skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true, it's heavily unfair that the tech giants have better access to manufacturing, etc. And while I 100% agree with @scott_w's sibling comment, this not even the only factor.

How many people do you think they have dedicated only to supply chain management ? This is such a wide domain, we don't see it all from here: they have engineers dedicated to sourcing, to manufacturing, testing, evaluating new sources; people in charge of a given supplier; people in charge of the various type of transport, of recycling, etc. All this is in-house expertise, and definitely gives them an edge.

If you look at most big auto manufacturers; they too are suffering from shortages. So it seems tech giants must be doing something better.
This is a usability stance. Removing the ability to use phone numbers would have made it harder for users to adopt Signal, and I find it to be a reasonable trade-off. At least right now, the only thing prying eyes can do is know that you use Signal due to the login SMS, or hijack your SMS. We all know about some terrible security practices that phone providers have been doing with phone number swapping by unauthorized parties, but if we can pick non-awful phone providers which at least have password-protected SIM locks on the account, it shouldn't be as viable.
> Could you elaborate on the compliance reasons for not hiring outside of US?

Every country has their own laws and regulations around employment that you have to comply with, so even if it would be fine from the US side it would still cause a lot of legal work from the other side. Small companies might get away with hiring them as contractors, but large companies would get targeted if they did that too much since not every country is as lenient with these things as USA is.
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Cellul...
You're using the cryptography alone as a means to gauge trustworthiness there, which is fair, but I'd expand the categories for trustworthiness and rearrange their ranking, please: It's a non-transnational corporation actor. That alone means I trust it magnitudes more than Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, discord, and all the others that I -know- are all captured by the way industry integration works.
The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression
Einstein's Lost Hypothesis
How can you do 'full time research' as well as being an instructor for taught classes? Does not compute.

Day one of my UK PhD I was shown to my desk, told to start researching, and that was it. I didn't waste any time with any classes or teaching (I did actually teach for a couple of hours as a favour.)

As long as you can produce top-tier papers during your PhD then you're meeting the international standard.
Ask HN: World wide remote friendly startups
Hi Community,

I am backend developer with the primary focus on JVM based languages (Java + Kotlin).

I looked at "Who Is Hiring" threads and found the vast majority of startups are looking for either on-site or remote in the sepcific locations.

Why is it the case? Are there any resources where I can find worl wide remote BE positions?
Game consoles are appliances. This is either a pro or a con depending on your point of view.
Is the response to the question supposed to be recorded publicly at https://chd.lu/wps/portal/public/Accueil/TravailALaChambre/R... as well?
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, its full capitalization made me think it was an abbreviation a la FAMANG.
Thank you.
What is voltage? What is “true” 0V?
Disagree.

Most people wouldn't pay the exorbitant interest, taxes, mortgage paper fees if they didn't think they'd get appreciation on the property — "like always!".
Lisztomania was actually coined in 1844!
It didn't "sort of go by HN", it was on the front page for a bit and had some 97 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29072031
That's what Google does sometimes - but it's sometimes considered rude. Plus, anti-bot software may accidentally thwart Twitter's checking bot.
I took notes on my courses in LaTeX, and I didn't find it detrimental. If anything, it was way faster to write and understand them later. And it is easier to write whatever you need to keep track of the lecture and then modify it later (or during the lecture) than to have some paper notes where you need to first complete them and then organize them.

Not to mention that it's far easier to collaborate with LaTeX notes than paper. For example, we split the courses between friends so only one took LaTeX notes, the rest paid attention or took quick annotations on paper to later complete the notes.
Where are the bubbles currently shifting? Deflating?
>> Great answers. If we check back in a couple years, I'm sure we'll see good learned approaches to most of these problems.

Around November 2023? I'll try to remember.
I did the math.

For the price it would've taken me to upgrade my aging gaming PC to be able to play AAA games smoothly would've cost about the same as getting both a PS4 Pro and Xbox One X.

That combined with the fact that I don't need to upgrade the consoles for years made the choice really simple.

I still play a few games on my PC (Valheim, Factorio etc), but I'm hoping the Steam Deck will allow me to retire the old beast completely.
AFAICT she was just pushing her own career by doing a high profile piece.

I challenged her on Twitter and asked her to remove the piece. She replied that he was famous and thus fair game.
I'd work from a village on the sea in Sicily (Italy)
They don't need to get appreciation, they just need to have the home be less costly than renting. Once you throw in the mortgage interest deduction that's a pretty low bar.
How many free Console games are there? Much less than PC.

It's entirely fair as there is more possibility of free PC games, or them being of negligible cost since you pay lower platform fees.

This is in addition to the opportunity costs you incur of not buying a PC or having a lower powered PC as a PC can be used for other things (ie, office work, taxes, other productivity tasks).
Diaspora is a hard science fiction novel by the Australian writer Greg Egan which first appeared in print in 1997. ... the citizens, intelligence as disembodied computer software running entirely within simulated reality-based communities known as polises. These represent the majority by far of "humanity" in the novel...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell is a 2019 speculative fiction novel by American author Neal Stephenson. The book explores mind uploading to the Cloud...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell
A developer earning 1/5 of an American silicon valley salary in India is really good, they could easily replace you. The problem isn't them, the problem are the developers earning 1/20 of your salary in India, they are as crap as the bad developers in USA, and they are what most companies trying to get cheap headcount in India go for when they outsource to there.

Edit: The above numbers were 5 years ago, might be closer today, but still.
This is really cool! I think this is a really under-serviced space and there's a lot of room for innovation here.

I started making https://waystops.com a while back in a similar vein, although it's more aimed at higher-level exploration of destinations and places to visit than local things to do. I use the wikivoyage dataset to power a lot of it; you may want to check that out too as there is a lot of useful data in there.
I'm glad to hear that somebody's using it in the wild. It was rejected at my place of work in favour of a BPMN-driven process engine. The thinking was that it's too difficult otherwise for business-people to understand the process.

Does your company write about its experiences?
I have seen the same thing happening in recruitment for marketing roles. Totally unscripted interviews often leads to suboptimal results in terms of the quality of the candidate and their fit for the role. Made this mistake firsthand before devising my own process of hiring.

And the process I follow is based on having an exhaustive list of questions covering all areas of the role but during the interview if something else comes up, I don’t mind pursuing that and going unscripted. It often helps me add more questions to my list so my list of questions keeps improving.

I’ve been following this process for last couple of years and the structured process has helped me hire some of the best people I had the privilege of working with. Also, I feel more confident that I’m hiring the right candidate. But of course, there could be an element of bias in there.

Side point - I’ve just finished a SEO hiring guide that covers my whole process of hiring an SEO person (both junior and senior roles). Will be publishing that in the next 4-5 days. If anyone is interested in purchasing a copy, my email is in the bio.
Ask HN: Crypto Developer Communities
Hi HN,
Where can I find communities/social media groups for people developing crypto projects?
Matrix looks the most promising to me. I believe the people behind it are principled (just like I think the people behind Signal are), but the Matrix protocol doesn't require heros. There's no single point of technical or legal failure.
Plenty of people in this thread, including your parent post, have found it at around MSRP.
How War with China Begins (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/us-china-w...)

19 points | samizdis | 7 days ago | 6 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29066045
It seems curiosity always beats warnings about danger. I mean the curses and the sealing and the like of entering Tutankhamun's tomb were ignored as well. And I'm pretty sure that this container would have the nuclear symbol on it.

The best thing to do I think is to make sure nobody can even accidentally find it. Drill a deep hole (miles) where you know it won't end up in the earth's mantle while the material is still dangerous, fill it with nuclear waste, seal it and forget about it. The chances of someone accidentally finding it again thousands of years down the line are minimal.

Warnings only make people more curious. I don't remember any warning sign from >1000 years ago that actually keep people away.
Agreed, having iterations with a good doctor on what's potentially wrong in your body can do wonders! But finding a caring and trustworthy doctor is difficult.
Not the blog author, but practically speaking, faking OpenGraph tags would result in same phishing capability (considering that most people don't check the cards carefully), but it'll still show that the link was not from that site. But again, most people would still click paypal-not-really.com or coinbase-is-not-controlling-this-site.com
An important part missing in this is to add symbols to your keyboard layout. Instead of typing \alpha, just type α. To type \cap, write ∩. I used a StackOverflow answer [1] to build a key layout [2] for my Spanish mac keyboard, but this should be easily replicated for other systems and languages

1: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110042/entering-unic...

2: https://github.com/gjulianm/MathUnicode
> not end to end encrypted but that’s not what I am asking for with telegram

Why not? Why allow any third party to collect data on you and store it for an unlimited time?
The Calibre ebook managemet app has plugins available that can strip both Amazon and Adobe DRM.
That's fine if the consequences are reasonable, but they are often not. The mob doesn't do proportionate responses. Those who fear the mob cannot be relied on to stand against it. The "right to be forgotten" aims to strike a balance between justified consequences and the modern-day Scarlet letter the web attaches to any percieved wrong-doer.
And too often I think I'm much smarter then others.
Or consider as smart what really is just wishful.

https://mindmatters.ai/2020/08/in-what-ways-are-spiders-inte...
And therefore some would say that those games are deficient in something important. Of course they're "successful", but usually through exploitative and disrespectful designs.
Note that Signal's architecture makes this difficult. You can observe metadata going to the Signal server and going from either the Signal server or from Google's blobs-to-apps service. Assuming that my phone uses the Google service (it can also use websockets directly from Signal), then you can see thee things:

1. You can see that my wife sends someone a message via Signal.
2. You can see a stream of data from Signal to Google.
3. You can see that an app on my phone receives a small amount of data from Google.

You can still pick out something, but the architecture tilts the statistics and widens the error bars on your results.
I agree that it is a bad idea, as you optimize for "shopping around" behavior.

You should optimize for "I enjoy working here, and will do a good job because I want to" which is somewhat harder.

Two things spring to mind: Make sure to automatically increase salary with time, at least to match inflation, but more to match what an employee shopping around could expect.

- Why switch to a new job with a slightly higher pay, if you're reasonable sure of stable increases where you are now?

As far as you can, try to increase pay more for people who do a good/over average job.

Make it known during onboarding, that pay increases with time. This won't entirely discourage "shopping around" and there are lots of average/below-average types who base their entire career on jobhopping, let them leave, you don't want them anyway.
It’s easy to be blind to the intelligence of animals that inhabit places we don’t go or think about.

Then one day, as so many accounts here attest, we notice a spider or an animal cross our realm and see that we have things in common - the urge to protect and nurture our young; the drive for self preservation; the call of hunger or thirst.

We do this not just with insects and animals, but also with other people. That ability to shut out the recognition of other people’s basic needs and feelings helps us to prioritise our own families welfare, and to get ahead personally.

That’s all understandable and ok to an extent. Taken too far, we risk alienating ourselves from something richly rewarding and powerfully good - the fellowship of people, insects and animals we haven’t met yet.
I feel what most call "stupid questions" come from people assuming others have the same context and have the same assumptions about some topic. It's a kind of communication failure imho.

Your advice (which is excellent btw) mostly targets this kind of thing.
Calendars have gone backwards since the Bronze Age. It's time to evolve
In their own words, the goal of this mission was not to collect plastic, but to collect data. I hope that this test will help them scale up further.
Odd comment. We hate the tech interview because it doesn't fairly evaluate on the job performance of candidates, but apparently it's ok to reject them because they don't fit the interviewer's tribe.
2021: A Year Full of AI Papers- a Review
I am primary an iOS developer so I’m not interested in a MacBook + a PC setup

So for gaming i choose an xbox console and for the 70$ Price I subscribed to xbox game pass ultimate (it’s 15$/mo) but I have access to all 1st party games day one with more than 200 games in the backlog which I don’t have time to play them
This doesn't make sense. Unless the scalpers are hoarding consoles or using them for a purpose other than games (space heater? overpriced Netflix machine?), the consoles will get in the hands of a game buyer.
I don't get how HN are working. I've submitted that exact URL 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=SergeAx
Some might say we already done that, and here we are. A grand simulation.
The community edition is not the full IDE(A). The full IDE is not open source. They're welcome to their business model, and I'm sure the ultimate edition comes with all the bells and whistles, but the community edition does not.

Feature comparison: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_...

Please do stick to factual arguments.
Not a pilot, but my interpretation is that the pilot probably tried to slow down to make the jump easier. That got him closer to the stall speed. Having one engine with less thrust is something twin engine pilots train a lot for (engine out scenario) but also something that puts you closer to stall speeds. The rudder is the primary way to control airplane direction when you are close to stall speeds because you lose aileron controls around that time (they don't do much when you stall). It's also what you use during engine out and what can trigger a spin during a stall. Now having the center of gravity change would be dangerous under those circumstances.

Stall recovery is also something pilots train for as that is highly dangerous during takeoffs and landings. A landing is basically a controlled stall. Spin recovery is less commonly trained for because it basically means you messed up the stall recovery, which should not happen. Sounds like the pilot did the correct thing (eliminate async trust and nose down).

So, not a good incident but it happened at an altitude where there was plenty of time to recover.
That and consoles are basically monster DSPs, benefiting from high-throughput buses and parallel processing in a way that general purpose computers do not. Architecting from the ground up with this in mind means you can build something with cheaper silicon that performs much better for video games
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Attempted it several times, to run Plex etc. Remote control never works well. Having to keep a mouse & keyboard near the TV is a hassle.

I'm sure it's perfectly possible but some people don't want another thing to configure and troubleshoot if that's their day job.
I often administer a 45 minute version of this (talking about any/all past work, not necessarily side projects), as part of a half-day of interviews. We'd never be able to get into the depth you could in two hours, but we can get somewhere.

My experience has been that a lot of candidates can't even fill 45 minutes. I ask "what was the most interesting part?", "what was most technically complex?", "what would you do differently if you did it again?", and they just don't have nontrivial answers.
The real question is “how much is an equivalent game PC” because consoles do not perform anywhere near the level of half-decent game PCs.
Definitely still exists. I get it in emacs sometimes (god only knows why).
They actually manufacture in the UK.
Wow, finally a company which takes money in return for services. Why is this such a seemingly outlandish thing for modern tech companies?
Is this list intended to imply that a so-called 10x programmer does not have these qualities? Or has the opposite qualities? Do 10x programmers kill puppies?

In 40 years working as a programmer I have never heard a programmer call themselves “10x” except ironically, as a joke. The term seems to come from management, and maybe recruiters, as a shorthand for the obvious (and often large) differences in programmer productivity (according to multiple metrics) observed in both studies and in practice. Steve McConnell wrote a good article about it, you can find several others.

https://www.construx.com/blog/the-origins-of-10x-how-valid-i...

Although no programmers go around calling themselves 10x or wearing an exclusive patch or tattoo this subject keeps coming up, as if the mere 1X programmers were oppressed and offended. In actual programming teams and projects everyone contributes in different ways, some people have more experience and skills than others, and we usually recognize the stars and the less-skilled. Programmer productivity is highly situational: I may work 10x faster than a colleague on project A, but change things up and I may be the junior on the team.

Perpetuating this imaginary class system as if there’s a 10x caste pushing everyone else down, and consoling those who imagine oppression with feel-good lists like this can only cause more friction and resentment among programmers, when teams work best when everyone works together and helps improve skills all around.
I've said this before, but

> Signal still knows nothing about you

they do have the means to push an app update that uploads decrypted messages somewhere, and I wonder to what extent governments can force them to do so. Signal users should not enable automatic updates, that's for sure.
As some other users said, this is something it had to be made to basically make some money out of an amazing tool, and I also think that you can keep your ads healthy if you moderate them. It´s fine. (:
Consoles are on their last run in my opinion.

Valve has improved the Steam experience for Steamdeck, along with the Proton compatibility layer. Then they added "Great on Steamdeck" that will encourage devs to aim for better controller support.

Now there are rumours Valve is working on a new "console".

Imho once there is a "console" that is basically Steamdeck with builtin Steam store and a powerful GPU... in otherword a fully capable PC with desktop performance + the console user experience (or almost there) there is strictly no reason to buy a Sony/Nintendo console anymore.... especially since SEGA, Sony & al are porting more and more games to PC.

I think we are all in a better place if those platforms converge, and Sony/Nintendo just focus on making great games. But it doesn't matter anyway, since if Valve can release an actually good "console" experience, with builtin Steam store... Nintendo and Sony have nothing more to offer bar a few exclusives.
Reminds me of the one clip where one plane of jumpers actually crashes into the other.
Me neither, if you find the answer share it please hahahah
Yeah for those of us who remember it, what Signal is doing now is what TPB were doing many years ago.

Of course TPB were also enabling the sharing of masses of copyrighted material. But what Signal is doing, in the eyes of police and intelligence community, is almost the same.

I honestly see a bleak future where the development of secure applications is forced underground. And the next step would be total control of the internet so no anonymous networks can exist. And after that we'll just use radio, so really there is no way to stop people wanting to be private.

Because the Stasi searched for pirate radio stations with vans.
Great. Now how about the rest of us?
One thing you could do is to provide an area in your SaaS where your customers' customers could view all emails sent to them. Add a small "unread" counter too in a place they can't miss. That way, even if they did unsubscribe from your emails, they could still get the messages.

And you could also add an option to resubscribe right there.
Armchair psychology but probably when 4 of the 5 in Maslow's hierarchy of needs are met [0] ?

[0] https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-maslows-hierarchy-of-ne...
I feel dirty having closed source games installed on my main machine, god forbid Windows. There is sooo much stuff going on in games these days, I don't want that attack surface/system intrusion where I keep my things.

For 300€ I got a computer (PS4 Pro) dedicated to nothing else but gaming. And that's mostly just because I can help it, crave Skyrim and Fallout 4 once or twice a year, anyway.

A worthy PC would cost me at least 800€. Right now, I'd say it's even impossible, because of the graphics card situation and APUs don't match the consoles.

While games can look better on PC, you would also pay another PS4 in electricity costs to run a fancy system, over here.
Linear models, so not even deep learning models?