skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually found that it's equally possible to type without looking when using T9 on an iPhone after i made and now use https://typenineapp.com

Simply having larger buttons and the phones frame as a reference point seems to be enough.
Estimating U.S. arsenal of zero-day vulnerabilities (2016)
Blackboards are very different from pubsub/queues. They are more like shared DB integration.
NPM's heavy-handed management prompts JavaScript code registry challenger
I'm referring solely to the link to the Washington Post article. No article comes up, just a paywall.
Zohomail is free, though it's not particularly reliable.
> - Email coming from Google itself.

Yep. I missed an invitation to a Google-hosted event at a conference I attended because the email (from an @google.com address, no less) got caught in Gmail's spam filter.
Navy SEALs Tried for Months to Report War Crimes and Were Told to “Let It Go”
There was a time when people named stuff after positive things. If you asked my psychologist ex about people who name things after Saurons and Cockroaches, she'll jump to some 'priliminary conclusions'. This country needs frequent mental checkups like we have frequent dental checkups
Based on the commercial contents, they're targeting pretty much any white-collar employees. So the target population isn't as small as it appears at first glance.

Their operating model also leads to a pretty unique way of internal adoption. At my last company (a smaller one), we had a paid Slack account and it was our official means of internal communication.

At my current company, a large Fortune 100 company, email is still the predominant form of internal communications. With Skype and Teams available, but with a frustrating enough user experience that everyone falls back to email. But there are a lot of pockets that unofficially use Slack, with some using the paid form (and expensing it under their budget) and others using free ones. Our central IT is finally giving in looking at getting an official subscription to centralize usage under a single Slack account (for auditability, information security, employee attrition concerns, and ease of user support).

By targeting end users directly in those commercials and enabling internal adoption without interfacing with IT (i.e. free accounts, web app for those that can't install desktop apps, etc), they're able to gain adoption and momentum in a guerrilla fashion that snowballs into eventual enterprise contracts.
I've hired a lot of fiction writers over the years on upwork, used to spend a few hundred a month on getting stories written, I've tapered off a little bit, mainly because managing a team of writers was getting to be more work than it was worth for a never ending supply of mediocre fantasy and sci-fi. I even stopped updating the site I was publishing them all to[1].

All of the writers but 1 were amazing from the start. I had a single bad experience that eventually I made a good experience by just communicating with the writer, telling them I knew they were better than the quality they provided, and to just give it another go. That story eventually became one of my favorites[2].

1: http://fictorio.us/

2: https://fictorio.us/2017/10/12/zeta-mu/
Plus all that work fixing the millennium bug.
UCLA is an open campus. Anyone can, and does, just walk onto campus. There are some folks that just audit classes and are not enrolled. Some people from greater LA just like to spend time in Powell Library and read/study. It's not uncommon at all to have random people from across the planet just walk onto campus.
To sell to the public requires someone willing to purchase the shares first. That's how the market works. If someone invests in Slack despite the conitnued losses, it means they see value in the company based on existing metrics.

Barring companies from public listings based on some arbitrary numerical threshold is very unreasonable. Even more so when only the losses are emphasized in your previous comments while ignoring the revenue growth. That alone creates a very one-sided and biased view of Slack's financial situation.
Wireless carriers fight ban on throttling firefighters during emergencies
I remember a 1990s oil company propaganda film called “The Greening of Planet Earth” that argued we didn’t need to worry about increases in CO2 because plants would just be that much happier and gobble up the carbon.

That plants do better with more CO2 is no surprise, but it’s still good to see more plant growth. The question is whether plant growth will fully offset the excess of CO2 in the atmosphere (since CO2 levels are rising, the answer seems to be no).

And even if plants could do it all, would there be other negative effects? That too seems to not look good, as I’ve read that food plants have become less nutritious as they grow more quickly as CO2 increases.

Good news, but we’re still in a fine mess.
Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
I'm still waiting for something like scala.js for Rust. I don't like the thought of using two different programming languages and currently it seems scala.js is the most dependable front-end library
Bitfinex's initial need for them is simple: they have a very, very lucrative business, which is allowing speculative demand and supply to meet and charging fat fees for matching them. This business requires speculators to be able to move money in and have the expectation of getting money out. Bitfinex could not credibly provide that after they lost the ability to clear USD-denominated wires when Wells Fargo cut them off (technically, declined to be an intermediary bank for their Taiwanese banks' wires) for AML/KYC compliance issues.

So they took what was then a fun little crypto side project and got people to believe it was the next best thing to a fiat onramp. This, somewhat incredibly, worked.

Then the rest of the crypto economy glommed onto the fact that this is really useful for them, because tether was much more AML/KYC friendly (in the sense that you could use it when your name was Ima Moneylaunderer) than USD-denominated rails typically are, and it fulfilled a liquidity-preserving function similar to casino chips.

The cryptocurrency community produces essentially no value via sale of services outside of the community, so the balance of payments always has to satisfy "We can only pay out as much hard currency as people have deposited." Prices only keep going up to the extent that folks don't try to withdraw the money. Tether encourages people to realize gains but keep their gains on the table.

(The community thinks that the main use case is facilitating inter-exchange liquidity/arbitrage but given sufficiently well-capitalized arbitragers tether provides no benefit over "We are capable of keeping a ledger of our activities in a database of our choice.")

Those are the main reasons why. I strongly suspect that the community, once it realized that Tether was imperiled, brought several "competing" stablecoins to market because they both a) realized the systemic utility of stablecoins and b) were attempting to avoid the entire ecosystem vanishing in a nuclear fireball as tether unwound. Who knows, maybe they'll succeed.
> Are you sure the price of tether is accurate?

The price is accurate in that I can sell Tether and buy Bitcoin or Ethereum or Ripple, etc. at the market price.

The fact that a counterparty is willing to buy Tether, in large quantities, in exchange for Bitcoin, tells me that the market price is accurate.
> I have been somewhat seriously lifting for more than a year (~350 Wilks, raw)

In general, you've been lifting for much more than a year right? 350 Wilks is incredible if you're a year out.
Fabella prevalence rate increases: rates of other sesamoid bones remain constant
The Bogus Justification for Worker Non-Compete Clauses
I can only see them making money in three ways :

- They scale up massively and capture a huge fraction of the ride sharing market, thus allowing them to offer low cost / low margin rides, but making up for it by volumes : At least in India, they are in a good position, but they seem to have conceded the other markets with high potential for growth like SE Asia and China.

- They have a premium offering that is actually quite a trend-setter : Revive the Uber Black service and take it up a notch, target richer clientele which will be willing to pay a premium to ride in a much better car and with trained chauffeurs.

- They push heavily in the pooling space - this allows them to use their vehicular inventory better as well as drive up margins per ride : This doesn't seem to be a huge focus for them as of now, but it could change.

The other big change that could transform their fortunes is if they put out a viable self driving product. I do not think it'll be economically profitable, or even technologically viable in the near term.
Sentry stays on Python 2.7 even after 2020
Introduction to K-Means Clustering in Python with Scikit-Learn
I've recently started using Folly's F14 hash map implementation (specifically, F14ValueMap--my keys and values are relatively compact) and it's the fastest unordered associative container I've yet found. This is for an application that repeatedly adds to and removes from the map. In particular, it's faster than a custom solution using open addressing that I had written that is pretty much optimal for this particular application (for an open addressing implementation, that is).

I do wish it could be used header-only out of the box, but still a great library.
When I flew economy 25-35 years ago, seat pitch was at least 50% greater than it is now, and the actual seats of the seats were both deeper and better cushioned. You could recline to 45 degrees or deeper. Seats were 50% wider.

It was physically far more comfortable to fly, in a way that’s now a available only in business class. All those characteristics would now be considered business class amenities, and aside from a little more legroom (not even approaching what used to be standard in economy unless you’re on an exit row) are unavailable in premium economy on any flight I’ve taken recently.

You got warmer blankets and larger pillows. They would hand out amenities like headphones and playing cards for free. And you could put about twice as much into the overhead.

Ok, on demand entertainment is new in business class, but that’s about technology rather than cost savings, and it’s available in economy everywhere these days too. And for me at least, not much of an upgrade. I’d far rather watch the specific things I’ve brought on my own electronics, read a book, or do work.
Btw, after having experience with certain car rental company on trustpilot, I don't really trust those ratings anymore. I posted a negative review, then was contacted by trustpilot to provide proof of what went wrong or trustpilot would remove the review in 7 days. I'm pretty sure that is not needed for positive ones...
It isn't--but if you aren't prepared to do it, the freelancer sites will eat you alive before you get off the ground anyway.
I've had emails sent to gmail users from our paid MS Exchange accounts blackholed. And not just randomly once or twice. My wife was a contractor for someone and despite having years of previous conversations with them, one day they just stopped getting her emails altogether. She had to create a gmail account just to keep working with them.
It probably needs some better encoding or encryption, otherwise people are just going to see it and spam 'poop991231@example.com' instead
Which means nothing unfortunately, as companies are still encouraging employees to stick to this work schedule
The claim is that Tether isn't backed by enough dollars to cover the number of Tethers in existence. There could still be a bunch of dollars in the bank.
Real banks have other assets to cover their liabilities. Sure some of these assets are not liquid. Banks cannot ask people to pay off their mortgage instantaneously so if too many people try to redeem deposits all at the same time, the bank might have to ask some people to wait. But the banks always have enough assets so that in the longer term they can pay everyone.

Plus in times of crises the central bank might step in and allow commercial banks to swap their illiquid assets for cash thus providing the needed liquidity.
Banks don't continue to represent assets on the balance sheet once they come to believe that those assets are without value. Or rather, if we find out they are doing this, they are subject to lawsuits like this one.
Come to think of it, I had to pay for the paper and toner, too.
If you're a paying customer, you definitely can get a human being to look at your problem.

The difficulty in this case is the people operating SMTP servers are not paying customers, the free Gmail users are not paying customers and the GSuite paying customers don't think it's their problem (after all, the spam filters works quite well these days and lots of people are on Gmail, making the problem very small in the receiving end of this situation).

It seems an external force will have to push Google in the right direction (of having systems in place to deal with the exceptions). If that's going to be public outcry, legislation, etc... We will see.

On the automation front, it seems Gmail could do a better job at tracking sender reputation over time (i.e. you haven't send spam in a while, we'll be more lenient with our spam rules).
AFAIK none of the previous attempts at this have done that much. What's different about yours?

There's also lots of open questions your site doesn't answer:

When does one have to pay when posting a bounty? Where's the money kept? Who decides that someone, and who that someone is, gets to claim a reward?
PepsiCo sues Indian farmers for growing trademarked potatoes
If self-driving technology is mature enough to be used and there are several implementations to choose from, what stops care manufacturers to go after that market directly and undercutting everyone else?

* They have industrial facilities to build cars

* They have dealership networks to repair cars

* They have capital or can borrow easily to do it

I can even argue that all that stops car manufacturers from operating this are government regulations -- taxi medallions as well as anti-monopoly laws. Once Uber, lyft and the like undercut those regulations, someone else can undercut them.
Ryanair also did the standing seat stunt a few years ago :)
Well that money would partially fund the NSA, so it evens out a bit
> ask any woman who's active on Twitter to tell you about her experience with it, and you'll get a hair-raising catalog of stories of threats, abuse, and general unpleasantness

I do know several women who are moderately active on twitter and have not had experiences like this. Most of the people I know on twitter are in the accessibility community, K12 education, or higher education. Perhaps these spaces do not have the same behaviors that you describe? It’s possible that these areas are overwhelmingly female and that the gender balance changes the dynamic.
> If they are unemployed it's likely their own fault.

Well hold on, I was just idly speculating, but I don't like this kind of thinking. There's a hundred and one reasons people can't leave a city, or the obstacle to leaving is too great.

Off the top of my head, not wanting to uproot kids into a new school system, partner's job, disability that makes it extraordinarily difficult to move (away from whatever ADA stuff you've got set up at your apartment and commute flow you've got set up), need to stay near sick family, need to stay regional to a very specific doctor or healthcare facility, and that's just needs. A strong desire to stay in a local area due to history or just preference should be valid as well.

I see this reasoning used to attack non-tech workers all the time and it bothers me.
I think your point still stands but some of that S&M can never be cut because of churn and is highly susceptible to interference from competitors.

Slack doesn't have that much lock-in and a lot of people have their sights on that market -- "Cheaper than Slack and bundled with Office365/G Suite" is an extremely tempting offer.
Except that you don't need to publish journal articles anymore. Instead, combine 1 cup pseudo-psychology, 1 cup vague design principles and 1 cup quotes from Donald Norman and Massimo Vignelli. Sprinkle with Kahnemann on thinking fast and Pinker on evolutionary strategies. Publish it on Medium and watch it go viral - pop design science and Medium's business model being perfectly aligned right now.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19740923
I just last week had to deal with customers that had locked-down computers stuck on IE11 and hit some JS that used unsupported features.

IE11 was released after the relevant features were in common use in the Javascript community, but Microsoft was still in its "the web is better with our proprietary extensions, trust us" mode so they aren't in IE11.

They can't upgrade their browser because IE11 is the last browser version Microsoft supports on their Microsoft operating system, because they want users to upgrade.

They can't use an alternative browser because they're in a security-sensitive industry with policies written in the Old Days when running third-party software was marketed as "dangerous", including by Microsoft.

They don't want to upgrade operating systems because that means a huge software spend to Microsoft, plus migrating all their other software, POS hardware, etc.

The point being, none of these are things Microsoft is doing today. But they're all decisions they made in the past, and the consequences of those decisions are still making people's jobs harder.
"The veneer of mathematics and complexity science – a culturally-powerful yet poorly-understood science – allowed many people to believe a very improbable thing: that a simple model from fluid dynamics could explain the influence of love, hate, anger, sadness, grief, joy, culture, time, geography, war, famine, birth, etc. etc. on human behaviour. It also suggests a degree of gullibility in the academy: researchers were willing to accept the claims of the papers because they didn’t understand the maths. Worse, of course, is the implication that people simply don’t critically read the papers that they cite."

Pretty much sums up the reproducibility problem of studies in the field of Psychology.
"Hey siri, whose phone is this?" already does this.
As of 2018 it was something like $8.55 an hour median in the US accounting for costs of upkeep.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/01/uber-lyft...
Why can't I even upload a simple text file to hangouts
The best trainees I had were the ones who trusted me.

Sometimes it is hard to make a point about counter-intuitive procedures, like writing tests and assembling tests datasets, or setup logging, or ensure that dev tools are properly setup, before jumping into the code. It requires a leap of faith.

I had the best results when they were willing to take this leap of faith, so my suggestion would be to start by building trust.

As a trainee, I was willing to trust my mentor only when he showed effort in trying to understand my strengths and my limits. It never worked if they did not sat down with me with a "let's talk".
He’s the role model of how to get dialectics right without succumbing to bothsiderism.

This article is a perfect example: he dismisses the nihilist’s “everything is a fraud” perspective while still heaping some rightful schadenfreude on these shenanigans. Then, he turns it around (again) by mentioning how this situation is partially caused by Tether’s inability to find partners in traditional payment providers.

Throughout his work, he never succumbs to either blind love or hatred for anybody or any group (government, media, Musk, Crypto enthusiasts, banks, that Pharma bro). When they are universally hated, he will invariably highlight how creative or entertainingly brazen their exploits were, while still managing not to excuse them. Where others see individual moral failings and call for pitchforks, he looks at the structural issues in law or society that enables them.
Microsoft teams is featured packed. But some ui decisions and bugs won't let it be great. And the problems are not only on the desktop version. On android I receive a notification only to open the app and the message hasn't loaded yet, and doesn't load for at least 20 more seconds.
It's a market, but has generally been trading (and continues to trade) at very close to 1:1. It broke the peg last November when there were rumors then of Tether's insolvency, going to down $0.85:1 at one point.
The Open-Registry

A JavaScript Package Registry funded, developed and maintained by the community, for the community

https://open-registry.dev/
Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit
AI Is All Natural: What to Do About Ambiguous Labels
I would go much further and say almost all "science" is done poorly.

The scientific method, when applied rigorously (!), is deeply uneconomical in the vast majority of cases, because the market has already eliminated most glaring inefficiencies by pure trial and error. Any possible gains are likely marginal anyway.

Doing a bunch of half-assed and meaningless experiments just to slap the prestigious "science" label on something on the other hand is very economical. So that's what people do instead.
It's the imbalance of power. I don't think accreditation is perfect, but it is fairly reasonable. It is really, really easy to take advantage of naive investors.

Sure, there are probably examples of sophisticated investors who don't meet the criteria. But the numbers are tiny, and probably much smaller than the numbers who think they are, but are in fact not.

Don't forget, you are still allowed to lose your life savings at "regular" investing. And Casinos have different regulations constraining their ability to fool punters...

Accreditation was introduced as risk management, after all. Any time you do something like that you can have a few outliers who are negatively affected. But if the policy is basically sound, overall it is a net win. I think that is the case with accreditation. It's not there to stop you from investing $10k in your friends startup. It's to stop companies from bilking $10k from thousands and thousands of people. Could your friends & family case stand to be eased up a bit? Probably. Does it account for much in the overall scheme. Probably not.

Bear in mind the difference between intent and efficacy. All of the things you mention also have regulation or legislative constraints that in theory are also supposed to make it harder for people to naively get themselves in trouble. Why should investment be different?

For what it's worth, I also think it should be easier to invest small amounts in higher risk ventures - but that counterbalance should be to put limits on the structuring those ventures are allowed to do in order to offer it. Keep everything relatively simple and transparent, keep the terms and structure easy to understand without having to pay a decent lawyer 2k every time to review...
Cannot this be a method to take money out from company? I.e. Slack as a company pays $50M/year and Amazon pays back 20% of this as a "reward"?

At such scale it should be easier to have its own infrastructure rather than pay Amazon's overpriced bills.
New Rules Will Boost .EU Governance and Extend Its Reach