skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really hoping it's Fake News, but the source is (apparently) the props master of the show[0]:

Quoting for Facebook-averse:

> We need to act fast. The sets are coming down starting Monday with some assets being sold off to Star Trek Discovery or just scrapped.

> the entire crew in Toronto is heartbroken and gutted. It’s going to be hard to wrap the show for good. We all thought it was coming back for sure. It’s an incredible show to work on.

When asked for source:

> I’m the Props Master on the show for the past 3 seasons.

In a comment to another post[1], he said:

> I work on the show. Amazon was very interested in the project and wanted to stream it. They need a show like this. Netflix is out. Don’t waste your time. Amazon is our only hope. Lobby them. Hey need to know it will have a following. Show them it does!!!!

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[0] - https://www.facebook.com/groups/154567691728757/permalink/38...

[1] - https://www.facebook.com/groups/154567691728757/permalink/38...
Eating low carb, high fat.

Trading options and taking risks generally. Not "diversifying."

Not watching TV or owning one. I seem to have much more time than my friends to start all kinds of projects.

Reading literature and learning to think in a literary way instead of a rationalist way. Coming to terms generally with humans as non-rational beings and treating them as such.
They mention that they are immediately exchanged into their national currency. They would be exposed to the price fluctuation for half an hour maximum. Block confirmation is around 10 minutes, and you need to wait 2-3 blocks to be certain.
Of course a lot of things can happend to the price in half an hour, but that's another story.
For some context this is a very popular and cheap series of FPGA devices. For example you can buy the Arty board which has one of these FPGAs for $99 (https://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-developme...), or the slightly more advanced Nexys 4 DDR for $265 (https://store.digilentinc.com/nexys-4-ddr-artix-7-fpga-train...).

Currently you must use the Xilinx Vivado tool which is a 40 GB download [no, that isn't a typo], requires a paid license to unlock the full features, and is generally awful to use.

This work should eventually lead to a complete open source toolchain to program these devices, just like Project IceStore for the Lattice devices (http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/playing-with-picorv32-...)
I find it annoying that every single one of those messages say something to the effect of "We use cookies to improve your user experience", when 99.9% of the time, the only reason you need third-party cookies is user tracking.

Maybe that law should've included a clause about how you shouldn't lie about why you're using third-party cookies?
Listening will at least you know the frequency and type of modulation so you can at least understand who it is. And if the signal is always on or at certain times of the day only can help identify purpose
Surveillance in China Is Seeping into the City Streets
TlDr; GDPR isn't to blame, GDPR is to blame. GDPR doesn't require them but an existing law does and GDPR is causing companies to notice.
They fell against one currency (CHF), they didn't fall 10% in a general sense (e.g. against a basket of goods or currencies.)

If I sell muffins for USD$1 and I raise my price to USD$2, it would be a real stretch to say the USD fell by 50%.
But every major website is tracking users. Either for ads or for their own telemetry. Often both.
Sometimes you Google cos you carnt be arsed to think about it.

Sometimes you google something and get a full page of paid for clickable links and you click one of them instead of scrolling to the "organic search".

Sometimes you dont pay enough attention to what are real search results and what are adverts.

A statistically significant sometimes.

Is instant gratification at the cost of long term gain adiction? Not sure. Its pretty close.

Dont put your phone face down, put it away.
Some processes work by week, so you want week-year dating, and you may in fact want ISO week-years rather than "calendar".
How to represent the CEST timezone then? Writing "Central European Summer Time" in full is very big, but UTC+2:00 is actually something else than CEST.

I think standard abbreviations are a nice middle ground, at least when a time-zone is needed. Otherwise, just report stuff in UTC.
personally waiting for librem5 phones. currently using miui 9 with mi6 which is giving advanced control to user preventing from data sucking corps.
Netflix, do the right thing
What made you staying a client then?
+1 for The AWK Programming language book!

I have been reading through it and running code snippets from there as I find time. It's awesome!

If anyone's interested, I also update my notes from there on my blog.. https://scripter.co/notes/awk. I plan to have that notes post contain the entire book when I am done.
Not necessarily, in Europe.

Many electronic bank transfers are approximately instant.
That is why they call it pointless style sometimes.

Point free is good for short functions, like 1-3 compositions is fine (maybe little more), but if you overuse it, it's actually much less flexible and you have to rewrite more code if you want to change something.

"Point-free style can (clearly) lead to Obfuscation when used unwisely. As higher-order functions are chained together, it can become harder to mentally infer the types of expressions. The mental cues to an expression's type (explicit function arguments, and the number of arguments) go missing.

Point-free style often times leads to code which is difficult to modify. A function written in a pointfree style may have to be radically changed to make minor changes in functionality. This is because the function becomes more complicated than a composition of lambdas and other functions, and compositions must be changed to application for a pointful function.

Perhaps these are why pointfree style is sometimes (often?) referred to as pointless style. " https://wiki.haskell.org/Pointfree
That does sound serious. There must be something I don't understand about the SyFy relationship -- I'd think that the company who owns and finances the show would decide when to tear down the sets and that they'd want to do it after shopping the show around. Too bad, I liked the show.
Both can be true. Why track users? So you can see common paths they take, common stumbling blocks, if feature A is better than feature B, etc, etc. Also ad tracking (supposedly) helps deliver more personalized ads that are actually relevant to the user.

So they argue that tracking does improve user experience. You may disagree with their reasoning but that doesn't make them liars.
The GDPR is perfectly straightforward to interpret and apply. It's remarkably similar to the existing Data Protection Directive. If you are using data in a specific, explicit and legitimate way, you have nothing to fear from the GDPR. It only seems radical because tech companies have operated with relative impunity in the past, hoovering up data en masse with no regard to the privacy or security of their users.

Article 83 clearly states that penalties must be proportionate to the scale of the breach, the impact on users, the intentional or negligent character of the breach and the degree of co-operation with the supervisory authority. A supervisory authority can't just bankrupt your company out of spite.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

Your bio says that you're a founder of a company that processes healthcare data. The maximum civil penalty for HIPAA violation is a fine of $50,000 per violation and there have been several multimillion dollar penalties. The maximum criminal penalty is 10 years imprisonment. If you're worried about GDPR, you should be absolutely terrified of HIPAA.
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You should have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or the equivalent. Top-notch communication skills are essential.

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> Unless the information commissioner is immortal and is appointed for life there are no guarantees that this will always be the case.

Not wishing ill on that particular person, but I actually hope they'll change their mind or get replaced by someone who is heavy-handed with fines.

Because that's the whole point. The reason so many people (myself included) are so impatiently waiting for May 25th is because GDPR has teeth, and can actually do some serious damage to companies continuing to abuse people's data. So if companies are now sending those e-mails because they're afraid, I am happy, because it's evidence that GDPR works.
I have been studying it my whole life, and it has not run out of depth of ways of showing me how and helping me want to be a better, more helpful & growing, more relaxed & happy person, in all the good & bad circumstances of life.
(edit: I believe Joseph Smith was a prophet like the ancients, which resolves the issues: he received direction & revelation from God, and we will understand more in the future to resolve this or that issue. The core to me is where does it lead, and across many generations I am observing, I see the good it does among imperfect people. Its central message is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and the hope of all mankind.)

(My knowledge manager project, AGPL: http://onemodel.org )
I'm not worried about it for my company, just putting into perspective why other people might be.
I'm actually not too cut up about this - I really enjoy the show, but I'm also starting to get tired of series that get run into the ground long after they should have been tied off and finished. If the third season has a decent ending, I'll be happy.
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Good grief: a chronograph too. As if the tourbillon isn't complication enough. Imagine how much it would cost to service.
> What do you propose instead?

Specifically predefined formats and/or format skeletons. It's absolutely necessary when you want cross-cultural datetimes anyway, because not only are the formats and words different so are potentially the separators/intercalary bits

Javascript's Intl.DatetimeFormat only supports skeletons: you specify which fields you want and in which "width" and it'll get the closest actual datetime format with those fields for the specified locale.

Python's Babel has "named" formats (literally pass "short", "medium", "long" or "full" as the format string to format_date/format_datetime and it'll use the corresponing CLDR format for the locale) and skeletons (format_skeleton & pass in the fields/width you want in LDML specification).

And iso parsing/formatting should be an OOTB primitive of the library, not something you have to hand-roll like a savage.
Re: accessibility

Many people on sites like this probably don’t appreciate the very limited ability and desire for most people to get into shows that effectively require serial viewing, careful watching, and even reading subreddits etc. to fully grok everything going on.

I like this sort of show in principle and I’ll still get back from my current trip to having to get back into who everyone is and what’s going on assuming I bother with the series now canceled.

Agree about BSG and I also like Westworld even with the issues I have. Firefly was a fun romp with appealing characters. I never found it especially good SF though.
> Those emails are awesome

The point is that those emails are clear signs that companies are ignoring existing laws. It's already illegal, under PECR, to send marketing email to people without their permission.

This should be somewhat reassuring to all the GDPR alarmists: we have very many companies ignoring the law at the moment, but not being fined.
Apparently GitHub is closed source
Why, I used to be a HIPPA architect and basically the government (and even more this one) ignored all evidence of HIPPA violations. Our compliance was a complete joke, covered by some fancy "audit" which failed to ask a single question. Laws don't matter unless they enforced.
That would appear to be expected - being Finnish and all!
They are _pretty sure_ they got consent, i.e. they know they didn't, and half of those lists are probably from shady sources. GDPR without requirements for audit trail would be useless.
Hopefully Netflix picks this up - especially when the new series of Lost in Space is just full of idiotic decisions to line up the next absurd episode, and Altered Carbon plods along at a snails pace and uses nudity to gloss over the dull bits.

The Expanse is the best sci-fi series on TV by far at the moment, especially due to it having a good plot, a sweary UN woman, and mostly obeys the laws of physics.

The Siffy channel is rubbish anyway. Netfix has more sci-fi to watch.
While I hate getting meta and discussing voting in HN comments, the best thing to do in the future is instead of asking why votes are going in one direction or another, instead, either vote yourself, or if it calls for it, offer up on-topic commentary. Comments that stir good on-topic discussion should never be down voted, regardless of whether you disagree with them or not, or even if they are missing a point.

Down voting a comment like the parents is, at best, insulting the very premise of good HN discussions.
they aren't. the figures mentioned are true for the North Sea but lower in all other places. also being a saturation diver doesn't automatically put you on a 1400 dayrate when on leaving for a job. you get that only when you're "in the bin" which itself depends if you are the one selected for it. many other sat divers on the same job, but usually there are only 6-8 are actually in saturation the rest does support work on deck. and the time in saturation might only be 3 weeks in a 6 months project. So until you are in sat you would get the normal day rate a diver makes (150 - 200 depending on the location, contract). Project and Life Support Supervisors (LST's) are paid slightly higher. This can still be OK if you're 10 months at sea and no opportunity to spend any money during that time. But doesn't compute in 2018. As I mentioned above if the salaries cited are true they haven't changed much since the 90ies so in 2018 you'd be better off working as a software engineer ...
The parent originally said

Why is this almost always a male occupation? Are women systematically excluded?
Unfortunately, the area of posture is very much like the area of nutrition -- very little scientific evidence, lots of wildly different competing theories.

In nutrition it's count your calories, no actually don't eat carbs, or avoid saturated fats, or animal fats are fine, just trust your instinct, instinct is what makes everyone fat, etc.

The world of posture seems awfully similar -- everybody thinks they know what good posture is (which is often overexaggerated and incorrect), but few people can really define it, and different coaches have wildly different definitions for it (tilt the pelvis forwards! no, never tilt the pelvis forwards!).

But at the end of the day, the people who most depend on their posture to make a living -- actors, singers, and dancers -- overwhelmingly use AT. So, scientifically proven? Not at all. But it seems to be the best we've got.

Check out:

https://www.amazon.com/Body-Learning-Introduction-Alexander-...
> Additional directives may be supported on certain platforms, but only the ones listed here have a meaning standardized by ANSI C

%G was added only in C99.
> The M keeps getting bigger, and our reading time keeps getting more fractured.

Also the "M"s are generally really, really bad for any practical task. I'd argue that many times they're also bad as references.

They're also not indexed or hyperlinked, there's no tables or any smarter form of formatting. I know that there's also the info format but that's rarely used and it's definitely not default, many distros don't even install the tools for it...

It's a really thankless job to migrate documentation so nobody's going to do it within our lifetimes, so we're stuck with man for the foreseeable future :(
> Unless the information commissioner is immortal and is appointed for life there are no guarantees that this will always be the case.

Yeah, no. You're wrong.

Thanks for the link, if you had actually read it, it would have listed all the criteria for applying penalties.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

> "Why should I trust the opinion of the people who are going to sue me if I am found to be noncompliant"

Because that's what people (and lawyers) do in every case concerning regulatory bodies
Too cold for me to be happy there. Now if Finland would move to the Caribbean, I'd move immediately.
Maybe I am already too old, but a while ago I've learned that disappointment about something not being resolved is just part of life and it's better to look forward about what other things are too come than to be too upset that things don't go on as is forever.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. - Orson Welles
> The criterium for whether a non-EU company needs to comply to GDPR is: does the company intent to seriously service EU citizen? This is determined based on multiple factors, such as the website's language (do they have e.g. German translations?), providing pricing in euros, testimonials from EU customers, or having a contract with a parcel company with the specific intention of delivering to EU customers. The mere fact that the website can be used by an EU citizen is not enough to have it fall under the GDPR.

Hey, thanks a lot for this. It seems these days the noise is larger than the signal. Hard to find anyone putting careful thought into this. Thank you.
Come on, don't promote piracy of the book! It's worth buying! Mods, please take down this link.
In the case of both Google and Facebook, the founders still have more than 50% of the voting rights (not ownership) and I don't believe that they are necessarily motivated by making another billion. I think they are interested in the long term success of their company.
I was referring to the protomolcule stuff, clearly to explainable by our current understanding of science

Citing Wikipedia: Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.
Softbank's core business is being a mobile phone operator. They originated as Vodafone Japan and were distinctly third-tier for a long time, but they were the first in Japan to sell the iPhone and absolutely minted money in the first few years until the incumbents (NTT Docomo and KDDI) caught up:

https://i0.wp.com/www.eurotechnology.com/b/wp-content/upload...
How to crash the iPhone with a single Telugu character
You know, everything you said could've been said about Battlestar Galactica and that ended almost a decade ago ...
What I meant is that usually Orwell doesn't mince words. That paragraph is a little flowery and ambiguous for him. The key words are "or other unit" which he later uses to expand the definition of nationalism out to potentially any ideology regardless of what it (if anything) it has to say about nations.

The definition of "patriotism" was (I think) intended as a disarming "I don't mean you" to British moderates. It's interesting that this part still (as you say) resonates in British politics today. I don't think it's quite honest though.

I think patriotism as Orwell defines it here is a moderate nationalism. More sentimental than ideological, as moderate political positions often are. It's not really different to modern european "democratic socialism" or whatnot. It is very different to early 20th century socialism, which were very fanatical.

What I meant overall is that I think if he was writing about the french, he would have just said "fanatics" instead of light stepping around local political sensitivities.
Since we are on Hacker News, it would be interesting to read something about the tech stack behind the product. After visiting your blog, I suppose you can tell, for example, how just-comments.com provides high availability with the help of AWS Kinesis, DynamoDB, Athena, etc.

By the way, this page is 404: https://just-comments.com/about.html (and some others from ToS)

Otherwise, congrats on the launch and good luck!
Are you assuming that user tracking can never help companies improve their user experience?
They're useful where the human has enough context to know they'll be looking for one of a handful of timezones (e.g. someone in the US looking at an event in the US).
I’m not on Android so I’m not familiar with the level of tracking that currently exists, but can’t they track this usage data already, even if they’re not showing users the results right now?

My understanding from talking with folks at Apple and Microsoft is that they track time spent in various apps/applications so they know what is popular with users. Is Android different?
> Your bio says that you're a founder of a company that processes healthcare data. The maximum civil penalty for HIPAA violation is a fine of $50,000 per violation and there have been several multimillion dollar penalties. The maximum criminal penalty is 10 years imprisonment. If you're worried about GDPR, you should be absolutely terrified of HIPAA.

Yes, I also find this hilarious, people love to spread FUD about the GDPR, but HIPPA is more serious (though limited in scope).
Please read this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17058645

It's not that the law wants to apply to you but it doesn't have weight because they can't enforce anything against you, as is often heard on HN. It's that the law doesn't want to apply to you.
The irony is that Microsoft never supported NPAPI in Edge to improve security, and left NPAPI in IE11 indefinitely so any business (which is millions) stuck on NPAPI are left using IE11 for many years to come (Java Applets, Flash, ActiveX, etc).

It is one of those decisions taken with the best possible motives, but that will have massive unintended consequences and keep IE11 on life-support well into the 2020s.
>> Microsoft has released a patch for this vulnerability...

Still, would be good to see IE go away.
a couple of coworking spaces pale in comparison to $4.4bn in equity investments.

they are looking for a return of more than 10% p.a. It'll take lots of design freelancers to produce $500m in cash
It does sound as if Alcon knew it was coming, tried to shop around in secret before, didn't succeed, and wrote the current announcement to sound like they haven't already given up on the show. I hope I'm wrong about this.
If the book crew is better, I'd hate to see what the crew on the show is like. I've only read Leviathan Wakes so far, but I found most of the characters to be really flat. I think the book suffers from the same issue as many other books in the science fiction genre: there's so much focus on developing the setting that the characters are underdeveloped and seem very generic.
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