skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people are taking me way too literally here -

Your company uses toilet paper in the bathroom. No one suggests that you have no extra toilet paper on hand. Instead, someone says "we use 3 rolls/week on average"

Dumb person: "So let's never have more than 3 rolls spare"

Better: "While 3 is the average, 5 covers 80% of the weeks. The remaining weeks can be covered by having John run down to the corner store to grab an extra." (Note: ASSUMING someone has done the math and decides the opportunity cost of storage is greater than the opportunity cost of those 20% of times)

My concern: Joan's retirement party serves bad tuna casserole on the same day the corner store is out of stock.

JIT can totally work - wasting money on storage on something that might be wasted can be an easy win. But you have to consider the other cases. To tie this back to the article, if you're operating at capacity all the time, what happens when something comes up and you need more capacity?
does anyone know where google documents this?
Unless you buy Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 2016 Server, you can't opt-out.
I think it all comes down to one thing:

There is no Income-As-A-Service available on the internet or in industrialized society.

Real technology liberates people from labor and minutia. What we have today could be thought of as phantom technology (similar to phantom wealth) in that it gives the appearance of providing labor-saving devices and software without actually providing such things:

http://neweconomy-wg.thenextsystem.org/visions/living-wealth...

Under our current capitalist system, no amount of income frees someone from the daily obligations and distractions that slowly drain away the time that each of us is allotted. So we end up with millionaires that have less time than ever, or that feel undignified that they can't get out of The Matrix, who then impress their toxic worldview on things like our political system, perpetuating servitude on the masses and future generations.

The vast majority of people working in technology are underemployed. University researchers spend too much time raising funding. Internet startups can raise millions and even billions of dollars if they find creative ways to turn dollars into profit, but there seems to be no funding to permanently solve problems like energy, hunger, disease, etc etc.

People have tried to create their own off-the-grid societies, but these have so far been mostly unsuccessful. I'm not aware of any similar online groups that one could join and obtain a stipend just by being a member. Open source or crowd funding could possibly go this direction someday, feeding profits back into the groups instead of siphoning them off to private shareholders.

IMHO the way to solve this is to get back to a grant-based system. Give researchers, hackers and makers the funding they need to solve the real problems facing the world, and we'd see outsized returns on investment almost overnight. That's why I'm a huge proponent of UBI. And also why I think the entrenched forces of the status quo will never let it happen.
Mine is fine on carpet.
I never looked for it, but Leibniz was a member of the RS so he almost certainly shows up. He's mentioned frequently in the Philosophical Transactions. For example here's
"the Answer of Mr. Leibnitz" in response to a letter from "clarissimis viris Newtono" (the most distinguished Newton):
https://books.google.com/books?id=7uwyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA186&dq=%...
What's stopping an online bank from setting up their own system?
Aw, here I thought it was an implementation of the 1980's Atari 2600 Activision game :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)
Paying Tribute to the Web with View Source
Differences:

- It's configurable.

- The space is reserved for the end user, not the OS manufacturer.
+1, very happy with my Uplift desk after ~8 months so far. I would avoid their chairs (not built by them, I would guess) – I ended up returning mine b/c it was very uncomfortable. But the desk is fantastic and I'd buy it again without hesitation.
Only one of the three groups you mentioned needs to do an ideological 180. The masses don't care and the energy companies don't care so long as they stand to make money. Only (some) environmentalists activity dislike nuclear.
Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools – Including Ours
Yes, and universities in particular have a level of responsibility to their customers that is much higher than other organizations.
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Do you happen to have a link to the Alibaba supplier you bought from?
This is what you agree to[1] when you live in Illinois. ;) Hello, fellow Illinoisan.

[1] Other things you agree includes a terrible budget, corrupt politicians, and the sad realization that the government here only works here at all when those corrupt politicians are in charge.
U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks
Absolutely... which is usually my point when I say build something that solves a problem you have/had. It's often the best opportunities for either an open-source contribution or a SaaS product.
To get a similar experience with Lisp you need to use one of the surviving commercial Common Lisp environments like Allegro or LispWorks.
They wanted the 75% number, but if you look at e.g. the mid-west it's going to be insanely cold (I grew up there; it's expected to be cold right now, but this is something else.)

It's colder than it typically is almost everywhere, so for people who live in the north it's a big deal. For people who live in the south and don't plan for freezing temps... also a big-ish deal.
Some for sure, I've heard plenty of news about incidences. Sub-freezing isn't too bad though, especially with layers and a good sleeping bag. The worst happens if you get wet or are exposed to wind.
perhaps im extrapolating too much based on my own two data points. im just a normal senior eng, but have been able to get my last two offers modified (once with early exercise, once with 10 year expiration).
Ask HN: Advice for accomplished but unchallenged high school senior
Will graduate from High School this spring with about 70 credits from Community College. Already accepted into college of science and engineering at local Big 10 University for next fall. We know that they have a good history of accepting these CC credits. He has math up through multi-variable calculus, chem I, physics I & II, liberal arts general classes pretty much done.

He has been in robotics - combat initially and VEX last few years.

Finished one semester intro to computer science, says that he gets binary and hexadecimal counting systems, did a lot of pseudo code with that class and is now teaching himself C++ because that is what is required for the computer engineering degree. I got him started on Project Euler as a way to give him specific problems to solve using C++ and give him a way to measure progress.

So far none of these seem to have really challenged him. He faithfully attends class, takes sparse to okay notes and studying for a major test consists of an hour or so of browsing back through notes and reworking a couple of problems for math and physics and less if it is a liberal arts class - maintaining 4.0 without much effort while taking the hardest classes available.

I suspect that there are a number of people here on HN that were very much like him as a high school senior.

What would you suggest as ways to challenge him?

Suggestions for summer job - he did some construction grunt work a couple summers ago, then tutored math last summer.

If you were like him at that age what might you do different? Or, what was really engaging that might not be obvious?

Thanks
This is security by obscurity, it's still technically possible to access the documents. Like if you accidentally revealed the URL somehow. You shouldn't have to worry about things like that.
Salesforce acquires Griddable
Yep, weather != climate, and it goes both ways. Glad the article didn't try to push any climate aspect.
Data Privacy Day and Internet Privacy Trends for 2019
It's not ok when it doesn't really contribute any serious value to the functionality the user gets, when the thing people actually come to your site for can be done without JavaScript.
Yes, but you also described groups on Twitter and reddit, which makes it hard to pin down where its all coming from. There is no lead by 4chan, 4chan has no leader, 10-100 people on a thread on 4chan isn't "lead" by 4chan, its more likely the larger portion doesn't care, and doesn't participate. So if some are from 4chan, some are from reddit, some see it happening on Twitter and decide to join in, why do you think its entirely 4chan lead or that its everyone or even the majority of people on 4chan? Again, still, don't feed the trolls. Reacting to it is what the trolls want, and you'd think they'd know better by now than to react. Instead something that happens on the Internet everyday (something that isn't even that bad, like telling someone to learn to code), is being made into another thing to write another fake outrage clickbait piece to create a controversy where there is barely notable that no one cares about and people wonder why these companies are going under. They just want to put the blame entirely on one platform they dislike, because that's what's fashionable for outrage clickbait.

If their version of harassment is some trolls telling them to "learn to code" that's just more of the overly dramatic, hyperbolic reporting that got me to discount them as legitimate news to begin with, and if anything makes me feel like laying them off was probably the right choice.
The interesting part is not in the reading of the words but the understanding of the concepts.

I listened to this podcast and rarely read transcripts. When listening to podcasts, at least for me, the "umms" and "awws" allow me time to think about what is being said.

If you prefer reading. Read the article that the interview is based upon:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminish...

And Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen:
https://www.amazon.com/Stubborn-Attachments-Prosperous-Respo...
I am a scientist and master of logic and I find it mind numbingly entertaining to trigger episodes of cognitive dissonance in people. There is no excuse not to resolve the conflicting logic of your beliefs.

You call basic logic gross rhetoric? You are exactly why I enjoy this. Even if you think you hate me you will have grown a little bit.

One final dose: I'm an independent and wouldn't be caught dead voting for Trump or Hillary. Edit: Well maybe if I were dead I would vote for Hillary seeing as things go.
any way to get past the paywall?
For those wondering what "for over half a century" means: 1968 the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion sank and hasn't been recovered.

It's certainly debatable whether the current use of heavy oil in shipping is preferable to nuclear power. However I find it highly doubtful the civil sector could replicate the impressive track record of the US navy regarding operating nuclear reactors on ships and submarines.
I think it was awesome... and personally didn't have issue with it at all... a 4-day weekend every other weekend and 4-day work weeks seem pretty nice to me. It was actually one day a week, so ~52 days... he would just block every other friday, with the following monday... so one week he'd work M-Th, the next Tu-F.
Building a large, internationalized e-commerce website with Gatsby
I'm not sure it's totally "normal". My own recollections of living in Michigan were cold in January, but... from what I can tell, they've only had perhaps 2 or 3 days above 32F this month; basically an entire month or sub-freezing. That doesn't jive with my own memories of living there (for ... 30+ years).

To some extent that "yes, much of the country is cold" in January, yeah, the headline might be slightly out of sync - maybe it's only 60% normally? I think the bigger issue is just how cold it is in so many places where it's not normally this cold.
It's only for small chunks of data, since you have to limit yourself to the tiniest storage medium the browser allow for your replication.

E.G: on my browser, you can only store 81920 bytes per domain in cookies, so if I want the max redundancy, I have to limit myself to 80ko. Besides, cookies are sent in each request, so I want to limit myself. Let's say you want more, local storage is limited to 10 MB. It's not huge.

But the browser doesn't care about the size of the data, only how recent it is. So it may evict yours, even if it's very small, compared to the huge cache of hundred's of MB from the manifest file or the webworker from other open tabs.
Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable: permanent snaps
That sheet of ice over your whole car isn't too bad if you can figure out the right amount of force to crack the ice without also cracking your windshield. :D

One day last week I spent my time after work removing it off my car, then driving to where my friend works, and removing it off her car too.
Its a great week to live in the Bay Area.
Sometimes brute force is what's required to get people to cough up their payment details. iTunes had people paying $1 to buy individual, DRM-ridden (since removed) tracks at a time when Limewire and BitTorrent were popular.

I believe it was partially the UX that got people spending. For example, ITunes won't grab album art for the tracks in your library by default. You'll have to have an iTunes account with a registered CC number. Retrieving the art is free, but it can't happen without those payment details. I dislike looking at collections that don't have the art displayed, so I put in my CC.

So now, when you're exploring the interface and come across some new music/movies you're interested in, the friction involved in purchasing is near-zero; point, click, confirm the purchase and it's yours.

At some point, someone will create a CMS plugin of some kind that adds a "purchase this article for $0.50" banner and handles the payment processing and fees. The challenge will be to incentivize users to put their details in.
It's hyperbole, I actually enjoy winter weather.
Also midwest, and below freezing is fine and below 0 is annoying. This potential -60F windchill through Minnesota on Wednesday is terrifying. The worst I've ever experienced is -40 and it was brutal.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/national/weather-forecast-... (third map)
The IPCC report estimates a possibility of 2GT/year from afforestation.

(And expect us to need 100-1000GT extracted by 2100 depending on how quickly we get rid of emissions.)
temperatures that allow for snow to appear are not normal in the south or on the west coast

That's more of a stereotype than a fact.

It gets very cold in winter in the vast majority of nation, including the south and west. It snows in Las Vegas every year. Las Vegas even has a ski resort.† But people rely on an old cartoon-inspired vision of what a "desert" is, rather than the fact that "desert" means a place with little water, not necessarily high temperatures year-round.

Their vision of "American desert" is usually Monument Valley.†† But guess what, that's under snow right now, too. And it's not unusual.

† https://www.leecanyonlv.com
†† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Maybe once upon a time, but with blobless mainline Linux kernel support for almost all features on almost all SOCs[1], including video codecs on many parts[2], anyone claiming Allwinner to be "the devil" or variants on a theme is unambiguously incorrect. Broadcomm and the raspi foundation are evil. [3][4]

[1] https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-s...

[3] https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1088472549715918848

[4] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/LIC...
For the record neither is experienced Java dev doing Perl.
The usage in the headline is more akin to “the company suffered a blow to its bottom line,” that is, not to literally suffer, but to endure a difficulty.

That said, if you don’t live in a sub-arctic climate and don’t own the kind of outerwear rated for -15° F and below, suffering an actual injury is a very real possibility.
Sadly, Patrick Collison had no experience in payments before starting Stripe.
I sense a little bit of political correctness on his part. I bet his reaction was a few cuss words towards the bank rather than saying it was his fault.

I live in Poland but make money in EUR. Finding out what percentage my bank used to STEAL from transactions left me pissed off for a few hours (and led me to eventually find out about TransferWise--which is what I now use, actually).

Even if you ignore the fact that for every 1 EUR I give my bank they're able to loan other customers 10 EUR--which should make it more than enough to give me a free account and wave all fees for any transaction I wish to make--these are a few bits exchanged via computers. They hold all currencies, and move records between 2 accounts in different currencies. There is absolutely no reason to charge 5% for this operation. If you DON'T ignore the fact that 1 EUR I give my bank they're able to loan other customers 10 EUR, they're complete criminals and they're in business only because most people don't care about finding out how banking works.
source? reference?
Yeah... Gripping and flipping a sheet of ice off a windshield is surprisingly satisfying.
That's the old normal, too.
I have a demanding baby, its enough!
I've been thinking about this for a while. While the US is such a huge country, it's obviously hard to pinpoint an obvious "American culture", but even more so maybe the identity is so hard to track down because of its prevalence? During the last 100 years American culture's become so prevalent in the west ("globalism") that a lot of countries are very Americanised where popular culture, art and even businesses originate from the US.

I mean, I live in Eastern Europe and I'm currently watching an American TV series on Netflix while I'm writing this comment on my Apple MacBook with a podcast waiting for a listen later and there's a Sam Harris book on my bed. It's nothing like my heritage of what it means to be Hungarian, living in Transylvania. And yet you're sharing a lot of American identity with me.

It's just a thought I've been playing around with, but maybe that's why Americans have such a hard time finding their identity as Americans?
I would risk saying "always".
Likewise. My wife loved posts like that (both to post, and to read), and we havne't found a similar space either.
Guidelines for thoughtful product design
I picked up a used motorized by Autonomous on craigslist. Really sturdy, no problems so far up and down every day for 6 months, good controls.

Its the dual motor seen on amazon here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YET9M84/
I have a Multitable "modtable" with the setup you describe, though with a custom-carved ikea wood countertop for the desk surface.

Solid, stable, no wobble.
A BlockTogether list for election propaganda bots on Twitter
It's not too bad if you're patient and plan ahead: raise the wipers so they're not frozen to the windshield and let the car warm up. After about 5-10 minutes of warming, the ice on a windshield comes off very easy. Granted, the last storm wasn't an inch of ice, it was about a 1/4" of ice, some snow, then about another 1/4" of ice. Took me longer to shovel around the car than it did to clean the car itself off.
Apple only ordered 23,000 screws. That's not enough to justify making the tooling for production by progressive stamping.
Caldwell Manufacturing has automatic screw machines. Those are general-purpose machines for making things out of wire and small rod stock. They do good work, but are slower and higher cost per unit than stamping.
If they'd gone to a company that's primarily a screw supplier, like KD Fasteners or US Micro Screw, they probably wouldn't have had the problem.

Apple has shot itself in the foot before by being too tough on suppliers.
They want suppliers to invest in production capacity without guaranteeing a big buy. Remember the sapphire screen debacle.
What the Flow team has been up to
> Everyone else will be split around various special interests

I think you’re overestimating the probability of this factor. Twenty years isn’t a bad estimate, but I’d guess closer to 10.
Comparative advantage. The amount banks could earn on their traditional products and services dwarfs whatever pennies they'd scrounge up by creating a B2C Patreon replacement.
The conflicting anecdotes of "wobble" vs "no wobble" of the BEKANT desk in this thread are fascinating.

Last year, I played around with the BEKANT standing desk on display at the IKEA store and (in my perception) it wobbled. It's the same type of wobble that a youtuber demonstrated[0]. There are others in this thread that complain about wobble.[1]

And yet some people say there's no wobble -- and I believe them.

My attempted explanation to reconcile the Schrodinger's Cat dual reality is that people must have a different threshold for sensing a noticeable wobble.

Is the dress blue or white? Does the BEKANT desk wobble or not wobble? Depends on the observer.

[0] deep link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3sYS0xUq1E&t=230

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19020722
and if you're wondering, that's probably 100% for us canadians lol
I imagine there are people that get offended by it.

Me? I'll keep doing distributed and low level programming in Haskell.
Generally sticking a CDN automatically in front of any site posted isn't great because you're taking away all the potential ad revenue and flattening any dynamically generated elements to the site blindly.
Thanks. We had a free trial version for about three months and then started paid plans based on customer demographics around last summer. So it's been less than a year. Note that I'm based out of Toronto and my friend in South America.
Ha, thankyou, but we’re definitely in the middle of the market. If your main thing is price you can find cheaper companies, our main thing is reducing verication time and hassle.
I disagree, the lite edition significantly deteriorated my user experience.

On a wide 4K monitor, the text is not centred, stretching from the far left to the far right, making it very difficult to continuously read a sentence from left to right. Limits like 80 characters per line exist for a reason.

The text is formatted in a very annoying manner, line by line, sentence by sentence, like it was spit out by a debugger in a terminal. I'm trying to compare this to the experience of reading a column in a newspaper with proper typography and visual layout.

The page already loads a css stylesheet which is mostly empty, for whatever reason, and also tries to load an analytics plugin with javascript, so I don't see the reason to omit basic stylesheets to at least make it readable.

Compared to the "full" version with an adblocker, even with JS disabled, in my eyes it's still a significant step down.
Inside the Fake Science Factory (2018) is an amazing DEFCON talk, by 3 people who stumbled on and investigated an unbelievably huge worldwide network (400,000 scientists involved) of fake-scientific conferences, journals, websites raking in money and enabling people to make claims that their products are scientifically proven. The presenters got hackers to track down the people behind one of the largest organizations, and analyze the huge numbers of conferences/papers. They present/publish nonsensical talks on graphs and bees+cancer to see what peer review there is... A must watch. Very funny, if depressing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ras_VYgA77Q
DeepMind's Starcraft II APM Claims Don't Hold Up
What happens when Netflix no longer carries your favourite show, and now you're paying $X for a service you use less and less?
Best way to bust monopolies like Amazon, Google or Facebook is to prevent them from buying other companies. Let them go ahead with their own innovation only.

Google, Apple FB, etc. are going around buying all startups that could compete. Allow them to innovate only internally and lets see how far it helps them.

FB without Instagram, Oculus, WhatsApp, and so on would be less dominant.