skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) An alternative reading of the magazine is that it is celebrating young creator

Creator of what? IMHO, in generals "creators" and "creatives" are red-flag words, signaling, not creation in the sense of artistic work or craftsmanship, but capitalism - money to be made by graphic designers, whatever. Not to knock making money, just sayin' ...

> 2) The readers are self-consciously choosing this media themselves anyway - through the YouTube channels they subscribe to and watch, the Instagram influencers they follow, the products they buy. Instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media feeds, these readers are now being encouraged to think how they can follow in their footsteps.

I dunno - "choice" gets complicated in a world of advertising, algorithmically driven video rankings, fake news, the general limited range of what is available over mainstream media distribution channels, etc.

People who make money off of something love to talk about how the people whose money they are taking are exercising choice.
You might not and I agree with you but HR and the recruiting function wont.
As great as a lot of BI tools are, there will always be a strong demand for a spreadsheet program like Excel. Glad Microsoft isn't throwing in the towel on it.
I have been paranoid about this for years, and I still use a bristle brush. But I was very selective when I went shopping for my new brush. It has very large bristles that are not likely to come off, and if they do, will be very obvious when eating or chewing. Brushes can be found with bristles of larger diameter wire gauges.
You are absolutely correct. I'd somehow parsed the Mars number as in miles, rather than meters. Some part of my brain was surprised, but didn't pull the fire alarm.

On the LIGO question: Two GPS-synchronized cows, standing near the end-masses, that mooed in the appropriate chirp (correcting amplitude for polarization) would make people nervous enough to do a few calculations and, out of an abundance of caution, put up a fence. I expect the gravitational effect from any mooing (it's a tiny quadrupolar deformation of the cow) to be extremely small.

In practice, even the end-station buildings are large enough to keep cow-moos from happening close-enough to bother the instrument gravitationally. Furthermore, there are no cows at Hanford, and I doubt that there are any near Livingston.
Aragon 0.5 – The Architect
What are some questions I should ask my team as a manager?
will be managing a new engineering team shortly.
What drug was the person who drew that graphic on?
Yet you disagreed with my original comment and follow up, which state exactly that.
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I had originally skimmed the article and thought they were just selling empty wallets, and I thought, that is cool, an intro to crypto, I'll probably pay for that.

Then I realized they were selling crypto wrapped in wallets wrapped in a USB, and figured they would be out of business fairly quickly, and purchase will never arrive.
From Windows to the Cloud – Tim Sneath
Thank you for emphasizing this (definitely not taken as a personal attack).

This is basically what I meant with that disclaimer. Also, I hope I didn't trivialize anyone's suffering, and if I did I am truly sorry -- I'll avoid using these words in the future.
I just tried this, although I guess I did so on the phone. Cox wouldn't budge.
I think they called that "The Apprentice" ;)
Association and Reputation puts people into seats on premier nights, or on the streets outside Apple stores, or gets a foot in the door in business. Its a real thing, and people are wise to leverage it whenever they can!
One thing for Tesla, its a halo brand.

One thing against Tesla, their valuation demands impeccable execution to the T. If Model 3 has some sort of massive recall, they will be hit very hard.

Would I short it? Not yet!
s3 does this really nicely, for pennies per gig
> Is it really large, established manufacturers who are making these mistakes?

Yes. Just read the NathanK or Benson google+ pages. Very few USB-C accessories are compliant - almost every one has some bug in its implementation, some worse than others. Apple cables are good, but even they took a couple iterations to get it right.
My daughter is super into JoJo Siwa, and YouTube videos of girls playing make believe with their toys. It’s kids creating content for kids. I don’t get the article’s angle at all. It’s way better than what I was into at that age—ninja turtles and power ranges, cartoons designed by adults primarily to sell toys.
I plan on only accepting crypto for consulting this year, it filters out clients and I have limited time.

At some point I will exchange to USD to pay whatever I owe in taxes and to pay any vendor that does not take crypto. I imagine if I were an unscrupulous actor I would skip the tax step and avoid vendors that don't accept crypto.
I think the critical aspect here is the management system.

Pair programming makes total sense when tasks are owned by the team. In that case it's in everyone's interest to improve the team's overall velocity. That means time spent mentoring juniors or working together on tasks is well spent.

When tasks are owned by individuals, it's in everyone's interest to increase their own velocity which means maximizing time spent working on their own tasks. People are disincentivized from helping other people complete their work or mentoring them, because that directly reduces your personal velocity.
Startup Accelerators
Isn't fully working for me. Windows/Firefox. I can't drag the boxes around or activate the menu drop downs.. sigh. Looks cool though
This is one of those posts that should really be written in the first person, perhaps titled "How I decided to quit my job at Facebook".

Although I work in the same industry as this person, my point of view couldn't be more different. None of this is useful to me and I don't know what he is talking about.

It's presumptuous to assume others share your viewpoint and values. It feels like he is living in a bubble, which is not an uncommon criticism of Silicon Valley employees.
Works great, just a tad slow. Hopefully this improves things. Deploying with Kubernetes is pretty seamless as well.
> distributed adversarial consensus commoditizes trust....

It absolutely does no such thing. Trust has nothing to do with technology and you'll never escape the need to trust real world, meatspace based institutions and humans. At the end of the day you are arguing "code is law", which is a pile of fresh horse manure, clear to anybody who saw what happened to The DAO.

Technology is created and governed by humans and you have to trust those humans. You need human meatspace based institutions in place to deal with when that trust is broken. No technology will replace this--at least in any kind of world I'd want to live in.

Satoshi's Glorious Blockchain will never succeed because it is a technological solution to a problem that can never be solved by technology.
Wasabi and B2 are pretty much the only commercial services

You're missing OVH, which has multiple DCs.

Automating the upload to different endpoints is not exactly something exclusive to the blockchain, I already have that with git-annex.
My brother is a fanboy og on the forums, out there taking model3 action shots at the track. He volunteers; he has been waiting send his invite fam.
It's actually quite hilarious to me this Prestige by Association.

I've worked at a couple very high-profile companies in the Valley and have never felt this prestige primarily because I don't hang out with complete douchebags.

If people get all starry-eyed when you announce the company you work for; run in the opposite direction. Also, don't kidd yourself, you and I know both know you're not working on anything that cool. Especially because almost everyone works on a team so responsibility is pretty spread out.

And even if you are working on the very algorithm that determines which ads are shown when, you're still buried in seventeen layers of process and bureaucracy for a change or product that will probably never ship or will take years to market.

The day-to-day is about unglamorous as it gets. People need to realize the big "names" in the Valley are simply large corporations.
What Happened to Nanoimprint Litho?
Given the commotion a few months back, this is notable:

This free software update also offers customers more visibility into the battery health and performance of their iPhone.
Eradication of spontaneous malignancy by local immunotherapy
Using it in production currently with dual-write and dual-read to compare perf. I'll do a write-up showing how Cockroach performs to Citus and Cassandra for my use case.
One out of three: This device will show you what power deliver modes are available, request the most it can get, and make that available on terminals.

https://www.tindie.com/products/ReclaimerLabs/usb-c-explorer...

(Also, if you didn't know about tindie.com, and you are a certain sort of person, then I apologize for consuming the next couple hours of your day.)
How to Quit? really?

"Hey Jerry, got a min? Look, I don't think this is working out. Here is my letter of resignation, and my two week notice. Thank you."

Done!

How hard is that to do? There is nothing holding you in chain in that job unless you are actually being held in chain in that job, at which point you should seriously analyze your life choices.
When this news first came out, I tried practically all the alternatives. My personal experiences:

Wadded up aluminum foil: really does not work well. It gets loose grime off, but anything at all burnt on will take very vigorous scrubbing and possibly result in shredded foil everywhere. Also feels like a huge waste of foil.

Wooden scraper: works ok, since it's not flexible doesn't get between the slats well, need to put a lot of elbow grease in to get stuck-on stuff, and if you leave it outside
in my high humidity region - even under a cover - it will get disgusting fast

Abrasive pads/steel wool - work surprisingly well, but need to be replaced constantly and it's fairly disgusting work (you will feel like you need a shower afterwards) because you are basically in the grill

Nylon brush - did literally nothing.

The solution I'm currently on is a wire brush that is continuous spirals of wire rather than bristles. Available from your preferred online merchant, etc. Does not work nearly as well as a traditional wire brush: have to use quite a bit more force, and very awkward to maneuver it between the slats. That said, it gets the job done very well and it's durable.
Processed meat itself is basically a carcinogen according to the WHO:

> Furthermore, processed meats can also contain other carcinogenic compounds such as PAHs which can be formed during smoking of meat (e.g. salami). Processed meats, particularly those containing red meat also contain heme iron, which can enhance the formation of carcinogenic compounds (NOCs) in the body.

I'm not opposed to specific, verifiable claims - "Non-foodsafe plastics are likely to leech into food especially when heated", etc. I'm entirely opposed to vague claims - "plastics are in your food and killing you!"

If you have a specific claim, then by all means make it. Don't make the claim "but nitrate laden meats!" because that is meaningless.
The article is blocked for me, but writing a blog about why you quit and what you plan to do next seems to be pretty effective. Any insider blog or article about FANG seems to do well, but one's which describe why a person DOES NOT want to work there have increased likelihood of going viral. I'm sure those writers get flooded immediately by recruiters and the like.
When have kids ever read the WSJ? This is an alternative to passive media consumption.

Hell “how to build your brand by being you” is the gist of a ton of the articles you see in Forbes, etc, just with more glitter.
Much higher brightness range on film too (potentially -- depends on the film of course).
The person at at top-tier company who can't think of a better scenario AND has two years of savings seems to have no imagination or desire to enjoy life in any way...
No offense to Cameroon, but they should have never allowed .cm TLDs in the first place for this reason.
Heh, fun consequence I just realized is that, in theory, you don't even have to wait for video-based still formats to be standardized and deployed if you're willing to play some games with single-frame videos.

So, like, h.264-based "images" can be shown in most browsers now, and VP9-based in many (but not Safari or IE). And you can fake AV1 images as soon as you get AV1 video.

Using video decoding in an odd way like that probably isn't especially practical or wise, but fun that the capability's there/reachable.
Attacks against computer vision algorithms are pretty much always going to be of the form of "I can make a change to the scene or image which makes no difference to a human but which causes an erroneous classification."

This is a huge problem if we expect autonomous systems to do anything meaningful with vision outside of tightly controlled environments. You're going to be crucified after an autonomous vehicle merrily plows into a semi and the explanation for the crash is "well the truck was white and had the Hidden Valley logo on it which was misinterpreted as clouds." Or if an autonomous car runs a red because there was billboard somewhere behind the light which sorta-kinda looks like a green circle.
In the case of car rentals that seems like less of a loyalty program and more of an attempt at reflecting the fact that the thing you're paying for is getting less valuable over time.
I am tied to Mach3 at the moment, which only runs on windows. I've thought about LinuxCNC before, but there seem to be issues supporting my machine. Otherwise, yeah, I would happily be running Linux.
That book is half commedy, but does give some interesting things to think about. I enjoyed reading it, and have been meaning to read it again.
I’m with on that but i feel like the punchline of that story should be “my company has a Head of Blockchain”.
> Rust

The type system is very good. Denys Shabalin is doing amazing work but Scala Native is still an early mostly 1-man project and not production ready, rust is a production-ready language with a large number of backers. The rust ecosystem is much larger than the Scala native ecosystem.

> Typescript

Types solve my biggest gripe with Javascript. It's singleton and union type support is leagues ahead of Scala and Dotty and a decent patch for some of its omissions. It's a much closer fit to browsers. The ecosystem is gigantic. Frontend devs know Javascript, you can convince them to learn Typescript but not Scala and the ramp-up time on Typescript is super low.

> Switching to Kotlin

The Scala devs aren't happy with it, but ultimately it's about the project not the language. It's mostly new hires and previous Java devs that have a negative impression of Scala and prefer Kotlin.
Why didn't you get a cab? Maybe then you'd see that it's not such a weak excuse after all. At least, my experience is that it isn't.
Congratulations to the cockroach team for putting out an awesome product :)

Would be great to see how it compares against postgres in similar scenarios.
That's my impression too:

Whoever is working on the kernel, the driver subsystem, etc, and whoever is working on CLR stuff, can stay. Everyone else is fired.
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Yeah that struck me as a little strange.

If you have a "top tier tech job" then I don't really understand the need for two years of savings. Do you think you won't find a job before two years? I guess it depends on location.

I've left jobs multiple times to take a few months off to work on stuff before job hunting again and I definitely didn't have more than one year of savings.
They put up some shipping container apartments a few blocks from me: http://www.theoscarphx.com/

A/C bill has to be insane...
This case involves two things that are very interesting for this audience:

1) Cell phone data was used as evidence to convict him. It later came out that at the time it wasn't that accurate and that the prosecution misled the jury about it (perhaps based on the prosecution not understanding the data either). Also of interest was how much trouble the judge, prosecutors and jury had with making sense of this data. Cell phone location data is way better today, but when this kind of data first became available -- much like DNA evidence -- juries have trouble making sense of it.

2) This trial is also interesting from a DNA evidence perspective. A lot of people feel that DNA evidence makes a case ope and shut, but everyone involved with this case was purported to be friends. So, what does some small amount of DNA evidence mean in a case like this?

I find this trial is also interesting as we look at data from home AI speakers. I get the sense that we may have a few trials like this coming up in the future where the quality or type of data that a home AI speaker records is misunderstood, and it leads to bad evidence being shared.
> or the range of plants that could support the high population densities of Eurasia

A bit entertaining, because maize (corn) and potatoes come from the Americas, and were adopted over much of Europe (and in northern China) because they were needed to support high population densities.
Please do, that would be a very popular read I think.
This Is How Much Money You Should Have in Savings at Every Age
It's for use with TVs which all have HDMI.
Towards greater MRI sensitivity by harnessing quantum hyperpolarization
Show HN: Find and contact Venture Capitalists
Wasn’t there an article here a while back about a Chinese woman who had a STEM/Maker YouTube channel who got harassed, heckled, and called a fraud because she also happened to be good looking? There seems to be at least some forces out there discouraging STEM girl themed channels.
Only if there was an HBO for sports too. I hate watching those stupid ads when I watch live sports!
He's (likely) Chinese-American. Chinese culture is HUGE on prestige.
Apple Revamps Privacy Controls to Comply with New European Law
I fully concur. Find your first reference today(mayhaps, someone from your parish).
> Teen Boss would not be interested in a 15-year-old girl who invented a revolutionary new type of automotive engine, because it is not a magazine about girls with grease on their hands.

How sure are you of this? I think there's a good chance – I'd bet even odds – that they'd publish a profile of a girl like you describe.
I think the "get rich quick" schemes here are just as bad, but I don't think it's a logical inconsistency to argue that it's one thing to target these kinds of articles to adults and quite another to target them to young children.
It periodically uses extra CPU cycles! Oh, and it updates my wallpaper about once a day to something new and shiny. (Similar to what Windows 10 lock screens do, but it's a different set of photos.) Though today's red and white architectural picture is a little harder to look at than the usual landscapes and fuzzy animals.
Right. Promise a company wide bonus if they meet targets, don't tell them to prove the haters wrong.
> Tesla has accomplished something no other automaker can claim: It's made a relatively affordable electric car.

That remains to be seen. Selling something at a loss doesn't equate with making something affordable.
Will the executive who finds traders shorting his stock insulting volunteer his bonus to the line workers volunteering their weekends?
Ask him.

https://www.dalbertbv.com/about/
Living expenses artificially subsidized by the non-rent-controlled property around you, what's not to like?
Abstract: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/433/eaar1916?_ga=2.4924...
But as a commercial choice, the depth of available talent with JS experience vs Scala just makes Scala.js an absolute non-starter. Even if you found someone they will be potentially double the salary. So you're stuck cross training developers to write something they could have done anyway with less cognitive load.

I admire what scala.js is and I've dabbled with it for my startup for my own indulgence but it's window for viability is tiny.
In this case, "new customer" is anyone not currently subscribed. So if you go from provider A to B and then back to A a few months later, you're a new subscriber.
> And how would a blockchain stop a government from putting a counterfeit record in to start?

Or any entity? Sure you can trust that once it is in the blockchain it won't get tampered with but you still have to trust the source of that record.

... which is where all these stupid "do your inventory management on the blockchain" things fall apart with even an ounce of thought. Who gives a crap if the blockchain trustlessly says the wine was made with grapes from peru if a corruptible human had to enter it...

At some point, all data comes from humans and you have to trust those humans to do the right thing. And when those humans breech that trust, you need meatspace based institutions to sort out the mess...
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Apple’s Health app can now display medical records from 39 health systems
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ASK HN: TD Ameritrade has an Trading API
I thought I would just bring this to the attention of everyone, as I'm not completely sure they are advertising it as of yet.

But it looks like TD Ameritrade has revamped their API. https://developer.tdameritrade.com/

About 6 months ago they had an API that was last updated in maybe 2012? It appears that it hadn't been supported either. But it looks like they revamped with a new API and twitter bootstrap design. I think it might be in Beta, because there are spelling mistakes and just some installation instructions that don't make a lot of sense. It also has that out of the "twitter bootstrap" box feel.

My question is has anybody had any experience working with the new API at TD Ameritrade? Any repos that I could contribute to, etc?

About 6 months ago when I found out TD Ameritrade had an unsupported API, I moved over to Interactive Brokers and used the SDK ib_insyc (https://github.com/erdewit/ib_insync) to develop my trading algo. It works, but at times it can be serious headache. Not necessarily ib_insyc, but Interactive Brokers API.
Wait a few weeks before updating. Apple updates are buggy these days.
I don't think Scala Native would be a good fit with Apache Spark. Starting with their work in 2.0, the Spark framework already started doing things like working with sun.misc.Unsafe for direct memory control over certain operations. In general they put a lot of effort into getting as close to metal and hyper-optimizing the framework itself. Given that, trying to do the same yourself on top of that framework seems counter-intuitive in my opinion.
Because that's an insane architectural decision. You already have a database.
Abandoned Soviet space shuttles and rockets
NOTE: There are still some features not working but wanted to soft launch it here to get some much needed user feedback.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or some "how the F did I miss that" UX/UI design aspects that, well, I missed.
The idea is great, but the nodes constantly rearranging and floating around (and overlapping) makes the actual "mind mapping" hard to do, at least for me. When I look at something like that, make a few changes on the left, I would expect the right side to stay relatively the same or at least change in a more predictable way.
Extended analysis: https://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/novel-immunot...