skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any clean up projects going on at the major gyres shown in the article? Seems like that would be a good place to start.
I know next to nothing in this area, but what is the possibility of grafting non-susceptible varietals onto the olive trees? I know that worked for France back when they grafted Texan vines onto their own during the grape phylloxera epidemic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight
but it was local police, right? And it was entirely by implication?

Wouldn't that be like a new zealander visiting the LA and doing something the Bloods don't like, and so the bloods barge into his hotel room on the night before he returns to new zealand and says "hey is anybody else here"? Like, what's the intimidation? He's about to be beyond their reach, and they didn't even say anything explicitly.

If it's intimidation, it's both lame, ham handed, and ineffective.

An explanation that doesn't fit your opponent's behavior COULD still be correct, but maybe there's a better explanation - I don't know.
Because she was a journalist? In many countries its not necessary to report your activities to authorities, for fear they will attempt to coerce journalists. Which seems like what happened in this case - a scare tactic
if the terrorist organization is able to fund itself, then no, 10 to 1 is not money well spent. You'll lose in the long run.
Sounds like higher-order differential cryptanalysis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_differential_cryp...
I'll second speedsolving. I'm also big fan of fewest-move competitions. You get a scramble, an hour, and a sheet of paper. The current record in-tournament is 19 moves.

One thing parallel to speedsolving that is fascinating is the amount of optimization that goes into the cube itself, especially from small brands in China. Rubik's Cube engineering just happens to be in that sweet spot of providing incremental improvements, a large design space to eke out new and interesting optimizations, and cheap plastic manufacturing. The latest and greatest model that everybody is hyped about is just $15 + shipping from Hong Kong, so it doesn't break the bank.

YMMV, the only thing you might say negatively about it is that as a community, older players weed out very quickly. The demographic really leans in the 10-15 range, so you might struggle to find adults to talk to other than online.

It's also a practical application of all that group theory the internet's been telling you to learn.
There are plenty of scarce assets defined by no utility except for their scarcity; we call those assets money.

That said, even before Bitcoin arose, most real-world (fiat) currencies were handled primarily through electronic transfers. There, the double-spend and scarcity-preservation was largely maintained through a combination of accounting convention, interbank agreements, audits, regulations, and occasional criminal prosecution (for things like counterfeiting). So "scarce digital assets" in the form of entries on the Fed's (or the ECB's) balance sheet existed before and continue to exist after the emergence of blockchain-backed cryptocurrencies.

Gold-backed ETFs represent another form of "scarce digital asset", but more of a hybrid asset since they only arose and kept their value stable after creation/redemption mechanisms were formalized, and continue to maintain counterparty trust through auditing. But they do provide a liquid means of owning electronic gold; gold being the traditional scarcity-based asset.
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It’s questionable if the data can even be restored.

Plus there’s more sensitive data than just Bitcoin private keys on that disk I’m not really that comfortable sending that in to some lab for data recovery.

When the disk broke I inquired what it would probably cost to retrieve the data and I was quoted with something around 150-300€ which to me is too much just for the small chance to actually get those coins. I don’t like to gamble.
Which guy? Thanos?
I just tried putting the currently available tools a bit into perspective - check my comment above :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494248
losing 90% of humans still leaves 10% of humans. so 10% of problem. don't be that guy. be a guy who works toward a solution for the root-cause. i'd expect people in an it/hacker community to get that :D guess we're all 'those humans' after all eh :D
I wonder if ico issuers are selling off btc and eth in order to have enough cash on hand to do the asset buybacks and still be ahead.

Anyone who ICO'd in early 2017 (including big names like tezos and filecoin) have enough USD value of btc and eth to comply with the SEC and still have 9 figures left. It's a good time to take profit if you did that, get off the hook and still be incredibly cash wealthy.

That would also explain why ripple is still stable, not as many icos hold xrp as btc and eth
South African. Stretch goal for this one was to pick a random accent and a random message from messages, ideally revealing something embarrassing, but couldn't find a way to do it. So now it languishes in mediocrity till I replace it.
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My perception from going through growth again this past year is that the sooner you can get your organization organized the easier it gets. I can't recommend the eMyth books enough for most anyone starting a business. Systemizing things, particularly the things that are rudimentary, is the fastest way to get to a healthy business. I also ran around for months like a chicken with my head cut off. Once I hired some help (contractors mostly) to do some of the tiny tasks that were massive time sucks my life got easier and my business got healthier.
For web applications that use "traditional" RESTful APIs with AJAX, most of the overhead is from setting up an AJAX call for every single call instead of using an "always-on" listener like websockets.
I don't think Valve's imperative was to dethrone Microsoft at all, it was to introduce alternatives to Windows, which poses an existential threat to Steam with Windows Store. To that effect, Steam coming to Mac was probably a bigger deal, but even still, I think Steam for Linux and Proton were pretty big deals. The public is watching, largely with skepticism before Steam for Linux was announced, but now there's a legitimate chance newer games, sometimes even fairly high-end games, can get released for Linux on launch - something that used to only happen for a select few games by companies that did it for fun, like Unreal Tournament or most things from iD Software.

Steam also now offers me a platform where I can buy cross-platform software once and use it anywhere. I consider this to be fairly valuable, and it makes me a lot less likely to buy software on Windows Store or Mac App Store.
Have you spoken to Manager’s manager and requested for a change as you & your current manager were peers earlier & do not want him as your manager?
You did not only change the word "software" to "work". You also changed the word "free" to "free". Just because those two words happen to be spelled the same way in the English language, that does not change the fact that they mean different things.
It can take a while in an organization before people learn whether someone is really competent; especially if as you say the individual in question is particularly good/charming at convincing others that they are effective or a necessary part of the org.

If you trust your employer and management chain enough, then you can use the normal reporting loop to file concerns and notes along the way - just try not to get emotionally involved as it could become difficult to separate your observations from your personal opinions.

Even more so don't let this person pressure you or change your decision-making in ways that could undermine your position.

And certainly, if the organization fails to take care of things, then it may be time to move on and find somewhere more progressive and healthy. It's the sign of a failing environment if it can't identify and deal with individuals who claim overdue credit by using others' contributions.
I mean, I agree with you.

Honestly? Because companies view those kinds of questions as proxies for IQ tests (which are mostly illegal to use as a hiring method). Notice the defense of them largely revolves around "seeing how you solve a problem" and "how you communicate your problem-solving ability". They're seen as measures of your intelligence, which is what they're actually interested in--not your experience or expertise (outside of specific areas).

Those interviews are, of course, something you can easily (with a serious time commitment, but fairly easily nonetheless) prepare for and game, which of course makes them bad proxies for intelligence. And of course, I don't think algorithm questions necessarily measure someone's actual intelligence at all. And of course, it's unclear how highly intelligence is correlated with your ability to succeed as a software engineer.

But that's why. I have little doubt that they would actually try IQ tests if they thought they could get away with it. I'm fairly certain at least one major company tried asking candidates for SAT scores.
Nice try chinese government.
This line of reasoning (and accepting that it exists / thinking it is normal) is why we're in this mess in the first place.
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As replies point out, the man is dressed in summer clothes. Many replies say it clean-up from a flood earlier this year.
The time to speak was when the liar was claiming someone else's accomplishments - to contradict them clearly and immediately. After that it's much harder to recover.
All police in China are political.
BTC is an asset according to G20 and many others. It's obviously highly speculative which is why I picked a low percent. I was just curious if others were doing the same, and was hoping I could ask that without getting this sort of snark. Oh well.
Totally agree, don't talk to the guy, I've tried that before and it doesn't work.
> I think we really need a pandemic to kill off 90%+ of humans. Even if that means me and/or people I care about.

...

> It's depressing.

Yeah, I agree. The absolute trash people post on the internet is sometimes depressing. Such as your post.
The Saudis facing confiscation and raids back home dumped their cash into Bitcoin which fueled the rally to $20k. They are now pulling the money out.
"I'm really curious if somebody here could venture a guess about the reasons for the sudden drop"

A more telling question is how it has held any value at all for as long as it has. There was a period where BTC's rise was rationalized via its promise to become the currency of the future. Does anyone actually believe that now, though? BTC instead has become nothing more than a speculation vehicle built on a foundation of absolutely nothing. No rational analysis sees it being the basis of really anything at all, and that mad rush has seen an outrageously inefficient system put in play. It wouldn't be bad if it were actually the basis of meaningful purpose, but instead GWs and GWs are going to effectively nothing.

I suspect at some point a psychological threshold is going to be hit and BTC is going to plummet through the floor. A lot of very specialized hardware is going to derelict.

As an aside, many of the comments in this discussion, and the moderation of the same, is indicative of how profoundly irrational people can become when they have skin in a game. If I held BTC I'd probably be trying to rationalize why it should be worth something, against all rational analysis.
I do love the lingo from these machines. I remember encountering the need to "vary off" an interface.

The weirdest was the being told I needed to "wand on" the system. I guess the origin was from the AS/400 when they were pushing cards with a barcode as ids, so you would scan your card with a optical wand (pen) to login to your station. Years later I still hear "wand on".
* Send a message saying "I have {insert random STI}, best get yourself checked out..." to a random contact in your phone.

* Send "So, I've been thinking... How about we try friends with benefits?" To a random contact.

* If you have anyone in your phone as Boss, Manager etc, send them an email with a template of a fairly harsh notice of resignation.

* If it's a woman, send to Mum / Mom / Dad "Hey, I'm going to be a mother! No idea who the father is but it's exciting!".

* If it's a man, send to Mum / Mom / Dad "Hey, so I drunkenly hooked up with some stranger from a bar and I've knocked her up... What to do?"

* Select 2 random contacts A & B. Send to A something about how B won't shut up about wanting to sleep with A.
This may all be true - but it fails to explain why it crashed now (as opposed to 2 months ago, or 2 months hence).
You are describing a ledger. You are not describing a "distributed public ledger".
I can say from the sender side, it was fairly straight-forward and great to use. Sorry to hear about it being a pain from the recipient side.
Exactly. If we want to do a true benefit calculation, we have to look at alternate futures.

One important future to avert is where organized crime is rampant. Even if we look at only the economic costs, one study in Italy suggests mafia domination cost 16% of per-capita GDP. Given the US's $20 trillion GDP, that's quite a lot. And that's ignoring people's preference for security and safety. As an entrepreneur, for example, I think it's great that I don't have to worry about paying for "protection" to keep from having my business burned down or my legs broken.

We also have to look at terrorism. KYC/AML work to keep cash out of the hands of terrorists. Terrorism is, moral and human cost aside, very expensive. The 9/11 incident alone sees estimates in the $2-3 trillion range for total economic costs.

So even if KYC/AML really does cost hundreds of billions, which I doubt, it's a bargain compared to the problems it's meant to prevent.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecoj.12235

[2] E.g., see https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-world-after-911-part-... and https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011...
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Yes, and that is ok in the US. We're talking about Europe, where the legislators at least pretend to care about the people they're making laws for.
>targeted advertising seems to be a benign use of personal data.

How you define benign? let me give you a real example,

A woman got pregnant, she probably did some web searches related to the situation. Then something bad happened, the pregnancy was lost but the woman continued to get ads related to the baby for months(or even more).

There is no button somewhere where you click and all ad networks can clear your history, your data is stored forever and sold or traded.
Which is a silly claim. The markets being down (or up) 1.5% is an unremarkable trading day.

https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs...

Per this chart, almost 20% of Dow trading days fall in the 1-2% change range.
Thanos was merciful by comparison since he only wanted to kill 50%...
Poor Peter
Bluntly? You're letting anger and resentment cloud your judgment. Your colleague is clearly not incompetent. He just has different goals from you. He probably wanted to shift from a technical role to a managerial role, and he succeeded. That's not incompetent! And that's probably because he recognized his talents are better with people than with technology. So be happy for his success, rather than resentful of his perceived incompetence.

It seems to me like people skills are a weak spot for you. That's not unusual in our industry. But leading and managing people, sorting out the relationships to make large project work, that work is just as essential as technical skills are. Nothing big ever got built by a bunch of grumpy, resentful introverts.

Rather than hating his "incompetence", try to recognize him (and others like him) as valuable allies. Find ways to work together, to let them deal with the frustrations of relationships, and let you focus on the technology. Create a mutually beneficial partnership. If you can't learn to do that, to trust the "people persons", you're going to find yourself in this situation over and over again.
Because you can see the damage before committing to a salary.
> we do that by ensuring transparency and appropriate consent in the collection and use of all customer data.

I read this as: "We will make sure that we will hide deep down in the terms of service you consent to us selling you data to the highest bidder"
The article is pay-walled. Here is an alternative:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46267038
He can control someone taking credit for his work...
If you put scare quotes around bad then yes it's a bad argument, but the argument is actually "causes harm to others."

If you think we should discourage causing harm to others then your choices are roughly:

1. regulation
2. taxation
3. torts (i.e. anyone who is harmed can sue those who did the harm)
See, this is what's so brilliant about technology. We all know that social media is (okay, probably) going to be the death of society, and these bright sparks have worked out a way to "shortcut"[1] the process.

No death throes of the Republic, we can just move straight to being social outcasts and speed up the atomisation of our society.

Fk, I wish I was joking.

[1]: See what I did there? :-)
He seems also to have been responsible for that tiresome predilection for 'psi power' and parapsychology in science fiction which lasted until at least 1980.

But, even so, I've gained a huge amount of pleasure from the selection of Golden Age SF I've read. So I guess not all his influence was bad.
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In an amusing twist of fate the horse would probably not exist had it not been for a long line of humans deciding which horses bred with which other horses to produce the breeds we know today.
I think ride sharing services will be facing their own reckoning soon. With so many cars and the prices so low, it’s not sustainable for anyone to make a living. And the medallions were created to address both this problem and the problem of too many cars on the roads, which is also turning into a huge problem.
Ask HN: How to mock up UX flows?
I'd like to be able to build and test user experience flows/different user interface layouts, cheaply and quickly.

I need to be able to:
- build and test and idea quickly; see what a user does, and then iterate
- see how it works with different screen sizes and aspect ratios

I would prefer:
- to do things in a low-fidelity way. (If I have to open up photoshop for a UX mockup, I'm doing it wrong!)
- to have a native application on my computer for building the UX [macOS or Windows].

I'm not quite sure if I need a tool or a technique, but my current process is way too slow.
I say all of this as a thought experiment. But:

> Sad thing is, the vast majority of people are oblivious or flat out don't care.

I mean, if we're making mental jumps to wiping out billions of people - I'd argue that, does it even matter? Ie, in your example human life largely doesn't matter. Human survival maybe, but clearly not billions of lives. I'm not saying this negatively either, just acknowledging what topic we're discussing.

So if we're throwing away cultural norms on what we consider valuable, such as human life, why even care about nature? Our species? Other species? The planet?

It's an honest question. I imagine you could argue that human life is still the most important thing, but we simply can't exist with 7 billion people. Perhaps 6 Billion people need to die.

Regardless, I struggle to be emotionally invested in a situation where I decide 6 billion people die. 6 billion to save 1 billion? That's a tough pill to swallow. It's not like killing 1 person to save a million. Mentally I think I struggle at that thought so much that I'd almost rather choose inaction, passively killing 7 billion people, so I can't feel responsible for the decision to kill 6 billion people.

Interesting thought analysis nonetheless.
leave the company.

if the company does not promote meritocracy (in a sense that it gives more competent people more responsibility and vice versa), you are destined to become more and more at disadvantage.

life is too short to spend it fighting a localized idiot. go build something interesting that will benefit mankind.
> breach $20k again

This is so unreasonable for a piece of data which was worth $0.1 a decade ago and is easily cloneable (trivially if not for network effects and integration)
Smells are key to the design process.
I think that's why crypto-currencies will be doomed. Because too many people see it as something they can maybe buy for a pittance and at some point in the future cash out for a 5,000% increase.

It's not currency, people don't want to use it like currency. They want it to be a viable get rich quick scheme. Because whenever you refuse to use it for normal commerce lest next week, next month, next year, you regret your purchase because of huge price swings. Everyone would engage in that sort of behavior and I'm sure it's not the basis for a healthy economy or currency.
You know what would be more depressing? Actually a pandemic which wipes of 90% of the humanity and by chance, leaving the current infrastructure of nuclear plants, armies, satellites at the hands of untrained or a very limited set of people. If you think we(humans) are the problems, just wait till one of these get out of control and destroy the locality in which it happens. It's depressing, yes but getting rid of humans actualy isnt the solution, not after all the "changes" we have made to the planet.
> I imagine a 2-3 hour test that costs something like $200, which seems like a reasonable investment

Nowadays you get the same result or even a better one by spending zero to do the prospective employer's test. It is not an investment nor it is reasonable. Companies already dump preliminary screening on specialized HR companies.
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Unless you can make the leadership recognize the greatness, there’s no difference between ridiculously shitty code that works, and beautiful, well-organized code that works.

Since you’re already in the position where you seem to lead the technical efforts of the team, where would you like to go from there?
Just for comparison 6kg of plastic in a 60 ton animal is the same as 6g of plastic in a 60kg organism (or a little above one teaspoon of plastic ingested by a teenager).
I would like an answer to that too. I'm the youngest member of my team so the older more 'experienced' teammates are really good with politics.

We have a new project coming up and I basically was the one implementing the initial architecture, I showed them how to use the linux terminal, gitflow.

I am the dev with the fewest number of bugs reported, they are always on meeting about issues. They take the most visible, interesting features.

Yet during meetings, people talk to them more because they are older, so they basically take most of the credit.

What should I do in that case?
I suspect it boils down to one of the following?

1) Lawyers advised them to do this, and they did (Very likely)

2) Lawyers advised them otherwise, but they did this instead (Unlikely)

3) Lawyers not involved in this decision at all (Highly unlikely)

So essentially, Google follows the advice of their lawyers?
Yes indeed, Linux Mint! I have even put it on my daughter's laptop and she really likes it (she had endless problems with Windows 10 constantly updating and being extremely slow, sometimes she'd have to wait for hours for an update to complete, disrupting her homework). It's a pretty darn good user-centric Linux distro based on Ubuntu.
I remember thinking GDPR was yet another intrusive EU bureaucratic exercise. Now I wish it was the norm in the US.

I’m starting to think at a minimum it should be the floor of how data professionals ethically use user data.
Happy to connect anytime and share. I'm on most platforms with this handle.