skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was on board with this guy until:
"...before landing at Nori, a company addressing climate change with blockchain where he still works..."
The key point is this, I think:

"“We need to be careful and ensure that the margin for maneuver given by the GDPR doesn’t lead to an attractiveness competition between EU countries, as is already the case for taxation,” Marie-Laure Denis, France’s new chief privacy regulator, warned the French parliament in January, in a clear reference to Ireland."

The meta-problem here is (jurisdiction for international matters) is acute.

It totally hamstrings corporate imcome tax as a category of taxation. In the modern economy, that's a big problem. The winner-loser disparity is such that taxing company profits is the ideal strategy. The alternative is taxing revenue/sales, which is far less efficient. A Google or FB could pay a pretty hefty corporate tax without affecting their output much. They literally make more profit than they know what to do with... it's piling up. A VAT alternative doesn't distinguish between them and (eg) auto manufacturers. It also doesn't tax export revenue...

That's a done deal at this point. Politician planning on funding stuff through corporate income tax changes is a sign of naiveté and haplessness. ... international jurisdiction problems are just too unsolvable.

A regulator shopping regime for privacy regulations basically takes regular on off the table, as a viable tool.

It'll bleed into other areas as well.
Thoughts on Elixir: Pros and Cons of the Most Popular Tool for High-Load Dev
> The empty space between the rows of email messages seems unnecessarily big. I get this was done for design's sake

Careful when complaining about spacing - when it comes to text, spacing is a functional decision, yes it will make it look pretty when done "right" but this is often also because it is more legible - function and aesthetic are the same when it comes to typography.

Similarly others have complained about the spacing left and right (i.e it being excessively padded to be centered), but this is also for legibility - the very same reason newspapers have columns and not full width text.
Eternal September has some how gotten worse over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Fear_No_Evil

SPOILER:

Last paragraph of the plot summary. I found this paragraph particularly nutty (not necessarily in a bad way):

> Joan marries her lawyer, Jake Salomon, and moves her household and friends onto a boat. Jake has a massive rupture of a large blood vessel in his brain and dies, but his personality is saved and joins Smith and Eunice in Joan's head. She (Joan, Eunice and Jake) immigrates to the Moon to find a better future for her child. Once there, her body starts to reject her (Smith's) transplanted brain. She dies during childbirth.
Getting education in US as a foreign student from 3rd world country typically requires existence of rich parents.
Skip the Surveillance by Opting Out of Face Recognition at Airports
Re f), It's probably a culture thing. Samsung used to churn out >200 phone models per year. Want long term support and thorough testing? Non-existent.

Re b), It's commonly accepted by a lot of people in China, Taiwan that it's Samsung's tactics to maintain market domination.

If you believe the anecdotes, like this one

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4fnp86/why_does_ht...

Samsung cut the oled supply to Huawei when it threatened Samsung's mobile phone market share, the same reason why Samsung screwed HTC before.
Cloudflare's CTO Wants to Shake Up How We Think About VPNs
Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future
not sure that works in many places outside Silicon Valley. I've been working in the startup scene in Perth, Western Australia, for years now, and the opportunities for getting bought areslim. A startup there needs to have a global customer base to stand a chance of making revenue, let alone equity growth.
Yeah but have you tried singling out an item and naming it?
Close to 50-50 according to their breakdown of revenue by business division [0]. Assuming "consumer electronics" and "mobile communications" mostly refer to selling finished products, and the other groups like "semiconductors" are for selling components.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/630434/samsung-quarterly...
From Terry Pratchett's "Guards, Guards" [1]

"One of the Patrician’s greatest contributions to the reliable operation of Ankh-Morpork had been, very early in his administration, the legalising of the ancient Guild of Thieves. Crime was always with us, he reasoned, and therefore, if you were going to have crime, it at least should be organised crime.

And so the Guild had been encouraged to come out of the shadows and build a big Guildhouse, take their place at civic banquets, and set up their training college with day-release courses and City and Guilds certificates and everything. In exchange for the winding down of the Watch, they agreed, while trying to keep their faces straight, to keep crime levels to a level to be determined annually. That way, everyone could plan ahead, said Lord Vetinari, and part of the uncertainty had been removed from the chaos that is life.

And then, a little while later, the Patrician summoned the leading thieves again and said, oh, by the way, there was something else. What was it, now? Oh, yes…

I know who you are, he said. I know where you live. I know what kind of horse you ride. I know where your wife has her hair done. I know where your lovely children, how old are they now, my, doesn’t time fly, I know where they play. So you won’t forget about what we agreed, will you? And he smiled.

So did they, after a fashion."

[1] https://discworldquotes.tumblr.com/post/150983136815/one-of-...
I had a really good experience in this area with the MITx (now Edx) Circuits and Electronics Course. (This is an introductory course.)

The final question of their end of course exam involves reading a real schematic for a real product and answering questions about it (I won't say what product, because they are still running the course).

Quite tricky and very satisfying to work out.

Other reasons I enjoyed the course: excellent virtual lab tools, and side lectures from Gerald Sussman.
Ahh, thanks for the info
That USB-C cable still has to end at some sort of dock to connect all of those devices. Hopefully the Surface connector will be replaced by USB-C at some point, but as it is, it's still one cable to the dock to provide power and let you connect all your devices.
NSFW for some workplaces. The content is artistic photos, including nudity.
Yeah but garbage often gets broken. Containers that get broken, a dog-like pillow that is messed up,..
We imagined a world where machines will work for us. We may be wrong.
Do you trust 1password's security?
LastPass has had a few negative reviews re security (link below). Do you believe that 1password is much more secure, and do you trust them with all/most of your passwords?

https://palant.de/2019/03/18/should-you-be-concerned-about-lastpass-uploading-your-passwords-to-its-server/
Thank you! The "moving backwards up the list of emails" might be just the thing I need to clear out my email backlog and stay on top of things. I didn't know gmail could do that.

You're being downvoted for being off topic perhaps, but in years of looking at threads like this I'd never seen that
tip. And not using the UI at all is a viable approach.

Incidentally I must be on an old UI, my gmail looks nothing like that. Either version looks harder to navigate than the classic one.
"The NY AG contacted Portugese and Polish authorities and, from them, was informed that there were no official orders freezing Crypto Capital bank accounts in those countries"

I've read the 24 pages report and missed that part, could you quote it please?

To me, the whole thing looks like this: "Hey Bitfinex, you can't keep running your operations when you're missing 800M. We know that, because we're the one who seized that money from you"
Thank you, your comment really adds a whole lot of context missing in the article. Your description of the oyabun-kobun practice (親分子分慣行) also made me realise why to me “I give you my life” feels like such a weird translation for “命預けます”, the feeling that springs to mind is more akin to “I leave my life in your care” which clearly highlights that the relationship does not only go one way.
Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
I'd like to move away from Apples Photo.app to open-source, self-hosted, and browser-based application that may run on a NAS or Linux server.

There seem to be lots of alternatives out there (Nextcloud, Piwigo, ...) but I'd love to hear about recommendations and experiences.
I didn't post the link. I'm just asking for details about an unspecified attack in your comment, or really any pointed criticism at all (:
End the NSA's Invasive Call Detail Records Program Once and for All
I love this use of "in the wild".

The electronics jungle. Intreprid explorers peering through the gaps between the cables.
The case for CSS variables is interesting. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to integrate them with a CSS framework I created, called Bulma: https://bulma.io/

There's a few ways to combine Sass variables and CSS variables:

- make all Sass variables available as CSS variables as well, so $primary will also exist as --primary
- assign a CSS variable to a Sass one: $primary: var(--red)
- assign a Sass variable that was defined as a CSS one: $red: var(--red) and then $primary: $red

Color functions are one aspect that isn't well supported yet by CSS only.

There's also a more "philosophical" question: why offload the variable resolution to the client side when it can be done at compilation time? If you're not gonna update a variable's value at runtime, it doesn't really need to be available as a CSS variable.

It's like single page apps that always render the same content, and are better off rendered once on the server side and delivered as static HTML, instead of being rendered thousands of times by each client.

But to be fair, CSS variables have other benefits, like creating color variations very quickly:

// Sass
.is-success
background-color: $green-invert
border-color: $green
color: $green
&:hover
background-color: $green
border-color: $green-invert
color: $green-invert
&:active
background-color: $green
border-color: $green
color: $green-invert

// CSS
.is-success
--color: var(--success)
--invert: var(--successInvert)

Even with CSS variables, Sass still has a lot of benefits listed by other commenters here, like reusable mixins and nesting. And one of my favourites: @extend!
I'm flying to Italy (un)fortunately... But I am actually interested in exploring this if you are ever in Berlin.
"kick at" implicitly includes intent IMO. You kick the ball and it hits players, but rarely do you intend that as it is often counter productive (not hitting the goal, not making a pass; giving up possession).
Most people willingly ignored this because they feared that panic and a'bank run' on tether would cause a crash similar to Mt.Gox.

Tether is infact a fed instead of the fed, but without the largest military power in the world to defend it, a scam that is backed by nothing and there have been a lot of attempts to point that out. Check out 'bitfinexed' on twitter and medium.
MakerDAO Governance Scandal
Balmer started (and continued) a lot of things and he made a lot of money for MS mainly by riding the post windows 95 boom of milking office + windows licenses. By the time he left, the dependence on those two as the primary source of revenue was becoming a problem because the market was changing. MS needed a few of the things he started to actually become major revenue drivers.

Windows Phone already looked like it was flopping and MS needed to be part of mobile to continue to stay relevant with its consumer software. On the server, people were flocking to AWS to run Linux software, which was very much a second class citizen on Azure under Balmer.

Nadella fixed these problems and now office and azure revenues are doing great and even Windows is not looking too bad these days. This is why MS just crossed the 1 trillion $ valuation point. That would not have happened under Balmer.
Wish I could reply to you at length, but I'm having difficulty navigating the standards of political correctness of those of us with the ability to flag posts.

Here's to second chances: Muslim immigration is not the death of Europe.
The death of Europe, according to the author is accepting too many immigrants that do not share the values of equality and respect towards women, other minorities, or even the rule of law.

And then not enforcing said law when they break it, in order not to appear racist, thereby leading to a lack of confidence from the general population and massive shifts in political power to nationalist or extremist parties.

There's much to be said about this topic and I would do it in a polite and respectable way, but from my discussion with a moderator I think it would not be welcome. Somehow we're stuck with mostly being able to say positive things or else being labeled despicable.
the vernacular is hilarious.
-"midnight musings"
-"skinniest transaction"

Gottcha. The paper's finding are 27 transactions/second for "pre-SegWit era". Theoretically accurate and worthwhile to know, I guess.
I was guilty of this once and would add some more specific advice; if your dataset consists of multiple possible labels for the same samples, do not just assume that the average of these labels will describe the best label. And don't assume that training with the unclean data will produce a net that magically learns to do the aggregation for you.
Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (2014)
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The FBI collaborates on the investigation and even returned them some funds they were able to seize a few months ago.
Google Is Eating Our Mail
Tracking the toxic air that's killing millions
I see this kind of debate between people often. I think the crucial point is the "feeling" that is the subjective experience.

Some people feel there is no way for such a "feeling" to form spontaneously out of the cold, dead matter. Since some matter doesn't experience this feeling, how does it spontaneously form, out of no-feeling, at some threshold configuration? What is this threshold exactly? These people think it must special, since we can imagine (in principle) a clump of matter interacting physically in time to simulate the external appearance of a human mind, yet remain no-feeling on the inside.

Other people don't seem to grasp what the problem the first people are posing might possibly be. The "feeling" is simply a property of the universe which arises in some physical configurations. Computers can have subjective experience and even today's computers might have it in some form. There is no discrete, magical step required.

I find myself continually switching teams on this matter. The second position might be more believable after we find some laws governing the relationship between physical configurations and the nature of the resulting experience. But since subjective experience is necessarily... subjective, it seems very hard (impossible?) to test.
> Yeah just like brown people in the Old South.

Black people.

Asians both East and South, Black people and Native Americans have all laboured under state sanctioned and legalised discrimination and violence in the US, “brown people” did not.

The Old South was quite violently racist and systematically so to black people. No other group suffered anything like their treatment, not the Japanese, internment included, or Native Americans.

Black people suffered in the American South, not “brown people”.
Interesting. Always had the feeling that Inbox could be the ONE interface to all (main) Google products but somebody had stopped the train on the way to this idea. Seems I was right about my feelings...
Their products and services also obviate many more people, contributing greatly to the wealth and income gap in my opinion. Office can do the work of many secretaries, Amazon can do the work of many retail establishments, Google lets people do work quicker with instant information, airline/hotel websites cut out the need for most travel agents, Apple's and others' devices cut out the need for 10 different devices and package it into 1, Netflix and streaming services remove the need for "TV channels" and all the people that worked in that field.

Much of these productivity gains due to the scalability of software solutions result in fat margins for those companies, hence the high pay for people in the tech field, but the remainder also goes to the capital owners who get more productive workers.
Which is heavily influenced by AOSP.
Computers Don't Argue - Gordon R. Dickson

https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133
- why didn't you write it in Rust?
Vodacom South Africa officially announces new music service
Intel is planning an $8B new manufacturing facility in Ireland
Perhaps drifting slightly OT, but this is a good example of why I'm not a fan of the current trend to make the "any questions for us?" section of interviews evaluative.

I get the theory, that good people ought to ask smart questions, but it feels trivially hackable the same way all those stupid brain teaser questions from '90s interview processes were. In other words, professional interviewees - the kind of people who memorise answer books, question lists, etc. - will outperform people who are smart and skilled but don't approach things in exactly the way the scoring checklist expects.

(Bonus points if you penalise people for not asking about something which was easily discoverable from Glassdoor, industry contacts or even your own company website.)
> An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider, "Approximately 300 employees turned over in Baltimore related to productivity in this timeframe.

Why do they talk like that? I think they're erasing doubt that this is a corporatist nightmare place to work.
What has he done, besides The Cathedral and the Bazaar...?

Most of his open source contributions seem to be littering up source files with long-winded comments and grandiose attributions to himself. I've read a fair bit of his code and it's certainly not impressive. Quite the opposite actually.
The price there seems to be sliding... currently showing $0.972.
On the mainstream Internet, you can't ever be sure. What you consider an obvious joke can actually be intended as 100% serious by the poster. Or it could be some small agency's "brilliant" plan at social media marketing targeting unsophisticated normies.
> I'm the technical lead for that project, and we're very likely to have continuations soon.

What relationship have continuations to making Java exceptions resumeable?

> But by comparing capabilities I did not mean one by one, but the totality of those of one runtime vs. those of the others.

Not sure how you compare a totality, other than actually having a list and compare them one by one.

My feeling: you make a claim, but you have never used one of the Lisp runtimes like Allegro CL and you simply don't know what they provide and when it comes to specific capabilities, they are not important to YOU, because JVM users don't use them - given that they have no choice.

The JVM isn't the predominant enterprise platform because it is the best Lisp platform. Very few people in companies care whether it runs Lisp well or not. People have chosen it as their platform for their niche language, because of its domination in the specific enterprise market - not because it is technically or capability-wise a good platform for their niche language. Actually even though the JVM now exists for a long time, none of the dynamic languages have their best / most performant / dominant implementations on the JVM. Not Smalltalk, not Lisp, not Scheme, not Python, not Ruby, ...
Why a Traffic Flow Suddenly Turns into a Traffic Jam (2013)
the vernacular is hilarious.
-"midnight musings" -"skinniest transaction". LOL.

Gottcha. The paper's finding are 27 transactions/second for "pre-SegWit era". Theoretically accurate and worthwhile to know, I guess.
New Insights into Quantum Measurements
Add another perspective to this. Once I updated my phone, and google would not accept new google Authenticator codes after set up. Locked out of 15 years of email.
Apple Recalls Plugs in UK, Hong Kong and Singapore
Are there any paid for chrome extensions ?

I just seemed like an odd thing to keep emphasising “a free chrome extension”

I thought they were all free
I actually had a project where i was given a) Prototype PCB for driving a pump (status unknown, no software for the MCU) b) A badly done schematic with no proper functional delineation c) Gerber files and asked to make it all work. I had to quickly ramp up on basic Electronics (am a software guy with no EE/Electronics background), learn to read the schematic, identify the inputs/outputs, map them to the requisite pins on the MCU and program it accordingly. While i did write the MCU firmware and got everything to work by myself (pat on back :-), the process was frustrating. No doubt much of it was standard "learning process" due to my lack of knowledge/experience but i was distinctly annoyed at my difficulty in understanding the schematic and mapping it to the components on the PCB for effective debugging. And of course, some of the component values on the schematic did not match the ones on the actual PCB leading to more painful debug sessions. It was "trial by fire" and i am happy to say that i passed, if i do say so myself. But still a very long way to go to catch-up with the industry professionals :-)
Welcome to Ukraine! Lard and Salo [1] are pretty much the main national dishes here. A healthy delicacy that's welcome on any table and is sold on every meat market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_(food)
Ask HN: Reading Suggestions for New Managers
Hi all good people of HN. Throwaway account here for a little privacy.

My situation is that I was just promoted to the head of a department of 6 people. I have some experience in managing but would like to really nail it down and make people happy and productive. I ask here for any recommendation on reading about how to go from mainly hands on work to hands off and delegate.

Thank you all.
It's not for legibility. GMail has plenty of padding to be readable even when set to "compact" density. If there's any functional justification at all, it's about being touchscreen friendly, even if you don't have a touchscreen.
You Can't Trust Network Time
What, from people falling into the river and drowning? Seems like me that an electrical fire from a washing machine is about as likely.
You can use it as a medium of exchange, temporarily, never expose yourself to a large extent.
Perfect analogy. This image is a visual nonsense poem... or would be if it were more poetic.

It's fascinating to me. Both feel like they take my brain to the threshold of understanding and then it just gets stuck.
When a technology does an unexpected thing, something you'd never thought would be possible, it is tempting to think that it is magic and it can do all the other impossible things.
Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading
Top Node.js Interview Questions – Theory and Practice for 2019
From Mining to Utility
I want one, but I'm not going to spend $2k on something so fragile which I'm going to take in and out of my pocket constantly.
What scares me about the responses is that this appears to be the first GAN-output that many people have seen. This does not bode well for people being able to recognize this sort of thing, should that become important (spotting 'this person does not exist' profile pictures for bots, etc.)
A simple logging library in Swift that uses OSLog