a Nash equilibrium.

Not addressing the short vs long term thinking about opium, since it's unrelated, but I don't think your analysis is correct; the Pashtuns have been growing this crop for literally thousands of years.