skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain this in plain English for people not keyed in on cryptocurrency?
One of the reasons Lennon had seven copies (besides liking the album a lot) was that I think it included stickers:

http://www.beefheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/john-len...
If there are other falacious points then please give evidence for their inaccuracy, otherwise it appears like you just picked an easy point to refute, but claimed the entire argument was false.
It's possible but I think it has more to do with constantly chipping away. The more initiatives they push through the more brazen they get. GDPR was widely supported so now they go in for the kill.
hey you know what, this really resonates with me.
FWIW I agree people would be enraged initially. But I believe shortly after they'd realize "hey I don't really need this". And the world would be a better place for it.
Optane DIMMs I think. They plug into the RAM slots :P
Social bonding gone inappropriate. You like to buy from a (pseudo)friend more than a stranger. You've heard about the entire 'wining and dining' part of sales correct?
Even in software, the primary “advantage” of youth seems to be able to work much longer hours.

But from my own experience, I wonder how much of those long hours are truly productive. At least in my own case, i often observe that the quality of the work I do early morning when I’m fresh is significantly better than what I do late at night, and that the late-night job is more liable to contain subtle bugs, thus often needing to be “polished” in the morning again. Additionally what I can finish in the last 4 hours at night (after a full days work) I can easily do in about 2 hours in the morning. So while there’s an egocentric feeling of satisfaction of wrapping something up before going to bed, from a pure productivity perspective I find it better to call it quits at a decent hour and take a fresh look in the morning.

So recently, I’ve started to do things in a way that things that need to be created from scratch, or otherwise need more mental/intellectual involvement, I do them while I’m fresh, and reserve the more mundane things or interpersonal tasks (like meetings, etc.) for the later part of the day when I’m slightly tired. I wonder if any of this resonates with other peoples’ experiences.
That's a beautiful setup, but I'm curious... do a lot of people around the world still struggle with regular internet downtimes?

I can hardly remember the last time that my internet connection cut out... but if I had to guess... it was probably during the peak of a 100 year storm we had a few years back that put the entire area underwater for about 48 hours.

Transformers were blowing up all over the place, the power was out for days in some areas, and yes the internet went out as well at that point.

I live in the GTA FYI.
Mainland developer China Vanke leads US$1.5B investment in media group CMC
Can confirm that I'm having the same issues, could be overloaded indeed.
I love when @bradfitz says, "enterprisey".
I've never heard crypto summed up so well
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Fix it on Linux by enabling BBR TCP congestion control.

cat << EOF >> /etc/sysctl.conf
net.core.default_qdisc=fq
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=bbr
EOF
sudo sysctl -p

1. You will need a recent kernel.

2. net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=bbr applies to IPv6 too.

3. You must set the queuing discipline to fq or it won't work.
Sure, but not everyone's opinion is equally valid. I've worked with a number of design teams who confuse their opinion (an educated opinion, which I respect) as a fact. Facts beat opinions -- if a short-term optimization will be a long term loser, then prove it.

Unfortunately, it's not really possible to prove/disprove an opinion on what a design element will do.

Additionally, optimization testing allows you to try out different options. Going with someone's (educated) gut feel is a worse decision than exploring the option space.

Ideally, you'd test everything. In the real world, resource constraints apply, so at issue is how to establish an internal discipline where facts trump opinions, and opinions can be tested then either discarded or confirmed.
How is infinite scrolling not just a logical evolution of regular scrolling? and using red for notification indicators isn't just a design convention that was borrowed from the real world?

All these outlets reporting on social media/app/smartphone addictions should really consider mentioning that these theories aren't supported by research but mainly the melodramatic testimonies of former employees with messianic complex.
Why do you advocate such violence?
I think a better approach might be using bayesian optimization, each variation would be a dimension, and the algorithm would find the (almost) optimal possibility instead of a/b testing, which finds the local maximus.
you shouldn't trust him, he gets google alerts and finds threads on hacker news and posts wacky comments like this one
How do you create a discipline around making good decisions for business strategy? I've seen "highest paid person" win, I've seen "Most vocal" win, I've seen "5 versus 1" win.

The testing advocates I've worked with have an attitude of "I don't know what will work - that's why we're testing". I have not seem much of that attitude from most other individuals/teams involved in decision making -- they have preferred to say "this will work", and get angry when I say, "compared to what? how do you know?"

edit - fwiw, I totally agree with understanding the limitations of testing. You have to know what it can be good for. My argument is that it's actually better for long term strategy than most other decision making processes I have experienced, which usually boils down to "gut based".
Somewhere along the line, some shitbird scum-fuck outfit ratted me out to Facebook, and some really specific, interstitial targetted ads started to intrude when I logged in an started browsing Facebook to goof off and browse through whatever trash my feed tried to show me.

I do not install Facebook on my phone. In fact, I would only browse Facebook on my laptop, but here and there I opted to use my laptop, while tethering through a pre-paid mobile device, not registered in my name.

The Facebook account did not use a real name, nor was the login email anything but a spam catcher email.

Nevertheless, based on credit card events and a few other real world circumstances, possibly geolocating based on IP address/cell tower info and ISP/carrier data share agreements, suddenly I was being solicited for shit that was nobody's fucking business. For sure, those ads were gunning for me. My wallet, at a moment when I would surely be forking over cash, dumping wads of cash on the thing being hawked.

Oh well, whoopty doo! Facebook locked me out of the account, because coincidentally, probably since I wasn't using a real name, it incorrectly assessed that I was either a fake account or hacked by evil supper villains. Wrong on both accounts, lol!

They really did manage to accurately target me, and then immediately locked me out, and demanded a scan of what? My fucking passport? My driver's license? My fucking social security card? YEAH FUCKING RIGHT.

But thanks for locking me out, dipshits! I hate your garbage service, and your creep ads anyway. I'm never logging into that account again, and all the better that you can't seem to make heads or tails about whether I'm actually me, or whether I'm a real person or not.
I explored this subject in an essay:
https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...

after I did the first:
Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007 3 years ago
You do so by labeling anonymous functions "clunky" and continuing to pretend that the only use of lambdas is working with collections.

Or, as I like to call it, "The same lie they've been telling for a decade, that everyone knows is false because lots of people learn JavaScript and do not find it excessively complicated."
If I worked at Oracle, I'd drink myself to death, too.
Mostly I can't remember if a variable escapes from an if-else block, context manager, &etc until I start playing around with the code.

In C it's 100% clear, variables only live inside their respective blocks so if you want to mess with the value in an if-else you have to declare it outside of the block.
Just a thought, but sun shield(s) could potentially affect Earth's climate, and not necessarily in a positive way.
Americans don’t like to acknowledge that other cultures have different aaproaches to business. Why is the implication is that these practices are wrong?
> I know for a fact that people in Japan works A LOT more

Source? None? Ok, let's use the on linked here that contradicts you.
Agreed. Hours worked per prime-age inhabitant, would be very interesting.
Does this work for linux routers or just the endpoint machine?
That's pretty vague. A server (no details) didn't work as well as hardware (no details). Lot of missing info there.
Yes, there's more to it, otherwise I would have written a blog post and not a book.
Note that the best evidence for many things comes from naturally occurring cases that look like experiments. The link between smoking and lung cancer is most definitively shown by twin studies, for example, which are purely observational.
I work from home. I used to put in 8 hours at an office, then went down to 5 at home. Since I had a baby my work time is now 1-2 hours. To make up for the lost time I have to be super productive. Basically, I don’t work unless I’m in the zone. I should probably mention that I work for myself so it’s not like I’m stealing time from anyone. A deadline is a deadline and I meet them regardless of hours worked. I’ve learned that there is work, productive work and super productive work. I have to be in the zone 100% of the time I work or things turn into a shitshow.
I have been using Left https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/left
U.S.A.
1780 / 52 = 34.23

Are there people that only work 34ish hours a week?

I'm working way more than that.
yup 7.30PM in our house and we eat together most of the time make our own food (from scratch and involve the kids in making sure they help out) and we give them more and more responsibility plus allow them to get hurt (free range).

This sounds normal to a lot of people but in New York it's not that normal. How they will turn out we will see :)
It's only obviously more effective coming from a very narrow perspective. Static typing can provide stronger guarantees, but if it takes significantly more effort to do that and you already get adequate guarantees with contracts then that effort is likely not justified.

The goal is typically to ship software that works well enough in a reasonable amount of time, and my experience is that contracts provide a much better tool for doing that.

While contracts need to execute the code, generative testing provides you with a sufficient sample to be reasonably sure that the code is doing what you want. The contracts also let you directly specify what the code is intended to be doing, something that's not easy to do using the type system.

In some situations proving parts of the program behavior may be worth the effort, but I simply don't agree that it's true for the general case.
Research like this exists because otherwise people would bring up what they "feel" the facts are.
This is an assertion by a Supreme Dictator of the ecosystem. It's not actually backed by any metrics. It not indicated by any stuides. It's not borne out in any data brought to you by teachers. It's actually contradictory to previous findings.

We can also see a migration away from list and object comprehensions in languages that support both them and lambdas (e.g., C#, Haskell).

How the Python community has maintained it's opinion that everyone else is stupid and wrong while also suggesting that their tooling is impossible to understand is beyond me. It seems like a contradictory position.
curl -O https://github.com/directus/directus-docker/blob/master/docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up
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I love how I was voted down for that comment, one which ought to be obvious on its face. There are plenty of choices people make that don't benefit society as a whole. That isn't controversial.
Since when has brevity been a goal for Python tho?
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Voted down—Netgate's famously thin skinned reps at work again I'm sure.
I mean the users of software. Instead of trying to predict what is the best design, create interfaces that make it easy to aggregate that data, and take that information at face value.

When it comes to design, there often aren't facts (one may even suggest facts don't exist when it comes to design). Study the history of art to contest that. Otherwise, listen to users like they are humans, and see whether it matches with the designers advice. Simple.
Increase working hours in the US by 10% across the board and the GDP will likely not increase at all.
Many men are married and this stuff is frowned on for married men everywhere, including east asia. Also, it makes things incredibly awkward (to say the least) for professional women.
A couple of people have made the point about full-time versus part-time work in Japan, which is actually covered by this [1] MHLW report on overwork.

The graph on the right on Page 1 has an orange line at the top representing the total hours worked per year by an average "ordinary" (meaning full-time) worker.

The red line below that represents the average part-time worker.

The dates are from Heisei 6 (1994) through 25 (2013).

So we can see that as of 2013, the average full-time worker in Japan reported that they worked 2018 hours a year. I'd be interested in seeing comparable statistics for the US and other countries.

[1] https://www.mhlw.go.jp/file/05-Shingikai-11201000-Roudoukiju... (in Japanese)

EDIT TO ADD:
It's also worth noting that the increasing blue bars in the right-hand graph represent an increase in the percentage of people in part-time work, which corresponds to a decrease in overall (full- and part-time) work hours in the graph on the left (the blue line). So the arguments about a higher percentage of part-time workers being significant in lowering the average seem to be right.
Ask HN: Using Ropsten Testnet for production?
Yesterday I launched Tweedentity, a self-claiming identity system for Ethereum and, for now, Twitter and Reddit. Just yesterday, though, the gas price spiked (for BingoCoin distribution) and setting an identity didn't make sense. In fact, while you can set it with 25¢ in normal cases, yesterday, with the gas at 80 Gwei, you'd have spent $15. This makes me thinking that Ethereum is not really usable by dapps that don't have a strong financial incentive. Since Tweedentity works on both Ropsten and Mainnet, I am thinking that it would be better to just support the testnet, and think of it as the production environment. This generates some ethical thoughts. Despite this, I wonder what other people think about it.
Montevideo has a thriving tech community,charming and well educated people, and fantastic meat.
IBM Watson will study players' emotions at Wimbledon
I'm a foreign CTO working in Bangkok and being fully fluent in Thai showed me that it's exactly the same practice in SEA regions: Got to close a deal with a government official? They'll head to the "bathtub massage" area Huai Kwang. Need to bond with a local Business man? Deal closes there as well. Bond with male work mates? On to the bathtub place! Everyone knows it, there's jokes about it and this particular business has licences to run legally, even though prostitution is normally illegal in Thailand. I turned down several invites to such activities and got the usual gay jokes behind my back.
Once upon a time I would have been very envious of this set up. Now I just shudder to think of the hassle of maintaining all of this.

Don't get me wrong, I still have highly available Internet at my house - I just tether my laptop to my phone and I'm done.
On a mission to build the uncrashable car – MIT News
Forty years and still going strong
Maybe it's a Wisconsin thing? Renovations to Lambeau Field in Green Bay were paid for by a voter-approved sales tax in Brown County.

Wisconsin also loves to use property taxes for various things, which is how it gets away with being slightly lower-taxed than neighboring MN while having a similar quality of life.
I'm about to submit a pull request for http://dayssinceacryptocurrencyexchangehaslostmorethan100mil...
“China Has 4,040 AI Companies; Beijing Drives Industry Development”
Sorry to hear about your noisy home environment. It reminds me of a time when I lived in a house with drug dealing neighbors on one side of the property and blasting Metallica in the middle of the night neighbors on the other side of the house. What a nightmare of a scenario. The. I moved into an apartment in Irvine CA near the 405 and holy shit, the noise from the highway drove me crazy for several years before I finally had enough. I am lucky to live in rural Japan now with super quiet neighbors and nowhere near a large street. What a relief it is to live in quiet. I can actually open my windows and not hear a single thing at night!

I feel for you brother. If you have a chance, move ASAP. If not, make that chance yourself. Everyone who seeks it deserves peace and quiet.
Can confirm this, some people just chose to play mobile legend(a very popular mobile game in china) with the girls to escape the awkwardness.
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My mom worked as a secretary and so did my grandma. They both know shorthand.

When you’re saying something to them and they’re taking notes, it’s amazing how suddenly they’ll switch to shorthand even knowing that the notes are for you or for someone that doesn’t know it. Interesting at the doctors office or somewhere where we have to fill paperwork.

Interestingly, they have a hard time understanding each other’s sometimes. There’s some basics that are fine, but each one has adds their own bit of style I guess which makes it harder.

My moms signature is also weird. Her name has a g and she writes it weird because of something in shorthand. That g made faking her signature a pain. Then we learned teachers didn’t really notice.
The article's reference to the boys faces being lit by torchlight had me pretty startled (considering the implications of fire in an at least partially sealed cave) until I realized the story was in The Guardian!
People seem to forget, LA somehow lost their previous teams. Maybe people in LA have better options than just getting drunk and burning up a Sunday and don't attend much.

I've noticed USC fills their stadium only when they're spectacular. Whereas other teams across the country fill it up when they're only OK (most of the big 10).

Anecdotal but probably understandable via stats.
Didn't know about this issue until I saw this article.

With 2 lines added to conf, I managed to go from C, D grades to A almost instantly.
How am I supposed to work with it?

s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_SEQPACKET)
[Errno 43] Protocol not supported
Your phone isn’t listening to you but it may be watching everything
Game Theory, Salary Negotiation, and Programmers (2009)
I wasn't equating them, I was just saying that they are both lives. The headline mentions "lives" and then only one form of life. I was doing a picky critique of the headline, not debating the business.
> I see this as an East Asian phenomenon,

I see this as one of the effects of European colonialists on East Asia and South East Asian colonies. The practice of colonialist generals/warlords, typically of a naval background of using brothels as a place/culture to bond with other warlords/generals and their local puppets is the predecessor of the current "elite level" business culture observed in these former colonies.

For a more contemporary example, Thailand did not have this sexpot/sex tourist city reputation until after the Vietnam War. It was the exploitation of Thai beach resorts and cities as RnR locations for US soldiers that created the current conditions.
I didn't equate chicken and human lives.

Yeah, obviously my comment fails to imply that since it wasn't trying to.
Are you a childhood development or cognitive behavioral specialist? Can you point me to your CV or simply list a couple of the papers you've published?
DeepLabCut: A Game-Changing AI Tool for Tracking Animal Movements
Sounds like it is SFW at a lot a places in China and SEA.
It collects it for the purpose of building a better advertising profile of you- so it can make more money from ads. It’s still using my data about me and making money off of it.
This fact is mentioned in the article.
AFAIK, many foreigners [read: other Asians as well as a sprinkling of non-Asians] (as well nationals from outside a city but who do business in said city) who are married have either "second wives[1]" in these alternate city offices or they have their marriages die in said places.

It has some intriguing aspects, such as the children of the "first wife" are often seen as more legitimate. Also often the wives tolerate each other. And more[2] in this abstract.

[1] in most cases it's hetero males, ergo the wives part. I believe one of the (perh former) chiefs of Foxconn [from TW] had several "second wives".

[2]journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X11412171
Yeah, if you don't count speculation as value (and I'm happy not to), then I think light financial crime is the next biggest use case. Which is interesting in that a lot of money laundering is illegal because although it may be valuable to the launderer, the cash transfered often comes from something where systemic value is dropping. E.g. ransomware only makes the world worse, even if it makes the ransomer a profit.
Yeah, I wasn't criticizing the business, just the headline.
Binance is a crypto currency exchange that lets users trade in two ways: through their web and mobile apps and through an Application Programming Interface (API) that lets developers write software to write trades. This API uses access credentials called keys that authenticate the different traders. The leading theory/rumor on what happened earlier today is that someone in an unknown way managed to hijack a significant number of API keys, or otherwise compromise the API server to impersonate a large number of users. They used this deceitful move in coordination with a primary account that they controlled. On this primary account they put a lot of SYSCoin for sale ( I've only heard of Syscoin for the first time today.) They had the hacked API credentials buy a lot of their sell orders to generate a significant amount ~50MM of bitcoin. In addition it seems that there was a denial of service attack on the syscoin network, for a reason i'm not fully understanding as I believe that this attack could work without the denial of service. This is all happening within the last few hours and is the best conjecture I could put together with limited information.
I worked in a hallway cubicle at a law office for a while. Once a day an attorney would start chatting with another behind my back and would stay there for an hour. I got so annoyed at some point that I stopped working for the entirety of their conversation any time someone started talking. I felt wrong for taking up company time but these people did not respect my space. At some point I also started just turning around and looking at them while they talked. A few got the point and left but others just kept on talking even after making eye contact.
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