skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we're talking dictionaries, a related question: why are there no (so few, open-source, English) pronunciation guides out there? Lots of perfectly intelligent people can often be heard repeating a way-off pronunciation.

We have made spell-checkers more-or-less useful, we have huge collections of semi-trustworthy information at our fingertips, and robots to answer questions. But. I'm sure people struggling with learning languages different from their native tongue would very much appreciate typing in a word and hearing a semi-trustworthy pronunciation. Why oh why?
I see. Then it makes sense. Thanks.
Hmm that's true! I agree! Any ideas for how one can nudge co-workers into sharing more actionable feedback like you mentioned?
Space Apps Challenge 2020
I don't understand... How is this different from zoom? And what problem is it solving? The site just had a few screenshots of someone's phone video feed?
No doubt you start with one, but if you hit on any real vein of success you'll build for other platforms too if it makes sense to. There's no way this is "unicorn" rare. I've done it, and so have my competitors within a short time frame. All are bootstrapped.
A more common pattern for me is:

Search

foo

Didn't get a good result

Search

foo !bar

With more specialized or different search engine (foo was already in my browser search bar, so adding !bar is easy).

Or simply

foo !w

If I already know I'm searching in Wikipedia or whatever else specific. I think this feature is very neat.
> Plenty of people are happy and plenty of people are empty, sad, unfulfilled, and depressed in every country on earth.

When you look into the metrics, you'd see what kind of vapid bullshit this is.
Well, every degree is essentially an online degree now. Unless you are in a field where the degree itself is the most useful part of your education, you would defer.

However, if you are unemployed right now, you want to avoid becoming long term unemployed. Therefore you go and get a graduate degree.
>Do we want to cram that with hundreds of random sites that want to be ? That amounts to a meaningless choice (nobody has really time to look through them all and compare)

90% of the users will pick a site on the first screen, those that don't actively want that glut of choice. I don't understand how anybody would be suffering from this, maybe people who have never used a search engine before?

> In that case, as a society we do generally want to use more efficient one.

The money spent on these auctions is advertising money, and it's hard to argue that the companies spending the most on advertising are the most efficient.
Regional high speed rail is already in the works. Here's an overview of the Midwest plan, with a map: https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2010/01/16/midwest-high-...
Wow, this jogged a memory from when Brad Fitzpatrick (bradfitz on HN) had to write a utility to ensure the hard drives running LiveJournal didn't lie about successfully completing fsync().[1] IIRC, the behavior caused fairly serious database corruption after a power outage.

Went back and found the link. To my surprise, it was 15 years ago. To my greater surprise, the original post, the Slashdot article, and the utility all remain available.

And hard drives (or their NVMe successors) still lie.

[1] https://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html
What we need is more cut taxes and spend Republicans. That's sustainable.
[laugh react]
As long as writes are flushed sequentially, I see no problem with metadata only journaling, but apparently, NVMe's don't provide such guarantees.
First of all, as president he shouldn't have any private business interests. Second, under all standard policies, he wouldn't get the most basic security clearance with this fact pattern. Third, saying some other institution or GOP constituent could backstop is PART OF THE PROBLEM, then he is beholden to them, how is that a solution. Fourth, he deliberately withheld this information as part of a years long cover up, contrary to all prior norms, and we now know why, that alone should disqualify him from office. How much tribal blindness are we willing to accept in politics at this point?
No one is linking to the actual policy change. See https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ....

In the email I received today from Google Play it states:

"Any existing app that is currently using an alternative billing system in violation of this policy will need to remove it to comply with this update. For these apps, we are offering an extended grace period until September 30, 2021 to make any required changes. New apps submitted after January 20, 2021 will need to be in compliance."
I might suggest starting with one thing at a time, pulling in more and more. No one learns it all at once.

I might suggest Martin Kleppman's Making Sense of Stream Processing freely available from Confluent [0].

[0] https://www.confluent.io/stream-processing/
News publishers worldwide are setting subscription prices too high for any one reader to support all of them, because that wasn't practical in the age of print. But it's the only way for a publisher to be compatible with a worldwide news aggregation and discussion audience.

Would some kind of HN-centric wire service help?
Comanche Maximum Overkill was written in assembly too, or at least the VoxelSpace engine was. It didn't fit on a single floppy disk though.
It’s not as energy hungry as you might think because there’s a significant energy input due to the shockwave shedding thermal radiation and hot gas/plasma from its “inside” edge. The clever thing here is controlling the inside edge of the shock front as opposed to just letting it form as it would normally do and by controlling it to shift the shock front away from the airframe to reduce drag.
I use ddg exclusively on all my devices for over three years now and can‘t complain. I had no reason to switch to g! for any topic I needed results. So I wonder if I would solve issues in programming faster or not using google. I never had the feeling my programming related searches are not spot on.
Even on my hard searches, Google gives me a bunch of useless SEO and ads. It's like we're past peak search and we're slowly going to stop being able to find things on the internet.
At regular interviews, like every few years. And they will almost always announce them ahead of time. Not to the second, but I've always known when a test was coming. Of course they weren't always tests.
I'm assuming those were industrial cards? A previous employer would stick them in enclosures next to high power motors for decades at a time without issue. Expensive as hell, but damn were they reliable.
> the Twin Cities-Chicago market is definitely a route that deserves better service

For reference, the distance between Minneapolis and Chicago is about 400 miles.

If the Amtrak schedule [0] is strictly adhered to, the travel time is ~7.75 hours. Current prices are ~$116 roundtrip.

Google Maps says the estimated time by car (assuming no traffic) is ~6.25 hours. At ~30 miles/gallon at $2/gallon, the cost of a roundtrip for just gas would be ~$53.

A roundtrip, non-stop flight lasting ~1.5 hours each way can be had for ~$80~$175 with the passenger's choice of at least 10 distinct flights/3 separate airlines.

I like rail. But it's clear that there's not a market fit for rail between Minneapolis and Chicago without massive subsidies. A car is faster and cheaper. A plane is much faster and about the same price. Both car and planes are strictly more convenient.

[0]: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
Scaling Email Transparency (2014)
I don't think that is too much of a worry.

Just like authentication, there will be abstraction libraries that take care of it soon enough, or somebody like stripe will build a SDK and do some consolidated billing management for you.
It’s about time this industry gets “disrupted”.
As per - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-rein-...

"U.S. military is still the world’s top petroleum consumer and largest carbon polluter. Between 2001 and 2017, the five military branches collectively emitted 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions, twice the annual output of all the passenger vehicles nationwide."
Windows Defender checks that box other than hogging the CPU.
Heads up in the first popup which you get right after you sign up there's a typo of the word network. It's currently typed as netwrok.
ActInSpace
At the time of writing, they had 168 employees, I wonder how it has scaled to their current org size.
To make transistors smaller, and not just draw them with finer resolution, the industry will need a new way of controlling the channel. FinFET got us here. Most likely gate-all-around will be the technique that gets the “true” geometries smaller.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigate_device#GAAFET
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is pretty straight forward. Any changes can be deployed with `eb deploy` and builds are quick in my experience.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/creat...
Everyone has anecdotes, I’m a DDG user and the results are nearly always worse/more stale than I got before ditching google two years ago (still have to !g a lot) but hey, at least it’s not google all the time.

Google having a decade of my search history just makes for really relevant results, even if I don’t like the company’s practices.
The West also has social credit system, it's called money. If you do something useful for society, you will get them. If you don't do something useful, you will not get them and die of hunger. And if you do something wrong, you can often use money to avoid harsher punishment.

I think social credit systems are wrong, the moral behavior shouldn't be tradeable. But let's face it, almost all societies have them, and they have many flaws.
It’s getting more and more difficult to justify undergrad 4-year degrees I don’t find it all that surprising that when you strip out the facilities and don’t drop tuition it’s causing this effect.

It’s essentially a luxury service in many ways without the ability to provide the luxury.
nuclear reactors are one unusual earth quake away from rendering entire continent uninhabitable.
As far as we know, quasars could be fully artificial, and around them you could find some of our future friends.

and those things would be pretty outdated - ancient - technology by time we spotted them.
apple is new MS
I think you are misreading the article, or at least taking an oddly limited "developer-only" view instead of considering the audience. NASA is not trying to answer your question about how many digits of pi they use. They are trying to answer a non-technical person on Facebook (likely a kid) who is wondering, vaguely, if NASA needs to use a highly precise representation of pi to fly spaceships, or if something coarse will work.

The answer the kid is looking for: NASA's most precise representation of pi is more precise than 3.14, but nowhere close to 500 digits like the question suggested. 15 is more than enough for most engineers at NASA, and anything that an astronomer might conceptually want to do would take at most 40 digits of pi to do with almost arbitrary precision. The fact that the current representation is architecturally convenient for modern FPUs is basically immaterial to the person's question, even if that's interesting for people with detailed knowledge about such things.
Yeah those are great. I think they're over-priced for most home hacking applications, but you can find older models for much cheaper at Woot.com: https://computers.woot.com/offers/dell-optiplex-3040-micro-i...
They are already added and listed in the article in the music section.
You'll spend every waking hour of your life being poked, thrown around, yelled at, dropped and sometimes drowned. If that doesn't kill you you'll spend the rest of eternity in a drawer. So hell maybe?
Having built a cross-platform app recently as a very small team, I want to put in a plug for RevenueCat (https://www.revenuecat.com/). They abstract away the differences between the Apple/Google APIs so you don't have to worry about dealing with both. You only interface with Revcat. They don't support every last Play Store/App Store API, but I haven't yet found that be an issue. Worth noting that our app uses subscriptions, though, so I don't really know how they do with regular old purchases (I would assume that's supported since it seems to be a simpler case).
Exactly, any sane structure is built with some redundancy so you should be able to temporarily remove a column or piece of wall to install the jacking equipment and then do the job.

For the tokyo station building, they simply lifted the building a bit and then placed it on seismic isolators. Can be seen on page 14 of this: https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr61/pdf/6-15_web.pdf

Or for the Kansai International Airport the huge terminal building was built on jacks from the start the artificial island it was build on settles at an unequal rate:
http://www.kansai-airports.co.jp/en/efforts/our-tech/kix/sin...

They measure the different parts settling and then have a bunch of guys that will go to the affected section and jack the columns appropriately.
The argument of this article is basically "The problem with plastic waste in the ocean isn't as obvious in countries with lower population densities. Other countries make more. That means plastic is fine and it's just a 1970s hippie campaign against it that ruined it." It's a bunch of cherry picked factoids, like recycling is often not properly done in most countries, used as a garnish on top of claims that plastic is actually amazing for the environment.

It also quotes the old study that people barely ever reuse their reusable bags, when I think more people are far more well-aware now and reuse the hell out of reusable bags. Mine have been used for 5 years now, several times a week.

It's a slop-filled hit piece that tries using "environmentalist" as a slur. It's not hard to walk outside and see plastic garbage laying around--increasing by the year--and knowing it'll be there well beyond my lifetime, and knowing some countries are several times worse. I've been to some of those countries and seen piles of plastic bags and wrappers lining streets. It's a problem that will only grow and have compounding damage.
I can't help but wonder if the pandemic will serve as a irreversible shock to a status quo that can't have been sustainable. As much as college was a life-redefining experience for me, I also think it's incredibly wasteful and indulgent to send most 18 year olds to college. I had no idea what I wanted out of the experience, other than the experience itself.

I think a better future would be focused, shorter-term educational programs, taken flexibly through one's early career years. There simply have to be better ways to unbundle the positive aspects of the college experience to make them more responsive to people's individual journeys to their serious careers.
But somehow people trust telegram and thousands of other apps.
No its not about open source
This is such an excellent, textbook example of BULLSHIT. Of course Google is abusing its dominance in mobile OS market to benefit their search product.

> But if your position... without the advertising that money buys

Yeah dude, but the advertising is controlled by the very same party, did you forgot about that? And we are talking for profit advertising, as opposed to objective journalism. It's as if for running in some election, you're required to win some auction, what kind of sick society is that?
Yup. The only reason colleges aren’t facing the wipeout of gyms or restaurants is that education is extremely counter-cyclical
> this is starting to look like it's going to be just one of those very unfortunate facts of life

This reminds me of this quote:

"the Führer often informed those like Himmler tasked with implementing the Holocaust that extermination should be implemented as “humanely” as possible.... For Hitler, killing “impersonally” was, according to John Toland, synonymous with doing so “without cruelty.”"

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-97999-1_...
911 outages reported across US
I had the opportunity to work with a VP at a Fortune 500 company who was probably one of the best leaders I've worked with. Honest, not a lot of BS, willing to fight for her team.

Now she could have been feeding me a line of crap, but I don't think so. Her attitude was people get too wrapped up on promotions. Her view was focus on getting the right mix of experience, regardless of the level you do it at. Once you hit that sweet spot of really knowing how the business works, that's when you'll make significant jumps up in the organization.

It was an interesting observation (and likely very relevant to her own experience), but it was something I continue to noodle on.
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Thx done.
What a beautiful place to commute from. I proposed to my wife at Multnomah Falls.
I know this isn't right but the author's most recent post "The Moral Case for Reopening Schools—Without Masks. Achieving herd immunity in this pandemic should be society’s goal right now." Really makes me skeptical about this one.
It still makes access harder, YouTube already had the feature built in but now you have to go to another site?
and the number of people who are actually qualified to dispatch such advice is even smaller.
What is the difference between express-fileupload VS multer
Which should one use for a file upload? It should consider the following usecases

1. using s3.
2. not reinventing the wheel, libraries that has already addressed this issue.
3. Handle large files as huge as 2gb.
4. Optional: to show progress of upload
5. Async stream upload.
Many wireless carriers preload mcafee on android for free with updates. Who even knows if it catches bad android apps.
> Tell them the truth - even the cloud has outages, but it is certainly more "convenient" to have hundreds of engineers work on fixing an outage at global scale, and all you have to do is wait for it to start working again - then it is to have to fix it all yourself.

Yep, that’s the argument I’ve made, both to management and even our non-techie customers. When we show them our new SaaS product, they get concerned about cloud outages. Our response is “if AWS goes down, you have bigger things to worry about since other things will be down too.”

The plus side I’ve mentioned that our company’s software developers are freed from doing network IT maintenance and infrastructure and can continue focusing on our actual core products instead.
The solution is to let individual creators turn the feature on and off, which they could already do, not nuke it for the whole site.
Technically it’s figured out. Gate-all-around has been experimentally demonstrated at pitches less than FinFET. The primary problem is, who is going to pay it. The economics are very tough at these 1s of nm nodes but hopefully that’s only a transitory problem.
I have read this a few times and its still not clear what the issue was. There are a lot of vague statements like "sneakily replace the real Fortnite app with a fake one after security checks were already complete" What "security check" is this talking about.

My best guess is this,

Epic app installer downloads an apk to the disk, malware app already installed swaps the apk with its own while its on disk, epic installer uses android system prompt to install the swapped apk.

From what I can see, this doesn't give any extra permissions that a normal sideloaded app would not have access to. The worst I can see is that the swapped apk grabs your payment details you enter in the app which was always possible as I pointed out.
When you peek at the code for computing trig functions in most standard libraries (e.g. C Standard math library in the GNU C compiler), you'll see they typically use a lookup table somewhere in the calculation.

As an example, the LUT will get you in the ballpark of the answer, and then you compute a polynomial to calculate the delta and add the two together.

You can always find a polynomial that is extremely accurate, but it likely will be higher order, etc. A LUT + polynomial is faster. A pure LUT is the fastest, but takes too much memory.
If they have enough resources. When everyone is busy working on the revenue generating products for the company, taking time away to work on internal network infrastructure immediately becomes a cost center.
+1

I have tried multiple times to use DuckDuckGo over the years but used !g so often for programming queries that I questioned why I was forcing myself to use a plainly underperforming (for my use case) product. In other David vs. Goliath stories like Firefox vs. Chrome the competing product had verifiable advantages for me. For DDG the only edge is an unverifiable claim that the company doesn’t track me? Other than that I am resolving myself to a product that performs less well for my use case.
WOW.. That's terrible. I was thinking about applying at Melbourne Uni for a graduate course in sciences department. I've to admit that I was attracted to it mostly because of the uni's global reputation. It's very expensive. Now I'm reconsidering. Just because someone is an expert in a field doesn't give them the right to be abusive. There are plenty people who're outstanding in there field of expertise and are also very nice and humble people. I don't understand what people get from such behaviour.
A glossary would be very helpful to make those like myself completely unfamiliar with Minecraft appreciate this more. For instance, what is a "seed".
UwBuitenhuis – Koop Uw Recreatiewoning
I never graduated, but that was back in the 80s. The important part is not getting "official" education, but learning how to self-learn. You don't need to necessarily understand the underlying maths, if you can understand the general theory.

And you're not a "shitty software engineer" if you are self-aware enough to know what you don't know. Read, start with Wikipedia, look up the references, play with stuff, explore.

If you need to understand certain things at a deeper level, then explore the classes and other guided tuition.

I've been doing this stuff for 30 years and I still learn every day. You will produce less than optimal work for ever. As a master craftsman (which is what you are, not an "engineer") you are always learning and improving your craft.

You can be satisfied when completing some work if you did your best to produce it and it works within the constraints you had. There will always be things you would do different or better, so do that next time.
Most of us just want certificates of employability. I got a BSc Biol and immediately became a developer. The education wasn't important, merely the certification that I can complete work to a reasonable standard according to a deadline. To that end, an online degree is fine (as long as it holds its value to employers/HR bots)
My former lab has had 2 since 2012. I know of other labs at the school with more than that. I left, but not as the person I thought was going to leave when I started.

The advice on talking to students is absolutely correct. And to be very clear, if you do not find any good labs in the schools you were admitted to: Do Not Go To Grad School At All. Reapply to other schools and wait. A year waiting is worth the 4 on the backend being a drone in a bad lab.