skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FluffyChat is promising but is missing some pretty key features such as sending files and calling. I can't wait until we have some really easy to use and fairly complete clients because I agree that Element is a bit much. Even as a power user I wish it was a bit less noisy.
That seems to be true in every field I can think of. The smaller the gap, or rather the more practical experience the strategy people have, the better a given org seems to be.

One common issue I run into is that when the blacksmiths start talking, nobody listens.
The IE 7 compatibility code broke the site in modern browsers, or did you really get a visitor on a Windows 98 machine?
No, therapists make you do homework. The job involves more than lending a sympathetic ear and pocketing the cash.

Behavioural change doesn't happen by just talking. Maybe that's for session 1, but for session 2, you'll have to do work to understand your feelings, what triggers them and how to set up your life and daily schedule to manage them. To do this you will likely be asked to keep a mood diary, and review the results during the sessions.

Lots of people quit therapy because it's expensive and their employer may only cover the cost of say 10 sessions. But a lot of people quit well before that because they go into it thinking that they'll "let it all out" and get instant results.
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There needs to be more conversation about this.
It's an inversion of history, in some ways, as typically the elite were responsible for much of the fighting and defense of the land (e.g. Medieval England).
Ask HN: Working for US companies 100% remotely from Europe?
I would like to know your experience regarding this topic.

Background:

- I'm working as a software engineer in western Europe (7 years of experience. The last 3 working fully remote)

- I would like to work for an American company (fully remote)

- I never been a freelancer, always an employee

My questions are:

- do American companies hire senior engineers from western Europe for 100% remote positions? I would say it's not very likely because: a) timezone differences and b) if timezone is not a problem then they could just hire eastern europeans for a cheaper price (hell, they can hire engineers from Latin America as well for cheaper prices)

- if American companies hire western europeans, is freelancing the most common way to go? I guess it's hard (legally) for American companies to hire european as employees.
Yeah, my first job was in perl. Its "there's more than one way to do it" is harmful to productivity in a team.

Once I got into erlang's relatively obscure syntax, I could read just about any erlang at a glance.

I now mostly use python since it fits the use case better, and I love its "there's preferably one, obvious way to do it".
I'm not trying to argue the Parler ban or at what percentage does it transition from people caused this to the platform caused this. What I am arguing against is the out-and-out misinformation campaign that zero people who used parler were involved in the capitol insurrection. Everyone has access to the receipts.
You could find out by just reading the Apply page, linked in the footer.
The folks you're talking about are a lot more expensive (in Europe at least) than the equivalent folks for more traditional platforms.

Again, and without centering ourselves in pure technical and our own careers and CVs. How does that help the business?.

Regarding to libraries, there's not much to discuss.

Just look at the number of available packages as right now:

rubygems: 164,235 (source: https://rubygems.org/stats)
NPM: millions (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_(software))
PyPI: 283,519 (source: https://pypi.org/)
HEX:: 12 252

I'm pretty sure I can find more than one package I'll miss.

> My company has built a scalable platform with 3 engineers. I don't even think about maintenance, I just think about delivering new features. So business wins are higher velocity + lower hosting costs + less downtime + senior team. You don't need to be WhatsApp to appreciate those benefits.

Hosting costs are a lot cheaper for us than developer's time. Downtime has never been an issue given "cloud" (docker based) infrastructure. The productivity part is something we're not seeing to be any better than with more traditional technology, and the reason we're moving away.

I wonder if what your team of 3 people is building couldn't have been built with just one engineer and ruby on rails at the expense of paying for two more servers.
That's absolutely shocking to me. I knew it was a lot but on the order of billions/trillions?

I _REALLY_ do not want to get political, but the timing is just too coincidental to not be mentioned... Now that a certain person is going to be kicked out of office, several politicians of mentioned governors and mayors are finally considering re-opening their cities when only weeks ago they were handing out fines - even when there's been a lackluster start to the US vaccination campaign.
I would have expected them to have changed the number if that were the case.
The World Of Tanks wrapper works fine for me on Big Sur with decent frame rate, not sure exactly how the GPU emulation is done however.
You have those backwards. A century is 100 years, a decade is 10 years.
specially for local results. thats where DDG is not upto the mark. Google has an advantage there.

BTW, I DDGed for the last 2 years and never been happier. They have improved tremendously
Yes, but the article's critique is a good one. "Look at this weird thing that they do in Japan" is practically a genre of online story. Japan gets a special media callout, to quote the article, as a "menagerie of the weird, the alien, the freakish."

When you see these articles about folks in the U.S., it's framed at "this guy is weird." When you see these articles about folks in Japan, it's frequently framed as "Japan is weird, and anti-social, and they don't have enough sex, and if we're not careful this could be us one day!"
The important part is "private owner".
Most land is owned by corporations, that's more to worry about.
!g is some sort of brilliant marketing.

Me: "I don't see what I expected. I'll try Google."

Me two seconds later 9 out of 10 times: "Oh, Google also sucks for this query. Oh well."
Who would honestly use IBM Cloud in 2021, especially after they curb stomped RedHat?
You have no idea about my background so let's stick to the actual argument.

Selling items and running ads is not the same as supporting or fostering a bad act. People can similarly buy knives or many other potential and actual weapons, it's still the user that's ultimately at fault.
And consider some of the scenarios where an iCloud backup is needed which include some sort of fire, flood, etc. So now they need to be sure that their key is stored somewhere safely online where they can get at it.

>99% will tell you to pound sand

Or they'll select it anyway because they don't really understand what they're doing notwithstanding big, scary warnings. A lot of tech people want everything to be configurable but that often is just not a good idea.
I'm referring to "your counterparty can hit reply-all and forget to encrypt" which is a mistake in the same category as "your counterparty might have backups enabled", i.e. it's easy to misuse in a way that ends up defeating secrecy.
Ted Turner owns 1.92M acres of land in the US.
I don't think the education system can be completely remote. If the society does decide to move to this system, then it will be a mix of remote and local studies. I have mentioned this somewhere else on this platform that the model of Open University is what is both achievable and sustainable. I have some experience working with Open University of the state of Maharashtra(MOU) in India. Their model of remote education has been working for decades now. The way the MOU works is by setting all the policies, courses(and content), syllabus, exams etc but delegates the delivery to its local chapters and/or franchisees. Students can visit the local chapter/franchisee for meeting with local instructors and or other students, if required or if they want.
I think this insight exists across a lot of fields. Basically, if you want to be a really excellent magician you also better be a decent blacksmith. More concretely in this case, if you’re unable to do the data “engineering” yourself then it will close a lot of doors for interesting and novel work on the “science” side. Beyond that, if the scientist’s job just involves gluing sklearn models together I think that job is more on the engineering side of things than the supposed scientist usually wants to admit.
That's pretty much already true and there's a third-tier: boutique. The only "sustainable" operations out there are based on this model; c.f. Polyface Farms et al
>they don't work.

In the same way that ANNs didn't work for quite some time, until we've had the compute and the data to train them successfully?

I get that it's important to prove that an idea is worthwhile, and the easiest way to do that is to use it to solve a practical problem. At the same time, I am conscious that we shouldn't put all our eggs in the deep learning basket: who knows where the ceiling is going to be.

Don't get me wrong, I like deep learning, and you have to be silly not to admit how successful it has been. But the field would be so much more boring if not for the people with alternative views and ideas.
The current situation can accurately be described as minority rule. Republican voters are greatly over-represented at every level of government. They get more state representatives and senators per voter than average; more representatives and senators in DC; more presidents; more judge appointments.

In practice that means everyone else - voters who don’t vote republicans - are getting screwed out of fair representation.

And the trend is only accelerating because each incremental increase in power is leveraged to entrench minority rule. For example:

- Conservative supreme court suspended the Voting Rights Act, freeing states to deploy previously illegal voter suppression tactics against Black voters.

- Senate majority leveraged to pack federal courts with partisan judges, making it harder to challenge voter suppression in court.

- State legislature majorities leveraged to deploy extreme gerrymandering, further entrenching unrepresentative seats in the US house of representatives.

- State legislature majorities leveraged to weaken voter protection laws, and lower the requirements for transparency in campaign financing. This in turn entrenches an electoral advantage in both state and federal elections (which are run by states).

- Leverage state executive power to further weaken voter suppression. A recent example of this is the 2018 gubernatorial election in Georgia, where the Republican secretary of state was also a candidate, and purged record numbers of voters from the rolls in majority democrat districts; warned the public about a “suspected hacking attempt by the democratic party” on the official government website; oversaw record numbers of voters turned away in democratic districts; etc.

In summary, the data shows that Republicans are simply not popular enough to justify their current hold of power. They owe their victories to a systematic strategy of minority rule, which is inherently anti-democratic.
You haven't made yourself clear, but assuming you're referring to the legal concept of a publisher, then obviously no, the parent was using the word literally, not legally.
I have the same question and I believe the answer is in the same vein as someone who asks about software engineering. Books/courses are great for the concepts, but your goal should be to build something ASAP since that's where actual learning will come from.
Hunting them out on shortwave radio and listening to them at all hours after midnight was my childhood hobby.

I must have been pretty thorough, because I rarely see documentation on stations I didn't find back in the 70's and early 80's.

I used to occasionally stumble on the BBC World Service Greenwich Time Signal at the right moment while searching out the number stations, and kept a list of my findings - but that is long gone now.
Amazon has been using tax havens for years and years. Amazon has been actively preventing unionization of employees.

Jeff Bezos has personally donated to both political parties. Don't confuse his personal dislike of Trump with some sort of undying support of the Democratic party or their tax policies.
Matt Colville, dungeon master and DnD 5th Edition video maker on youtube, is launching exactly the kind of magazine you're talking about. The magazines are free to his patreon subscribers (of a certain level and above) and will be for sale in the MCDM (his DnD content business) store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oid4QMMXjfs

https://www.geeknative.com/82321/arcadia-matt-colville-annou...

This would be worth checking out - I'm going to buy them to support more cool content like this.
Yes, because my position isn't discussing illegal items. They can't run ads for heroin either.
I enjoy seeing land use comparisons. I think there was one a while ago that showed how much land the US would require to house everyone at Tokyo-level density (not much). Another showed how much land we would need to dedicate to solar panels to power the country (also not much).

Also worth noting here that the 240k acres they own wouldn't get them into the top 10 private landowners in the US.

Edit: One of the solar maps: https://www.freeingenergy.com/how-much-solar-would-it-take-t...

Not the residential density map, but fun: https://www.6sqft.com/believe-it-or-not-the-worlds-entire-po...

The residential density maps: https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/map-if-the-world-li...
The predictive notification is new as of 2020.40.9.2, which was released on November 24, 2020 after they extended the warranty.

Just because it was release on 11/24 doesn’t mean all cars got it that day. Figure it can take a little while depending on how they roll these releases out to the fleet.

https://tesletter.com/2020-40-9-2-update-emmc-failure/
Do you think the proposed American bill to purchase and distribute land to descendants of African-American farmers will change that?
Is land a better place to park wealth than stocks I wonder.

As they say "They're not making any more of it".
I don't have a mac anymore, but a few months back I was using crossover on catalina, and can confirm that the DX11 translation works well. I can believe that even on Rosetta it'd still work surprisingly well.
It's not a bad metaphor since PM and FB both did develop their addiction systems on purpose. Cigarettes are not just dried tobacco leaf, there was a ton of R&D to identify and add chemicals that make them extremely addicting. Same with FB, they have optimized for outrage culture etc. - whatever brings the most "engagement".
Same for CFM too, they have an entire team working on alternative data and they feed it to a modeling team.
The chairs at the DMV are also paid with taxpayer dollars. I’d be arrested if I tried to walk out the door with one.
There’s already an article on this you can find here: https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-ph...

The GitHub for the generator is here: https://github.com/aaronrenner/phx_gen_auth

Basically if you need something different it might be worth forking the generator. I might look at passwordless login at some point.
While I absolutely LOVE Inferno "philosophically", I agree it doesn't win UI beauty awards... the source is all there and I could probably show my love there by updating things.
Ask HN: Do other engineers feel like this?
I've been a software engineer for about 15 years and I've worked for a bunch of different companies/startups over that time. Before that I did the whole PhD/researcher thing.

Almost every day I have to remind myself that I'm nobody and my opinion doesn't matter.

I know that's pretty negative. I do it because I need to make sure that I don't get to emotionally invested in what I am paid to do. The satisfaction I get from engineering is in doing a job well. I'm not motivated by writing something that is used by millions of people or that makes the company tonnes of money. Those are fine, great even, but it's making something that I'm proud of that means the most to me.

I care about the code that I write. Sure, you have to pragmatic and not over-engineer for the sake of over-engineering, but that's another design constraint that makes solving the problem interesting. But caring too much can be a problem. It means arguing with other engineers about how something should be done. It touches egos and politics. And that's never worked out well for me.

I love collaborating with people. I believe in getting more junior engineers enough slack to make mistakes that they can learn from. But I don't like arguing with people. You know how some people can't really tell a joke? Same words, different effect? That's me for arguing. It's frustrating and I didn't recognize it for a long time. So now I avoid it, just make the changes that are requested by reviewers, put my ego in a box, and keep my thoughts to myself.
FB knew about violent extremists before insurrection, reports find [Updated]
Elegance of Go's Error Handling
> (or at least adjacent to the culture of 4chan's early days; ...

From what I hear /g/ was a decent place to talk technology around 2010 or whenever and this is where the gross chan culture supposedly comes from.
His speech has not been restricted in any real way. He can call a press conference and communicate with every American within minutes.
TekLager is a Swedish shop that has a fe quite nice options.

https://teklager.se/en/
Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
hm, a bit annoying really. Wonder if a KVM + android x86 virtual machine would suffice. Will try it out when I have time...
BLM Board Member Bombed the Senate in the 1980s
Which is why we should also get rid of the courts in addition to free speech.
Well if you don't wear bullet-proof armor, their switching over to armor piercing bullets doesn't put you in any more danger. If anything it's probably better than them using ammunition optimized for use against non-armored targets such as yourself.
'Conversational Commerce'
He has many fields from which to choose, but, alas, he can only be outstanding in one.
Where in the world did you come across the () ... () style? I like it.
They have Google Workspace, which is pretty similar, but more focused on small businesses.
This is an extremely misleading post. It is enabled, just not configurable. Please consider deleting it as it feeds into the tech vs Trump conspiracy.
As a bit of context, this post is entirely false — Apple has made no changes to the federal alert system — but it does serve to put a nice techie "just asking questions" gloss on a conspiracy theory promoted by L. Lin Wood that has been spreading like wildfire in alt-right circles.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/apple-emergency-broadcast-...
The most curious part to me is that all these photos of the helicopters were taken by cameras without rolling shutters.
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I'm curious, that would surprise me. Maybe by weight, but I would be surprised if that were by value.

Weed is extremely difficult to send by mail, relative to most other drugs. It's large in volume, and it produces a distinct smell. You can combat that, but it's a pain, and I'm not sure how effective it is.

Compared to something like LSD, which you could easily slip into the pages of a book, and produces no recognizable smell. At least on the human spectrum, and I severely doubt drug dogs can smell it.
A growing number of governments are spreading disinformation online
Twitter blocks Russian Sputnik V vaccine account
> I have this saying: all machine learning is just clever tricks ...

It appears to me that you are missing the mark here, unless this is largely a definitional issue.

Do you consider the foundations of ML to be a clever trick?

Do you think human brains primarily learn by clever tricks?

When a metaphor or saying falls apart with one more level of questioning, I would suggest it may be time to find a better metaphor.
Most of it is grazing land and ranch land. Farmland is rich fertile land with water resources and water rights.
I have the same experience - my two major issues with DDG are the results for technical searches, and I wish that it showed more basic info for businesses like phone number/address/hours without me having to click around a bunch.
I think you are right and we need to use the actual term "correlated".

"linked" has a stronger connotation then "associated" for me, and some dictionary definitions show this stronger connotation as well.
> having a fairly neutral companion is pretty valuable

I think this is true. Not a "yes man", but an "is that so? man".

Conversely, the friends I can argue with vehemently and yet have neither of us take it personally -- they are rare and dear to me.
Ivory Is Still Sold on eBay, Even Though It’s Illegal
>Another showed how much land we would need to dedicate to solar panels to power the country (also not much).

Indeed. I seem to recall seeing that you could power the entire western hemisphere with just a Texas-sized solar farm.
Don’t Run Benchmarks on a Debuggable Android App (Like I Did)
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Fun fact: The only physical button in those Teslas is the hazard light toggle, because those are required by law to be physical controls.
Same with cloud services deplatforming.It's free advertisement for the competition. When I heard about AWS denying service I immediately looked into alternatives that could be used
Good. If you speak to anyone in the agriculture industry they will tell you the small and family farms tend to have the worst safety, environmental and animal cruelty records.
Best Ways to Practice Kotlin
The gcompat project, which provides a wine-like compatibility layer for glibc applications, is pretty close to having vscode working out of the box.
Nintendo still run by neophytes to the Internet I see.
The title seems wrong, as the article specifies:

"our researchers identified dozens of different entities that own the Gateses’ assets"

It doesn't seem to specify how much Bill and Melinda privately own, but it seems like the majority is owned by organizations.
The game which dare not speak its name.
If you could build a caste (Expensive, even if you use slave labor) that also meant you had the ability to hire and train knights. In fact most castles were built because the king (who often wasn't very powerful, thus the need to make these deals) offered you rule over some area of land in exchange for raising those knights.

The Castle was built as a place to live on your land so you could keep it. If there was a peasant revolt the castle meant they couldn't do anything about you, while your army could leave anytime the peasants were busy elsewhere to harass them. Thus the castle enabled war as you said, but the castle generally came after raising the army in the first place.
I think the reference is to the idea that a correspondent might do a unencrypted CC of a message that contains previously encrypted text as per this infamous anti-PGP rant:

* https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
Approximately area of Manhattan
How many conspiracy theories people will create/associate using that story?
Similar reports of helicopters in my community were aerial inspections of the electrical grid being conducted by So Cal Edison.