skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wanted to share this thread I posted on Twitter on how to prioritize features in your product backlog.
These are only 5 of the filters I use to prioritize so it is by no means an exhaustive list.
I would love to know your thoughts as well.
How do you prioritize your backlog?
I've been programming for 20 years and yet I have no idea what this does. Can someone ELI5?
The cost of exception handling in C++ with benchmark
Grocery store labels its first products with “true prices”
The onboarding at my company (in the US) had a whole segment on some of the diffefences in Indian English. It definitely comes up a lot everywhere I've worked. Probably almost everyone who works in tech has some exposure at this point.
As much as a photograph of a sandwich is convincing evidence that a sandwich can be uploaded. That is a picture of the connections in a fly's brain, not an uploaded fly's brain, or a simulated fly's brain.
Simply saying:

Use Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

Here are the rules for Show HN rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Good luck.
Running a mechanical keyboard with Elixir and Nerves
1. Spend a month and 25 hours of labor dev team manager labor to find/interview the candidate(s) and winnow the applicants down to someone to make an offer.

Don't do that. Pick out the top few résumés, maybe 3 at most, interview only those people, and hire 1 of them if they seem good. Companies make hiring way harder than it needs to be.

5. Start getting nervous. Employee not batting it out of the park like you’d hoped. Maybe still onboarding, give it another month (and $12,000 in payroll expense).

Here's the problem already. A month of "onboarding" is already too long. If you see a problem, act quickly. Talk with the employee, and if it's not working out, cut your losses quickly. It's the company's own fault for prolonging it 9 months. If your onboarding process takes a month or more, you need to work on simplifying that. You probably have way too much bureaucracy and red tape in your company. The new person's coworkers should be able to help get someone up to speed quickly.

It's a business. Make business decisions, not personal decisions. The boss's job to make the tough decisions. If you can't, then you're the one who is losing the company money, not the job candidate.

The claim is "the team is currently short-staffed, and has been for a long time. That’s why they’re hiring!" If that's true, then there can't be several months on onboarding. You need the new hire to start making valuable contributions ASAP, and your processes should be set up to allow that.

It's hilarious and ironic that all of these so-called "Agile" shops you see in job postings are actually extremely sluggish.
Srsly. Open JS console and type this:

document.querySelectorAll('table')[4].style.maxWidth ='1000px'
Sort of calls into question the quality of the citizen in a modern democracy if they are asked to make judgments on war and industry and yet they cannot be trusted with online video games.
Is it possible to favorite a comment on HN?
Are they? That hasn't been my experience in Canada but maybe pricing is different in India?

Could you point to some specific cheap phones by those companies so I could see if I can find comparable phones by non-Chinese companies?
A law meant to deter crime instead gets used as a budget booster. Proposing to change that law in support of personal property rights and nothing else, and you will immediately be tagged with supporting de-funding of the police. They will cry about how they use this system to prop up their budgets when the local governments fail to adequately fund them.
Indians would have to buy a more expensive phone from Samsung in the middle of a massive recession that gives them less money in their pockets.
Probably just you ;)

Lay people use the two interchangeably.

In at least two of the thesaurus I have at hand hypothesis is synonymous is theory.
> it did not explain how black holes form then. do they need a sufficient density of bosons?

No. Even degeneracy pressure from the Pauli exclusion principle has a limit; it can't hold an object up against gravity for an arbitrarily large mass. So neutron stars, like white dwarfs, have a maximum mass limit; any object over that mass cannot be a neutron star because neutron degeneracy pressure can't hold it up against its own gravity. (The article briefly mentions this; the limit is the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit.)

We don't know exactly what that maximum mass limit is for neutron stars, because we don't know their equation of state with sufficient accuracy (whereas we know the white dwarf equation of state accurately enough to know that the maximum mass limit for them is 1.4 times the mass of the Sun), but we know it's somewhere betweena about 2 and 3 times the mass of the Sun. Objects more massive than that can only be black holes.

As far as how black holes form, they form when a sufficiently massive object collapses under its own gravity. Usually this happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel. (More precisely, this is how black holes of roughly stellar mass form. For supermassive holes, like the one at the center of our galaxy, things are more complicated, because they probably don't form in one single process, they form over a long period of time as a hole that started out a lot smaller swallows other massive objects.) If the collapsing object is over the maximum mass limit for a neutron star, degeneracy pressure from the Pauli exclusion principle cannot stop the collapse.
American subs use Highly enriched 90%+ uranium metal fuel rods, as opposed to power plants which use low enriched uranium oxide. They use this kind of fuel so they can fit enough in the reactor for twenty plus years of power. Does anyone know what kind of fuel russian subs use?
Yes, it's similar to the situations in Japan and South Korea where the US has what are essentially US supporting puppet governments in power. It's impossible for these countries to kick the US military bases out of their lands.
I'm hearing that China might impose secondary sanctions on Reliance Jio in retaliation - no Chinese manufacturer can sell them phones or help buildout/maintain their NW infrastructure; tech companies that operate in China would have to divest out of China entirely to do business with Jio, etc.
Liberapay but they don't support rewards / exclusives for patronages.

OpenCollective is more organization focused and have plenty of accounting help.
Only once you click a comment's date to access the permalink.
Yes, click the timestamp on the comment and you'll see the full range of actions.
Okay I really don't get "market-based, data-driven mechanism for democratizing access to forest carbon markets." This entire website feels like https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/

Can someone please give me a tl;dr on this that does not require scrolling my mouse wheel for five minutes and trudging through buzzword laden marketing speak.
Purists may hate it, but as a toy project I’ve been working on making a stripped-down version of the WinRT concepts that runs on Linux (well, anything with a c++17 compiler and a dlopen function provided by a linker). The guy behind cppwinrt started work on the Xlang project in a similar vein, but it’s currently not being worked on so I figured I’d give it a shot.

I agree that C as the lowest common denominator sucks.
> The US has a history of handling territory back after invasions

Really?
FAA Clears Amazon for Drone Delivery
Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok
https://github.com/claudioc/jingo is one of the first apps we packaged for cloudron. You can git push markdown files or edit with the web ui. It's primarily single user and has no sharing or access control but does support auth. In fact, lots of our docs are still there .
Yeah, pretty much. Certainly for anything valuable or dangerous or potentially criminal.

I won't comment on whether this is fair or effective or necessary or whatever. But it is quite standard in the USA and elsewhere. Partly its a way to make people enforce laws themselves (I'll care a lot more about whether you drunk drive my car if I might lose the car). Partly its just the concept of contributory negligence or joint venture / accessory. It also avoids weird loopholes: if we're both drunk, we could drive each others cars home and both avoid part of the penalty when we're caught.
Recently, I've started a personal wiki with Git, Jekyll and the Just the Docs theme (for built-in search on the rendered pages).

It's a fairly standard setup in which each page is just a post, and the index is automatically generated by Jekyll (this makes it slightly more inconvenient to use with Vim, but appeals to my laziness).

Some things I considered doing eventually were:

* Using Rmarkdown or something else to evaluate/render code blocks and Graphviz diagrams.

* Implement a pingback mechanism -- if page B has a link to page A, then B shows up as a related page while viewing A.

Though I want to avoid going into those rabbit holes for now, as it's still too early.
The missing checkout screen for developers buying cloud resources via Terraform
World's Second Best Speaker
Hah - I think that's clever: Apple as the "China" of the new world tech order... All their users and developers are happy with their benevolence. Except the ones that aren't.
I'd like to see the podcatchers build this in. I'd push a "support me on Patreon" button. All it has to do is open up my web browser.

Some podcasts put that info in the episode descriptions, but I usually end up finding it via Google.

Bonus points if it could automatically switch me to an ad-free feed for paid supporters, but that would require some infrastructure. Just putting a "pay" button prominently on the app would nudge people. It really is one of those things where $1/month times 5,000 people could make a going concern.
This Chinese/India Cold War has been interesting to follow
> For that exact reason we have a kitchen scale driven by a small dynamo for generating power. No more empty batteries right when you need it.

That's interesting. Mind linking to it?

We've had a kitchen scale for about five years now, and I find myself becoming ever more dependent on it. They are just an amazing little piece of equipment that makes cooking so much easier.

And they do seem to die without warning, which is maddening.

I've started keeping more button cell batteries on hand exactly because of that situation.
Controlled bathroom breaks are very much a feature of some work environments.

https://theconversation.com/companies-target-toilet-breaks-t...
I remember a professor of mine (I forgot in which class) saying that humans generally make up 3 kinds of explanations about a system's behavior:

1. When a system is very simple, we explain its actions in terms of its properties and external forces acting on it.

2. When it's a medium complexity system, we tend to explain its actions in terms of its design, putting ourselves in the designer's shoes.

3. When it's a complex enough goal-seeking system, we begin to empathise with the system itself, thinking why "it chose" a course of action.

I remember how impressed I was with this classification and how much sense it made in terms of how we're able to understand the world and predict what will happen next.

From this angle, much of modern computer software is clearly in category 3, and it just makes things easier for us to think of it as having a mind of its own.
extra tariffs on iPhones.
Look here: https://www.mi.com/in/
Meh, it's usable w/out github but you'll be reading raw markdown files (unless you get your own markdown renderer which isn't that big of a deal). But yeah, it's either an incomplete git-based wiki or a complete github based wiki.
I mean --- not really - adaptive scene detection for Vbr is a long standing thing.
The hard part is getting WebKitGTK+ to compile, the rest is easy.
Novell owned the Unix IP. (See TFA, Unix Wars)

In the following, SCO means Caldera, who renamed itself to SCO.

Novell licensed Unix rights to SCO where SCO would send 95% of sales to Novell and SCO would keep 5%. (Who sounds like the owner here?) This is all thoroughly documented on Groklaw. The entire court dockets, all filings, motions, etc. It's all there to read, part of history.

SCO later tried to claim that the agreement somehow transferred ownership of Unix to SCO. This resulted in a separate trial from SCO vs IBM. The judge found in Novell's favor in a bench trial. SCO appealed they should have had a jury trial. The Jury also found Novell owned Unix and SCO did not somehow get it via the license agreement. SCO appealed, and again the appeal court found for Novell.

SCO got exactly what it paid for. Rights to resell its Unix derived OS. SCO could have negotiated to license more rights than it did.
You feed in Rust (a flavor called DSLX) or C++ and it generates code for your FPGA (in Verilog). You then upload this compiled "bitstream" to your FPGA and now you have something akin to a custom microprocessor, but running just your program.
The data from this tool is fascinating! When you run the Acceleration Spectrum experiment there's a history view that makes a 120hz vibration extremely trivial to see.
A New Way of Modulating Color Emissions from Transparent Films
> "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"

> -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983

You know that was the worst decision of Jobs' life, right?
Depends how much of the "supercomputer" the calculation used. If it reserved a single CPU core on a single node, then that'd be cheap, allowing the rest of the system to get on with something else. There's no reason AWS would be cheaper.
java.time is really nice, so I use Java 11 (2018) on my servers. If not using java.time, Java 8 (2014) or later is fine. But I use Clojure, not raw Java. I haven't had any issues with upgrading. If a server works with 8, it works fine with 11 (in my experience).
> You can probably reverse engineer interviews to see which they fit. An org chart will clearly point out most of these.

I'm not so sure that's true. I've worked at companies where the culture of the hiring manager and the rest of the organization were at odds (for example, at one place I was hired by an engineering culture CTO, but the CEO and rest of org were autocratic, with a bit of star culture around enterprise sales rainmakers, and nothing in the hiring process suggested that as an IC I would have to routinely drop everything, implement a new feature, and deploy it to production because the VP of sales was trying to close a deal, with the CTO I report to helpless to intervene).

My personal anecdata suggests this type of misalignment is particularly hard to detect in orgs between about 70 and 150 employees, but other things can distort the picture you get, and in particular, you may not be able to tell that portions of the org chart vary in their level of detail.
I know it's silly, but this just reminded me of Magnetic Poetry, and the hilarious/delightful unexpected creations it leads to sometimes.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_Poetry
We don’t know the dosage or protocol for stopping the bradykinin storm, or even if this hypothesis is confirmed through more tests ... but it seems sensible to me to make sure one has a healthy level of Vitamin D, and that is actionable for a lot of people.
I think it turns a c-ish language (from the looks, not sure about semantics) into a hardware language like HDL.
There is a large segment of the American public who are absolutely fine with horrific punishments because they believe that they are safe from law enforcement because they "do everything right," and so if you don't "do everything right," you deserve to be harshly punished to get you back in line.
Economies of scale.

Producing 7200 RPM drives likely is more costly than 5400 in isolation, but running two full production lines itself is costly, when you could just run one and "fix it" via software.

Plus it allows you to vary the number of 5400/7200 RPM drives you "produce" to exactly what the market wants. Just keep them unlabeled in a warehouse as orders arrive: label, firmware, and ship.
> And when they break rules, they can very much be fired.

Not if you're a cop.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/...

> A San Antonio police officer caught on a dash cam challenging a handcuffed man to fight him for the chance to be released was reinstated in February. In the District, an officer convicted of sexually abusing a young woman in his patrol car was ordered returned to the force in 2015. And in Boston, an officer was returned to work in 2012 despite being accused of lying, drunkenness and driving a suspected gunman from the scene of a nightclub killing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/how-pol...

> "In Philadelphia, an inquiry was recently completed on 26 cases where police officers were fired from charges ranging from domestic violence, to retail theft, to excessive force, to on duty intoxication," Adam Ozimek writes in a Forbes article on reforms to policing. "Shockingly, the Police Advisory Committee undertaking the investigation found that so far 19 of these fired officers have been reinstated. Why does this occur? The committee blamed the arbitration process."

This guy got reinstated:

> In June 2008, after downing six drinks as part of his wife's birthday celebration on the South Side, Paul Abel was accused of accidentally shooting a 20-year-old man he was trying to pistol-whip.
And what exactly would those prospects be to justify this valuation?

VW, the third-largest car manufacturer in the world, sold 11 million cars last year (27x Tesla), for ~$280bn revenue (11x Tesla) and ~$19bn profit.

VW made 1 out of 8 of the ~77 million cars sold in 2019.

Tesla's valuation is currently 6x that of VW's. So how exactly are investors picturing Tesla's growth here? To justify this insane evaluation, they'd need to utterly dominate the market by sales, and with an incredible profit margin.

This isn't driven by investors. This is pure speculation.
> Also, LEDs can also act as light sensors. Food for thought.

As an undergrad, I had to write a 'chat-program' where two LEDs on Arduinos were used for communication; essentially blinking at each other, acting both as sender and receiver. Fun times!
Both probably. Most of these rules have come as a result of regulatory action/audit findings. Efforts to dial these back repeatedly get stymied by people demonstrating the need for such checks.

Re: third party libraries, yes absolutely.
TSA tries out another biometric system
We've been writing clojure cli utilities a lot since babashka came out. It's really nice killing some of our reliance on bash.
Where is the Indian opposition on this? Are they fully behind Modi's nationalism?

There is a raging pandemic. Massive recession. Potential war with China. Internet bans. Crackdown in Kashmir.

There has to be some questions?
If you read the fine print of your rental agreement, you will find that if for any reason the car becomes unrentable while you are in possession of it, you are responsible for the rental fee until the car is good to go.

The cops would not be interested in the other scenarios though. They can only make money from the confiscated items if they can sell/auction them. I guarantee AMZN has more lawyers than any 3 letter agency, and will not get close to the front door. The hotel room concept is just too far even in a hyperbolic sense. Change it to rent an AirBnB that is a single family domicile, and you have a better leg to stand on
Did all supermassive black holes begin as stellar mass black holes? Is there some other way for them to form?
New Mercedes-Benz S-Class Sports Next-Gen AI Cockpit, Powered by Nvidia
Somethings this is based on how a subject is taught, but other times I think this is simply maturity and focus. I have a much easier time reading through a dense book as an adult. As a kid, I couldn't sit still, I couldn't make myself care about the topic.

Although to be fair, history textbooks are often really terrible.
As far as I can tell, it is a high-level synthesis tool for developing FPGA/ASIC applications. You write your circuit functions in a Rust-like DSL and it generates optimized Verilog/System Verilog code, which can then be synthesized into hardware. But you can also take the output of the DSL and simulate it first, which presumably is quicker than simulating Verilog.
It is a project aimed at making the design of electronic logical easier.

Often, such hardware is written using hardware description languages [1] like Verilog or VHDL. These languages are very low level and, in the opinion of some, a little clumsy to use.

XLS aims to provide a system for High-level synthesis [2]. The benefit of such systems is that you can more easily map interesting algorithms to hardware without being super low level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_synthesis
Well, no, a military coup would be if the military invaded their own country. Invading a different country is something else.
Wow, the claim that increases in teen suicide would be greater than COVID-19 deaths looks even more silly now than it did then, which was already pretty silly.
It seems reasonable to me that most people would not go to such lengths as sideloading apps or employing a VPN to route around these issues.
Linux development is distributed – profoundly so
The Philippines did.
Reminds me of Paul Graham's "why nerds are unpopular". His rants on school system are awesome!!

The endless bureaucracy and inefficiency of the school system frustrates all kinds of people.
>Beside the absence of a battery slot on the back, the device looks exactly like Nintendo's revolutionary handheld.

Does it?
Charles de Gaule forced US troops out some 50+ years ago, so they settled mostly in Germany. In the coming years, US will relocate 12,000 troops from Germany to Belgium, because Germany wants them out.

Now Belgium has the NATO HQ, SHAPE and the 12,000 extra US solders, in addition to many thousands already present on its soil.
Why does the video have turbine noises? AFAICT the model uses electric fans, and not RC model turbines.
Kuvasz, an open-source uptime and SSL monitoring service, written in Kotlin
per https://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/features/pubg-mobile-india-se...

PUBG has an installed base of 50 million in india (atleast), would love to see which other alternatives they jump to .. COD or free fire

VPN for a game is intolerable in my experience..
Per Wikipedia, hydrogen exhaustion will begin in about 5 billion years from now.

> The Sun does not have enough mass to explode as a supernova. Instead it will exit the main sequence in approximately 5 billion years and start to turn into a red giant. As a red giant, the Sun will grow so large that it will engulf Mercury, Venus, and probably Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
That example is in the border, but it's not annoying enough and can fly under the radar. I'd not be surprised if it get's banned eventually.

* Once every two days, so people don't remember.

* Not exact repost, so people don't remember.

* The post are too short, but not completely off-topic.

* Not obvious suckpuppets or similar activity.

Note that this is not a foolproof recipe. As I said before, it's not annoying enough and can fly under the radar. I'd not be surprised if it get's banned eventually.
People post the full links (including the key) everywhere, so regularly, we google a bit to check what people use us for.

This allowed us to discover we were pretty popular on the crypto community and in specific fan fic subreddits. Which lead us to implement btc tipping and reader mode.

We also got reports, tickets, dmca, etc.

We cannot brute force our thousands of paste encrypted payloads, but for a sample, it's easy to follow the bread crumbs. And if we do it, others do it too.
You make your connections, build your relationships and stumble upon great ideas during the breaks between the meetings, the coffee breaks, and around the water cooler. You lose all that when you work from home.