skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Late edit: Slovakia, not Slovenia.
Had become jaded developer myself after 15 years of programming and racket brought back the spark I once had. I highly recommend it to others. And I see some complaints on Racket being slow or the DR Racket IDE is not up to par with other modern IDEs but that really misses the point of why racket or scheme/lisp is all about.
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isn't signal better?
If you think that's something try googling c-strings (not at work)
Once you have grown and learned the 80-90% of stuff that is easy, exciting, and has quick returns, all that is left is the hard stuff. And the hard stuff is boring---it's always boring. It's the nitty gritty details that only a passionate specialist loves.

That being said, it sounds like what you're missing is a group to work on projects with. You don't have to take the lead on programming, instead you can lead a small group of people in the right direction while taking the lead on a product and learn a lot there, or take on sales and marketing. That's exactly how I work on side projects, I have a group of 2-3 great engineers with a diverse set of interests, and I work more on the business side and get brought in for architecture/stuck-on-a-hard-problem types of things.

Beyond even changing, it's incredibly hard to be motivated and push a project forward alone. Having a group makes it a lot easier, and I'd imagine that's a big part of why there are almost no VC backed solo founders.
It also included people who had deleted their account previously and created a new account solely in order to use the device.
It doesn't mean that you in particular are. But the web is spyware and adware infested. That's just a fact. And that stuff doesn't write itself.

There are huge number of spyware and adware authors out there. It's very likely that quite a few of them are HN readers, and a pretty good chance that they're this article itself (as it concerns their business).

Do I have any reason to believe that you in particular are one of them? No.

Can I address such people when I reply to someone in a thread on browser fingerprinting who claims they need to write JavaScript to pay their bills? Yes.
In particular the tools to make the things are separately patentable. It is common to make something useful in the lab, and then a few years latter patent manufacturing tools that enable you to make it. It isn't unheard of for a competitor to find a better way to produce something than you and then you cross license each others patents so both of you can produce the thing but nobody else. (before attempting this consult a lawyer - the rules of when you can make something patented are complex)
Looks like Facebook didn't pay the proper bribes AKA lobbying fees
Any Linux will do that, or BSD. If you don't want support or patches, don't install them and silo your machine properly.
What you said is this: “Apple computers have always been slower and more expensive than their non-Apple counterparts, and this gap has been larger recently due to sourcing from the struggling CPU vendor and the struggling GPU vendor. Worse, the software adds a 30% performance penalty on top.”

This is a false statement. The YouTube videos do not change that.

Moving the goalposts to “the most important thing for productivity apps”, doesn’t change the original statement.

Taking aside the moved goalposts, even your new statement is false. Cold boot time for productivity apps is not the most important thing for productivity apps, since cold starting a regularly used app is rare.

The fact that you know these videos only show a rarely occurring situation, shows that you know you were lying when you made the original statement: “Worse, the software adds a 30% performance penalty on top”.

Also I said: “There are a set of cold boot launch times which can be shown to be slower in a video”

To which you said: “That's what I said they were.”

If this is true, you’ll be able to link to the comment where you said you were talking about cold boot launch times that precedes mine.

The pattern here is that you make a general statement which is completely false as written, and then attempt to change the goalposts and justify a much narrower statement that doesn’t actually support what you originally said.
The tighter they squeeze, the more likely is the mergence of a platform that cannot be controlled by anyone for any purpose.
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> It's worth pointing out that here in Google Canada we were recently instructed to start referring to ourselves as Software Developers again, as "Engineer" is at least partially a protected term.

That's a good thing.
It has its own issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25375709
That's not concrete enough for me to have any confidence duplicate ballots would reliably be rejected. Perhaps there is a robust process, but I haven't heard it.

We're a bit in the weeds though. To summarize top-level findings, for GA at least:

- The 2016 mail-in ballot rejection rate was 6.42% †

- The 2020 mail-in ballot rejection rate was 0.37%

That's a huge, surprising difference that deserves an explanation. The GA secretary of state has refused to audit those signatures.

One of the arguments against the need to do an audit is that observers from both parties had a chance to challenge the signatures when the ballots were opened. But, per reports (I believe in sworn affidavits), republican observers were often unable to do so. So why not allow an audit of the signatures?

One could argue, as you and several other commentators have, that signature verification does not matter.

But that is not following (for GA) at least the written law; it also, I would say, remains unconvincing.

Finally, I don't see what's unreasonable about asking a signature to match. That does not seem like an unfair burden to place on legitmate voters.

If GA wanted to build confidence in these results, I would recommend at least uploading a copy of all accepted ballot envelope signatures along with the on-file registration signature. I think it would then become obvious one way or the other if it was reasonable to accept the ballots.

† These are taken from the state of TX lawsuit, which I assume are correct
You are right that I don't know the motivations of Ken Paxton, but aren't there 18 other states joining in the lawsuit?

In any case you can't dismiss a lawsuit "because no one has presented any evidence". That is part of a lawsuit itself. Perhaps the evidence will be determined to be insufficient but that will be determined within the proceeding itself.

Now if you want to say that the claims presented in this particular motion is unconvincing, that would make logical sense. But any rationale for dismissing the motion has to be based on what is in the motion, not on what is floating around in social media.
sounds like a yes to me
Whatever, do what you want, just wear a mask, please
We need to allow multiple app stores with DRM per store, it's the only solution to avoid a monopolistic store that I see. It won't happen except through the legal system, I think.
Yes, Product Hunt.
I'm kind of in the same boat. I've got plenty of project ideas, but when I start thinking about working on one of them I invariably get to the "What's the point?" stage.

Now, normally I'd say we need to push through this. But I think instead we need to give ourselves some space given the current circumstances: We're in the middle of a global pandemic and in the US we're in the middle of some political and epistemological upheaval that's actually making the pandemic worse for us than it is for many other countries. So maybe we need to figure this out for a bit?

I find myself reading a lot of history and philosophy now trying to figure out how we got here - that seems to be where my drive is at this point. Maybe take a break. Don't try to force it - it's like falling asleep, the harder you try, the more impossible it becomes.
The paper this article is about:

* A Closed-Form Solution to the Geometric Goat Problem, by Ingo Ullisch in The Mathematical Intelligencer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-020-09966-0

The illustration in the article (I mean the top half of https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2020/12/Grazin...) was really helpful to understand what the question is. I know Quanta Magazine articles sometimes get some negative comments here on HN from readers who expect a different kind of exposition than what is suitable for a magazine of that sort, but for my part I'm really grateful to Quanta Magazine for bringing attention to papers like this, and writing nice articles about them with history, good illustrations, quotes from other mathematicians, etc.

For the impatient, Wikipedia has a short article on the problem and earlier progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goat_problem&oldi... From this it's more clear in what sense this is progress: whereas earlier the answer r=1.1587284730181215178... (https://oeis.org/A133731) was known via more than one formula of the form r = (some function of r), only now do we have a closed-form expression of the form r = (some expression not involving r).
You can’t strike them down both in the same case.

Anyway these bans have a tendency to turn into some idiotic measures race where authorities compete on ‘toughness’, of course preferably applying it in situations where someone else bears the costs.

Striking down poor local rules helps against that.
Ask them what the top 3 problems they are spending time on. That will uncover areas for you to invest in understanding to uncover solutions.

People at this level are looking for help from people that are doing the real work in the organization who have a better understanding of the details. Conversely, this level has a wider view of problems that have high impact across the organization. Seek to uncover those problems and find solutions.
I never felt that people had a sense of an EU-wide brotherhood.

This is totally a thing. People identify as all kinds of things, and many people identify as Europeans. Hard to put a number on a feeling of identity, though, and hard to tell if it's increasing or decreasing.
There was a related thread internal at CSAIL, a few/several years ago, in which, IIRC, a professor wrote lightbulb-changing story as criticism of things RMS was advocating, and then I couldn't resist writing a response story that turned that around.

RMS asked me to post it somewhere, so he could link to it, but the other person's post was important for context and effect. (Also, I was trying to move away from too much open source and societal issues involvement, to move back into a commercial dotcoms/startup track, and there was a danger of getting typecast by associations.)
I think “technical” here just means something like: one uses phone numbers and the other uses emails. The current technical solution doesn’t make it straightforward to merge. Evolving the technical solution would require product and user facing changes. And probably a lot of edge cases
>having 2% of users responsible for 50% of support requests

If you're referring to [1], you might be interested in reading [2] as well.

[1] https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760

[2] https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080544133238800384
If you just need email processing locally, I have found imapfilter to be quite nice. You can script it in Lua.

Personally I went a bit overboard with it and implemented a simple TCP server in node which queries GitLab APIs based on the email metadata and moves Mails into Folders based on assignees, Labels etc. So letting do imapfilter the heavy IMAP stuff, calling node via tcp and using the response to sort based on it.

[0]: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
His factory workers a payed like factory workers, better then most factory workers, less then some, he is not running a charity.

And the short-seller meme of Tesla factory being a death trap is just nonsense. In the first couple of years, Tesla as a company had somewhat more injuries then companies that have literally existed for 100 years but not really by much. How horrible, the company wasn't perfect from day 1.

Additionally Tesla is in the by far most regulated place in the US in terms health reporting and regulation. Why do you think every other car company has left California?

Maybe ask the workers in the city if the would rather the car plant be closed, like every other car plant or not.

You just hate him based on the political philosophy you have clearly adopted, so you need to find reasons to justify your hate to fit it in your framework. You have to re-frame the whole story into some sort of dystopian future space based slave society in order to justify shitting on the progress.
Well, that should be enough to convince you that I shouldn't be in charge of what claims people get to make on YouTube.

Anyway, it kind of sounds like Manafort is involved in a conspiracy of some sort to cover up wrongdoing by the Russians. But it just feels like weasel wording. It sounds bad but I'm not sure what it really means. Is the implication that the Russians did Trump the favor of the social media campaign, and Manafort is doing them the favor of helping them cover it up? That's the quid pro quo? I don't want to give anyone the benefit of the doubt here, I want to hear the point.
You forgot the period on the end of the URL :)

Corrected:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Kodak_Co._v._Image_Tec....
Here's a paper on depth: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/CodedAperture/

Stanford has a class on computational imaging: http://stanford.edu/class/ee367/

I think these slides should give you a pointer to enough papers to fill a lifetime: https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee367/slides/lecture9.pdf

Georgia Tech also has a class, that's on youtube and Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/course/computational-photography--ud...
I understand he meant something different: that you can use Testing in two different ways:

1) by explicitly referring to "testing" in your apt configuration. Then it's rolling forever.

2) by referring to the current "testing", so for example "bullseye".
Then you're temporarily on testing, rolling for a while until the day bullseye becomes the new stable, and then you're on stable too.
I often do this a bit ahead of a new stable on my personal laptop, to check what's coming with the new stable. I guess it's probably quite common.
For example, Matomo... larger list here
https://github.com/onurakpolat/awesome-analytics
HN isn't anything. Some users are against software patents, some are not. A downvote comes from some unknown person with some unknown opinion on the subject.
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What if I have a SaaS platform and I want to configure the MX DNS and accept emails at `support@saas.com`? How would I set that up with say... docker-compose? Do I need both a STMP server and an IMAP server?
FYI, some of the sites on there that bill themselves (or have billed themselves) as "public domain" actually use proprietary licenses that are not compatible with public domain declarations. I find it very frustrating that "public domain photos" turns up unsplash, pexels, pixabay and a bunch of other sites that have licenses with terms like, "cannot be used to make the model look bad" and "cannot be used to create a competitor to our site".

For many use cases, these licenses are perfectly fine, but they aren't compatible with actual CC-0 declarations (or even CC-BY), so if you are trying to create permissively licensed derivatives, you must avoid them. It may be worth marking those ones with an asterisk or something to avoid misunderstandings.
Many Clojure companies find it easy to hire smart non-Clojure developers and teach them Clojure. You can learn the basics in a week or two and be a pretty effective Clojure developer (especially if supported in a team) pretty easily.
People willingly give permission for Facebook to share their data, too.

What difference does that make? Facebook almost certainly knows my banking information, without me giving it directly to them
I think Facebook and Amazon are far easier to avoid. With Google their tentacles are spread so far across that its impossible to avoid them completely. It is disheartening to see talented engineers excited about working for advertising companies like Google or Facebook. Maybe nerd ethics have shifted over time, I don't know. I've migrated from gmail to a personal domain + host, and to FF for browsing, but that's about it. Out of principle I don't use an ad-blocker, I simply avoid going to sites that feature obnoxious Ads/UX.
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That would be a completely legitimate argument except that people buy their devices with the understanding that APple is the sole controller of what they can install. It's not monopolistic behavior because Apple doesn't have a monopoly. Apple makes the devices, they are 100% legally allowed to only allow apps from their own App Store and that precedent has already been set. The only unique thing in this lawsuit is that Cydia is claiming to be a competitor to the App Store and I firmly believe that it'll be tossed because Cydia's entire existence is predicated on a process that, at the time it was operating, is illegal and violates the DMCA. I don't necessarily think Cydia is bad and people should be able to jailbreak their devices if they want but that can't be used as the basis for a lawsuit that alleges monopolistic behavior or even anti-trust.
I think the election of Trump may have made it possible for these cultural problems to come to light, the same way that (for example) women speaking up about sexual assault can empower others to do the same. People saw the issues that were placed on a national stage, then looked inwards and saw similar issues much closer to home, and these things started coming out as people were no longer OK with keeping quiet about it.

For the other half of your comment: I personally think many companies have issues focusing on non-technical problems. From the thread, the issues were clearly that they were writing far too much code, it seems like they were not testing enough, they lacked a person who would tell them how their changes would be perceived by the public. This is not unique to Uber in any way, these problems show up to various degrees across companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others. And you can see the solutions: while highly technical and "awesome", they are obvious band-aids. It's just that it's much easier to slap on technical band-aids than fix the root, non-technical problem.
What's the project? or what problem does it solve? So curious
I must have worked at organizations with flatter structure than the others here. Talking with your skip level manager is an ordinary thing, if he has some opinions on the things you are responsible for why would he talk to your manager and not just go directly to you? Managers are mostly for bookkeeping purposes anyway, they shouldn't tell you what to do on a daily basis. At least they didn't in the 3 places I worked.
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I'll preface this by saying that her actions may do some unalloyed good here, I understand your point. I still think that the inferred makeup of the direct reports is more the issue that needs fixing, but if this causes some positive change in corporate structure then, great.

> What is the source of your lack of sympathy, then?

Mmm. So this is a powerful corporate executive being denied a seat in another corporate board. She is also a powerful corporate political lobbyist who, until very recently, worked on behalf of a party that often seems to actively fight for policies that entrench discrimination. She inhabits an elite level and this course of action has effectively no downside for her -- she is aware of the contract stipulations, she tests breaking the contract, is fired for doing so, and she can do so with absolute confidence that it will have net zero-to-positive impact on her own prospects. That, in this case, is quite likely a very good thing, because she is in a position where she can possibly force/successfully lobby for change, but re sympathy for her specifically? No
It's an interesting take. I wonder which market you are hiring in.

There might be a selection bias at play here. Someone who was able to create its own degree from scratch and learn enough to pass your interview should adopt the same mindset when tasked with a new problem. You are selecting for folks who require less hand holding.

> Not to mention that what someone learned in uni a decade ago is probably not applicable anymore whatsoever (in tech)

Not if they had a good degree. Sure the tools change and whatever language/framework too but the fundamentals don't.

Applying a a systematic approach to debugging, algorithms, automata and complexity are still very much the same than they were a decade ago.
As long as RedHat is putting out SRPMs there won’t be a change to OEL.

It’s ahead of CentOS pretty much all of the time.