skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is a bit like a food manufacturer paying someone to add antibiotics to their products because their hygiene processes are so terrible they suspect some E. coli might slip in from time to time.

and apparently FDA being paid in free Tshirts for testing food safety
I worked at Microsoft for a while a couple decades ago. I reapplied a few years ago and got through three developers reviewing me and the PM but didn't get the job. It can be disappointing if you really want to work somewhere badly. I still do but not sure if I will get a chance to interview there again.
And electricity production might not be that carbon-intensive depending on the place, hence "depending on where you live" :)
Excellent comment, I was wondering how glibc handled backwards compatibility.

Is symbol versioning an ELF object file thing, or is it more universal than that?
The octopuses the author studied were shallow-water reef dwellers. They were predated by fish, mostly.
I was a couple years ago - it wasn't an organizational effort to post there, just one of the devs already on the team took the initiative to post it there. It was an mid level web developer role, nothing fancy. I worked there for about a year. It was my first full remote opportunity though which was a nice change at the time.
I’m certainly trying not to do that. Did you read the first paragraph of my comment? I think that’s what you’re trying to do, though.
My wife has managed to track one line of her ancestry (the Swiss line) back to 985. Swiss church records (Kirchenbücher) are online and extremely good.
Possibly a bit off topic, but I read this submission last night (and gave it the first upvote) because today is my 50th birthday. I am a software engineer that has followed a somewhat unconventional path, but have enjoyed my career passionately. I have told myself that turning 50 is no big deal because it's just another arbitrary day, and 99+% odds I'm well past half dead already. But, because others around me keeping making a big deal out of it, it's hard to not get caught up in some transcendental introspection.

If you're well past 50 (approaching 60 or beyond), what would you tell your 50 year old self and peers?
Google "natural language processing."

Natural languages are highly ambiguous. Using a naive approach like Early's algorithm can lead to thousands of parse trees for a single sentence. Probabilistic grammar parsing algorithms attempt to discover the "most likely" parse tree with respect to a particular statistical model of the language grammar. As with parsing algorithms for formal languages, different algorithms make different trade-offs. "Best" only makes sense with respect to a particular metric: "Best" in what sense?

I personally don't know much about this area beyond what I just said.
You can cast your device's screen, but you'll still have to rely on the device's camera and mic.

You'll probably want to avoid outputting the sound on the TV or you'll get a feedback loop.

And there's going to be a slight delay, which might be annoying with a realtime conversation.

So it might not be a great idea from the start.
This is very nice. Thanks.
Yep! I’m descended from one of his brothers who came over a bit later. That so many Americans are descended from the Howland boys shows how important it can be to get in on the ground floor of a new enterprise.
Show HN: The Financial Status Template
Webcam Toy
I have it running on a 1cpu 1gb Ubuntu vps add can hold twenty or so people (audio only) at 15-40% cpu.
(We're audio only because not everyone has good internet connections, and makes things run smoother).
It's stable as a rock. Very impressed. The odd person will turn on video for no appreciable deficit to the rest, or the server.
After having my bloodwork show that I had low vitamin D levels a few years ago, I was told by my physician that under no circumstances should I be getting vitamin D from the sun (as risking cancer was not worth it) and to wear sunblock everytime I go outside.

Frankly, I don't have the time to do an extensive literature search to find primary sources but I have seen from plenty of tertiary sources that it is a poor idea to get vitamin D from the sun. Moreover, there are plenty of foods from which you can get vitamin D.
Why ? In 15 years there will be no doubts “over production” of cs kids , old managers probably will still have their job , as young cs kid it’s going to be a tough times. There are so many new professions for you kid to discover. Every year bring us professions that didn’t exists a year ago, lots of them are well paid because they are new
Correct. And "government-grade security" isn't a compliment. CISA definitely has some people who want to do the right thing, but they need budgetary control over other agencies to make it happen. (Speaking as someone who worked for the federal government for 15+ years, the most effective means of persuasion would be travel and reserved parking enforcement for Senior Executive Service members.)

CISA also doesn't have authority over DoD or IC systems, let alone the aforementioned budgetary authority to make them do it. No, it doesn't make any sense to apply a lesser standard to systems that are more sensitive. Like I said, government-grade security.
I think the best way to learn something is to have a project. What’s the teen interested in? Is there a simple project related to their interests that would capture their attention enough to ride the highs and lows of the learning process?
Oh nice
That’s great i can actually build a training module using threejs
Thanks man
I think I've used it twice in production code over the last 20 years. The first was to traverse a directory tree. I wouldn't write it that way now since there is now a standard library to do what I was doing then. The second was to traverse an object's children logging certain pieces of data from the sub-objects. I didn't design that one, I just wrote it so I don't know if there was a library that would have done it for me. Fun to write though.

Generally, developer interviews are just stand-ins for IQ tests since it is illegal to give a candidate an IQ test. Seeing if someone can easily write a recursive function is a pretty good IQ test.
If nuclear power was the safe clean panacea that people say. The dirty hippies would have be steamrolled long ago.
Yes, I agree, I was assuming rational from a single investors relatively short term ROI needs.
On the other hand, you should accept that you'll go frail, so it's better to not tie your career to being fit if you can help it.

Unless you earn tons of money and can retire by 40, all debts paid.
"Reversion to the mean" is one argument.

A conventional answer would be that eventually inflation breaks loose. People are afraid of Weimar-style hyperinflation, but more likely it takes decades for people to make up their mind that inflation is worse than disinflation, just as it took 35 years from WWII to Monetarism. There never has to be a discontinuity, some point where you are denied what you are owed, but boy a pound is not worth a pound.

We've seen cases in the past 20 years where central banks have tried to increase interest rates modestly and were shocked by the contractionary effect and had to reverse it.

Another is "what cannot go on forever will not".

Could the private sector contribute meaningfully to the "saving for retirement" goal of many people under ZIRP? How would that impact CALPERS, e-TRADE, etc.? What sort of discontinuity happens to the financial sector when it fails at job 1?

Interest rates are connected with the discount rate and the idea that a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. The growth of the economy (e.g. "our systems work") is reflected by a positive discount rate, so a dollar invested today naturally brings more tomorrow.

Negative interest rates signal that the system does not work, that a dollar is worth more today than it will be tomorrow, that investing dollars today destroys value.

That's a pessimistic take on civilization and at best you get this

https://www.amazon.com/Prosperous-Way-Down-Principles-Polici...

which talks about negative interest rates as a tool in planning declining societies.

If the world is going to be getting poorer instead of richer then maybe negative interest rates reflect that, but you are not going to see honest engagement of politicians, business people, media, etc. because audiences would wither before the despair.

Finally there is the "middle road" where we have the right discontinuity very soon.

For instance, a 30-year old investing for retirement today needs to maximize the productivity of the economy in the long term, not profits. Low interest rates should be sending the signal to phone companies, for instance, to upgrade to optic fiber. If they did so, they would accelerate the long term growth of the economy. In the short-term there is no competition and the phone company sees no reason to retire 70 year old copper lines. But the pool of production that would have been enabled by a small investment up front never materialized and because opportunities like that were rejected in a lifetime that retiree is poor.

It seems some reorganization could get capital flowing again -- what that organization is is less clear.
Human's ability to concentrate is just one of many, many problems associated with increasing atmospheric CO2. We can't ventilate the troposphere.
On our corporate network it always worked better than the official solutions Skype for Business (Lync) and WebEx. Sadly policy does not encourage/officially allow using it.
LOL. I don't think it's that serious. Maybe it's the Berenstain Bears Effect, Mandela Effect, Glitch in the Matrix, or ... a slight lack of your favorite morning pick me up. :D In any case, looking forward to reading the next article.

Personally, at some point, I'd like to write a Pratt Parser in C99. I'd like to explore the one sentiment you had that OOP has a negative effect on understanding Pratt Parsers.
I personally remember going to some prominent registrar's webpage for searching domains, mashing the keyboard or typing in phrases about how said registrar sucked, and then those exact domains showing up registered with whois(1) shortly thereafter.

I can only describe my anecdote and others are chiming in. If you're still skeptical you could search. It was probably a story on Slashdot, as things were.
until the Espionage Act is ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS, the war crimes and abuses of power exposed by Snowden and Assange will never be resolved.

Since 2013, I have come to view Assange and Snowden and future leakers and whistleblowers as necessary steps of the journey, but not the destination.

the destination is to create some contrived legal case that perfectly triggers multiple legal conditions which unlocks the door to be able to directly and openly challenge the espionage act in court. the US Intelligence Community have always gone to extraordinary contortions to prevent the Espionage Act itself from being invoked against the Press which could make it possible to challenge it. Even in Elsberg's case, his charges were dropped before SCOTUS could decide whether the Espionage Act applied to the Press and the Public Interest.

i think one reason why DOJ has been so rabid and vicious against Assange is because he is not a US Citizen, so they don't have to give him as much Freedom of Speech as they would an American.

i dont feel optimistic about Assange's case. if it was going to turn out good, that would have happened years ago.

i can only hope the spiritual successor to Wikileaks is led by an American who is wickedly clever enough to leak the right kind of top secrets that are scandalously in the Public Interest and thereby force a head on collision between SCOTUS, the Espionage Act and the First Amendment.
> You can't polish a turd.

You can[1].

I think projects like this are a good step to/from familiarity. "Oh, it looks like what I'm accustomed to, maybe I can learn this..." or "I'd really like something small on which to emulate my desktop of choice, but it's not available on the small device, maybe I can start from here..."

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI
why not? What's the harm in knowing.
Classical liberalism/the open society/the Enlightenment all came about centuries before WWII. There were wars (WWII included) fought against people who explicitly rejected these principles, but coming up with those principles in the first place was the part I was referring to.
You need to do both. Don't be that stereotypical Asian parent, pushing and never praising.

It works only sometimes, and the kids will curse you for their empty, wasted in third, life.
Fallacies are mental models too.
from memory (from the hen&pat book) OOO can more-or-less hide the latency of a L2 miss. A total cache miss to main mem is far too many cycles, OOO can't hide that.
It'd help to stop repeating mostly false stories (and leading questions) about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima every time nuclear comes up.

But how to persuade the general public that science and statistics matter when even HN is skeptical? You're right, I don't know how to do that.
I'd encourage you look at some of the heirloom varieties that you'll never find in a grocery store. There are fantastic old apples that aren't a good fit for commercial production but are awesome in the back yard (depending where you live). Check out Esopus Spitzenberg or Cox's Orange Pippin.
Before learning Rust, I would highly recommend learning C/C++.

Rust has patterns that are very different from any other language I know of. This is why it comes across as an extremely difficult language. I would say however that C comes very close to having similar patterns (if you have discipline!) partially due to lack of OOP.

I'd also say that Rust is a poor language to learn multi-threaded programming. You absolutely won't appreciate Rust until you work in a language with no safety & learn the rationale yourself.
Think as you like, but behave like others.

https://medium.com/@alexanderemmanual/law-38-think-as-you-li...
> The difference is that it's almost certainly not going to harm someone to wear a mask, whereas recommending vitamin D supplements to everyone might.

Vitamin-D supplementation is considered safe and is already recommended to everyone by health authorities, at least seasonally, not specifically for COVID-19 related reasons. That's just not part of the media spectacle, but it think it should be.

There were lots of arguments against masks in the beginning, such as people becoming more careless due to feeling "protected". It's a valid argument to make, but you couldn't make it anymore today, "masks are good" is dogma.

Obviously, Vitamin D is not a miracle cure, but there's mounting evidence that it may be beneficial, just like masks, perhaps even drastically more so. I don't accept the "we need to wait for more evidence" argument anymore when I'm simultaneously forced by law to wrap a piece of cloth against my mouth/noise, based on similarly poor evidence.
i thanked my last smartphone in Magic of Tidying Up induced tearful mania then crushed it with a small boulder. weirdest dreams ever as my brain went ohno there went my backup how does physical space work. since ditched pc, ereader, internet, and finally flip phone, going paper purist for 4 months. typing this now on an olympically defunct 3g numpad phone so listen up. it's a cruel lie that living without the stuff is hard. taking the plunge will take months and leave you weeping in the shower. or maybe i have a mind that naturally reacts strongly to it idunno nobody like that here right. the part that can take weeks of stressfull time work is deleting accounts. digital detox whoo sure great but imagine the freedom of having nothing to return to. all the Kondo insight maps over: does this device, login, file, data in the cloud somewhere bring me joy? my digital closet had millions of identifiable objects, taking up no less space for being virtual. there is aversion in the ambiguous task each represents. gonna drop social media? gotta at least consider you might need that squash recipe burried in chat. glance over every app and service you use and ask how do i live without it -and- where do i find the time and wheelbarrow to get myself out. more saliently, which of the people on the other side do i say bye to or ask for more intimate contact info? the dauntingness of unknowns can only be faced with the will to exit. the only ultimate fate of the unrefactorable is deletion. if you're even a little concerned about the tools you use robbing some magic alternative future for yourself, dont detox, switch.
What about some kind of programmable breakout board connected to the Android tablet via USB?
I had 11 onsites (over the course of 6-8 months) at mostly normal tech companies before getting an offer at a FAANG.

Now I've been here 6 months.

Really crazy, and I have no idea how this ended up happening. Probably a combination of studying more and getting better with every interview, finding my weaknesses and fixing them. Along with a combination of bad luck with getting rejected so many times, and good luck with the final acceptance of where I am.

Interesting thing is that I think my offer was more towards the higher end of band for this company, so who knows.
Going from the masks to circuitry is straightforward. I wrote a program that turns the masks into connected components, finds transistors, and organizes the transistors into gates.

The harder problem is starting with die photos rather than clean masks. I did a few experiments with machine learning and TensorFlow but I couldn't get anything useful out of it. One problem is that every chip I look at is very different in how it looks under the microscope. By the time you manually create enough training data, you're halfway done with the chip. And then I couldn't get good results from the machine learning (which is probably my fault, not a fundamental issue).
Zoning Ruins Everything
Calibrate this comment with the fact that HNers are perma-bears and were saying it was time to sell during the bottom of the COVID-19 crash. "Like catching a falling knife," "Historical crashes dropped 60% more than this. A long way to go" and the like. Ignore HN if you have any plans to make money from this market. That's what I did.
What’s in your teenager’s interest?
Hmm, what do you have when you've got a fraudulent executive buried up to his neck in sand?

And everyone who should do something about it having their heads buried?

A. Misplaced sand.
Hey! OP here. It's my first Show HN post so wan't quite sure about the title and the format. Hope it's good enough.

The content is simple, a spreadsheet to keep track of your personal finances. Including a general status view, expenses, investments, cryptos, and budgets. Of course the template's data is fake for illustrative purposes.

I have been using and improving the spreadsheet for a year, and would be great to receive some feedback and things to improve. Also, would be great to see if can be useful for other people!

Thanks!
There is 4 for everyone, called Death. Make sure you'll enjoy it, both the transformative metaphorical one and the literal one.

If you're lucky, you'll stare into it sooner than later and become better for it. (When you're old, it's hard to do anything about it.)

Once you get it, you will know how to live your life to fullest while not leaving a debt and cleanup to others.
A teen who doesn't know much about a field won't be able to describe things concretely.
What is the cost of an LED?

What is the cost of neurosurgery?
The Elements of Computing Systems, also known as “Nand2Tetris”

It's a great resource for anyone starting out.
Poor Microsoft. They are so ethical. /s
What do you see as the difference between the central bank selling its stock and Treasury issuing an identical new one?
On fast navigation in the command line
It might just be a virgin media thing but I cannot browse to any vpn sites but the filtering is done differently the porn filter i.e. it's by government request but not publicly enough to warrant a redirect to their site
Calling for Muslims to be militarily crushed isn't criticism, its bigotry of some sort even if you don't consider it racist.
> why doesn't your site redirect http to https

My site is a mess with the blog hosted by Blogger, images stored on AWS, and other files elsewhere, and Cloudflare thrown on top. It was a considerable effort to get https to work at all. I tried a Blogger option to force https and it broke everything for a day so I'm hesitant to try again. I figure that people can go to https directly if it's important to them.
> ...have no consequence besides a fee (since loss of freedom would be injustice)...

How do you think they enforce the paying of the fee?

Reminds me of a story...this one guy I met had his car impounded because he forgot to pay a ticket he got on a bicycle (when the headlight requirement was new) so they suspended his license which caused him to drive around for years without a license. Pretty sure they had a bench warrant out for him too so they hauled him off to jail.
Sometimes I just feel like I can't move the cursor forward at all. :)
Neither have i seen disagreement there. The point is that the graph is used to claim that we will get to these levels and that combustion is the reason we will reach them in 2100 and that the solution is to reduce fossil fuel combustion.
This is the first thing of substance I have seen him say in a long time and I hope he makes vitamin D his crusade.

I personally take 8-10k (depending on how many roll out of the bottle) and have for years.

Want to end the unnecessary lockdowns and forced lifestyle changes? Send every citizen $300 in vitamin D.
https://amirarticles.com/positive-points-of-trump-term/
Trump becomes very popular every day, lets discuss some points to find out why people love him more compare to Biden? I choose only a few important Positive Points of Trump 1st Term, but there are too many more.
My point isn't that there's no useful content in the cables; my opinion is that it wasn't screened well. The data was dumped, not carefully screened. Assange M.O. changed in that regard, somewhere in the past 10 years, and that is the moment where I started to believe his opponents had a point.

> In the case of the DNC email leaks, I could see a better argument that it was political, but then it also wouldn’t matter. None of the Espionage Act charges or accusations of putting US agents in grave harm are based on leaked DNC emails, only Iraq War leaks and the diplomatic cables. It would be awfully hard to prove any serious harm from publishing the DNC emails - and also the standard for publishers protected in that case is much higher. Keep in mind all that is proved that he did is publish them (no different than tons of other news outlets).

It pretty much affected the outcome of the election up to the point that we USA got an orangutan in office. It is something Russian troll farms and Cambridge Analytica were also trying to do. All three's actions affect our democratic process in a negative way (ie. we want stability not chaos right before an election). Is it basis to get him prosecuted via Espionage Act? No, but that Act is retarded either way; lets look at other laws instead. How about illegal access to a remote computer? Then we're getting to more fair waters. Another one is putting innocent lives in danger by leaking sensitive data.
There's always "be a giver to other givers and sharers"!
If I’m going to use something extremely low powered that has graphical abilities, then at least i’d like it to look nice.
Freedom ain’t free, and we’ve gotta pay for it with our freedoms! Baby
Tesla Model Y vs. VW ID.4 comparison (ext dimensions, range, specs)
Why Is Covid Less Dangerous Now? Doctors Gain Virus Skill to Fight Coronavirus
Yeah, try Googling Swiss Nazi gold before advocating Swiss governance as a model to uphold.