skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just this - hope it works for you! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-backgrou...
Sure. Call it whatever you'd like. It helps me sleep.
Can I have a tl;dr on what's good about Monsanto?

Also for point 4, do you think it's unethical for doctors to have faith that a patient can persevere through a completely conquerable challenge? Is it kind of like underprescribing for someone who is in pain? I guess in that way I can kind of see what you're getting at.
Thanks!

We've got all of our data going back years in AWS Athena, we're just waiting to have time to do something fun with it.
Sent an email, cheers!
I have a hunch that space engineers have suddently invented Huffman coding.

(Which leads to a general observation of "just throw in transparent compression instead of optimizing your data format")

EDIT: s/encryption/compression/
Yes, unless they're installing a direct fiber line, which usually costs at least $1,000 a month with a 5 year contract plus possible installation costs for 100mb+ up/down, you're just getting the same crap everyone else is. And you have to dig around to find the right person to talk to, they don't even advertise it unless you're a decent size business.
I don't think you can quite equate "monitoring of company email usage" with "no rights at a workplace;" also "stating a fact" is not the same as "assuming," it's not even the same as "advocating for" or "liking."

I doubt there exists a company anywhere that's not monitoring email at least for spam and viruses.

There's certain times where it's not only acceptable but actually required to "violate employee's privacy" by searching their personal possessions - think airline employees, prison employees, etc.

Most companies will have some sort of auditing software on their critical servers to detect (and report) both unauthorized access but also unauthorized activity. I seriously doubt this is illegal in Europe. It's very difficult to take serious the position "my boss shouldn't know I logged into the production server and downloaded the whole database because 'I have privacy.'"
I've actually seen many many job postings looking for people with a PhD in Data Science which is truly mindblowing because there are only 2-3 such programs in the Country and most of them just started so none of their students are even on the job market yet.
This wasn't the "natural light" I was expecting. I thought this was going to be about a office with free cheap beer.

I know of a few workplaces in the US that do feature free alcohol at work, but many times out of 10 someone gets way too drunk and ruins the fun for everyone.
Pardon my ignorance but what are the issues as to why something like what Theranos was proposing was so difficult?

Is it that the underlying tech is too hard or is there some basic engineering that doesn’t exist yet?

(Ignoring the fact they didn’t have a real solution / the whole thing was a scam etc)
It can share the CPU's RAM chip without being able to read from (the rest of) it, because of the IOMMU.
And is it accurate to describe IE < 10 as "more modern"?
I will never work in an open plan building again. It left me absolutely brain dead and begging the clock to go faster because I couldn't think at work anyway.
Tech Tudor: Managing Digital Privacy in the Digital World
Doubling down on this mean either Elon has finally gone completely nuts, or that he has some kind of new-found evidence to support that claim (it's slander if not).
I can't imagine any other reason. Really am hoping it's the 2nd option here, as I am hating seeing the downward spiral (at least PR wise) that Elon is currently located in.
Which text was this?
Of course. But the attack mentioned above looks to have simply targeted the default port. Ideally : use a non-default port, and source-IP-based firewalling, and keep firmware up to date.
I used to think more laws would be the answer to so many enviromental issues, surpassing the effects of individual choice. But the habitat loss described in this article is mainly attributed to illegal logging, which means personal greed drives up the price on the black market for things such as rare animal and plant species and exotic woods. Maybe the penalties for contraband aren't high enough? Or maybe we should completely block the import of rainforest species of wood, regardless of whether it was legally harvested. Outside of a massive armed defense from illegal loggers, what can stop them?
This behaviour really reminds me of someone I know with an addition to nitrous oxide bulbs. Super smart and successful. On these bulbs they turn into an idiot sending stupid texts that fuck their life and create all sorts of problems. It's really strange thing to see and aligned to how musk is behaving.

It's against logic Musk would keep publicly promoting this angle whether he believes it or not. If he really had an axe to grind, he could use his significant resources to dig dirt in the guy and give it to the press. Something else seems up with this ongoing rant.
Ah, I see that the techcrunch article actually says different things than its own source[0].

Nowhere do I see in the source that "local content" is determined per country instead of EU-wide. It also says that Netflix is already close to 30%.

Also, 833 movies is more than what is available in most of Europe, already (but I'm not sure about Luxembourg specifically, obviously it's an outlier).

[0]https://variety.com/2018/film/news/netflix-amazon-local-prod...
>Who are you addressing? Some of us are currently in the EU.

The one country largely responsible for the invention of the internet.
Diverted-Profits Tax (aka The "Google Tax")
For a movie that hews startlingly close to that narrative, check out "The Informant!" starring Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh. I'm also not surprised Lawrence would be drawn to the role, it seems in line with what she does well: strong female characters. They're not always likable characters (for example, in "American Hustle"), and it also shouldn't be a surprise when an actor expands into different kinds of roles.
Meanwhile this video has the guy Musk is accusing calling Musks submarine a PR stunt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TmjpIkVDrU - perhaps that's where he got under Musks skin?
If "Web 2.0" was already coined, can you really coin something so derivative as "Web 3.0"?
Well, TechCrunch says "made in each EU country where a service is provided"... but every single other report about this, including the Variety article that TechCrunch linked to and is simply repeating, says differently.

https://advanced-television.com/2018/04/27/svods-set-for-eu-...
> at least 30 per cent share of European content.

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/eu-council-raises-eu-conten...
> to buy European content for the European market

https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2018/04/27/eu-bodies-agree-3...
> a quota of 30% for European works on their platforms

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/26/eu-third-...
> will have to dedicate 30% of their output to TV shows and films made in Europe

etc, etc.

Unless TechCrunch has some new inside information, this article is wrong. And given that it's TechCrunch... it's probably wrong.
I have never understood how it is fair or open that a few providers are allowed to hold the rest of the Internet hostage because they are popular. Why should downloading a random file be throttled because people like to watch YouTube in 4k on their phone? It seem reasonable that someone should pay extra for that, whether that is Google or the consumer. Unfortunately the Internet is very messy and manual, so the current solution is lacking but that doesn't mean that the problem isn't real.
If you read the book, you'll find that her parents were never especially wealthy. Her extended family was wealthy at one point, but she grew up in a solidly middle-class lifestyle. Her father worked for NGOs and non-profits. They had good connections, but didn't seem to have a lot of money. One of the conflicts that Holmes had to deal with came from her father's envy of a neighbor and friend who truly was wealthy.
We've used Nextravel[0] for this. It's a great compromise between running travel in-house and solutions designed for larger companies like Concur.

0: https://www.nextravel.com/
#2 : a door.
> if you give them 6-12 months to interact with different teams and identify relevant business problems...

I fully agree with your points BUT 6-12 months of self-directed, open-ended discovery just ain't gonna happen. This isn't the era of Bell-Labs, this is the era of PMP-certified project managers. In many places the "data scientist" will be dropped into a project and expected to start producing "deliverables", outcomes will be a mixed bag.

A more organic approach would be for teams to start picking up tools and skills for basic data analysis. We used to call it "stats". Doesn't have to be cutting-edge ML stuff to provide value and new opportunities for the practitioners. Of course whatever they start doing, HR and management will pump it up: mining a few hundred megs of csv files all of sudden will get called "big data".

Something similar happened ~10 years ago with the advent of "BI" (Business Intelligence). It was nothing more than folks realizing that their corporate databases have useful stuff in them and they could query them in an ad-hoc fashion _outside_ of the applications that typically use them to provide "business value".
there is a pharo mooc http://mooc.pharo.org/

I took it some few years ago, it was great to get a feel of the lifestyle, and ST deserves all the praises. It's tangible dynamic visual repl, the object system is sensible and human (unlike java). They have creative and interesting ways to make software (the web engine felt super low on boilerplate).
Wouldn't that be #0 ?
I love the geocities feel :-). I'm not expecting Web 3.0 to look any different from the Web we know today. Instead it will be a Web that respects user's privacy and at the same time a Web that is more cost efficient for large companies who want cut their hosting costs and stop forking over heaps of cash to their competitors (Amazon, Google).
>[...] We see wealth, power and influence placed in the hands of the greedy, the megalomaniacs, or the plain malicious. [...] the same old dynamics.

Insanity is running the same program over and over again and expecting different results. You can tweak the configs a bit and change the running environment; but until we start editing the sourcecode (our DNA) you may expect the crooked wood of humankind to always act like humans always have.
Ah, Ethereum.

Web 1.0's idealism was focused on liberal, unilateral sharing of information. People just put things up without any real commercialisation, until the dotcom era of the very late 90s. Not all the internet was the web: there was a decentralised censorship-resistant messageboard system known as USENET, and people tended to access email with local clients.

Web 2.0 was the commercialisation and polishing of the above; everything became a web app. The downside of this was everything being infested by advertising.

Web 3.0 likes to claim it's a return to 1.0 ideals of information-sharing, but if it's built on cryptocurrency it will inherit its flaws: appalling waste of energy, fundamental capacity limitations, and a tendency to collapse in fraud.
Then I’m just the whiny asshole or primadonna or something. It’s not possible to have these preferences treated in an adult way in modern corporations, and anyone the issue got escalated to will just see it as whining.

You have to keep your head down and act like it’s Candide: whatever your company currently does is the best possible thing they could ever do.
I don't seriously suggest that anyone not brush her teeth. However, it's a fact that many people don't take care of their teeth for decades before suffering the consequences. If one lost one tooth every three years, one would probably improve one's oral care. However, with periodontal problems, the teeth often hang on for a really long time, before all failing at pretty much the same time.

Since lots of people don't take care of their teeth even though they know they should, some people will avoid all sunlight.
"It was over four years ago that I coined the term “Web 3.0.”"

Pay heed, as today I the great Numberwang coin the term "Web 4.0"
> so they can RE it, write and use an open replacement

Crypting and signing is trivial, so nobody is going to RE Intel ME or microcode updates.
We don't currently live on Mars and don't have the ability to do so yet. At some point in the distant future we might be able to, but we could easily fail to get there by killing ourselves off before then.

The problem is increasing risks. As you reduce biological diversity you decrease stability. We have already gone though two banana strains due focusing on small number of varieties. So, you might think humanity could survive with say a handful of plant species for example, but that starts the countdown to zero which will kill us off.
Yeah but I think it's the type of users creating the webpages. They sloppily throw together some HTML & CSS and it leads to this dated Geocities look and feel. (No jQuery powered single page application which hogs memory and heats up your CPU)
Maybe not being obvious enough. My example of my experience with a well-known-but-not-by-me dead rock star, is extendible to a not-well-known-outside-a-certain-circle programmer. Because some actions in life are very much more visible to the outsider with no appreciation/knowledge of the finer accomplishments
> when people were trying to do something else, and had to invent new tools.

(Author here.) My point was not that you shouldn't invent tools if you need them. By all means, go ahead. My heart beats for creating tools (especially tools to create other tools...).

What I wanted to express was this: if you want to write _a book_, first write the book and only then worry about the tools. If you then notice that you need a custom toolchain to get the book in exactly the shape you need it to be, do it.

I've had people tell me that they would love to write a book, but, well, the existing tools are not sufficient enough. And I think that's the wrong approach to writing a book: write something and you'll quickly realize that the tooling is not your biggest hurdle.
10 YEARS LATER – NO LESSONS LEARNED
Why is it increasingly difficult? Has something really changed in the past few years?
Who says Bitcoin isn't romantic? Meet romance’s most sizzling new subgenre
You cannot see the difference between two acquaintances exchanging goods and a merchant loading his pack, traveling long distances to make profit from trade?

It is the same as between a spat and a war; gathering in a forest and farming. It is in scale and in character, a different beast.
Burning Man: sympathy for the turnkey devil
Profiling UI Layouts in Android for Performance Improvements
Ask HN: What is a good source on the future of banking?
I am working as a VC analyst in Paris, recently with a big focus on Banking / Insurance.
As I am quite new to this sector, I am looking for any relevant documentation (book, reports...) on the banking sector (big trends, foreseen evolutions...). Would you have any recommandations ?

I know that there are plenty of documentation out there (chosing a good one can be challenging).

Thank you ! :)
Behavioral Design Patterns in Java
Well, I sandbox closed source apps by running them as a different user that doesn't have access to my $HOME.
People buy fitbits to track and record their stats.
I would REALLY love to see the browser usage statistics for HN :)
It's actually about 60% the speed of light because there's no vacuum in buried fiber.

But yes the rest of your point is accurate.
If I am a customer, and a person from France is a customer, and a person from Germany is a customer, and a person from Spain is a customer, how can they possibly satisfy that requirement?

30% from the UK, plus 30% from France, plus 30% from Germany, only leaves 10% left for Spain.

EDIT: Are they saying they only want French content to be available in France, and they only want German content available in Germany, etc.? That seems nonsensical.
I think there is a time in a programmer's life when writing tools to make yourself more effective is finally worth it.

For me, that time started about two years ago. At 31, a full 25 years since first learning how to program[0] I finally felt like I could be trusted to make the right calls on when to invest the time to abstract or create generation or code parsing tools; and when to do things the old fashion way.

After two years of spending about 20 to 40% of my time on tooling I'd wager I'm about 10x faster than I was at 30 and about 20x faster than I was at 25.

The problem now isn't writing the code. The problem now is that the code is so fast that I don't have the same amount of passive time to think about features / strategy. I have to intentionally set aside time for it and I find it unnatural. Also, I know too much about cybersecurity which is good for my end users, but bad for my feature productivity.

[0] Poorly. My mum taught me how to code QBASIC. I altered video games.
If they could make a 11" or larger e-ink display with a 24 Hz refresh rate, I'd buy it in an instant.
> Note that Microsoft actually DID violate user privacy by reading hosted emails when they thought it would help them catch a leaker.

So does Yahoo/Verizon/Oath (recent HN thread) for commercial reasons (data-harvesting, targeting, ads). Google did this too until 2016, apparently.
Note: automated, so probably not literally reading in person..
Laws are meaningless without enforcement. For now it's a simple tragedy of the commons with global benefit without global support. So, really what we can do is pay these countries to enforce the rules on the books and or create other incentives to protect these resources.
> Who is asking for the ability to decrypt? These people are making half or less what they could make in the private sector.

While I agree with your general point about not ascribing malign intent (at the very least, the misunderstanding about the security implications of weakening decryption seems primarily a case of Hanlon's Razor to me), but the "making half or less what they could make isn't convincing to me. There are those who'd happily sacrifice raw dollars for the power of being able to decrypt
I care because if companies can collect enough data to recognize patterns, and generalize those findings, it becomes everyone's problem. You don't think health insurance providers are dying to buy this data? Or drug manufacturers? You're being double sold and generalized.

For instance maybe insurance rates increase in a region showing a higher percentage of heart palpitations. I live there and now my rates increased even though I don't even own a bitfit.
Quite a few religious private schools were in fact created following desegregation in order to try to use the first amendment to get around the law. A foundational legacy that (in many ways) remains in play today, though (often) with a thin veneer of compliant paint.

http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Research/Race-Ethnicity...

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/repor...

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-11-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation_academy
Debian or Arch aren't too, in fact. https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html

So why the difference?
Microwave is great for latency, but the bandwidth sucks. When you need bandwidth & low latency, you need a more direct fiber link.
Take a particularly bad example: Gmail uses over 150MB of RAM, and achieves similar results to what FastMail does with 11MB. The main difference is that Gmail includes the Hangouts chat system—and indeed, last time I checked Hangouts was responsible for most of the megabytes downloaded, most of the time spent and most of the memory consumed. Suppose then we decide to let Hangouts off scot-free for its profligacy, calling it 50% of the footprint, and just focus on comparing the email part of the system.

Gmail is still using an estimated 80MB for what FastMail needs only 11MB for.

Where is this 80MB coming from? Is it caching 80MB of emails? I think not. You’ll be lucky if that 80MB corresponds to even half a megabyte of email.

Most high memory usage is not because it’s caching things so it can work fast. Most high memory usage is simply because the app is inefficient.
Really nice! The demos work like a charm in Chrome(but not in Firefox :( )
I did something similar during a cardiac stress test, with a Fitbit Versa. My best conclusion was that the Fitbit is at least +/-5 BPM off and it lagged behind the hospital equipment by roughly 15 seconds (judging by heart rate peaks).
This is amusing to me, because when I was at Pixar, many of the shader writers and lighting TDs wanted an internal office, where they could control exactly the amount and type of light in their workspace. Many had nearly pitch black offices, so they could better see subtle differences in changes to their lighting and shading code.
Also, presumably light has to travel farther in fiber because it's constantly bouncing off of walls vs. straight line travel?
How was the pita?
I'd like to see the new reddit vs the old reddit.
You can often improve your identifiers, but they should come pretty easy if you understand your task and the approach you're taking to it.

Nondescriptive "template names" (your "NewFeature1") are a huge red flag signaling unpreparedness.

While there is pressure to "just code it" that comes from methodologies like Agile or from just having an intense workload, the spontaneity should be happening in the context of professional expertise and good insight.

Do you have a sense of what algorithms are relevant? What traditional patterns? What data is being represented? What transforms are being applied? What libraries and services are being utilized? You don't need an 40 page architecture to start coding, but you'll usually have answers to all those questions somewhere in mind. And your identifiers should usually be pretty obvious when you do.
Using blockchain for a web database is a gigantic waste of bandwidth and money.

Ethereum flopped as it couldnt scale, and outside casino games, people dont care about decentralized verification.

My programming circle likes bitcoin but is totally against using blockchain for everything else.
I never actually understood the objection to having people who are putting a greater draw on the insurance system, pay more into it. People who have more accidents also pay higher car insurance premiums. Why shouldn't this be the case for health insurance?
>> Modern web apps are less about being performant and minimal, and more about dealing with the complexities of large software teams

If that's true, then the app will likely have what I call a "programmer's interface" (which is especially common in most enterprise web apps I encounter). Those apps might be solid from a code perspective, but don't tend to be very user friendly.

I tend to think that modern web apps are more about dealing with the complexities of balancing functionality with ease of use to the end user while still dealing with the complexities of large product teams, which include but are not limited to designers, UX experts and developers.
Securitization and Mass Detentions in Xinjiang
Announcing Styled-Components v4: Better, Faster, Stronger
You were just arguing that high rates of infant mortality made it crazy to think things were better. Now you're saying that the life of a medieval peasant, where infant mortality was 30-50%, wasn't any worse than the life of a modern tech worker?!
React for python developers
It might be the user base.