skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved this quote:
"Customers don't give a shit about your vision, they just want you to solve their problem."
Peter Reinhardt, CEO @ Segment
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1) According to this[0] it is the worlds second largest economy

2) It is a very politically stable block, with low crime and corruption, war etc.

3) 51% of the population speak English as a first or second language[1]

4) High levels of literacy

5) Free market

Sounds like a really excellent place to sell advertising, as long as you don't mind not exploiting consumers. Why would you avoid it? In favour of where?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...
A demographic ahead of the product curve, predictive of Facebook's imminent decline?

I was a FB user when it was still closed to the general public (using my alumni email address) so yes, I would say that I/we are that demographic.

What I see is: everyone is moving to private, carefully curated groups on WhatsApp, where sharing outside the group will get you instantly ostracised.
Yes as I mentioned most series have English subtitles, while movies do not. I don't have a clue what's behind this difference.
But Crystal is a totally different language. The syntax and some things like the basic object model look similar, but the whole way you use it and the ecosystem are totally separate. I don't think it's 'basically Ruby' at all - I don't think much of the Ruby ecosystem (Rails for example) would translate onto Crystal.
This is a very poor argument, as basically it's saying that people should go back to living in caves.
Nope. Somebody breaks a contract and doesn't pay you and it's your fault? What?
Let them buy ads targeted to their EU customers through their US presence, fine the EU firm for circumventing the rules. Hard? Yes. Impossible? No.
> "Whenever you tag a friend in a photo you to help teach our computers to recognize what your friends face looks like"

That's a good simple explanation IMO. If it sounds scary, maybe it is.
And FB has presence in the EU.
I’m sure you’ll offer a list of the thousands of amplifier and speaker designers who feel it’s not good audio?
I think Acela is an exception to this, but I may be wrong.
Hey Alex, I'm to hear about your experience.

Please send me an email to federico at citrusbyte.com and I can follow up with that.
Yes, they had been successful with voice search long before Alexa ever came out, and continue to do it well. Google is THE search giant, you'd have to be acting intentionally obtuse to not understand his point.
I was just thinking that the atom has to be letting off (reflecting) some serious quantity of light in order for just one to appear with off the shelf camera equipment.
Ask HN: Why are you still on Ruby on Rails?
Why are you still on Ruby on Rails?

I started web development with Ruby on Rails and learned other frameworks like Express, Meteor, Django, Flask, etc. along the way. Before working at a startup, I had thought Rails was too "old" and I should stick to JS frameworks (i.e. isomorphic or universal javascript). But after I started working with more experienced developers at my previous company, I started appreciating Rails the most out of all the frameworks I've tried. I also started noticing a lot of startups around us (in SF) still stick to Rails. This is contrary to what Google Trends shows me here (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=nodejs,ruby%20on%20rails,ruby,javascript) and I might be too myopic. Any thoughts on why people (esp. startups) still stick to Rails?
all I need is 2 to come through and I'll be good.

That's what gamblers say as well, right before they lose all of their savings, their house, and their kids' college funds...

Take the job with the friend, even if it means giving up on the startup. If the market you're targeting is as fast-moving as you say it is, you won't have the capacity to keep up with your competitors as a broke one-man shop.

You'll be able to launch another startup in the future, in a much better funding position than your current startup.
Again, this is not deemed sufficient by GDPR. According to the law you can't condition the service you're providing on collecting unrelated (to that service) data.
Elon Musk’s “Innovations” Are Not the Future – They’re Delaying It
Legally it's supposed to be the other way around, but not all railroads give way. Many just take the fine that Amtrak levies on them and shrug.
Thanks for the hint. I had a look at WIP, and I can't really see how it is generating revenue. Any ideas?
I'm sure they will delete the illegal content if you ask them to. I've seen it happen several times already, it's a bit lengthy but functioning procedure.
Consider Chuck Moore, who appears to be active still and started programming in the 1950's:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080709050817/http://colorforth...
So with that money, can they finally afford to pay living wages to the people who make their service possible?
Can you elaborate on which scheme you mean please?
Have fun trying to get it unfrozen.

Why? Is it really that hard getting it unfrozen?
Here's the short ruby version from code golfing in 54 bytes:

def fizzbuzz
(1..100).map{|n|["%sBuzz"%x=["Fizz"][n%3]][n%5]||x||n}
end

puts fizzbuzz.join
43% with less than two choices for 25mbit is more concerning. 25mbit is around what you'd need for a family of four without being bandwidth crunched all the time.
You're not alone. I intentionally download the 2nd highest quality file because I don't want to waste time downloading a humongous file that might actually slow down my PC when watching.
But they get paid per eyeball, not by the enjoyment level of the people using the system. They don't care WHY you can't keep your eyes away, as long as you can't keep your eyes away.

From their end, their metric was perfect.
Ah, missed that. Thanks :)
It's a pretty rich continent of 500 millions people. Hard to ignore from a business perspective.
https://searchengineland.com/google-reveals-20-percent-queri...

I'd guess that 20% of Google's mobile queries in 2016 are a few orders of magnitude larger than Amazon's total voice search queries, effectively making Amazon's voice queries a drop in the ocean.
I hope bittorrent doesn't decline too much. A lot of open source software offloads their downloads to torrents to save space/bandwidth/etc and lower costs.
iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)
I am referring to things that had no name and never escaped the confines of the corporate environment where they were built. Mine was for browsing nuclear power plants. Had full vector graphics rendering engine and a limited but capable scripting engine.
ah, funnily enough we have recently reduced the scope of the exercise and asked only for 4 hours. At the same time we are now looking for less senior engineers.

We are also looking at ways we can make this exercise easier for everybody by providing a template with some of the basic boilerplate already written for the applicant.

It is difficult to find a happy medium between a trivial exercise and something you can work on for hundred of hours but I think we have something fair.

I find it interesting that you put your limit at 4 hours. It is not that much smaller than 6. Anecdotally 6 hours is the maximum timing .. if an aplicant said they only had 4 hours that day but delivered something solid in that time frame I would vote for them.
Yeah, I've been happily using Netflix on Linux for years. (As well as on an Android tablet and a Roku box for my projector.) Like many others, I'm entirely happy to pay money for content; my torrenting was about convenience.

I'll still torrent when I buy a movie on DVD, because it's way easier to download than to rip it myself.
That's not entirely true - MOSS actually works quite well, and preparing a sales report grouped by country should be trivial no matter what infrastructure you're using.
>> why you think "bolting on delivery" is easy/trivial

For someone in the position of Walmart, and with the many startups that doing delivery, it seems realistic.

As for why do i think Amazon will win the high end? really, the biggest reason is that it's Amazon. But yes, that's not a good enough reason, but still, they win an awful lot.

But maybe there's a chance for instacart to win the higher end, especially by offering the largest variety any merchant can offer.
Sure. I figured out the relevant library was libwidevinecdm.so, normally located in /usr/lib/chromium/libwidevinecdm.so on Arch Linux with the chromium-widevine AUR package installed. I created a CrOS installation image for an x86_64 chromebook (not sure which one, I looked up a list of x86_64 ones a picked at random) using the official chrome extension (at the time, this was only possible to do from a Windows machine, not sure what the situation is rn). I mounted the rootfs of the installation image and located the libwidevinecdm.so file. I believe it was somewhere in /opt/google or something like that. This is probably the location on Google Chrome installs under GNU/Linux as well. Then I just replaced my libwidevinecdm.so with the new one. Spoofed my user agent to something containing CrOS and it magically worked. I was quite surprised then :D.

Anyway, if you don't feel like doing that (you should do it), trust me (which you should not) and are ok with a (probably) relatively old version of the binary (I don't know whether it still even works, I haven't used netflix in quite some time now), you can get it here: https://transfer.sh/pYsRz/libwidevinecdm.so
SHA256: d84e87d89d8e95ccfcd3dd86157dfd608a022e1e8bee397c3d4541a162bab5c2
That explanation doesn't really satisfy. Perhaps, based on a large body of experimental evidence, it is known that the number of atoms present can be determined by the apparent brightness. Perhaps it's something totally different. Regardless, it would be helpful if the author/photographer/somebody explained the rationale that makes them confident that this is only a single atom.
German news reports have a very different angle on this.

German law forbidds a real-name policy, has to allow pseudonymous usage and advertise this fact as long as it's technically possible and feasible.

German law is obvious, but not weather facebook is bound to it. The court ruled it is.
Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction
"less than 10% of their Seattle staff"

even less than 1%
So how exactly do they collect data on people who are not on FB? Through websites with their tracking codes - and that's why the EU introduced so called 'cookie law' that says a website can't track you until you give consent (e.g. by continuing to use the website).

There's of course the way of other people giving them your data such as photos of you - but that's illegal and against FB TOS.
Netflix is enforcing it. They do the actual technical action of blocking access.
Competition is good for consumers but not investors. Investors want monopolies.
That's just an excerpt from the whole essay. It seems all of his essays are gone from the internet.
The largest Zimbabwean banknote during hyperinflation was Z$100,000,000,000,000 or 1E14. I assume they printed more than 10,000 of those.

I recall something about Oracle sending people down there to help with the bank or perhaps government databases deal with those numbers. I can't find confirmation of that, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe says "Computers could not handle the amount of zeros such that other forms of money had to be used to act as normal money (bearer’s cheques)."
Exploring the limits of real time rendering
How to Outrank Your Competitors in Google in 10 Easy Steps
And I agree that for your father, while it was a sacrifice, it was not a crises. However, it is more than a major inconvenience if one 1) does not own a car, 2) was born within the city of discussion, 3) has literally no free time or free capital to spend 'finding a better job in a better COL area.'

I agree two software engineers in the bay area who want to raise their child in a single family home in the peninsula, but can't shell out the millions necessary to do so don't quite fit the bill for those affected by a housing crises. In fact, that scenario allows for all of the solutions suggested above (relocate, commute, etc).

The crises is that in a large number of American cities poor and minority populations were left in the urban core while wealthier families moved out into the suburbs. Several generations later, wealthy families now want to flight back to the urban cores, while plenty still occupy the suburbs. This leaves almost no area for the poor people to go. That sounds like a crises to me - and I am thankful I never have to be personally afflicted by it, but I do no good whatsoever making absolutist claims about how poor people just need to work harder. You are being ignorant of the single mother of two raising her children, the father isn't paying child support, and 80% of her ~$700 income (all welfare) goes to rent - and pretending these highly complex, largely ignored cases are not massively present in those afflicted by poverty, that is wrong. The above scenario is not an exception, but largely par-the-course.

What solutions do you have for her?
"12- to 17-year-old demographic declined by 9.9 percent in 2017"

I'll offer those numbers are related to their parents already being there. Those kids will probably sign up or come back when they get a bit older.
Good catch - although as a non-train-nerd, I can hardly tell the difference. Do you know the key differences?
Yes exactly, if you don't have EU customers then again there is no risk.
>The rules are so vague that any firm could be argued to be in violation.

I think that's a good thing. So the law has to be interpreted by precedence set by the courts.

If the text of is too specific you could have the opposite effect of companies weaseling through.

It is not a tax. It's pretty clear that the EU expects companies to treat private user data with respect. If your company cannot operate without exploiting this info, than maybe the world is better off without it anyway.
It's not the point though. You're comparing whole board tpu FLOPs (4x 45) but then comparing tpu single chip chip2chip communication with nVidia board2board communication.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
The Northeast Corridor isn't without its delays but it works pretty well in my experience. Long haul Amtrak trains, on the other hand, I'm led to understand can be a real horror show with delays largely because of pre-emption by freight as you say.

I'm not sure the current status, but there's presumably a lot of upgrades happening on the Northeast Corridor, in part just to update old infrastructure and in part because it's near capacity at certain times. It's also the region that makes all the money that's then lost in pretty much the whole rest of the country.
thank you for context, and sorry if i sounded snippy in my response.

i was mainly noting the source for markups as we cannot tell you that delta -- it's up to the stores to tell us what they want to charge online. we do want to be as transparent as possible! ("possible" being the operative word here)
I moved to Seattle almost 2 years ago now. My main reasons for wanting to leave are the 9 sunless months per year and I feel a little put off by people. I can't put my finger on it, its very nuanced.
Nah. Netflix has been enormously disciplined about preventing feature bloat, and I really admire them for it. When this problem gets high enough on their list to solve, I'd much rather they did it right (buying the rights or doing their own subtitles) than some sort of half-assed thing that 90% of humanity won't be able to get to work.
What Is “Running Power” Anyway?
It's only for films or shows produced or distributed by Netflix. The download option doesn't include shows/films that they license.
There are regulations for agreements. In Germany for example, when you rent a flat, the customers have inalienable rights that he can't legally-bindingly forfeit even in written contract form.

There is no such thing as a fully free market, and that is a good thing.

The complaint is not that they want to control every detail. Certain parts of the agreements might simply not be valid just by clicking a check box, or the parts are not displayed in a form that is considered appropiate. Imagine a document with 15000 words that is unnegotiable by you. Will your mother read that so she can give meaningful consent? I don't think so, so the consent isn't valid. This line of reasoning is about common sense, and not about formalities, and I'm glad it is relevant in law.
Exactly, and then the consumer clicks a link to verify their email and they have a second account, and it's up to them to put them together, or up to you to see that they already have a login cookie and combine the accounts.
That doesn’t prove that the chip operates at 16 bits. For example, we could do 18-bit multipliers (or anything >= 16) and still use 16-bit floats.
Show HN: New ux testing app that comes with a free plan
How about "eccentric"?
A Curated List of Awesome Game Networking Resources
No, I just imply that it's their problem if they don't.

That's a nice quote but you have to click a button that says 'I've read the TOS' and next to the button is a link leading to the TOS.

If you've chosen to not read them, it's entirely your problem.
After searching for some game networking resources on Google, I realized that it's really hard to find good resources.
I decided to create a curated (aka awesome) list of game networking resources to make it easier for everyone who wants to read articles, follow tutorials or try out example projects.
Please feel free to contribute by adding some new awesome stuff and make it much more bigger!
Oh, could be. I am not a proper sysadmin though, so my experience is limited to managing a few machines at our small startup.
Yes, but the quality of those releases is utter crap. Bitrate massacre deluxe. Maybe you can save some dignity of the movie by using x265.
I log into Facebook about 6 times a year. Each time it is a waste of my time
I hope there's a mechanism to arrest Facebook officers on business trips or vacation to EU countries and compel them to cough up the money.
I created an inventory database for my dad's hardware store by in the late 1980s. It was on an Atari 520ST via Lattice C.
I don't know how it is supposed to work: https://screenshots.firefox.com/43Qs5xpvJ3Jm1oHi/date-format...

Why are there two different fields? I imagined only one would do the job.
Gorgeous photo in so many ways. I'm unable to dig up a high-res version. Anyone else having more luck?
As someone who uses the app daily: the update blows.

If you don't use the app I'll probably lose you here, but:

1) The main page is so much more cluttered. I don't need to see someone's bitmoji or a tiny preview of their story.

2) There was something satisfying about being able to clear all the stories on the story page. With stories on the main page now, this satisfaction is basically gone. A major misstep by SC imo. They should have latched on to me being addicted to looking at all my friends' stories. I'm using the app more.

3) Finally, and this is what makes the least sense to me, is that now I never have a reason to go to the second page and see all those stupid "trending stories". My click % on those is all but 0 now, where as before, when I had to look at them to see my friends' stories, I would sometimes find one of them interesting and click to read.

That last one isn't really a complaint, as I don't have to see those stories now, but just doesn't make sense.
On a similar theme, Tony Hoare might be in with a shout - active from approximately 1958 to now. He can still be found occasionally in the Microsoft Research building in Cambridge, UK.
I can't agree. If you're missing an item that you needed for that night's dinner, then you now are doubly inconvenienced, first by having to pay that convenience fee, and now second that you have to spend your time to go to the store anyways and get what was missing.
Hi HN!

As a long time lurker, I'm quite happy to have something valuable to post today.

I’m reaching out to you to share an imperfect UX research app that I’ve built :)

It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles the existing solutions have. The video quality of the recordings is just okay at this stage. And being an mvp, it’s still rough around the edges.

So what’s the point you may be wondering?

Here is the kicker: it has most of the stuff that the other solutions offer but does 2 new things that could save you a big chunk of time.

1. It allows you to recruit participants automatically and continuously among your users and your mailing list.

2. It also allows you to synthesize your findings much faster with a Trello-style visual board for organizing your notes.

There is even a free plan so you don’t have to pay anything to start saving time :)

It would be great to have your opinion on it.
My experience with Instacart has been pretty great so I was shocked at the GP vitriol as well. In my case, Instacart has been a huge help - my brother, who is unable to drive for medical reasons, uses your service considerably to get his weekly groceries. Once I figured out the substitutes scheme, it worked like a charm.
How is that not a reasonable defence?
It is of no matter where FB is incorporated. Every country can still bring it to court and judge it. The question is then of enforceability. I'm confident the EU can enforce fines on FB, but that is a different discussion.
We use Stripe, and it's been great. But now we need to start providing invoices and charging different tax rates for different countries ... and suddenly the low-level processing of Stripe just isn't enough.
I responded to your other comment to disagree, and I'll do so again here.

Nobody is comparing DGX1-V to a single TPUv2 chip, because it doesn't make any sense to do so. they are totally different kinds of machines. But for some reason everyone is comparing a cluster of 4 TPUv2 chips to a single V100 chip.

It only makes sense to compare 4xTPUv2 to 1xV100 if they are equivalent in some meaningful metric, like total die size, power, etc.

In lieu of any available data, I'm going to continue to assume that each TPUv2 chip is roughly comparable in terms of power & die size to each V100 chip. If this was grossly wrong, I would expect that all four would be condensed into a single chip, which would dramatically increase the performance of the interconnects.

We could resolve this rapidly if there were any data available about die size, TDP, anything of TPUv2.
You've been posting a lot of uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments and it needs to stop, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like hearing that the problem is something as (relatively) trivial to solve as this. I know carrying more fuel with the rocket isn't exactly an easy thing to do, but far easier than finding out there's something fundamentally wrong with the design.

SpaceX is amazing and I'm glad they're doing the hard stuff.
More people took genetic ancestry tests last year than in all previous combined
>...he noted that this whole system was used to decide where to locate Fermilab.

This sounds like a really cool story!

Where can I read more about this?
I can second the recommendation for paddle. I use it for https://presskithero.com, which has customers around the world, and we are a german company, so we have to handle very complicated european vat rules...which paddle does for us!!
What if the function of freeze_credit_report(..) is buggy too ? I do not think freezing a credit report will make this any safer. It might be just another flag in their already buggy system.
Still a game of chicken. See the poll results in today's FT - businesses still don't believe a hard Brexit is coming.