skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best work I ever did involved a large collection of computers admin'ed by some serious f-ing idiots. They'd break that system in every conceivable way, every day of the week. So, I ended up writing a seriously fault-tolerant piece of software that could make forward progress on my users' problem no matter what. It turned out to be glorious.

Not much beyond that, except that my users had a clear need, and I was given time to do the work. Had a private office, but that mattered little.

My moral: Sometimes you really can make lemonade out of lemons. Maybe the torrent of shit raining down on you is a gift sometimes.
Facebook ex-security chief: How ‘hypertargeting’ threatens democracy
we need sprinklers that leverage machine learning to adaptively choose different fire suppressants!
Came here to say that. Compared to making everybody richer, making one guy a billionaire is easy. It costs $1 billion. Even giving each Chinese person $1 would cost more than that.

Edit: Which is not to be all "America Yay!" and "China Boo!" like some high school rivalry. America's legendary wealth inequality objectively demonstrates that it, too, leans closer to "making one guy a billionaire" than it does to "giving everybody a dollar."
this happened to me too. And since brew upgrade now also does cleanup by default, I did not have realine 7 around anymore. No information offerred on how to get it back, just wasted dev time.
I don’t have that much freedom of the what when it comes to business features but I do have freedom of the how and I’m good with that.

I also have a great deal of influence over my hobby horses - infrastructure (AWS) and Devops.
You misunderstand.

Heroku does not avoid having to collect taxes by adding this to their receipts. They could say nothing, and every word of that statement still would be true, and they would still not be liable to collect the tax. Heroku is just unique in that they are telling the customer about it.

I am the CIO of a $150M company. I am in charge of the sales tax processing infrastructure at this company, and I even re-wrote our billing process to comply with the various state laws. Though I am not an accountant, I know more about sales tax than I ever wanted to know.

I also purchase thousands of dollars worth of online services every month. NONE of them charge tax. None whatsoever. Again, Heroku is not unique.

This is true of every online service because to be required to collect tax, you must have a nexus in the state to which you are delivering a product. That used to mean merely a physical business presence. (Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992)). But now, since the SCOTUS decision last June, it can mean an "economic nexus." But even then, this nexus is defined by the physical address to which a product is delivered. See the issue?

And regarding the requirement of consumers to self-assess sales tax: This is true of everything you buy online that, if purchased in a store in your home state, would otherwise be taxed. Almost all states technically require purchasers to self-assess if the item is taxable, whether the vendor tells you about it or not. And again, as part of my job, I have to know which products we must self-assess, and which we don't have to, and fill out our purchase orders accordingly.
Ok, it's not obvious to me, so I asked for some links to some left-leaning news sites. (Maybe just some of the most left-leaning, if most of them are, thank you.)
Mini-USB was easily to feel it's orientation, they were also dramatically more reliable than micro-usb.
Fair enough! thanks for keeping me honest. Unfortunately edit window has passed so can't fix as suggested in the guidelines:future readers please ignore the question and start at sentence 2.
Look no further than Tiananmen square to see the true face of communist China. They executed thousands of protesters with the military that day. Today they make dissenters disappear into a work camp prison and organ harvesting complex. I love the Chinese people and hope the government can change but they do not have a good human rights record.
You're right that they have different issues, different problems, different strengths.

But what irks me is the "what-aboutism." If Texas executes handicap people, that's awful. But it makes China harvesting organs OK? The U.S. has a horrible track record in Latin America and (frankly) around the world, so China gets some "slack" in how many human rights activists or lawyers it jails each year?

I understand I'm responding to a larger idea and not your comment specifically but... your exact line of argument is used to justify basically everything China (and Russia, and a lot of people incidentally) does that is condemned by the international community

"So-and-so does it? Wake up you fucking sheep" is basically the locked-and-loaded phrase you can use to sound important and win any argument anytime, anywhere, and I think the tendency to fall back on that idea on HN hurts the community.
Bill Gates went to Lakeside School here in Seattle and grew up in a nice house along the shoreline in Sand Point (a rich neighborhood of Seattle). He is hardly self made, and comes from an upper crust Seattle family that could afford the finest education and residences in Seattle.

Had Bill Gates gone to Seattle Public Schools at the time, its doubtful that he would have gained similar contacts or become notable at such an early age.
Seconded! You could be my work best friend and years after we've moved on we could still enjoy not talking to each other.
While I'm glad it works for you, this set up would definitely not work for me.

I prefer less ceremony, remote when I like, no open office, etc etc
I can't say I ever had fear of learning something new. I really enjoy learning.

I suspect you don't have a fear of learning, but a fear of how people might perceive you during the phase of learning? Don't get me wrong, I also struggle with "perception fear", just in different areas of life. I'm also working on overcoming that.

Here's my 2 cents that's worth less than 2 cents.

Face your fear head on. Instead of beating yourself up for mistakes, remind yourself that making mistakes is natural. Adjust and try again.

Hope you break out of this fear because it's a mindset. Most fears are bullshit. Learning won't kill you, people judging you along the way won't kill you.

Enjoy yourself and go easy on yourself.
Any Google employees willing to divulge non-public information about someone without their consent? :)
I like how simple this is. Have you thought about making it a web app?
You are guaranteed to not earn that 3 billion from that area (usually property tax based) if you offer that incentive to Amazon.
You will get something from that area if you don't. Amazon isn't the only game in town - it's not like NYC is starving for new business...
+1 to XP.

Pairing removes many barriers to development:

* built-in code review

* knowledge sharing: removes silos

* helps avoids overengineering (few pairs have the same overengineering idea, so you tend to settle on a decent un-overengineered solution)

TDD, which I'm not fully convinced on, acts a clock for pairs: one person writes a test, one person writes the implementation, flip roles, repeat.

Other XP practices: everyone works at HEAD, deploys from HEAD, retrospectives.

Small features went from discussing with customer, to writing the implementation, tests, monitoring, and deploying it in half a day.

The disadvantages of ~full pairing: remote is harder to support, I missed getting into flow, fixed working hours.
We're large enough where we have a specific DevOps Teams and the Team doing AWS is doing it wrong. If I didn't have the freedom I have now, I would have a very different opinion of this place and be looking for a smaller shop
Still it’s the same character. Enjoy the 16 others variants: http://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute....
Well, if Trump was stupid enough to have any remote knowledge of it or part in it - he is done. Esquirer will crack, Bezos has infinite funds, and determination, and is pissed. The truth will come out.

Stay tuned.
The pdf has proper fonts (d/l link top right https://journals.blythinstitute.org/ojs/index.php/cbi/articl...)

I've only skimmed it, would appreciate a tl;dr.

The non-evolvability of interfaces reminds me of Parnas' famous On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules (https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria...), where you choose variant modules demarcated by invariant interfaces, such that the evolution you anticpate will occur within the modules.

This approach is great, until it turns out your choice of interfaces was wrong because you are terrible at predicting the future... but because of the dependencies on them, change is difficult. Dependencies ossify. All you can do is rewrite from scratch.
I guess it boils down to: if you live in a glass house, don’t throw stones
Funny enough I've been obsessing over this concept of "aligning vectors" / measuring the impact of personal KPIs against the total progress of a business.

“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.” — Elon Musk
Neither pipes nor facial recognition software are marketed for criminal purposes. And neither amazon nor home depot invented them.
I'm not a new yorker. But I'm a 100% a fan of AOC and fully agree that Amazon has no business ruining NYC and causing gentrification to LIC. I can't help but feel for the families, businesses and communities this will disrupt.
Check out “match point” by woody Allen. It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (2015)
Just as a point of clarification, Chinese have no obligation to comply with American sanctions, unless they’re using the American financial system.
Iran was under UN sanctions at the time Meng violated those sanctions. China is on the UN security council, and as a permanent member, they have a veto. They did get a vote, and they voted yes.

Are you somehow not aware of this? They were a founding member of the UN, and have been on the Security Council since it's beginning. They have abstained or voted yes on every UN action that involves the SC (international peace and security).

Meng violated additional US laws... which she is only subject to because she was operating in the US. Just as a US citizen is subject to Chinese laws when operating in China. Surely you're not suggesting that foreigners should be allowed to go into another country and violate their laws without consequence.
It depends on the word. Der oder das Radio for example: das Radio(gerät) oder der Radio(empfänger) defines the article. The same can be distinguished for butter: the word's origin might originate from Greek or Latin - depending on which language you choose, you'd get a different article.
Show HN: I just put a dev environment on my phone via Termux
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Thai king vetoes sister's election candidacy
> We are empowered...

Good!

> ...to respectfully...

Sure.

> ... question decisions.

Uh, that's empowerment? The right to ask "respectful" questions about decisions that are already made? As everyone else is already pointing out, what you know may be separate from what you (want to) believe.
This is a good idea... it could be called communications commission or something.
Say what you will about Woody Allen as a person. My understanding is that Amazon is holding the rights to a movie that has been created, and refusing to publish it.

Movies are not the product of a single person, but of thousands. It's tragedy to prevent this massive amount of effort from seeing the light of day.
It's quite nice to see the positive impact you have on the rest of the business. It gives value to what you do day to day. Where I work is very data driven, so any chance can be measured if you know how to look
> daily company-wise “standup” with 70 people that averages 5-10 minutes.

That sounds horrible. Even if half of the people have something to say, that's about 15 seconds per person. Beyond saying, hi, I'm here, I'm not sure what else can be accomplished. It sounds more like a daily pep talk by the leaders to the whole company.
Sickeningly trite title.
Slate leaves off RICO, but with the multiple allegations of similar extortionate conduct within the required window, extortion being a RICO predicate offense, and an organized enterprise involved, there's RICO jeopardy, which involves both criminal and civil liability for everyone involved.
not to mentioned they are government-sanctioned/backed oligarchs.
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When I was part of the DoC I dropped the "card" and just referred to it as a CAC. Admittedly I was one of the few.
Xiaomi is another one, their build quality is good and they make a whole bunch of actually useful non "tech" things like escooters, air filters, vaccuums. I don't know if they're shady with finances or data collection though
That's what I'm getting at though - you should throw stones!

China being bad doesn't excuse the U.S, the U.S. being bad doesn't excuse China. But somehow, somewhere, in the rhetoric of HN (and let's face it, the internet) there's this idea that only the morally unimpeachable can criticize something. But in reality that just gives the worst actors carte blanche to do whatever the fuck they want - as long as it doesn't break some record or set a new standard for terribleness.

We're in a moral race to the bottom, and it doesn't help to say "because so-and-so did it." That just digs us deeper
I do like that, actually.
> pneumatics - that stuff is still pricey for some reason

To hazard a guess, Lego's pneumatic sets tend to use just a couple pistons, while hobbyists buying the stuff want to do entire pneumatic-centric builds with many of them. Also the hoses break more often than other pieces.
You can download a lot of the RISC-V's source to use in FPGA's or your own hardware. Nobody has given me a link to the same for POWER9. There's also a lower risk of getting patent sued for selling RISC-V versus IBM's I.P.. I'd say POWER9 is nowhere near as open as the RISC-V offering. It's "open" like OpenVMS: using the word to get dollars more than maximizing openness.
High growth data driven mattress sales is as much tech as high growth data driven taxi rides
Hey, do you have any advice on how to find the part number for a component? I'm trying to source the proprietary connector Dell uses in their laptop SATA cable 080RK8
e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Dell-Latitude-Interposer-Conn...

The cable itself is easily purchased anywhere, there are countless vendors on AliExpress. But I want the connector so I can get something else custom built.
The linked ruling is quite interesting. It outlines how drug plans dupe consumers into paying significantly higher percentages of drug costs than they are supposed to. An example provided shows how a consumer with a 25% copay ends up paying 35% of the cost of the drug, because the 25% copay is calculated on the "list price" rather than the price their insurance plan actually pays (which may be considerably later).

Good read, and a good example of why regulation is just necessary.

It all depends on what the definition of the word "copay" is, doesn't it?
This is such an AWESOME reply. Thanks for the no BS practical advice.
Spending months outside of Beijing in multiple island cities and seeing the empty buildings and 90% built infrastructure everywhere I don't doubt China will always be poised to userp American dominance, never actually do it, but always close.
It’s time for China to grow up and leave the World Bank nest
On the grounds of national security?
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I strongly recommend watching the behind the scenes extra with this film. Peter Jackson has this amazing personal collection of world war 1 stuff. Like the reason they knew what the uniforms color looked like was because peter Jackson has almost every type of uniform from world war 1. And the reason they knew how things like the wheels of the artillery sounded like was because peter Jackson has an extensive collection of world war 1 artillery. I’m sure it could have been better, but a lot of effort went into making this as close to life as is possible.
Interesting. I didn't know that. This seems similar to the shadow banning that HN does.
Small team, offices for developers, open door for free to walk in to chat, close door for don't bother, lots of whiteboards, ah hoc discusson, weekly team planning meeting on Monday, weekly release/resolution meeting on Thursday after lunch, release and recovery from fuckup on Friday.
It makes just as much sense as 'secret questions' for account unlock but it is dubious for login or continuous validation -- how many times have I used another person's keyboard, or them mine, while working on a set of slides etc?
First few days. Then some solutions will appear, and for some weeks - and in some cases even months an industry of decoupling will grow so that somebody'll turn green of envy. Then slowly people will start forgetting that at a time there were some G, A, F, A, M...
> devices now used extensively by the film industry.

It's not a big enough industry to support their valuation. Many companies have developed clever equipment for the film industry over the decades[1] and none has been valued at $15bn for it[2]. As an example: Panavision sold for $622M last year.

They really need to (edit: continue to) be selling to consumers. That said, I agree completely about their quality and success.

[1] - Check out some cool stuff here: https://camerarevolution.com/

[2] - Kodak might have been, once upon a time, but I can't find a breakdown of their motion picture revenue so it's hard to say.
IIRC it is slightly more complex: the Tru64 callPAL API is the common subset of all the three variants (VMS/Tru64/NT), but the NT/AlphaBIOS has slightly incompatible ABI which Linux can detect and work around. And also IIRC original Linux port to Alpha expected the NT PALcode, which makes sense given the fact that DEC sold systems that didn't have SRM in PROM (ie. Multia and a-series PWS) and thus only supported NT or Linux.
And it will remain mandated for a decade or two.
Fortnite is the future, but probably not for the reasons you think
Can you share a general template of the 6-page memo? What are the key areas to be covered that ensure heightened understanding of the topic being discussed?

Also, how do you disabuse folks who get their writing skills from Creative Fiction in college, and therefore write in a style more suited for dramatic effect than succinct communication? ie, how do you force actual "memo" writing?
So is Google promising continuation of services before turning them off?
Do they contact you? Most terms of service just say 'revisit here constantly in case we changed something'
I'm an European and have worked with both the Chinese and the American during my 35 years in IT. I can understand very well why wealth flows to the east. The Chinese I have met are hard workers and eager to learn new things. The Americans I have met, on the other hand, have been arrogant and so sure of their own superiority, that they didn't bother to put much effort into it. Do the math.
Write early, put it away, come back later, reread it, edit.. rinse and repeat.

Read what you wrote aloud to yourself (go somewhere where people won’t stare at you while you’re doing this)

Listen and try to remember more samples of what you think good writing is, subconsciously your writing will start getting better gradually as you write more.
Also see Minecraft with redstone circuits. Kids regularly build elaborate contraptions inside the game, ranging up to entire game-within-a-game devices that use moving blocks as "screens" and require hitting in-game buttons to control.
There are 5 buttons on launch pads of Russian road mobile icbms: raise the launch tube, lower the launch tube, arm, disarm, and launch.

All road mobile icbms are programmed at the factory. No mid-flight retargeting or anything fancy
The money is absolutely real, and the point is that NYC has what Amazon wants, Amazon does not need corporate subsidies, and that NYC should be leveraging its talent pool and thriving economy in order to generate more revenue for the city. Cuomo's incompetence left $3bn in revenue on the table.

Furthermore, representing your constituents is not "populism". Local residents are intimately familiar with how gentrification displaces entire communities considering it happens all the time there. Big business Democrats like Cuomo and DiBlasio are just having a tantrum because they're so seduced by revenue charts that they've completely dissociated from the impact of these decisions on real people.
Alex Stamos is an interesting CISO both Yahoo and Facebook had giant breaches under his tenure and he leaves pretty much right after.
- Stop using platforms, companies and services that leak data, dont respect your privacy or support censorship

- Stop voting the LEFT into power

- Hold companies accountable

- Remove Diversity & Duluth model from LAW/Justice/Courts

- Hold everyone individually to the SAME EQUAL STANDARD

- Be wiling to Admit USA based companies are censoring people GLOBALLY

- Be wiling to Admit the LEFT is about Global Socialism

- Be wiling to admit that feminism is socialism for WOMEN

* The current direction of most of the West is towards a single Globalist socialist government:-

* USA Dems = Global Socialist LEFT

* AU Labor + Greens = Global Socialist LEFT

* NZ Current Government = Global Socialist LEFT

* UK Current Government = Global Socialist LEFT

* CA Current Government = Global Socialist LEFT
It's not good when the USA behaves like that, and it's not good when China behaves like that.

Hopefully, as America's hegemony declines relative to other actors, the resulting multipolar world is fairer for more people.

Monopolies aren't a good thing in the commercial sphere, and they aren't a good thing in the political sphere, both lend themselves to abusive practices by those who can go unchallenged.
> At some point, compliance becomes bad business.

It's not even funny. If compliance is bad business for you, well, your other choice is to not have business.

Wonder what shareholders would say, but not too much. Not one of them.
Yes I know not any more after tax year 2018.
It's not really a redistribution to asset holders. These people get about the same in the long run. It's more like the removal of a subsidy on government paper. This promotes private asset creation.

https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...

There is no reason for a correction if they continue running a sufficiently inflationary monetary policy.
I often wonder how much of this is because of China's government sponsored espionage and theft. It's a pretty clear pattern of APT hacks and then somehow a Chinese startup is making "huge strides" in advanced metamaterials manufacturing. Then they are subsidized with cheap (basically free) government loans which undercuts the market.

If the Chinese government steals trade secrets for its business and rigs the market in their favor, is that really "self made"?

Perhaps the title should be "party cadres and sons of the politically connected get richer".
Does anybody have an explanation about A-GPS? How does it work? I thought it was available to end users, I don't understand why carriers have such data.
Algorithmic fitting of japanese candy
Exactly. It's definitely possible, but something like this needs great amount of coordination and money.

I've once read something about Remote Direct Memory Access, it allows one to completely bypass the kernel, CPU, cache, and stream data directly to the network adapter of another computer - you break a lot of essential abstractions of modern computer system, meanwhile still be able to provide a consistent and usable infrastructure.

Its security equivalent (something allows low-level control of the protected data) is unlikely to happen, except for DRM, I guess.
Working from home, while having a 10 min daily standup voice call. I work with colleagues but mostly on my own stuff, so I get a lot of freedom to handle things.