skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like the narrative that they are responsible for what other companies are doing. My grandpa had an electric car back in the 90s. A toyota, I think, so it's not small no-name companies. People have been working on this since before tesla, and are still working on it outside tesla. But the time is right for the technology to take off now, so it is. Attributing that to tesla seems like a misguided belief in "great man theory" where it's usually just that the environment was finally right for an idea. If tesla hadn't, someone else would.

I get frustrated by instances of great man theory in general, though. It's not unique to tesla.
Everything else v awkward as well
MLIR: Multi-Level Intermediate Representation for Compiler Infrastructure
This is like everything that touches SF politics: total dysfunction.
I normally really like what Sarah Jeong has to say but . . . I don't think typically criminals get pardons just because they do something nice later on in life? And I mean not that later on either? Would he deserve a pardon if he had gone and worked all day in a soup kitchen for two years? On some level, that would actually demonstrate a higher level of altruism, because stopping Wanna Cry was definitely in his own personal best interest -- his fame as a result has surely been good for business.

>But Mr. Hutchins, had no stomach for an interminable fight, and pleaded guilty last week to two counts under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Wiretap Act,

How do we know that it's not just because he thought he was most likely to be convicted and didn't want to roll the dice?

Also, I apologize for derailing my own comment, but what is up with the grammar in that paragraph and the one before. "amid complex legal questions that could have gone been appealed"? I've never seen an NYT piece with this many errors.
What has changed in the design really? I keep getting the most recent generation as they don't have a long lifetime and they are good with warranty replacements. All I can tell is the material is a bit darker and the corners are more beveled.
Well, I met my wife on a train, in 2009. I was supposed to be on a plane, and she lost the previous train, and jumped in a random car in the train I was in, and there was me. Go figure :)
They didn't have a hardware distribution network like the one described, so they were right to kill it.
My *.org domain renewal price was 21$ from godaddy. Then I moved it to fastcomet which cost 13$ per year.
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I do inbox zero so I am not usually looking at the email list, but to the actual emails. I also started using larger fonts as I am now 40. So, the amount of space the left and the top frames take up is quite a lot. I haven’t tried this but hopefully this can fix that.

By the way, here are the tricks I do to do inbox zero on gmail:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/290175
The community isn't human, so it can't pretend anything, and if you're interpreting individuals that way, that seems error-prone.

I think HN would be worse if "the big issues" were excluded, and also if the clever and possibly pointless were excluded (e.g. porting vim to Wasm). Fortunately we can have both. As for pompous-sounding comments...this is the internet. Let's not raise our standards too high.
The most common pattern in industry is to slather everything with libraries until you end up doing 10x the amount of work you needed to do.

An actual 'good' approach is to mostly utilise vanilla tooling like you suggest, but there are some exceptions, you can't be absolutist about it.

I think for a decently sized web application, React (and only React, not all the cruft people usually include with it) will save you a lot of effort, and not using it would be a mistake. You could go with something like Vue instead but React does a much better job at abstracting away the huge amount of utility it provides. It has a smaller API surface by an order of magnitude.

I think a good thought exercise is to think about what a 'perfect' implementation of the library you're thinking of using would look like for your exact use case, and compare it to using the actual library. Even if my use case doesn't include any performance requirements, I don't really think my implementation of a React-style solution would have less than 1k-2k LoC, and the implementation wouldn't be very simple. Contrast that to something like Redux which could be roughly implemented in ~20-100 LoC for most use cases and is conceptually very simple.
In fact most people ignored the dietary guidelines, as people generally do, and kept right on eating fat. In the decades since those guidelines were released people have increased calorie intake of all kinds across the board.

Which is why even though sugar consumption peaked years ago, and is now in decline, obesity and all its related diseases are at an all time high.
India alleges big multinationals did not pass on tax benefits
I’m extremely sympathetic to that situation since I was an unemployed college grad looking to get a developer job when I took my first Udacity course (“How to build your own search engine” - 2012).

The problem is that it’s a competitive field out there and to give people false hope that a nanodegree will get them a job is disingenuous.

I’ve also listed the alternatives for self-taught developers to help them stand out. I think ultimately, if you weren’t going to get the interview, a nanodegree won’t help you. If you were maybe going to get the interview (by showing impressive original work in the form of projects and apps), a nanodegree might help you the slightest bit.
> I still can't believe it's legal to detain people for so long without a trial.

At least if the article is to be believed, this is probably partially on the defense, in terms of filing a lot of motions and so on. Apparently there are "complex legal issues" that could have been appealed. Wrangling all that takes time.
You know someday when we have consumer protection laws for things like this, a company will be forced to trace every piece of derived data on a user based off of what was unlawfully collected - and provably delete it. Instead of simply paying a fine and moving along with the new insights they have on you. Like an entrance fee to the club.

Sidenote: I bet you could make a business out of tracing derived data to comply with lawful orders.
I read your comment history... something about TRS-80s. So probably older than 40 and American. I am truly amazed that someone could live that long with economic means to post here and not know what a bank wire is!

Just google it though. It's the most common way to send moderate sums of money in the world. And yes, pretty much any retail bank or credit union will offer wiring, probably for a fee.
And the Amazon! We just haven't discovered it yet.
So proofhub names itself the first in its list, sounds legit
Well they don’t have to be adjustable though right? I mean it doesn’t feel like this is debt that is ultimately being paid off, but rather just rolled over into new loans, on some schedule right? So when you roll it over, you might have to do so at a higher rate.

I mean I’m not seeing companies go, ok we’re going to swap debt for equity here but then we’re going to pay all this debt off. The debt is permanent.
Next? Tech is already the whipping boy de rigueur.
Your entire argument is bogus in the context of this story. It has nothing to do with "caring more about people close to them".

The manufacturing and consumption of lard in the U.S. is a technology/tradition inherited from the parts of the world Americans emigrated from. And the development of the hydrogenation process and its implementation as a consumable product (replacing lard) was shared between Europe and the US. (Reference is made to this in the article). Thus the experience in Europe (and elsewhere) is directly relevant to the topic under discussion and comments from non-Americans on the situation in their countries are also directly relevant.
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Thanks for the kind words! Really appreciate hearing that you like Regolith.
Um, okay. You raise a compelling point.
You don't have to be male to be a techbro, in a way.

I am also reasonably sure that FB (as well Google and others) are engaged in some pretty public efforts to improve the gender balance in tech. Or at least pay lip service to doing so. Might they be doing so because there actually is a pretty well known gender disbalance in tech.

Of course if you were meaning to say that a lot of negative moves on FB's part come from quite female Sheryl Sandberg, well, yes, but I don't think she's involved with the tech side.
That borders on religious flamewar. Please don't take HN threads in that direction, whence nothing good can come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elzEOs2pY38
Are these specific bathhouse that allow tattooes?
> What I find most sad is that most of the people on HN will rail against how evil Google is (or any other company) yet happily use their Open Source code and not complain that they're benefiting from what they claim to despise.

Pablo Escobar donated tons of money to the Medellín community. Doesn't make any criticisms against him hold less water.
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19744397
The Case for Embedded FPGAs Strengthens and Widens
Sorry, I'll elaborate.

These kind of sweeping statements are usually pretty obviously false. You can write anything cleanly at scale. Those MS-DOS sources that were released a while back are pleasant enough to read despite being in assembly.
I'm quite surprised by the number of comments on Sass/CSS pre-processors being of little to no value while we have created a huge complicated Frankenstein mess with webpack/React and the rest.
It was brilliantly focused on solving such a practical real-world problem of the era. But its window of opportunity has closed. Today's laptops can't just afford the overhead or support such open transparency. ;)
That the executive has this power does not make it a good/just thing. Lowpro is discussing the latter.
Industrial Design as a discipline is no longer primarily concerned with aesthetics. It's a much more holistic discipline now with focus on manufacturability and TCO and so on and so forth.
OfficeAlly UI Case Study and Redesign
Best liquidity, most pairs, and can be bought at a discount.
Just chiming in to say that I loved reading your article, and I really wish you all the very best. I'm you have inspired many people in one way or another!
Thanks! included above.
I can find a farmers market that sells pieces of the skin. A few pieces of dark will be give you a decent amount and a tasty snack.

Pass it through a coffee filter for best results. Do it while the fat is very warm if not somewhat hot.
A Good Life and a Good Death: What Is Palliative Care?
Parent was arguing whether or not a pardon should be made, not whether it could be made, which or more or less orthogonal.
> If an organization was good at firing fast, would people be willing to take a job there?

It's an interesting question. Having worked for organisations that fire fast, and those that don't, in general I tend to see it as a positive cultural indicator [1] - albeit one that needs some digging to verify - but I can understand that it might unsettle some applicants.

In fact nowadays I favour it strongly enough that next time I'm the one going through the interview process I'll probably investigate. I may even ask outright although, again, "What does somebody have to do to get fired around here?" is a question open to some misinterpretation.

[1] Working with difficult or unproductive people for long periods can be hugely draining on a team, not to mention hugely damaging commercially. Left unchecked it can even destroy your business.
Because it doesn't matter lol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19740923
Nobody is actually using 'blockchain' in production except to tick the buzzword box.

That IBM page is just a puff piece and they have no clients using anything like that.
> registering the domain

What if the malware had bound to www.google.com or www.fbi.gov? Would we hold these companies accountable for registering a domain?
Could it be a good idea to combine a few orders for San Francisco customers like me? And then use the opportunity to just meet and share our 10 pounds of Vidalias and shake hands?
AVs and Unintended Consequences
The implied meaning of "impossible" in this kind of context is "unreasonably difficult". Just as it would be unreasonably difficult to write modern Windows in assembly, it would be unreasonably difficult to maintain a large CSS codebase without nested selectors.
I also use the basic HTML view on desktop because 1) I don't want to leave the tab open with the modern UI since it inevitably uses up over a GB of ram by itself and 2) I don't want to close and reopen the tab with the modern UI since it takes O(10)s of seconds to be responsive.

I remember getting access to gmail when it was in the invite-only phase and thinking that it was absolute magic, that this was the future, and that I'd never use anything else. It only took a huge pile of JS to undo that. I use basic HTML now for gmail and I've switched a lot of what I do to fastmail.
Many have done the same.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization.
This isn't right - his attempted hits directly led to a longer prison sentence and he could have refuted the factual allegations if he had a defense for them.

See page 3/4 and then page 27:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1391926/gov-uscourts-nysd-422824-142-0.pdf
This seems shortsighted... they'll probably find more funding, but what a bunch of nonsense to have to deal with in the interim. This bit of the article makes it seem like it could be as petty as a clash of personalities:

> "The department remains committed to seeking independent technical advice and review," Pentagon spokesperson Heather Babb said. But Aftergood sees another reason for the end of the relationship. He says that the Jasons are a blunt bunch. If they think an idea is dumb or won't work, they aren't afraid to say so.

> "They were offering the opposite of cheerleading," he says. "And DOD decided that maybe they didn't want to pay for that any longer."

An interesting bit of trivia from the wiki page shows they lost funding before in 2002 for something perhaps just as petty, them not relenting on having exclusive control over who they let join:

> In 2002, DARPA decided to cut its ties with JASON. DARPA had not only been one of JASON's primary sponsors, it was also the channel through which JASON received funding from other sponsors. DARPA's decision came after JASON's refusal to allow DARPA to select three new JASON members. Since JASON's inception, new members have always been selected by its existing members. After much negotiation and letter-writing—including a letter by Congressman Rush Holt of New Jersey[26]—funding was subsequently secured from an office higher in the defense hierarchy, the office of the Director, Defense Research & Engineering, name changed to Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering) (ASD (R&E)) in 2011.[27]

I'm hesitant to blindly take the scientists' side however. I'm reminded of a remark from a Feynman interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61KMw5zVhg):

> Honors, and from that day to this, always bothered me. I had trouble when I became a member of the National Academy of Science, and I had ultimately to resign. Because there was another organization, most of whose time was spent in choosing who was illustrious enough to be allowed to join us in our organization. Including such questions as: ‘we physicists have to stick together because there’s a very good chemist that they’re trying to get in and we haven’t got enough room…’. What’s the matter with chemists? The whole thing was rotten. Because the purpose was mostly to decide who could have this honor. OK? I don’t like honors.
Very few examples... Coinbase / Bitstamp / Kraken?

People don't realize just how much of a tightrope they are walking on [1]. Serving crypto requires a deliberate business pivot [2], and not many are keen. This IMO is the largest hurdle crypto is facing for adoption.

[1] https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-23/#2
[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312109/000119312518...
> the really tricky part is breaking the private key

That's the interesting thing, you can try to brute force keys in general by just throwing enough money at the problem. Technology always advances and makes cryptography less secure.
Sarah Jeong op-ed.
Single instance can put you 20 behind bars. Zuck would be computed 250,000 years for all the mass email access hack even if it cleverly asked users to actually gave passwords in at their own free will. But to semiquote: you kill one men thats a murder, you kill million men thats statistics.
The TrackPoint grew out of his university research, and a lot of user testing and measurement and iterative improvement went into it before IBM allowed him to ship it in a real product. (The youtube video talks about the pressure=>velocity mapping curve they developed and refined.) He collaborated with his father, a material scientist, who designed the rubbery grippy material so it felt just right.
Fledgling? Since when is a $5B company a 'fledgling'?
The Nexus 5X is a nice device. How long have you had it for?
HTTPS: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zqDlGxStqw
Fair enough. To me, considering all the shit and negativity he has been hearing from so many people on a daily basis for over a decade, he doing only these things you listed I consider him a saint. I’d have done a lot worse and I consider myself a very good person.

What I like the most about the guy is that he shows that he’s pretty much a human like anyone else.
> Hutchins had no idea what registering the domain would do

This doesn't seem like a good faith reading of the situation. The blog post you link to as a source for this claim describes how he was doing something he'd done thousands of times before in the service of tracking and disabling botnets, and that he considered it to be his job. But you make it sound like he was a total amateur who saw a domain name string and registered it on a whim with no intuition as to whether it would be more likely to do something helpful or harmful.

It sounds like he did in fact know a lot about what he was doing, such that he could make sensible inferences under uncertainty in the middle of a time-sensitive crisis. That's the best we ever get to expect from someone.
That the crimes were committed when he was a minor, and that he grew up and channeled his interest into becoming a highly productive member of society (as demonstrated by his work including stopping WannaCry) would be a very good reason for a pardon I think. I'm not sure how much we actually disagree, but while we're talking semantics I'd say stopping malware in this context is a reason for a pardon.
I don't know if it's all that rare. My wife and I attended one in Asakusa on our last day in Japan and saw a couple of yakuza guys. (And she saw one of the woman yakuza on the women's side.) We didn't go looking for them, it was just the closest neighborhood bath house to the shrine.

The other bath house I went to, the one at the bottom of Mt. Takao, did not allow any tattoos. But it was much larger and more commercial.
> So % of revenue it is.

GDPR, 4% of Global revenue and your Directors can be barred from operating in the EU.
Would be a lot better with a stable C API. I know they've been working on it but I can't find anything relevant on their website (which is pretty bad for prospective users to begin with).
"This hard and annoying thing you experience isn't really hard and annoying, and you should learn to do it the hard and annoying way. It really isn't hard and annoying, and if it is, I like it being hard and annoying anyway. I had to learn it the hard and annoying way, so why shouldn't the kids?"

This attitude is strangely pervasive on Hacker News, and it's very annoying.

Last time I posted about database migrations (a topic I've written fairly popular tools for and presented on) I was confidently told by a commenter: "Database migrations aren't hard. Simply write change scripts manually and apply them."
To properly support remote work you need it to be fair for everyone, which means you need to offer it to everyone and optimise for it. Huge organisations face larger barriers to this because of the amount of change it would require to how they communicate and interact.
But all those organisations will have pockets of remote workers even if not officially endorsed.
This is one of the reasons why I love HN so much.
The widow of Steve Jobs is proving to be a savvy investor
Allennlp is one such project for NLP. Uses dependency injection to separate out the components driving for maximum re-usability. https://github.com/allenai/allennlp
If only they called it "sports ball" maybe then it'd stand chance of being more than the Esperanto of sports
They spelt emacs wrong
I'd actually use that clutter around gmail and I have my settings on for the densest text, so this isn't an extension for myself or everybody. That G-mail logo on the upper left on the screen needs to go though. He's right about that.
I'm a little surprised that Firefox is using this library. Don't they often try to avoid sharing important code with Chrome?

(Not that there's anything particularly wrong with it, but imagine the outcry if Firefox started using V8?)
It ebbs and flows over the years. The lowest stinkiest neap tide of the worst ebb ever was the QuickTime 4.0 Player Debacle. "Think Different" but "Do Same".

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtimeno.htm

Interface Hall of Shame

- QuickTime 4.0 Player -

Amid much fanfare, Apple recently released a beta version of the QuickTime 4.0 Player. Intended to showcase the technological improvements of the QuickTime 4.0 multimedia technology, the QuickTime 4.0 Player sports a completely redesigned user interface. The new interface represents an almost violent departure from the long established standards that have been the hallmark of Apple software. Ease of Use has always been paramount to Apple, but after exploring the QuickTime 4.0 Player, the rationale behind Apple's recent "Think Different" advertising campaign is now clear.

While there are some who would conclude that the revised interface represents innovative thinking at Apple, we would have to conclude otherwise. There is nothing innovative about the user interface of the QuickTime 4.0 Player; the developers adopted the same misguided principles employed in IBM's RealThings, copied some of the same features we critiqued in our reviews of IBM's RealPhone and RealCD, and added a few new follies of their own.
Not sure how the install could be easier than "get a single command line tool and run it against your root source file". If you're talking about the Ruby version, node-sass doesn't require any of those extra steps
In fact, "I was just following orders" often is a valid excuse. It didn't work at Nuremberg because it was an extreme example. The orders there were to do things that could not even conceivably be legal, so those who carried them out were considered to have knowingly acted illegally.

When the orders are to do something that is plausibly legal, and you have good reason to believe that it is in fact so, "I was just following orders" will probably work in most jurisdictions.
I see many infosec individuals supporting Marcus out of the idea that many have dabble in black hat activities in the past, and that exploration and "playful" hacking shouldn't result in years of prison time. However I feel that carding and fraud should not be seen in the same light. Marcus has admitted to creating malware with the sole goal of immiserating many to enrich himself and his co-conspirators. You don't code webinjects for the thrill of surpassing security.