skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a hard fork, you change the code the miners are using so that blocks on the opposing fork are considered invalid. In a 51% attack, the malicious actor creates new blocks that look equally valid. The two lineages aren't labelled ETC and NewETC. How does a new entrant (or anyone who wasn't connected for the few hours it took to launch the attack) distinguish between the chains?
Doesn't Uber subsidize vehicle leases for drivers?

I don't remember if Uber does, but Lyft does.
The checklist especially is a great resource IMO: https://gdpr.eu/checklist/

Also shows how much of this is truly just sensible privacy protections.
I think it's worse honestly because there is the pain of watching it actually work and forever not (really) ever knowing why your version failed.
I feel like every time there is a discussion about Amazon on the Internet, this point is brought up.

I spent about $9,000 on Amazon across 139 orders in 2018. I buy a lot on Amazon. I've never had a problem with receiving knockoff products. I don't understand how this can be such a prevalent issue when I've not run into it, given how much I use Amazon.

The only thing I can think is that, if I'm buying something expensive, I'll strictly only purchase items "Sold by: Amazon.com Services, Inc" or alternatively, I'll use a marketplace seller if the seller is the manufacturer of the item I'm buying.
I lumped Costco in there just because its known for paying above average wages. I don't see these 4 stores outside of affluent, or at least upper middle class areas. I would say even Trader Joes can be lumped into there.

But the point is that if Walmart or Sams club wanted to raise their wages to match Costco, it would hurt their business because their customers can't afford it.
This article is talking about Evolutionary Algorithms, a specific practice within the realm of machine learning and emergent behavior.

What you're describing is software engineering.
Impossible burger's recipe features large amounts of soy leghemoglobin, sourced from transgenic yeast.
Memory palace works essentially by storing arbitrary things in your spatial memory. Most people have well developed spatial memory, as there is no practical method that could replace it. It's much better long term if you actually push yourself and train to use your textual or whatever memory properly, instead of using your spatial memory for storing things that don't belong there.
Opensource.dev
> All of FANG seems like a counterexample.

Not really; both Facebook and Google basically only make money by providing a service to businesses, and even for Amazon, the most profitable area (AWS) is B2B.
Actual study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002771...

Looks like they put people in two different types of VR environments. One was an open room ("vista space"), the other was more like a simple maze with a few corridors ("environmental space"). There were various objects throughout the environments that the subjects were asked to memorize and then "point" towards using a joystick.

The subjects were allowed to learn the locations of the objects in various ways such as from a few vantage points, or moving around along various paths through the space, whether the objects appeared one at a time or all at once, etc. They then measured how long it took the subjects to complete the "pointing" (latency in seconds) and the error in direction (degrees).

They predicted that in the open room condition, subjects would perform better when the object was 0, +/- 90, and 180 degrees relative to the body orientation, but for the corridor case performance should be best when the object was +/-45 or +/-135 degrees from the body orientation. I didn't figure out why they predicted this.

They found that people in the "corridor" condition took longer to point at the object and made more errors, and this increased the more walls that were in between the subject and the item. They also found that the performance was largely as predicted according to the relative prediction of the object (better at +/- 45/135 in the corridor condition, and vice versa for the open room condition).

They conclude: "memory differences between vista and environmental space originated mainly from the spatial compartmentalization which was unique to environmental space learning."

Seems like a pretty flimsy connection between data and theory to me. If anyone can figure out why they made that prediction about body orientation please comment.
This may be a culture thing but I'd be uncomfortable asking a 20 year old professional to bring me a coffee.

Edit: This was originally in response to a suggestion that OP would be uncomfortable asking a 40 year old for coffee which has since been edited.
I remember signing up for this a while back, but never found the time to take it. I assume it's the same course because I remember the website looking so "trendy"
> Will they be uncomfortable asking a 45 year old professional to bring them coffee?

This isn't what interns do at any reputable technology company.
I don't understand. Why is manually fast-forwarding through ads morally okay, but using an automated adblock is not?
Good lord is that website slow to load/respond. Too many hero videos.
My local K-Mart was never packed, but it was never empty either. And there was always a line at the registers, mostly because they had the slowest checkout system on planet Earth. Some parts of the store looked like a Mad Max set like the tools area, but other parts managed to alright like the clothing section.

It was still my backup shopping choice if Target didn't have something I needed.
Wireless Charging Tech Lets Drones Stay Aloft Indefinitely
I even thought of that idea, but this mean getting my parents involved which i don't want to. I have zero idea how laws and business work.

I have nonissue with code , because i have all of it. And i am thinking about deploying them as my own business.
Also you get to avoid most of the 99% profit-for-them "warranty" hard sell. I try not to hold it against the salesperson as I've done that kind of job and I know they don't have a choice but it's still incredibly annoying.
What is "The Amazon experience"? Ads being served as the first few rows of results? A review system that cannot be trusted? The same item listed multiple times by different sellers? Extreme price variance when choosing different colors and sizes?
My dad worked a second job at Sears from when I was a kid to the day he retired. Our house was full of Kenmore and Craftsman.
I don't think it's overplayed at all. It gives people a false sense of a security when they have automation that works 99% of the time. Look at all the people who think that Teslas can drive themselves. Most of the time they are fine, but then they are lulled into a false sense of security. Sure, they get a ton of warnings, but you start to ignore the warnings when it keeps working most of the time.

Heck, my car has adaptive cruise control, and I already find myself wandering sometimes, assuming that it will slam on the brakes if someone gets in front of me. And I'm well aware of the automation paradox and its dangers.
As long as you want to receive calls, the cell service provider will know your approximate location. If you have wifi available, you can mitigate this by only using a voip/messaging service like jmp.chat. You'll still be unavailable while on the road, though.

If you have tons of money, satphone is always an option.
> A couple of factors act as a "filter" that makes Costco less worthwhile for lower income shoppers:

You missed a big one in many areas: buying in bulk requires facilities for storing inventory.
I have found 21st Century C to be a fairly current treatment: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/21st-century-c/97814919...
"Most" doesn't mean "only". Non-heme iron is real, I promise.

Hell they could really cheat and just throw ferrous sulfate directly in the mix rather than using naturally occurring iron in the veggies.
If you look at the locations of Costcos in any metropolitan area, they will not be near the poorer areas. Walmart is more frequently located near poorer areas, and what I was getting at, was that Walmart can't just up its pay to match Costco because many people that shop at Walmart don't have any extra money, whereas Costco can afford to raise prices to help pay for better wages.
Women who survived domestic abuse are now sharpshooters protecting animals
I selected "Canada" in the initial overlay, which redirects to .edu.

Regardless, both are slow, both are http-only.
> Although I wish there were more vegan food that didn't try to replicate non-vegan textures and flavors

There are. They're called vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans, and grains.
Scape Technologies raises $8m to let machines visually recognize their location
IME all shared offices are incredibly noisy

I did a lot of co-working from 2009-2012 in several cities. The atmosphere was always very quiet and professional. People were very cautious about creating noise, and few people every spoke aloud unless they were on the same team.

I'm not sure what changed. Was it the bro-ification of the tech industry? Did coworking get a lot cheaper, and brought in a lower class of people? Was it Starbucks making its stores less attractive to campers? It doesn't sound like I'd go back to coworking again.
I'm skeptical.

I want to know more about how they're formed. Did the AI basically generate them from scratch, or did it stitch existing images together.

Assuming they are sufficiently different from the source images, is it enough to effectively anonymize someone in a picture?
>Right, web apps aren't websites

>Amazon tier complexity

I'd go even further and say that Amazon-level things aren't web apps to, that's a different level of web resources. It is one thing to write fairy complex web app with auth, log in info, security etc, building enterprise level system is a different thing.
Some bookseller with a bunch of land and rich friends is putting everyone out of business. You’re probably next. Enjoy Armageddon.
Echo can dial (VOIP) without a landline, same as Google Voice/Home.

If you have a landline and want your outbound Echo calls to have the same caller ID as the landline (so that people can return/screen calls), then Echo is the only option for voice dialing.
How does this fare in cultures where there are no second chances, like many places in the US?

My gut says this is a scam.
"taking a SQL database or excel spreadsheet and turning it into an app platform"

A key insight here is that SQL is too complicated for this to ever work, and also the trend towards functional programming (React.js, Scala etc) – see http://www.hyperfiddle.net/ for what you get when you replace SQL with a simpler database! (We're seeking investment)
> - certain types of businesses (financial firms, high end law firms, etc) will offer their highest-paid employees concierge-type services to make it more practical to spend extended hours in the office. Examples might be handling the employee’s dry cleaning for them.

Isn't this just a traditional assistant/secretary?
Performance Predictions is hiring a mobile developer for our fantasy sports game
Web development is a good career path. We live in the golden age of programming. It's never been better to be a software engineer than now. Every major startup and web company I know are constantly looking for new good hires. I recommend focusing on either frontend or backend starting off. Full stack can get hired more at mid+senior level than entry.
I just want to do this project that i dreamed about.
I went back to university as an adult with a mortgage, wife, daughter on the way, and I did an internship. Nobody seemed to particularly notice or care that I was older and I'm not sure it changed anything.
For me it's the speed of Prime, plus the fact I don't have to bother entering my card or PayPal details. It's almost annoying when I can't find what I want on Amazon and have to go elsewhere.
Here's a news article that explains why FRR forked off Quagga: they wanted a more open and receptive development process - https://packetpushers.net/free-range-routing-project-forks-q...
I recently bought a Tacoma and was surprised to find out this is not always the case. Take a look at their privacy policy for "connected services": https://www.toyota.com/privacyvts/.
SS7 is highly insecure.
Bad UX in Web Apps That Perform Intensive Tasks
> One podcast I listen to (and subscribe to their Patreon) has mentioned that only ~10% of their listeners subscribe and that ads are a much larger source of revenue for them (even doubling subscribers wouldn't make up for this gap).

This is interesting, but isn't be an argument against offering a pay-for option. I expect the paying subscribers are more valuable per user, so any user you convert to paying increases your revenue.
Those aren’t impacted. A separate company.

https://www.eastidahonews.com/2019/01/biz-buzz-amid-sears-ba...
You do actually - Canadians sometimes go across the border to US for surgeries, etc.
A Rough Guide to Terraform
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=puck

Here it is: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049004156;vi...
I think that's what most people think of when they hear of decentralized protocols. I chose Blockstack for Graphite and for this project specifically because it handles decentralization differently.
Well, it's pretty common to have 10 x 1 year of experience. Lots of jobs require the repetition of a relatively shallow set of skills.

When I started my current job I remember the announcement said something like 15 years experience and I thought "I've been doing lots of things for a long time, but I don't feel like I have 15 years experience in any of them" at least no the same way someone in a more stable domain might...
This hasn't been my experience with copper. It tends to work until someone breaks it. Optical SFP's OTOH, were my bane for many years as they do frequently degrade leaving a once perfectly functional link dropping some huge number of packets before anyone notices that the link has degraded to some 1980's level of speed. Port monitoring when your not a network provider, or big data center seems to be a "hard" problem.
> I am among those who are quite skeptical of these many blockchain projects.

There's always dilution when an idea has been around long enough and I'm concerned about the copycats trying to use blockchain for other things.

If Raft is democracy, then blockchain is Might Makes Right. The guy with the biggest stick always wins. There is no actual vote. Everybody is an accomplice.

That doesn't sound like progress, that sounds like regression. A really big one.
That's pretty reassuring, if only because that means that the "Srap Tasmaner" reference in Seveneves won't become completely anachronistic.
My childhood home was purchased in a kit from Sears in the early 1900's. Such an interesting and expansive catalog operation, and a model that's starting to come back around with modular homes from Blu and other companies offering kit homes 100 years later.
5X is worse case, it's 15X in dollar terms, but an equivalent investment in Dow would be almost 3X so thus the discount.

It's also worse case because it assumes you buy at the $107 peak. It didn't spend much time above $100...
No it's not. Only a tiny fraction of cattle are solely pastured. Each beef cow, even if pastured for the first year (which is typical) requires literally tons of high-calorie corn and or soy feed to bring it up to slaughter weight. Guess where that feed is grown.

Besides, the range land you're talking about isn't needed for crops anyway. We have more than enough arable land to grow crops for direct human consumption.
CEO Lampart is a huge fan of Ayn Rand and promised to turn the company around using her philosophy. So I suppose we now finally have one large scale case study.
Iirc, they were charging for their mobile OS while Android was given away (only requiring the gsuite). MS was also later to launch an app store.

So the mobile OS layer is where MS use to make money and it's what Android commoditized.
>Not only this, but WeWork are going to learn about the cyclical nature of office rental revenue.

I don't know anything about office rental so I'm curious, what makes it cyclical? You also seem to imply that we're high on the cycle (otherwise it wouldn't be a problem for WeWork in the future), why do you think that?
Are you talking about all the land that used to be rainforest?
What do you think their scam is?

Step 1 - provide free advice.

Step 2 - ?
This page has an advert for an amazing typewriter! https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049004164;vi...
It’s true that they are correctly formed sentences. But they seem to lack context. What does it mean to pay an operator to auto-rotate my number, and what relevance does it have with the subject of the posted article? What’s “free real estate” refer to?
I think it's more that Lisp is really great for certain things. Those certain things aren't all of programming, though. People use Lisp for a problem that's a good fit, and it's like a revelation - programming is insanely fun and productive. So they become a convert, and think that Lisp is The One Right Way To Program.

But in another problem domain, Lisp is terrible. I wouldn't want to program an embedded system with memory-mapped I/O in Lisp. I wouldn't want to do high-performance computing, where I had to get the memory alignment right to get the best performance.

Lisp might be like a Formula 1 racer. If you ever drive one, it will probably revolutionize your idea of what a car can be. Just don't try to drive it on a four-wheel drive road - a Jeep will absolutely dominate it there. For that matter, a Formula 1 car is not even a very good car for commuting to work - not street legal, lousy gas mileage, too high maintenance.

And this is what's wrong with the Blub Paradox idea. Power? Power for what? A language has a certain power for a particular kind of problem, and a different power for a different kind of problem. Pick the language that is the most powerful for your problem, not the language that is "the most powerful".
I'd love to hear more about the legal tech space in general.
Noted. I’ve edited it to be more clear what I was trying to express.
Not really, as you only need to implement handling for the messages you actually care about and you can pass them through, say, a file descriptor. Just like UNIX commandline tools do. You could handle that in a bash script.
All very good questions. I’m at the Senior Manager level in my profession, trying to switch to entry / junior level in IT security. I have solid experience and great references, and I get calls from clients and recruiters constantly for work in my current field. But I get practically no responses when I submit myself for positions in the new field.

I tracked one recruiter down recently and she basically told me she’s convinced I will not stick around once I feel the pinch of the salary reduction. She said she didn’t want to be hiring for the same job again in 6 months.

I’m not sure that’s the whole truth, or if the others would say the same thing.

Now I’m trying a hybrid solution, of freelancing gigs in grants and proposals part time and doing technical work part time. I’m also focusing my work on tech-centric topics whenever possible. But I usually can’t conteol that.

I’m also considering supplementing my current education with CS classes, and picking up a few more certs. But I’m not sure those will have a good return on investment.

Meanwhile I think persistence in bidding on jobs will be the ultimate solution.
Incredibly cool! Even if this took lots of iteration, to me this represents an important step (if my understanding of the details is correct).

As a side note, this is why I appreciate HN, never would have seen this paper otherwise.
Sounds amazing, to be honest.

I'm quite enjoying the weird interstitial pages from a variety of US-based sites that block EU users. It's like a massive billboard saying "WE ARE USING YOUR DATA IN WAYS THAT YOU DON'T CONTROL", and is a reminder to use other services elsewhere.

GDPR is relatively straightforward to comply with, particularly for the simpler kind of sites that don't seem to have bothered. It basically codifies the sort of best practice that should have been in place already, and I'm sure many of us are happy to see that there is movement towards regulating the disastrous dumpster fire of personal data in this way.
Yes, I believe you’re right. That image is very G rated.
ARIN Wants Mantadory IP-Address Whois Registry to Police Piracy
Going to college after the appointed time, that is right after high school.

If someone does so and makes it work, that's wonderful, but at least around here I can't see a business owner tolerating someone with age but not experience, especially with legions of twentysomethings beating down the doors begging for a job before the rent savings run out.
Googlers seem to have leaky lips, so I figure if they do something shady one of them is going to go to the press.
And Amazon's return policy. I remember specifically buying clothes from an online retailer a few years ago and when things didn't fit, I got charged a 10% restocking fee. I'd mostly bought from Amazon but decided to go outside the box. Sure enough, I went back to Amazon.

When I lived in the UK, I discovered retail shop hours at 9 to 5, except Thursday and Saturday when you have to fight crowds. Also, things were more expensive. So Amazon won again.

All the monopoly complaints aside, the rest of the retail world doesn't compete very well.
Don't know about "upper" class, but definitely middle class. A lot of things at Costco (at least where I live) are only available in organic formats, for example, which jack up the price for no real benefit (imo). The working poor don't usually have the flexibility to do these kinds of things.
As we seen with the Google Plus bug that exposed user data even if Google would be a nice company even they can have a bug and expose your data, this makes me think that the best solution as a user is minimize the data that is collected about you and as a company to discard any data that you don't need and anonymize the data you have to keep and can be anonymized.
I was eyeing Lazarus, because it is close to my particular crossplatform toolkit ideal. I think that UI toolkit should use native widgets and near zero cost FFI. So any toolkit that draws for itself is not within my ideal. The most problematic platform for my ideal is Android as the toolkit should run without NDK. C++ does not cut it. Java would work for Android, but on other platforms there's FFI.

FreePascal does compile to Java bytecode. It is an experimental feature as far as know, but it's promising.

There is lots to like about FreePascal, even if I dislike the syntax a bit. See the Modern Object Pascal Introduction¹ for reference. But memory handling is something that does not fit my vision. I would hope for something similar to Swift - automatic reference counting. I like that the compiler is not LLVM or GCC based. With ARC I can forgive even the manual UUIDs for components.

That's how I saw it from quite a big height so excuse me if I'm misguided.

At the moment Swift looks promising for me without possible transpilation to Kotlin as seen in one project ². Or D, as it should be easier to fit Java. But I have my eye on Lazarus. It certainly is much more mature a project.

¹ https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html

² https://github.com/angelolloqui/SwiftKotlin
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