skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you running a business fleet of machines and still relying on offline edge storage? Employees should be working directly out of networked storage, only needing an offline cache for the rare unconnected circumstance e.g. flight without WiFi. How many employees do you really have who a) worked on a flight AND b) broke their machine at the end of a flight, before they could sync, AND c) it would take less time to recover the data from a machine with better maintainability (remember: you don't know where the changes are to be found, and your employee doesn't remember) than it would to re-write from the last networked save?

For any non-trivially large fleet, you should a) be wiping the disk on a frequent basis so that users don't save work locally, b) have replacement "cattle" machines ready to go whenever an employee comes into the shop, rather than fixing the employee's "pet" machine and having the employee wait for the fix. It may be more expensive to run a Surface fleet, for the reasons you mention, but that doesn't mean it's not a business-class machine, it means that maybe Surface economics don't work out for your company.
It doesnt make sense to require the manufacturer to repair it, but the law could/should demand qualifications of the mechanic
An article by the inventor:

https://www.robcrimmins.com/home/engineering/the-cyclocrane/
I think one of the saddest parts of the ad-model now is the lack of money making brands essentially ship off their sales departments to the programmatic companies - if they went back to a genuine, intent based, direct sales approach for advertising it wouldn't be as much of a shit show.

With newspapers, the news is backed up by the ad opportunities on the lifestyle content. After I'm done browsing the headlines, I can then go to the holiday section, and I'm getting holiday ads (which actually might be helpful), if I'm browsing the food section, I'm getting supermarket offers (which might also be helpful).

Browsing a modern news site, I might be reading an article on the latest terrorist massacre, but be being served ads for hats. It's this requirement to break someone's focus that's turned ads into such an interruptive medium. Tracking can be helpful, but without knowing the context the ad is being served in, the incentive is to be as invasive as possible.

It's why content marketing seemingly works - the "ad" (subscribe, join now CTAs within the articles) feels natural because it's complimentary to the content you're reading, not trying to fight it.

I'm not sure if it'll be them, but organisations like Buzzfeed or if NYT integrates Wirecutter more, might be on to the right model. Lifestyle content with intent based ads around them (with a higher CPM due to, assuming, a higher conversion rate), that supports the hard news side.
I don't think Windows EULA apply to you even if you buy a new one. You didn't sign anything. In fact, maybe it was your friend helping you to setup your computer that pressed "accept".
For some background on pilot waves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory.

Also from the same source, a couple years back: https://www.quantamagazine.org/pilot-wave-theory-gains-exper...
this is getting even bigger: 421K+ routers compromised - https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1050533001824595968
There were only 180 or so registrations so the chances were quite good assuming people were of roughly equal skill and inclination.

The problem was deciding whether there really was the correct private key encoded in the picture.

I mean how do you ensure that this is not a wild goose chase?

It would be roughly analogous to an anonymous millionaire showing a pot of gold on TV (with respectable jewelers certifying that it really is gold) and then saying it will be buried somewhere in Arizona desert, here's the puzzle with the location.

(I believe there are some real life treasure hunts still ongoing based on the above premise)

In this case what stopped me from even trying were the discrepancy in the amounts. 0.1BTC and 0.2 BTC and 0.31BTC seemed like reasonable amounts and then the sudden jump to 310 BTC seemed unreal.

Yes the guy had the private key to 310BTC but was it in the picture? In fact, how do we know that 'Marc' is not someone affiliated with him/her?
No worries. Thanks for highlighting WSL - whitespace separated literals. The world needs more of this. Keep it up.
That's a lot of assumptions. It's a 2944 x 1912 px greyscale image. The real search space is 256^(2944*1912), which is more than the number of atoms in the observable universe. A lot more.

EDIT: it's actually not even greyscale, and there's an alpha channel, so it's even worse.
It's traditional for the super-rich to buy newspapers and run them at a loss to advance their pet political causes; give favourable coverage to their friends and business interests; and flatter them by including them in celebrity coverage.

This tradition is literally older than America.
This is why I’ll stick to old cars for as long as possible
I'm still convinced this is an alien probe. I mean look at that trajectory. 0.163 AU from Earth - what are the odds? The spinning is irrelevant surely - I mean, it's all relative, so as far as ’Oumuamua is concerned, we're spinning. Maybe it was spinning that way to stay aligned with a distant companion for communication.
The telemetry will tell. Rockets send back heaps of data from dozens, if not hundreds of sensors. All that is stored precisely so there's no guesswork based on a ground camera and the real-time audio needed.
No, they play it with a choir.
The problem is that newspapers are leaving money on the table. I'd sign up for a Netflix style subscription service that offers me access to a broad range of media. I have a Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Spotify subscriptions as I'm sure many here do. That's good value for money. Netflix is making way more than I ever spent on dvds & cinema visits combined. Same for Spotify.

As it is, all I have is paywalled niche news sites each thinking they can charge similar fees for very limited access to just they tiny corner of the market. I'm not going to pay per article. I haven't bought a news paper in years. I get all my news through ad sponsored crappy websites. Because they are so offensively bad, I have adblocking, tracking prevention, and other extensions trying to limit my exposure. Works great for me

So, that's money not spent by me or millions of other users that news papers are neglecting to make.
Why did Apple share this? Is it a legal requirement?
That's awesome! Personally, I don't use data.table much/at all, so (selfishly) that's not an issue for me.
> A specification doesn't always have to be complicated, that's the point.

That's right, but your "specification" was not even enough for writing a CSV 1.1 file. For example I have mentioned a front matter issue---there is no example using it, and I'm deeply confused how the front matter looks like (or even where it is). I'm seeing numeric units there, but I don't know how they are handled (or, say, what happens if different units like m² are there) from your page.

I'm not saying I'm a good specification writer (and I'm not even a native speaker of English), but I at least try. I have once written an informal specification [1] which should be almost enough to write valid files and start implementing parsers, without being too complicated. You can avoid a complicated specification without being too vague.

> For inspiration, here's an example from your humble self - https://github.com/csv11/csvreader

That's frankly much better (in terms of explicitness) than the front page, why not linking to it? :-)

But I believe that it is still not sufficient. Rather, I'm now unsure about the goal of your project: is it a set of Ruby libraries with fancy, modern but incompatible (by itself) CSV extensions? Or is it hopefully going to be a universally used format? If your intention was the former, then your front page should have been clear about it---it is not about a format but about a library. And if you are going to have a format, then my suggestions hold.

[1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/cson (with a bit of formal materials, just for the clarity)
Does anyone have a clue how this could glue together with YARN[1] and/or TonY [2] from LinkedIn?

[1] https://hortonworks.com/blog/gpus-support-in-apache-hadoop-3...

[2] https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/09/open-sourcing-...
> cookie consent (10x worse since GDPR)

Traveling to different countries makes cookie consent an amazingly broken thing. Every website needs an "ok" button clicked every time you arrive in a new place.

How did we get here? Did people vote for this?
This is a very interesting software. In research community still many results are only in pdf tables in papers, so obtaining them in dataframe is very useful, good job!. By the way, I would like export also in Excel files in the command line.
This is a great move. Journalists are finally regaining our trust in a western world that really needs somebody to hold other institutions accountable.

https://www.edelman.com/trust-barometer
Yep. The python support is starting to get pretty decent as well. I much prefer Rmarkdown for R and python (or both at the same time!) for e.g.
I wonder if you could create a service like Netflix or Spotify for Newspaper articles?
Where the newspaper/journal get a fee for publishing through the service and the users get ad free access to the articles.
This would only be successful if you could get almost all publications in though.
If you break China down to provinces then you must include Taiwan to the list ;)
There is recent research on photons (rather than bouncing oil droplets) that backs up the Bohmian interpretation. "Experimental nonlocal and surreal Bohmian trajectories" http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466

I am not sure if the different QM interpretations are only a matter of taste in terms of all predictions. These surreal trajectories are seen as nonsense under the Copenhagen interpretation.
Apparently it "ensures artists receive the compensation they are owed, encourages fair industry competition, and protects the intellectual property rights of studios nationwide—among other benefits."[0] However, I find it difficult to find anything about how this is actually implemented. Apart from this: "t changes the procedure by which millions of songs are made available for streaming on these services and limits the liability a service can incur if it adheres to the new process. It funds the creation of a comprehensive database with buy in from all the major publishers and digital service providers." [1] Which to me sounds very vague.

Found this also. "The MMA is a bill to be added to legislation with the goal of establishing a new collecting society, called the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), that would be empowered to provide a blanket license for streaming services to companies, covering mechanical rights in any songs not otherwise covered by a digital company’s direct deals with music publishers."[2] So if I interpret this quote correctly, it basically means that there's going to be some sort of organisation chaperoning artist and music makers without a license to their music, collecting a license fee from streaming services and paying it to said musicians and music makers?

[0]https://mashable.com/article/music-modernization-act-your-mo...

[1] https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8216857/music-mo...

[2]https://blog.songtrust.com/what-is-the-music-modernization-a...
This is for the products sold, not data centers.
I'll ask what everyone is thinking but won't say. If the acceleration is in fact being caused by artificial thrusters, what kind of thruster configuration can produce prograde acceleration while maintaining the observed tumble? And why would someone engineer this configuration?
Ask HN: Easy introduction to Bayesian Statistics?
Looking for an easy and quick introduction to Bayesian statistics.

It needs to be brief and very easy to understand. Kruschke's book is just far too big, as is Gelman's.

Also any similarly brief and easy-to-understand resources on Bayesian Optimization would be very helpful as well.
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Slightly off-topic - There Chemistry in its Element podcast is a good listen. 15 mins every week talking about a different compound/element: https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts
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I came across this on /r/webdev [1] and thought HN may find it informative and discussion worthy.

This is related, I believe, to logging in to Gmail et al now logs you into Chrome the browser at the same time. I'm unsure if there is a flag to override this behaviour.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/9iqtsf/chrome_69_wi...
Oh so both Apple and Amazon stopped doing business with Supermicro the year nothing happened, then.

OK.
There is a sister dead comment saying 'selection bias' but in some ways this is the opposite. We have a sample of ex FAANG developers who went on and did quite ordinary things, they didn't become Elon Musk, or start an AirBnb. Which is fine.
Imo, the most effective part of gdpr is the self disclosure stuff. Transparency has already improved and pressure to avoid disclosable leaks has gone up.

Idk that fines would help that much. I would just double down on the disclosure part. Improved policing of nondisclosure (with penalties).
WP reader should then write down a simple letter, perhaps a paper one, to the journal saying that they pay for a journal not for feed a company milking data from then. A simple claim: "I'm a Citizen, not a (paying) lemon to be squeezed".

A simple cease and desist invite.
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Hi looks like you've been shadow banned as this comment was dead, and your previous comments look OK (nothing spammy) so not sure what happened there but thought I would let you know.
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Business sales in the UK are usually 'as a going concern' where the new owner takes the responsibility. House of Fraser was specifically bought differently, making it notable.
Ask HN: Books for a journeyman developer?
Early in my career, I found a number of books framing software development as a craft to be honed to be highly valuable in terms of motivation, both in terms of big picture career development and daily work.

5 years in, and I find myself in a leadership position at a startup, largely bored and perhaps a little burnt out, and looking to rekindle my early enthusiasm somewhat.

What books do people recommend for a journeyman developer? What have you read in your career that got you excited to go to work do the drudgery better and better and make things?
’Oumuamua, I’ve come to bargain!
I went through tour history and you sound like a person who considered all sides of argument. Please don't mind the downbotes, people here aren't open to opinion that shatters their reality
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Small nit - 2016*

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got...
Agreed. Every Astronaut and Cosmonaut is well aware of the safety (danger?) statistics and yet there is still a wait list.
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The "cheats" are 1879 bytes of table data stored in the bios image :-).

If you liked this, I also suggest take a look at Christopher Mills entry from 2018, which is a PDP-7 emulator, which doesn't use the BIOS tables trick.

http://www.ioccc.org/2018/mills/hint.html

[disclaimer: I am an IOCCC Judge]
I travel quite frequently between the EU and the US and occasionally elsewhere - I've never seen a new OK button when I arrive in a new location. Can you provide an example of this?
Is this basically to do with the fact that you know how likely it is to see a boy given any of the combinations? So there's a 33% chance that there are two boys and you see a boy, a 33% chance that there's a boy and girl and you see a boy, and a 33% chance that there's a boy and a girl and you see a girl. Given that you've seen the boy you've eliminated one of the outcomes so the other two outcomes are equally likely?
Based on the comments in this thread, I'm sure this will soon be an episode of 'Ancient Aliens' on the "History" Channel. If it isn't already.
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> I can't seriously imagine Newton saying ..

But he did. He called it Gravity.

He didn't let figuring out "how gravity works" hold him back. He just figured out the equations that predict its effects based on observation. The unknowns happened to conveniently coalesce around a single constant G, but that doesn't make them "known".

[IANAP - do we have any convincing popularly accessible models for how gravity works even today?]

Anyway, that's kind of similar to going "oh I don't understand the subatomic mechanism that is causing this interference pattern, but the pattern itself is consistent so lets call that P!".

Unless I completely sped past the point you were trying to make - which is completely possible at this subatomic level of reasoning (-:
> Alkaline AA batteries are one of the most common battery types [...]

Is this really true anymore? I use almost exclusively rechargeable batteries (NiMH & Li-ion & LiFePO4) our my household. Only very low power devices such as clocks run on alkaline batteries.
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I'm going to exploit this comment which is at the top of the thread and stands above another comment that argues against government regulation in software industry to tell you guys this: hopefully this industry will be regulated from top to bottom before too long. GDPR came, hopefully more will come, w.r.t. security, privacy, and even UX standards (e.g. all companies should be required to accomodate all sorts of disabled people, probably by allowing assistive tech in browser to work properly on their websites).

You guys will not and want not to fix the status quo where shitty software is pushed onto us. You guys will not stop implementing unethical, "agressive" software. So someone should be watching over you, entrepreneurs and devs, and that someone is the government.

Government regulation need not be perfect. But it needs be there. That means companies will be more incentivised to keep their shit together. Surely your bank would be doing worse if nobody was watching over. If more budget and worktime is devoted to such regulation, it will become better.

I understand that no regulation is a strong political position in the US, but I call bullshit on it. I wouldn't bother writing as I'm mostly at the user side of things these days but I wanted to write this given most of you are devs here. It is not about some silly social network or an irrelevant SaaS anymore. The world runs on this, software is as important as medicine and food to our livelihood, and the software industry needs to be regulated like medicine or food industries are. Something simple like Twitter and Facebook affects lives of the masses. You'll have to get your... act together.
What’s special about 0.163 AU? Does it have a mathematical significance?
Parental or familial surveillance isn't the reason at all.

I'm in SE Asia right now, in a country where Facebook Zero makes it available to everyone regardless of income, and guess what? Not only does everybody have a Facebook account, many women have at least three: one for friends, one for family, and one that is anonymous to hide their activity from their friends and family.

I know it's against Facebook's TOS, but it's so easy to create a pseudonymous username. So it's the same for American teenage kids: they just create a new account with a fake name. If they are abandoning Facebook it's because they like Instagram or Snapchat more, not because their parents are on Facebook.
"A ton of money". It cost him 4 bucks of peroxide he'll never use.
Two more of them, and I'd say you have an excellent case.
It's too bad we're not ready to launch probes to visit and explore such transient objects at a moment's notice.
Any country that have an official religion, any country that is not a democracy with simple and well known rules for voting like Swiss is not a free country but a strong or light dictatorship and people inside it should know that and decide what to do for themself and their future generation.
Thank you for this clear explanation. It is confusing!
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Does anyone else find Amazon Fresh put them off from purchasing? I go on Amazon, see £2 for a product, then find out it's Amazon's stupid subscription service and then I literally can't buy that product from Amazon because.... all the ones I can actually buy are demonstrably overpriced!
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Wouldn't it be easier and more generic to have an OCR solution for this task?
But didn't we (HN users) asked a lot for publishing of negative results?
> Government regulation? They can't keep themselves secure

Wouldn't this be akin to say "Criminal laws ? the cops can't even police themselves!".
It can be true, and you'd still need a framework to define the wanted behaviour anyway. Enforcing the standard is a important and separate issue.
AU stands for Astronomical unit, and it's used for measuring distances in space smaller than light-years. 1 AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun. 0.163 AU tells you how close it came to earth.
This made me smile:

> percollate html	Not implemented yet
As the Wikipedia article you linked to points out 96% of China's population lives east of that line, it would be really odd if most of Apple's suppliers weren't also east of the line.
If one were so inclined, they could argue that the spinning is in fact very relevant, as it would allow a static camera or other observation device a full 360° view along all axes.
Buying a yacht does subtract from a high end talent pool. It requires talented people to design and build a yacht.
A paradigm shift. How it was: "make the chip, sell it later." How it is now: "sell the chip first, find out how to make it later if you did."

Companies now trust marketing/sales boys to know the market better than the very people who made that industry.

In sixties, a CEO comes to an engineer and asks what will be the "next bug thing" in one year term.

Today, a CEO comes to an engineer and tells him what will be the "next bug thing" in one year term.
Any "big" try to offer "emails alternative" simply because emails are free, interoperable and decentralized, something IT's bigs do really dislike. They want control and they want people live on their platform not on their own world.

That's why we do not have any modern MUA for non techies, that's why there is a big push to web-crap stuff. That's why there is a big push toward centralization instead of cooperation and "power/responsibility division".

People today do not even realize that we are in process to became new illiterate, even loosing writing (on keyboard eh!) ability in favor of audio/video contents, the new "oral system".
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> since buying a yacht doesn't subtract from the high end talent pool

What about all of those highly skilled technicians and engineers who dedicate years to building said yacht who aren't building rockets or faster trains for us all or designing better schools? Etc, etc...

Any argument rooted in "these other people should do X instead of Y because I think X is more important and want to see them do it" fails from inherent selfishness.

Whether X is indeed better than Y is moot.
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