skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is relevant to my current situation.

I was previoiusly working with a group of teams that had whole ownership of a certain product. The teams had certain areas of the product that they focused on, but all could contribute to different areas and we had a high degree of autonomy and ownership. As such, the problem scope was defined by the name of the division, and within that the team name didn't matter so much because we were all in the same office.

Now, one team has been created in our office (40 person remote office as part of a 1500 person org) to work on our parent company's enterprise offering, and we are the remote team far away from the rest of the company. Now, we are working on a project with lots of other teams we have little direct contact with; all who have highly focused ownership if different areas.

What I have found is that since these teams also have names don't relate to what they are working on, it is very difficult to know who has ownership of what since it is now very hard to cross those organisational lines.

Interestingly though, having been moved onto this work where we have very little ownership, our team name is one thing we could control.

I guess what I'm saying is that team names don't matter much, until suddenly they do.
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Normally wouldn't do this, but the topic + name match is too much coincidence to ignore. Allow me to mention my mother's first major book, shipping next month:

"Grieving - The Sacred Art", by Lisa Irish
I really appreciate your spin on this article.

sorry
The NHS will try many things to avoid expensive options like MRIs and more expensive medications.

For Multiple Sclerosis I was given one MRI and NO medications over the course of 12 years as I went from relapsing remitting to secondary progressive. Total postcode lottery so fuck the NHS.
Strictly speaking you can't go to jail for non-payment of tv licence. You'd get a fine, and go to jail for not paying the fine.

You're right that people get a criminal conviction for non-payment of the licence fee, and that's a bit worrying when it happens to so many people.
> If an attacker has access to the cable outside your home they have already won, it's game over.

Not if I'm looking at the block times or PoS participation rates. The attacker can feed me their own fork while preventing me from seeing the actual highest-difficulty chain, but their fork will be suspiciously weak, so I'll know not to trust it.

> Block creation have high variance. Over short periods of time, say a few hours no blocks being announced is fairly common. Over long periods of time how do you know the mining power has not decreased or increased at a slow rate than your person prediction.

Yeah; with Bitcoin you would need to wait several hours to get a good estimate of hash power. With more granular blockchains like Ethereum you could get a good estimate more quickly.
Lots of artists and writers get paid far more than software engineers.
However, GDPR is a regulation, not a directive. I haven't seen that countries pass their own implementation of it.
Don't you think rather than an invisible, evil hand, it's all just a big ouhpsi (see Hanlon's razor: "Never assume/attribute the intention to do evil that which is adequately explained by stupidity.") or just deterrence theory-based? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_theory)
Well, Elm does have interop with Javascript through ports. The mechanism is asynchronous which creates an explicit crash boundary at the expense of a mechanism that is more roundabout than just calling `foo x` when you want to wrap a Javascript library's `lib.foo(x)`.

Elm 0.18 and below (not sure what 0.19 is doing, it's not released) has synchronous interop through native modules, but those have been discouraged and documented as "do not use, will change in the future" since the beginning. And you can't easily publish them to the package repository.

To say Elm doesn't interop with Javascript is just wrong.

You may disagree with Elm's stance on its synchronous interop, but you're just disagreeing with trade-offs. Like all trade-offs, just because someone chose different ones than you doesn't mean they were oblivious to them.
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This is the sort of generic comment we all need to resist posting here. It turns out you're responding to precisely the kind of "single article" that you're wishing for "at least once". When a response has so little with the particular thing it is responding to, that means it's generic, i.e. predictable and information-poor, so it is a bad comment for HN.

Put differently: if a comment could just as easily be posted anywhere remotely related to some huge, divisive topic, then it's a bad discussion for HN. Having the identical flamewars over and over is an information heat death nightmare—exactly what we're hoping to avoid on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, you did it right. The parent comment was unfortunately incorrect.

To me this is an absolute non-issue. Even if the research is free of bias and error (debatable), it's a tiny chance of cancer late in life. Spend your time worrying about almost anything else (diet, exercise, avoiding drugs), etc. and it will be orders of magnitude more important.
I've suffered and still suffer from a lot same in the past. I hope sharing what's helped me can help someone else who feels like theirs so much to do / learn, but starting never happens.

For me, it's often been a result of procrastination but, just in the past couple of years, have I began to understand the source of the procrastination. My issue was fear. Fear that I would fail learning [_whatever new thing_], or not reach a deep enough state of meditation. So, my fear was compounded with some judgement of my ability.

At the moment, I'm practicing what I call "lowering the barrier to entry" and shelving perfectionism. I used to dream of progress as the grandiose "a-ha" moments; however, the reality is that progress is made up of many small moments over time.

As much as it pains me to suggest "agile for your life," I have found some success in having a personal backlog and trying to determine what matters to me most. It's the kind of thing life coaches charge you a lot of money to tackle, but most engineers / tech workers are accustomed to:

- Decide the project's top 10 priorities

- Place a value on each

- Determine their effort

- Break each down into subtasks

- Plan a chunk of work

- Start

I would also ask yourself where your motivation lies. Is it extrinsic or intrinsic. What inspires you to learn ML or React? I struggled with learning music for a long time because it always felt like something I was "supposed" to do. I still want to, but I have to come to terms with the source of that motivation.

Living is as easy as being "here," yet that's paradoxically hard for our stimulus driven brains. I've found slowing down, tasting things, feeling textures, and listening more have made me more aware and present. If you ever feel dead inside, deploy on Friday at 5.

Finally, I'll add all of this is easier to type and intellectualize than it is to live. To me, it often feels like a constant fight of putting time into the things I value to grow as I envision myself X months / years into the future.
MI5 is internal security, MI6 is external. MI5 doing eg kidnapping, rendition and torture of British citizens on British soil would be a question of "are they allowed to commit such crimes for an alleged greater good?".
This is great. I wrote a personal app that monitors (scrapes) a few state lotteries websites and if the jackpot goes above my personal threshold (it's below pot odds and pot odds minus taxes) then it sends me a text message in the morning so if I feel like it I can buy a ticket on my way home from work.

P.S. a few years ago Megabucks (Wisconsin lottery) was above pot odds even after taxes and with the cash payout option!
No, I truly think we are beyond that at this point: it is pure, profit-driven, hatred-based evil. In fact I am positive that the culture of war-mongering is SO entrenched that it has reached a pitch akin to religious fervor among America's (and Russias) elite, who utterly worship death, its instruments, and its application in driving us all into fear.

The reason I think that is because there is so much GOOD technology out there that would solve our crises of cultures in a heartbeat; we are being prevented from applying this, with every $billion-dollar bomber we build in the heartland, instead of schools, hospitals, universities, infrastructure.

EDIT: btw, I don't think its a "big invisible hand", but that's because I pay attention. I think its more of a "the people are cowards and cannot face up to the facts of their own complicity in the death cult".
Noise at high ISO has gotten dramatically better pretty much across the board. There was a bit of a megapixel race for a while but today manufacturers seem to generally be ramping up quality/capabilities in a more balaced way.

As someone why used to do a lot of available light photography with film. I find setting the iso dial to 3200 and just shoot with very little compromise almost magical.
This is a beautiful and well written article, but I find the argumentation rather weak. Let's roll up the reasoning backwards:

The article claims that changes to three factors (weight, bounciness and air resistance) could have caused a 25 percent increase in the number of home runs[1]. The increase in the number of home runs could be from the possibly altered balls flying farther [2].

The factors they looked into are weight, bounciness and air resistance and their contributions break down as follows:

- 5 feet, less air resistant, according to previous research [3]

- 3 feet, increased speed around 0.6 mph, according to previous analysis of bounciness [4]

- 6 inches, decreased weight by 0.5 g of the ball, which their analysis did not show. [5]

Never mind that 5 feet 6 inches is a little less than 8.6 feet.

When it comes to bring the argument home the article either refers to other sources instead of linking the claims together or it suggests a connection it fails to support.
All the lengthy talk about the composition of the core is interesting and I enjoyed reading about it. It could have been used to support the argument about the overall weight, except the article didn't show a significant change in overall weight. It could have been used to support the argument about bounciness, but it fails to draw that conclusion while referring to previous research in a hand-wavy way.

I think they should just have skipped the CT scans, thermogravimetric analysis and the scanning electron microscope analysis. For the saved money they should have bought more balls.
They could have weighed them precisely and measured their bounciness.
This wouldn't have made such a beautiful article but it would have probably made a much stronger argument.

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[1] "According to Nathan’s calculations, this would lead to a more than 25 percent increase in the number of home runs. Asked whether these changes in combination could have significantly affected the home run rate, MLB declined to comment."

[2] "Combine all these factors together — a lighter, more compact baseball with tighter seams and more bounce — and the ball could fly as much as 8.6 feet farther."

[3] "According to a previous analysis performed by The Ringer, that increase in bounciness alone would add around 0.6 mph to the speed of the ball [..]"

[4] "[..] previous research at FiveThirtyEight showed that they also became less air resistant. The decrease in drag is probably a result of a smaller, slicker baseball with lower seams. The change in air resistance could add an additional 5 feet to the travel distance of a fly ball."

[5] "The overall weight of the balls also dropped by an average of about a 0.5 grams between groups, but, unlike with the cores, this difference was not statistically significant.x

The ball as a whole weighs much more than the core alone, and there was more variation in the weight of the full baseballs than in the weight of the cores, both of which meant that the bar for statistically significant variations in weight was higher for the whole baseball than for just the core."
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Just done your Hello World tutorial. Very nice, compelling.
I don’t think it’s necessarily better, I’m just sharing the approach I take these days.
What happened on the woman's face here - https://2.img-dpreview.com/files/p/TS4000x6000~sample_galler...

Zoom in
I read more blogs (single articles based on headlines of interest) than newsletters (digests that show up in my inbox). While I find many of them interesting and informative (krebs, schneier, ars, hn...) there's so much duplicated info around there isn't much I'd be willing to actually pay $60/year for.

Would rather do something like cryptocurrency micro-payments per actual article read to the end (or upvoted, clapped, etc) as opposed to spending a set amount of money per month for potentially unhelpful content or articles I don't get around to reading.

That would reward content creators for writing good material that actually gets read and the economy of scale would pay based on that mutual incentive. Such micropayments would also be a better metric than simple impressions and clicks.
Compared to the lifetime odds of almost all other mortality risks: https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit...

Not to mention just in itself -- opposed to 0 people dying prematurely because of that.
Hmm, you might be right about the problem being easier, or at least parts of it. Though, besides what others said about loudness and danger, I think the main point is cost. Even if they can be deployed earlier than fully autonomous cars, if they are too expensive (compared to alternatives) the adoption will be quite limited (and hence, not really working as "taxis" as I see it). Still cool though.
jQuery is no better ( these days ) than Vanilla JS, which you will love as well especially if you choose to use ES6 syntax.
>Not if I'm looking at the block times or PoS participation rates. The attacker can feed me their own fork while preventing me from seeing the actual highest-difficulty chain, but their fork will be suspiciously weak, so I'll know not to trust it.

Would be really interested to read a paper that invents a confirmation sureness metric based on distances between block times which takes into account eclipse attacks.
Depth of field changes by the equivalent of one stop from full frame to aps-c, another from aps-c to micro four thirds. Thus, a f/2.8 zoom on mft shoots like a f/5.6 zoom on full frame.

Now if there only were fast full frame lenses for Sony E ...
Well, if you model can tell guess my name from 100 browser history entries, then yes, I want the law to require you to retrain your model once I invoke that right.

An interesting matter is a use of blockchain-like scheme. I guess the law would mean you can't put GDPR protected information in a public distributed blockchain, but instead use identifiers to decouple GDPR info from that ID. And the invocation of that right to be forgotten would require us to permanently delete an entry linking that identifier to a user.
This is, perhaps, the biggest takeaway from this article.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16510586, which is a longer interview with the author on the same topic.
You don't have to delete these logs when someone emails you if they're still useful for those purposes. You do need to delete those logs eventually though, and you need to disclose how often that is. It can be ten years if you want.

That sort of argument has worked pretty well for Disney and friends when it comes to extending copyright indefinitely and yet not technically violating the US constitution's "temporary" wording. I wonder how well it will work in this case. How can anyone possibly make a reasonable, intelligent, a priori assessment of how long that data will be useful for that kind of purpose?

It is good advice to mask off the bottom bits of the IP address since it will still likely be unique enough for you, without being useful to someone who has an unrelated list of IP addresses.

That isn't necessarily true if, for example, you're using IP addresses to detect a pattern of abusive access within a general pool of acceptable access. And if a full IP address isn't enough to potentially identify a specific threat, it surely also isn't enough to constitute personal data. Either way, your advice seems excessively broad here.

You should be able to delete usernames, passwords and email addresses on request. You should be able to remember that request if you restore from backups.

Doing this effectively without immediately becoming self-contradictory probably requires something like storing a hash of every user name or email address that has had deletion requested, and querying a database of such hashes during the restoration process in order to exclude affected data. While this may well be in the spirit of the GDPR, there is no denying that it is extremely onerous, particularly for anyone working with personal data who rarely if ever receives such a request yet would have to redesign a large part of their IT infrastructure around the ability to do it.
Back in the day or today? Because today you can even be fired for talking about intrinsic differences.

Let's put it this way: such talk wont make you very popular in the mainstream media and progressive urban folks. At best you have a chance on FOX and in the Bible Belt.
The NHS (in England) hasn't been centrally planned for some time now.

That's what CCGs are for.

Also, a bunch of stuff (drug and alcohol services, weight loss, smoking cessation, suicide prevention, sexual health, etc etc) isn't even NHS any more, and is part of Public Health which is part of local authorities.
Don't have issues?

Gab was banned from the Play Store. If you want to use their mobile app you have to flip extra switches and download it yourself.

Voat was the target of massive DDoS attacks. Also, apparently, people posting child porn there then immediately reporting it to their ISPs to try and get rid of them.

Quillette posted the views of 4 scientists on James Damore's memo and was DDoSd off the net for days.

You have to understand that this isn't a simple case of go get your own infrastructure. The sort of people who want to eliminate "unhealthy speech" on Twitter want to eliminate it everywhere, and will use whatever tools they can get their hands on to do so. Including attacking whatever is set up to support those who are getting booted off other platforms.
the web is pretty...janky. Native apps are where it's at. And those have centralized gatekeepers with absolutely no freedom of expression

Sure, the web is pretty janky now, but it's the future (if we have one for apps). Native apps are doomed. Progressive web apps are catching up fast, and the good ones are already providing a more seamless experience, particularly on mobile, than native apps can. Ask yourself, how many users now, on average, install new apps on their device from an app store?

And your example of Apple, while true, only puts a fine point on this. What developer wants to write 3 different apps instead of just one that works across all platforms? And Steve Jobs knew this and pushed devs to build iPhone apps using standard web technologies.
In-memory cache: Redis.

Do you typically run Redis on the same host as your web server? Treating it as "in-memory" can have interesting side effects as you centralize it and introduce network delays.
You could still pay the military with any other currency, including crypto. You cannot buy drugs online or easily finance terrorism anonymously without cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency enables new illicit transactions and marketplaces.
> in classic HN style I'll just comment on the title.

Please don't! That makes HN worse. It leads to the sort of generic, predictable threads that sink discussion into mediocrity and which we're most trying to avoid here. Plenty of explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if anyone wants more.

(People generally post workarounds to paywalls in the threads, which means that it's ok to submit such articles, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 and in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)
I hope they won't become mainstream until they can be fully battery-powered. You don't want something like that to fly above you when it has only slightly better Q&A than a regular car (and probably far less than a plane).
I substitute pork belly for bacon and it works very well. I like it better. Less salty and more fatty.
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> if I knew an agent is allowed to steal cars but not to beat up people, I know what I would ask the new guy to do.

See my other comment. The thing about state actors is resource and information asymmetry. It can be really difficult to pick a "random person to beat up" who doesn't happen to be an undercover agent. Given there's enough of an interest.

It's a little like cheating at cards: it's much easier with two "strangers" working covertly together, than being one person. You can count the card and lose, and your partner just so happens to win...
We're not just talking about diabetes though, we're talking about preventable illness, and good exercise does help prevent heart disease and stroke and some other stuff linked to high blood pressure.
Ok, it would be quicker, but is it a free lunch? Is there any chance that it would introduce bugs in my code and generate wrong calculations? There's no problem if it does not optimize or even if it crashes. I can always go back to the original version.
The "AI" algorithm used in the paper is far from a black box. It's logistic regression, which is extremely well understood and has been used by statisticians and scientists for decades.
Most people who made it past early childhood could definitely survive to see grandkids as early as 25 or 30 years old. I'd prefer to live into my 80s however and to do that with a high probability of success requires a little more knowledge than our ancestors had, imo.
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Your comment is close to being right (or maybe is right), but this was not the point of the parent poster.
> I think what changed is largely trade.

Somewhat famously, this belief was widespread before WWI - who would want to fight a war when we're all profiting so much from trade. The two biggest wars in history were fought in the next 35 years. The current US government likes to disregard every rule of international relations (and fire or fire all the professional diplomats). Those rules exist because, while they are frustrating in the short term, they prevent wars and promote progress in the medium-to-long term. Politics and international relations are not under immediate control of political leaders - many didn't want war in Europe, but they had started the mechanism and couldn't stop it. The idea of those rules is to never get in that position again.
Possibly because it's owned by Yahoo and Yahoo seems to be going down the toilet? At least that's how I interpreted the parent.