skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're tending towards more technical subjects, and even within the technical subjects, there's a lot of genuine criticism of poor teaching.

In my engineering state school, I've heard of quite a lot of pressure from the administration because the main sentiment about the school is "poor technical value".

The significantly rich are the ones who send their kids to art programs. But the upper middle class in China, Korea, Japan, India and Vietnam are increasingly sending their kids overseas for graduate education. For them, a return on the investment is incredibly important. Especially since they have the option of sending their child to Canada or the UK instead. So you see everything tending towards the technical subjects instead of the non-technical subjects with "poor returns".
> Instead, what we get from Google is a system whose security is convenient for advertisers first, and not users, so it doesn't offer that level of empowerment even though some AOSP forks do. You either give it all of your contacts or pictures or none of them. Making a secure system that also empowers users would mean that they and their partners can't collect user data. We're shown scary warnings about installing apps outside of the Play Store and are assured that Play Protect means that everything on the Play Store is secured.

This literally isn't true since Android 10 and has been even more hardened in Android 11. Now the apps ONLY see the pictures you, as user, allow them to see. The same goes for file access, location access and plenty of other security model changes in last two Android versions.

So your rant about how evil Google caters to advertisers only really becomes wierd when they literally implemented the change you want.
Please don't take HN threads further into political and nationalistic flamewar. We ban accounts that do that. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sonos volume control on their speakers is a contender, their entire app can be used as an illustration of bad UX
>Maybe that's why planks world records are set by people in their 60s and 70s.

Is this true? Very interesting if it's because they're somehow advantaged for it.
Except when the government in question is the US, as with Assange.

Same with terrorism - it’s evil, unless it’s Blackwater.
> I am sure there are a few 'good' people in Afghanistan.

If you post slurs to HN again we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can think of one concern about downloading and installing it, the NSA might be interested in who uses it. No need for anything malicious in the code, they just watch to see who downloads it.
My struggle with standing is that I feel like I cannot think very hard/concentrated when I'm standing. Has that been a problem?
We looked to LMAX for the design, and to UW-Madison for our fault models, but appreciated how CockroachDB approached and cared about clock faults.

However, our motivation for managing clock faults was not because we wanted to do leader leases. We don't risk stale reads so we don't do leader leases, i.e. where the leader can operate as a lone ranger without consensus from the cluster for a period of time. We're not comfortable with what could potentially go wrong when stale reads are allowed to become part of the fault model.

The motivation for having some kind of clock fault tolerance was rather so that TigerBeetle can clamp the system time to cluster time for reasonably accurate transaction timestamps for auditing purposes, and for reliable timeouts of our two-phase commit ledger transfers so that liquidity is not locked up forever.

In other words, the only reason we synchronize clocks across the cluster is so that a leader with a far-future clock can't push the cluster's monotonic clock out into the far future for unrealistic timestamps or to delay transaction timeouts (or expire them too early if a new leader's clock is stuck in the past).
Fundamentally, it's about whether the university views the applicant as a valuable resource or as a bag of money. At good research programs, professors convene to decide which PhD applicants they want to accept, with the knowledge that the people they accept are going to work with them for years as on their research projects as advisees. To receive an un-funded acceptance means that the consensus of the professors reviewing applications was that covering the applicant's tuition and stipend to have them as an advisee would be a waste of grant money. It's essentially a rejection, because it means nobody actually wanted to be the applicant's advisor.

Starting a PhD under those circumstances is just setting yourself up for failure. If a PhD program in science or engineering (or any discipline where professors have a fair amount of grant money to spend) isn't willing to pay you to attend, take that as a rejection and move on.

Edit: This is why you generally have to pay to attend a Master's program, but get paid to attend a PhD program. Teaching Master's students is just a waste of time, while teaching PhD students pays off when they become productive research assistants for the remainder of the time it takes them to write a thesis. The pro tip is that if all you want is a Master's degree, you should still apply for a PhD program and then leave with your Masters degree after a year or two.
I bought a Korg Monologue recently, which is a very decently priced (~260 EUR) analog mono synth.

This was my first classic hardware synth and compared to a software synthesizer I really like that I can feel how my hand movements change the sound and that I can use both hands to adjust parameters. It has an unusually good sequencer for a synth, so I can either record a series of notes live or take my time punching them in and then once I start the sequencer I can focus on tweaking the sound.

Now this synth is a classic subtractive synth which is great because it makes a lot of sense for beginners, while at the same time offering many possibilities for those that are more experienced. The interface is clear and simple - you have your two oscillators with switches for selecting the waves, then the mixer/volume section with one knob per oscillator and of course the low pass filter with resonance. The envelope section is a simplified attack + decay, but you have a switch which allows you to select between no or full sustain.
And this is all you need to be able to put together sounds! But the monologue offers more: the oscillators waves can be shaped, there's a drive knob and it also has an LFO. And the sequencer can record automation, so that all your tweaks are stored with the pattern.

Now there's also other interesting features that I didn't mention, but one thing that I think is unique (some other Korgs aside) is the oscilloscope, which shows you how your sound looks like and how it changes as you adjust the various knobs and switches. Seeing the effect of resonance, oscillator shape and even different oscillator mixes live was particularly interesting to me.

This is probably the best beginner synth on the market right now and it's also a good synth in general at an unbeatable price.
I can recommend this series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ReoNK_0eI) which explains every parameter of the Monologue in detail.

And once you have a synth and know how the parameters work, you should probably experiment until you think you've exhausted your possibilities before touching a book on sound design...
You should have started with that. No one would have had any doubts about your viewpoints. I'm tired of you walking your position back and forth between ambiguity and sexism.

It's a leap, because there's other possibilities you don't account for. I don't pretend to know why we have a patriarchal society, but I do believe that history is largely random and far from optimal, which is what you argue for. That is what I think is naive.

You describe the world as a meritocracy, governed by the skilled. Believe me, you're in the minority in thinking that.

> do you really think [...] That not a single company in the history of the world would have got a competitive edge by shunning gender roles and having more women in charge?

Do you really see companies as the pinacles of human history? What if we still had racial slavery? Would you argue in favor of that as well? Is history the true judge of what is a good idea?

History is what we do. To say that something is right, because it's prevalent in history, is to say that what we do is right, because we do it.

If you want your close ones to fulfill some social dictates, I find it sad, but it's fine. I'm not interested in that, and I don't see it as anything more than useless dogma.
That's not a problem. The difference is you put the thoughts on the back burner during off hours, which will often lead to greater insights than mulling over them constantly. Inspiration requires inactivity.

This is also something you can learn through techniques that fall under what HR might call mindfulness. After a while, you have a mental git stash that you can just pop. It's not entirely lossless, but the benefits to life are immense.
Actually, those who "can't do", generally "can't teach" either. One surefire way to get better at doing something is trying to teach it, in fact.

I get what the quote is trying to imply, (and why) but it's totally backwards.
Questioning scientific dogma is NOT the sign of a crackpot. In fact thinking about things critically and coming up with your own theories is what science is all about. If it doesn't check out, rational people would simply note that the idea was wrong, not blame someone for thinking it, which is the sort of behavior you'd encounter in religious cults.

You can listen to his reasoning here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rd04KzLcg
I've been doing some AWS optimization recently. For my setup, which heavily uses a lot of short job based queue patterns, I've had a lot of success with the following:

1) Moving to spot instances where possible
2) Autoscaling rules
3) Reserved instances where possible
4) Moving everything to AWS Graviton based instances

I cut the bill by ~70%.
Enhancing TeXmacs' graphics editor from Scheme
Ask HN: How to find a buyer for (part of) a business
Me and my partner have a business together (located in Germany). We built a booking management software for individual travel agencies (right now in the leisure sports industry such as triathlon camps, swimming camps and so on) and have two paying companies (owned by the partner).
We both own 50% of the company and I want to move out of the company due to health related issues.
I am the technical founder of the business so with me leaving the company this hole needs to be filled.
It is not sure if we will shut down the company or if my partner continues in another scenario (e.g. with an agency filling the gap or an individual).
So we are evaluating different options here. What would be the best way to find a new partner with a technical background or even an agency?

Stack:

Ruby on Rails

RSpec (~70% test coverage)

MariaDB

Redis

StimulusJS along with some plain VanillaJS

TailwindCSS

heroku

:edit: formatting
For me the issue with Silent Mode is that it keeps getting integrated into other apps. So when silent, Photos mutes audio in video and live photos for example.
> Federated Learning of Cohorts

What a scary name. Feels like the only thing GAFA use machine learning for, it's pretty worrying...
This stupid regulation will make life harder for whistleblowers, journalists, will help blackmailing people who are uncomfortable for the Police, government, secret services.

But for sure will not make life harder for criminals, who has resources to send encrypted messages in thousands different ways (like adding some encrypted message to a funny cat JPEG sent from some hijacked/abandoned account of some other person put somewhere on FB, Instagram, chat, etc.).

Good job EU.
The bar for a one-liner joke like that to count as substantive is high—it needs to include something genuinely new and clever or else it's just internet fodder, and will encourage others to make even worse posts. The GP comment was way too obvious and predictable to clear that bar, which is why it led to a lame subthread (mostly now flagkilled).

The gold standard HN explanation about this was by scott_s many years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Did a quick search and didn't see UpCloud mentioned. Having used AWS, GCP, Azure and DigitalOcean, one of the strong points of UpCloud (except for their pricing and product offerings) have been their customer interaction. Hands down the best experience I've ever had both from support and sales. I reached out to support 2:15AM in their live chat and got my issues resolved as we spoke. Good luck getting that with one of the big companies.

https://upcloud.com/
I think that would be a great solution for these types of scenarios.

In an enterprise setting it becomes more complex if a 365 subscription is required, or active directory authentication is needed to receive emails. Does someone need to monitor the inbox to confirm it's working etc.

But after you mentioned it, I do wish that this was an alternative to webhooks that more service providers offered.
Sadly this returns a 404 for me (located in Germany)
No, this is more fundamental than that. This customer-revenue-project-tean relation and habit holds true even if we have vision and understand direction and have strong leadership.

In this case, your customer is more abstract, it could be a million people using your, maybe free, or maybe "pay once" product, physical or digital.

But then you seek another market because management realises that your product will sell to different market, completely different million of people. But that will take new development. Team 2 is born. It is a project in a sense that this team works with one single goal in mind: get the project off the ground and start selling it.

This doesn't look like consulting company at all, but the problems are the same: technical debt, maintenance, shared code, and eventual rewrite and platform.
You can use parts of copyrighted content for certain kinds of videos including commentary.

Google previously brought up that the newspapers can use robots.txt to prevent the scraping of there site. If you check the robots.txt of the major French newspapers, both allow Googlebot on the main content areas.

The French news paper's both want to be listed on Google yet don't want Google to show previews/snippets. It looks like beggars can be choosers if they cry to the French government.
Mozilla vs Google/Alphabet (values shared by...).
Saudi's murder of Khashoggi in Turkey.

Russia's poisoning of the Skripal's in England.

Now, Iran's attempted kidnapping (probable murder) in the US.

These repressive regimes sure are getting desperate...
No, the OP suggesting there is a moral equivalence between both when there isn’t.
> literally only got a few scratches

The pavement, you mean?
Depends on local laws. For where I am, LoRa radios fall into similar requirements to Wi-Fi, where devices must be certified but encryption require no license.
> Possibly because the world in general has settled on certain things being lawful

Extraordinary rendition is one of those things the world has settled on as being unlawful.

The actual answer is: when geopolitical allies do distasteful things we use euphamisms, when geopolitical enemies do it, we drop the propaganda pretense.
I once had a Hackerrank problem that ultimately boiled down to "merge these sorted lists." I had 15 minutes, I think, to code the solution. I spent 10 of them deciding whether to use list.sort(), then finally just did it and cited the paper linked in On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort to claim linear time.

I passed, and ultimately got the job.
Turn up with a bunch of fire engines, and a gas company van. Knock on your door, and 3-4 neighbors on each side, for good measure. Tell there's been a report of a gas leak, and you need everyone to leave their houses/apartments immediately for the inspection. 15-20 mins later - you can come back in, all's safe. Thank you for your cooperation.
>NSA isn’t some magical unicorn

With unlimited money and the given job to crack encryption, hack into systems and secure the networks of the wealthiest nation and only superpower on earth atm. It IS pretty much a unicorn, and i am pretty sure they are +20 years in the future technology-wise, and with that:

>>Arthur C. Clarke — 'Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.'

So yes Magic Unicorn describes the NSA pretty well.
Or perhaps they have realized that there are few negative consequences to these actions?
I don't think mr throwaway was advocating to use email to send the events, only to use SMTP. Email is an entire ecosystem, SMTP is only a protocol.

If the distinction is too hard to make: think of it as using the 'Simple Event Transfer Protocol' that just happens to use exactly the same protocol as SMTP.
Hopefully the impact will grow over time.
That wouldn't work for general n, but for smaller n, optimized sorting libraries frequently use size-optimal sorting networks [1] which effectively do the same thing (partitioning permutations into two halves with the minimal size difference).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network#Optimal_sortin...
When I first moved to a standing desk, I was shocked that I (fit and healthy) couldn’t stand straight at the desk for more than an hour or two.

Turns out I had what Dr YouTube said was an anterior pelvic twist (standing slouchy, belly out). Making myself stand upright was actually enough to give me an abs workout. I felt from standing the kind of “burn” you get after a load of crunches.

Even now, a year later, I still have to work up to doing more than ~3 hours standing if I don’t stand consistently.

So standing desks have a great for me. My one concern is that when tired or focused I subconsciously lean at weird angles and put pressure in the wrong places, but hopefully I move frequently enough.
Because you stand still to type. Standing desks work because you move on your feet. You can’t move and type at the same time and so standing desks fail for programmers.
Reminds me of Ryoji Ikeda's audio visual shows/installations. A show of his I saw used position data from stars in our galaxy to create a highly immersive experience that took over the body's senses. It's the closest I've come to really understanding the scale of our galaxy.

Ryoji Ikeda currently has an installation in London at 180 The Strand. I highly recommend going to a live performance when he next goes on tour.
The so called small players abused their power, and the users had enough of being exploited.
Now that the big players are mitigating this with the old American tradition of self regulation and kicking away the ladder, the same small players who abused our freedom to choose who to share our information with, are whining about freedom of choice.

Bah
Was extraordinary rendition not performed with the consent of the host country?
Oh I don't know about that. The solution involves trigonometric functions. Are they not geometric in nature?

Said differently: periodic things in some sense express motions on a circle.
It would be great if you could do voice via LoRa too but that would probably quickly exceed the duty cycle restriction.
Surely, nobody would want an unlicensed copy of a book in their library, would they?! Remember, there are people distributing government reports or even scientific research without proper license! Thankfully, our devices track license status and prevent displaying of such material.
The language in my head has an effect system, a proof assistant, lets you run code at compile time iff you prove it to be total and pure, and lets you generate new code and proofs with it. This is just dependent types (and it's similar to Jai and Rust) but I think you could market them in a more imperative way to make them usable.

Oh and typestates instead of OOP.
In other words, Multi-Level Marketing
It really seems that online privacy will trigger some sort of second internet bubble. There is soooo much money involved with online advertising, but it's not popular among consumers, so it seems that something is going to break in this business model.

One technical solution would be to decentralize internet even more, but it's pretty complex to do.
It does for me too (located in the UK)

Perhaps the URL should be https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-57808517
Why not?

Kidnapping people to face punishment without fair trial seems wrong no matter who does it.
> A few months back a handful of bootcamps opened, where parents pay $2,000 for experts to teach their kids how to succeed on YouTube

This is just sad. I like some people that are very successful on streaming and video services, but it is an extremely high risk venture. It was the privilege of the pioneers that could basically be themselves. Today the demands of users are propbably completely different.
The document linked here is not a DMCA notice. It doesn't even mention DMCA.
Yes, we've reserved space in our Account data type for future accounting policy: https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/tigerbee...

At present, TigerBeetle can already be used to limit debits/credits against an account to not exceed the credits/debits of the account by setting

account.debits_must_not_exceed_credits = true

when creating the account. This will then become an immutable policy on the account and TigerBeetle will then cap transactions to never exceed the liquidity available.

If you wanted to rate limit transactions, you could create something like a "prepaid" account where you periodically top up the account, and then let transfers drain it out.

Would these address something like what you were thinking?

TigerBeetle also has support for something called Linked Events where you can submit a batch of either accounts, transfers or commits and where you can then chain a subset of events within this batch together by toggling a "linked" flag on each, so that these subset chains succeed or fail atomically together, much like what you can do when submitting IO through io_uring: https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/tigerbee...

We didn't go into our accounting features too much beyond the big idea because we wanted to focus more on the technical aspects for this talk.
My friend preemptively left Google for a remote work contract in US for higher salary a few months ago. He already bought a house in Florida half year ago.

It seems like he made a very wise choice.
Just as there's many ways of sitting there's many ways of standing. It's important to move around.

I'd recommend starting out with placing your weight more towards the front of your foot. I imagine my foot having three zones: heel, mid/arch and front. I try to stand as much as possible on mid/arch and front but move around every few minutes to train more muscles and promote an overall more active/front leaning posture.

Once you start doing this you will probably realize you have a strong tendency to stand on your heels which strains a lot of muscles and tendons imo it also promotes a less ideal posture.

I'm not really qualified to give such advice though so your mileage may vary. This is just stuff I've noticed and has worked for me.
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How does the magnetic desk work? I’ve got a Moonlander keyboard that’s mostly plastic, how would it stay in place?
"one one side is google, apple, microsoft" on the other side "companies that use cross-site tracking for things like ... advertising" .. I had to stop reading at this point.
Only if you have no other options.
Yep, millennial smartphone devs took that «master volume is bad» saying too serious.
> The electrical circuit has noise signatures which change if other data is injected by Ethernet over powerline equipment.

What does this even mean?
I never had one but my guess is you'd boot DOS on the x86 part and everything except for the screen is separated with no ambiguity where to run what code.