skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of millionaires being minted. Congrats to the early engineers.
Former corn-syrup lobbyist is drafting new federal dietary rules
How to debug JavaScript applications and tests
>I think Apple is the company that is least bad on privacy.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests. - Someone.

I trust Apple not because of my optimism that they will do good, I trust them because of my pessimistic view ( Comparatively Speaking , it seems every negative thoughts in Silicon Valley are considered as pessimistic )that everyone has an interest, and it is Apple's interest to sell me expensive ( comparatively ) devices and Services while making a profits, and not selling product and services and zero net margin subsidiser by selling my Data.
Being documented is not enough. Implementing a commercial device requires including an Authentication component (before it used to be an actual chip, now it seems it can be done in software), and that can be used to prevent devices from speaking to alternative control apps.

From what I can tell, Homebridge implements Homekit as a device, receiving commands. But can anyone build an app or device to send commands, outside of iOS?

The fact that I can't find an Homekit control app for Android strongly indicates this is not possible.
Reminds me of this article by Courtney Love comparing the music industry to sharecropping: https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
And there went my love for Nest. I’ve been one of the earliest adopters...love the product. After they got acquired by Google I’ve been expecting this, however, not so soon.

Time to start looking into an alternative - suggestions anyone?
As a fan of notion I agree with your post.

That said, Calibre is awful imo. I would recommend looking into Polar Bookshelf (open source): https://getpolarized.io
Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha are two completely different things, though. The latter is nothing even close to just a web UI for the former.
It can only do that if you add it to the preload lists of browsers (which is mentioned in the article).

But even if it is not, it's still helpful for people connecting to your site again.
Ask HN: Seeking technical co-founder for AI/ML deployment platform (London, UK)
Hi fellow HN-ers,

I'm building Orchestra, an enterprise AI and machine learning deployment platform that lets data scientists deploy models with speed, scale and security. My background is a mix of both technical and business (Com Sci, software engineer, consultant, VP of data science/analytics), which has allowed me to develop a decent product to begin demos and early sales. I will be raising some funds soon to continue solidifying product-market fit.

The vision is to embed AI and ML in every part of the organization possible.

I am looking for a technical co-founder based in London, UK to help shape how companies will deploy AI/ML in the future and establish a new (or improved) way of deploying and measuring ML in production systems.

If you or anyone you know who might be interested, please get in touch. Email is in my profile.
> Can't he try to find another company that will sponsor him for an H-1B?

Yes, he has exactly 60 days to find another employer and get the visa application through before accruing unlawful status. And according to this article, he did try but couldn't get a job, so he left.

Infinite visa extensions are all fine until you either:

1. Hit a recession or an industry slowdown (like the situation here)

2. USCIS decides your job isn't a "specialty occupation" anymore and denies your visa extension.

3. You become old (imagine an Indian national engineer at age 50-55 trying to get a company to sponsor H1B).

Most of these people dont even get to progress much in their career because [2] can happen.

If this engineer had a green card, he would have more time to search for another job if laid off.
What Are the Cheapest Family Holiday Destinations in the US?
i don't work for notion, but all notion pages fyi are markdown underneath and export is supported out of the box.
Ask HN: What personal blogs do you read?
I'd much rather read personal blogs at this point than clickbait institutions, so I'm looking for personal blogs by clever and interesting people. My two recommendations are:

http://www.docbastard.net
http://www.joshuakennon.com

What do you read?
Welcome to the "cloud" world! Google is pretty "windy" these days.
And some may argue that democracy is a pretty bad "solution" by itself.

https://reason.com/2018/11/10/libertarian-critiques-of-democ...
I bought two Nest thermostats this winter because they worked with only R-W wires. I turned off the learning feature, as it was useless for my house with its combination of passive solar and radiant heat. However, the API is/was quite simple and I was looking forward to writing my own controller.

Still, I had this nagging feeling that I shouldn’t have bought them. Thanks for confirming my anxieties, Google! I can’t trust you, but I at least can trust you to be you.
It astonishes me how society is so against exposing hurtful realities. At least this way.
No root. I prefer owning things to leasing them.
My, how the stables have turned...
>No way in hell that he is getting hired in that industry..

So you're saying that no one in the auto industry is ethical, and that they deliberately hire unethical people? Out of the millions of employees across the country and globe? Deplorables, all of them?

That's rich. Silicon Valley is hypocritical and out-of-touch.
Why are the Jews hated so much?
Uber and Lyft (and AirBnB, VRBO, and Homeaway) are also subsidized in many cases by “I already own an expensive asset and carry all the fixed costs already, so I just need to make a profit over marginal costs”, which is largely the same as people who take a second or hobby job (including teenagers babysitting).

That subsidy is structural, IMO. That we see a lot of full time AirBnBs and full time Uber/Lyft drivers may mean it’s sustainable even outside of VC support. (I have no inside information, but I suspect that ride-sharing is economically profitable long-term at current end-user prices in all established markets.)
Show HN: ShaderLab – My WebGL Social Network
Probably because most of their customers don’t work with Google-like problems, and will not buy chips that are 10x faster on paper but 10 times slower on the problems they DO have, at 10x the price...
True definition of ‘hacker’.
Well, it happened to me more than once when I was a kid. I would finish the last page and go back to the first page. More often I would just open another book though. I was about 8 when I skipped two weeks of school just reading. Every morning I went to a library, read a book, went back home at the right time and read another book or two. Unfortunately, people notice when a child doesn't show up to classes :/
Why are Jews hated so much?
> Site wants a sign-in.

Interestingly, they show the pop-up only in the US. Accessing from other locations doesn't show it.
I guess you are generating a lot of traffic, is DO allowing you unlimited traffic on your droplets?
This is a great display of Mathematica's power in data science and plotting. Somehow I'm feeling compelled to reach for my wallet....
I wish I started doing similar thing way earlier, because now I can't refer to a lot of content that vanished from the net for a number of reasons (creators getting bored, flagged out from youtube by bots that random haters set up, bogus copyright claims from impostors that upload all sorts of stolen things into contentid in order to create a quick buck, UMG taking down videos from music theory channels despite it obviously falling under the Fair Use and so on)
Art has no direct utility value. But there is a definite - if approximate - consensus value based on the reputation and history of an artist and the location of a work in their output.

This is often multiplied by speculative hope/greed, which can be manipulated in ways that have nothing to do with any consensus about artistic value or historical interest.

Galleries and collectors are not unfamiliar with the art world's equivalent of pump 'n dump. More direct methods may also be used:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/think-you-can-spot-a-fraud-t...
I don't think this is aimed at people doing certification though, it seems like it's more for the prototyping stage.

It doesn't matter if the device isn't fully calibrated in that case.
Psychology is not falsifiable and therefore not a science.
The office presumably isn’t just the dev team, though.
Can you show an example of HomeBridge controlling an HomeKit accessory? The description of the project says the opposite: it allows the control of non-HomeKit accessories from HomeKit.
- Vacation

- Remote work

- Flex time

- Vacation

- Free coffee

- Office close to public transit

- Did I mention vacation?
15% renewables by 2020... that's not a very ambitious plan given the fact that we have less than ten years to get to a completely carbon neutral world economy.
You might be thinking of ISOs.

Ordinary income tax is due at exercise of a non qualified option (NQSO), which CA will tax.

Same is true with RSU releases.
https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/
The uk manages to get a result in general elections in < a day
>I was talking to someone who believed making changes at the margin don't matter.

I listed plenty of things I do that contribute at the margins. But unless I follow your rules, it will never be good enough.

>None of your arguments justify continued high meat consumption.

I don't need to justify a single thing to you or anyone else.

>Learn to have a discussion.

Rich, coming from a person who opened up the conversation with "what a bunch of bullshit".
Waves of slow traffic occur naturally, sure, but that doesn't mean the majority of traffic jams aren't caused by some asshole doing 20 under in the fast lane.
What’s old about “woman”? “Woman” means “adult female human being”. That includes 18-year-olds.
I suppose it depends on the quality of sleep. AFAIK, anxiety and depression reduce quality sleep time, which reciprocates itself into worsening anxiety and depression.

Undiagnosed issues that cause the depression and anxiety in the first place often also cause sleep issues (thinking food intolerances and underlying inflammation), so it's hard to extract data to separate the two symptoms.
Psychological Mastery Is the Ultimate Competitive Advantage
Fascinating exploit, and well written writeup. Kudos to the author.
It can't! But after the first time it's been contacted, when you contact it again HSTS will enforce HTTPS (from the client itself - much stronger than a redirect).
Depends where they are at now, less than one year from 2020.
Web meeting tools in 2019 for better communication in your business
Me too XD
According to the article, Panamint Valley. The article goes on to link to "ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT DOI-BLM-CA-D050-2019-007-EA" at https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/120... . It contains more precise location details.

You want section 3.3 "Biological Resources", which shows that it is not "devoid of life", though one of the sections is "on sandy soils with no discernable aspect."

Note however that this is for exploration. It doesn't assess long-term effects of commercial mining. Also, as the L.A. Times article points out, this ...:

> "does not include mapping of floodplain boundaries, nor any hydrologic modeling or analysis," the response read. "There is no discussion of the risks to cross contamination from the deep brines to the freshwater aquifer, and the drill site reclamation practices do not appear to have taken this risk into account."
AKA Granny Farming - which is a downside to postal voting which should be limited to those that need it medical reasons troops aboard etc
That's not what microcontroller means.
Maybe it’s little discussed because that’s the intended effect? A lot of simple things can create positive changes in aspects of your personality, such as meditation, a consistent exercise routine, enough sleep, etc.
Damn you, EA, I liked Mass Effect 1 so much.
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#why-doesn-t-calibr...

"If you are still not convinced, then I’m afraid calibre is not for you. Look elsewhere for your book cataloguing needs. Just so we’re clear, this is not going to change. Kindly do not contact us in an attempt to get us to change this."
>I will never understand why Americans are personally affronted by the idea that they should eat less meat.

I'm not American, nor can you have any possible idea what amount I eat, nor "should" be eating.
Show HN: Binarized Attributed Network Embedding (ICDM 2018)
When you click the "15%" you get to an article[1] that claims 12% non-fossile fuels in 2015 with a 15% goal for 2020.

[1]https://thediplomat.com/2016/08/chinas-5-year-plan-for-energ...
It's not legal in the USA either, but it's very popular to do with diesel pickup trucks. Look up 'rolling coal' on YouTube
This is from the abstract:

"Method:

Four survey studies (N=18,932) with large international cohorts employed an open-science methodology wherein the analysis plans for confirmatory hypotheses were registered prior to data collection.

Results:

Among those who played games, more than 2 out of 3 did not report any symptoms of Internet gaming disorder, and findings showed that a very small proportion of the general population (between 0.3% and 1.0%) might qualify for a potential acute diagnosis of Internet gaming disorder. Comparison to gambling disorder revealed that Internet-based games may be significantly less addictive than gambling and similarly dysregulating as electronic games more generally."

I think they mean to say the general population of their study population, not the population at large. I could be wrong, and I'm not overly fond of the wording of the first "results" sentence, but I think that's what they are talking about.
Such is life in corporate America. It rains on the just and the unjust.
This is a decent reminder blog post about something that is obvious on the surface, but subtle when you forget to think about it and make a mistake.

I've found that thinking of a lock as something you don't want to hold goes a long way. The point of locks is to release them.

Jeff Preshing has a good series on locks and concurrency. This[0] post (potentially with an extra dozen I read in the same sitting) is the one that really changed how I thought about locks: before I read it, I was very into lock freedom at every opportunity.

0: https://preshing.com/20111118/locks-arent-slow-lock-contenti...
What a joke ... f@ck Google. Seriously.

I'm not even a Nest developer, but everything Google touches now turns to sh!t.
> No need for the tone.

I think I'm allowed for the tone when you respond with the following:

>You are forced to help customers replace the Qt libraries in your product. That has quite large security/warranty implications.

The above is completely wrong.

You develop and distribute your closed source software and link it with QT libraries like you would do normally. Nothing is needed from the customers.
Your closed source software can be statically linked to LGPL binaries (to fix another common misconception).

What is needed from you is a way for the customers to get things separately. It can be written offer, link to files in the website (used to be directory in DVD). You can be almost 100% certain that your customers will never use or notice this option. It's just there to comply with the license.
Isn't it odd?

We have these ethical giants among us, screaming "bullshit" and making assumptions about the rest of us based on their personal values.
I can only disagree. Flutter is primarily a UI framework. The "functionality" of a mobile application requires access to core features of the mobile platform (e.g. accessing sensors, bluetooth, nfc, contacts, camera, ...). The platform feature access is made available via plugins also when working with flutter. This is the same for RN, Cordova, Xamarin etc. There is no SDK in flutter, Android is the SDK. Flutter has no direct access to Android SDK APIs...
Depends on the network and company. You get “has anyone worked at Acme Corp? What was it like?” And “I was there 5 years ago. Things were great in the foo department, but my friends in the bar department said the VP there did baz. Things may have changed since then, though. LMK if you want me to put you in touch with someone who still works there.”

The networks also often share salary information.
Uhm, citation needed? Most of the most performance critical industries like game dev, high frequency trading, are primarily in C++, not C. Well written C++ tends to be more performant than C largely because there's just much less indirection in using templates than C equivalents (function pointers, void*, etc). And compilers are already smart enough to optimize out most C++ compile time abstractions.
Trying to stay away from the party political, I think the experience is that telephony may have been suitable for privatisation - people are happy switching providers, and do so all the time. Water, Post Office and electricity not so much. Thirty odd years later and regulators still haven't figured out how to get people to switch in any appreciable numbers. Maybe those really are natural monopolies, regardless of party dogma - and were often those pre-war city corporations.

> until it breaks, then declare the need for your preferred solution

Equally cynically, that does seem to be the way government and regulation works lately. Just look at the Post Office privatisation - take things away from them year on year from counter services, savings, licence renewals to city mail, so it's no wonder they're declining and "need" privatising. Then they wonder why the electorate doesn't trust politicians. Or BBC licencing deals... The stench of where that's heading is getting overpowering.

They may have got plans wrong many times earlier, but it appears former generations were far more genuinely concerned with actually trying to make the country better - whether one-nation Tory or Labour, or administrations elsewhere. I'm sure there's some age-related rose tinting, but I don't think anywhere near all. Where did that ethos go? :)

> the best hope available is emulating something like not-a-real-market private utilities

Private with stronger service obligations - like to permit other companies to run charters, freight or express on the tracks. Hopefully make them more like a real company - where they own the track, buildings and trains. Needing at least three companies involved to reschedule or add a new service is in the interests of no one at all. Yet that starts to look like going back to LMS, LNER, GWR and SR. That almost admits it was organised better in the 1920s. Not sure that's politically possible. :)
I found the USA visa system much more sensible (yet outdated) than most of European countries I lived in (no European citizen here).

USA, with exception of China and India, have a quite clear and manageable path for citizenship.

Denmark for example is constantly changing its rules because of "cultural" reasons.
>slowly leech heat out of your planet

It's a gloomy scenario, but we wouldn't run out of the energy too quickly:

>Nearly half of the Earth's heat comes from the radioactive decay of materials inside [1]

[1] https://phys.org/news/2011-08-radioactive-key-ingredient-ear...
Is anyone aware of what the maximum economically feasible transmission distance is for power lines?

I ask as they specifically cite the need for transmission from west to east (to power hungry cities).

I have also wondered how efficient can those transmission towers be.

Anyone have any knowledge? Is it reasonable to expect power to be generated on one side of China, and have it used on the other side?

Edit: qualified maximum distance to economically feasible maximum distance
For the database example, could you change your isolation level for the reading queries?
Of all the org mode apps, I like UI and ux of beorg most. But since I have android as my main device, 8 can't use it. Any plans for android port?
Absolutely. That risk is much lower than developing for the Alexa, Nest, Twitter, etc platforms. At some point, you’re forced to build on someone else’s platform(s), even if that platform is “Intel” or “AWS” as no one is doing the entire end-to-end value chain.
Specifics? It does everything a basic programmable thermostat does in a simpler interface.
Wouldn't it be best to launch UBI in a nation with stronger socialist mores first? It seems like it'd be a smaller jump, and probably more likely to succeed.
The problem with this scenario is customers don't know (or care) about things like this, so from their POV PayPal is the best thing ever and not supporting it will absolutely result in lost business.

For reference I've sold many many thousands of digital courses and about 40% of the people who bought a course used PayPal (60% used a credit card where I'm using Stripe on the backend).

But from the user's POV, they just like popping in an email address and getting what they want. It's especially important if you're a small business where the average person might not trust your platform or brand with their CC info. As developers we know things are secure if we use Stripe, etc.. but they don't know that.

I realistically don't see how PayPal will ever go away in the foreseeable future. Zelle is a great step forward but it's no where near ready to replace PayPal for accepting arbitrary payments (but it's great for 1 on 1 payments when both banks support it).
Ask HN: Which checklist, or other tools, do you use for estimation?
I'm researching different ways of estimations. We currently have a checklist in place but I'm very curious what else other people are using.

Do you use a checklist? If yes, which itmes do you have and what priority? Perhaps you use a tool instead? Perhaps you hardly estimate?
This is only relevant if you propose to have weekly/monthly elections.

For elections every few years even a week of counting would not be a problem.
Imo no personality is ever wrong, except for when the brain/mind is influenced by a disease. I am not saying that the actions of a serial killer will ever be approved, but the notion that one "type" of personality is more good than any other is strictly cultural.

At the same time, I agree with you that it is not bad to change a personality, if it is the owner of that personality that initiate the change.
well as long as it's not EVAL'ing the .... wait they wouldn't ... OH NO
I use Apple Books and it works well with chapters so I usually create the books with https://www.splasm.com/audiobookbuilder/
Me, too. But now that I've found the Teensy 3.6, it's my new goto. It's too expensive, but it has all the power. Also, I've been doing embedded for over 20 years and I'm starting to appreciate the simplicity of Arduino. It does get most of the job done. And when I had to modify the drivres, I was able to write completely low-level code. Only walls I've run into are tweaking the linker file. I haven't been able to locate that :(

https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy36.html
I would like to link to a my old post here regarding this very topic (even if the original comment was about something else): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498424#13498462
Software Engineering Lessons from Aviation
This article here contains some helpful information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC
Practicalities of Deploying Dockerized Asp.net Core Application to Heroku
That's what candidates do I recall a talk by a Labour Candidate where in his election arguing that a ballot with I vote for that bastard was for him.

This was a constituency where the previous incumbent had had some problems with his younger GF
Is inherited money much different than UBI money?

Either way, the recipient didn't work for it. It spends the same.