skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essay being referenced was on HN's front a couple weeks ago (610 upvotes, 391 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469658

Backgrounding -- and finding something problematic on someone who you've profiled and liked is definitely one of the least fun things I've done as a reporter. Regardless of the merit of the person's claims/denials, it must genuinely suck to have talked to a reporter for what was initially intended to be a positive recognition (e.g. "proud local owner of 'Best Burger Bar in America'". Only to find out that your previously private legal problems -- i.e. known only to your personal network -- are going to be mentioned in the mass media. Even if the mention is minimal -- i.e. doesn't change the main focus of the story -- the subject of the story might wish they had never been picked as a story idea.

That said, when you fail to mention a glaring problem at all -- well, it's not the crime, it's the coverup. I would've understood if the original author had found out about the legal problems and decided not to write a followup at all. I can believe that he wasn't truly aware of how serious the burger bar owner's legal history is, and didn't want to pry if it was the kind of crime that didn't make normal headlines. But when you write a self-indulgent graf like this --

> And that fact is the thing I can’t quite get past. That a decision I made for a list I put on the internet has impacted a family business and forever altered its future. That I have changed family dynamics and relationships. And it could very easily happen again.

-- you owe it to your readers to make sure that you've done a thorough vetting. It's true that owner that owners of well-reviewed establishments are thrown into a world of stress -- this has been true since the "golden age " of newspapers and print critics. But for someone to have suddenly and inexplicably shut down, it's also possible there's more to the story than what the owner would like to publicly claim.
Sure. The app allows non-technical people to create something that they want, that has value for them, and that they couldn’t make on their own.
Not using server side rendering, not using a cdn or some form of caching. Not sure this is a good test of anything other than how to fail at implementing SPAs.
What is differential privacy?
Woods are not quiet.
Did you come up with this personally and/or is there someplace I can get more? Damn
In an absolute technical sense of course it isn’t, but virtually all the major players in web ads (Google Adsense etc) typically use JS to ship ads/tracking to your page.
I hear you about CSS historically being a PITA. In my experience (web-related dev and arch since 1998), modern tooling, CSS-in-JS and component-based UI makes the DX so much nicer than it's ever been. My current project uses react, emotion, tailwind, autoprefix and postcss, and it's intuitive and efficient.
DevOps Automation Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide
These "carefully engineered solutions" typically aren't - and instead random js bolt-ons to whatever server side language. UI state is smeared across layers, and ability to test, share and modularize suffers. SPAs usually are better engineered UIs than the alternatives.
After reading all the comments below, I'm quite disappointed that there are still many that equate joining the CCP as joining the Freemasons or the Republican party.

Do any of these other parties have their own secret services and armies and nukes? Do any of these parties blend completely into the state apparatus such that they are indistinguishable? Have any of the parties killed literally dozens of millions of people?

Check your moral compasses people. The Communist Party of China is communist in name only, but it's actually the Nazi party now. Wake the fuck up and learn your foreign policies and history.
FaunaDB (mentioned in previous comment) -- it is multi-model NoSQL so you can do relational queries and it supports transactions across multiple partitions, documents, replicas. json docs, not tables.
From the article, after adding Gamification:

> Before I knew it, the conversion rate from new user to active user ( level 3+ ) skyrocketed from 5% to 45%.

And also:

> Users could share their referral link and get a 10% cut of the ad revenue from every app the referred user makes, forever. For example, if user A brings in user B, and user B makes an app that brings in $10/day, user A would get $1 every day without lifting a finger.

Pyramid scheme or just Multi-Level Marketing?
You make some good points, but I would like to add caveats on the usefulness to think in terms of groups when judging an individual and make the point that group inferences has severe limitations when making decisions about an individual.

There are bigger differences within groups than between them, although there are also large differences between groups. For instance, people of jewish descent have an average IQ that is much higher than any other group. However, if you are trying to find the best person for a cognitively demanding job or to build a relationship with them then it doesn't matter what the average for any group you might perceive them as part of is as you might need an individual that belong to a small subset of any group.

That is why we in the west made the essential discovery that we are different amongst so many dimensions that we in the end are a group of one, the individual, and that we should aspire to judge a person as an individual on their merit in any situation.

Judging people as individuals goes against some of our basic tendencies as humans. Our natural tendency is to be tribal and to judge individuals for group "guilt". Our judicial and political system is intentionally adversarial to counter this tendency, and that is why we need to fight hard against anyone trying to destroy this process in the name of equity or because they think they deserve special treatment due to their group belongings.
Sblack: an ultra-lightweight Mac client for Slack
AFAICT, there is no indexing. It appears to just scan the logs as necessary. Maybe indexing will come later.
This could easily just be a lack of optimization for ARM. IIRC cloudflare reported a while ago that they were able to achieve 10x speed ups for some compression and cryptography tasks with relatively low effort.
Amazon will reportedly sell software that reads medical records
You don't need javascript for tracking. You could just use an invisible pixel.
Are talking about ELMs? Isn't it a basically solved problem then? I was under impression that between KSTAR's active field disruption coils and pellet injection they are more or less controlled (and we'll have confirmation from MAST Upgrade quite soon). Or am I wrong?
In canada, the cheapest phone plans are available in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, our two least-densely-populated provinces.
This also comes as Teva, Mylan (and others) are facing a price fixing lawsuit:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/20-generic-dr...

And also a criminal probe (not sure what the status of these are):

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-24/generic-d...
sorry what is SRI ?
Monopolies mostly. The US is big enough that there are really only 2, maybe 3 providers. Everyone else is a reseller.
> Stanich and his wife divorced, citing "irreconcilable differences," in 2016. He agreed to give her a family home in Tempe, Ariz., $400,000 in a lump sum and $8,000 a month in support payments—and custody of the family dog, Rambo.

a house, 400k, 8k every month, and the dog. Jesus.
Breaking common encryption is the usually cited use case.
Yes, his Angular page [0] uses AoT compilation which results in the bundle, instead of individual files by default (meant for development only).

Also I agree with you. It's a bit unfair to be comparing a barebones Angular app to a barebones React/Vue app (even with a router library for each of those). Angular also has a forms and validation library already installed, and its dependency injection framework, etc. The baseline React/Vue apps don't have those pre-installed, which you would typically install when building an actual app.

[0] https://angular-ngrx-router.netlify.com/
I don't mean to be cynical but for the last few days some one is bombarding with lot of amazon news
$10 per day seems a low price to me. I have no experience of co-working spaces but I'm thinking of the costs of running a room with say 20 working spaces in it at the usual rent/rates/utilities...
For anyone interested , the slides from his presentation are online

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1T1zLTtHS2z_cgl29...

And livestream:

https://livestream.com/NASEM/events/8464254/videos/184103056

1:17:00
My strategy has been to take a new position that is a good fit for my current skill set and allows me to grow in the direction I'd like to move. Coming from the linux side of the house, I wanted to move more into software engineering. Each job hop moved me into more and more software development-centric roles.

Fortunately for me, it's usually meant an increase in pay as well, though I didn't maximize pay at each hop. I could have been paid more at different firms I declined during each move, the position responsibilities were always key for me.
Yes, we are open-sourcing the components over time! We started with open-sourcing the NLU that you can look at on this post:

https://medium.com/snips-ai/an-introduction-to-snips-nlu-the...
> Is it reasonable to assume that for most subsequent loads the website would load in 0.2s?

Wouldn't that number go back to 1.1s every time you deploy a JS change? And isn't it good to deploy often?
> in exchange for paying this cost, you gain maintainability, developer efficiency, and (hopefully) better performance during runtime.

You also gain responsiveness to user interactions, a programmatic way to reason about your application/website & and some animation-sugar if you want. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water simply because people follow trends instead of good design practices.
The Taming of the Screw (2000)
Uh, the lead of the article claims it achieves "97% accuracy on MNIST". If you are removing 12% of the MNIST images at your neural network's discretion, you can't claim the 96% accuracy on the remaining set as your overall accuracy! You're essentially self-selecting for test data the classifier is confident in, so of course that accuracy will be high.

If this was allowed then I'd make an ImageNet classifier which just discards all images except for one I'm really good at classifying, then claim I have 100% accuracy on ImageNet.
Could you add some screenshots?
I'm curious what places you're talking about.
>much easier to write macros (code that writes code) and facilitates compile-time computing

Isn't this a non-issue in scheme as it has hygienic macros?

Note: my only exposition to lisp is via elisp, so I might not know what I'm talking about.
Yes, we were targeting mobile/tablet devices at the time too (well bolting on to existing code base). For example, the CSS to dynamically swap between a side menu and hamburger button wasn't complex (as well as a few other layout changes we made based on screen size), but getting everything to resize properly had a significant/constant overhead during development. Mostly because any given solution took hours to work out.

The alternative of feeding separate style sheets makes it easier to develop, but much harder to test even with the responsive design buttons in ff/chrome. That is probably also why I haven't seen many web apps that try to do everything with a single set of CSS pages recently.
The platform itself is freely downloadable, and if you want a Raspberry Pi with a microphone to test it easily, you can get one from

https://makers.snips.ai
Amazing poem from 13-year-old Singaporean girl
This week is the AWS re:Invent conference, so every day new services are being introduced.
It probably won't be the most popular opinion but I'm siding with the business for this one. I never got people who use cafe bars, delis, etc.. as personal offices. I personally can't get 'in the zone' in such a public place where:

- I need to buy/consume something every X minutes

- have to overhear irrelevant stupid/mundane conversations

- people have a habit of bringing their dogs everywhere now and I'm not even going to get into how disruptive that is

- deal with the passive-aggressiveness of the employees when you spend a couple of hours there

Whenever I work from home and I need a 'public' place in order to separate home and work, I go to the local library for which I pay taxes. It's probably the only place I can walk in, not be expected to buy anything and just enjoy the silence. Other times when the weather is nice I just go the park or on a bench on the public trail and use my phone as a hotspot.

The bagel/coffee/sandwich/donut shops are businesses where people should walk in, buy something, have a date/meeting/chat and then leave. I'm probably a weirdo but again, I never got this working from a coffee shop thing.
AWS re:Invent, AWS's annual conference, is currently happening in Las Vegas. There are quite a number of headline announcements each day to go along with each keynote (there are 4 total).
Qatar, etc, anyone?
What Move Us – Uber
The Nazi party also did quite well for a period of time, also the Soviets. Also, no the CCP didn't lift half a billion people out of crippling poverty, the WTO did. The economy in China are markedly different before and after joining the WTO. America gave them a hand, hoping the market would change the system, they hoped wrong.
Maybe, they are waiting for a superstar, who knows?
These relationships can extend far beyond work. I've had dinner at the home of department heads where work related topics barely came up, I've played soccer and became work out buddies with folks. I know others who babysit each others kids and schedule vacations together based off of relationships established through these networks. As time goes on the fact you work for the same company can become just a footnote if you want it to.
Introducing DynamodDB Read/Write Capacity on Demand
T-Mobile One is $70/mo with autopay for a single line. It goes down to $40/mo if you have 4 lines.

T-Mobile One is actually unlimited, though they say they will deprioritize your traffic if you use a lot of data. This is still better than some other vendors that start to actually throttle you down to 3G speeds. Also, T-Mobile's tethering is not throttled, unlike some other vendors (e.g. Verizon's "gounlimited").

Last I checked you could still get their cheaper "Simple Choice" prepaid plan for $40/mo, but that's very limited data-wise, something like 2 or 3GB.
That's not to say an idea isn't worth pursuing and building a company around. But if you set out to change the world, you're not going to. The people who have built world changing things didn't assume their work would lead there (exceptions will prove the rule).
Yes, there's a mathematical notion of regular expression that predates their use in computers. This article explains the difference well:

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
and had a HN discussion back then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15713505
So it does. In fact, I had to make that choice when I signed up, but it took this reminder for the memory to surface. It's a stupid policy.
Sorry, upgrading your Dropbox Business plan will take 11 months
finally, something that can handle node_modules! :)
France prices are only due to Free mobile. Before they came up with their 20€ a month plan with unlimited everything, the other operators mobile plans had prices similar to the US, 60 to 80 € a month for unlimited everything.

There was rumors of free mobile acquiring T-Mobile sometime last year, that would have been awesome for US consumers...

That same 20€/mo plan gives 25GB of data to use abroad, which makes project fi a less interesting option in France.
The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and Nature of the Universe
Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather
Sounds like he's got quite a decent income. I'd feel worse if half his money was $0 and the family dog.

Edit: and considering he choked his wife on their lawn, (allegedly), divorce sounds reasonable to me.
okay, my apologies :)
How to Prepare for an Amazon Interview? My Amazon Interview Experience
I analyzed 40k makers on ProductHunt for diversity
Blog post link is https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-on-demand-n...
Why would the price be any lower?

If it costs $12.53 to manufacture an EpiPen equivalent, and the market price of the EpiPen is $300, it would make no sense to sell it for any price other then $300.
I am surprised by the fact that author completely ignores client side caching using browser and service worker, as well as SSR.

One key point of PWA is that it works offline and loads faster after after first load (even after you deploy new changes, with basic service worker configs from sw-precache). So you need 1 second for first load only. Subsequent loads are much faster.
Amazon Timestream – Fast, scalable, fully managed time series database
I think that standard sort of reasoning is inadequate given the degree of corruption that is deeply evident in corporate behavior and the impact it has on basic lives.

For your explanation to be adequate, there would have to be such extreme indiosyncratic variation in the most common of human ethical standards relating to murder, sexual assault, gross scale bribery, child exploitation and many other issues that, from a cultural anthropology point of view, seem to yield a very highly correlated set of ethical norms across almost all of the developed world.

It just seems implausible compared with alternative explanations, like intentional large scale paychological manipulation.
You didn't scroll down far enough. I found one but deleted it.
No, but it impacts the initial download as it needs to be end to end, instead of the closest access point.

Also a very good way to waste traffic quota, e.g. a school network connection vs students computers.
Do you suppose it could be feasible to create a nonprofit organization which produced low price EpiPens that made just enough to cover expenses?
Pretty gross to be airing this dirty laundry in a public article.
It's cool to see this service graduate, and the addition of limited iPhone support. That said, this year I discovered Xfinity Mobile. We already have Comcast internet at home (which has actually worked quite well for us, despite Comcast's horrible customer service reputation).

Xfinity Mobile costs nothing for talk/text for up to 5 phones + $12 per GB of shared data (or $45 per "unlimited" data per phones). After taxes, my bill has been hovering between $14-26, because I don't use a ton of data on the go.

Oh, and they use Verizon as the underlying carrier, so the coverage has been good.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18551222
My wife and I are on Xfinity Mobile, which uses Verizon towers. We're on the $12/gig plan, while texts and minutes are free.

Our 3 kids are on Tello, which resells Sprint. They're on the 100 minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB of data plan for $10/month. With taxes, it's almost exactly $11.

Verizon seems to have coverage in remote areas where Sprint doesn't, though sometimes it's been true that Sprint has service and Verizon doesn't. It might be that if we were using Verizon service from Verizon itself instead of through a reseller we'd have service. Given that we pay about $65/month for 5 lines of service, which is what we were paying for 1 line from Verizon, I'm not anxious to test that out.

I've shown the kids how to adjust their phones to just use WiFi for app updates, etc. They're young enough that they're at school or home, not driving themselves around.

Additional GB are $4/month on Tello. They get 2G speed if they hit their 1GB limit, which means they get iMessages, email, etc.
You are 100% correct. You gotta participate in your company's groups/clubs. Create one if one doesn't exist. We are social creatures.
I've recently become a lot more involved in the ProductHunt community and really wanted to know what the gender representation was like in the community. I decided to scrape all of the makers and products created since the platform was started and see what the data said.

After processing over 40k names and manually checking over 8k for accuracy, I put together FeMake including stats like % of females each year, average upvotes, average products launched, etc.

I also wrote about the process, my take on the data, and why I think this matters here: https://medium.com/@stephsmith74/femake-understanding-inclus...
502 bad gateway
It makes sense. Being in close proximity and constant contact helps with becoming friends. I have cultivated many friendships with people I've met with work and it's made my life so much better.

Too small right now to have ERGs that don't apply to large groups but the soccer team, the basketball team, our running group, and those who cycle tend to form friendships that Grease the wheels of interaction at work, apart from it just being nice to have friends.
Most important job requirement - get a warm introduction to the HR / Hiring Manager via an existing employee of the company!
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-mak...

Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17629436
So much vitriol here. There is a middle ground. The only friends and social interactions someone has shouldn't be related to work, as that tends to be quite exploitive, but there shouldn't be no friendship or social interaction at/through working either.

If you don't have a handful of people you work with who take a genuine interest in each other both professionally and personally you're missing out on some potentially long lasting and very meaningful relationships. It makes the hard days a lot nicer when you have someone you can take a walk with, have coffee or a drink after work. We're social creatures, not everything has to be some damn transactional.

No need to be close friends with every colleague, but after a decade or so of work I hope everyone would at least have a couple current or former coworkers that you'd invite to a wedding, Christmas party, summer bbq, etc and be genuinely happy to have them there.
Amazon DynamoDB On Demand
Another headline today read: "Breathing is essential for life".
TL;DR: "Padlock" means the usual icon promising the site has a valid TLS cert.

But well worth skimming through for the excellent Firefox about.config tweak
"network.IDN_show_punycode".
damn, this guy built a tool for growth hackers to make android app store spam, added gamification when it started failing, then added a pyramid MLM referral system for users to market it by word of mouth. he's obviously very smart and motivated. it's just kind of sad to me that the ad economy has grown so large that this is the best way for smart young people to make money.

i doubt he really hates his product at the end of the day, it's just a catchy way to market it. if he did, he would've walked away when his partner did to freelance some more or do another startup.
Advice given to me once upon a time:

"If you want to save yourself a lot of trouble, find a girl you don't like and give her a house".
AWS Lake Formation makes setting up data lakes easier
Tesla celebrates one billion Autopilot-assisted miles
Scheme, on the other hand, is very loosely specified. This is a good thing: the core language is so small that the entire standard fits on about 50 pages...It’s not nebulous, it’s simply minimalist. This is why Scheme is more of an idea than a language.

Smalltalk wound up being quite loosely specified. This, combined with the small "core," enabling single developers rolling their own, resulted in a high degree of fragmentation of the overall language community.
/r/LateStageCapitalism/

But if you are being serious...

Because $300 dollars for a drug that people rely on to live is too high, and it makes more economical sense to continue to sell alive people a drug at a price they can afford for longer, than keep selling it at $300 for a short time, until they go bankrupt and die.