skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: isn’t this illegal? Technically the $job was paying $Tommy for his expertise in networking. If $Tommy withheld that expertise and instead entered into a conspiracy with $friend to launder his expertise for more profit from the company, it seems like double dipping.

The only way (I think) $Tommy could have done it cleanly would be to quit and instead start the enterprise with $friend before approaching $job.
Are you open to considering visa sponsorship for eligible candidates?
> I never understood why anyone would even want a banking app though; there is nothing int can do that a website can't.

My bank only allows me to do Zelle (instant p2p money transfer) via app, not that a browser would be incapable.
Well there you said it, you work some places for 5+ years, therefore I would strongly consider you. The main reason is that longer stints give you an opportunity to become a master with at least one set of tools. If you interview and are apparently not masterful with your own toolset, then I’ve caught a coaster. I’ve found that it’s much harder to acquire this signal vs. noise thing with exclusively 2 year stint people because they spend half of their life on boarding or unemployed.

Also, I get what you’re saying, but DI was around in 2005 and some good engineers (older than I) were using it back then. It seems lot of good ideas skipped a generation!
Is this the end of Made in Europe?
There were 8,400 corporate insolvencies in Germany from January to June, up 16.2% from the first half of 2022 and the biggest percentage increase in more than 20 years
> temporary homosexual connections

A.k.a. "don't drop the soap!". Let's call a spade a spade. What you're referring to is male-dominance-based rape culture in its clearest form.
> Siri means ass in Japanese.

Not exactly, that’s shiri. It’s just that si doesn’t exist as a sound in Japanese, so they approximate it with shi.

It’s also a form of shiru = to know, as in shiriai = acquaintance, so not totally inappropriate.
...all of that is easily accessible in open source text editors. And in my experience it's also much more reliable, _and_ it's one less subscription.
Which is $0 if you're the kind of person to use Google Docs and GMail and other free web services: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/free-office-on...
Watching the AI community rediscover automatic differentiation 20+ years after the field was considered "mature" was equal parts frustrating & fascinating. The frustration was them rewriting the history of discovery, but without any sort of sense or rigor ... and it was also the most fascinating!
A bridge too far for the catherds...
Sounds like a community implementation of a Jai frontend for GCC waiting to happen.
This is a pretty good deal for .NET's best IDE. Been a happy user since Rider's first release and a long time happy R# user before that, although R# could get pretty sluggish for big projects under VS.NET so jumped when they announced their full .NET IDE and never looked back (now only using VS.NET for Blazor) - it's symbol search, navigation, refactoring, terminal and git integration, executable/script management, unit tests, support for JS/TypeScript FXs, DB plugin, etc is much nicer than VS .NET.

I ended up getting the All Products Pack since I need to maintain projects in several languages so ended up being pretty good deal for the 8 IDEs / tools I have installed which got even more affordable over time which was something like 40% off after the 2 renewal.

Pretty much doing all my development on JetBrains IDEs these days, used to use VS Code a lot more on laptops since I'm normally not a fan of using IDEs in small screens but Rider's new compact UI works great in full-screen mode to maximize code real-estate on my 15" M2 Macbook Air.
Qantas Sold Tickets for Already Canceled Flights, Watchdog Group Says
Detect Fair Queuing on an internet connection
Using the server and client scripts, one can check whether there's fair queuing at the bottleneck of a connection.

To my knowledge, this is the first measurement that can check for fair queuing.
Wix sounds like a word for masturbating in German.
I own both sizes and have found it challenging to go back to the 14" after getting used to the 16" screen size and battery life. I'd urge you to test out a 14" and see how it goes.
https://archive.ph/QqCFl
Was the war with Russia worth it?

I'm not defending Russia but just want to say that EU should've delt the situation in more pragmatic way.
This Article previously Posted and Discussed on HN: (37-comments - 2023-09-02) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361070

https://archive.is/vJ2JH
Snake oil salespeople and actual thieves are also people struggling to support themselves and their family. Who cares?
> the huge majority, including some of the central figures like Frodo and Sam, had at least some moments of darkness, however fleeting.

Yes, but not due to their own inherrent greyness, but because of the corruptive influence of evil they fought against. That's a huge difference to my eyes.
Quick question: where are people sourcing their e paper displays? Everytime I think of picking some up I always feel either I'm paying too much or getting too little guarantees.
> CCNOT and Hadamard are universal logic gates with which all (?) quantum functions/transforms can be approximated.

CNOT, H, S, and T are universal for approximating any quantum operation.
Yes we used this number based on some of our workloads and it is definitely lower bound... As I am thinking now we should have moved this lower bound a bit up yes
Thanks.

I installed Koreader but I think I'll stay with CoolReader and do without progress sync.

The two deal breakers are

- I can change the brightness of the screen in CoolReader by sliding a finger on the left of the screen. I must use a menu in Koreader and that makes brightness control almost useless.

- There is no way to change the color of the text. I like red on black in night mode. White text is too bright in a dark room. Reading thought the issues on GitHub it seems that maybe a custom CSS can do the trick but I don't feel like investing time in that. Progress syncing is not so important to me.
> Jetbrains are offering 65% off

I've always found it telling how British/European english refers to companies using a plural verb, while Americans refer to a company using the singular verb "is."
>They tend to be small according to Google’s definitions of test size. Small tests are fast and deterministic, allowing developers to run them frequently as part of their workflow and get immediate feedback.

Yes, but for companies that are not Google scale, it should be possible to run end-to-end tests fast without too much trouble.

>They tend to be easy to write at the same time as the code they’re testing, allowing engineers to focus their tests on the code they’re working on without having to set up and understand a larger system.

But tests maybe should not be easy to write at the same time as the code they're testing, that implies too tight coupling between code and tests.

>They promote high levels of test coverage because they are quick and easy to write. High test coverage allows engineers to make changes with confidence that they aren’t breaking anything.

Why would a good end-to-end test be harder to write than 100 unit tests that purport to cover the same code paths?

>They tend to make it easy to understand what’s wrong when they fail because each test is conceptually simple and focused on a particular part of the system."

A good end-to-end test will give you the same thing if the code logs errors well. And if it does, that will be good for you even in production, not just testing.

>They can serve as documentation and examples, showing engineers how to use the part of the system being tested and how that system is intended to work.

I can see the value of this, but in practice I think that it is usually hard to show engineers how to use some unit without them being aware of the larger system.
> (feels wrong somehow)

If we expect others to pay for the stuff we write, we should expect to sometimes pay for the stuff others write.
It is valid thing to point out for a critic. Just like unrealistic physics or one dimensional characters are.

Objectively angelic vs evil was extremely common setup in cheap literature. It is easy to write and people used to consume tons of it. Be it detective stories, adventures, westerns, goodly good vs badly bad was common.
Met police vows to combat protests against London’s Ulez rollout
"Deprecated features for Windows client" - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/deprecat...
Show HN: Command line query for all your unified log data
Note that activists have flagged the story here. A simple story about an excavation that even shows concern and takes pain not to discount the abuse. That’s how wacky the True Believers are.
> the only way to get the second factor for logging into the online banking website on your computer, is to use the bank’s app on your phone.

This is utterly false. Yubikey, TOTP-based solutions, there are options. It is a choice by the businesses to not implement those options.
Many systems have lots of leaders to handle concurrency. Ours has millions of them for instance.
That’s usually not what people mean when they say an event peaked. The “peak” is always well below the highest-attendance, because it clearly was already uncool when attendance hit its max.
To entrepreneurs: Please build good alternatives to Discord. Like many other commenters, I'd rather not use it. But, to fully switch, I need alternatives that are as easy to use as discord for non-technical users and accomplish the same benefits. Yes there are many alternatives but none that I'd prefer to switch to when considering the things I'd miss.
I collection (mechanical) watches I have 30-40, half are cheap as chips, usually old Soviet pieces, the other half are Swiss.

The most expensive watch I own is about €10k. Honestly I don't think of the value on the days I wear it - I just look at it and smile.

It used to be that I had about seven watches and I had one for each "activity". So I had a sauna-watch, a swimming watch, a photography watch. Later I got too many, so I switched into different styles - a pilot watch, a diver watch, a jump-hand watch, etc, etc.

I usually change watch every day, but sometimes I might wear the same one for 3-5 days. The only time I consciously think about it is when traveling for holidays - I think "Is this the watch I want to go through security with, and dive into a lake?" or "Am I gonna wear a suit, or not?"

Expensive watches are not comparable to cheap watches in my view. Just like a bottle of 50 year old whisky cannot be compared to a €10 cider - they are different things, with different audiences.

(Also: Get insurance. That takes away almost all worry :)
I meant get the money back after the fact. Which yeah it will probably suck for the client even if the bank considers it a cost of doing business.
Think about it if asked you to overstate Tolkein's achievements if they were great enough, no matter how hard you'd try, you wouldn't be able to over state them.
The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited (1983)
Consensus algorithms underly distributed databases like Cassandra, or distributed caches like Redis. (in fact Redis does use a version of Raft).

Simple use case, you're running a database across three servers, so that users can ping any one of the servers and it still works (fault tolerance).

User X pings server A to write something to a table. User Y pings server B to read from that table.

How do you make sure that User Y reads what User X wrote, so that User X and User Y are on the same page with what happened?

That's the consensus algo
moka pot is a type of espresso machine - a device to save time for lazy impatient kids
No, those only allow 1 leader and 1 intake at a time. They just pick the leader by proof of waste first.
The requirement of a TPM in w11 will make companies throw millions PCs into shredders in 2025 with the EOL of w10.

Of course there will be enough PCs to go around for practically forever, but the march of time is not going in a direction that you and me will probably like.
Wikipedia has a nice list of software using the algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(algorithm)#Production_us...
Plussing Your iOS App
This is like someone saying memory is about storing data while the computer is on and someone else trying to start an argument by saying that sometimes memory addresses are used to communicate with video cards.
We should really be supporting places that sell without drm, there are some. Vote with your wallet and all that.
Currying looks surprisingly great in JavaScript
What's the context:

CEO of a small bootstrapped laundromat doing revenue of $300k a year with 1 employee?

CEO of a mid stage startup with a few million in revenue and dozens of employees?

CEO your own side projects with no revenue but aiming for revenue?
This paper[1] discusses “termination detection” which consensus can directly be built on with trivial proof. It assumes a single environment, and while mathematically that is a kind of graph node it really maps to all outside sources of input and not a cluster member.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...
Google could keep supporting a headless-only version of Chrome for Linux. And maybe slowly start charging for it.
Unless it refuses to turn on without the internet connection.
I'm fairly confident that MaraDNS, first written in 2001 and still around today, counts as well established. It's a decade older than Knot DNS.
If you're interested in consensus algorithms, you might be interested in this book that I used in a theoretical course on distributed system called "Reasoning about Knowledge" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262562003/reasoning-about-knowl...).

You have to invest a bit in learning about modal logic, but once you do get past that part, this book provides proofs of why things like Raft or Paxos work that are super intuitive and straightforward. Basically pushing the complexity of proving these algorithms into the logic structure used to form the proof (in an intuitive way). Highly recommend, changed how I think about consensus!
This is certainly not a right wing tabloid. They even take pains to say that there may have been cases at other locations.

> Of course, this finding doesn’t mean no bodies exist at any former residential site, and it doesn’t mean there wasn’t abuse at the site in question — or any site, for that matter

This means you don’t bother reading things that go against your preconceived notions.
Check out Rewind.ai! I used a similar app (Capturer.app) to do this automatically, and have since switched to Rewind - it's much better for my purposes.
There's been a huge flood of vanilla software engineers into ML, retconning it as "a subfield of computer science" (computability is a minor concern compared to the statistical underpinnings). They pretend to know the math because they can read the equations, then claim with utmost confidence that actually they're doing all the hard work in ML because they are experts in calling APIs and integrating into products, however useful or useless.
Most senior, non-applied mathematicians in academia (including those with fancy titles at prestigious universities) outright refuse to adapt even simplest technological advances, like version control, let alone think about possible large scale transformation of mathematics. I wouldn't take take anything that they say about technology too seriously.
The authors leave out the most obvious explanation for that's going on. And instead argue that limits of gambling and drugs might also be ineffective.

Children can recognize that there is no major harm in playing games. Being forced to follow irrational rules leads to non-compliance.

Rules around nicotine, drugs, and gambling do have a rational basis and do cause real harm. And for many people explaining this is effective in helping compliance.
> Can you provide a source for your claim?

"Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up" is literally a quote from Steve Jobs.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/01/steve-jobs-knows-bes...

https://www.engadget.com/2007-01-11-jobs-confirms-iphone-is-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/steve-jobs-the-iphone-and-open...

https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/0...

https://www.wired.com/2007/01/why-i-want-a-locked-iphone-2/

Of course this just proves another thing I said, which was "Many people seem to forget".
I’ve used both and I prefer NFC over UPI. I just need credit card and phone that supports NFC. No need of phone number, deal with entering pin, scanning QR code, linking account during setup, etc. Biggest plus point with linking credit card is fraud protection.

In US NFC is best and seamless since most people have high end phones. In India maybe UPI with QR code is better solution since you only need phone with a camera.
Measuring story points across the company is such a weird thing. The meaning of points depends on the team. Like you can decide to multiply all the feature costs by 10 from one sprint to another if you want to.

The only usage of points is to improve the predictability of the output of a team. It cannot be used to measure performance in an absolute way.

If performance metrics are built on points, it just ruins the meaning of points. There is no reason to be honest anymore.
At the cost of increased power consumption. The bus frequency is crazy!
And there's nothing to stop you from asking a friend to buy something in Germany, and shipping it to you, where VAT is 23% (Portugal smh).
This seems a lot like trying to invent a problem to justify your metrics rather than acknowledging that your metrics don't align with the actual performance of the team.

There's no indication in the article that the team was struggling or under-performing, and there's no reason to promote someone out of a position they're thriving in just because the way they deliver value doesn't neatly align with how you're measuring value, especially if you can plainly see the value.

Here's what I've seen in the past: exactly the scenario you described, the "Tim" is promoted to team lead or architect or something similar, and now their calendar is booked up and they no longer have time to do the thing that brings value (and that they enjoy). No one on the team is happy, everyone is stressed, and in a year or so you'll start bleeding members. Tim either hangs around and is a mediocre whatever position he is, or he leaves to be a whatever position somewhere else where he can start with a new context and without loaded expectations.
Looks like they have their own stylesheet, not sure if they have it somewhere with documentation/etc.

I will say, BOOTSTRA.386[0] may be a good substitute; per it's name it's just bootstrap. I've actually used it in production[1] and it works just as one would expect.

[0] - https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

[1] - At the time it was just a gag prototype, and while I told everyone "if you don't like it feel free to switch it to normal bootstrap or one of your choice" but nobody bothered to do so since it wasn't a very complex UI and, frankly, it kept things clean.
Ha! I’ve used that phraseology for yeeears and only just learned about the Masonic connection. I think it’s safe to say that it has fully entered the common vernacular.
Amiga Press in 2023: From Vultures to Vampires
I wouldn’t go this far, applied ML articles are my favorite articles. If you’re in the arena, it’s good to see things that other people have done from a practical perspective so you can ape it in your own work or not give it further consideration.
You can try a software PBX solution -- I've spun up quite a few 3CX deployments using Twilio as the SIP provider. Then you can call in a number of ways (super configurable routing inbound and outbound). There's a "softphone" mobile app for internet -> sip calling on smart phones. 3CX has pretty reasonable licensing (I think there may still be a free tier) and Twilio is super cheap.
Interesting site, found an author I was unaware of to explore. Thanks for linking it!
Yeah I just booked a license test here in Australia and it requires payment at booking time as well as the name of the person taking the test.

I imagine if the person who shows up for the test has a different name to the name given during the booking they won't be allowed to take the test. A license is an ID document too so other forms of ID have to be provided to acquire the license.
2007 - Apple releases the iPhone and begins the age of the gilded cage of mobile devices.
Alkaline, Enabled by Quasco [video]
Ten Months and Thousands of Images Later: We Review the Fujifilm X-T5
I run blimpytyperd locally and it’s pretty slick.
As someone who has been involved in product line naming a number of times, it's something that's simultaneously fun, a PITA, and probably rarely makes much of a difference--especially for non-consumer products.

One in particular I was very involved with was a pretty good name but ended up as something that could have been confused with something else that became pretty popular for a time and various other branding associated with the name ended up being dropped relatively soon. (And the product itself was essentially redone from the ground up fairly soon as well.) The name had essentially nothing to do with anything.
What you need to do is to multiply all costs by ten. That way even if you underestimate one week you are not threatened by this insane metric.
Git Cheat Sheets- Visual Aids
> I’m not familiar with any ToS that permits a company to repossess your PC or parts of it.

Google just decreed that, starting 2 days ago, nobody may distribute software for my phone...
This is indeed the frustration

I'm waiting for some fresh group of grad students to make a breakthrough using a reinvented version of Pearls "Do" calculus or maybe they make some narrow breakthrough using BayesNets and everyone geeks out on those for a while

*I do think transformers (much like ff networks + backprop from 2012-2018) are probably a lasting software architecture for inference applications until we come up with new hardware, and move beyond GPU focused computing

It's exciting to see it all working, but disheartening how a-historical this last few years has been in AI - with the exception of Brooks, Sutton and a few other greybeards in the field who say similarly