skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least for any job I've had in the US (middle class), one of your benefits is disability insurance (which the employer usually covers 100% of premiums) which pays you 60% of your salary if you can't work.
That works for a lot of things.

For example, a pen is not a public utility yet it is required for more and more government services.
Why Swedes Don't Speak to Strangers
> This is possible of course, but expensive. Think 1/3rd of the cost of a family car (either as monthly rent, or as purchase price).

Then factor this into the price you have to pay to own a car, why does everyone need to subsidise car owner's parking?
I recalled seeing a nicer sign() or sgn() function. Here it is:

template <typename T> int sgn(T val) {
return (T(0) < val) - (val < T(0));
}

Not mine, from here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903954/is-there-a-stand...
It's a pretty poor argument when your own summary of the opposing side

> the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people

needs to be revised to a keener straw-man in your very next paragraph:

> the key to becoming a billionaire — the defining feature of billionaires — was to exploit people

Here he's swapping necessary-but-not-sufficient for definitionally-equal-to.
Online Booking App Development: A Full Guide for Your Business
Many desktop apps behave this way, yes. Anything from a major tech co should at least
After years of using tons of notebooks I decided to move to Notability on my iPad. The Apple Pencil + Paperlike experience really do it for me.
Notability is nice and when I write feature designs I don’t have to transcribe my handwriting to the computer. I simply select the handwriting, convert it to text and move it over my computer.
Another great thing about this is that I can run searches on my handwriting, I really enjoy that because looking for that one page in a notebook is never practical, specially when you have many notebooks.

I’m a fan of the simplicity of your system but I don’t know if it’ll work for me. I really like writing with a pencil, that’s when I feel like I’m learning or reflecting on information.
Probably not, I really wouldn't recommend for anyone to actually use the code in their next project, I just wanted to try to inspire anyone who might be thinking they're not a good enough programmer to start a SaaS business because I felt that way and almost never launched because of it.
From experience, this rings very, very true.

For many, this is a hard pill to swallow. Here's one way to judge it more objectively. Replace "billionaire", with something more neutral: "pro basketball player", "amazing musician", "prolific writer".

The arguments tend to make a lot of sense in other categories, but our natural inclination rebels on Billionaire. This is a great sign that something is off
Arch Linux's Pacman 6.0 Enters Alpha with Parallel Downloads Support
Which piece of evidence would suit your need? Beyond the physics of wearing a mask, I mean.
I think the 35% on top is the expected improvements of the 888 compared to the 865.

On Geekbench, the top 865 is at 887 for single thread compared to 1585 for the A12. If we add 35% to the 865, the expected 888 score is ~1200, still quite behind the A12.
I don't think I ever made that specific mistake, but (as a non native speaker) I spent a couple minutes staring at your example and was about to write a comment asking what mistake you were talking about before I spotted the typo.
What we need is to get scientific instruments categorized as artwork.

You can buy arecibo for $120M. You can't do anything with it, and you give it on loan to the NSF. Then eventually you can transfer it to somebody else.
Sounds like rail stations in walking distances from homes connecting to mega shopping malls is the solution...
Where she loses me is demanding the names of her reviewers. I never once have known who peer reviewed anything I wrote.
Sounds like she was teeing them up for a Twitter auto da fe.
Wait until you find out how many days per year the US mandates for parental leave.

I'll save you the suspense. The number is zero.
Not disputing that there are shitty companies out there, but I worked somewhere that did this exact thing (10+10 to 15) but it was explicitly said that sick days don't burn PTO. If you're sick you don't work, paid, and if it's more than 2 days in a row you need a note. Basically, treating the employees like adults.

If more companies did that people would be happier and more productive across the board.
There are a lot of things to love about Foucault's writing. It's not exactly a model of clarity and concision though.
For me, a lack of constantly thinking about the battery is a big deal. I had the same thing happen w/ my phone: mine got large enough a couple years ago that it was a full 2 day battery life. So I could assume it would work all day.

Same deal here. I can go (in a !2020 world) to a customer, go from meeting to meeting, etc and it will just work.

edit:
Also, it feels like we're transitioning from a world in which laptops are mostly / often used while being plugged in, to a world more like a phone. The default mode of operation is disconnected from a power source.
Hyundai recalls 129,000 U.S. vehicles for engine issue
If rich people are so great, why do founders not want to work for them?
Building a distributed crowd sourced screen crawler.
Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)
Netscape had LiveWire, Microsoft had ASP, and Sybase had PowerDynamo. The first version of ASP was interpreted and supported pluggable scripting engines including JScript and VBScript. The Netscape and Sybase DynaScript interpreters ran on various flavors of Unix and RISC chips and were used much like PHP, Rails, and Django; web interface to relational databases.
Use of animals. Exagerated display of emotion (happy, unhappy).

To get an idea, type "kawaii" in Google images. Or check wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii
USB-C 3.2 comes in 5Gbps, 10Gbs and 20Gbs variants, called Gen 1, Gen 2, and Gen 2x2 respectively
I'm a lawyer, and I would never write in such an intentionally obtuse style.
I don't think the internet is antithetical do democracy. Social media on the other hand...
I'm even less old, my career started in 2009. My personal experience was that people back then were both more nerdy and more ambitious, not a tradeoff. And now people are "ambitious" but it's a personal ambition to play the game and earn more money than their peers. The people I worked with in 2009 were ambitious in the sense of building products and teams and companies to succeed in the marketplace, or creating new marketplaces. It seems like tech is where greedy people go nowadays, not ambitious people in any greater sense of ambition in the world at large.
None of the technical issues listed amount to even a molehill next to the mountain of cultural and political issues that plague Wikipedia.
>I've increasingly seen and heard employers trying to take advantage of the current situation

Our leadership, once they finally relented to any amount of remote work, were saying, "your time at home is considered 'on call' time".

I addressed a formal request for a pay differential, based on labor laws and the use of the words 'on call'. I stressed that I was more than willing to be on call, but I would need my pay to reflect that, legally.

Now, when I shut my PC down at 5 and shut my phone off at 5, they no longer get mad that they can't get me after hours.
I think web-scraping is ok but it should be treated as copyrighted data. Let's take a real example: We've built a company that creates ratings for doctors via a private process. We'd like the doctors to be able to show their good rating on their website via a linked widget. How do we stop a competitor from not only scraping our data but using it as their own and/or selling it to someone else?
Your first point is valid, but I think the second is using the wrong measure — as batteries are rechargeable, surely the measure should be total existent batteries not annual production of batteries?

(I would be surprised if this was viable even with my suggested measure, no argument there!)
> Could you articulate or point me to some of the arguments or thoughts that lead to the conclusion here?

I gave a talk about exactly that recently at Code Mesh. I expect them to post the video soon. https://codesync.global/speaker/ron-pressler/#745why-user-mo...

> Also, this statement makes you sound like Goliath.

Maybe, but it's not just a matter of size but also trajectory. And, as you say, our competition is mostly off the Java platform. My point wasn't to brag, but to put matters in perspective. There are dozens of nascent languages, the vast majority of which will never make it to the top ten, let alone the top five. And while a few of them will, no doubt, one day unseat the incumbents, we obviously don't think of all of them as "threats."

> what are those languages?

The obvious ones. It's not that we don't know that some smaller languages will one day become big, some will even surprise us all, but extrapolating early growth to long-term success is certainly not a good model.

> Like, what are the odds that it took until 201x for you (all) to decide to copy records from ML? You certainly didn't do it before Kotlin for some reason.

As I wrote in another comment, Kotlin's arrival and Java's "boost" are both a response to the same event: Java's decline in Sun's dying days. Once Oracle increased investment, it was mostly a matter of prioritising which features to do first. Records were seen as less urgent as lambdas, so they came later.
> The crucial feature of the initial market is that it exist.

Should "exist" be replaced with "exists" in this sentence? If you wanted to use "exist" I think you'd have to use a helper verb like "should [exist]". Is there a name for the grammatical feature where someone omits the "should" and uses the conjugation that would go with it?
> I think leadership is an analog process, you've got to be able to read the room, but we dont get into the same rooms anymore, we discuss politics on facebook and twitter.

I agree our problems are moral corruption and the shamelessness of it now. I don't mean moral corruption in the sense of sex, I mean moral corruption in the sense of greed and money. I think our institutions have been corrupt for a lot longer than social media has been around.
What are these numbers based on? Just your "best estimate"? It's dismissive of Apple's uarch for what reason?

Arm has architecture licenses, unlike x86: anyone could've designed an Arm CPU from the ground up. NVIDIA tried, AMD tried, Intel tried, Qualcomm tried, Samsung tried, Huawei tried, etc. Everyone had a chance (and they still do). Arm is the most level playing field available in high-perf CPU design.

And "50% process technology" is an exaggeration even embarrassing for HN. The A13 was built on 7nm and still beat perf/watt of any x86 CPU and total 1T performance rivals Tiger Lake. A14 / M1 are a natural evolution of that same uarch.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/perf-trajectory.png

What really breaks down your argument: Samsung has had nearly every advantage as Apple, yet its Exynos line is some of the worst-perf/watt Arm uarch today: its own OS (Tizen), its own foundry, its own phones / tablets / laptops, and a massive conglomerate for funding. What happen to Samsung? What money doesn't Samsung have? Hell, Samsung is even MORE integrated than Apple, as Apple still needs to outsource its fabrication to TSMC.

There's a reason Samsung is giving up on its uarch and moving to Arm stock cores (X-1, A78, A78C, etc.), just like Qualcomm + NVIDIA.

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-announce...

Don't tell me "you need trillion dollar valuation to make a top-class CPU". AMD was nearly bankrupt 6 years ago and now has the fastest general compute x86 arch in the world.

This argument reeks of "well, if Apple has the fastest CPU uarch today, then I'm going to ensure everyone else has an excuse."

Apple didn't even have an Arm architectural license, much less a custom high-perf CPU, 13 years ago. 13 years from "never designed a high-perf CPU" to "dominating x86 perf / watt while at the heels of total perf" is actually notable and actually impressive.
A couple resources with rigorous examination of UUIDs and the tradeoffs involved with using them:

- https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/sequential-uuid-generato...

- https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/303 (also mentioned: https://gist.github.com/1ma/c837e6f30c0869cfc1222f67ac8b1c52)

I personally use v1 UUIDs as my main identifier and just take the performance hit. ksuids look interesting but don't think there's any need to use that when v1 uuids are good enough.
You should have an automated system anyway. Automated systems allow much more frequent trains which makes them more useful.
A pen is usually provided, for example at the DMV.
I think you are not understanding what the point of view is. These regulations inject a whole set of requirements on a hobbyiest, not for profit or tiny business to write code to track regulatory compliance and ensure that various processes exist the law requires. Those requirements are often more complex and costly than the core business.
Weird overlap of people who love bitcoin and reducing power usage.
Banks are not a public utility yet it is "required" to pay non-trivial amounts to the government.

Are all government offices public-transport accessible? (in a practical way - not in "two busses a day per route" kind of way)
Omg that keyboard, what are they doing :(
Title is very misleading and sensationalistic.

It's about keeping Google Fonts (not saying goodbye!) but simply self-hosting them instead of using Google's CDN for better performance.

Seems like the author's trying to bait us by making us first assume Google's canceling the product, or that Google's done something scandalous so we should avoid it. :(
My older brother still maintains clipper code that is used in production.
This only applies to crawlers who are set to recurse into URLs.
Whats driving business types to think leetcode is a good test? This should be an easy conversation with HR. I think software engineers want this arbitrary barrier.
> AFAIK, the link to the wet market as the source rather than an early transmission location isn't even well-established

My understanding is that there's really no evidence for it being the source at all; it's effectively a myth. It was an early super spreader, but there's no particular reason to think it was the _source_.
Mozilla didn't fire Brendan Eich. He resigned of his own free will, against the Mozilla board's request that he stay. His own words and the Mozilla FAQ quoted below, I'm not just making this up.

Down the following thread, Brendan suggested googling "constructive separation" -- but I'm not sure if he meant for that euphemism to apply to how he left his job at Mozilla, or to how he wanted to cancel and destroy existing happy same sex marriages in California against their consent. All of the google results have to do with marriage, not employment. Brendan, care to clarify?

As JavaScript proves, Brendan Eich never really understood the concept of equality: https://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24127716

DonHopkins 3 months ago | on: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses ...

Eich was not forced out or fired. In fact, just the opposite: the board actually tried to get Eich to stay, but he decided to leave all on his own. Don't try to rewrite history to make an ideological point. It's all very well and unambiguously documented what really happened, and there's no excuse for you spreading that misinformation.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

Q: Was Brendan Eich fired?

A: No, Brendan Eich resigned. Brendan himself said:

“I have decided to resign as CEO effective April 3rd, and leave Mozilla. Our mission is bigger than any one of us, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader. I will be taking time before I decide what to do next.”

Brendan Eich also blogged on this topic.

Q: Was Brendan Eich asked to resign by the Board?

A: No. It was Brendan’s idea to resign, and in fact, once he submitted his resignation, Board members tried to get Brendan to stay at Mozilla in another C-level role.
This is a huge gamble in launder Xiaomi’s company origins. I'm not sure how this can succeed in the long run. Very very risky.

Are there other examples of this? Not specifically India/China based?
Yes you do and here they are: https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare-smartphones/f_max_r+value...

Huawei Mate 40, iPhone 11 and Xiaomi A3 to name a few.
The whole point of caching in the first place is to make things take less time when possible. That would be a strictly worse solution than self-hosting if performance is your most important outcome.
The registration cost 5 to 10€ which i think it's reasonable https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/actualites/A14062
> fonts are larger than you might think because they need full Unicode support

Correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but don't the vast majority of fonts _not_ include full Unicode support, or even close to it? I know of GNU Unifont, but not many people are using that on the web...

I take your point on selectively downloading the relevant glyphs for the user's locale, but this could be done by the browser too - it is aware of the locale.
Hi TheDong. I put most of the changes you recommended and I am much happier with the overall project. I decided to remove the Python part though and went back to the Imagick bindings. There's probably still some things to fix but thanks again for taking the time to look and advise.
This is like zoning away new housing construction. No one complains and everyone would agree that there's less traffic.

There are a group of people that are hurt but those people aren't around to complain.

The same with this. The people who need a car and can't get a space have to move out. Now it's true that population could be zero but to the extent it's more then zero you probably won't hear from them because they aren't in Paris.
Unexpected growth. How keep 'em warm?
Growth unexpectedly started to grow last week after after soft launch. We only announced on IndieHackers, as that community was a huge inspiration for the idea, so this is really encouraging! Anyone have tips for keeping these leads warm while we are still in closed beta?
Show HN: I helped – I got $35 per month forever
I found the Russian.

Cheers! :)
Train on a GPU with any tool, then write the weights, biases, and batchnorm parameters to a file (just a sequence of floats, no other formatting). NN-512 does inference only
What System76 lacks in build quality, they make up for with absolutely stellar support.

I started with a Galago, that had a slight screen defect, (slightly yellow on one side). And I didn't like the 4k resolution. They offered me a choice: repair the screen (they pay shipping) or return for a refund so that I could buy the Darter (I pay shipping). I chose the latter, and I've been very happy. So while there is the occasional lemon, they stand behind their machines.

And software support has been great, supporting me across obscure Linux problems, not-quite-baked OS upgrades, and pilot error.
> while the Buy & Hold got 5%.

Yes, I got 6x returns compared with the market.
Weird take, but I see this sort of thing show up a lot, so let's give it a shot:

> If, for example, I start scraping all the articles on a newspaper’s web site, publish them on a web site, adding my own ads

Using a Q-Tip to murder someone is illegal. We don't have special laws against it—it's just that murder is illegal, we have criminal punishment for murder, and the ordinary machinery of the courts and the law is sufficient to handle any instances of murder by Q-Tip. Because it being done with a Q-Tip is the least important part.

If you're scraping and republishing someone else's content, it's not the scraping part that's the problem.
Would you say this collection of things you’re describing is, “AirBnb is exploiting someone?”

Anyway, there’s basically no evidence for any of what you’re saying, especially the crime part. The one not-yet-peer reviewed paper trying to show Airbnb’s causal effect on rents found a $9/yr increase (1), which is laughably, hilariously small - it could not possibly be playing a significant role in rent pricing in the biggest markets, and the researchers specifically excluded the possibility of AirBnb reducing supply. And this factual criticism is the one you actually omitted!

(1) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3006832
what if the scraper uses ip rotation or serverless workers ?
Highly appreciated hint (original author). Note that I haven't updated this project in ~4 years and it's still spinning on Heroku's free tier, haven't spend a penny for the API hosting costs.

Some recommendations regarding the CSS may be outdated by current "webfont hosting standards". Let's see what 2021 will bring for this project...
Are you in need of an experienced Web developer and designer?
People on electric scooters travel at frightening speeds in Paris, often without helmets. Even without cars it looks extremely dangerous. I am curious to know the injury (quadriplegia?) rate.

I think people seriously underrate the safety benefits of micro cars, and the necessity of car like vehicles for older people.
Yeah, however, they could make these things configuration rather than imposing a policy on every user: in different contexts different privacy/performance tradeoffs are acceptable
So looking at UK labor law, do bank holidays count?

"An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave."

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights

Because if so, they don't count in the US. So the US would be 17 days of vacation plus statutory holidays. At my job I get 25 days off, plus 13 statutory holidays, so 38 days a year off, paid.
I expect that some drivers will switch to other options as a reaction to this. However, there could also be a substantial amount of cars that as a result will now circle the streets much longer in order to find a spot for their car.

There is a real chance this will not have the effect hoped for, or at least not to the intended extent.
It's the difference between a junior and a senior. The latter has better expectations of what one can get done in an average workday, and the confidence to push back with "sorry, looks like this thing's more work than expected, going to need another two days for it".

Btw. Looks like the Great America is woke and hates you for the word 'union' you used in your comment.
> Facebook's hiring pipeline is optimized for new grads, but its hiring needs are senior engineers.

The hiring process should be based on the position and candidate. If you're applying the same process you use for new grads to someone with 15 years experience you're doing it wrong. FB should be capable of doing this correctly.
Very few websites are truly owned by the creators, and webmasters have forever added countless bells and whistles onto their website without a care in the world, until now. Now people are more privacy conscious (which is a good thing). Personally I like to get my analytics from AWStats[0] which offers a really raw look at your visitors and even allows you to see each visitor along with attached metadata like useragent, timestamp etc. I like the fact AWStats is not a traditional analytics application, but specifically a log-file-analyzer and it even captures those users who have JS disabled who are trying to avoid analytics scripts.

As for the privacy of AWStats: people are going to leave behind logs, no matter what you do to avoid that. It's a fact of life of the web. What is more invasive of privacy would be recording the mouse or keystrokes using some JS; that's where I draw the line.

[0] https://www.awstats.org/