skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great news and I wish more companies would follow. There are so many borderline sociopaths in management roles -- people that may know quality but lack empathy, and only know how to get what they want from employees by essentially bullying. Often managers above the bullies either don't know or don't care as long as they hit the performance metrics they're seeking.

Think of probably one of the worst bullies out there that achieved the pinnacle of excellence: Steve Jobs. Would Apple have had just as much success or even more success earlier if Jobs wasn't so heartless towards his direct employees? I would bet on it.

Point being is that it's possible to be empathetic and still ask your employees to strive for more. If your employees are afraid of you or view you as someone that doesn't listen and doesn't have their back, you might be missing out on collaborations where they have great ideas that maybe need a little mentoring.

Here's a quote I often try to be mindful of when managing people:

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
> it's a ponzi scheme

The beauty of Bitcoin and the whole crypto "space" is that they are more than just mere ponzi schemes. Don't let the pedants get to you--the crypto space transcends the entire gamut of frauds, scams and schemes. They're not only ponzi schemes but pyramid schemes, MLM scams, a pump & dump scams, exit scams, exchange scams, securities fraud, and a bunch of other named and unnamed scams you'd find in wikipedia.

Often times these scams are deeply layered, with scammers scamming other scammers.

Sometimes just best to simplify the whole thing as "a scam" instead of iterate through every single sub-scam, sub-fraud and sub-scheme that exists within the entire ecosystem. The whole thing is really quite remarkable and would be much more enjoyable to watch if it wasn't such a massive drain on earth's resources.
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While I love interactive docs as much as the next person, I wondered if all these demos were really necessary to get the point across in this particular case. The text did a pretty admirable job, along with a few charts. Did the more graphical pieces help, or were they more of an "ooh, pretty" feature?
Man this is sad :/ I would have taken it personally.
I had the same realization with the Autodesk Eagle 9 blog post[1]. There was over 45MB of animated gifs on that page.

1. https://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle/blog/autodesk-eagle-...
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personally, it allowed me to read much faster and understand the points without concentrating on every word
If the video correctly portrayed the conditions, the driver would have been squarely on the hook for overdriving their headlights. Nope, the scapegoat camera doesn't help Uber in any conceivable scenario.
With the facebook trend of telling everyone happy birthday I am now in a position where I don't wish anyone happy birthday.
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Why are payment processors/banks bad again?

2FA > a piece of paper under my bed.

But also I keep my bitcoin in lots of places, a few bucks in coinbase for free transactions is like keeping cash in my wallet.
Do this. Look for clients that regularly run banner ads or similar (or offer services / run ads yourself based on that offering). Offer X amount of time, or up to X ads per month - whatever is fair for your price. Some clients will use it all, some clients are just happy to have a designer on hand who can whip up what's needed (so money for very little).

Similarly, just offer clients retainer work. X amount per month, but you'll jump for them when needed. Example: we just had to get a designer to put something together for a really quick project. They were literally on call, turned it round in about 6 hours. Some months that's how it goes - a lot of work for not much. But other months they may not get a call.
...Really?

Lots of people spend way too much time on their phones and want to use it less. That info could help you see what apps you're spending/wasting the most time on and help you decide to cut back on. Seeing that you spent a whole hour on instagram is a helpful wake up call.

Seeing which apps are sending more notifications could help you see which ones are taking up too much of your attention and help you decide whether to turn them off for them.
I said transactional things, by which I mean things that don't require any special figuring for the vast majority of cases.

In the case of a restaurant, having their menu online would make it so you knew in advance of the restaurant has something you can eat. Lots of restaurants still don't do even this.
direct to pdf, http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning...
Developing an efficient way to produce hydrogen is actually really important since it's pretty difficult. From what I remember from grad school, over 70% of hydrogen used is produced from high pressure steam with turbines since its the only energy efficient and scalable way to create hydrogen. The lack of renewable hydrogen is actually hindering a lot of technology (such as fuel cell) since not many can produce it easily.
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I wish the App Timer was like a TV timer, where the TV just turns off after the timer is up. I'd like something that kills a certain app that is running on my phone. It sounds like that isn't what the App Timer will do.

I imagine you would need root on your phone to kill apps from another app.
Are miners still going to be operating in this post-collapse environment?
Yeah - buy a stock Android phone from Google, like their Pixel flagship.
it seems they have also reused these two familiar words in a way that could add some confusion to the Android developer's life:

* "bundle" (as in "app bundles", a feature that lets Google Play deliver an installer with a stripped down set of resources to the end user's device)

* "action" (as in the new feature of the UI known as an "action" which some have alternatively describe as a "visible intent" or a "deep link with parameters." or something)
China has massively westernized but as you say, the only reason it took massive westernization to get to where they are is because they were so far in the other direction.

There is a still a gulf between China's view of personal freedom and the West's view. It's also reasonable to be concerned that they will be moving away from the West's democratic ideals in the near future, seeing as their President just claimed the power to govern for life.
today's market cap for BTC is around 158 Billion$. so we're talking about something around 7% of the world supply, "locked in an underground bunker".

What's not clear to me: is this just the keys stored underground and clients have access? or is this "cold storage"?

I'd speculate that more than 7% of the world's gold is locked up in bunkers, where it can be accounted for and borrowed against.

Nobody is shocked to know that gold is stored in vaults. Nobody is shouting that the folks buying overpriced coins from stupid mints are going to decimate the world economy with their irresponsible hoarding.

We're all just totally comfortable that, yeah... in a situation where a-bombs start dropping, gold would probably be a functional store of value.
What's the backup for various failure cases? House fire? I'd guess off-site backups. House fire that kills you? Do you stick recovery instructions to your backup in a will, or how do you leave money to your heirs? (Or just you don't?)
In similar fashion, you can "mind control" a cat with a laser pointer.
> 2) lifestyle development

How is making friends not a part of lifestyle development?

Btw kurtzgesagt has a very interesting video[1] on the subject where they show that rats get really anxious if they can't socialize. They then take a leap and say that human are pretty much the same.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg
Something that always bothered me about this transmission is the fact that the numbers at the top are said to represent 1-10 in binary format. However, when I look at this, when you get to the 8th digit, it shoves the next block out to the side, representing an overflow so that additional numbers can be represented. Is this not representative of the very definition of how to express numbers in a different base? This isn't binary, it's octal. When you rollover after the 7th digit, you have a new set of 8 characters that can represent a discreet unit. I sort of understand how they are passing this off as binary, but without reading an explanation of what this represents, my first instinct is to consider it octal.
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> when we discard all the decentralization and anti-censorship guarantees, skip the blockchain and use it as a private-issued, unregulated fiat.

That is an option.

I dont care about 'trust' when I spend 2 dollars at taco bell on my shift card. I dont care about 'trust' when I give my friend 200 dollars with coinbase email.

5 bitcoin? Yeah I'll take that out of coinbase.

But this is a payment platform IMO. I use paypal and venmo too. They dont charge fees and I dont really care about decentralization magic.
if everything goes to shit why wouldn't xapo just steal all the btc?
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> I wouldnt use an entry level economics class to judge technology that eliminates risk of government hyperinflation and lowers/eliminates cost of transactions.

I didn't, the question was "What makes you think deflation would be bad?". That is entry level economics and has nothing to do with technology.
>Sure, but when you lose your job in the US Midwest you are without healthcare and you will probably lose your house, etc.

More likely you will get another job at a comparable salary and keep your house and your healthcare.
Agreed. It might have made sense to do development behind closed doors in the early days with the mobile patent war raging, but now that most advances are in apps and services on top of the platform instead of in the platform itself and now that Apple is way behind in features and usability and has no way to catch up, they might as well switch to the Chrome development model, or at least the Fuchsia model where the roadmap and design discussion is closed but the code is entirely open.
I came here to say using the loop device just makes things much easier. No math to get your offsets and fat fingering the numbers this way.
The people hording bitcoin makes the value of the ones spending it more valuable. Without people hording it, you wouldn't have any of the profits regular people have been getting.
@davidyeager: In the legend of the graph in Dynimizer System Overhead in https://dynimize.com/product, both series are labelled as "Without Dynimizer".

Couple of questions. Since this seems to be a very general technology, why the emphasis on MySQL (and DBs in general)? Marketing? Also, I found Dynimize vs Dynimizer confusing - is that company name vs product name?
Match Group isn't worried about Facebook
You are implying that the wealthy aren't already doing hoarding currency instead of spending? Seems like a strange statement to make.
Your claims all seem to be vague or opinion, so they can't be factually inaccurate. I'm a native English speaker and hard a very hard time understanding what you were trying to say. I don't mean to attack you, but I didn't think it was a good post, because it didn't make any clear or substantiated claims and so was not informative to me.
Schools are crap (young kids using drugs, aggression on all levels), safety - so-so as in rest of east EU (not so many mafia-style killings anymore), public transport is OK like anywhere else in EU, parks like everywhere else (but not that many), and food is just crap - unhealthy, groceries are generally lower quality compared to western EU.

Been there, lived for 5 years, they are desperate for experienced IT people so its definitely employee's market (meaning pretty horrible place to do any startup). Prices of any real estate jumped through roof recently. Historical city centre is pretty for tourists, if you live there you get used to it and ignore it and all you see is communist's concrete 'style' bolted into whole city.

One thing hard to accept is constant complaining of locals about everything - they are definitely not happy in their home country. If you haven't lived in prettier or better-functioning place/society, its good. Otherwise not.
No. "El mio X" or "El X mio" sounds terrible, esp. the first one I doubt is even proper, the latter can be used to stress "mine" (mio).
Unfortunately I have too much bitcoin to say where I store it.

The only thing I will say is that I keep my bitcoin in MANY locations and MANY wallets.
Whoever operates is going to become rich. So someone will step up to satisfy the need.
EBay says it made $1.1B from its stake in Flipkart
Very true. Now do the inefficient capital allocations caused by inflationary monetary environments.
A report, anything official, anything professional, or really anywhere you don't want to appear to make typos left and right.

Furthermore, if you're dyslexic, autocorrect is essentially assistive technology.

Now, do I need autocorrect when I'm texting my mom? No, I don't, but that doesn't mean I want to be turning it on/off every time I switch context. What harm does it do by staying on? Hide my true nature as a poor speller?

I'll let you in on a secret: My handwriting looks like shit. Digital text has allowed me, for the past two decades, to hide my true nature as a shitty handwriter.
Luckily, the English language never changes. Wait.
Instead you just get people losing their shirts to old-fashioned scams that were made illegal a century ago, with no recourse whatsoever.
But what if you need to eat food? Or pay your mortgage?

How will you pay for things if you dont spend Bitcoin?
But now you are lifting helium out the potential well of a gas giant instead of Earth's.
It's not a location dependent core belief. The Chinese laws make it this way. Apple is not a sovereign government with the right to do as they please. They operate in the rules and under the same threat of force everyone else does in every nation they operate.

That we live in an area of the world where you can choose to make the decisions they do without serious repercussions should make you pause and think about how important the checks we have are, because in China there aren't many ways to get around the problem above besides ignoring the largest developing market in the world.
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No key is safe from a brute force attack that covers the alphabet of key and the length of the key.

What you're describing is a dictionary attack and it trades comprehensiveness for speed.

There's many more words than characters in any language. Using words as your alphabet gets you ($WORDS)^N possible passwords of length N instead of 128^N for an ascii alphabet. For humans remembering random words is easier.

Choosing a grammatically correct sentence instead of random words is little different in terms of complexity reduction than choosing a word based password (e.g. Password1) instead of random characters.

Obviously if the attacker can build a target specific dictionary they'll have a higher probability of success.
I've been pretty happy with 1Blocker Legacy but I never actually confirmed it really blocks trackers (creators claim it does).

Thanks for the link, I'll consider buying.
Happy to see a Welsh translation, but I'm interested where the word for hovercraft came from. The hofren part comes from hofran (which is just a borrowing of hover), but what about fad?
Not exactly a single binary, but Flogo - https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo
uses one binary + one .so for TF inferencing. See https://tibcosoftware.github.io/flogo/development/flows/tens... for some basic documentation.

We’re looking to grow this further with a model serving service so that its more controlled and better abstracted from processing logic - A/B, champion/challenger, etc. Core devs hang out on gitter in case you have qns or feedback.
> There are 21,000,000 Bitcoin ever ever ever.

Provably false. Bitcoin has been forked into multiple chains numerous time, creating many more then 21 million tokens. Given that there is no trademark on the term "Bitcoin", some of these forks can rightfully claim themselves to be The True Bitcoin.

In addition, there are thousands of other non-forked blockchains that are nearly identical to bitcoin, save for a few minor configuration changes.

> Bitcoin is rare and digital.

Absolutely false. Bitcoin is digital and infinitely creditable. This has been proven over and over again.
This appears to be from 2004, and it uses PCI (a now outdated and unused bus - everything is PCI Express now, which is completely different). However, if you’re interested in the low-level details of ethernet interfaces, or how an FPGA design goes from concept to completion, this is very informative.

It’s also worth noting - more to the point of the paper - that there are companies offering FPGA-based gigabit NICs right now. You can define custom packet-handling logic in silicon. Pretty neat.
Upgrading the Linux kernel opens a huge can of worms. Driver regressions happen all the time. The only things I think are worth backporting in an enterprise kernel are hardware enablement changes and security fixes. If a customer wants to use to a LTS kernel they can compile it by themselves. There is nothing stopping a customer that wants a new kernel from compiling it, and running it on RHEL. Red Hat has to pick their battles, I imagine a very small amount of users care about this for workstations or servers.
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Is it worth moving my app from the subdomain app.mystartup.com to mystartup.app? Or would separating the app from the marketing website harm SEO? The app itself is completely inaccessible to bots.
The Wiktionary page for plenūs states it moved from the genitive to the ablative in later Latin (eg liturgical), so it seems your both right!
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Facebook is a bit much, they are a gigantic company that can spend the time and look into your analytics and years of posting data.

However, an app that collects data at best is getting your location and stereotype.
Oh, it's definitely OK to explain a downvote. In fact, it's little bit rude to downvote without giving an explanation. But a comment that says nothing but "What a great article!" just invites an endless chain of "Yeah, I thought so too", "Me too", "Me three" comments. Soon HN would become indistinguishable from Reddit.
And kicked yourself for that $180 Taco Bell when it peaked at $18,000, right?
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People hoard capital now (currency being one form). Look at the result of the tax cuts leading to stock buy backs

This is more motivation to transition from currency based societies and focus on outcomes that benefit labor first

It’s plain there is no free market when currency monopolists can control not just what we work on looks like, but whether anything is worked on at all

There is great demand for the end of war, housing, social services, and universal healthcare. Cottage industry can rise around that instead of digital assistants that schedule hair cuts.

But we’re forced to prioritize the tasks the currency monopolists dictate, putting our own communities second

Adam Smith only mentions a markets in the context of a free labor market for workers of equal condition to move about freely

Mandate universal healthcare. It’s just as important to a secure and free nation as guns and is a potent first step to saying “we’re not interested in addressing the needs of stock markets and distant currency monopolists.”
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This in turn might point to the services not being cut alongside the right dimensions, that is they might be cut horizontally rather than vertically.

Microservices lend themselves to being used in conjunction with domain-driven design. A single microservice should only deal with one domain.

If you have a service that covers cross-cutting concerns such as orders that service is not a microservice. In order to improve the design in your case each microservice could access and manipulate order data according to its scope.

That way, if one of the services fails only the small part of the order functionality implemented by that service will fail while the remaining order features will remain intact (to some extent; steps in a linear order process that depend on each other of course will still fail without successful outcomes from previous steps).
I experienced the same thing. I wonder if this qualifies as "explicitly blocking EU residents", since someone taking privacy measures (like using uMatrix) wouldn't even receive the message.

If this is the case, then perhaps javascript is not the best place to put the EU blocking functionality.
Yes, that's common sense, but we shouldn't trust it blindly.

From what I can tell, the evidence on the expected deflation you're talking about paints a different picture: https://www.bis.org/publ/work186.pdf

You ask why people would buy stuff when they'll be cheaper later, but then again, why do people buy stuff now when they could put the money on the stock market and take it out later, when it will be worth more than the product costs?
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While it's true folks argue that it doesn't really matter (evidence: the section 'Arguments why it doesn't matter' on that page), I'll counter-argue that they're wrong. Scheme simply isn't the same language as Lisp. That's okay: the entire world doesn't need to standardise on a single language (although if it's going to, Lisp would be preferable to Scheme).

And, honestly, the arguments that it doesn't matter presented on that page are pretty weak. 'It's a pointless distraction' is an assertion, not an argument. Scheme and Lisp are different; they have different philosophies and they solve the same problems in different ways; recognising those differences is recognising the facts; ignoring them is simply ignoring reality. 'The benefits of choice far outweigh the disadvantages of redundant/wasted development work on two incompatible platforms' is clearly, I believe, falsified by the experience of the last couple of decades. When I think of the work which went into Racket (originally a Scheme, but now its own thing) and Clojure, I think of how much better Lisp could have been if that effort had instead been spent on it (and aficionados of either of those languages could say the same thing about effort spent on the other, on Lisp & on other Lisp-like languages).
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Glassdoor is really useful for researching companies. Usually I go straight to the reviews and sort in descending order by date. I look for:
-Distribution between good and bad reviews
-common themes among bad reviews
-lots of good reviews on same day or around same time (usually means HR planted reviews)

I’m still trying to figure out what it means when a company has very few total reviews given the size and history of the company from a “is this a good or bad or neutral sign.” For example, I’m really surprised Stripe only has 59 reviews since I thought they had over 1000 employees at this point and has been around for 8 years or so. (Airbnb has 700+ and Pinterest has 200+ for comparison)
The PIN is not stored on the key, it's used to unlock the key. Your analysis is correct, but your premise is false.
I found this book very useful, personally. It does a great job presenting some of the theoretical foundations in an understandable way (e.g. the PAC-learning framework and VC dimension.) I also particularly liked the explanation on PCA.