skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vinod Khosla with Sam Altman on How to Build the Future [video]
>For me, the interesting conclusion is that there are things that humans are mathematically incapable of knowing.

Define

>mathematically

>incapable

>knowing

These hastily drawn pop-sciency conclusions are part of the problem why ML/AI has garnered so much media attention these days ...
1400 issues open on Github? Isn't that a bit too high to be manageable?
Don't lose a good customer over a billing or payment issue
Explainable AI vs. Explaining AI – Part 2
How to Build Your Brand Online
Personal data, not personally identifying information.

The former is a lot broader then the latter (and the latter is a US legal term and means precisely nothing in the EU).
With Steve, you could draw a straight line from the original Mac to the iPad. You could see one relentless mission to tame unusable hardware into a friendly machine through software. You could imagine Steve wanting something like an iPad even with the original Mac.

Jobs just wanted the software engineers to blow up the iPhone interface for the iPad. The fact that the original iPad had any affordances for the larger screen was because of engineers’ push back.

Unfortunately, the only sources I have are interviews from Nitin Ganatra, who was over some of the iPad apps at the time, from the Debug podcast.

Apple has not released a new flagship app for the iPad since its original release with iWork and Garageband.

In its whole 40 year existence, Apple has usually just made barely passable apps and let third parties produce the high end apps.

The exceptions were the original Apple // version of AppleWorks, ClarisWorks and maybe FileMaker.

Edit:

Corrected spelling.
Fortunately there are plenty of cookie-cutter computer games available for people with impaired imagination.
I don't like the new crop and the new style. Tables I played were overtly aggressive in a bad nerdy/intellectual way. I could sense the influence of mmorpgs and competitive tabletop games. I play for the story and the camaraderie, not to master loopholes in the rules and asserting dominance through numbers.
Interesting use of hashicorp's configuration language. How has it been working with it? Why use it rather than json, toml, or yaml?

I arrived at something similar recently in Rust, using actix-web. However, as an open source author of prior work (Yosai, in python), I realize that releasing this work is only the beginning. There's a lot more effort required to make an open source project viable. I'd gladly talk with folks about how one might do it, though.

It would be helpful to understand the demand for a project like this (and postgrest et al). What are the use cases where people finding value in creating enterprise-quality auto-generated endpoints?
- illegal activities can benefit from anonymous and cashless transactions, but those assets still need to be converted to cash and/or laundered at some point

- exchanges, trading platforms and payment platforms benefit from faster and cheaper protocols that are at least as secure as the existing ones. These protocols don't have to be related to cryptocurrencies in any way. If anyone offers a solution that beats banks'/visa's/forex's/paypal's/... current protocol, that protocol will eventually be adopted - most likely adopted by the companies that are already market leaders so very little will change from the user's perspective

- any relatively stable asset can be viewed as a store of value - no cryptocurrency meets this requirement at the moment

- economies cannot run on a deflationary currency - a government controlled inflationary currency will always be the main means of exchange

- decentralization exists in a fraction of the existing crypto projects and, when it exists, it's of little to no benefit

So I expect to see some illegal activity, some interesting work in research/protocols/software development, no mass disruption of any industry and, of course, the continued speculation that mass disruption is just around the corner.
True but irrelevant
> Perhaps some people will say "good, if you cannot run a site conforming to all laws of the land then you should shutdown". If you think that, consider this: as these laws pile up it will get more and more difficult to operate, leaving only the very tech/law savvy, and big business.

Some things are too dangerous to the public to allow part-time hobbyists to do. We don't allow part-time hobby doctors, or lawyers, or banks, or toxic waste disposal services, and most of us think that's the correct tradeoff. GDPR puts processing people's personal data in the same category; given how much damage a careless processor of personal data can cause, that seems appropriate.
*bed bugs
1. You violate the GDPR

2. One of the Supervisory Authorities fines you

3. The SA applies to a court in the EU for an order compelling payment of the fine

4. The SA applies to a US court for enforcement of the EU judgment

5. You have to pay up
Very good questions, indeed, not sure if there are solutions, except hashing the content and storing the hashes somewhere physically in multiple places/countries.
Setting goals for 2019: a quantified approach based on journaling
Both the Note 3 and the iPhone 5s were introduced in 2013. Guess which one is still getting updates?
Ireland? In Ireland, civil servants are not allowed to express political affiliation or opinion, so rather than it being a case of "we don't like what you said", it would be a case of "you said something political, and it persists."

I'm not sure if the contract for Revenue is exactly the same as the civil service, but I would presume on this front it is very similar.
Can you please ask your friend from the blind community's perspective, what their take is on using Minecraft Education Edition as a way to access Minecraft? It is more programmable than Minecraft Jave Edition, and supposedly one can interact with the game completely from within the API. The API [1] looks fairly complete, but I can't tell if it has what a blind game player would want to build from.

I just saw a pic-to-Braille conversion bot on Reddit, and your comment made me wonder if something similar could be built for blind Minecraft players. So far, I'm not aware of open source Minecraft-alikes that exposes the game purely through an API, though an open modding API like Minetest's [2] could probably be leveraged.

Googling around for this information leads to a lot of dead ends talking about the in-game Blindness effect, and I'm not a domain expert in what blind gamers would want to see, anyways. But it would be really cool to see the blind community add new dimensions to current game genres through game interaction APIs (though managing that and botting using the APIs would be an open problem).

[1] https://education.minecraft.net/wp-content/uploads/Code_Conn...

[2] https://dev.minetest.net/Main_Page
CSS (Under)performance
Ha, that was my starting RPG as well :-) I think I still have it somewhere....
I would call the Chinese people very "enterprising". The lack of regulations / lack of enforcement of regulations leads to cutting corners for raw profit. But is this kind of deregulation not the wet dream of many American politicians? </snark>

Chinese companies are getting better and better. A desoldering device (Zhongdi) and a 3D-printer (Anycubic) I bought recently are my anecdotal examples. When looking at older Youtube reviews and at my devices, one can clearly see that problematic details very corrected or improved in later versions of the device.

Isn't this the same cylce Japan went through? At first cheap imitation, then better quality, then innovation? Wasn't "Made in Germany" first established as a British measure to warn consumers about a crappy product?

In conclusion: there are many crappy Chinese products, but not all Chinese products are crappy. The better manufactures strive for more stable costumer relationships.
Anything you do for work eventually wears out and becomes "just work". That's why it's called "work".

Hobby coders can escape into the unrestricted world of building stuff without limits to satisfy their imagination and curiosity. They can also change hobbies and increase or decrease the amount of time they want to spend on coding to stay in the sweet zone.

Paid coders can only carve out little, temporary nooks of freedom within the requirements and demands that come from somewhere that is external. In the best case they can dictate how things shall be built but the "what" part generally comes as given: from the boss, from the CTO, from the company strategy, from the customers if you're an entrepreneur coder.

If it takes 15 years to get bored with coding I can think of a number of professions where it would only take 1.5 months to get bored. Boredom doesn't equal all is lost. It's just a sign to work on something else for a while.

I've recovered the excitement of coding several times, sometimes through hobby coding and something through talking my way into some interesting work project. But your interest needs to spend some time elsewhere before you can find it again in coding.

Try testing, interfacing customers, managing, or change jobs. If you can, try a job that's not in IT to get some perspective. This should be considered an ongoing process anyway as you will be constantly rethinking your place in life anyway. The process might lead away from coding or getting back stronger than ever, but the goal is to find something that makes you tick again. How all that realises itself in practical work life is mostly secondary.
Ars has some of the best space coverage that I have seen, thanks in no small part to the comment section. The knowledge there is amazing. Sometimes article is simply a way to start a discussion. This article is no exception.
It’s normal to have emotions, ups and downs, and a life. Coding is part of that.

Let it flow.
It's not Wikipedia, but if you are going to judge a whole culture by one news story you had better proove that the problem is widespread
I'm an American in Munich, and while taxis here are indeed reliable, I wouldn't call them cheap. Ballpark, I'd say they're about twice as expensive as the Uber/Lyft trips I've taken back in the States.
Lightning VS Raiden: can watchtowers and monitoring services scale?
Omg, doesn't Docker die yet ?
I took a similar path and, in my experience, it seems to in fact be more uncommon for someone to maintain a real passion for the day-to-day work of programming long-term. Which is to say I wouldn't worry, but try to focus on finding an interesting and enjoyable next move, whatever that may be; just know that you're young enough to take a few risks and that the job market for engineers is still such that you won't have difficulty getting back on that track should you so choose.

Certainly one of the more predictable paths is moving up into engineering management.

In my case, after experiencing a bit of burnout in my late 20s, I debated between going back to school for an MBA---another common route in this scenario---and trying to find a more customer-oriented role within an interesting technology company. I ended up deciding to join a late-stage startup in order to help found their Solutions Architecture team, which has been an absolutely terrific experience. I could imagine going back to an engineering role in time, but I've enjoyed and learned so much traveling the world to work with a wide range of companies across industries---just long enough to understand their business and (hopefully) help resolve their core difficulties...

Feel free to message me (account @gmail) if you're interested in hearing about my experience or of course if you're looking for a new role (https://stripe.com/jobs/positions/solutions-architect).
Where can I reach out to you?
I want the UI from Star Trek The Next Generation
Inside Facebook 3D Photos: Parallax Shaders
I think what's inevitable is that once you get to a certain level of proficiency, you begin to focus less on writing "good" code and start thinking about what you're actually coding for and what the end game will be.

Once you're experienced, it's pretty hard to find an exciting project that can stoke your fire because you've done it all before. Things just become an exercise.

How often do you get to work on a totally unsolved problem or world changing piece of software?
Ansible has 3900+ issues and 1700+ open pull requests on Github...
You realise this is equivalent to "the decentralised social web cannot be allowed to exist", and heading in the direction of "the public cannot be allowed general purpose computers"?

Like with almost every other Directive, the EU has made a huge mistake by not including de minimis exemptions in the regulation. In practice this isn't a problem in most countries because there isn't enforcement against tiny operators either, but the fear and confusion it creates is very real.

(On the other hand, without this kind of thing you get phone companies selling your real-time location to criminals. If only there were such a thing as a sense of proportion)
Consider constraining your topics of interest and not checking too many boxes. Github explore only displays two or three of these topics at refresh in a seemingly random fashion.
Isn't this solved by making "Delete My Account" a self-service button on the user account page?

It really should be automated anyway. PII for billing and contractual reasons isn't covered by the right to be forgotten (as I read the regulations) because they're required for other legal reasons.
As a non-user I'm curious, what kind of negative effects? If you don't mind sharing.
If you find a new thing that piques your interest, it's probably good; it's not like you couldn't get back to coding if and when the stars align. On the other hand, dwindling passion with nothing to replace it could be a sign of impending burnout.
> "Let me be clear: Sci-Hub is not just stealing PDFs. They’re phishing, they’re spamming, they’re hacking, they’re password-cracking, and basically doing anything to find personal credentials to get into academic institutions."

And goodness for that.
How I did implement a sample SAML 2.0 Service Provider built on Spring Boot
Do you mean something like this?
http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/tex.html#tex-macros

Okay, that made me curious and I gave it a try:
please have a look at the slides.md and the resulting pdf

https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck/tree/master/docs/doc...
> I discovered that I couldn't get to work on any government projects because when a background check was carried out on me, the above comment was found

Well, that's kind of Orwellian.
If this is your attitude, then your business is an unreasonable burden on me and I hope you go under.
If they tell you this in a personal dialogue, than I concur, it's silly and probably pointless. However, in a public online discussion they are probably just trying to mark for others some information which they see as false as something to disregard. And if they're reasonable, they will add some statistical data to prove their point.
Comcast Releases AI-Powered Service to Protect Connected Devices
No real other option? There are dozens of other excellent RPGs available that rely more on imagination than sight. D&D is merely the gateway game.

There are of course D&D spin-offs and clones like Pathfinder and 13th Age, old school (OSR) "retro-clones" like Dungeon Crawl Classics, Lamentations of the Flame Princess and many, many others. Then there are the classic non-D&D games like Shadowrun (in its 5th edition now), Traveller, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (4th edition just released), and GURPS. There's Savage Worlds for fast-paced pulp-style adventures, FATE for absolutely anything you can possibly imagine (including publications for Dresden Files and others). There's FFG's excellent Star Wars games (Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion and Force and Destiny), and dozens if not hundreds of smaller indie games, many of which are completely free.

We are truly living in a golden age for roleplaying games. D&D is merely the most visible and best-known one.
You can certainly request a source if you disagree with the statement but it is not helpful to shout ‘citation needed’ as if this is an encyclopedia and everything you post needs references. You could say ‘I don’t think that is true, do you have references for that?’
Scientists discover a process that stabilizes fusion plasmas
Using Git to edit Excel sheets or order pizza
So I'm not sure if I'm out of this rut already or still digging. I guess it will take me my whole life working things out. But since I made this first crucial change things have improved now since 3+ years but far too slowly!! Until all of a sudden ... A couple of days ago I'm not totally sure what triggered it, but there it was: Hello darkness my old friend. I thought maybe I should just go for a walk and, like a hermit go live in the woods until I die (the forests and nature is the only thing that gives me peace). I felt this was a good way because when I was a kid my mum would kick us out of the house and living in the countryside without neighbours anywhere the only place to go was the forest. I had my tree there. I gave him a name and talked to him. I'd sit on one of its branches for hours and he was my friend. I built small dams with rocks on the river or hunted rabbits or looked for mushrooms. The forest was my happy place. It was the only place that gave me true peace (until today). So it felt totally natural to go and die at a place that felt like home. It was the first serious thought about doing it I had in 5 years. The last time I simply stopped eating. First as a way to see how far I could push a 0-diet (like extreme fasting where I'd only drink water), ... I did this before and knowing my limits I knew that 2 weeks without food wouldn't even stop me from my running routines. Then after 2 weeks I decided to do another 2. I did all this to get some clarity after m marriage fell apart and to become clear in my head. It made me clear for sure but I was in no state to have done this at that time. Also it was dangerous because I was by myself. Basically rented a flat to be by myself and get away from it all so pushing the limits like this was a stupid idea. After week 3 I started playing with the thought of simply not starting to eat again. The final days I was so weak that I could not walk 2 meters from the bed to the couch without collapsing. I drank tap water instead of tea which turned out to give me chlorine poisoning since my body was unable to break it down without food and so drinking made me vomit too. I admitted myself to the hospital literally with my last energy. They had no idea WTF they were dealing with considering I looked skinnier than Christian Bale in "The Machinist".

So not having thought about suicide for so long It felt strange to suddenly think like this again. I haven't even remembered it for months and was surprised that I'm not yet over it. It was all so silly to want to go and die in the woods considering it was triggered by a minor argument with my girlfriend which wasn't even connected to any of the events. It was a deep sense of despair which at the time I felt the feeling would stay forever. It blew over as quickly as it came and only 2 days later it was like it never happened and everything was OK. Although I'm not bipolar (afaik), meaning I don't get the raging highs followed by deep lows.

2/3
The same shift is to be seen, I think, in less tangible creative endeavors as well; thanks to Patreon, Twitch, the various art sites, and pr0bait, it’s increasingly possible for artists, musicians, streamers, and even a few writers to go full-time on their passions without needing to have a day job at all.

I’m not enough of a historian to speak to the potential parallels between this economic shift and the old patronage system of the Renaissance era, but I’d be interested to hear from someone who can.
Yubico Launches Security Key NFC and Private Preview of YubiKey for Lightning
I think people are saturated with rehashed versions of yesterday's technology. Remove a headphone jack here, round some screen corners there. Yes there's "economic deceleration" a major factor being a stalling of innovation.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsAKstP-AQ was mentioned in the article, text version would be nice but has more details.
You can install any third party file storage app like Dropbox, Google Drive etc and they are all accessible from the Files app as well as any program that needs o save and store files. There are file storage apps that store files only on the local file system and expose an ssh server and/or web server that allow you to upload/download files directly from your phone.
markdeck supports mathjax[0], might that be enough for your use case? An example can be found in the showcase[1]...

[0]: https://www.mathjax.org
[1]: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/#/example-ma...
Ask HN: Which project will teach me most about data structures and algorithms?
There are amazing data structures and algorithm courses out there. Many of these are mentioned in HN comments. However, as a person who feels more motivated doing an actual project (e.g. toy database, toy computer graphics engine or toy compiler) I wonder if anyone has a good suggestion for which project lends itself quite well for a data structures and algorithms course.
It took me too many paragraphs until I realized he wasn’t being snarky and ironic.

It’s interesting reading these posts where the facts are agreed too and the value systems produce very different viewpoints.

I read this and thought these were positives. The ability to view library info and history is likely understood by the consenting posters. I expected some evidence of misuse rather than the typical “in the hands of a criminal” type hypotheticals where paper reading history might help some spear phishing attack.

This reminded me of the 2010 “if you post your vacation pictures to twitter thieves might more easily rob you.” I mean, that did happen, but it was rare and posters were aware of that small risk.
I think I agree with the crux of what you have to say, but do you have an example of people having non-transitive preferences?

I can't think of one off the top of my head, and the classical economic argument is that non-transitive preferences would create a 'happiness pump' where I get stuck in a loop trading one thing for another and feeling good about the trade every time.
"Personal data" is defined differently in the GDPR than in most US legislation.

>‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person

An IP address or tracking cookie is an identifier. It is not, in isolation, personal data. The other stuff you store like posts and access logs become personal data if those identifiers allow you to associate that stuff with a natural person. If you strip the data of identifiers to the extent that it can no longer be connected to anyone, then it ceases to be personal data within the scope of the GDPR.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
My first RPG too. I have all the old books in my big RPG book case. My dad got it when I was 10, and I was hooked immediately, though the system at the time was really simple. DSA has been expanded quite a bit since then.

Incidentally, there's been a Kickstarter for a new Dutch translation that's about to deliver soon. I'm curious how recognisable it still is.
6. Don't even think about travelling to the EU if you've ignored the fines.