skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is BAT not just a money grab? It could've been done with cash. New blockchain tokens just create speculative hype and make the creator rich.

Also, how does blockchain help in its objective over any other solution beyond making the creator rich?
That would say more about the teenagers than about usage of plastic in the modern world.
How to create Snapshot Replication
I can run a kubernetes cluster, with 1000 of linux images, have them communicate with each other. Hot swap in and out nodes. Such a thing is not out of reach of common folks if you change your mental model of what a computer is. "The network is the computer"
The practice of law is an older field. When I hire a lawyer, I presume that they have sat for the bar, but my inquiry goes much deeper. If I need a contract reviewed, I try to ascertain if candidate lawyers have experience reviewing contracts, and look for recommendations for that service. If someone were to sue me, I would look for a lawyer who is experienced at litigation. In this case, a lawyers certification, which is the bar exam, is a known test for the knowledge of law, which is done after serious study.

Certifications such as the CISSP don't tell me as a hiring manager anything about a candidate's skill in the required areas. As a buyer of security services, a shop with CISSP services often has a negative correlation with quality of an application penetration test.
> So you're saying Google doesn't give a shit about its net profits?

Google obviously gives a shit about its net profits.

> So you're saying that Google's board weren't all hired with the express instruction to maximise earnings per share?

Board members aren't "hired", they're elected by the shareholders. They are not employees of the corporation (usually) and they do not have contracts with shareholders. Shareholders will, obviously, vote them out if company performance suffers.
One of the things I enjoy about this video that's usually missing in documentaries depicting battle-torn regions is it shows people smiling and engaging in healthy socialization. It demonstrates these are not just barbarians fighting over territory, but actual communities trying to establish their basic human rights.
JavaScript Language Proposals That Are Being Considered by TC39
Didn't Tumblr say, though, that they did use those resources but the content in question wasn't in the image fingerprint database?
I'm on 225mg/day venlafaxine and if I miss a single day i get severe brain zaps, dissociation, exhaustion, etc.. it's hell

Once I ran out and couldn't get a doctors appointment, so ended up going to the hospital and begging them for a packet because I know the withdrawal would just wreck me.
You pretty clearly neither reviewed an actual transcript like that, nor "reviewed the Kavanauh/Ford case in detail with feminists", which would be a hilarious statement if there weren't people out there who took this crap seriously.
1.) Refuting arguments is not an attack. The article does not read like attack. It is civil and non inflammatory and non insulting.

2.) Those people vocally disagreed with his previous article, him following up defending amd explaining his stance is how discussion work.

3.) Why not?

4.) Why do you want him to be silent and that group to hAve monopoly on discourse?
Read a S&P500/FTSE100's Directors' contract, then get back to me...
Ask HN: Resources for introverted devs to learn workplace politics?
Hello HN,

I'm a junior dev and have been employed at my current work place for over a year.
I love technology and code, less so humans. A lot less. If I had to guess I would say that I probably have some form of social anxiety/autism that makes it really painful/difficult/demanding for me to interact with other people, so I usually try to keep these "interactions" to a very strict minimum required to achieve the tasks I am attributed.

Now, recently, I've come to realize more and more, how much trouble this actually causes in the end for me, as I am perceived as that "odd" guy, that never says a thing, never hangs out at work place events, that you simply give tasks to, and ultimately the job gets done.

As I was searching to limit human-human interactions as much as I could, I ended up being treated like a machine, go figure...
I get attributed tasks almost exclusively by sales/marketing people with absolutely no understanding of anything appart from the end result they want. Sometimes that ends up being a 2 word "spec", an unachievable task, some month long back and forths where they realize every other step of the way that what I implemented, which was what they asked, was not what they wanted, etc. So I am starting to get a little fed up by all of this and am at quite a loss when it comes to actually addressing these issues. I try, but I figure that I might as well document myself on the process instead of the usual trial and error one could go through.

Anyhow, as stated in the title of this Ask HN, does anybody have any ressources to recommend to someone that just started his carrier and has a demonstrated history of complete lack of such skills ?
Anything is welcome really, books, documentaries, blog post, whatever you might have come across.

Thanks!
While I think many concentrated farming methods _do_ cause suffering, I don't think animal suffering is necessary a requisite of humans eating meat.
This comment seems really low effort. Adds no real content. Extraordinary claims with no citations.
Fords 2020 R&D Budget:

1. Battery technology - 5%

2. Lighter weight materials - 5%

3. safer cars - 5%

4. Popup ads in the windshield - 85%

What could go wrong?!
I don't know what part of "there are no certificates required to do this kind of work" I'm failing to communicate. My last company was acquired by NCC Group, a UK public company, and I haven't met anyone from the UK side who was certified either.
I know you were being a bit hyperbolic, but that is actually an interesting point. I wonder how long it will be before web browsers start real-time fingerprinting images that are downloaded and checking against the database. It seems like an inevitable progression.
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If you can't convince Indians not to shit on the streets, good luck explaining to them what throwing plastic bags in the river does to the planet as a whole.

With this I'm not saying that Indians will always be dirty, but a loooong time will pass until reeducation is successful, so we have to think of other, more direct (and aggressive) ways.
This sort of action is very infrequent and I'd be shocked if there wasn't solid reasoning behind it. Tumblr has been passed around several times and is currently ultimately owned by Verizon. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon is essentially ignoring Tumblr and they have ignored a child porn problem that is much worse than that on imgur, reddit, twitter, etc.
Expert testimony.
Mr. Robot writeup:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-anger...
The PEG used for medicine has very short chain lengths, and I would be surprised if it isn't liquid or water-soluble, and not taken in the form of actual micropellets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol
This is not likely to work out well for you. You disliked the guy when he was just your coworker, and now he's become your manager and you have this seething resentment ("I can't stand to report to him"), which I'm sure he and others can see. It can be difficult transitioning even to having a teammate you like become your manager, and the fact that you dislike him puts a 10x multiplier on that difficulty. A situation where you resent, distrust, and dislike your manager is not sustainable and in a lot of companies will end with your removal if you can't truly get over it. Assuming that you can't see yourself working happily with this guy as your manager (which, to be clear, I think is perfectly reasonable on your part), you could try to transfer to a different team if your company's big enough, but I'm guessing most likely this will end with you leaving the company either on your terms or theirs.
It seems to me that it is your view of reality that might be distorted if you can and have inferred that the parent has an irrational hatred of the current president of the United States from that particular sentence.
I'm saying that proper leather shoes tend to be built for better longevity, can take a beating, can be repaired easier, and you'll likely already be wearing synthetic shoes when the catastrophe occurs anyway.
I find the lack of maps to be a huge disappointment, but the photography and other content seems quite good and well organized.
A little info for any carers of children with chickenpox. The scabs can allow skin bacteria to infect the child. This may present as a swelling around the scab. It can become life threatening as it can quickly progress to septicaemia (sepsis) in a matter of hours.

It's rare enough that Accident & Emergency may not recognise it as they'll only have a handful of cases in a year in a middle-sized city. There could be a delay in giving that huge cocktail of antibiotics that are going to be required.

The high-dendency unit is a scary place.
But it will be highly, highly correlated to any reasonable objective metric agreed to by the general public, so it's close enough for government work. I wouldn't use Metacritic to declare an 81 is better than an 80, but a 85 being better than a 44 is pretty solid.

Of course, there's a multiplicity of possible objective metrics, but then, that's why I phrased my sentence the way I did. You're free to define your own, but then, nobody else will care, either.
Most open source licenses don't respect user freedom at all and are promoted precisely because they allow corporations to use such software to restrict user freedom. And among those licenses that claim to respect user freedom none actually respect it enough to prevent corporations from distributing such software as user freedom restricting services. Even GPL was not merged with AGPL because corporate interests outweigh respect for user freedom.
Theres a chickenpox vaccine? It's not part of the childhood vaccination program here in the UK.
That is very different from getting to it from browsing.
Thanks for posting these. I got the original information from another article, but it was full of ads so I chose a better source to link, which is where the discrepancy comes in.
There could also be a selection bias, the plastic found is what was stuck, smaller parts would have gone the whole way through.
> There should be grounds for suing apple in mistreating the market in this manner

It's a private curated app store, they can do whatever they want with it.
Yes, and it shouldn't take more than a couple minutes of thinking about the issues to realize that most of the commentary on the topic makes very little sense. Experiential measurements aren't so easily calculated, I'd say.

Just a few examples:

- Would you rather have a train that arrives one minute late every single day, for a 0% on-time record, or a train that arrives on time 3 out of every 5 times and then is 20 minutes late the other two? How many articles on the subway distinguish between the two types of lateness? It matters a lot.

- You might read that Atlanta's MARTA, for example, has a better on-time performance record than the NYC Subway. Well, that's great, but it's also got rush-hour scheduled headways of 10 minutes, scheduled off-peak headways of 20 minutes or more, and no service entirely at many stations after 9PM (no trains run at all after 2AM). So something that's "late" in New York City still comes before the scheduled train in Atlanta (when the trains there come at all). [0]

- The NYC Subway also has 10 times as many stations as MARTA and 17 times as many miles of track. They say the best camera is the one you have on you. Something like that applies here, too. What's the on-time record for a train that doesn't exist?

MARTA is a random comparison, but it's not uncommon for writers of screeds about the subway to offer up comparisons to other systems devoid of any of the kind of context I provide above.

So, you know: 1) comparisons are difficult; 2) especially if you want to capture what it's actually like to use transit in the cities you're comparing. All of which is to support my original contention that this story has been decontextualized by surly commuters and the idea that a tourist couldn't rely on the subway to get to a concert is nonsense.

[0] https://www.itsmarta.com/railline-schedules.aspx
With proper execution and promotion it will be a pop culture highlight for decades.
What the heck is “backward” user onboarding
Really? I've not seen these. Am I just being unobservant?
The PC is obviously a bundle.
Is Secret Sharing REALLY REALLY REALLY Used?
Interesting, I looked at the channels they offer and I couldn't see any reason why they would refuse to carry the network, none of their programming seems in poor taste or extreme.
I mean, exactly? When you had some novel tech, you kept it to yourself. Now that you have market power, you develop out in the open. Perfect game plan.
shame we won't ever give it either
You've got an interesting problem there: who hosts the training or comparison set for such an FOSS system?
Who pays the salary & bonuses? Who owns the entity that pays the salary & bonuses?
One commenter in the OP article pointed an interesting aspect of it: it's widely required, and considered totally feasible to preemptively filter pornography from the user uploaded stuff, and yet: even the giants like YouTube will fall under the burden of copyright filters demanded by EU.

No wonder then that politics usually introduce laws related the Internet under the "safe the children" slogan. It really does changes the perception.
"In addition to recounting Entertainment Studios' failed negotiations with Charter, Plaintiffs' amended complaint also included direct evidence of racial bias. In one instance, [Charter VP of programming Allan] Singer allegedly approached an African-American protest group outside Charter's headquarters, told them "to get off of welfare," and accused them of looking for a "handout." Plaintiffs asserted that, after informing Charter of these allegations, it announced that Singer was leaving the company. In another alleged instance, Entertainment Studios' owner, Allen, attempted to talk with Charter's CEO, [Tom] Rutledge, at an industry event; Rutledge refused to engage, referring to Allen as "Boy" and telling Allen that he needed to change his behavior. Plaintiffs suggested that these incidents were illustrative of Charter's institutional racism, noting also that the cable operator had historically refused to carry African-American-owned channels and, prior to its merger with Time Warner Cable, had a board of directors composed only of white men. The amended complaint further alleged that Charter's recently pronounced commitments to diversity were merely illusory efforts to placate the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)."

- The evidence of discrimination is extremely weak. None the things mentioned ("get off of welfare", "handout", "boy", "change his behavior") is necessarily racism. But the result is not surprising, since the ruling is from the 9th Circuit.

A side note. This kind of law suit properly will increase implicit racial bias, because it is trying to reenforce the idea that welfare and bad behavior only or strongly links to African Americans. See: Even completing a Race Implicit Association Test increases implicit racial bias: https://psyarxiv.com/vxsj7/
And is codec development improving at a much more rapid pace there compared to the US?
just missing capital letters and punctuation (maybe stream of consciousness posting isn't the way to go)
"trounce uptime by a couple of orders of magnitude"?

Not true. If you view the network as the computer, then the network is now forever winning.

What is Google's or Facebooks uptime? Their computer is their cluster. Those clusters are never going to be powered off ever. They can upgrade and replace the entire cluster without being down. If you have a cluster of 10,000 nodes, turning off 100 or 1000 is not downtime, so longer as it's up and serving. No mainframe ever will run for the next 100 years. It's a possibility that a cluster built today could be running for the next 100yrs.
I'd argue this is worse, as it directly relates to LEGO's products, but LEGO is just very protective of their brand name in general.
Get your OSCP. Learn how to automate security tools. Learn Splunk. Learn cloud infrastructure. Use pentesterlab.com. Be able to dev in Python. Read threat reports and become familiar with the various threat actors. Learn some hacking history. Read all of the old zines. Do that and you'll be ahead of most.
I don't think that's the point of the article. For efficacy you'd need a properly controlled trial comparing vaccinations, not deliberatly failing to vaccinate and thus endangering children.
Discounting the sensitive data issue (I don't know what keeping that confidential is worth to you), a few hundred bucks for what I presume is a good chance at a 1000x up-side doesn't seem like much of a gamble to me.
If you are good and also pass thr interview where is the problem? I have many friends from Serbia who are working for FAANG companies in the US. Some got acquihired, some applied directly, some got contacted from recruiters working for this companies.
>I don't think you'd have to read many business books to find an account of this happening, albeit with non-software products.

So it's a general problem with businesses and not a valid argument against FOSS alone then. That being said I don't see "uber for x" companies to be a danger for legit businesses. To me it seems more of a way to milk investors, and not a viable way to steal markets.

Most systems have a potential for agents to act badly, but it is my lay understanding that game theory have shown cooperative strategies to win out.
Again, I don't think this actually happens. Look at Toothpaste brands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_toothpaste_brands). The ones that aren't around anymore basically had a defective product, and the rest got bought out by the more established competitor.

Car ride-sharing business isn't a monopoly, and it also isn't one-eats-the-other. Uber and Lyft are competitors but they both still exist, even though they do the same thing, because (1) they both have strong brands, and (2) they both implement their business in different yet complementary ways. It's obvious that not every competitor cuts the legs out of the other competitors at every opportunity.

Likewise, not every start-up is going to steal the tech from its rival, even if your "friend" keeps suggesting you do it. And even if you did have your competitors' source code, source code isn't a brand, it isn't a development team, it isn't support, and it isn't sales. If you don't execute all the business aspects better than your competitor, the source code is useless.
Whose contracts? The board of directors don't have contracts; they aren't employed by the corporation. The shareholders don't have contracts; they just own an instrument of corporate ownership. Anyone employed by the corporation has contracts with the corporation, not with the board and the shareholders.

Other than your repeated assertions and slandering of anyone who disagrees with you as "SJWs", do you have anything to back you up?
That quote struck me as well. The 'effective engines' for search are there I suppose but perhaps not so much for choosing.
As a long time user I think this is largely a misrepresentation. It really feels same as it's ever been.
Having seen four of these major wipeouts over the years, here's the pattern for this highly cyclical spectacle:

1. Nobody cares about Bitcoin. If you tell anyone you bought it, they either shrug or laugh.

2. Bitcoin refuses to die. The long-predicted technology show-stoppers never happen and the network keeps chugging. A small but dedicated group of users continues using it on a regular basis.

3. Speculators who had written Bitcoin off as a fad take a second look.

4. Defying any explanation, the USD/BTC exchange rate begins a modest rally.

5. The financial press starts running stories about that crazy Bitcoin idea, and how it's not dead and the modest gains made by those crazy enough to buy in.

6. Seeing this coverage, people without much technical or financial savvy begin getting interested in Bitcoin.

7. Stage 6 continues relentlessly, producing jaw-dropping gains.

8. The financial press gives Bitcoin a bear-hug, dedicating special attention to it with special segments and even dedicated shows.

9. A full-blown speculative mania is now in progress. Gains of 3-8% per day, for days on end are not uncommon. Everyone, it seems, is an expert on Bitcoin.

10. An event takes place. Most likely, the collapse of a major Bitcoin exchange, although it could be something else. Regardless, a sharp decline takes place.

11. A prolonged period of USD/BTC declines unfolds. Initially, the press is all over the story, telling the tales of woe from those who bought in at the peak of the mania and lost it all.

12. Occasionally, BTC/USD shows signs of life, either rallying sharply or falling precipitously. These short-term changes are usually reversed quickly.

13. After months or years of flat to downward USD/BTC motion, the only people left holding bitcoin are those who understood it and wouldn't sell at any price.

14. GOTO 1
The value is too volatile in most crypto schemes to enable anything like remittance or other consumer level transactions. You need either a stablecoin scheme, which introduces a centralized authority (and in that case, you've reinvented paypal and people will just use paypal) or some reliable method where your coins can be sold immediately at a guaranteed price otherwise if you want to send $50 to your cousin in the developing world by the time you've wasted time going through all the hassle of doing so they're now worth $25.

For your off chain problems Egor Homakov's Failsafe Network (now called Fairlayer) addresses that problem https://github.com/fairlayer/wiki

For your request of being able to just pay with your phone anywhere you go, with an easy to use interface that registers payments immediately, Moxie's mobilecoin project may be the answer if it's ever realized https://www.mobilecoin.com/

Basically you just need to wait for this to mature, and for the majority of speculators to get run out when it all collapses. It would be nice to have reliable exchanges as well instead of every few weeks discovering another scandal of price fixing or stolen coins.
This is what your smartphone is doing to your brain – and it isn't good
Worth pointing out that Planes is NOT a Pixar film so you can't count that in your metrics.
The removal from the app store is supposedly over cp, not it's accessibility to nsfw. Imgur does not magically block porn, because it doesn't know what images are or aren't. Reddit relies upon NSFW tags, and afaik can still be enabled through website settings.

On the topic of pornography access, Apple is incredibly immature about it. They have a fetish of trying to remove pornography access, which should be unacceptable.
Before this I hadn't known how much I like to go back and forth between the text and picture, sometimes just skimming so I can interpret the picture, then maybe reading more carefully, etc. When the text covers the image, sometimes even adding a scroll bar, that really increases the friction.

Well, it is a learning experience in more ways than one. I was just getting to this part of the war in Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast so it was great to look at a good photo collection.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-51-bluepr...