skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, same here, twice. I made it worse by opening my phone's stopwatch and starting a timer. The time was in the format 00:00.00, and I could see the milliseconds creeping by, slowing more and more, until the numbers stopped moving entirely and that's the point when I was like "Welp, I made a big mistake here tonight."

Got pretty traumatized from that. You assume linear progression of time to be a given truth of the universe, and when you loop in time or it stops, it's as if gravity had been reversed and you can float now. Cracks the fundamental assumptions you had about everything and you are left trying to put the pieces back together afterwards.

If drugs always wear off in a finite amount of time -- but the drug has subjectively halted YOUR movement of time, you can now logically be in this state for an eternity/infinity. And that's when you get chills down your spine and start to panic haha.
> I keep seeing people who argue that TVs would be notably "more expensive" if they didn't come with ads.

In a competitive market, you can certainly imagine a situation where this would be true. Competition should drive prices as low as they can go, and if manufacturers make money from ads, they can afford to not make a profit off hardware (and maybe even sell it at a loss).

In which case, the questions are:

1) Is this a trade-off we're okay with? (Advertisements and privacy violations in exchange for cheaper televisions.)

2) How can we support a business environment that leads to this outcome?

We ought to focus on #2 anyway, for all sorts of reasons.

For #1, I think it's fairly easy to say "no, everyone should have a guaranteed right to privacy", but as a fairly well-off person, I'm not sure I'm comfortable making that decision for everyone else.
I haven't worked with Citrix ADC but if it's like any other load balancer you want to look at the SNI configurations settings and the TCP profile/buffer size. Increasing the buffer size may help but from my experience if you are offloading SSL then the buffer window shouldn't matter since the HTTPS connection is not being decrypted at the destination but who knows maybe ADC requires a larger buffer for HTTPS versus HTTP.
inscape.tv (every vizio tv, that's why they're so cheap), nielsen (gracenote), ispot.tv, samba.tv, alphonso.tv, 605.tv, placed.com, truoptik, and others

Many double as ad/analytics platforms but they'll gladly sell viewership data.
Someone needs to create a localized faraday field with adjustable size for shit like this.

But then the battle continues and they brick the device if it cant phone home with an endless reboot cycle or something. Why is this blatantly anti-consumer behavior not illegal? Companies continue to show us nothing is beneath them except for us.
Insomnia | Sr. Full-stack Engineer | Remote | Full Time | http://insomnia.rest

Insomnia is building API tools to help organizations and developers build better APIs. Our tools are used by companies around the world, to deliver quality experiences to their customer base and partners on a daily basis. Come join us in helping others deliver quality API experiences.

You'll get to work directly on our flagship products, in our open source repositories, with a fully distributed remote team to build out core functionality and features impacting hundreds of customers and thousands of individuals on a daily basis.

Tech Stack:

- Electron, React, GraphQL, Go, Postgres

We are looking for:

- Experience with Electron (IPC and networking a huge plus)

- Experience with React

- Understanding of web communication layers (eg.: REST, GRPC, GraphQL)

Nice to have

- Experience working on a remote-first, distributed team

- Experience with distributed sync

Sr. Full-stack Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/kong/b325b381-42af-48e1-8050-895a28b45...
Calculus is not remedial education. It is typically taught in the first 4 semesters of college. (Differential, Integral, Multivariable, DiffEq)

English composition, World History, US History, all are part of a BS program. Why make a kid sit through 4 years of remedial junk in High School when he is already at a college level?

But you are right, remedial stuff like grammar, writing, and Algebra should be taught at a Middle/High School. Kids shouldn't graduate until they are done with that. But keeping someone 4 years at a High School just to run out the clock on their DOE funding when they hit 18 is nuts when they are at a college level.
The Open-Source Version of Google Drive Built on Filecoin and IPFS
Developers are rewarded for features, PMs are rewarded for happy customers. It’s usually that simple. Especially in companies where you are rewarded with promotions and bonuses this value proposition rules the entire product. See for example Google’s entire product portfolio.

It’s promotion-driven-development.
I had a very similar experience. Do you know which episode of Midnight Gospel that was?
I heard you like Browsers ... So we put a browser into your browser...
> Also if you say "system X is bad" it's close to certain you're not the person who is at the top of system X. By not identifying yourself, you identify yourself as close to the bottom.

I don't disagree, but it seems like that would happen if you just dodged the questions like the interviewee too. I guess it just sounds to me like getting in the front of the issue would be an effective strategy because a lot of the social stigma around it means the discrimination is supposed to be subtle and unacknowledged.
We’re paying $12/line/month + $10/GB over 500MB, but the data never expires. I’ve only had to pay for an extra GB a few times in the last few years, so it’s ~$14/month/line.

The sms and voice limits are high enough not to matter.
>The scientific method cannot draw conclusions. In practice it's mostly used to establish correlations only. When used in attempt to directly prove something it can only do so to a statistical degree and can never in actuality arrive at a "conclusion" that one can arrive at with logic.

You need to be able to logically extrapolate from the body of existent evidence to form new testable hypotheses. You're right that I shouldn't have use the word 'conclusion' but the point still stands that the mental tools of the scientific method are the exact same ones that were refined by philosophy for millennia before the scientific method was first formalized by Bacon. Rational philosophy is a bare minimum prerequisite to consistent scientific inquiry.

>I'm just saying that the description I wrote above has nothing to do with the ethics of the death penalty which philosophy places as more "fundamental."

I'd like to see a source for that. Really sounds like another strawman to me.

>I mean if you're saying philosophy is the study of anything and everything then yes it is more fundamental, but as blurry as they are, the boundaries of what philosophy encompasses are way more limited than "everything."

"Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. It is distinguished from other ways of addressing fundamental questions (such as mysticism, myth, or religion) by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument. It involves logical analysis of language and clarification of the meaning of words and concepts."

- source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_philosophy
As a Gentoo/Funtoo user, I feel like we can solve this problem with better security by running applications in Docker. See Funtoo's approach to Steam for example.

https://www.funtoo.org/Steam
Do you think being good at something and successfully selling or marketing your work is like buying a lottery ticket?
Video Processing with Python
many of these "freedom" types only care about a narrow set of freedoms for themselves. They're actually quite fond of authoritarian systems.
Given your handle I would've expected you to prefer Fortran.
No one has a problem with Samsung putting ads on a channel with free content that you can choose not to watch. But to take screenshots of what you’re watching on your tv every 60 seconds, upload it to their servers, and use it to build a profile of you so that the ads on that channel can be more targeted should land some Samsung executives in prison.

Furthermore, pushing an automated software update to put ads inside the user interface of the TV where they previously didn’t exist should be illegal as well.
I'm looking forward to multi-gpu tests!

Would be good to see if it is worth upgrading x4 and x8 setups.

Single gpu upgrade being worth it is a no-brainer. Launch price of the 30xx cards is lower that then purchase-able price of the two comparison cards!

If only you could buy them though. The only microcenter in PA got 15 of each 30xx on respective launch days.

If anyone knows how many of these cards are being produced please do share.
Say you calculate the median income for all spectators at a football game at $40,000. Suddenly Bill Gates walks in and the median skyrockets creating a false reality of what all others actually make. Median can often over-simply and create erroneous information.
Ask HN: What is the best way to interview someone for a Solutions Architect role
I have been given an opportunity to interview someone for a Solutions Architect style role within an organisation, and as such given a chance to change the method / style of the interview if required. Which is great, as I know of some additional questions and such I could ask that will hopefully give the candidates an opportunity to really shine.

However, the main bulk of an interview would either be a technical test or a solution on a whiteboard - and I have seen that these are slowly becoming a bit of a pain rather than something enjoyable when someone is in interview.

If you were looking for someone with a background in cloud architecture, what sort of methods have worked for you in the past? Does the style of a scenario with a whiteboard and time to design and defend still produce the right type of person?

Not expecting the answers, but if I get some suggestions on ideas, that would be awesome!

Thanks in advance!
Show HN: Volley, Record Asynchronous Podcast Interviews
Reuse is better than recycling, so what's the problem?
I've found that people who make this kind of statements often aren't familiar with the kind of work Palantir does.

Palantir doesn't collect any information. They build tools for the government to browse information they already have. For example they build a tool to visualize the flow of monetary transactions between different people as a graph. They didn't collect this information, the government already has this information on financial transactions.

Whether or not Palantir existed, the government collects the same information. Sometimes people make the argument that building better tools to make correlations between these pieces of information amounts to a threat to privacy. But that seems like a much weaker argument to me. The government already has the information being analyzed with Palantir, and if the people don't think the government should have this information we have mechanisms in place to remove leaders and elect ones that will eliminate this data collection.
Don't waste your time. The people doing this don't know anything about programming.

There's no reason to ever look at or respond to PR from someone who doesn't at least have their own repo (or at least a fork of a repo) with non trivial commits (at least to a toy/learning project)
Let me preface by admitting I am quite biased against MOOCs in the context of obtaining a degree so take this with a grain of salt...

With respect to an advanced degree, in general, your time is more valuable than the costs. That is certainly true for a quality MBA from an Ivy or say Bentley. So my initial reaction is "mehhh". I'm sure some/all of these courses might be fantastic but...

You don't end up with a degree from any regionally accredited university. This is not an MBA in any manner at all but a set of random courses cobbled together. You will be pushing water up hill to convince me as an employer that this is somehow equivalent. You will probably never convince a large HR department with static rules that you deserve to be recognized as having an MBA if one should be required for a promotion.

Perhaps more importantly though, you don't get to network "in person" with other like minded entrepreneurs thus missing out on the "old boys network". The "real" reason to get an MBA in my opinion.
If you work hard everyday, one job should suffice for a home to live in, never worry about food, or how to pay rent, quality education for your children, and a nice vacation once a year and not having a medical event bankrupt you.

If a significant part of the population work more than one job, try actively to reach this sort of life, and hardly achieve it, then something is broken.

I don't which policy will make us closer to this sort of fairness, but that's the only bottom line that interests me.
Pressing YubiKeys
That amounts to asking women to actively and intentionally hide their gender online, something men are not asked to do. And it is extremely problematic to try to comply with such requests and it is extremely, extremely sexist to act like a woman can only expect decent treatment if she actively hides her gender.

That actually means it is impossible to get any kind of decent treatment as a woman, no matter what you do.
Will Trello ever get to the point where it's declared as complete and development switches to maintenance mode? It seems like this industry likes to develop products until they are bloated messes and then some lean competitor with a fresh look sets up shop and starts the cycle all over again.
Money Supply Growth Hits Eye-Watering 25% Year-over-Year
That last part is why I routinely stick with bash for quick scripts. For example, I usually create boolean values to check for a proper config by using grep or grep -c.

Do you have any recommendations for an IDE to use for Bash scripting?
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
I think you might enjoy this blog post "intelligence is adaptability" [1]. It's not heavy of facts or references, but I like the inspiration. It also sounds a little like what you shared you learned as well.

[1] http://www.actinginbalance.com/intelligence-is-adaptability/
Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?
I’m a single male living my entire life in a place that’s barely a few steps up from hell.

I have some skills and fluent English but:
* Dropped out of high-school
* In my mid-30s now
* Not a good team player yet
* Holding the passport of a country almost nobody wants to deal with

I make about USD 2K a month from mostly passive income and have about USD 50K to invest, so I can support myself for a while.

I just want to live in a safe, clean country with a non-toxic culture (and preferably a cool climate).

What options do I have, apart from landing a lucky job or foreign wife?

I can provide more details in the comments, and thank you.
That might imply the end of petrodollars: not sure that'd be a sellable proposal?
Given the current global pandemic, the risk of not doing these exams for folks who need them for their jobs of risking covid-19 is a far bigger problem than privacy.

An exam body is certifying you are qualified in a skill or a subject.

Yes these systems are intrusive, they are trying hard to make sure integrity of their assessment is there.

I don't see how else in today's world both objectives can be met. Many industries regulate your professional interactions. Every call can be recorded in customer support or fin tech many of them are doing it from their homes today.
In which case, the problem isn't Flatpak, it's packages that are distributed outside of the distro's control. If Ubuntu was the ultimate distributor of every Flatpak on their system, they could also recompile and update the dependencies for those Flatpaks whenever a security risk was discovered.

Should we get rid of the AUR while we're killing Flatpak?
I’m perpetually amazed and sometimes shocked at how much of our world relies on Excel.

Being central to developing Excel has to be the safest IT job out there. Half of the world can be on fire and you’re still required.
President of United States Tests Positive for Covid-19
The best way to solve for this is to raise the expected rate of return to cover risks and provide firm legal and regulatory incentives to return investor capital. This is exactly what institutions like the IMF and the World Bank are designed to do.
to be fair this is a male space, I would expect no different treatment if I showed up on a Karen Knitting Forum. Equal rights doesn't mean you get treated the same as men, it means you get TREATED THE SAME AS MEN
The dollar's status as the world's reserve currency allows the US to consume at a rate that wouldn't otherwise be possible. All the trade surplus countries want that to continue.

Losing that status, or changing the institutional structure in ways that undermine it, would cause huge, wrenching changes in the US but might be for the best. But again, the surplus countries really don't want that. For Germany, Japan and China these are actually the best of times - at least economically.
Getopt isn't a builtin and the BSD/OSX one is different.
I think most developers already have the mindset before working in any company. Maybe the mindset propels them towards computers and software development.
Then don't use Flatpak!

The other side is that Software Developer Foo isn't necessarily going to have the resources/inclination to work with your distro maintainer. You may decide to avoid Foo's software as a result, and that's totally fine—but if I like Foo's software and want to use it, Flatpak gives me that opportunity.
My wife (Asian-American) had a former friend (also Asian-American) tell her that I "conquered" her, essentially tricking/conning her into a long-term relationship with me (white, American), simply because of our racial backgrounds and the fact that in this persons disturbing world view there is no other way to explain Asians dating or marrying outside of "their race" than things like "yellow fever."

It is horribly racist and extremely one-sided and the perpetrators don't even seem to understand that they are engaging in true-to-life racism / racist rhetoric.
That's not the case in countries that have capital controls. Some of the biggest economies today do.
English is an idiomatic language, there is no straight logical mapping between semantics of individual words and ultimate meaning.

Add in purposeful ambiguity, innuendo and pragmatism, and the situation is more complex than either "guys always mean men", or "guys always means a group of any sex" - However, I'm not sure dictionaries aim to pin down every aspect of usage, rather than summarise the semantic.

My own experience:

"guys" referring to a specific group e.g. "those guys" can refer to mixed groups.

"guys" with no clear target can be used abstractly as a more casual way to refer to men in general, but I rarely see men themselves use this (but usage may vary). Women, and women's magazines use it quite a bit.

"How many guys have you slept with" is tainted as an indicator of general semantics b/c it is a partly idiomatic; as an example "What can I do you for?" is a common phrase / idiom, but would be considered poorly constructed English otherwise. The use of "literally" in non-literal contexts a poor indicator of what the word (supposedly) means, and probably a result of differing usage, or possibly lingual style. Any kind of innuendo has a pragmatic meaning, and whole words and phrases have metaphorical meaning - to the degree that they are no longer understood as metaphors. Finally, choice of words pragmatically communicate information too, e.g "those people" or "you people" can have a stigma attached despite being semantically neutral.
Are there any materials that produce phosphorescence when targeted with laser?
Don't worry. They'll add the ads back a couple of years later just like cable TV.

Ads are far too inciting to be left on the table. Costumers be damned!
Does an external Roku device collect ACR based data?
The distinction between extensive practice (an opportunity-rich world) and intensive (sparse, or highly specialised).

Some have the luxury of choice. Some take what they can get.
Don't waste your words, he's just one of those racist internet trolls following the same time old (if a little tired) strategies. You won't get anything fruitful from calling him out IME. I find this video series [0] useful for identifying and ignoring trolls online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY
Can we buy some ads on this for the PiHole ?
Is OpenAI Still Open?
Lycurgus reportedly had ideas for making cash less fungible[1], but given the rest of his ideas, he might not be the best inspiration.

[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:20...
I have understood the article. I am saying for a minority this will be a liberation from duty and will allow for their natural creativity to express itself. Many will feel stifled, useless and un creative - but a few will have an opportunity to create that a normal life would not have afforded them.
Well, very technically speaking, they did recycle those iPhones.

Why is Apples so obsessed with controlling the entirety of their devices' life cycle, anyway?
Talking about how you get paid to pat yourself on the back isn't going to win the sympathy of people you mistreated. Now is the time for apologies and amends not tone-deaf whining about being held accountable by people who are actually giving freely of their time and IP.

Here's some constructive criticism: DO should send $20 to the donation box of every repo owner who got a spam PR.

And since you don't even work for DO but seem to like them: stop creating more bad PR for them by making embarassing comments in their name.
As a developer, if someone does not constantly want new features, I am out of a job. Frankly I am better off with aggressive development even if it hurts customer acquisition.
Human Nootropics Index
Their contract may have not allowed it .. which shows how shitty the contract was.

Apple doesn't care about preventing environmental damage. Fixing/Refubing and selling is WAY better for the planet than trying to extract all the components, melt them down, and build new product.

This disposable phone world and infinite growth economy has got to stop.
If you're using pubsub to propagate state, then this lets you replicate with eventual consistency. (Think db replication, instant messaging, video game scores, etc.)
Yes, but currently only for their own usage from external devices or TVs that run Roku TV. They don't sell nor license the data.
Regulatory capture prevents from entering the market directly. Among with many other harmful regulations.
Always question the arrow of causality.
Sure; this would be the equivalent of a "lossy" compression algorithm which encodes the result in terms of a question using semantics related to the respondent's knowledge to produce a specific response.

Anyone who has been through elementary school should understand this is the basic objective of a "short answer" question. Also "Jeopardy" is a fair example of this.
Sales. Money. Power.
The gall of FB is amazing considering how recently they did the exact same thing:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

That's where FB paid teens to install a root cert on phones that tracked every thing the users did for market research. And then paid them for it.
Linux’s History (1992)