skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iron Triangle for Outsourcing Companies
Yeah, I mostly agree.
Profit motive is not a terrible method on average.
I just get a bit worked up when I encounter any variant of “a corporations only duty is to create shareholder value”. :)
Cloud services adoption rate is 19% and AWS has been around since 2006. The vast majority of companies in that 19% penetration are still in-transition. OpenStack and container orchestration platforms are now a thing.

Not only do we have a long time to figure things out but it's never been easier to be on prem if you need to be.
The number you're referencing is for 1 quarter and is looking at a blended global average which is brought down by extremely long term investments in places like Africa.

I cited a number that is annual and is looking at North American revenue which is an indicator of mature market potential.
I know my productivity plummets passed 7-8 hours of work. Many times I would say it becomes negative, I.e. I make a lot of sigbificant mistakes and/or break something. More work is rarely an actual solution.
Are differently-styled UI elements really a mental burden?
I'm not advocating for wholly different UI's on each platform—just that if your application uses checkboxes, and I'm on a Mac, I should see Mac checkboxes.
Are cancer concerns justified? Seems to be a lot of noise around this, and from industry/science people this time as well.
But from this, it looks like Bitfinex was completely amateur hour, and that—but for Tether being raided to cover the results of that—Tether might not have been a scam at all.
Competitiveness isn't just about giving the customer something. Look at Microsoft in the 90s packaging their software. Users got more software but the anti competitive nature of Microsoft bundling was illegal.
I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion. Bitfinex sent $850M to allow withdrawals to be paid, but very few, if any, were. Witness communications like "you said this would be resolved, but that was a month ago, and not a single wire transfer has taken place".
Then perhaps the ministry of antiquities needs to stop using terrible services.
This is just the wall-adapter head for Hong Kong/Singapore/UK being fragile and they're offering free replacements for affected customers. Seems like the right way to deal with this, and they've done similar replacements in the past for other power adapters.
The Source Code of the NESticle Emulator
Of all the crazy applications that I've heard for the blockchain, medical records are easily the craziest.
Yes, that's an analyst experience. More senior people just travel half of the time and do client facing work. But to my surprise our MD left office usually just 1-2 hours earlier that everyone else when he was not travelling and he was also available till very late for important tasks that required his attention even from us. He was also always ON and had a lot of different work, not monkey work at Excel/email.
Stop and really think about what it means to be systematically oppressed, and who exactly this is happening to. You can start with the lawsuit attacking Harvard for systematic oppression of Asians, and then notice that there is a whole ranking of races. You can also look at the federal contracting rules which systematically oppress companies that are run by people who happen to be white.

So yes, there is systematic oppression, but it doesn't run in the direction you assume it does. If systematic oppression really gives one a get-out-of-racism-free card, then please note who that card belongs to.
If the world population is 7 billion now and will be 1,000 billion around 2055, then by my math (142.9^(1/36)) that's a growth rate of 14.8% a year. Since the current growth rate is (based on the first few hits on Google) a little over 1%, I wonder why someone would expect it to go up that drastically. Especially with global warming and everything.
Just a quick warning - I've heard plenty of people complain that once they ran out of their allotted fucks at work, they ended up getting promoted. Apparently speaking your mind does that sometimes.

So beware.
You do not need a CSS Grid based Grid System (2017)
"Graphics cards doing statistics"
If you work in a large corporate, people will complain, especially if you get this done. It sorta highlights the inefficiencies of the punctual, yet less productive employees, and they don't like it.
Check your assumptions. Many people are simply calling out Elon Musk on his bullshit. He harms the whole cause. Personally, I dislike his hypocrisy around carbon offset credits. The way he sells them to polluters sets the whole world back a decade or more.
I think you've already made up your mind.

I don't have anything to contribute here that I think can be productive for us.
I think it's a perfectly valid question and one suited for hacker news. I understand that the cost of freezing isn't much off from the price of a funeral. But we don't have the cultural rituals to support it as a common option at the moment -- or laws that would let a person get frozen before medically dying.
Yeah, it's very hard, all but impossible, when your primary constraint is maximizing profit while holding tons of market power in an unregulated environment. Poor facebook, they really try their best. It's just so hard.
hard to trust video these days, unless there is a chain of custody. How are we to know it's not someone testing their film director/CGI skills?
Interesting feedback. Could you give a few more examples? For instance, if you could build your DevOps toolchain and add any 3rd party integrations to GitLab, what would they be?
Of course, the Ministry of Antiquities should stop using the service the rest of the world finds perfectly acceptable but that 1% of vocal HN'ers are rabidly opposed too.
Google is trying hard to get a foothold on KaiOS, the OEMs that partnered with Mozilla (and particularly Qualcomm with its Qualcomm 205 chip) need something like KaiOS that can run well on 256mb of RAM and less than 16GB of flash, as Android is a pig (even Android One).

I wish Mozilla made an effort to get Mozilla DeepSpeech and Mozilla TTS onto this platform, as Speech to Text seems to be the first thing Google has gotten added to KaiOS. Problem is, with these budget devices you don't usually have the RAM for even a full memory mapped TF Lite model, and end up with a stripped down language model that is much less accurate :c

Mozilla could run DeepSpeech servers, but it would be a similar commitment to the Tor Relays they operate...
No. Conventional plastic breaks down, and microplastics are now present in soil, water, air, the food chain, and even human poop.

Multiple recent articles about it in Hacker News.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=microplastics&sort=byPopularit...

We literally eat and breathe plastic at this point. With what consequences will have yet to be figured out.
Ok... but a database of what?

If it's the access/authentication layer activity, I don't see what blockchain really brings to the table.
From where I sit, Algolia solves a very small subset of problems that Lucene-based search engines do. Often problems people don't actually have.
My current favourites are Galina (ASX:G1A) which is a lead/silver developer and Aeris Resources (ASX:AIS) a copper producer, but which is currently drilling a very large IOCG deposit in South Australia.

If you are interested in learning about Australian mining companies then take a look at Hot Copper. Watch out as like most stock internet message boards there is a lot of ramping, but there is also a huge amount of useful information there too. Just make sure to check everything you read yourself.
We logged a similar issue -- iOS keyboard is severely laggy since v1.3.14:
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31138
My guess is it's related to the other more general jank as well, but a severe example.
> My concern isn't really with what the car sees but ...

Many Tesla automated driving sceptics say without lidar, Tesla has a major issue with FSD.

> How do you tell a machine what to do when there is no correct answer?

Why would you expect a machine to be able to handle scenarios that humans cannot handle?

Note: I am sceptical of FSD being available this year, or even in a few year.
The worst part is when your bullshit detector is screaming, but other people (especially managers lacking the technical background) just can't see it. The bullshitter will often seek to have meetings with mgmt without any other technical people around, or only the most docile who feel reluctant to call out bullshit.

A common experience is that the bullshitter will behave semi-reasonably until they have stuffed up, and will then seek to cover up what happened, including by pathologically lying. If you are forced to work in a flat org structure with such a person you need to find another job, because otherwise their bullshit will come back to haunt you.
> 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.

Developers made these products. I'm sure they would be just as happy getting paid the same wage and making awesome products without working for a morally bankrupt company, but those opportunities don't exist. FAANG are the only institutions on the planet that have the resources to fund large-scale open source projects.
> "Accord ing to documents prov ided to OAG by Respondents, and based on
statements made by counse l fo r Respondents to OAG attorneys. an individual at Crypto Capi tal
told the senior Bitfinex executive the reason that funds total ing $851 mil lion cou ld not be
returned to Bitfinex was because the funds were seized by governmental authorities in Portugal.
Poland. and the Un ited States. Based on statements made by counsel for Respondents to O/\G
attorneys. Respondents do not believe Crypto Capital's representations that the funds have been
seized."
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
No way. That coworker who spends 40 mins of every hour on email gets way more done. They're sure of it.
It’s really interesting to do workflow analysis in clinical settings. It’s not uncommon to run into “we do it this way because that’s the way we’ve always done it” situations.

There is also a bit of machismo/pride for the shifts worked thing, which isn’t helpful.
> I've been a medical doctor for 10 years and think that it is.

Can you explain how blockchain is useful for this in a more nuts-and-bolts way?
I eventually became an MD. Yes I was always "on", but once I figured out the tricks, I didn't do very much real work at all. It was more about not rocking the boat, and keeping a nice set of senior allies who could support me as and when needed. Basically, politics.
Last I tried it, firefox on android with ublock origin was just painfully slow... I wound up switching to brave because of it. (Pixel 2 XL)

Still pisses me off the integrated browsing tab behavior in apps. I REALLY want links in firefox and twitter, etc to open in MY browser of choice.
4k should read out as "4" "kay" perfectly fine by text to speech software, which is just as unambiguous as the non-text-to-speech version.
Even more interesting if it allows variations in the same soundtrack according to different dramatic moments in the same scenarios.
Example: a man is walking down the street vs a man is walking alone in the night down the street vs a man is walking alone in the night down the street unaware of a bright red dot on his back.
All these scenarios could use the same soundtrack, but require different dramatic levels. The game would send data to the music algorithms so that the soundtrack would reflect the right mood.
My Life in Forensic Pathology
Or... the company could just pay their employees a fair price for referrals. Management asking employees to go above and beyond to provide a referral, then short changing them on the value and strong arming them into not getting a better price from a recruiting agency, is a pretty terrible way to build a loyal workforce.
To me 8 felt way more consistent than 10. I only used it for half a year in 2015, but it was an enlightenment, since suddenly that whole tile stuff that was so atrocious on the desktop made sense and felt super consistent. Admittedly I only tried 10 on a friend's phone and never had it as my daily driver but it just didn't feel as polished.
It is easy to be shills for Marxism and blame the United States, but such blame is hollow. Venezuela is in its dire condition because it, like its Russian, Cuban, and Chinese allies, is led by a Mafia pretending to be a government.

I hope Mauduro's government can follow the Soviet path and fail, so the Venezuelan people may have a chance to establish self governance instead of a dictatorship.
I'd like to know how this factors into intermittent fasting as most people that do it just skip breakfast.
Why Berlin's 15 Year-Old Airport Has Never Had a Flight
Great point re: the oftentimes unseen injustice of financial tyranny. Have you heard of Stellar (https://www.stellar.org)? I don't have any experience actually using them and not sure if the blockchain is the correct way to go, but in principle their idea of a federated network for exchanging any unit the parties agree upon is a good one.
Weekly Machine Learning Open Source Roundup
Hilary Hahn: Entering the Sublime
Unfortunately I don't see this being a priority for us, as it would be a fairly large-scale operation for not a lot of benefit. However, you can open an issue for it here if you want! https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues
How can a founder and the entire editorial staff have a vision that differs from that of another founder? It seems like they were hired to accomplish opposite goals.
I've never invested in an individual stock but their full self driving tech strategy is making me highly consider going long on TSLA.

I think whoever develops level 4 FSD tech that works for most Americans daily car commute is going to be a trillion dollar company. It can even require me to be in the driver's seat, not work in rain/snow, and be geofenced if it gives me at least a 5+ seconds heads up for taking over as long as it is enough time to switch context from working/whatever to drive. Think about how much time Americans spend driving for which we could free ourselves from if our cars had FSD tech that worked most of the time. If/when I have a decent commute that benefits from a car over public transportation, I would pay thousands of dollars extra for a car if it was able to free myself from driving 75% of the time.

Tesla now has got hundreds of thousands of cars that people use in level 3 mode which is then used to train their L4/L5 FSD tech while also retaining all of that real world data to train their models. I don't work for self driving tech, but given the massive amount of real world data they can collect, I think they are now most likely to hit the point where they can solve basic commutes in geofenced areas with L4 over everyone else and I think people will pay out the nose for that (with the added benefit of people buying electric cars too).
here goes btc again to 3k
It's hard to see how.

What industry/science people are expressing concern here? I haven't seen that.
FWIW, CJR's interview with Sue Gardner executive director -- i.e. the person who fired Julia Angwin -- has been the most revealing thing so far, because it's the first interview in which Gardner has spoken out in detail about her reasons (Jeff Larson, the managing editor, had written a Medium post but did not go into details about the reasons for firing Angwin [1]).

This is one of the biggest clusterfucks of media drama I have ever seen. Because Angwin was the first to take this fight public, and because she has obvious reasons to feel aggrieved, I had assumed her framing would be as uncharitable as possible to the co-founders who fired her. But accepting Gardner's claims at face value in defense of her decision only makes Angwin's case seem even stronger:

> Gardner felt that, as a senior executive, Angwin should be willing to take part in team-building exercises by submitting to a Myers-Briggs personality test, and should be more enthusiastic about attending meetings. She was alarmed that Angwin did not agree to formal performance assessments for herself and her team (Angwin says she never refused to do performance reviews). Gardner says she found such behavior “unnerving coming from someone in an executive position” and that she believes Angwin wanted an adversarial relationship between editorial staff and management.

(disclosure: I used to work at ProPublica, but did not intersect with Angwin's time there, but do admire her journalism work)

[0] https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-markup.php

[1] https://medium.com/@jeff_larson/about-the-markup-6adc6a77810...
When I look at the first flowchart - there’s no way a PMI-certified Project Manager would say No to any question on the flowchart - so Blockchain it is !
I see high productivity as a vehicle that allows me to stand out amongst my peers without working 80 hours a week.
> This reads like 850M just went straight to some entity in Panama

No, it was around $1bn, $851m is just what Bitfinex lost access to when the entity spun out the “all the money we were holding for you got seized by various governments so we can't handle your payouts” line.
Binance has other stablecoin markets. You can see the price just fine there.
Is the camera obscura racist?
Not necessarily. I know it is slightly pedantic to point this out, but technical advances does not imply "free technical advances". e.g. you may increase productivity without increases in wages but not increase profits if the technical progress is driven by paid improvements in technology (which tends to me a multiplier on capital).

So, for example, if you get a new versions of excel, which improves your productivity $100/year, but excel costs $100 this year to upgrade, you haven't gained anything in year 1. That will be a multiplier, but, if the upgrades cost a lot up front (e.g changing technology stack causes initial decrease in productivity and obsolescence of some internal IP + change costs, training, etc) and the productivity increase will be small then it may not be obvious that there is an economic benefit for quite some time.

Of course, a lot of companies think this way and failure to just ditch a lot of old tech years ago, ends up massively holding back productivity relative to peers that did make the upgrades. As a result the company sees low per capita productivity and decides not to raise wages.

Note: this is theory I do not have actual academic studies in practice that can demonstrate this explicitly in a controlled environment, but anecdotal experience certainly makes me suspect that this is what is going on.

edit: grammar
> Assuming that my coworker and girlfriend aren't lazy or incompetent and are acting in good faith, what might be the cause of the managers behaving this way, and how can they manage the situation for less frustration?

The manager is likely incompetent. He/she is allocating the task to multiple people as a way to insure against failure. I've witnessed this first hand.

It's a major waste of resources.

If it's a big company, I'd get the manager to put requests/tasks in an email and just do them. The manager is going to get "retraining" soon enough. Wait out the storm.

If it's a smaller company, I'd keep doing whatever I'm already doing and find a better job ASAP.
The point was to eat the bottom of the cellular phone market, as Mozilla saw Blackberry dying, Ubuntu Touch & Android requiring way too much resources, and Windows Phone killing Meego yet not succeeding in retaining Nokia's marketshare.

What Mozilla built was an OS that could run on very basic hardware (eg: what an OEM can build for $5 to $10) and be more usable than the alternatives out there that were even more expensive.

A price war led by Mozilla was never going to pan out without buy-in from the OEMs and cell carriers, but after Mozilla ditched the project, Qualcomm seems to have decided KaiOS is the only reasonable thing for basic phones to run, and Google is funding it just enough to encourage integration of some Google services.
I think once you start thinking about the scope and scale of the problem, you'll start to realize how difficult it is even without the question of money involved at all (but yes, money does often complicate things).

You have to remember that this is a global service cutting across all cultures, countries, governments, and circumstances.

At some level, it becomes trying to design a system of governance that cuts across all those things in a scalable way. This is a problem where there is very little precedent.

The original sin in my opinion was Facebook charging ahead with a historic rate of growth without building the rails (moderation systems, governance, etc) to support that growth.

However, that ship has long sailed. Facebook is already massive now. It's easy to say with hindsight that the problems were obvious and to be expected. But the pressing question for society now is what do we do about it?

Not just for Facebook but for all similar services - of which Facebook isn't the first and it won't be the last. And what software solutions will the industry invent to combat some of this stuff? Who is building it? How much is shared? How much is driven by regulation versus this stuff becoming a competitive moat? etc etc.

It's a very interesting question and I look forward to progress in the area from all levels, including our legislators (whom I have little confidence in, but I'm an optimist at heart).
Invisible Malware Is Here and Your Security Software Can't Catch It
Something has spooked the currency markets
ahh, I see... so more like speculative R&D, developing a technology to the point where it's saleable to a larger organisation. So there's no need for a customer problem to solve, it's just about building enough capability with the tech to become acqui-hirable, is that right?
Angwin said elsewhere that when she approached Gardner to be involved, Gardner said it would only work if she was CEO. To me, a statement like that is at least a yellow flag about collaboration and control issues.

In a normal publication, editorial has to do some things they might not like in order to meet business objectives—-like crank out stories about Game of Thrones or whatever is trending on Reddit so that they can maintain ad views.

The whole point of The Markup was that it was not supposed to be a normal publication. That’s why Craig and those foundations funded it.

The whole point of the site was unique, high quality editorial content you could not get anywhere else. So to me at least, the reaction of the editorial team is a big indication this was a bad move.
The last paragraph (starting with "Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984.") seems weirdly out of place here. Ignoring that it forgets the Apple II series, isn't "empowering people" exactly what this recall is meant to avoid?
This was released by the pentagon and covered by very large media outlet, the pilots were interviewed.

This doesn’t mean it’s aliens but this is pretty fucked up.
Wouldn't it be surprising if the same people weren't behind Crypto Capital? Like, if you were going to embezzle your own exchange with vaguely plausible deniability, how would you do it differently from exactly as done here?
That's a good point about missing the satire and why movies like "Boiler Room", "Wolf of Wall Street", etc can rub me the wrong way. Sure, there's a fall and consequences after all the money and partying but that money and partying looks pretty good (especially if you don't get caught).
Then they should have left instructions we could read! But in all seriousness, this brings up a pretty good point if you plan to freeze yourself. You better make sure that your wishes are recorded in a way that could be understood by future people (or aliens?) who may find you and no longer know how to read any current modern language.