skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone have an opinion on his recommended mattress, as I nervously consider a 4k purchase this morning?
Zeynep Tufekci’s Facebook solution – can it work?
Oh, I'm not saying "don't optimize your productivity". Just don't stress too much about it.
I'd argue that the really sneaky play here, and this applies to both network-effect web companies and ISPs, is data.

Which is why ISPs fought privacy provisions so vehemently.

ISPs control the last mile, so they're technically free to use DPI, packet injection, etc.

But web companies control the application layer and have much more finely grained ability to instrument and track users (in their experiences or others').

And I'll lay a bet down right now that the killer app of the future is going to be predictive or ml-enabled experiences. Experiences that simply can't be created without the right data, at scale.

And handing all that to scaled web companies without encouraging disruption via market regulation? That terrifies the hell out of me.

Not mostly because I care about being tracked or my data, but because of what kind of market and world "data winner take all" produces in 10-20 years.
Word of Mouth Mobile Crowdsourcing: Physical, Cyber, and Social Interactions
> So, what you're saying is that you find it hurts your productivity to read productivity articles, so you try not to put yourself into the position where you have to read them?

No, it hurts my happiness to read productivity articles, so I skip them.
We Already Know How to Protect Ourselves from Facebook Image
I think you greatly underestimate certain people's ability to overreact...
The new meme/trend I see now is: don't manage your time (or tasks), manage your energy.
It's the weakness of single-sign on - if the authenticator is compromised, then the attacker now has the key that controls access to all the keys.
You are lucky and sound really content. That's awesome! For a lot of folks though (anecdotally speaking) that is not the case, they have different priorities and goals, not just for themselves, but also for their near and dear ones. Sometimes it gets overwhelming when you think about all the different roles we play in life and all the various commitments (direct and indirect) we've made professionally, personally (to self and family/friends). To me being productive, is being able to say confidently that 'This is the best use of my time and energy right now at this very moment'. It could be working out, playing with my kids, working on a project.. whatever. Sort of non-intuitively (for me atleast), staying organized (with lists , reminders, etc whatever is cheapest/easiest way to do so), just helps me actually shut off my mind and enjoy the moment. Whatever that might be (including writing this comment :) )
Taxify's new safety button in South Africa
Given that iPhones with OEM displays are apparently still working fine...isn't it pretty obvious that the third-party parts are the source of the malfunction?
> don't implement a very specific charging protocol designed to prevent metal migration between the pins and the pads on the connector

Any sources for this ? I'd like to learn more.
Not disagreeing. Note however that I'm talking about the authenticator. If that is compromised, then the attacker now has access to all keys.
We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on Dark
Funny thing about ATAPI is that it is basically SCSI wrapped by ATA (IDE).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Packet_Interface

BTW, anyone old enough to remember wrestling with IDE cables without notches? Meaning you had to figure out the orientation of them via the one marked wire at one edge of the ribbon?
>The people that expect you to maintain retardedly formatted passwords with stupid character mixtures, and expiration/re-use rules are obstacles, and I like making them as miserable as they make me.

The person on the other end of the phone had nothing to do with it.
> The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions, more than ethical or moral quandaries.

I think you hit the nail on the head. I doubt it has to do with moral qualms as employees. More to do with your friends and family giving you crap for working at a company that's getting bad press.
>I work for a Fortune 50 company and I get much of the information about the company from the news, despite having a relatively senior level role.

I think your parent's point is that all of this information has been out there even in the news.

As he said:

>they were very clear about what they were doing
I grew up in Maryland, which probably has the most defense contractors in the country and I decided in college that I didn't want to work in defense for ethical reasons. But there is another side of it, some people genuinely believe that the work they are doing is helping to keep the country safe.
Exactly. It is not a loophole assuming we have stable and steady use of electricity. I.e before bitcoin.

Apple funded or has lots of JV across the world, producing renewable energy. It is only a matter of time before they force /help their supplier in doing so as well.

My guess is in five years time Apple product will be net zero non-renewable electricity from transport to manufacturing.
> Then a coal power factory somewhere can buy the Norwegian credits and claim to be 100% green and sell that. It's no wonder many people don't like this scheme.

No this is not happening anywhere, where are you coming with this kind of things?

Coal company producing only coal-generated power don't buy green credits.

If 100GW renewal energy is produced, who or how it is being used is irrelevant, because the alternative would be 100GW energy generated through non-renewable resources. I don't in which version of reality is that a bad thing, regardless of who buys whatever REC credit.
The tax is not based on the current value nor on the value 30 years ago. It is based on a value which goes up 2% every year. The taxes go up every year but in a predictable way, it is damping function on the wild swings of the bubble/crash/repeat housing market.

So it is very easy to see how prop 13 was passed. The real estate tax is one the major yearly budget items for most families. Having it vary wildly and unpredictably year to year is not something most families [who don't earn tech bubble salaries] can handle.
That was one employee? Articles like these have brought journalism over time, step-by-step.
Like most things, it is not always black and white:

Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (24% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions): Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector come mostly from agriculture (cultivation of crops and livestock) and deforestation. This estimate does not include the CO2 that ecosystems remove from the atmosphere by sequestering carbon in biomass, dead organic matter, and soils, which offset approximately 20% of emissions from this sector.[2]

Note these are Global stats, while my link is US only, and was focused on CO2.

edit: and it doesn't seem that any of these statistics contradict each other, but it all depends on if we are talking about global stats, US only stats, all GHG emissions, or just CO2.
Narrow the gap
Thankyou for the kind words.
JPEG2000 is currently used in digital preservation and archival digitization, and I'm not entirely sure if JPEG XS will supersede it.
Thanks for the link! There's also a transcript:

https://www.backstoryradio.org/shows/on-the-clock-4/#transcr...
>The obvious difference between your scenario and the Facebook one is that the victim is an unwilling participant.

There are numerous obvious differences involved that make comparison between user tracking and hired murder absurd. The reductio merely pointed out that the defence, that the victims are not the customer, does not excuse what is being done. This is laughably obvious in the case of hired killers and comparable in the case of user tracking. Any other similarities were not implied.

Also, I largely question the ability of a large part of the user base to give informed consent on the case. The extent and implications of the user tracking done by Facebook (and other parties) are byzantine and difficult to grasp for me, a nerd with interest in privacy issues. I do not expect the general public to have a deeper understanding. Even then, Facebook has been known to track people without user accounts. That doesn't count as willing participants as far as I'm concerned.

>On this you will find a reasonable split between those who agree and those who don't. It is not obvious that it is unethical.

I will and it is not. I hold an opinion shared by many, but I am under no delusion that it's uncontroversial.
Similar issue with the 6S happened when ios 11 was released. In that case Apple DID allow people to downgrade (back to 10.3.3 in fact!). I don't have a third party screen, but I did take advantage of that and tried ios 11 for a while. Eventually went back to 10.3.3 before that window closed (they fixed the issue with 3rd party screens on 6S).
Exactly.

And I doubt it's a mass exodus either.

If you read "Surely you're joking Mr Feynman", the author clearly states that when making the bomb, they had a lot of fun. Lots of budgets. Only smart people. Working on the coolest projects. He even plays with the censorship and security practices.

They never really thought too hard about the ethic part of it: they need to end the war, and that's it. They really said "oh we fucked up" once the bomb exploded.

And we are talking about brilliant minds with very positive personalities.

While skilled, I doubt than more than a small fraction of FB work force is close to Feynman's IQ. And they have a very arrogant culture. Somehow I doubt FB is going to bleed talent anytime soon.
Yeah, but what is happiness other than a way to increase your productivity?
I have obsessively read the Silmarillion and the Children of Hurin, and they are overarchingly the same, just in different formats. The Silmarillion is written like a history book; the Children of Hurin is written like a novel.

I never got through the poem of Beren and Luthian, I am not a poem guy, but from the bits I have read, it seemed to have the same relationship to the Silmarillion as the Children of Hurin.

Also, I am unclear if this is a "new" version of the Fall of Gondolin or just a new printing of the old one. Anyone found a more detailed source?
Just wondering what could be the reason many think lab grown meat is a food when no other food falls in that criteria. Haven't got any convincing point yet. Only some distracting ones which become clear on the second read.

Is there any other lab grown thing that we have eaten?
So what’s the person he delegates the work he doesn’t like supposed to do when it’s work they don’t like? Get fired for being unproductive? This is something you can only do when you have enough minions or money to avoid that stuff.
Thank you for saying so. As far as I'm concerned, it's speculation, not investment. Investment has some sort of underlying productive asset which one gets a part of and that then hopefully pays returns. Speculation is betting money on price movements.

As long as we're trying to rehabilitate financial terms, cryptocurrencies don't have "market caps". Stocks do, because they represent companies which could plausibly be purchased in one go for something near that number. But currencies and commodities don't have market caps, because buying up an entire currency a) doesn't make any sense (the value of a currency is in its continued circulation), and b) would wildly distort the price if even a fraction of the total were purchased.
Podcast with Miko Matsumura, on consent and open source money
Yup, The Children of Hurin is an extended telling of the story from The Silmarillion. They're basically the same, but I enjoyed the longer read.
Startups allow each early contributor to literally (this is not an exaggeration) do the work of an army of 100,000. And often do it better than any one of the 100,000 because that army is also out there in the industry you're entering, well-equipped, well-regimented and well-managed, working 8 hours a day 5 days a week with all the economies of scale of specializations into their various duties (when you look at a trademark status as the founding CEO, the opposing army has a lawyer with a degree in intellectual property and 10 years specializing in just that one thing; same for every other task in the business), and all of the material support, recognition, and connections to do whatever they want.

You, by contrast, have exactly two things: 1) your idea. 2) your productivity.

That's it. Of course founders will be interested in productivity. It's all we have.

(By the way in 1 month of 40 hour weeks there are
576 000 000 milliseconds. So as long as you can do in 2000 to 20 000 milliseconds, the work of a dedicated specialist working for a month, you have plenty of extra room to personally defeat the army of 100,000 - with room to spare. And of course unlike them, you're not limited to 40 hours a week when it comes down to it ;).)
Drink Honey-Lemon Water in the Morning to Give Your Overall Health a Boost
The best way to summarize FB employees, from @numair from 8 months ago:

> Having known so many people involved with Facebook for so long, I have come up with a phrase to describe the cultural phenomenon I’ve witnessed among them – ladder kicking. Basically, people who get a leg up from others, and then do everything in their power to ensure nobody else manages to get there. No, it’s not “human nature” or “how it works.” Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large weren’t built by these sorts of people, and we need to be more active in preventing this mind-virus from spreading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780186
Insinuating that research is not doing "anything useful", while at the same time calling Rust "pragmatic/useful" is particularly ironic. Rust's design has been heavily influenced by research in programming language theory and adjacent fields: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-wiki-backup/blob/master/No...
Yeah, the way they did it wouldn't have worked any better if it were the Berlin office trying to work with the Munich office.

Who here would take a skills test to transfer internal projects?
“Just less delusional...than most people.”

I can’t handle this level of edginess.
Async programming / closures. You can't just call a function on an object in a loop like you can in Python.

Actually if you're willing to use https://github.com/scopsy/await-to-js as a transpiler, and await/async on the back end in node, then you actually CAN just call a function in a loop like you would in Python, modulo a tiny amount of decoration that is pretty similar to how you'd do it with Twisted.
Thanks.

You see it is really not very noticeable and the writing says nothing about hardware stopping working.

I guess we have both learnt from this exchange.

Thanks a lot.
> FB controversy doesn't erase technological accomplishments of individuals

It doesn't, but it doesn't look great if those accomplishments end up having a negative impact on society. Do you really want to have "I wrote an novel algorithm to track people" on your resume?

> Software engineering doesn't have the same ethical consequences and motivations as other fields (medicine, law, etc.). It doesn't make much sense to punish the engineers when you invent ethical standards after-the-fact.

I'll have to disagree with you there. Software engineers should have to deal with the ethical consequences of the work they've done. And these ethical standards are hardly "after-the-fact": the idea of a right to privacy has been around for a long time.
The problem is that when it comes time to relicense, there's probably very little value in the show left to the studio. And whoever is negotiating the relicense couldn't care less about the artistic vision of the 10 year old show's creator who picked the original songs. And whoever the right holder of the music is probably doesn't want to offer steep discounts because it weakens their negotiating leverage on other matters.
How is JavaScript a small language at all? It’s comparable to Java in the number of language features.

Java Reference
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html

JS Reference
https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-S...
Please watch some recordings of happenstances in places where gun violence is rampant, such as Brazil.
Intruders and robbers attack places clearly employing armed guards. That have their weapons visible.

A graze is called that because it rarely kills - and adrenalin is one hell of a drug, trained people can resist for quite some time in life and death situations even after being shot and stabbed multiple times.
Thanks for the correction. No idea why I did that.
I find a fairly large disconnect between everyone saying people may be uncomfortable working at Facebook and their Glassdoor ratings (probably the highest of any tech company).
Non-AMP link: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17097256/california-right-...
They have a product that integrates with many exchanges and makes it easy to produce those 2 lines of csv. I tracked it myself and it took me a few hours. Just logged into CoinTracker and it took me about 10 minutes to do the same amount of work. It is worth $50 to me!

That said, it isn't perfect. I marked several transactions as transfers but it didn't change my cap gains numbers. I added it up manually and the numbers don't seem to add up. Then I checked back later and looks like those numbers are updated later. But why? And by how much time?
> Interesting how often folks overestimate the caffeine in a shot of espresso. A single shot is like 60mg.

Nope. Anything from 25-214mg per shot with a mean of 106mg:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869150...
"Facebook? The ones that help get TRUMP ELECTED?"

I think that would be enough to get you blacklisted in certain California crowds.
Um you are aware of why SV exists - massive defense spending.
Can we stop feeding these accounts? The submitter is a new account whose submissions are mainly facebook articles. It's not contributing anything useful to HN. Why is this account posting so many FB related articles? Do they have some other motive that HN is falling for?

At this point I feel like HN has turned into a FB news dump since it makes the people who "quit facebook and never looked back" feel good. Where are the quality submissions?
I setup my own "internet buttons", but I did it in a cheating way - my buttons are nothing more than dumb radio-transmitters. There is no bluetooth, no wifi, and no complexity.

The buttons are dumb, so they are cheap.

Because the aim of the button is to do something "internetty" there is a single receiver which is plugged into my desktop PC which recieves the radio-transmissions, decodes the button IDs, and completes tasks.

There is a brief overview here:

https://blog.steve.fi/creating_an_iot_button__the_smart_way....

I have two receivers, an ESP8266 based device, and a hacked copy of software which uses an SDR dongle. Both are reliable and stable.

In terms of functionality though, they're useful. Dotted around the flat they let me control music, disable lights, and similar.
The genes for L and M cones are on the X chromosome and there are some variants for each type, or sometimes one is missing. This mostly affects men, since they have only one X chromosome, so if the gene for e.g. the L cones is missing then they end up as dichromate or if they get two variants which overlap too much there isn't much differential signal. A small number of women end up as tetrachromats because they have e.g. 2 types of L cones with slightly different spectral sensitivity, one from each of their X chromosomes. It's still not clear as far as I know whether such women see a dramatically wider range of colors, or whether it's more of a slight advantage in discriminating some near-looking colors which appear identical to other viewers. Human tetrachromacy is rare and hasn't been studied too deeply from what I've seen.
Same for Spain.

You need a permanent office - that is, employees that generate revenue for the company in the US - for the Spanish government to consider whether you can pay taxes in the US or in Spain.

Note that this varies from country to country depending on the double taxation agreements between countries [1]

[1] http://www.agenciatributaria.es/AEAT.internet/en_gb/Inicio/L...
What gives you so much motivation to be that data?
> I personaly cannot think of a good reason they do this.
They cannot trust anyone else but themselves, they have to be fully in control of the whole chain of certificates.

They are in a kind of unique position.
Another option is an XKCD-inspired[1] 'correct horse battery staple' passphrase. I understand that using such passphrases in other contexts like encryption is controversial due to their relatively low entropy, but I think customer support is an ideal application for them.

1. https://xkcd.com/936/
This isn't a black and white issue. Some degree of compromise is needed as neither side is 100% right. What seems reasonable is a degree of resiliency be built in - so if the protocol worked on a subset of features, you don't brick it as you expand to new ones, you merely degrade.

It's not a perfect analogy, but the rules on radio interference with devices spring to mind: you need to cope with some interference and you need to not emit it. This results in a more stable ecosystem, even though you could sensibly argue that if one side is stuck to absolutely, the need for the other wouldn't exist.
You can use a laser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(physics)#Temporal_c...
> To get to a level of knowledge on anything to get that conviction though, requires a lot of deliberate reading and experience.

Nah it's pretty easy, Dunning-Kruger's got us covered. :)
Isn't it possible to be proficient or even prophetic at a thing while being not so good at another?

I agree those comparisons to China border on wacky while I feel he is right on target about the fundamental, critical, beating-heart importance of free speech in all things. Maybe he also has valuable thoughts to share on productivity. Or maybe not!
Saw your comment on Reddit about this, am still confused by why you think this is a good idea. The integration of Prolog variables and backtracking is going to make a real mess of the array operations, don't you think, or is it going to be a total embedding? If it's a strict embedding, why not just have a J process and call it from SWI-Prolog?
There’s a right way to do this and a wrong way to do this.

More than a decade ago I started out as a developer on an offshore team for a US based product startup. We grew from 2 people to 19 people and the US based company did well in its market and got acquired in a successful exit a few years later.

There are numerous success stories like this for every engagement gone wrong.

Now days I run an India based offshore team from Europe. The cost model has changed dramatically over time, but the premise that you can ship quality code with an India team is very much viable. Every large tech company does it. I’m happy to chat offline if you want.
As long as airport transportation and security continues to be a dog and pony show, that wastes more of my time then the flight does, I'd rather fly subsonic. Hell, I'll take one tenth of the delta between the two tickets, and splurge for extra leg room and a bottle of wine to see me through the flight.
A USB device would only be one of many options - relying on it would be pretty backward looking.
Personally I look to automate repetitive tasks, if am doing something which can be described to someone else in simple rules and the input a d output of this task is digital then it should be codified.
AVIF – AV1 based image format
Sort of. Except the attacker has to compromise each user individually; there's no centralized server to target as is the case with existing single sign on services.
Automatically Stealing Password Hashes with Microsoft Outlook and OLE
Universal Hint System was great, I used it for some adventure games waay back :) . Glad to see it's still alive!