skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks :)

I usually run under the assumption that I'm in the minority with most users here using code to put food on the table.
Wouldn't they do the same if it was France poaching them? The language and cultural barrier make it harder for European or American countries to recruit them, but I have no doubt they'd react similarly if they saw significant numbers leaving for Europe.
I think you are using got commit log as a form of documentation.

I half-agree. I don't agree devs should spend (much) time cleaning up their logs as opposed to actually writing docs (inline) that help the next person

I do agree that there is rarely a good (even half good) history of decisions. This is never the Jira / tickets kept outside of the system.

But it is also no good abusing the commit log as a form of ... journal. (I know that sounds silly but )

I think an actual journal / blog kept by the dev lead will be much more useful
In other words, the rich founders get richer while the early employees continue to get screwed.
>Crypto is mostly a store of wealth, similar to a currency.

Currencies are not meant to store wealth. They are the exact opposite, a medium of exchange. From a macroeconomic perspective wealth can only exist in the real world. E.g. you own a house, a car or a factory. When you deposit money into a bank account, you are effectively delegating wealth and letting other people use your money to obtain wealth in your place. These people net a return because of their wealth and let you have a share of their returns.

When you hoard currencies like Scrooge McDuck then you are neither spending your money, nor delegating wealth management to other people. The money has been taken out of circulation.

Then there is the other side of money/currency, money is a claim to another person's labor, meaning if you fail to act on that claim the portion of labor that this claim represents has perished because of unemployment. The solution to this problem is inflation. If labor perishes, make the claim to that labor perish as well. If you do not want to lose purchasing power you will have to invest your money. Banks let you deposit and make your money available to those who are interested in investing on your behalf. You can also put your money into financial assets that directly represent physical wealth such as ownership of a company. If banks and financial assets fail, you can still invest your money yourself.

>Unlike other currencies, the supply is not at the whims of fed officials and politicians.

Considering the vast majority of cryptocurrencies meet their demise at the hands of their creators I'm not exactly sure where the difference is. A lot of cryptocurrency people talk about how the background of the team behind the cryptocurrency is very important.
Roku has a platform. If google wants to be on it, they have to be OK with giving them a cut. Why is that so difficult?
You made me go looking.

I don't think there's a universal standard, but an 8-bit float would probably be broken down as:

1 bit sign
4 bit exponent
3 bit mantissa

This allows it to represent numbers in the range of 480 down to 0.0078 (and their negatives).

Of course, it can only accurately represent 256 distinct numbers out of that range, so accuracy will be bit compromised.

I wonder if they were ever legitimately used for a real-world program?
It may also be worth observing that a lot of Japanese woodblock art is of very traditional subjects, e.g. somewhat stereotypical geisha scenes, upper-class women, etc.

A lot of Hokusai's work branched out as did some mode modern woodblock artists.

This is hardly unique to Japan. Look how many Madonna and Child or Crucifixion scenes there were in Renaissance paintings.
Only an already large, successful company can ask for - and frequently receive - funds which will primarily benefit said (for-profit) company..

Competition is often the catalyst for the creation of the many innovations that society makes use of. What am I missing here..?
You don't get to dictate to people what their own interests are, not matter how smug you feel about it.
The quality of the explanations, and progression of complexity, reminded me of an old video that explains how a car's differential (rear end) works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI

Skip to 3:30 for the explanatory part.
We spend a lot of time training digital computers to deal with analog information that has been converted into digital forms, and I wonder how much we could also gain by finding better ways to convert digital information into analog forms that our brains (as analog computers) can better parse.
Major Efficiency Flaw Holding Back Solar Cells Finally Uncovered
I wouldn't be so sure, I think there's a decent chance that e-fuel can be made economically viable.
Then that means the software is hopelessly inadequate for the current environment where wide-scale hacking is a constant problem. To echo what they said, why do we accept and deploy systems that catastrophically fail in circumstances that we know are going to occur? Why is it acceptable to take systems that were not previously connected and actively make a decision to connect them to internet if they are completely unfit for that environment? And not just that, they are so unfit that they not only fail in the new environment, but they enable total organizational collapse in a way reminiscent of the exhaust port on the Death Star.
Amazing experiment!!!!! [Yes, I'm breaking the guidelines, but I I think it is amazing enough.]

But the title of the press article is totally wrong. [Probably with five additional exclamation marks wrong.]

They measured the difference of the distribution of the protons and neutrons inside the nucleolus of plumber, and the difference is less than a millionth of a nanometer.

This is important to understand the neutron stars, but it dos not mean that the same number can be used for a neutron star.

A better title is "Neutron “Skin” in Plumber nucleolus Is Less Than a Millionth of a Nanometer Thick"
They might and I'd argue that would be wrong.

In the case of the CCP though, I understand it.
See also for more discussion on LiveView: Phoenix LiveDashboard (April 16, 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892401
This seems odd, but it's also unreasonable that a small economy would be able to defend itself from competition from a large state actor.

In 'free trade' deals, the big fear is you 'open up' to competition while the other nation uses massive government money to gut your industry, wipe you out and take over. That's why the legal language on Free Trade surrounds government intervention and subsidies.

China is huge and this is a 'primary strategic concern' for them, they will pay anything for the individuals they need, and of course, to give Taiwan a black eye.

This is literally a form of economic warfare we are seeing with a large country trying to wipe out a strategic industry in a smaller country.

So the action by Taiwan is understandable, even if it seems odd to use in the West.
The employees that left probably spent most of their time protesting.

The next article will be “Influx of resume’s for talent that prefers to work and be free from the thought police”
Apple and Google have a duopoly in the mobile app distribution market, and they're abusing that duopoly in an anticompetitive manner to prevent companies from competing with them in mobile app distribution. Anti-trust legislation gives regulators the right to order and prosecute companies for abusing their market positions and for limiting the ability of the free market to deliver to consumers better, more efficient and less costly solutions.

Microsoft in the late 1990's and early 2000's was in a similar situation. They abused their position in the PC operating system market in an anticompetitive manner to prevent competition in the browser market[1]. Microsoft built their OS and Internet Explorer, so who has the right to tell them what they can and cannot do with them? It turns out that the federal government and regulators around the world have that right.

This is like asking why regulators have right to prevent Standard Oil from engaging in anticompetitive behavior, given that Standard Oil built their own pipelines and railroads, after all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Doom Emacs and Vimmode take that into account. Many have made the change.

YMMV, but emacs is more of an operating system masquerading as a word processor while Vim is a very nice trim and powerful word processor.

/evangelical_mode_off
That's a good point, but that could change. Its being negotiated right now.
I wouldn't mind Apple taking a 30% cut if they at least allowed devs to mention that users can sign up directly through the app developer's web site.

And also if they allowed alternate app stores. I'm find with have a (badly) curated walled garden with arbitrary & whimsically enforced rules if, like a PC, users had alternate channels for obtaining software.
> Plus CCP would kill hundreds of thousands or millions during a forceful invasion of Taiwan.

> They want control.

Does not add up. Who're they going to control if they kill millions? I mean, why do they even have to start a military offensive when they can eventually outcompete Taiwan? Just think how many top-rated universities China has.
>So one would think that when EVs reach the same scale they will be significantly cheaper than ICE vehicles.

I expect that batteries are the only hangup, there's probably not that much magic left in an electric motor. Additional cost for regen brakes of course.

I agree on the amazing cheapness of it all if you stick with the common stuff. That, along with the low cost of flat panel TVs is a miracle of the modern age.
As a non-SV, young 30-something programmer/manager, I'm apparently wasting my time.
Ah, this must have just been released, thanks for the correction. I was going off what's listed on qovery's repository [1] - It says "In Progress" next to Digital Ocean, you might want to update it along with the docs!

[1] - https://github.com/Qovery/engine#-plugins
If Twitter is Wrath, then IG is Pride and Envy, and TikTok is Sloth and Gluttony.
Good luck to all of them. The situation sucks but hopefully they won't have too much trouble finding better work.
i found a job in a different country.

with deel.com and remote.com it's pretty easy to do self employment
We must praise the mighty https://linuxfromscratch.org/

I recommend this to everyone interested building tech muscles:

- set up a VM with a tool chain

- a slice of storage

- a weekend

. . .and level up.
That's the policy. But the effect is that TSMC doesn't need to raise salaries to retain workers, they can rely on the government to prevent the workers from being recruited in the first place.

(edit: Can I say how amazingly hilarious it is watching all these notionally free-marketeer libertarians who believe in just compensation rush in to explain why it's totally OK for the Taiwanese government to shamelessly restrain trade as long as they're trying to stick it to the PRC?)
30% of the company spent most of their time protesting instead of doing their job?? That speaks pretty poorly of DHH and Jason's business skills, doesn't it? Shouldn't they have noticed this problem earlier?
I left a job because management decided to take on a customer that was going to be a disaster to work with. This could be happening here. If you were the lone iOS dev you would be on call 24/7 until they hired more people. Why not take a paid vacation
The pseudo-moral judgement on Google's relations with its employees is out of place.

Google provides certain benefits to its employees, not out of the kindness of its heart or out of moral consideration, but because business analysis has determined it's in Google's own benefit to do so. To make itself more attractive, build up a prestigious brand as an employer, keep people working longer hours, etc.

The moment they determine it's no longer in their interest to provide you with these benefits - they'll fire you.

So let's stop pretending one party or the other here is acting on some moral basis. This is just business.
but are often blacklisted as SMTP sources, unfortunately.
All the email does is get us to look at the link. After that it's the same as if we'd run across it on /newest or any other way.

When I say we usually add them to the pool, that's because the emails are usually from high-quality users with good taste. If that stops being the case usually, we'll stop adding them to the pool usually.

The purpose is to find more interesting things, where "interesting" means things that the community finds interesting. We use our own intellectual interest as a proxy for that, but only as fuel for the first stage.
Lack of an HBO Max app is annoying for sure. I just play it on my iphone and then AirPlay to the TV which isn't too bad. Now if Windows Laptops could cast OTA better that would be the best... haven't been able to get the windows airplay equivalent to work at all
The MuseScore video is part entertainment, part critique. Personally, I don't think it's fair to dismiss it so quickly. He's very knowledgable in the field of music notation software, and is in a smaller niche of having used several of them professionally (most people stick to one or two). In another video on Dorico [0], he did user testing. So he's not just pulling things out his ass.

It's easy to hate. MuseScore is better due to his involvement. The FOSS community should be more welcoming to UX devs in general, and especially who have a methodical approach and actually listen. Maybe wait and reserve judgement.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3wEC6Fj_8
Ah, I found this when we were discussing internally building out a multi region installation of one of our products. We were discussing the tradeoffs between a single master database with calls from other regions to that database, vs replicating a database between regions. The latter is more complicated to run but has far less latency.

That's when I found this chart through the magic of google to bring some real numbers (tm) to the latency discussion.
Is the only way to access it for now to bookmark pool? It’d be nice if it was in a menu somewhere :)
I agree, the increasing awareness of this topic is itself interesting and worth note.

Additionally, the fact that this submission has 350+ comments at the time I write this is all the evidence I need that this was worthy of submission. Many times, the comments, even if it's a tangential discussion, are much more interesting than the article submitted.
You are at least half right. The new crews are not out of nowhere though - the builders know who the good foremen are, so when those foremen go on their own they will take them. Builders don't just take bids from anyone, they call the companies they always use to bid on a job. The builders often keep the same crews busy year round: there is no bidding, just at the end of one job they tell the crew where the next job is. When a builder has more work than crews they contact their current sub contractors and ask if any want to expand.
Nice! What engine did you build?

>The distance between a crank bearing or rod bearing is less than 2 thousandths on modern engines. A small amount of oil in that tiny space is all that keeps your engine from having metal on metal seizure.

The BMW S65 and S85 engines are prime examples of what happens when the wrong tolerances are chosen. I can't think of another engine family where rod bearings are considered a maintenance item.
I realize on further reflection that that was an idiotic comment. How do you take a corrach to Japan? Overland, probably.
Nuclear weapons + huge economy = I do whatever I want.
China - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY_zsc0wf1Y

I am not an expert on geopolitics and when it come to CCP's data. I'll always assumed false/fake then verify but one thing is real is the One Child Policy. Xi want dual circulation economy but I highly doubt that's going to happen with its population decline. China going to deal with labors, support older population, long term impact on economy...etc.

if Peter is correct, China is becoming another old folks home like Japan. China's birth rate is already approaching Japan's level.
The KDE Plasma desktop is miles ahead of everything else
I would define the basics of survival as:

* Basic groceries

* Healthcare

* Housing

I don't think these things are easy to achieve but they seem like obvious goals to societal progress. If not, what are we even progressing towards?

> Also, there are not enough executives to take from them to give to the poor. You need 100 or 1000 times more for that, so the executives theme is a straw man.

I said if a company wants to fill a role, that they should pull from executive pay. The average CEO gets 70-1 the pay of the average employee. There is absolutely a surplus of capital to pull from to increase worker pay (thus filling the role).

https://www.payscale.com/data-packages/ceo-pay
I already was a member of a couple of them so thank you very much for sharing, will check out the ones I wasn't aware of :)
You’ve got to throw in some uncompressed pcm audio streams just to keep it interesting.

When we were learning Linux a friend and I used to pipe /dev/hda into /dev/dsp for fun and when we hit some fragments of uncompressed piano recordings we joked that we must have hit the kernel source code. Good times.
If Apple would publish schematic, diagnostic software and allow refurbishing and selling of parts to third party - it will keep your iPhone water proof still.

The reality is this, when your device gets old or your screen cracks , Apple will offer to fix it for 70% of a new device price, so you are pushed to buy a new device. I hope this is not controversial and has nothing to do with the water proof preference you have.
Yes, this is fine because the person paying for it is aware where the money ends up and the people who receive it know exactly who is giving it to them.

With pump and dumps it is often not known who the beneficiaries are.
whoops thought this was an article about basecamp
Then just do a sanction on business with mainland like U.S. did with Iran. As it is, these are very targeted moves. Taiwan to decoupling from China would only be good for them.
How is it unwieldy? They don't even show up locally when you `git branch` unless you've checked them out. Otherwise they just sit there doing nothing, there is literally no maintenance required on them once they've been squashed into mainline. Most central repositories end up having hundreds (or even thousands) of "finished" branches that nobody ever looks at anyway.
What are they going to do, watermark all of your images with subliminal messages about never using Bing?
Yes but I responded because OP mentioned VP9.
I was fine with that, until the moment I realized that the video showing the end product described in that short article was hosted on a social network reserving access to users.
Too bad. Oh well.
Every class implementing the interface needs to follow the same interface contract, that is coupling. If you want to change the interface contract for one of them you have to go and change it for all of them or you have buggy interfaces. Every time you create an interface you create a contract for it, if you have the same discipline with inheritance then inheritance isn't an issue.

The only problem with inheritance is that people can use it for classes that weren't written to be base classes, and therefore a ton of bad programmers use it for code reuse without thinking about the contract it is supposed to implement at all. With that in mind, allowing inheritance only for abstract classes isn't an issue at all.
Roshi – Master all your money moves
It is large collective action per the size of the company.

A small company may actually weather this worse than a large company. Basecamp has run lean for years. Some of those big tech companies like Microsoft often weather huge layoffs with no real ill effects. But they often get really bloated when the economy is rocking and then lean out every now and then.

But this is monstrous. I've never seen this many people leave at once.

There is no way this is good for Basecamp.
I was going to say the same thing. I have found this to be a reliable resource.

On the other hand I've found howtoforge.com to be the opposite of good and stopped using them a few years ago.
In my own humble way, I've found that a minimally sustainable way is to find small companies that are making good money but their technical needs are not vast but want flexible and reliable custom implementation. If you can find a few of these companies and can furnish them with all their technical wants you are likely to be able negotiate small retainers quickly in order to be available on demand. These companies have ideas they work on and want to try out and you will be there to execute it.

You become a natural and trusted partner in this relationship, provided you do give them the degree of commitment the retainer demands. With the retainers, you are given bare financial security. With security, you are free to try ideas of your own and that could be the best part.
Basecamp Employees Are Leaving After CEO Bans Politics at Work
Yes, but everyone is aware of this. Nobody talks about cryptocurrencies "going out of business", even though this is a thing that happens all the time.
Ask HN: What was your earliest “programming” memory?
It was the early 1980s and my mom and I would often walk to visit an elderly neighbor that lived behind us. I was offered to watch television while my mom chatted however my eyes were very often led away from the shows to the constant blinking VCR interface just below. After several visits my curiosity got the best of me and I figured out how to set the clock on the device. The neighbor was shocked that I had figured out how to set the time as they had tried multiple times but failed yet they were even more surprised, as I recall, that it no longer distracted from their viewing as it had mine while just visiting. I consider this my earliest memory of “programming” and therefore, looking back, recognize the impact that understanding technology can bring to others.
Africa and India have young populations, they’ll be the powerhouses of the second half of this century.
Except that "just don't upgrade" is a very bad idea.
I disagree. Discussions about diversity and equality are absolutely political debate. It's even boringly trending I must say.

It's barely a 30seconds discussion between founders, not a company-wide debate. You follow it up with a yearly report on actual diversity vs real world distribution. That is, if you're big enough a company to be compared to it.

For example: if you have zero women in tech, there is a problem, and you have people to remove from recruiting roles. If you're close-ish to the median of your recruiting pool, you're fine. What need do you have for ceaseless internal discussions about it?
I'll agree there is natural price pressure upward, but the recent acceleration is concerning, both in equities and real estate values.

Millennials were buying houses before all this too (I am and have) without this level of inflated prices (depending on where you are and how "free" the market is).
It's one of the "lists" linked at the bottom of the home page.
> Taiwan fits all criteria under international law for a country.

Taiwan claims that they're not separate from China. Their disagreement is over who should be in charge, not whether they're the same country currently engaged in a power struggle between regions.
Hosts of parties that lead to Covid-19 deaths could face manslaughter charges
QEMU does have a quite primitive GUI while it's running that lets you change disks and so on. But really, it's not a graphical emulator. You specify everything via command-line switches. (They're fairly intuitive, mind you. “-hda drive-c.img -m 16 -cpu 486 -soundhw sb16,adlib -vga cirrus” does what it sounds like.)

There are of course tools that provide a friendlier GUI wrapper if the command-line isn't your thing.