skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By essential, it is what most engineering disciplines have in common:

Good logical reasoning, and spatial thinking/skills, ability to build up complex systems from smaller ones, and ability to understand/debug how complex systems work, and no 'magical thinking', but ability to analyze things logically.

I am seeing here a bunch of answers that mention 'communication', 'write docs', etc... etc but those are essential skills for any employee in a large company, no matter what the discipline is.

They are not core engineering skills per se (though they are necessary to perform in a large company). If you can't code, or don't understand concepts your communication skills will not help you that much. Maybe become a PM, or some kind of manager, but not an engineer.

P.s I know communication is not core, as i have worked with many 'brilliant' engineers that they had poor communication skills due to be foreigners, or just personality quirks. While that will hamper their ability to get promoted to managers, or architects, they all were respected and did well as engineers.
The bandwidth piece is interesting. I guess if you really have a need for bandwidth just use their K8s offering which is free and you just pay for droplets (with much more bandwidth)/networking. It will require more setup, but you will end up with higher bandwidth.
Manufacturing bobblehead trophies to help grow my bootstrapped B2B SaaS
Free online Word Counter that can exclude HTML tags
Re: capacitance, our capacitance is too low. The higher the capacitance the lower the voltage. A 1 farad capacitor could hold 1 coulomb of charge at 1 volt of potential difference. A 0.1 farad capacitor could hold 0.1 coulomb of charge at 1 volt, or 1 coulomb of charge at 10 volts, or 0.01 coulombs of charge at 0.1 volts, or 100 coulombs of charge at 1000 volts.[0]. Because our capacitance is so low, you need a huge amount of voltage to force all of those electrons onto us.

[0] Assuming the capacitor didn't fail -- in the case of actual capacitors, they only operate within certain parameters and tend to explode outside of them, in the case of people in an atmosphere, you'd probably see those discharges well before you managed to shove a full coulomb of charge onto one.
The supreme court does it all the time so I assume the lower courts can too
It's great to see some type checking sneaking in Elixir :)
This is really great. Thanks so much for making it. Existing sites use word lists or random arbitrary user submissions.

I've been looking for something exactly like this. I've switched up my keyboard layout several times in past months and need constant practice more than my daily work requires to unlearn years of muscle memory and the confusion of recent rewirings. Using normal sentences is better so that frequent words are typed/learned more often to build up that muscle memory faster/stronger.
Proof was in description. Maintainers claimed that problem wasn't related to image but rather to infrastructure, so we changed the base image to prove that infrastructure was totally fine. Also i personally don't actually care that much if issue with this particular image is resolved, we switched to bitnami one for the time being (and will build our own one from sources when we have time to do so). It's more of a warning for other companies/people to check for the same problem.
> Continued GI issues

Ditto.
Hey,

congrats on the launch! I see there's some critique here already that could be a bit hurtful - don't take it to heart. As most of these commenters haven't even had a chance to try your app yet, this signals to me that something isn't quite resonating with the way you sell your product, and you'll need to work on your messaging a bit more to win them over.

From my experience successfully launching fintech API[1] on ProductHunt and HN, a fleshed out pricing page can really help with the credibility. Also, a more concrete statement on privacy would be very helpful too.

Best of luck!

[1] https://wisefin.ai
Coinbase has offices around the world
Sadly I don't believe people on the end of an anonymous internet purchase would be swayed by that in general.
Yes, but if we equalize the tech industry on the company level, startups will be able to pay more, and a lack of monopsony around high-level programmer talent will further drive up wages.

Unless FAANG is unionized or something, the trust-busted alternative of the status quo is definitely better for labor.
I think it's the other way around. One of the reasons tech companies got so big in the last 10 years is that there have been no startups emerging to compete with them because either (a) VCs have funded for the short term and encouraged exits to big companies over waiting it out for an IPO and (b) VCs have made mega funding rounds diluting out employee equity and making it a no-brainer to work for a FAANG
When you say "3D movies", do you mean animated ones? Because they just simulate shallow depth of field which you also get from real lenses (given the right configuration). It's completely normal to use it as a tool to direct attention in movies.
We have our own pages such as:

http://justinethier.github.io/cyclone/docs/api/srfi/69

Admittedly this does not include examples.

Perhaps it needs to be more clear that the API documentation contains links both to our internal docs as well as the official SRFI pages:

http://justinethier.github.io/cyclone/docs/API#srfi-librarie...
Two-sided market and multi-sided platform create situations where old antitrust paradigms break down and regulators must step in hard.

It seems still be uphill battle to explain this to the public, because at least social media comment sections are filled with 'what it is to me' anecdotal thinking in personal level that is "Not even wrong".
Into the looking glass: Post-viral syndrome post COVID-19
I already do this in https://www.keybr.com/ most articles I want to read from hackernews I copy past them there and type them instead of only reading them, I find it more fun and allow me to finish articles which I don't do when I read only.

In keybr.com you can provide your own custom text in => Setting => Provide your own custom text.
Well it wasn't completely clear before this ruling (see this analysis from a Belgian Law Faculty which lists the previous cases (https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/mass-surveillance-and...).

And some member states never really ruled on the matter clearly.

Now it's pretty clear and I have to agree and re-reading this ruling entirely that this is in fact making mass surveillance legal under an apparent cover of limiting it. Making your initial ending remark completely true.
I think interest and hard work is definitely a factor, but I also think that genetics is playing a role.

The top 30 record holders in the 100m sprint are all of African descent:

https://www.worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/spr...

It's possible that White and Asian people just less interested, but it's not the sensible null hypothesis, given that we can observe with our own two eyes phenotypical differences in physique between the racial groups (e.g. Asians being shorter)
I agree with the difference between programming and software development, though I'm not entirely sure on why you're pointing this difference out. Do you think my answer is not answering the OP's question? :)
“fatigue” is one those symptoms that’s heavily affected by placebo/nocebo since it’s predominantly psychological. I’m not saying it can't be caused by a lingering infection or the result of an infection, I’m just saying it’s not like “scarring” or “breathlessness” — it’s hugely subjective. IMO the fact there’s no correlation to disease severity points more towards this being a red herring.

[edit] To downvoters, consider that the placebo effect is incredibly strong, much stronger than you give it credit for most likely, and has gotten stronger over time as our faith in medicine has.

A 2014 study showed that placebo was 50% as effective as real migraine medication in treating pain after migraines [1].

Similarly for the nocebo effect. A study showed that 20% of people getting placebo drugs in a clinical trial developed side-effects. The nocebo effect may be even stronger than placebo. [2,3].

I'm not minimizing COVID and I'm not saying these people are "making it up." I'm saying, humans aren't computers, and human viruses aren't computer viruses. It's not a case of X happens to you and the result is deterministically Y. There's a lot more to your subjective experience. Generally the more strongly you believe in a potential range of outcomes, the more likely you are to, basically, get them. COVID anxiety is huge, and some of these "long-haulers" symptoms could easily be nocebo.

If this long-haul syndrome really is nocebo, it opens up potential avenues for treatment.

We need to keep an open mind.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-th...

[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/The_nocebo...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4804316/
I have personal experience with patent trolls. I had a patent lawsuit filed against my company in Texas (we are entirely based in California) that was very distracting and slowed down our innovation. What was the lawsuit over? A BS patent that was used in dozens of other lawsuits claiming ownership over the process of selling things online. Patents should be completely eliminated, all they are is an artificial restriction on trade that leaves bad monopolies in place. If we aren't going to ban patents, we should at least add very heavy penalties on BS patents and patent trolls to discourage the worst abuses that have become commonplace. And judges like Albright should be disbarred and possibly even criminally prosecuted.
Jesus, how bored can they be? This is the ... Fifth time? Sixth? I've lost track.
This is already what is happening with static analyzers for C and C++, some of them even getting some Rust like ideas on the analyzers.

This is important, because as much as some of us would like to nuke those languages, they aren't going away and plenty of domains are not going to move away from them anyway.

However there is only so much that one can improve without changing their semantics.

And if you start changing their semantics, then you end up with what is effectively another language, e.g. Checked C.
This is a fantastic tool to put some wrote muscle memory work into classics of english usage. Fascinating and unexpected way to work through some classics.

Can there be a custom text option or similar tool available?
I would like to practice code snippets.
old, but ever-green:

Although high general intelligence is common among hackers, it is not the sine qua non one might expect. Another trait is probably even more important: the ability to mentally absorb, retain, and reference large amounts of ‘meaningless’ detail, trusting to later experience to give it context and meaning. A person of merely average analytical intelligence who has this trait can become an effective hacker, but a creative genius who lacks it will swiftly find himself outdistanced by people who routinely upload the contents of thick reference manuals into their brains.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/personality.html
In some sense, there is no such thing as a gravitational pull. What there is is a curvature of space-time that causes an apparent force in some coordinate systems [0]. For a sufficiently large black hole, gravity is effectively constant in the vicinity of the event horizon; which means there exists a coordinate system where the space around (a small region of) the event horizon is essentially flat space. From the perspective of an outside observer, you would appear to flatten as you approach the event horizon, but this is a consequence of the coordinate system. You don't feel any effect at that point.

The reason light cannot escape from past the event horizon is that that is the point where space-time is so warped that what you consider a perfectly normal time axis is, from the perspective of an outside observer, now pointing in a spatial dimension directly towards the center of the black hole.

In contrast, regardless of how small you are, there is some point where you do experience tidal forces and feel yourself getting spaghetti. For a small black hole, this is before you pass the horizon, for a large black hole, it is after.

[0] The distinguishing feature between a real force like gravity, and a truly fictitious force like the centrifugal force, is that for the later, you can construct a coordinate system where the force disappears at all locations. For a real force, you can construct a coordinate system where the force goes away at any given point; but there will always be some point with an apparent force.
Are you sure you aren't just underestimating the traffic level HN can generate?
You might not have realized this, but a global pandemic was starting in January and they were probably collectively shitting bricks at that point trying to shoe-string together something to help capture reporting, while probably being in a change freeze, and also probably having to do a mass-migration to at home work with the inevitable struggles of that.
Happy to answer your questions:

- Fion is a web app, available on both desktop and mobile.

- Fion currently uses Plaid to link your US-based bank accounts. Your information is encrypted end-to-end and your credentials are never accessible to us.

- Fion is free.

- We plan on offering multi-currency support in the near future.

- Service Providers refers to things like Google Analytics on our website, live customer support, and Plaid.
This is also a problem, yes, and it's part of the deterioration in election freeness in the US.
Your response here has me very interested to read more posts in the future and hopefully see a permapeople community grow.
It's mostly used by mom for babies I think.
It's risky between Fion and Fillon https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39135906
They should not legally be allowed to... But unfortunately attorneys get to decide what is legal and what is not.
Yes I agree ambitious people obsessed with their empire building aren't going to stop being born. And yes I agree their empires will generate jobs.

But they will be increasingly crappy and mindless as people are used to fill in the gaps that Automation and AI cant.

You can see that playing out in Amazon warehouses as workers try to keep pace with robots and get injured, or in Zuckerbergs content moderation farms as the mods suffer brain damage from what the AI systems miss.

So expect lot of people to say no thanks. And if those people don't find any other purpose expect them to start burning things down. In that context, orgs that provide routes to purpose are doing a good thing.
I was running these scans manually a while back and had some interesting findings:

- https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/02/09/tld-a-records/

- https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/06/02/google-tld-no-more-a-rec...

- https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/08/18/tld-a-records/

Automated this a while back, and now there is a daily scan that runs on Travis and updates the website.

Original inspiration for this was https://web.archive.org/web/20151007043309/http://blog.towo...., which documents a URL shortener living on http://to/ back in 2010.
This is awesome, I got all my accounts hooked up and... realized I couldn't do anything about my Bitcoin holdings... is there any easy way to just connect to a tracker like coinmarketcap.com and just pass in your Bitcoin holdings? It's a fancy dashboard.
Not a study but the COVID Symptom Tracker App has registered one in 200 with side-effects 90 days later.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-more-than-half-of-cov...

So anywhere from 0.5% up to 2% seems to be the plausible range, which of course can differ depending on your age.
Argh. The more I ask the less I know
All taxes and financial regulation are bad, says Coinbase, so it's best not to make any political enemies. They're reserving the ability to be friends with anyone who will give them what they want.

I guarantee that "no politics" uses the modern definition of the word "politics," which doesn't include the process of governance and the creation of laws. Is Coinbase saying that they refuse to lobby, and will not be writing checks to politicians?
Thanks for your comment and you 100% right. This is very close to what I experienced. If you could just see what others do in your area, what worked for them and what not, would spare you a lot of time. Until now everyone is doing trial and error by themselves.
I think the privacy concern is very valid, but this is a solvable problem, for example only showing fuzzy vicinities or anonymize in another way. Happy to hear your thoughts on this one!
If you goal is to get prescribed stimulants (amphetamines, ritalin, or modafinil), it's pretty trivial to get diagnosed and prescribed. Psychs hand that stuff out like candy
If you miss out on Kakoune because you don't like the name of the license, that's a shame. It's really good. Neither am I a huge fan of Unlicense, nor do I think C++ is all that great, but Kakoune is nevertheless excellent.
Oh yeah I completely agree. It’s really not something that gets me down, or makes me loathe working with others, it’s exactly that— wishful thinking
Big Tech is bringing us in an era of renewed feudalism. They can't be broken up too soon, or in too many pieces.
I refuse to believe with this administration that any trust-busting will occur.

The only company Donald Trump will break up is Amazon, out of a personal grudge against Jeff Bezos.
> When protected mode was introduced with the 286...

BTW you mean “was introduced to the x86 architecture with the 286...”

At the time memory segmentation was a standard way to deal with memory addressing limitations, and a more powerful mechanism than bank switching, if you could afford the circuitry.

Segment-specific memory protection was a core feature of the Multics design in the early 60s. Multics’ design was more sophisticated than the 286 as it supported different security rings on a per-segment basis, a simpler version of which I believe appeared with the 386. I believe Multics was the first to use this approach, but my memory might be faulty in this regard.

The 60s was a fruitful decade for architecture experimentation with a real Cambrian explosion of designs. Things settled down more in the 70s as people started to converge on fixing the byte length on 8 bits, 2’s compliment arithmetic and the like.
Yeah, I guess you'd always have to plan for everything possibly costing ceil(advertisedCost).
Dunhills, if I remember correctly.
Show HN: Align – An extensible video chat platform with custom in-meeting apps
Hello HN!

Virtual meetings can be frustrating. When we meet in person, we don't just look and talk at each other. When we meet in person, we don’t just look and talk at each other. We make notes, we write on whiteboards, we set timers, we raise our hands. Broadly speaking, we can effortlessly utilize our environments in order to more easily transmit ideas brain-to-brain. Unfortunately, video chat platforms have mostly killed that flexibility.

That why we built Align (https://align.link), the only extensible video chat platform. Platforms like Zoom have done a great job removing the friction of scheduling, starting, and joining meetings. But there is still the question of what actually happens in the meeting. We don’t want to answer that question, we want to help you answer it instead. We made Align so that anyone with an idea of how to make their virtual meetings even just a little more useful can build an app to bring their idea to life. And best of all, apps can be easily shared with the meeting-goers of the world.

Our SDK is currently in private beta, if you’re interested in developing a meeting app, sign up for the wait list on our website (https://align.link/#sdk-beta).

We'd love to hear your ideas for apps that can make your meetings better :)
https://www.keybr.com/ go to setting Provide your own custom text
Daily new cases in Mississippi are still pretty bad. Removing restrictions because you feel like you should be done with the virus is just going to drag this out.
Hi @tome .. I have often thought the Haskell is ideally suited for Fintech applications due to its unique nature. Perhaps dealing with HFT/forex/options trading or Bitcoin/Ethereum. I think there are better options for webassembly cloudflare workers.
What problems are you encountering with RTSP? I used GstRTSPServer for an open-source project (https://github.com/shortstheory/adaptive-streaming) and it's filled my requirements pretty well. RTSP clients on the other hand...are a much more difficult story.
There is also the end-user to consider. Big fat salaries for engineers to create shitty/sheisty marketing/ads while squashing real innovation is not a net-benefit to society. There has to be some medium.
Lots of people have put less obvious skills required, but IMO a decent level of logical thinking is a definite requirement. I think we often take this for granted because most of us who make a career out of programming find it so easy, but I've never seen anyone succeed at programming unless they had this.
Meh, it's straightforward. Platform should not compete on their platform. The incentives to muck around is too high. There is not a reasonable economies of scope argument here, in practice this self dealing tends to have lower quality products.
How else do you call a person writing articles in the cyberspace?
100% agree! I've always wanted to read "The Art of War" and I just started it while type-practicing. I must add that it will likely improve your reading retention.
What is your basis on that opinion?

Amazon seems like one of the least vertically integrated monopolies (though I agree they need to be curtailed).
> startups will be able to pay more

The OP's proposal is that startups should be able to pay less and hire talent, if it wasn't for those pesky FAANGs driving everyone's wages up. If only they were able to pay less would VCs have been able to keep even more for themselves, I mean, would the market have been more equitable (?@!@)
It basically works like Firefox Send. You select a file, it gets encrypted locally and then uploaded to the decentralized Sia Skynet CDN. Then you get a link which can be shared and contains the decryption key.

Example file (archlinux.iso, 681 MB): https://vup.hns.siasky.net/#a-AAA9uAQczlE79wA4aeoG0asP6txYW5...

Source Code: https://github.com/redsolver/skynet-send

Disclaimer: I tried to implement the encryption properly, but I could have missed something. So please don't use this webapp for sensitive files yet.
But the tech conglomerates don't just copy and kill you, first they ask to acquire you and then when they get rejected they copy and kill you. It costs less to acquire a company with an existing project and team that is successful than it costs to stand up a new team on a new product that is unproven.

VC's like having conglomerates that have lots of cash to throw around and can acquire their investments at nice multiples. Even if the startup sucks, they are almost guaranteed a decent exit as long as it doesn't suck TOO much.
The exclusive licensing from "open"ai to M$
3 things: 1) curiosity 2) learning 3) growth

you need to be curious about why things in a certain way or why they don’t work, to take them apart, to continuously ask why

along with curiosity you need to learn. ALL THE TIME. you job learning is never done. there are fundamental things that will not change with time but a lot of things will and mastering anything will be a lot of work.

and last: growth. you need to tackle bigger and bigger problems and understand more and more in order to not get into a dead end career-wise. your goal is that by learning basic building blocks (programming languages, frameworks, tools) you get to work on or learn more advanced building blocks. the abstraction level you work on should go up
Labor says no. Capital says yes. We mostly end up somewhere in the middle.
Can confirm the same for me!