skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you're trying to imply that they're being hypocritical or not, but those engineers built tools to sell ads in general, not to sell specific ads, so there's probably a lot of reprehensible stuff being advertised for with these tools, things which those engineers might not agree with. You wouldn't blame a knife maker for people stabbing each other.
The unlikely nation filled with cryptocurrency mines (Iceland)
Not really.

He got beat fair and square and there are no excuses.

The whole point is hedge funds should do better otherwise what's the point of the management fees.

And if the point is to do worse in a rising market and then beat a falling market I can do that by putting 80% money in the S&P Tracker and 20% in cash and I won't charge a massive fee to do so.
Don't assume because someone isn't partaking in your game they're not good enough for it -- it might not be good enough for them. The smartest people on the planet wouldn't go anywhere near the advertisement industry or the military of a country involved in wars of aggression. Okay, maybe "smart" people would, but intelligent and wise people wouldn't, not from what I have sampled so far. They all seem to look right through and begin after what is the impenetrable zenith of "smartness" for you.
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something like expensify?
Can anyone explain what's their "air gap" technology, please?
It's much bigger (close to 3000 lines) than the version from the original post, which is only around 700 lines for the program and the separate "knowledge":

https://github.com/retro-software/B5500-software/blob/master...

https://github.com/retro-software/B5500-software/blob/master...
Also Manchester Alumni.

Here's the Manchester Science & Industry page about the Baby:

https://www.msimanchester.org.uk/objects-and-stories/baby-an...

They do demonstrations of the Baby running 4 days a week apparently:

https://www.msimanchester.org.uk/whats-on/meet-baby
I just use my credit card for all my purchases and then the bank already breaks it down by category. I'm not sure why I'd need a separate app and I don't want to give banking credentials to third-parties if I don't have to.
in that case smyte would still exist and now have lots of money from the acquisition you could sue for
There are online video + ebook hosting platforms like Thinkific or Teachable that allow you to do that without the need for custom development, those are turnkey solutions.

Typically there are only a few subjects for each one given person is willing to pay for content, because we typically have only 2 to 3 major interests that we really want to dive deeper into at any given time.

It depends on the type of content, if its for example chess lessons then a membership site makes sense, its a never ending subject.

If its high-value educational content then it makes much more sense to build your own website, rather than be dependent of these platforms.

Historically, content creators have always been exploited by the middleman that gets the lion share of the profit, and because of that there is a lot of content that never got created not because it does not have a market, but because its unsustainable to creators due to the middleman and their control of the relationship with consumers.

The internet does allow us to remove the middleman for the case of lots of content creators, but instead, people are spending a lot of time and energy trying to make it in these platforms only for them to change the rules every two years.
You claim it's not a good argument yet stuff like this does actually happen. Sometimes it's genuinely because a business closes up shop, sometimes it is because it is bought out. Sometimes the business is still running but they just decide to deprecate a service or API without grandfathering existing customers / offering sufficient time to update customers code or even switch to a new provider.

Granted there are more cases of when SaaS et al works than when it does not. And I do agree with you that it's no ok to shaft paid customers in this way. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't still happen. This is why I've have to consider the self-hosted verses XaaS debate myself writing Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery / et al plans.
> I don't understand how politicians can stand up and claim that legalisation would have substantial negatives, when every experiment with legalisation has been a success.

When facing that kind of behavior, I always remind my self that at some point, people advocated against trains because the speed of it would cause eyes damage by watching through the windows and moving that fast from one place to another would have terrible psychological impacts.
Amazon workers protest to Bezos about facial recognition contracts with police
Terrorists, Data Mining, and the Base Rate Fallacy
Do you know where I can read more? How does the rate of rise play in to the euphoria?

(A very odd couple of weekends figuring out an optimal dosing schedule awaits...)
What part of terraform is cloud agnostic?
What's the next step? From YT or their competitors?

White label platform for medium to large producers who don't want the ops overhead of their own distribution system?
If the company I buy food from decides to ghost all their customers with 30 minutes notice, I can walk a block in the opposite direction and buy food from a completely different company. And I can walk a block further and buy food from yet another company. Any of these companies vanishing into thin air would only cost me a 10 minutes of my time at most.
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Unlawful presence (being “an illegal”) is a civil matter, and not a crime.

US legal system seems to disagree with you. http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/crime-ent... https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33351.pdf

It is true that some of the illegal immigrants (e.g. those overstaying visas) may not be guilty of criminal infractions, but most of the illegal border crossers are. As you can see, this question has little to do with ICE as these conditions are written in law, not ICE policies.

Here’s an (old) NYT oped as an example

NYT is not exactly a neutral arbiter of correct word usage, especially in highly politicized matter in which NYT is fully engaged. Additionally, if you do read the article, right from the start it points out that the change from criminal handling to civil is a target of a future reform, not a current state of affairs:

A bedrock premise of smart immigration reform is the sharp distinction it draws between criminal aliens and Americans-in-waiting. While it acknowledges that illegal immigrants need to get right with the law, it treats illegal status as a civil matter to be resolved by the machinery of naturalization, not by the police and prisons.

Nobody would need a "reform" if the above would already be the case.

In any case, ICE has no power to decide any of these matters, beyond very narrow band of operative focus (i.e. how to allocate prosecutorial and prevention resources, etc.) - if something is criminal, ICE can not "decriminalize" it, and if something is not, ICE can not "criminalize" it. That's why the very article you quoted talks about "bills" - i.e. legislative actions - that can do exactly that.
Managing risk comes into play here. Would you spend time integrating 2 services, negotiating 2 contacts, supporting 2 providers who may change features and approaches over time, splitting a fraction of traffic to make sure both still work, limiting yourself to common feature set... Or would that cost you more to implement them a few days of (potential) complete downtime.

Choosing the potential downtime is not a failure, if you considered your options.
From a tech perspective, I think it's a good thing to step towards automation for low-quality burgers, especially in chain restaurants where a recipe has been modified to ensure that the flavour is consistent across the country/world.

What I'd like to see more from this kind of startup is a desire to ensure that anyone that loses a job due to their product has the opportunity for retraining. Sure, it won't be great for profits, but if we're heading towards a time where low-paying jobs are to be automated then I'd love to see a trend start where people who will lose their jobs to automation can opt to move into management or train towards an entry-level job in the engineering required to run these tools.

What I really don't want is some smug SV type spouting a load of bullshit about how automation makes peoples jobs easier. It only makes them easier by relieving them of their duties.
Same story with a friend of mine.

But I see similar patterns with alcohol, food, video games or TV. Even books. People look for something to cope with life, and as long as we, as a society, don't provide a sufficient support for each others, anything that can be abused will be.
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Government cloud isn’t purely for nefarious purposes. I’ve worked in the past on GOV.UK Verify: an identity verification scheme for logging into government services. We wanted all the benefits that cloud providers give you, but we also needed additional assurance levels above and beyond the norm for our users’ protection.
It looks like these are PCI3 SSDs, and with a bit of poking around I can't see any PCI4 Xeons out yet either.
I expect no less from a company that essentially elected Trump and continues to function as his mouthpiece to this day. Screwing over Smyte's customers must seem like nothing after they screwed over the entire country. What do employees there say to themselves every morning to justify staying? Trump continually breaks Twitter's rules, yet he hasn't been banned. He threatens world leaders, bullies, insults and lies non-stop, and Twitter is the bullhorn he uses to do it. Google's engineers stopped the company from bidding on war-related contracts, when are Twitter's engineers going to develop a backbone and get Trump banned?

I stopped using Twitter the day that jackass was inaugurated. Everyone who works at Twitter should be ashamed of themselves.
Wow, twitter really are just "the worst" these days.

Say what you like about Facebook but it does at least seem as though somebody is calling the shots in there.
Tether vs. TrueUSD. Which one is better?
3. Have a test environment where you can delete routes to external services and assess the failure modes of your application.

Does the whole page hang? Do UI elements disappear ot overlap others? Do JS error messages surface in the UI? Can the user continue with core functionality or at least receive an explanatory message?
> It really shows how us Plebians are ground into dust by the healthcare industry

Or the benefits of collective bargaining, even in limited context like procuring healthcare.
in twitter's case the closest alternative is standing in a crowded street, barking disjointed sentences at passers by in the hope somebody acknowledges you.
Your supplier going bankrupt is a well known risk that you cover by checking its credit rating and by paying on or after delivery.
> "YAML ... is almost as complex as XML"

In fact YAML is probably more complex than XML; the specification of YAML, when I print it into PDF, is about three times as long as that of XML 1.0. (And XML 1.0 also describes DTD, which is kind of a simple type validation for XML and thus includes much more than just serialization syntax.)
Which is funny considering you can order weed to be delivered in New York quite easily. You don't even need to go to a dirty back street or an weirdo flat down town anymore. So basically, the only missing link is the tax money.
This confirms my belief that I don't want to ship anything that uses directly a third party API. Instead always go through your own server which then calls the API so at least you have a chance to replace that.
Photos: Soccer Fields Around the World
Great overview
McDonald's generally does not own the land a given McDonald's restaurant sits on. That's why so many in San Francisco have closed in the last 6 years... including the longstanding one by the ballpark.
Are there any one of those books that you would especially recommend? I have considered the Pragmatic Programmer - but is there more to it than what is implied in the title?
> Electricity and water are heavily regulated and often government owned, not run by Silicon Valley cowboys.

Yet, you still get Puerto Rico (electricity grid recovery failures of a few levels), and Flint (no clean water for you, because no).
It's explained in the linked article.
That's also what's attractive about Kubernetes - it's nearly a provider-independent cloud API.
Couldn't a large amount of this stuff in your desktop damage a computer or wipe a SD card?

I assume that the loose little balls aren't enough small to end fitting inside a USB connector or something like that. If not, what could happen hypothetically?
No. Smyte had a responsibility to its customers, and should not have entered into any deal that did not include some reasonable wind-down plan.
No. Whether it's potatoes or servers, having a single point of failure with no plan B in place, is silly.

Your local restaurant going out of business is no reason for you to starve to death, you just go to another one, or to a grocery store, or indeed grow your own food if you're in some post-apocalyptic world or got no money... but somehow a service provider going out of business is reason enough for your production to stop? No, just no.
Fair enough, I wasn't aware of 100G adapters.
> It’s like these stars are not fully functioning human beings

Or that the personalities that (a) go into low-probability high-payoff careers like entertainment and (b) do well in entertainment (through further selection or the perso al transformations necessary to succeed in Hollywood or the NFL) are also bad at saying no to competitive luxuries and short-term impulses.
> I really cringed when the founder started talking about how this gives their employees time to do more meaningful things, like reading books.

To be fair, the whole quote (in the article, not the video) is: “We’re playing around with education programs for the staff. Five percent of the time they’re paid just to read. We’re already doing that. There’s a book budget. We’re paying $16 an hour. As opportunities come up to fix the machine, there’s a path we’re going to offer people as repair or maintenance people to get paid even more.”

That is quite different from "when I make these people redundant, they will have time to read".
This is a very common setup. It's called a reverse triangle merger.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rtm.asp
US (wholly avoidable) intervention in Iraq led to the rise of ISIS. The world is not safer when you go around wacking hornets nests.
> I find it silly to rely on some service, any external service, so much that if it goes down it would cause a prod outage.

I'm curious; what would you have these companies do in such a scenario? If 100% uptime is impossible then what you seem to be suggesting is that people should never use third party services or if they do use them they must not be in a critical path.

Are you suggesting everyone should do everything in house?
My employers do just that - Fraud prevention is a fundamental part of our business operations.

It largely involves multiple teams of full time employees working on different aspects of fraud prevention (some of them are even Competent Developers!) a few dedicated offices, some teams embedded in regional development offices, a bunch of bespoke software and it's ongoing development and maintenance.

Thats in addition to the core dev teams being aware of and mitigating any possible vectors within the platform itself.

At any kind of scale it's rarely as easy as 'hiring a few competent developers'.
Nitpick: Can we please stop saying "free-to-use" and instead say, for example, "paid-with-data"?
Indeed, it's spurred a discussion of an over-simplification of the issues.

I don't think anyone is suggesting never to outsource, or even that the answer to "build vs. buy" is always "build".

The point is not having a critical dependency on a single vendor.

I don't think anyone is even saying "never", either.

The question is one of risk.

The risk of your tax accountant "going down" (or being crooked or something) is sufficiently low, and the cost of making that redundant is sufficiently high, that I don't think anybody does that. This could even apply to general accounting software, though one might argue that's not critical in the same way and/or more easily replaceable.

There's a sibling sub-thread that essentially implies, if not outright states that there's no choice but to "buy" in "build vs. buy". Although it may be true that building is no longer a practical choice due to time/cost, under certain circustances, it by no means eliminates the risk if there's only one vendor.

It's also a decision that can end up having tremendous costs at scale, if not re-evaluated, especially with even a soft version of vendor lock-in, like AWS.
Slippery slope fallacy.
i would have a hard time switching back as well. a lot of the features could be added with extensions but i like having it all baked into the browser.

search shortcuts is probably my favourite feature (putting "r" in front of a search term to search directly on rotten tomatoes, or "d" to search on dictionary.com), its a great timesaver
ActiveEmoji – A collection of emoji aliases for core Ruby methods
You are proving by extrapolation. That's no good when we want to use it to gauge whether animals have language. That line of argument will work only for humans.

I used Sentinelese just as an example to bring out the fact that we would jump to the conclusion that they have a language just because they are human.

Prove to me that Sentinelese have language without extrapolating. That is prove it without using "all humans have language. Sentinelese are human. Therefore Sentinelese have language". Nothing wrong with that line of reasoning, but its limited in scope.

I am asking for specification of a scientific experiment that can be used to check with acceptable false positives and false negatives whether someone/something has a language that can work beyond the human species. From your tone of authority it should be a piece of cake for you.
The article headline should be Colombia, not Columbia.
Well instagram TV is launching so that might be Facebook's play
My approach is similar. I keep plain text notes on my phone where each line is something like "16 haircut" or "12o" (eating out). I have a Node script that I currently run manually, but the problem is that I only run it every couple of months... Using a bot keep track of things is a great idea!

Currently I group everything by month, but using a bot would also allow that to be more granular.

One thing I try to focus on is simplicity of the categories. Instead of spending £5 on toiletries and £3 on fruit I just have on "everyday items" category that I use for everything that I buy at the supermarket. So after every purchase I make I only spend about 5s writing it down, rather than trying to do any splitting calculations in my head.

Here are the result: http://www.mattzeunert.com/money.html
Indeed. I agree with the author that the examples shown are monstrous eyesores. But take a walk around London and you'll be able to find plenty of examples of this "facadism" done well.
Still needs 250 gbit/s total bandwidth, which doesn't come cheap. In this case it really makes much more sense to distribute the processors along side the storage and aim for data locality.
> On a VPS, in a data center, or in your closet?

Yes, any of those sounds like a good enough plan B. You don't need it to be perfect, just good enough to avoid getting stranded in a pinch. Then you can start shopping around for someone who does that one little thing much better than you do. That way it no longer is a show stopper and rather just an optimization problem.
Wasn't the original commentor criticizing, exactly, an (acquired) company and its executives?
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Contracts don’t disappear on acquisition, of course. The new owner takes on the responsibilities of the acquired company, as well as its assets.

Companies also are not physical items that can disappear due to natural disasters.

The only ways they can disappear is by closing down, and that does mean honoring contracts, and by going bankrupt and that means using all leftover assets to satisfy all the parties whose contracts you’re breaking. And no, you can’t just transfer all assets away and leave a shell to go bankrupt because that is fraud and the judge can nullify the transfers.
What you're suggesting is something for large companies. Most of these companies affected probably don't have time and resources to develop and pay for alternatives to every single third party service they require. And why would they? They have contracts you'd expect to be honored.

Seems unrealistic especially since the majority of times when these services go down it's likely just a short time so they probably have abstracted around them to avoid unexpected failure and just have routine, down time failures.
Or give them the benefit of the doubt and email them.
Yes, it seems that the traditional "stocks and shares" approach to funding is only suitable for a particular phase of the development of a business.

Past a certain point it's actually bad for the business, employees and customers. I wonder why businesses don't just seek a more stable funding model once they get there.

Pardon my ignorance but this sounds like just the kind of thing that "Bonds" are for. Long term, slow steady growth. It also sounds like specifically the kind of investment opportunity Warren Buffet seeks out, so there must be some logic to it.
Why would Twitter care? They make money from ads, right? APIs and legacy deals are going to be time consuming and boring for them. Stuff like filtering hate speech etc is something which can be done globally and in a way which doesn't require highly paid employees, APIs etc. Hasn't Twitter repeatedly show that third parties aren't really that interesting to them?
> A city can and should decide what the "overall look and feel" is. London fails at that spectacularly.

London's skyline is one of the most iconic skylines in the world. The more recent additions like the London Eye (or whatever it's called these days), the "walkie talkie" and the Shard just add to its unique character IMO.
"Air gapping" just means not connected to the internet, directly or indirectly.

Usually goes along with the air gapped system running in a small intranet you strictly control access to.

Its not a bleeding edge technology as the article says (maybe the author made a joke?) but a standard security measure to protect highly sensitive or critical systems.