skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, what? Reasonable people aren't okay with fraud.

If companies in unrelated countries don't want to play by sanctions, all they need to do is not do business in countries that require them to abide by sanctions.

I don't think anyone has an issue with that position.

In this case, if the allegations are accurate, Huawei committed fraud in order to gain access to both the sanctioning and sanctioned markets, and the arrest which put them front and center in the news is directly related to the violation discussed in this thread.

In large international procurement deals, it's often the case that bidding companies provide certificates indicating that they're acting like good corporate citizens. It's common to have a FCPA certificate (or national equivalent), and sometimes there's a seperate sanctions compliance certificate as well.

This isn't something that large corporations dealing with state-level procurement aren't aware of. They knew they were acting in violation of the sanctions and actively took steps to conceal it. This is brazen fraud.
If you go to https://www.drudgereport.com/ then right click one of the hyperlinks and select Inspect you can change the URL in the HTML to the URL for this article. When you click the link you will be able to read the full article as WSJ whitelists drudge report.
Software developer tops list of U.S. News and World Report's annual best jobs
Yeah but then you're working on VR development with SLIed cards just as Nvidia's newer hardware all drops that capability. I've heard SLI can be a headache to support in rendering, so that might be more trouble than it's worth to develop for.
The actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-018-0002-3

(I find the actual research paper easier to understand than the news coverage.)
There is a large correlation between some language and ecosystem features, so you can not separate them that easily.
I cannot tell if this is intended as a very dry joke or not.
> they are a digital experiences company

The problem also is that the experience also sucks. I've been working out of WeWork and other coworking/office rental spaces in Berlin and WeWork is by far the worst of it while also costing 2-3 times as much.

Excerpt from the things I experienced at one WeWork location over the last year:

- Broken AC in the whole building during a very hot summer

- Water dripping from the ceiling in the hallway for about two weeks (which also left ugly stains, which I think are still there to this day)

- Regular recurring construction noise during working hours, to this day (one year after opening!)
Node-Red pretty much runs our hackspace. It integrates with almost everything.
I’m also using it quite a lot professionally for prototyping. If you really know how to use it you seldom need Javascript. Most things can be done with switch, change and template nodes. If you want to get good with Node-Red look into JSONata.

The last project I did with it was reading data from modbus and sending it to SAP and vice versa. We don’t have it in production, but I guess it will happen some time.
This was in reference to a program that sold an insurance program to effectively allow you to swap out a worn battery for no (or low) cost. It also was shut down as it was found not to really be necessary, though.
Yelp claims Chicago area's best restaurant is 40 miles away in Waukegan
Just advertising, you can use Lazarus to build WebApps nicely using Brook Framework:

https://github.com/silvioprog/brookframework
Iann Barron talking about Inmos at 40
Tell me more about this delicious salmon you cook.
The unbearable heaviness of clutter
God, I hope so. I guess I can always go with my fallback of dolphin trainer if this whole web developer thing stops panning out.
I'm doing the Harvard Extension program right now and am currently on campus taking a course (you cannot go 100% online and get a degree).

My last class, in the fall, was a course that was offered online for the first time ever. We had a bunch of Harvard College students in-person and a bunch of Harvard Extension students online watching the lectures live (they are also recorded). Office hours with TAs were live-streamed and interactive between in-person and online students, we had the same homework and exams, etc. The professor even gave out his cell phone number so we could text questions directly to him.

The professor asked us all about our interest in a particular class that they had been asked about offering online. As it turns out, Harvard is fairly open about offering almost any of their courses online if you can show that demand warrants it, the professor supports it, and that you can get the TA slots filled.
Real life disagrees with you.

Not saying that this never happens, but it is extremely rare and closer to gambling than to running a company.
Wish I could triple upvote this comment, you’re hillarious and it made my morning! :-)
I've been alive for many, many decades. I wish I could say I've matured past Uranus double entendres, but I haven't.
Google works that way, with their TGIF discussion (moved to Thursday a few years ago so people in other time zones could watch it on Friday :-)).
That’s really the same thing though. It is quite a stretch of the definition of fraud. Nobody was out any money. They just lied to the bank about how they were using the money. It seems like that is not the bank’s concern anyway, and the bank suffered no harm. If there is more to it than that, I’d be curious to know.
I think the point here may be that it could be different if this was an official EU page. I think the justification of "But we followed your guidance" is a pretty reasonable one in a court (I'm not a lawyer though).
I agree here. I don't remember price being an advantage at all in the 2000s. I remember it being roughly comparable to local stores, and a refrain was often "but at least you don't pay the sales tax!"

Perhaps on certain things like accessories- IE cables that stores normally had huge margins on- you could find generic equivalents for cheaper prices, but not in a general case.

Until maybe 2009 or so, it was always about selection. I spent a good portion of the 2000s using their recommended book list to figure out what I was going to read next, and when I was almost done with my current book, giving my self a ~5 day lead time to order the next, because that's about how long it generally took. It was an easy tradeoff to make, since a few clicks was a lot less effort than going to a store. I was also reading a lot of somewhat specific programming books in those days that weren't carried by most stores.
it seems a startup in the need.
You don't have to feel guilty. It is the disconnection between humans and animals that causes many of those feelings and if you shift your thinking, you can have a much better experience. When you participate in the process of raising, killing, butchering, and eating the animals which are your food you will appreciate them – love them – and the life they had and gave for you to live. Food encased in plastic from a grocery store really prevents this connection.

Life both begins and ands and you don't have to run away from the end of things or think that making life as long as possible is necessarily better.
Everyone is jumping over themselves to counter everyone else's memories and theories on "how Amazon became successful" so I hate to add to the ruckus but there is one factor everyone seems to be forgetting that is crucially important in my opinion. That factor was Amazon's approach to customer service, a factor that predates their earning the moniker of "The Everything Store" and was a necessary atep toward success as they first had to get people comfortable with buying things online.

There were several popular books written on the subject of Amazon's customer service model (or ones that used them as a key example to their thesis) that were written long before Amazon ever offered prime and even before they really started taking off. The Amazon of the mid-00's was a major player, but still small enough that they had to differentiate themselves from competitors (at the time) like Ebay and Newegg. Outside of selling media (books, CDs, DVDs, games etc), Amazon's inventory was still mostly limited to the kinds of goods one could also find on those sites (clothing, accessories, electronics) which had them stuck competing on price. What eventually began separating Amazon from the pack was the fact that they would go to extraordinary lengths to take care of the customer. Their return policies were why I stopped shopping exclusively on price well before Prime became a thing as the confidence that I could teturn an item in reasonable condition (as in I could still return something after discovering a flaw after opening it) for free (in almost all reasonable circumstances) and without having to do anything more than print a label and drop the box back by a UPS pickup location was a gamechanger in building my confidence in online retail. It was to the point that making s return with Amazon was easier than making a return to a store and thar was the edge they needed to convince consumers fo choose Amazon over not only other online retailers, but ohysical stores as well.

The rise of 2 day Prime shipping undoubtedly fueled their exponential growth and made Amazon what it is today. However, I doubt they would have ever had the ability to build the infrastructure needed to make Prime work if it wasn't for the initial wave of consumers becoming loyal customers due to their reputation for customer service.
Lies, Damn Lies, and TOPS/Watt
I don't think it is quite a revolution from/killer for the DVCS as you think. A lot of what you ask for can be done with DVCS tools if you go low level enough. The git graph supports more complex shapes in the raw than the git UI tools ('porcelains') tend to make it easy to work with. Especially when you throw in new tools like GitVFS for virtualizing some/all of the git object database. To some extent what you ask for is simply a UX problem in the DVCS world of how to make such power available in an easy-enough to use way, without providing too many additional new footguns.

> Whenever I hear smart and reasonable people argue well for both sides of an engineering issue, my experience is that it will turn out that we're arguing the wrong question.

Right, though my feeling is the root underlying discussion is actually sociopolitical rather than technical. The preference between monorepos and polyrepos seems more to do with the organizational structures of organizations and people than about the actual technical merits of either approach. I think the issue is that developers just feel safer trying to tie things to technical merits than engage with the problem at a sociopolitical level.
OP here - interesting perspective, especially the parallel drawn to dynamic/static types. Thanks for the thoughtful post
Late to the party with a good smart phone. I used windows mobile and it didn't compare to Windows Phone or Android.
I did 5 years (16-21) at my Kmart and it was exactly the same. No customers most of the time and when we did we never had what they wanted.

I spent most of my time watching TV in electronics, sometimes even took naps in the back. That company was destined for doom.
You overestimate the strength of aircraft exteriors. Even minor scratches become important under full stress.
Would be fun to record 'antivertisements' to replace the ads with. Ex. Instead of an Uber ad, its 15 seconds spiel about a recent scandal they've been involved in.

Punishing advertising dollars is the only way to reduce marketshare of the industry in the long term.
"Up to 30%" might flip a close election but won't move the needle when it comes to the tough problems that we are not facing today.

The other part is that the dangerous part of "Fake News" is the "News" and not the "Fake".

Listening to talking heads blab about politics, plane crashes, and school shootings all day is going to harm your mental health no matter what.
I made one that consumed the HN API a little while ago (maybe a year?) using the fphttpclient library bundled with Lazarus. It was pretty simple to use and all the documentation is on the wiki[1]. It is a lot more low level than I am used to personally but it was fun nonetheless.

[1]http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fphttpclient
Yes, it's simple: Lambda School has skin in the game. Traditional universities have no skin in the game. Hence why we have a rent-seeking university system that hoovers money away from hard-working parents (and students), while putting those same parents and students at financial risk.
Same as my favourite drink #C0FFEE
I'm sure reserving 10GB of space will greatly "improve the reliability" of my Windows installation on a 60GB partition (on a 120GB dual boot SSD) with 5 GB free.
This one, about the "medicinal benefits" of Cinnabon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15615654
I work and take classes at Harvard Extension (professional development). The classes are quite good and often taught by people who aren't full time professors but work(ed) in the field.

The only downside is very very few show up for class since they're often taped and can be viewed remotely, which makes for a strange dynamic. Teachers watch the class for feedback, and its difficult to teach against nothing. My genomics class had about 5-6 people actually going to the class, but about 30-40 showing up for the exams.
We're asking the wrong questions. A full semester at my local community college is under $1000. Extrapolating to four years of undergrad education, that's $8,000 total.

WHY do we need this never ending whirlpool of sophisticated financial schemes to take care of this problem?
Frecency is a portmanteau of "frequency" and "recentness."

I don't know the exact scoring mechanism but potential matches are scored by both frequency of access and recentness of access. Firefox uses this for matches in the URL bar, and I think other browsers do as well.

For `z`, as an example, suppose I have two paths:

~/projects/fun_stuff_1

~/projects/fun_stuff_2

`fun_stuff_1` has been accessed 100 times, but all of those accesses were over two years ago.

`fun_stuff_2` has been accessed only once, but it was five minutes ago.

So if I type `$ z fun_stuff` or even `$z fun` it's going to rank `fun_stuff_2` ahead of `fun_stuff_1` in the possibilities. In practice, while obviously not perfect, frecency tends to match the user's intent a surprisingly high amount of the time... a good frecency implementation is a delight for the user, honestly.
There has been a pretty marked decline in violence and war since the UN was formed in 1945 https://medium.com/future-crunch/the-decline-of-war-8760f9a5...

Not all its fault perhaps but the general approach seems to be doing ok
> if charging infrastructure is common enough (which it will be) than a good chunk of those 60 minutes can be done in concert with those stops.

This was really the point that I was getting at. It is ultimately cheaper to put good chargers at every restaurant and bathroom stop than it is to put battery swap stations (with inventory) at enough locations.
Nice job! I had a good experience as part of the applied machine learning data science coursera specialization. The cloudant support was great to have.
I think you meant to say "but you can't not do it at all".
Also in the Ft.Lauderdale area + went to FAU. Small world!
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Do note that CPython bytecode has explicit break, continue, and "for loop" instructions, and (ofc) the language itself has no goto- so you can unambiguously recover high-level structure from a CFG far more easily than you might with compiled C.
Great way to DoS Airports...
I agree with you. Thinking about setting up a DevOps pipeline before you have anything to send through it (and even before knowing if you'll ever have anything to send through it) has a name in lean management: it's called waste™️. There's so many other things to do instead that could bring immediate value
"I'm trying to save the environment, please bring me food in single-use containers and have a person make a trip just for me in a gas-powered vehicle; cooking seems hard"
I think your comment is tongue in cheek, but I wonder if trip interruption insurance would cover this?
Two years into my first solo startup here. Lots of good advice here already, but the things that worked best for me:

* Build what you're interested in, and use the product yourself. If you're not personally using the product, the loneliness of a solo op can quickly translate into "why am I doing this at all?"

* Don't be afraid to admit what you don't know, AND don't be afraid to spend extra hiring professionals (or freelancers) to do those things. Consultants work the best, in my experience: hire them to build out some kind of framework that lets you do what you need to do without them, and then bring them back as needed to do more advanced things you can't do.

* Automate everything you can. People say startups should do things that don't scale, and that works when you've got the resources to throw at things. However, if it's just you then time is often your most valuable resource (moreso than money, in many cases): automate everything you can that takes up more than 30-60 minutes of your day so you can focus on more important things. This also ties into point 2: automate out the drone work so you also stay interested in what you're working in and don't succumb to a brick wall of "why am I even doing this?".

* As a solo founder, you need to be self-driven and self-accountable. You need to keep working and Get Shit Done even when nobody is asking you whether something's done or not. Don't be afraid to take breaks or time off when you need to recharge, but don't fall into a habit of "nobody's asking for this; I'll get to it later".

* Lastly, it can be tempting to vastly expand your work hours (especially if you're feeling pressured to get something done or feeling overwhelmed), probably more so than if you had a cofounder even (IMO it's a lot easier to suffer through long hours yourself than to command someone else do so also). There's nothing wrong with a 60 hour workweek, but you also should never feel like it's necessary. Sometimes I cut myself off at 8 hours in a day even if I'm on a roll and feeling motivated; that motivation often builds up and translates into another strong day tomorrow. You might also get a ton done in a single day by working into the night, but it's easy to translate that into sleeping in tomorrow because you got so much done and having a much slower day in general. Find what works best for you, and don't let yourself get burned out.
That sounds crazy, I can't find any information to back up that statement. Need source.

I'm finding something back in the 90s/early 2000s that might be related; the city was handling marketing and ticket sales, so maybe there was something there (if the city fails to sell so many tickets, they have to pay). But from what I'm seeing, that hasn't been true for about 15 years.
The problems in the classical theory are easily understood. The
charge and current densities of point particles are not smooth
functions but distributions (think of the Dirac δ-“function”). If
they act as the sources of the EM field the EM field itself becomes
singular. Now if you try to solve the full Maxwell equations
including the backreaction of matter & radiation fields you would have
to multiply distributions which is ill defined.

There are similar problems in the quantum theory but the divergences
are less severe and can be dealt with in a systematic way. Most
physicist believe they will totally disappear in some more fundamental
underlying theory. From a mathematicians point of view there is the
hope that at least some QFTs are finite and the divergences are just
an artifact of the construction & pertubation theory.
Agree. But I think global power dynamics have changed and with that military spending/militaristic posture will go down the way it did with the end of the British Empire or colonial powers of Europe.

If there is another triggering event like 9/11 (which kept the defense industry alive), it will be a real surprise to see the US muster a response the way they did in the past.
> Amazon was 40% less than list for books -- which was a massive amount, even if you lived in Barnes & Noble markets (and B&N wasn't as pervasive in 1996/1997 as your average mall bookstore was), where there were similar markdowns.

This.

But even for pure list, Amazon didn't pay sales tax so had a 5-8% advantage.

Amazon killed all the technical bookstores in short order because of that pricing advantage that they didn't deserve.
Is it a cheetah? (1996)
Meaning, GDRP will be a result of other (political) changes? I'd concur.
Huawei didn't break any laws in China or Iran. They're not at war, China isn't sanctioning Iran. Huawei isn't even allowed to do business in the US at the moment, so they shouldn't be subjected to US laws, yet here we are, with the US attempting to force their sovereignty over others. Surprised that China hasn't retaliated yet, they could do some major damage to US interests if they wanted.
Yes, and also cookie IDs. Both are called out as examples in recital 30:

“Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.”

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...
It cannot be anything but...
Pluralsight has self-assessment tests for various languages and technologies - https://www.pluralsight.com/product/skill-iq

I've only done the Python one myself but it did seem to ask questions on some fairly esoteric stuff, from what I vaguely remember.
More of this please!
Also, make sure to ask for a second and third nationality, because quite a few people have several passports, especially in Europe. Don't forget to add Statelessness as an option. Also, it may be difficult to decide if certain countries should be included in the list, as they are not widely recognized, such as Palestine and Catalonia. Therefore make sure add an "other(s)" field. Make sure this field allows several entries.
Would it kill them to provide some decent nutritional information? Like how much salt is in the product?

I found in the past that all the palatable meat substitutes were loaded with salt.
Perhaps our interpretations of those descriptions where our disagreement lies then. I found the protaganist's obsession with romanticizing everything in terms of math to be incredibly repetitive and even cringeworthy at times (the imaginary number thing especially). It's not that I think loving math in a poetic way is not possible, but the protagonist's manner of thinking about it just made no sense, and it was sprinkled through everything in a way that added little value and distracted from the meat of the story. I suppose that may be what the author intended, but it was not enjoyable to read or poetic in my view.

I also judge it harshly for the way the author wrote the only female character as an obvious object of wish-fulfillment rather than a coherent individual with reasonable motivations.

I do indeed give it credit for being an early scifi dystopia, but every other dystopia I've read was far better, and I can't help but feel that "Brave New World" surpassed "We" in every possible way. Still not recommending this book to anyone who doesn't just want to learn about dystopic novels.
I'm currently "officing" in a WeWork dedicated desk. Out of all the desks immediately around me, I'm the only person working for a "tech" company. There's a building contractor, a couple designers, electrical engineers, and a Realtor, and a marketer for some distillery/alcohol co.
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