skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unlike USA Swedish politicians mostly comes from working class backgrounds

Have you looked at the current Swedish government? You'll be hard pressed to find people with "working class backgrounds" there, they're mostly political broilers who started their career in the SSU (social democrat youth movement) or Grön Ungdom (environmental party youth movement). Stefan Löfven is one of the few who at least made a start torwards becoming a worker in that he was training to become a welder before he became a full-time labour union representative followed by a career in the SAP (social democratic worker's party).
People keep getting better his wrong. The USSR stagnated. It did not collapse. The collapse was actually caused by going too capitalist.

China isn’t going too capitalist too fast. Nor is it stagnating.

And let us not forget that when the USSR stagnated it has had decades of success in science, education, space exploration etc.
How Can I Help?
Other than answering HN/reddit forum questions, is there a site that I can help startups without having to become part of an accelerator/etc? My juices/excitement flows when I'm helping but I'd like to do this for fun, not a job.

Specifically, a site that goes beyond submitted questions on a forum, something of a formal process with delegated advisors based on expertise (my time is precious and my expertise specific, I can't filter 1000 questions for the 10 I can help on).

Thank you for any information!
There isn't much that they can do about storms knocking down wires, squirrels chewing a wire and knocking out a phase (other than taking down all phases). Which is why hospitals have several backup systems.
A lot of ad-hominem and not a lot of substance in your comment.

>due to some misguided agenda that it’s safer (code is data!!!)

What does that even mean? Rust is a lot safer than C or C++, although of course here we're talking about effectively replacing JS so it's a different discussion.

I would personally love to write front-end code in Rust, not because it's necessarily the most appropriate language for such a task but because I'm familiar with it and can reuse what I already know. Basically the same justification people have used to bring JS outside of the browser.
Blurring it out so that people can tell what you’re doing, but not see the details? I don’t think that’s much better, honestly.
>I believe geniuses can be raised

I believe the opposite. Nature vs nurture thing...

Not saying that encouragement, environment etc. does not play a role, it does.
> Your not sharing it in a way that's understandable?

In my experience, people develop a better understanding of a particular concept if they take the time to figure it out for themselves rather than relying on someone to explain it to them.
The advantage if you are definitely going to invest the cash in the same company is you get to invest pretax with rsu’s probably.
If only history had any examples of unfair laws...
I thought it advanced the line of thought that freedom is nuanced and not binary.
Very simple, they'll just stage most operations outside of Sweden but inside the EU and run deliveries to Sweden that way. More or less like things are now, really.
And? Would the Israel of that world have escaped somehow all the consequences that would have been in place for decades? Having escaped those consequences, would they then have subjected the globe to a rampage of nuclear holocaust? This is a sort of magical thinking: sure it's good to have less nukes, but only up to a point. After that, less nukes actually means more nukes! Good grief.

Nuclear power absent the support of militarists in control of public money would be, absent. Only by the most skewed of accounting methods does it even begin to pay for itself. The war pigs have a different lie for every different constituency, and "nukes are green" has somehow been swallowed by a small number of very vocal (on HN anyway) internet environmentalists.
Judging by Microsofts previous half-baked, unfinished and abandoned UI frameworks I'm not holding my breath.
Very few reasons for leaving aren't connected to an implicit "and I'm making more money." Very few people take significant pay cuts for reasons that don't boil down to "obscenely toxic workplace."

Money and Management are the real reasons people move, everything else is an outlier.
I thought the only service being provided is just basically insuring the income. If they have to deal with finding/maintaining contractors/clients and other kinds of overhead then of course that changes things—I just didn't infer that was the situation in Canada from the comment.
I am new to this space. So Sorry if this is not a valid comparison. But how does this compare to Kafka?
Yes. And do some teaching. Short course?
> This is one of the key reasons you need to give the right incentives and compensations to your employees. I have seen too many tech companies failing at employee retention.

(Disclaimer - I speak from a neutral standpoint, I'm not a politics person.)

It's not so black and white. There's also nationality at play. Chinese employees can be very nationalistic in times of war, especially, if they live in and around ASEAN. The moment something bad happens (to China), they will view it as China being the victim and do things others wouldn't normally do.

Case in point: Remember the Huawei ban? A lot of my ex-colleagues and friends (who are Chinese) dumped their iPhones at ridiculously low prices and exchanged it for a Huawei to show support for China (despite being outside of China). I saw this with my own eyes and I was blown away. I mean, convincing an Apple user to switch to Android is a billion dollar problem that Google is trying to solve for years now and just like a snap of a finger, nationality is reason enough for them to make the switch, irrespective of their personal consequences (switching clouds, etc).

Likewise, incentives alone isn't enough, there's not much you can do if the employees view this as a nationalistic issue.
I never had to do that, but fine tuning the tape recorder head was a regular activity.

Then there was those tapes where that alone wasn't enough due to how much the head would move as per screw position, so in addition I might need to use a screwdriver to move the tape holder just a couple of millimeter more on top.
The US just forced TSMC to stop doing business with Huawei, even though Huawei was TSMC's 3rd biggest customer or so. Didn't seem like US got a lot of pushback from that.
Salary isn’t everything. I would pick a nicer place to work over one with the highest salary. Salary just has to be good enough so you don’t feel cheated or don’t get the opportunities you want in life.
TIL: How to exit VIM? Some helpful commands
made in Japan Converse sneakers use better materials and last longer than sweatshop ones
> provides the guarantee that the candidate gets paid on time even if the client pays late.

This might be the case in large agencies that have their processes right, but it's likely that smaller agencies won't have the cashflow to guarantee that their downstreams get paid on time — even moreso if they have to account for their own staff as well.
Any specific resources to recommend?
Yes,
they for example provide access to clients not willing hassle to work with a single individual.

If the candidate is leaving they may provide a different one.

And the client can negotiate several candidates at a fixed rate and the agency can provide different insurances and help with taxes an so on (for both parties).

A good agency would also help with the negotiation towards the client. And find you a new client if the client drops you.
Google News RSS search parameters. The missing documentaiton
Generating Text Summaries Using GPT-Style Models on PyTorch
They also scrape MusicBrainz, but even if they don't index MusicBrainz at least they donate to it
When I was doing some research, I found these Chrome extensions very useful:

- Export History -
Offered by: Christian Genco.
Export your browser history as JSON or CSV

- Multi-highlight -
Offered by: Alexius Lee.
Create a list of words to highlight on the page.

- Super Simple Highlighter -
Offered by: dexterouslogic.com.
Configure a set of persistent webpage highlighters and tags.

--

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/export-history/hco...

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/multi-highlight/pf...

[3]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-simple-highl...
This was not easy (reason with a 2-3yo) but it's starting to become easier as time passes by.
Is there consensus on immutability in imperative languages?
I agree that it's important to keep some telemetry data for the long term. My point is that you need fewer and less granular metrics for those use cases, and that the access patterns are sufficiently different from real-time operations, that they're most effectively served by two completely different systems.
They used to care about freedom, now they care about a bunch of vaguely defined stuff aligned with (some of) US left. Being from outside the US, to me this change and the speed of it seems extremely jarring. I mean just look at their messaging in new tabs -- do I really need my browser telling me that "It's okay to like Facebook" or that "Tech (people? companies? projects?) has a responsibity to [...]" ? Thanks, Mozilla, I guess I wouldn't have used it if not for your permission (/s). Does anyone even read these fucking things before they push them out?
I’m not really sure how to imagine SQL support for something like this. Can you point me anywhere that will give me a better idea?
I also use an HHKB at work. At the beginning it was because I use Vim a lot, and the HHKB's ctrl key placement is so perfect for Vim (and Emacs) users, but I immediately found that it's just so comfortable typing on it.

Later I also got a customizable controller board from TMK [0], so that my HHKB now also functions as a mouse, moving mouse cursor with h/j/k/l keys, without any software assistance.

[0] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=12047.0
Is this person really your friend? If I "provided opportunity" for a friend I would never ask for a commission from his earnings. Actually, I did exactly that twice last month because I want my friends to have work and I trust their work. Even if I did ask for a commission, I'd arrange it so he'd pay me only a percentage of what he made the first month or a single fixed fee. What your friend is doing sounds a lot like pimping.
If you've been friends since childhood something like that should not be enough to end your friendship. Of course I'm making many assumptions here, but that sounds abusive. You are afraid you will lose your friend if you ask to receive full payment for a work you put on on your own, with zero input form him. You are doing the work and you should be receiving the money. Even if you two have an arrangement of you paying a fee for the leads he generates to you, his cut should be much, much smaller.
This is confusing to me because I thought the right way to do it was push-relabel.
Rust wins in familiarity... if you're already familiar with Rust!

If you have a Rust project that needs frontend code it's nice to be able to use the same language everywhere.
I used stickers to cover the keys of my little sister’s keyboard and pointed her to the BBC’s typing website when she was in 3rd grade. She learned to touch type in a week or so.
Pardon my ignorance, but has MSR China produced something good? I have seen a lot of interesting stuff come out of MSR but mostly it has been from the US.

Also, are top talent joining MSR China? From what I know, many Chinese companies beat MS in compensation easily and these new companies will have the lure of quick growth as well.
So does it means that coronavirus can survive for longer time in refrigerated area, than the initial expectation?
Winnonlin is one such tool - been around forever, written in fortran.

One of the reasons it is still popular is for regulatory use it's very well understood.

I'm not enough of an expert to answer the second part of your question - on why new numerical stacks are beneficial.

It may be around building more complex models of PK/PD but I'm not up to speed on what winnonlin can and can't do.
>Everybody has the right to be safe, but nobody has the right to feel safe.

When stated this way, at least so directly, it's not surprising to me that more people aren't right-libertarians. Of course, when you have hard and fast principles, and trade only in 'thick' concepts, then you can get exploitable concepts (as you rightly point out), but we have institutions for dealing with that - the legislature and the judiciary, and there need not be a law that applies (practically speaking) in every circumstance. In society, we don't have to always be on a slippery slope.

Here's a good paper on the vacuity of the pure harm principle, as you seem to espouse, in lawmaking: https://digital.sandiego.edu/lwps_public/art17/

>Fear, as opposed to outcomes, does not need to be rational or grounded in reality. Once you acknowledge a right to be free from fear, you are able to justify any tradeoff. I say - no!

The core question is whose reality? That of the victim or the perpetrator? However, if you'd like to talk about reality, it's not at all difficult to imagine psychological harms or even PTSD triggered by something as 'unreal' as fear, which has very real outcomes. Every industrialized country in the world has some legislation against, for example, sending threatening letters, despite the fact that their only outcome is 'fear'. This is usually known as a law against assault. The dichotomy between 'mental harms' and 'physical harms' with regard to the law (and 1A jurisprudence) is on extremely shaky metaphysical grounds[0]:

>An immunization I choose to have may (momentarily) hurt me physically, but it does not constitute a harm if I have chosen to be immunized. And defamatory statements that damage my reputation may harm me even if they cause me no physical or even psychological injury (as in the case in which I don't find out about them).

[0] http://susanbrison.com/files/B.16.-speech_harm_and_the_mindb...
Only available for android, so it's kind of useless.
Economic viability for the vendor. If a vendor has ten customers and ten engineers then each customer needs to be paying:

(one engineer's salary + overhead) * profit

each year. Every rational economic actor knows that whether they are selling or buying.
Why wouldn't the police respond appropriately to an active shooter situation and instead rely on this supposedly amazingly effective "neck kneeling" technique?
Great if it worked but you don't need hundreds of dollars of special equipment to learn to touch-type.
Distributed Systems (the OReilly trout book) has a nice overview of the streaming landscape (the first four you mentioned). The first several chapters being a general tech background of stream processing: events, watermarks, redundancy etc.

http://streamingsystems.net/fig/10-36
Netlify charged for extra bandwidth with no transparency,How I proved them wrong
I think hunt-and-peck is still a repetitive motion that can cause problems of its own. I think it's better to take care of your hands with strengthening exercises and the like (I got some from an OT and they helped) than to just rely on not having proper technique.
It’s kind of easy to check if your posts are visible for not logged in users so you aren’t fooling bots and spammers, just real people. And the bots don’t care about moderation drama but the real people do, no matter if the moderation is proper or not. It always looks really unfair.
Jet looks really cool, I'll but I think we'll stick with Flink for the time being.

I say this as someone who got burned hard with weird bugs using Hazelcast 2.X as distributed lock manager. I'll have a hard think before adopting any part of the Hazelcast ecosystem in the future after that experience. When the analysis of Hazelcast 3.x was posted on jepson.io (https://jepsen.io/analyses/hazelcast-3-8-3) I had a good laugh because a number of issues that were exposed, we had seen in production in older versions. Locks claimed on both sides of a cluster partition, locks never getting released when a node crashed while running, memory leaks, etc. In the end, we had the option of upgrading to 3.X or dumping it entirely in favor of ZooKeeper + Curator. We chose the latter and haven't had issues with our locking system once and nobody has gotten paged in the middle of the night because of a ZooKeeper issue.

After that experience, I'll take every guarantee made by Hazelcast with a giant grain of salt. I've heard good things about later versions so I'm going to assume things have improved but I implore people to look very closely at solutions like these and in particular, the guarantees they make before picking any of them.
It really isn't though. Unfortunately people have been conned into thinking it isn't.

1. You respect property rights
2. You are allowed to speak your mind
3. You have a right to defend yourself

Everything else is nonsense.
Here is the basic theory of negotiation and specific advise for your situation:

Theory: in a negotiation both parties are trying to get a deal that is better than the Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement (BATNA). So what you’re trying to do is say if this negotiation fails what am I going to do instead. Theoretically this is where your leverage always comes from because a good BATNA enables you to threaten to walk away.

Practical: in your post I understand what you want, but I don’t understand your BATNA. If your friend refuses, or worse let’s say he fires you right now, what would you do/make instead?

The easiest way to get a win-win is the following:
1) go find other gig offers - compare the price others are willing to pay you (recognizing there’s some risk the next client is not as friendly/easy to work with)
2) Let’s say you get 3 offers at $15,$16,$17. Show these offers openly to your friend and say “look I like working with you and want to continue but the market rate for my work is much higher than what I make right now”. This is actually a win-win because if you’ve done your research right, these are the same offers your friend would have to make to replace you. Now the conversation isn’t about what you want vs what he wants, but what each of you would do if you can’t get to an agreement.

3) Make your offer (say $18) and explain why it is higher/lower than the market avg (you can trust me, you know I do good work, etc).

4) Truly be willing to walk away if it doesn’t work. Not everyone is rational, not everyone will believe your alternative, not everyone wants a quick resolution. Unfortunately this is the hard part with friends, but if it doesn’t work you just must be willing to walk away (try to keep it isolated to your business partnership and not your personal friendship).

Notice, throughout, the premise is: here’s what my alternative is. Without this, you’re just hoping for him to take action out of kindness. It’s certainly possible, but it sounds like you are confident in your skills and value and ready to move past charity to career.

Good luck. Ask questions here if you have them. Let us know what happens.
>I write ~70wps with this technique

70 words per second?
I was judging things based on the Tsar Bomb, mostly.
https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202004220010

The CEO and chairman both got almost $10mil each last year.
Or provide drivers only on a disc...
Absolutely. This has been discussed here quite a bit (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120614530). In real life it's often visible when you have methods that take one or more flags to tell them how to behave. Fixing involves duplicating the method - one copy for calls where the flag is true, one for where it is false. Then simplifying, then repeating. The code that falls out at the end is often dramatically simpler than what was there before. It makes me wonder about some of these programming aphorisms - they only seem to work if you are already experienced enough to know to take them with a pinch of salt.
Russia will take over or get involved. Do not kid yourself that they won't. Belarus has a direct border to Russia. They'll probably use protests to install a pro Kremlin government just like they did in Ukraine before Euromaidan sent him fleeing to Russia.
a) Once they get elected, they're no longer working class. You're making the same mistake Lenin's followers did but on a smaller scale. b) They can manipulate an entrte country of strangers to get elected but not the people over whom they have an information advantage and other more direct sources of power (including rewards)? Think it through a bit more.
Learn web3.js and build dapps. You already have most of the requisite skills under your belt.
My favorite has been https://pgexercises.com/. Instead of going through theory, you practice writing progressively more complex queries to achieve a specific result.
That is not an argument for more non-modifier keys; it is an argument for more modifiers. Why? Each added non-modifier key adds X more modifier+non-modifier keybindings (e.g. C-n) and X-1 more modifier+modifier+non-modifier keybindings (e.g. M-C-n), where X is the number of modifiers. In practical terms, a keyboard with control, alt, shift and super only gets four two-key and three three-key bindings with each additional key. That is not great.

Adding a modifier, OTOH, add Y modifier+non-modifier and Y modifier+modifier+non-modifier bindings, where Y is the number of non-modifiers. So adding a hyper key means adding , say 104 additional keys (on a keyboard with 52 non-modifier keys). Adding a compose key means adding … another 104 additional keys.

My current keyboard has control, alt, super, hyper, compose and shift. A lot of folks add raise & lower, for even more modifiers.
Hilariously they will pay a lot of money for trash talent as anyone worth keeping will already be well secured and compensated. No one in their right mind would move to China if they don't have to.
> We took the word 'hidden' out of the title, since an unhidden network of spies would be oxymoronic.

Every embassy has spies who work out of it - that's an unhidden network.

The WW2 Pearl Harbor attack was coordinated by a spy working out of the Japanese embassy.
Uh, their mother specifically told young Joan that women can't become scientists because their brains can't handle science the way men's can…
I can highly recommend The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm. It's a lot more in depth and a lot less simplistic than this article.

The book was published in 1941, which makes it all the more interesting (also slightly outdated from time to time of course).
I am not talking about proposition 8. I am talking about calling marriage a human right.
Kind of a cop-out, but I use https://fraidyc.at/ to follow some of the interesting people I missed when I ditched Twitter - I've added a bunch of twitter accounts and feeds to this, but have it set to update a lot more slowly.

It's a lot more calming than the normal social media torrent, but still can find out the latest-and-greatest JS web framework I can ignore ;)
It's in this "Dataflow Programming" category: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming

So, more comparable to Apache Beam, like a fancy ETL. Programming via pipes, transformations, etc.

It would hook to a Kafka (or other) stream.
So do copyright laws enhance freedom or detract from it?
What's wrong with Timex? IIRC it was almost a perfect clone.