skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ye doing it yourself without outsourcing even the tiniest bit to your teammates is usually way more smooth and easy - keeping collaboration on a higher level.

I just can't seem to share the plan in my head in a good way. Probably becouse it is very fuzzy until it is done.

This is why I hate Scrum where tasks are supposed to be broken down and shared between the team members and the last person touching the issue has to ensure everything works together ...
8000 rupees per month, in Bangalore! At 160 hours, it comes to 5 rupees an hour. You can’t get even half a cup of tea for 5 bucks. This is the very definition of exploitation. These are people working for the richest company on the planet, by proxy :(

This is just depressing

Edit: it is 50 rupees per hour, not 5 (I need coffee). Leaving the error as is in the comment above.
The larger point still stands though
Which is interesting because Morihiro Harano (who conceptualised and created the xylophone video) directed the OK Go music video for I won't let you go, partnered with Honda.
Chevy was first though, if i'm not mistaken.
US law does not matter to law firms in Delhi...
There's a difference between misleading spin and being "entirely made up." It is an indisputable fact that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. It is also probably a fact that most people hearing this term of art assume it means a catastrophic nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon. It does not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction
Only on the transport layer. See page 10 of their whitepaper [0].

[0]: https://threema.ch/press-files/2_documentation/cryptography_...
Did you read the article?? They printed a metal propeller for the boat.
Prop 13 was passed in 1978.
Ask HN: Building a database of A/B testing examples
Hey everybody,

I’m currently gathering examples of A/B testing from various websites, everything will be added in an Airtable, which will be embedded in a website. The plan is to have 33% of the DB available for free, and the rest under a paid plan, something like $14.9 per year or similar.

For now, I have the following information for every example:
- Company/Website
- Website Type (SaaS/eCommerce/Content etc.)
- Website Business Type (B2B/B2C/B2B2C)
- Website Industry (Web design/Development/Marketing/Automations/Finance etc.)
- Specific page/URL where the A/B test was live
- Variations (2/3/4)
- Winner Variations (if applicable)
- Date when the test was first detected (if applicable)
- Date when the winner variation was live (if applicable)
- Elements used in the test (Homepage banner/Checkout page/Product page/Pricing page buttons/Landing page bullets etc)
- Winning logic (a couple of sentences of why we think the winning element was better than the variations) (if applicable)

Please note that everything is still WIP, some of the above might be removed or we might add something new if we can.

Right now, I need help with a couple of questions:
- Is this something of interest? Even if you’re not willing to pay to have access to the rest of the DB, I would still be interested if you guys are interested in this or not.
- Besides the information listed above, is there something else you would like to see/need?
Looking forward to hearing every piece of advice you might have!

Tks
Doesn't that support it?

> Wait-freedom means that ... Each operations is executed in a bounded number of steps.
This is an interesting point. The problem, I think, is that as individuals, we only have feelings based on our own experiences.

So, perhaps in an aggregate sense, there is more suffering of all the men men who are slightly stigmatized because they watch too much porn. But, none of them feel this as acutely as the single single sex worker who can 1) probably never get a more "legitimate" job again 2) may not be there of her own free will (yes, even if she is getting paid) 3) may not have any support network because her family has cut her off because of what she does (this is common).
Sequoia’s Scout Programme in Europe
The practical startup guide, I wish I had when I started out
The web was created for people, and capitalists are also people.
Check Ray Tracing In One Weekend out : https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...

You can very quickly get something on the screen with it, although getting an intuition for how it works may take a little longer and some reading around the concepts it introduces. But it does let you focus on the maths rather than worrying about also learning how Web/OpenGL works too.
> Shared mutexes are ruled out trivially

Is there such thing as a non-shared mutex?
An iterator is a class. It can contain any private data you desire and mutate in any wonderful and/or stupid ways you desire.

How it decides to compare equal to the .end() instance is also your call. Your example is not a compliant iterator (as in, wouldn't work in a range-based for loop) - yet the same behaviour would be achievable through your own operator++() and operator bool(),
If one is ambitious I would advise to run away from Europe.
I'm really surprised where all those high numbers come from. The startups in Berlin that I know are very "thrifty" - no offense. They try to convince you with fringe benefits like free beer, Club Mate and a PlayStation in the lobby - but not a salary over 75k.
Crypto Wallet Ledger's Customer Database Leaked
For comparison (note $6.80/month = $81.60/year): https://www.historyextra.com/period/slave-labour/

> Self-hire _slaves_ could command between $100 a year (for unskilled labour in the early 19th century) to as much as $500 (for skilled work in the Lower South in the late 1850s).

Also, as a reminder from 2013, this is far from a first for Apple: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/05/woman-...
Crypto startups. Just imagine the financing possibilities of Deep Learning Blockchain based Quantum powered Contract Network.
At least for the dash to dock behavior, the Gnome designers opted against a permanent dock to minimise "distractions" and allow one to "focus on the task at hand". This language pervades much of the literature explaining Gnome's design. See for example https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-introdu...
It's not quite as easy a decision as it looks, as the job has a great pension (they put in 2x what I do), and the B2B is very reliant on a very small number of customers. But, still, yes - 2021 is finally going to be the year where I quit to focus on the business!
That's almost a mile, isn't it.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25493087
1) With the full installer for x.3

2) I agree Apple's decision is stupid.
> There are a lot of investigations that can be done on a filesystem in either explicitly read-only mode or with tools (like fsck) set to run no-write, or non-destructive.

Some years ago (but not so long ago that I shouldn't have known better...), I wiped out by mistake my home directory were I had a few days of unpushed changes (yes, second mistake) to an important project I was working on.

When I realized what I had done, I immediately remounted read-only and I managed to preserve the data; a few hours later, ext4-undelete saved the day.
This gives more data points to the whole tongue in cheek, Autism causes Vaccines. (more poignant now more than ever)
Whether people love their job is up to the employer.

Sure you want people who have 'a passion' for the technical domain to begin with but that's not the same as loving the job, which is very much down to the atmosphere, environment, compensation, etc.

A passionate software engineer badly paid and treated like shit won't love his job...
Aluminium Oxynitride
This is true, state pension is enough to survive, but not enough to live. You should absolutely put money into work/personal pensions while you are young.
I used the Australian COVIDSafe ios app today which uses herald. The only way it can keep the app receiving Bluetooth while in the background is to request location permissions and show the blue ios bar at the top that says “COVIDSafe is using your location”.

It’s a hack. Nobody seems to spell that out in the media coverage about it. Yes it works some of the time, but only under very specific circumstances.

Someone needs to tell it straight. It doesn’t work, we should just use the platform provided apis and be done with it.

Edit: this is an excellent summary of what’s wrong with the Australian app:

https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe/mobile-android/issues/30
Wouldn't you need more balls for the trills?
You're either with us or against us!
> I disagree. I think we have decided collectively to progress towards automation as fast as possible without unduly impacting people's quality of life.

We have decided to move all our factories to China instead of automating them. We still have subway drivers despite having the tech to automate subway since the 1960s.
Please do not submit Keybase proofs as submissions to HN.
Will your PR ever be Merged?
India

1. Dual flush toilets
"The establishment already has 3 votes by default, and needs only 2 yes votes"

Except the 'only 2 votes' are dependent on the other 3 vote block for a living. Also, the Supreme Court has retained its option for interfering with the composition of Knesset block, and putting an opposition member in it, which would make it an effective 1 member block.
Apple says it is investigating the company to see if Wistron violated Apple's supplier guidelines but in the meantime here's our new $849 iPhone 12.
Off topic, but thanks for being so inspiring ;)
Keeping jokes to myself, but Pakistan also has quite a number of jokes how words "judicial fraternity" apply in the most literal sense.

18th amendment tried to fix the issue, but paradoxically just made it worse. The Chaudhry train wreck was a complete tragicomedy.
That may contribute to affordability but if supply was constrained to stop it reaching demand prices would have risen, tiny apartments or no. See San Francisco where glorified closets are a lot more expensive than in Tokyo. Prices haven’t risen in Tokyo because supply has risen. They have in many, many cities all over the Anglosphere. That’s a policy choice. Not a law of nature.
This is a great start!

Note though that public git repos doesn't mean they have public issue trackers, or they are taking pull requests. Instead they want you to sign a CLA and then send patches by e-mail (sic). https://threema.ch/en/open-source/contributions/

Also each new (beta) version will be squashed into an entire commit, instead of commits being atomic. But the license is FLOSS so it technically qualifies as that. As an user of Threema, I wish them good luck.
It's not only tax class, that impacts your net income. There's a lot more to take into account when calculating your net income. You got children? Distance to your working place, even working from home reduces your tax load. 100k gross can range between 50 and 75k net.
Windows Phone 7 and 8 should count as modern. That’s far before 2015.
I hope they print 3DBenchy in human size some day.
New coronavirus variant: What do we know?
Refactoring, Unit Tests, and Symmathesy
What do birds do?
That's the compromise you have to make to live in the biggest city in the world (metro population: 37 million people).
1. A door that converts into table tennis
Right, I didn't think about individuals... though b/vloggers that aren't already journalists generally don't have the pretension of following journalistic norms ?
Better quality fruits in the US. A single Mango at whole foods costs around $2.50 in my city but has no smell and tastes like cardboard.
cryptsetup -c serpent-xts-plain64 -s 512 -h sha512 -i 123456 luksFormat /dev/ice /path/to/8M/dev/urandom/keyfile

(serpent wasn't chosen by NSA because it's the best, if you want inferior AES, then change serpent to AES.)
Quite. So increase supply. Build, build, build.
Yes, but this article explained it in a more interesting way which makes it easier to remember.
Do you rally think the global environment is in a process of recovery?

How much damage has to happen before the global environment becomes unrecoverable?

The fact is the majority of penguin species today have declining populations. Those are not recovering. A couple of million of them getting wiped out is unlikely to help reverse that downward trend.
> but calling any founder a "leader" in this regard doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Many were far ahead of the general sentiment of the time on slavery.

> In 1772, slavery was ruled to be prohibited in England under English common law.

The ruling was narrower than that. Strictly speaking, it said that slaves could not be taken from England to the colonies against their will. There were similar "freedom suits" occurring in the colonies at the time. However, the anti-slavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic was small at this time. Slave-owning interests in Britain had far more power in government than the small anti-slavery movement. Their plantations were in the West Indies, which the 1772 ruling had no impact on. In its most expansive possible interpretation (which was not the interpretation that Lord Mansfield, the judge, took), the 1772 ruling affected a relatively small number of slaves in England who worked as domestic servants. It didn't affect the massive plantations in the colonies, many owned by the English aristocracy, where the real economic interest lay.

> In other words, in every aspect (partial abolition, total abolition, etc.) the UK led the US.

This isn't a competition, but to paint Britain as an anti-slavery power at the time of the revolution would be absurd. In the run-up to the revolution, Britain vetoed even limited attempts by American colonies to constrain the slave trade. Virginia, for example, attempted to tax the slave trade out of existence in the early 1770s, only to find its law vetoed by the Crown. In general, the British and American anti-slavery movements were in close contact and fed off one another. The American Revolution, and the wave of anti-slavery acts across the northern states, are generally seen as having strengthened the British anti-slavery movement.

> Article 1, Section 9 of the US constitution likely delayed that British law (the US and UK banned the slave trade simultaneously). Are you really going to tell me that Article 1, Section 9 isn't white supremacist? It literally prohibits the government from banning the slave trade until 1808.

It was a result of a compromise between pro- and anti-slavery forces. It was widely understood that that provision put an expiration date on the slave trade. In other words, it can equally be viewed as an anti-slavery measure, delayed by 20 years in order to appease South Carolina. Long before the federal ban on the slave trade went into effect in 1808, however, every state except for South Carolina banned the trade.
I feel this starts from a very wrong assumption.

There is the idea floating around that in the future we'll just replace classical computers with quantum computers. But even if we skip the challenges of actually doing that, what would be the point?

From what we know today quantum copmuters aren't magical computers that make everything faster. Instead there are a couple of very special problems that QCs can calculate much faster.

If you keep that in mind it's clear where QCs job is: As specialized equipment doing calculations for very particular problems, e.g. for scientific use.

That also means noone will likely ever need a quantum operating system. We'll just continue using "normal" operating systems that interact with specialized hardware for specialized calculations.
I think you're reaching about about Switzerland being the problem here.

> Threema was launched in 2013

> WhatsApp was bought by Facebook in 2014

So a year after Threema's launch, it was competing with a multi-billion dollar global corporation which already had a user count in the billions.

> Signal to launch an iOS app in 2014

Signal is free (which a lot of casual users care about) and open-source (which a lot of privacy/security-conscious users care about).

> Why? I'm guessing because the founders lacked the experience or the right people to guide them from startup into massive growth [...] sadly Switzerland lacks the people with that kind of experience.

Can't the same be said of other European tech startups like Spotify and Skype?

Plus, ProtonMail, another startup in a similar space, based in Switzerland, has managed to become basically "the" secure email provider.

I think the real story here is much simpler: Threema is a small company and came into a competitive space where it had to compete on multiple fronts: tech giants on one, open-source on the other. As a paid _messaging_ app, it had a difficult future ahead of it whatever it did, no matter where it was based.

And for Switzerland in general, remember that it's a small country that has fewer than 9M people. Don't take the absence of unicorns to indicate that they're impossible.

EDIT: One more thing that occurred to me - what's the alternative? I'd suggest that a good part of the reason why Threema got the success it did in the German-speaking world was that it was from Switzerland. If it came from say the US, I suspect it wouldn't be trusted.
That's a cryptic response. Can you elaborate?
Hope the HN crowd doesn’t take this the wrong way but, an Apple user tends to be a more valuable target. Think government brass, corporate elites and all their soft bellies, ie daddy’s teenage daughter or run of the mill mistress.
Collection of Commands frequently used by Linux Sysadmins
Open sourcing the apps doesn't make them free in the app stores. But it means that anyone can publish a build for free, no? Either on GitHub or wherever, for people who can install an APK on their device. Or in the app store, as a rival "free Threema clone" or whatever (I guess one would have to be careful about trademark issues).
This is really cool, I havent found many solutions like it before while looking! Nice.

> This server is used in production, please don't overload it.

HN Might inadvertently cause that! :)
Depends. I'm doing Advent of Code in COBOL. I know those problems have been solved a long time ago.

I'm having fun, and that's reason enough.
This looks super interesting! I'll take a look. Thanks.
You're not the only one. I work with quite a few above-average and bright guys. Even something as simple as "you make this module, you make this module, I make this module and they all communicate through this core interface" is far from trivial. In something like Scrum, the emphasis seems to be more on "everyone works on this little piece of this module", which bloats the communication overhead required and I get into the same problem you describe: implementation details need to be made concrete much faster, as now people need to know them to proceed instead of a general idea what data they'll be getting.

NB: I know this is not specific to Scrum, and Scrum does not enforce this. Yet I can't help but feel there is some sort of correlation.
There used to be a fence in the seaside town of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, UK which played "I do like to be beside the seaside". Sadly a storm tore it down and it's no longer there. Video from 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9R2UCsBpTE
nq: Utils for creating lightweight job queue systems
These attacks would be a lot less dangerous if they couldn't get on-disk persistence. Just reboot your phone, and you're good to go. Only creeps like NSO who spy on normal people need that degree of persistence. Everyone else can just hang out in ram on some always-on server.

Vendors need to make it easier to verify the integrity of persistent firmware, in an offline fashion. It will dramatically increase the cost of persistence, which is the best way to put these thugs out of business.
Memberstack (YC S20) Beautiful no code subscription platform for modern web apps
The article is from 11 December. The situation looks like it's getting better, according to Wikipedia.

"As of 17 December 2020, a part of the iceberg was just 50 km (31 mi) from South Georgia, but the concern seemed to have lessened. National Geographic reported that "[s]cientists expect the iceberg ... to either anchor in the shallow waters around the island or move past it in the coming days." On this date it was also reported that a corner had been knocked off A-68A, most likely due to impact with the seabed. The new free floating iceberg has been designated A-68D."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_A-68
Show HN: Ten++ Ways to Make Money as a Developer” eBook
This is my first year attempting adventofcode. But doing other things mentioned in this discussion would have been better use of time.
Buying less things, especially new things, especially new electronics, is still one of the easiest lifestyle changes you can make if you want to lessen your ecological footprint. Especially since electronics have their own specific impact on the environment (and human living conditions) because of e-waste and the mining of precious metals.

It might not have the same impact on emissions as cutting out red meat, planes and automobiles, but it remains significant, and you can implement it in addition to these other changes (as glafa notes, OP doesn’t fly).
Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
[] alone doesn't imply that the view is sequential. Binary search for example requires both sequential items and indexed access. You can't binary search an std::map even if it implements [].
I have a lot of disagreements with your post, but I’m most curious about the part where Jobs had a lean organization to come back to.

From what I’m aware, Jobs instead actually came back and axed the vast majority of projects that were being worked upon. I’m fact, there’s a relatively famous town hall where a Mac user complains about this and Jobs explains why he needed to cut nearly everything.
229 characters using plain JavaScript and proper forms and buttons, for somewhat better accessibility:

document.write("<form onsubmit='return l.insertAdjacentHTML(`beforeend`,`<li>${x.value.replace(/&/,`&amp;`).replace(/</g,`&lt;`)} <button onclick=this.parentNode.remove()></button>`),x.value=``,!1'><input id=x></form><ul id=l>")

This even leaves enough space in the tweet for <input type=submit value=Add> if you wanted a button beside the initial text box.

As you see, it’d be shorter as straight HTML without the “body must be empty, you can only write inside a <script> tag” requirement, as you could just drop the document.write("…") wrapping.
The real fun thing about this UFO patent story is that separate to the patent story, recently the Navy acknowledged UFOs (which they referred to UAPs) which the pilots described the object as if it was ignoring inertia.
Strangely, one of Pais’s patent claims to achieve the same thing.

The fun is that we have only two options to explain these.

1. Pais’s work is moot. Therefore the UAP must be from aliens.

2. The UAP that the pilots saw were secret demos of Pais’s work. This rules out aliens from being involved in the UAP. But this means the Navy now has an anti-gravity engine and a fusion reactor.
I’m ashamed to say that this was a factor in upgrading from my venerable x200.

The one time I decided to try my hand at interviewing for a coding position, the interviewer gave me a rather sniffy ‘what is that!’ When it came out of my bag.

Doing onsite demos with a vga only vintage laptop also isn’t probably the best look.
Nice! But, there are two model checkers available for TLA+: TLC, which is an explicit-state model checker, and Apalache [1], which is a symbolic bounded model checker that uses SMT solvers, like Z3 (and infers types). There's no need to translate TLA+ to Python, therefore, to use Z3 as a TLA+ model checker.

[1]: https://github.com/informalsystems/apalache
None of this is concrete. Assume they had started in location X, for X whatever choice is best in your opinion. How would this have prevented "allowing Signal to launch an iOS app" for example? The OP seems to have some violent anti-competitive fantasies, but I fail to see what they have to do with Switzerland.
For portability reasons I prefer to write POSIX shell scripts instead of Bash scripts:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...