skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been coining a term in my local circles called "Data Terrorism"

Before I dropped out of Georgia Tech, I was going to publish a research paper explaining my reasoning for "Data Terrorism".

This article didn't touch on my points, I'm focused on weaponizing personal information. Atlanta is split between two counties, and one of them (DeKalb) used to have a website which published booking information. This allowed private websites to crawl the data and setup "ransom"-esque business models (pay us to delete your entry form our site).

I guess if you're ignorant, you would say "oh, well that's only for criminals"...but no. They're doing the same thing for all public records.

I recently found out that my 1st grade teacher filed for bankruptcy and foreclosed on her home around 2010....and her mortgage was around 250k. This came off a simple Google search of her name.

There is no reason that I should have ever known that.
Sure, I didn't mean to imply it was, or that it necessarily always worked, it's just the example I have some limited experience with (or really, just hearing a first hand experience of).

I can imagine some downsides right now, such as employee burnout (since there's going to be some extra responsibilities as you attempt to do your old job and a new one at the same time), and the fact that this time perior, while somewhat long, may still not be nearly long enough to accurately gauge how a person will react in many common scenarios in the new position.
I am sad they got out off the light bulb business.
Thinking that PC games are limited to the top releases on Metacritic is ignoring literally all the value PCs bring to gaming. There is a massive long tail of games that aren't on that list but are very popular PC games nonetheless.

If I played with a controller exclusively, I'd have to give up Cities: Skylines. I'd have to give up Guild Wars 2 and World of Warcraft. I'd have to give up Civilization. I'd have to give up Factorio. I'd have to give up Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis. There's no way I'd be able to map all of the controls of BeamNG Drive or Euro Truck Simulator to an Xbox controller.

That's a lot of sacrifices being made. After all that, what's the point in having a gaming PC anymore? And that's not counting that eventually you'll have to plug in a mouse and keyboard to do Windows Updates or something else that the OS will make you do that isn't controller compatible. Might as well just keep them plugged in, no?
Not my usual account for obvious reasons, but - I'm on my way out because of the company, not my manager. My current manager is decent, and my previous one was the reason I came to work for this company.

The thing that's driving me out is the company's lack of direction. They talk of innovation, but their actions demonstrate that they're more concerned with maintaining the status quo with incremental improvements to aging products.

I've spent about 70% of my few years here working on new products that never saw the light of day. That's disheartening. Fool me twice... time to go.
Don't take it so personally. If they are asking you to make changes in an unfriendly way, make a joke like "Tell me how you really feel :)". They will get the message and take a second to consider your comment. Code reviews are particularly difficult in a toxic environment, it's good to talk about things before they escalate.
There's a real catch-22: the multiple other parties we (in the US) are capable of voting for will never have a chance at winning if we don't treat them as real alternatives to the entrenched two.

There's a reason both D's and R's repeat the lines "voting for a third party is a wasted vote" and play the polarizing "if you vote third party, you're voting for <opposite party>" card each election season. It may be partially true at the time, but also implies there are only two parties that can actually win -- which is something that can easily change, especially as D's and R's both move further towards the end of their respective spectrums.
It's kind of amusing to me that a lot of engineering interviews also seem to be focused on doing things that you generally won't and shouldn't be doing for the position. What's the point of seeing if someone knows data structures and algorithms they won't be using if they can't write a web application that interfaces with a SQL database without doing queries in a for loop?
Your blog post is fascinating and I'm tinkled pink I found it, as I was planning on doing a NES memory visualization project myself for a design class this semester. Your idea of representing the bits as pixels is exactly what I was cooking up in my preliminary notes. It's awesome to see that I wasn't alone in my idea; your write-up and code will be a great starting point -- a valuable citation for sure.
That's because computers today have a million times more possibilities, especially if connected to the internet.

The lucky few nerds that had access to a computer back when (and keep in mind it was very much a luxury device with limited use for families) didn't have that much else to do with it, compared to today.

I'd argue that "today's millennials" (urgh) get to explore a lot more career and hobby opportunities than they would with computers back then. The computers back then were specialized devices for the elite and already technically inclined; today's computers (and phones, etc) are for everyone.
The thing that got me into coding was running a BBS in the 80s and early 90s. The ones I ran came with source code, so I modified the BBS to add features, or make it look unique like someone would do to a car. The changes were directly seen and used by the users, so it was easy to see the impact. We would share our code by releasing "mods," so other people could use them. It was a lot of fun.

I relate to Woz saying he did the stuff he did to show (off) to his friends. With the BBS, it was the same thing. We had a whole community, but since it was mostly local, it was closer. We of course had trolls back then too.

Computers before modems were quite boring, especially with limited resources. You had the manual that came with your computer and maybe another book or two, or a magazine subscription. Getting a modem really opened up a much larger world of socialization with other computer people.

FWIW, I started using computers in earnest in 3rd grade. The local school got a new computer lab of TRS80s and offered after school computer classes; one for kids and one for adults. I had been fascinated with them before, but I don't remember when exactly.
This reminded me of a video I had seen a while back by ViHart about spirals and nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0

Although her target audience is probably a bit younger than the people here, I still thought someone may find it interesting, especially if they hadn't thought about it much.

Edit: Also, if you have kids interested in math and these kinds of things, they may be interested in some of the other videos on her channel. She has a interesting way of presenting ideas on a few topics.
HQ Trivia (made by founders of Vine) doesn't make money, yet
I've started with 8. VIC20 BASIC.
AMOS! I created an image editing program in AMOS and several games. I must have been around 11 or 12. I never published any of them sadly, and they've long since disappeared. Happy memories
It sounds like unions are the new Rust on Hacker News.
PickleJS – Closures
Don’t treat all cases of gender dysphoria the same way
How long from the time I power on until I print “mikestew is awesome.” in a loop in Python, on a fresh install of $OS? On an Atari 800 or Apple II, the answer is “how fast can you type two lines of code?”
I see Animoji as a fun thing you can do that also demonstrates all the face recognition hardware in there that's present for FaceID, which to me, is the real killer feature of the X (and, presumably, future iPhones). Really is so much more convenient; like the good old days of using a phone that has no passcode at all.
I think https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed might have this data. You could try asking them.
Patrick Collison AMA on IndieHackers
IANAL but in Roman Law countries - and just for the record - not necessarily applying to this case, there is the concept of contracts (or clauses in contracts) that can be deemed nullum ab initio and Quod nullum ab initio nullum producit effectum if they are against or contrasting any Law, i.e. ipso jure.
Curious to know who is currently using timescaleDB? I can't find anything on the website.

Congrats on the funding.
I agree, there should be no fun and childlike whimsy over the age of 22. Once you become a real adult you're only allowed to derive joy from technical manuals, high interest savings accounts, and point zero four percent productivity increases.

Pretty much any mid-tier phone these days are plenty productive and there's not much that differentiates them because businesses tasks really haven't changed.
What an amazing story. A web page was updated and The Intercept is on it!
Don't know why you got DVd. This does nothing on a VM running Kali Linux (systemd):

# kill -9 1
I love Woz, just like I assume others here may be fairly fond of him, but I just feel that this is just adding to the celeb-fever of Crypto.

I hold a little Crypto (I'm actually down, as I've tried to design some basic trading bots and, well, you know... ;)) but not a lot.

I wouldn't buy a lot of crypto. How does it make sense? Just seems too insane.
Our open source version already supports some forms of scaling/clustering today: e.g., read-only replicas for hot standbys and increasing query throughput. Timescale also supports hundreds of thousands of row inserts (millions of metrics) per second on a single node, and allows users to elastically add disks to scale up single-node capacity to ~100TB.

For scaling beyond those insert and storage limits, we're currently working on full, scale-out clustering. We'll have more to say about that soon.
Other nations have no problem funding social programs, because they maintain a reasonable tax rate for high-income/high-wealth entities and avoid expensive indefinite foreign wars.
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I am having trouble finding anyone credible corroborating this from the past month [1].

The closest I could get is this June 2017 CNBC article where Wozniak discusses
buying some Bitcoin, clarifying that he “didn't invest” but “did it so [he] could play with bitcoin” [2].

[1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=wozniak+cnbc+bitcoin&s...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/12/apples-steve-wozniak-bought-...
> It's not data integrity.

This is true. And while you could claim it is a "non-starter" for using partitions I would argue that app logic guarantees of how that column is used is sufficient for many cases to actually use in its current state.

You have good points, and I have no disagreement about data integrity constraints or whether or not partition-wide uniqueness guarantees are a good feature.

It would seem you and I simply disagree on whether or not partitions without uniqueness guarantees are unusable for most use cases. I believe many partitions use cases don't need uniqueness guarantees (such as high volume, low/no update work loads). And for quite a few, if definitely not all, cases where uniqueness is desirable it could be satisfactorily handled in app logic.

But again, key agreement is partition-wide uniqueness guarantees are a good feature.
>> Word of caution 4K@27" is still pretty terrible in Windows.

Well, YMMV. I have been running 2 x 4K@27 with 100% scaling for a couple of years now, and I am very happy. I don't adjust the default font sizes in my apps either.

FWIW, my screens are between 21" and 27" away from my eyes at their closest and furthest points.
They were worth reasonable amounts at the time of exercise, not at the time of acquisition.
The mods on HN frequently editorialize submission titles if it makes the title more sensible, even if that means deviating from the original headline (which does not need to be the submission title in the first place). A good practice in my mind.
Several years ago, I looked this up. The LTC payout ratio for men was ~.8 and for women was 1.05. The average was close to 1.0 since more women had LTC insurance. So, it’s possible that LTC provides too little coverage, but that’d mean it is also underpriced.
Running latest lightroom on a 1950x w/1080ti card and CPU % doesn't go beyond 20%. Just unfortunate all this computing power is wasted.
But this doesn't change the fact that the Snowden revelations were just as shocking to many members of Congress.

Although who knows, they might also be feigning surprise.

But after a certain point, if you think everyone is lying about everything, then what kind of existence is that?
There isn't a singular reason.

But one of them is that SF doesn't have the storage and refrigeration that a fixed establishment does. The other is throughput. Combined, food doesn't stick around long enough to go bad. I have gotten sick in Vietnam, and it was at the fanciest restaurant on the entire trip. Most likely it was something kept under bad refrigeration for way too long.
One of the wonderful traits of Woz is that he is endlessly optimistic about technology. And once he can see the future of a technology, he gets excited, and it's infectious. I love watching him talk about gadgets almost as much as I love watching Cliff Stoll talk about anything.
Inside the group chats where people pump and dump cryptocurrency – The Outline
A lot of complaints against three letter agencies, who have elected officials with oversight and only hire from American citizens. Few complaints against Microgoogfacebook to whom we give all our most private electronic correspondence, have no oversight, and hire many foreign nationals who have little stake in whether the companies abuse the info they've been given. This strikes me as a bit odd.
So they were taxed on a best-effort valuation of the thing they received from their employer? That seems like how tax is supposed to work. (How else would you do it - in-kind taxes?) Illiquid investments are a risk, if you lose money on them then you lose money on them, and you don't get back the taxes you paid, just as you don't get back the taxes on income you lost at the card tables.
I'm not sure that being adult excludes me from having fun with the single most used device I own. I occasionally send Animoji to my family to say something whimsical.
Many university libraries will offer access to non-affiliated individuals for a non-crazy amount. Even if you don't want to pay, if the library is open to the public, you can walk in, find the book on the shelf and read it at a desk.
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AT&T wants Congress to draft a net neutrality law
Many: in a typical week I might use C, Python, Go, Java, Scala, JavaScript, and shell.
When you booted up an Apple II+, you were dumped immediately into a command prompt. To do ANYTHING useful, you needed to learn to type a few commands like looking at the directory contents or running a program.

If you just typed in the line '10 PRINT "I AM THE GREATEST!"'

and then "RUN", you had a working program.

Type in a '20 GOTO 10', and you were making magic happen.

These days, kids turn on a computer or their phone and they have no clue as to what directories are, source code looks like, or how to do even basic things with a command line.

Things are just too easy for kids these days.

It reminds me of the Butterfly Struggle Story:
http://instructor.mstc.edu/instructor/swallerm/Struggle%20-%...
Best way to handle all icons dynamically in Sketch App
The first time you build anything it's artisanal. Look at the process of building the first doll, or the first car etc... of a multi million run of the same object. The difference in software is once you're done with the first one, there's nothing else to do.
If everyone already assumed they'd miss analyst estimates, then what's the point of an analyst?
I wonder what half-baked, blockchain startup he's sold his name to.
That is called existence in the world of espionage / counter-espionage. It doesn't really track with the existence of everyday people, or legislative bodies.
The example in question is perfectly possible to do in Crystal during compile-time, using macros. What isn't possible is to create a new class on the fly as a sort of magic lookup table that magic methods is called upon. Good riddance, for that functionality.
Keep in mind this is the same guy that invested $10m into Ripcord...
Facebook struggles to contain Russia narrative – POLITICO
Yeah it's legit to question stories like this. With everything we hear about market manipulation, potentially fake news is a part of that.
You appear to be confusing Meltdown and Spectre. This is about Spectre Variant 2. You're describing Meltdown. Also, the fault is queued and not discarded. If the branch ends up being taken, you'll get a fault for accessing a forbidden part of memory. If not, the CPU "undoes" the speculatively executed part as if it never happened. The Meltdown issue is that it doesn't undo the cache effects, which nobody thought to be a big deal, and which are very hard to undo.

Also, you severely underestimate the speedups gained by a better branch predictor. There's a nice writeup at https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/ if you're interested.
State schools to make computer science a core subject – Boston Herald
Do you also "hold a little USD"?
Here's another one called Just Comments -- https://just-comments.com/
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Tales from Earthsea gives a lot of context to the realm and introduces an important character in the plot of The Other Wind. I took it to be the fifth book in the series with TOW #6.
> which shows that he is not utterly evil

Oh, no, I certainly wasn't suggesting that. If you squint a bit you can almost see Angelo as a tragic hero undone by his own virtues; piety and self-restraint have always come so naturally to him that he's never had to build up the moral muscle required to resist temptation. So when he does fall, he falls hard.

> I am not that sure to what extent this reign is over them; and who those "them" are?

A good point.
> Calibration puts you (hopefully) in the middle of the distribution of errors

That would be an interesting research topic! Perhaps the average color of the un-calibrated displays is not the same as the one of a calibrated display.

For example most TV are put in some very colorful mode from factory and most user don't bother to switch it. The same is true for old Samsung mobile phones which had a lot of popping colors. You could switch them to more realistic tones but nobody ever did this.
How Much CS Ed Will $1.3B Buy You? Not Enough to Reach Every U.S. School
Deserialization Attacks Surge Motivated by Illegal Crypto-Mining
You choose to give your data to Microsoft/Google/Facebook/whatever other private company you're complaining about. There is no agreement to give things to the NSA.
Workday beated estimates by over 50%, yet shares fell. I can give a lot more examples...

Par for the course for AAPL at earnings time for many years, not so much recently. Beat earnings, but didn’t beat the “whisper number”.
Yeah, getting too far into the weeds is a quick way to make someone feel like they're reading a D&D rule book, especially if many pages are spent explaining rules that ultimately have no effect on the story.

At worst it turns your exciting adventure novel into a textbook for arcane effects practitioners.
I started in the late 1970s at age 11-ish, on a TRS-80 Model I.

One of the local high schools bought a classroom of them and offered "Computer Math" as an evening extra-curricular for younger kids.

The difference then was that access to computers was something new and exciting. Today's kids grow up with computers from almost birth. They are commonplace items and don't strike up as much interest or curiosity.
If the problem is stated as you want a dynamic class to create instances where you call dynamic methods, then yes you need Ruby.

However, that is basically a lookup table using string based dispatch to decide what to execute, and such a lookup table can be done in anything.
Senators ask social media execs to investigate “ReleaseTheMemo” hashtag
We touched on this a bit elsewhere when someone asked about InfluxDB. One of the biggest advantages is that by being built on Postgres, we are able to support the full range of SQL/RDBMS features including secondary indices, complex WHERE predicates, CTEs, and more. Time-series data can also be easily stored alongside relational data, which makes it easier to simplify your stack.
Code can easily be tested, which makes it so much more usable and verifiable in my view. Not to mention how easily you can teach it, and how students can experiment with it on their own time.

Proving equations is much trickier. I also never understand why you always need to use proofs in maths to show you understand something, yet it's the only way. This makes it frustrating to do math. Even good mathematicians come up with flawed proofs, which I find weird. Meanwhile if you use data you can often visualize and test something.

Data is more concrete. I concede that you cannot express everything in code, but I'm amazed at how simple things in code can grow into unnecessarily complex math which becomes a barrier for many people.

> while there exists swathes of people out there in the science and math world who find code impenetrable

I find that laughable. People who do well in math should be smart enough to learn how to code. Programming language are easily taught. It has become a necessity in any science field to be able to write code to do decent work.
Touch screen phones and tablets are depriving kids of a general purpose computer. The training wheels environment ensures that there is minimal contact with the actual mechanics of how the device works.

Cory Doctorow had a great article on this 6 years ago: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

I think it is similar to how vehicles evolved in the early 20th century. In the 1940s and 50s, car engines were designed to be serviced by the user, and the relative novelty of automobiles meant that a lot of young men made it their hobby to crack open the hood and tinker around.

Later, as repairability and novelty declined, mechanic work became professionalized for all but the most hardcore hobbyists.
Hi, thanks for the feedback on our FAQ. We did write a blog post that goes into what time-series data is and why purpose-built time-series databases should exist / are necessary.

Please read it here: https://blog.timescale.com/what-the-heck-is-time-series-data...
PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser
Right, it looks very similar to the early adversarial visual examples. At first they only worked on direct simulated inputs with perfect clarity, then images, and now live camera feed of arbitrary 3D printed objects from any angle.
When Your Eyes Move, So Do Your Eardrums
Many people don't buy cars to understand how they work, they buy cars to go from point A to point B. Computers are much more useful to people than they were 30 years ago, so people don't buy computers to use a computer, they buy computers to accomplish a task.
The biggest problem - maybe 90% of the task - is to get there. Then from the remainder the biggest problem - in terms of required mass - is radio communication (if you choose radio). At least that's what my analysis was giving me.
Also hundred times this when you have kids. Sleep is important. It is much easier to get angry when you are tired.
I sometimes wonder what good is there in not going to sleep when you are tired. Sometimes I sleep after lunch for twenty minutes. Sometimes even full cycle - one hour and half, but this is rare. It makes a difference - you are more fresh and although it may seem like a loss of time, it actually pays back quickly as you are not struggling with tiredness during your whole afternoon.