skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s time to stop being silly and look at the wider picture.

All of these activities are connected and are related to Russian money essentially. The USA and the UK at least seem to be related, and very likely Israel is involved as well (targeting Iran).

Add to this the Arron Banks and the diamond deal attempt with a Russian company, and pieces start falling into place. Corruption around Russian money in excahnge for political influence in the west, to get Russia off the sanctions which are killing its economy (what ever is left of it).

I’m sure there’s more and we will find out more as the instituations involved will start kicking back. Hopefully not too late.
I've been using spotify for a few years now. I don't mind paying for premium given the amount of music available. Anything to skip ads.

However I agree with other comments here, Spotify simply does not listen to their customers. Their community ideas are worthless as nothing there ever comes to fruition, and yet we know they are working on their Apps as they continue to receive UI updates.
tl;dr: Management didn't want remote employees. I didn't want to keep paying for the privilege of living in the Bay Area.

I'm an app developer and I realized that I really want to work remotely.

Being in an office all day was extremely demoralizing for me. I would frequently "work from home" to be able to spend a full day focused and productive. That wasn't a great cycle though, because I'd have crunch days at home a couple times a week to get my work done, then hang out in the office and do very little for the rest of the week to get my paycheck. Management was mostly fine with this, but it was taxing on me because it felt like a stupid way to live.

I talked to my managers and let them know that I wanted to work entirely remotely. They weren't supportive of that, but I still don't understand why, other than a general not believing in remote work. I found a remote gig the following week and things have been great ever since.

Once I saw the remote job was working out, I moved across the country to a much cheaper area (well, what isn't, compared to SF). Now I don't pay state income tax, I pay 1/3rd the cost of living for 3x the space, and I'm happy to do my work for longer each day because I don't have a commute. I'm producing better quality software, with less effort, and I'm happier.

If this job eventually ends, I don't think it'll be difficult to find a new thing to do. But with greatly reduced expenses and no fear of needing a paycheck for SF rent, I'm also free to take risks like starting a company or doing consulting for multiple clients.
Implicit grids are for unknown number of child items. See grid-auto-rows, grid-auto-columns, and grid-auto-flow.

I've been struggling to find use for Flexbox with CSS Grid. Flexbox is good for components still, but CSS Grid can do that stuff too and the automatic spacing with grid-gap is so damn appealing.
Company-provided lunch provides an opportunity to build relationship among the coworkers. Most people do not says "no" to free lunch, especially if it's good. So, they naturally sit down together to eat.

When I worked at a company that offered free lunch, the company used it to help build rapport and camaraderie among the coworkers. It's one time during the day when the entire team can sit down and eat lunch together and get to know about each other, which is not possible through Slack nor via meetings. Just hanging out with everyone on the team, talking about the latest Marvel movie or Star wars, etc. It was also about convenience as well as reducing stress and decisions on an already-busy day.

If the team still wants to do lunch together everyday at an outside restaurant, it would not be easy, especially the logistics, which would be a nightmare -- getting everyone to agree on one place where everyone likes their food, finding a place that can seat the entire group at a single table, finding transportation / assigning driver/riders if it's beyond walking distance, and having to divide the check afterward (or Venmo), etc. Just for a meal that lasts no more than an hour, top.
I won't downvote you because I disagree with you (who does that???)...

look, sure this broad idea about learning styles may be false, but you cannot I think disagree that a book may be more or less suitable for someone depending on their particular strengths and weaknesses, and that OP's point.
There's not really any materials or conditions beyond one's immediate locality that would be worth seeking out in space. Interstellar communication is going to be limited at best, interstellar industry or trade may never be practical, and even if one is willing to accept the idea that there is some purpose for which a black hole is useful, I would still be skeptical that a supermassive black hole would be of more use than a smaller one.
The Remain campaigns weren't found to be in violation of election law.
Because they couldn't guarantee they wouldn't call me on my wedding day, which is on Saturday. Hence I've spent the last two months with my wife to be sorting out house out and making it awesome for the wedding reception!
Complicated even more by shopper loyalty programs.

Following Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, now checking out involves an extra step: the cashier asks every patron "Are you a Prime member?"

Then a number of things can happen. Worst case scenario: they are a Prime member but haven't installed the Whole Foods app on their phone. Then they are encouraged to find and download the app, install it, open it, find their login info and enter it, then bring up their unique barcode on their phone for the cashier to scan. In high-volume stores this adds ages to wait time.

Another retailer near me (Uniqlo) also has an app-based loyalty program and I've experienced the same delays there.
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There are very specific rules around political advertising.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/roles-and-re...
(I work on Issuing.)

The technology we've built is agnostic to debit or credit -- it really depends on your use case. That said, force posts (or transactions cleared without an underlying authorization) can happen on any card type.

For what it's worth, we have an API to initiate disputes (which you would be able to on a transaction initiated without a valid authorization) which you could use to recoup funds.
https://codepen.io/werber/pen/oMGNQe

What I see in the editor is totally different than what comes over to codepen. Seems like this tool has some amazing potential!
23andme measures presence / absence of ~1M specific single-nucleotide polymorphism mutations (a SNP is a change in one "letter" of DNA), out of 10M+ total mutations known SNP mutations. Whole genome sequencing reads basically your entire genome, which consists of approximately 3 billion base pairs

so 23andme is like a unit test, and WGS is like the source code for the whole system

that said, we don't really know how to interpret most of the source code, so for a lot of cases (esp those that don't relate to medical treatment or research), 23andme is probably fine
I feel like I'm in the same boat. I'm not learning more valuable skills at my current place but it's hard to find something above junior with my skillset even though I have 4 years experience.
It's about time the downturn happens, he forgot Brexit: a major economic force leaving the EU bloc, what could go wrong...
Two reasons:
1) Better pay, tired of where I was living, wanted to move to more urban environment
2) Wanted to move closer to girlfriend of over 1.5 years

Then the girlfriend dumped me as I was moving. :-(

At least the job seems to be OK; I can't complain much about things like being overworked, the company doing poorly, bad morale, or anything like that. And luckily, the dating opportunities in my new location are far better than where I was, but it sucks moving to a new place with no friends and suddenly losing someone so close one by text message, without even the courtesy of a face-to-face meeting to talk about it. Between all the weight loss, lack of sleep, and inability to concentrate it's amazing I'm still employed.
CareRev (YC S16) is hiring – marketplace for nurses and hospitals
Lost interest in the type of work I was doing and left in order to build out something new with a much smaller team on a product that I believe in.
You may have some recourse, but piracy is a hydra that will not go away. Where one website is shut down, two more will appear.

The most you can do as far as I know is fight against the sites that host it or the places that index/list it. Fighting it is a losing game, IMHO. Some sites/jurisdictions/etc are likely going to be untouchable by any method, so if people really want to get your work for free, they will find a way.
What's in it for these companies? Seems like there must be a catch
Not TV, but this has existed for radio for a long time:

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

So yeah, it's possible to have a clock you never have to set that's always correct just by having an antenna.
Wow! Very interesting, thanks for those links
Last time I quit because my girlfriend broke up with me and I was in need of change. So, I went back to school and got a PhD - broke record time getting it because I worked like crazy. Because of school stress, I was working out really intensely and got into best shape of my life. Now life is good, I got fat again...
Malls use facial recognition to track shoppers' age, gender without consent
i don't intend to argue GP's point for them, but it is important to be aware of the difference between paying a tax and actually bearing the burden of that tax. if (hypothetically) you increase some tax by 5% and all the companies raise their prices by 5%, you might end up with a situation where the companies "pay" the tax, but it entirely comes from the pockets of consumers. this is called tax incidence, and you can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence

the corporate tax is actually very controversial among economists. it seems like a straightforward case of "making the big corps pay", but there is very little consensus as to who ultimately foots the bill for this type of tax.
Large verdicts have been delivered where no or minimal injury was suffered.

As others have mentioned, John Edwards had great success as a lawyer suing over cerebral palsy, claiming that it was caused by actions during delivery. While possible, most cases are caused by other factors such as infections, IVF, or low birthweight.

At trial, you have a sympathetic plaintiff with large needs vs a "rich" doctor and hospital. They might have caused this, they have insurance. So you systematically get very large verdicts against defendants who are unlikely to have done anything wrong. Edwards was very good at theatrics and not good on science.

Trials that rely on science and math are not great to take to a jury. Even discussions here get emotional when you deal with subjects like appropriate risk analysis and tradeoffs. Saying that you have a formula to only fix defects that kill more than x people or cost less than y per life saved is a great way of losing at trial and getting destroyed in a thread. It's also how every company and government makes decisions around safety - where stop signs go, guardrails, drug approval, armor in tanks...

Getting tort law right is hard - you want true injuries to be compensated but discourage people that are looking for lottery tickets.
> The main issue with perception is that it easily tricked and even more, it can be strongly influenced by bias.

I agree that this is an issue, mainly with all kinds of manipulation in politics and product quality/quantity/health impacts but the 5ms vs 2ms execution time of JavaScript is not one of the problems.

I’d focus on humanity gleefully steering itself into a climate collapse and mass ecocide while focusing on all kinds of completely irrelevant bs.
Great use case! If you fill in the form at https://stripe.com/issuing (or email me at lachy@stripe.com) we'll get back to you soon.
Sometimes when the ship is sinking, you need to jump off
The book is also beautifully typeset. A magnificent book.
I was doing a full-time PhD and working. One day my advisor asked, `Are you working for me or Lockheed?'

I chose the PhD.
San Francisco considers banning employee cafeterias
AMD started off with massive layoffs in 2012, and continues through 2015.

https://venturebeat.com/2014/10/16/amd-misses-earnings-targe...

https://venturebeat.com/2015/10/01/amd-to-lay-off-500-people...

2016 AMD began to stabilize, as they focused on Zen. They still were losing tons of money per quarter, but they refocused their efforts. And 2017 they finally delivered. AMD didn't actually turn a profit until late 2017.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/02/05/amd-turns-its-firs...

Between 2011 and mid-2017, AMD was losing money every quarter. There's a reason why the stock was below $2/share for a long time.
> this is not some student's first approach at modern web technologies, its fucking YouTube from google

It's sad that Google is revered by the developer community as a role model for software engineering because their frontend web work has—at least for the last ~10+ years—always been terrible and a really great example of worst practice.

Gmail's early HTML version is possibly the last faded memory of a quality frontend product coming from Google. Everything they've created since the advent of GWT has been aggressively anti-user and anti-interop. Gmail took a long time to get full browser support and a longer time to play will with back buttons, etc.—meanwhile the Gmail interface has slowed and bloated with each iteration; the latest bordering on unusability on my very new midrange laptop. Wave never worked in anything but Chrome, the same is true of the early iterations of most of their large newly released products over the years. The Google homepage provides a totally inconsistent experience across browsers—on mobile I see three different results views in three different browsers, two are Blink-based! Why doesn't search by image work on mobile? We're thankfully no longer lumped with the distaster desktop experience the was Google Instant Search.

Similarly, Microsoft and Apple don't have great histories here. When looking for good development practices, you should always look at the example set by companies that need to compete. Monopolies don't need usability.
I kind of think this is more impressive for Apple Music. Spotify had a massive head start on streaming music, they basically invented the model that everyone uses now.

If I worked at Apple and knew that I had half the subs of Spotify I'd be very pleased with myself.
Wow! How did they attempt to justify this?
They closed our small, remote office of 20 people. Work going overseas to the (now) main development office in eastern Europe, where salaries are 1/3 of ours (not even SV wages).

Ended up getting paid more at a new company, so it worked out.
Yep, my 80yo mom can't get enough of it. It's funny, because 15 years ago she poo-pooed it and didn't see why she'd need a computer or the internet.
Because it reduced me to little more than an annoying telemarketer, and even though I had a hunch that this would be the sad truth of the role before I started, I had to see for myself.

I decided to try it because money. Because even though my previous job was perfectly fine, I remain emotionally detached from all employers and coworkers, reducing the situation to a paycheck. One paycheck versus another, so I quit two jobs.

One perfectly reasonable job, in exchange for what I suspected might be a demotion to a telemarketer, and when proven right, I quit the second job, despite the better pay.

Wow. Gee. Oh well.
Learn Vanilla JavaScript Before JavaScript Frameworks
>Comparing bar heights with large dynamic range requires vanishingly small bars

True. It is nice that the smallest parts don't have to all appear as similarly tiny slivers.

Comparing areas, though, is not a strength of human perception. It would be interesting to test a population of users, given a Voronoi diagram, to estimate the apparent percentage of each area.

And it is instructive that in the paper they still resort to a second, zoomed-in view that breaks down the smallest subsets. You'd want to do the same no matter the representation.
Coming from someone who just quit his job (2 days ago):
I was tired of false promises by my new employer. I already worked for several years at my current job, ready to quit when a new investor and CEO came in. Based on the promises I stayed. There would be heavy investments made in our Dev team, but in the end my team only shrunk because of
the lack of improvements to IT and the missing feeling for IT by the CEO (of an only online selling company). Due to the shrinkage our team was also only doing maintenance instead of creating real new products.

In the last couple of months the company was also bought by a bigger international player. Good for the company, but bad for the IT as this bigger player already has loads of dev teams in several other countries.

This was the final push I needed to quit. Fed up with the false promises and the bad outlook for my team I finally found a much better job. A decision I should have taken earlier.
You should read Kazuo Inamori, he was not even being paid on time and still worked hard... really inspiring dude.
Equating 20 years of open standards development to a proprietary extension will never add up in my book. If that's pedantry then so be it.
In the days of incandescents I'd pay more for a bulb that burned hotter for a higher CCT (3500k or above), even at the expense of lifetime.
If a doctor is sued for malpractice, that means they made a mistake. If they are performing extra tests to avoid malpractice, that means they are performing extra tests to avoid making mistakes. That is a good thing.
I used to love Flash games, and I was also watching the projects that tried to get .swf files to run in a Flash virtual machine emulated via something like Emscripten, but I feel like all those projects have died out :/
Humans of ML: Leanne Luce
EXACTLY! I wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17620197
Money, and the BS "oh we can't pay you more than this"... until I resigned and suddenly it was possible to pay me more. Too late then. Much, much too late.

When someone says "oooh, I can't find qualified people" I don't believe them. If you offer people 2x what they currently make to do a job that isn't bad then you'll get them. If you don't want to offer that then you are offering to underpay them, and that's why they won't come.

You don't have to hire underskilled people and train them[1]. You can just pay. Conversely, if you don't pay them, they'll leave. (well, some will stay to be exploited, sure)

</rant>

[1] E.g. I disagree with https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1021960484738629632
and https://caylent.com/sre-vs-devops/?utm_source=social&utm_med...
Yes I can do that -- it's a platform for building software modules that can be added to any website or web app. Right now it does most of the popular build steps automatically (Babel, SCSS, Handlebars) so developers can just focus on actual code.

We have an open source library of ready-to-use modules that can be forked/tweaked or used as is.

It's called Anymod https://anymod.com. Hoping we can become something useful for developers.
If the outcomes of a vote are different than what your political party wanted -- just nullify the vote explaining it was manipulated. Screw trying to figure out why. It is dictatorship 101.
That sounds awful. I'm so glad she came through. Thanks for the note about ritux. Honestly, the neurologist we're dealing with hasn't had a lot of cases like this, so any more info we can get is helpful. It's been interesting to be in a position where I've become much more familiar with the literature than almost every doctor I speak with.

Although we're still in the thick of it, I also want to find ways to help others and have a few ideas. An email address (anonymous on HN) is in my profile if you'd be up for connecting.
Sure. "Falsely" :-)
Right, but the point is that particular sub would be shouting it from the rooftops regardless of the underlying truth.

I think most would look at the situation and conclude that even broken clocks are right twice a day.
>Let's say I have a customer who pays me, and I pay a bunch of employees or contractors who helped me deliver services to that customer, keeping some profit for myself. Does that have no economic value? Because that's what mining pools do.

Again we're really getting hung up on the term 'economic.' Okay you're the pool, you receive 50 BTC and you pay 45 of that out to miners. Have we transacted 95 BTC or 50 BTC? Is the 'economic value' of our transaction 50 or 95? The best thing is it doesn't even matter what you answer because what's best for everyone is if we know both numbers. Right now all parties interested in BTC can see is the 95. But if I'm investing in BTC I don't care about the 95, I care about the 50 because 50 tells me how much BTC actually changed hands here. And this firm is just trying to find all the double counting and completely fake transactions and remove them from our number.

>There is no order book on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. The order books are on web based exchanges

I mean yeah? I don't understand what difference you're trying to draw here.

>yeah, there's a lot of fake trading

>It's just shifting balances in some centralized database.

Exactly and it's the same way in a mining pool as per the above example. 45 BTC is getting counted twice because we shifted it twice.
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It depends on the type of card issued/use case, but prepaid cards issued through Stripe Issuing would still have that same challenge :-( We agree it's a pretty sub-optimal user experience.

(That said, given many of these businesses may be on Stripe, we should have more ability to work with them to improve the experience for customers...)
I assume we just need to find rotating black holes and big mirrors.
I hope the specialist didn't get a kickback from the imaging company
I quit all my previous jobs (maybe one exception) because of a very bad Manager. These managers are extremely hurtful for companies and I believe upper management does not get the same side of the story. Surprisingly, I always get along with senior managers over direct managers. If people want to improve the tech industry in general from an employer perspective, I'd start by cleaning that 1st layer of management pretty hard.
I assume that's the point?
This is a good explanation. We are saying we give the function x and y, but we can't guarantee that z comes out EVEN if we control for everything we are aware of. Thank you.

Still, I don't understand any of this even vaguely past the platitudes.
As an American, this is definitely what it looks like to me.
It can also be a very expensive thing. Extra tests are unnecessary, hence why they are “extra”
Ah yeah I forgot to mention screeps which is awesome!
You're right, but I think hindsight is 20/20. This was one of the events that let us know to be much more skeptical of government intelligence and military claims.
CSS doesn’t allow selectors to begin with a number. We may add a warning or a workaround for this though!
I was working for a medical instruments company. We were FDA regulated, of course, and had fallen afoul of them in an audit. We were having to remediate our system, and to increase the rigor of our procedures. The result was that my job became 90% paperwork. For a software engineer, that's a horrible existence. I put up with it for three years, and finally left.

Note well: I'm not saying the FDA was wrong. The steps they took were probably needed. I just didn't like working in the resulting environment.
The Elite Fixation with Russiagate
Wow, quite a few of these are very xenophobic. Very much playing off of an anti Middle East sentiment.

I'd specifically like to highlight these ads in this document: https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu....

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