skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Senior Software Engineer experienced in a wide range of technologies, like embedded systems, system modeling, web, databases, networking, etc. My passion is to create things that help people all over the world. Love to solve complex problems.

The primary programming language is Python, but also have experience with JavaScript, PHP, Perl, C/C++, Clojure. Studied a little bit Go, Rust, D, and other not very popular languages. Have experience with embedded systems like STM32 or ESP8266 for home IoT automation.

Have extensive knowledge about how NAND (Flash) memory works. Have done many system models of SSD, especially in Python with the help of Cython, numpy, and C.
Have experience with Linux Kernel Hacking, especially in the block layer.

Also have some experience with Frontend: AngularJs, VueJs.

Location: Belarus (Europe)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies:
Python, Flask, Django, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Linux, Docker, VueJs.
Linux Kernel Hacking, NAND, Flash storage internals, System modeling (Python, Cython, numpy, C), embedded software.
Résumé/CV: Available on request.
Email: libbkmz.dev+hiring < ат > gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-plenne/
Apple Forces Developers Using 3rd Party Sign Ons to Use Apple SSO
We are talking about a comparatively pointless activity with a huge carbon footprint. There are plenty of other ways to enjoy life.
First clause of the Howey Test is that there's an investment of money. Perhaps at some point the SEC lawyers will argue to a court that something can still be a security without an investment of money, but I don't think there's any particular reason to think a court will agree.
This critique might come from the idea that having a good analytic model, or at least some valuable analytic insights, involves much more than assigning some priors. Of course, the two things don't exclude each other, but for some frequentists Bayesians have the wrong perspective - or at least that's the critique, whether it's true or not.

Another issue that I personally have with Bayesianism is that I believe that assigning probabilities to singular events is only meaningful and admissible at all if there is a good analytic explanation for the respective propensity. For example, we may be able to deduce that a die is reasonably fair from the way it is constructed and our knowledge of physics, and later confirm this by frequentist analysis. Merely believing or claiming that the die is fair is not acceptable. Again, the difference is only one of attitude in the end, I suppose.

Maybe philosophers have given Bayesian statistics a bad rap, too, because many of those who call themselves Bayesians are also "probabilists", i.e., they think that rational belief must conform to the probability calculus. There are many arguments against probabilism and the only arguments that speak for it are Dutch book arguments. The view does not have very strong foundations.
Online Etymology Dictionary claims: "The figurative one-trick pony is 1897, American English, in reference to circus acts."

https://www.etymonline.com/word/pony#etymonline_v_17634
I love Lady Ada. But I wish I could just read this instead of having to watch a video.
That is where I first started out. Watching his videos helped build my first workbench, from there I found Wandel and others. I still go to Paul for tips and tricks.
I rarely see direct attached storage anymore. It's too cost effective from a media management standpoint to just to right to 10Gbe RJ45 or fiber network storage. The only direct storage I see is if speed is absolutely critical and that's very rare, mostly just high end 3D stuff.
Custom Embroidery Digitizing Services
Luminati didn't start off like that. They started by burying what they were doing in a "free" vpn.

I asked, and they are only interested in partners with 100k active users a month. They REALLY REALLY wanted to talk to me over skype. Right, like a legitimate company with that many users is going to use luminati.

The use case of luminati is almost entirely grey/black hat. Their history is laughably sketchy. Unless anybody knows of any apps that use the SDK and ask for permission, I suspect that FAQ page is just for show. Again you have to be a big player to even use it, it's not a stretch to believe they don't "enforce" the consent rule.
Looks fine in the demonstration area for the various weights below. There has to be some space between the lines if you were to use a router to make a wooden sign with these (the stated design inspiration).
Best example of this would be Steve Jobs haranguing the CEO of Dow Corning, telling him he didn't know anything about the chemical structure of glass.
What does Tron(TRX) have to do with this article?
I use it as a general e-friends chat service. It doesn't require giving your address book or phone number like WhatsApp (and presumably doesn't track you like all Facebook products do). It gives you anonymity, unlike regular texting. It doesn't have terrible Microsoft-UX like Skype. It does one thing and does it well.
It's especially noticeable around the T - the visual area between A and T feels like about twice that between T and I.
While you are likely technically correct, in terms of passenger experience, pretty much everyone will disagree with this assessment of "stable".
Much better than it used to be. The biggest challenge historically has been video drivers, but with the recent Linux kernel compatibility bits everything has running very smoothly.
Almost everything in the app is free - including the tech news. There is a premium subscription to help our tiny team of two fund the development. Subscribers can practice with books (Flowlingo works with any .ePub file), and get more videos (in languages where we have a video library).
Forgive me if I'm getting the wrong end of the stick but

> Only threads on the same CPU core can communicate at the highest speeds. Isn't this situation broken?

Why broken? If they're on the same core then they share the L1/L2 cache which is as fast as it can get.

> Shouldn't we have better hardware support for communicating threads?

Peeps who do chips aren't stupid. It's probably laws of physics rather than incompetence that stopping it, and if it isn't that then it's economics.

> Why in modern software, are threads communicating through CPU cache invalidation?

I can't see that mentioned in the article. But if it works, well, cache line snooping is, I guess, exceedingly fast so why not.
> You could have all of the fuel at the back, behind the passengers and engines.

That would cause quite the difference in handling between takeoff and handling. The fuel tanks span the length of the fuselage in this design — and I'm sure that's intentional.
Apple Dissolves iTunes into New Apps
He didn't say you shouldn't have kids.

My kids read books, too.
SEEKING TUTOR | Remote | NLP

My background is in software engineering. I know Python, JavaScript and Scheme. I would like to transition to a data-science position related to Natural-Language-Processing.
The web the world needs can be ours again, if we want it
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Specially the A-T-I part feels like it could be better.
This feels relevant here:

"National Park Service Typefaces" https://www.nps.gov/subjects/hfc/nps-typefaces.htm
> "apolitical calculation"

is this something that exists in the realm of economics (nee "political economy")?
I agree, after making an account with the button, you are stuck with Apple forever. If the sign in id buttons are not cross platform, thats abusive lock-in.

The create account button might not be available on android apps, but hopefully the sign in sso buttons works. Maybe identity portability will become law someday, like cell number portability and being able to change your address at the post office.
>Doesn't this throw up all the red flags of a scam ICO?

AFAICT many/most ICOs operated like this. Not all, certainly but the "raise money through hype about future values, with products far off or non-existant" model appeared to be the dominant one in '17 and '18.
I strongly agree. There is no legitimate functionality that can't be implemented without 3rd party cookies. Some sites will break at first until they are fixed, and we could have a whitelist for a while, while making it very cumbersome to be added to that list. New sites would simply need to workaround the lack of 3rd party cookies and accept that user tracking is technically illegal.

The surveillance internet is something that was allowed to evolve by a lack of foresight from the standard authors in their desire to build a rich web. We should put an end to it as soon as possible. The browser should not leak unique identifiers in any situation and all standard browsers should be as finger-print resistant as the Tor Browser.

In my view, if you leak data that is critical to the privacy of the user, it's as bad if not worse than an improper implementation of TLS. It takes only two, modestly skilled, collaborating webadmins (one site "shameful" and one used with authentication) to possibly destroy a person's life, reputation and family. A practical attack on SSL2.0 is orders of magnitude more difficult.

Let's put responsibility for privacy back where it should be: on the browsers and web standard authors.
If one manages to drop the value of Facebook stock I believe very strongly it will affect him personally until the stock goes back up.

I have yet to meet the CEO of a big tech company who hasn't invested quite a bit of ego in the success of their company. beyond that, the annoying and persistent questions from market analysts and from his own employees will keep him quite busy. To give Mark Zuckerberg a point, I believe he still shows up for that Friday meeting with his employees.

But I will grant that it would be hard to start a sell-off like this for the same reasons that there are a lot of people who love to yell at their TV whilst listening to their favorite political commentator deliver their daily two minute hate yet a lot of them don't bother to vote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/technology/facebook-mark-...
> ignore the price difference, as it is immaterial to this discussion

If you ignore the price, you have plenty of options for wired internet: hire a company to lay fiber straight to your home, connect it to a data center on the other end. Price and quality are the big factors in whether something is an alternative. Dial up or GPRS isn't an alternative to broadband, not because it's much more expensive, but because of the quality of service. Satellite internet can provide you with all the bandwidth you need, where ever you need it, but the price is prohibitive.
> And driving? People could just stay home, I suppose?

Walk. Bicycle. Use public transit. In extremity, buy an electric car (but that has issues, too).

If your question is "what should people who live, heavily subsidized, in suburbs and exurbs, do?", then the answer teases itself out pretty elegantly.
Telcos and ISPs are the bigger threat by far in a fixed local monopoly physical market that is hard to enter.

Telecom/ISPs are afraid of antitrust, being labeled a utility and competition, they work overtime to throw the blame onto Big Tech starting way back with net neutrality and Netflix share of the market. It wasn't Netflix using the data it was the users. Since then ISPs have been funding mud slinging against Big Tech so they can compete with them on ads by removing privacy protections and content so they removed net neutrality against the will of everyone [1].

Maybe 5G will shake up the telcos and ISPs controls they have bribed to put in place using regulatory capture. The attack on Big Tech is partially funded by them just like oil companies pushed anti-nuclear energy along with opposition to green tech. Big Oil funded many of the anti-nuclear campaigns, probably even had some sabotage involved [2].

ISPs aren't even using the market to get ahead with good products like Big Tech, they are using bribes and regulations that keep them in their false monopolies and fixed markets.

ISPs share fixed local monopoly markets by putting one good ISP and a bunch of smaller ones that don't compete like a Game of Thrones.

FCC reports find almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds, even at 25Mbps, 43 percent of the US had zero ISPs or just one [3]. For a modern broadband innovative market this is unacceptable, there are industries of the future that rely on fast network we can't even get going due to the feet dragging and rent-seeking local monopolies of the ISPs/telcos.

The one time innovators, the ISPs/telcos, have become local monopolies directly harming innovation and network growth, they now have data caps, net neutrality add-ons (like Cox Elite Gamer), content options and privacy protections removed to discourage and reward broadband providers for NOT growing but nickel and diming people [1].

I remember in the 90s when broadband, cable, ISPs, telcos were innovative and the leaps from landline to other sources was amazing. They were innovative then, run by engineers and product people. Now they are rent seekers, holding back innovation, run by HBS style MBAs where everything is a resource and every dime extracted with minimal reasons to innovate or expand without rent-seeking controls in place.

Imagine if water, electricity or other utilities were this toll road like, we'd live in less quality of life.

The network is a utility and platform to innovate and build on, not extract the value and slow innovation

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/fcc-announces-plan-aba...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/fcc-r...
The Hustle releases a new startup research product called Trends
Likewise. Transcription is cheap these days!
It's often the other way around: regulation is popular among people inside the regulated industry (it keeps competitors out, while being treated as "just business as normal" by employees of the regulated industry), while being unpopular with potential new entrants on the outside.

The only industries that really fight regulation are those where there's currently a mad scramble of new startups trying to gain position (see eg. dot-coms in 1999 or crypto in 2019). Nurses don't fight HIPAA, bankers don't fight margin requirements, contractors don't fight building codes, brokers don't fight broker licensing, and daycares don't fight safety standards.
I think there is a PR war going on to push the responsibility of climate crisis fixes onto personal actions in order to avoid actual widescale industrial changes. We can create fuel from carbon and at least for the air sector it makes reasonable sense - even if that increases the cost of travel. Airlines like other corporations want to avoid specific requirements like that that as a regulation.
> Who even bought this stuff?

My guess is that a lot of this money is dirty. There are also tax reasons, where money needs to be invested or is even expected to be lost.
Individual actions can't solve a collective problem. I can go vegetarian, walk everywhere, never take a plane or ship for my entire life and all of that savings would be eaten up by a supertanker burning bunker fuel going a few miles off course or a chemical company vomiting waste into a river. The only way to solve these problems is at the national government and international organization level.
That's fair, I think what is also fair is that a lot of folks simply enjoy spending the time on it rather than just getting it done, which is also the case when it comes to writing code.
Their main claim revolves around "iTunes & Pandora data" based on a 3rd party aggregator's claims.

Interesting that they mention Pandora - is that how the data got exfiltrated/aggregated?

All the claims in the suit mention "publicly available information" but the references given don't present actual harm to the class.

It'd be very unlikely to me that this class action goes anywhere.
Because lives in the future can't fight back.
Ask HN: New Service for Dev Teams
Hi Folks

I'm looking for feedback for a consulting idea, offer dev teams a service that takes temp ownership of the dev build, turn it into a deluxe build, and support it going forward.

What's a deluxe dev build? Its a script that takes a new laptop to dev-ready in few hours. Specifically:
1) download + install prerequisite software
2) configure local software + dependencies
3) gets the latest from source control
4) builds the solution locally
5) runs a small set of pre-agreed smoke tests

4,5 is managed by the team, I will offer 1-5 so its a one click setup for new joiners. The script would be built in team's preferred technology and re-use previously-built artifacts as it makes sense. This is about the one-time tasks that devs need to work through before actually getting productive. I'm would not get involved in other environments and/or getting an all-green tests.

As part of the standardized setup, I would also include:
1) Creds + api keys used securely in the build
2) Reduce build times on big projects
3) Fixing Package versioning conflicts
4) Migrating from an a previous build technology
5) Best practice advise for debug/release configs, branch/merge/versioning strategies, build pipelines, security
6) Act as a tie breaker for 'Holy wars' in the team

The final deliveries would would include:
1) The build script mentioned above
2) A VM in the cloud that runs steps 1-5 on daily basis
3) A presentation to the the dev team on what was done and why

About me: 20 Years in tech, mainly London. Worked for some big tech + finance co's. Been a co-founder in a VC-backend startup. Worn may hats, including Principal Dev for an American multinational. First language is English. I've done the exact thing I'm describing before.

What day rate would you pay for such a service - assuming all above can be done in 2-6 weeks? Also assuming its done 80% remote, 20% on-side (if thats neededed at all).
Not all ICOs are scams.

In some cases people have taken the time to work out a set of incentives that allows a market that previously needed to be operated by a corporate entity to be operated without central control.

Such an incentive scheme has intrinsic value equivalent to the coordinating body it replaces. An ICO for such a scheme is not necessarily a scam.

Certainly the vast majority of ICOs are scams, but not all. The vast majority of beggars sob stories are lies, but not all are. Sometimes someone really is in a tough spot and needs a couple dollars.
How would these sort of cross border fines even work? I highly doubt Canada will extradite Kik executives.
"some guy" is, in this case, a British Ambassador. There's no particular reason for him to fabricate this story (in fact, it has the potential to make his job much tougher), and a proper historian could dig through other communications and see how prone to exaggeration he is. My gut instinct is that the cable is more or less true, in the sense that he's reporting claims from a source he's identified as someone he trusts ("THIS SOURCE HAS PREVIOUSLY PROVED RELIABLE AND WAS CAREFUL TO SEPARATE FACT FROM SPECULATION AND RUMOUR.").

The person providing the information is a bit trickier. Chinese politics have always had a bunch of different factions fighting for influence (despite how Western media portrays it as some Orientalist absolute monarchy). Whoever provided the information was likely trying to undermine some faction or another. Perhaps someone from Foreign Affairs trying to undermine some PLA-affiliated faction or another. That'd be trickier to analyze.
> what solution is there for heating and cooling?

Heat pumps, powered by sustainable electricity. (nuclear; renewables)
I figure there's no need to choose. They can try to change from within the company and also push the SEC for reform. Personally I don't like the idea of a Zuck autocracy, but I'm also not convinced that anythinng else would better. I know, hardly a decisive opinion, but I don't think we've yet seen a FAANG level company go completely balls to the wall monetizing ever last bit of personal data, so it's a tenuous balance.
I can see why this might seem like the case with present time flying wing aircrafts. But most of the initial design and theory for the flying wing design (such as the Horten Brothers) was actually done on a glider which is passively stable. Most, if not all, military fighting aircraft (like the F and B series) are purposely designed to be dynamically unstable since this allows much faster control and reaction time at the expense of special computer and ASICs to maintain aircraft stability.
What you actually want is KSP modded with Principia to give you an n-body simulation of the solar system.

https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia
It's the thickness-to-chord ratio that matters, not absolute thickness.

Swept wing in the Flying-V is clever way to get a optimal thickness-to-chord while keeping the total surface area in check.
so in a third world country they'd just die instead of being bankrupt, is that better?
Maximum amount of digits I’ve ever seen for a cellular VM system is 11 (among the big public companies). I believe Sprint can handle up to 7, and Verizon allows up to 10. Of course these are digits with no more than 10 combinations for each slot instead of the 70+ alphanumeric offers.
Rather than endlessly agonize about individual industries, pursuits, and interests, let’s just tax carbon emissions until they’re reduced to an acceptable level, and let the market sort the rest out.

If travel is valuable to you, pay for it.
Oh wow. This could be satire and I wouldn't be able to tell.

What's so important about experiencing anything? Just watch TV.
Really - you can't think of any solutions for heating and cooling houses without burning fossil fuels? Electric baseboard heaters have been a thing forever, just power those with solar or wind or nuclear and we're done. My air conditioner is already electric.

Drive an electric car, and buy renewable electricity.
I feel like some of the biggest offenders are scientists attending conferences. Is there an estimate of the research budget % spent on travel expenses?
Speaking "freely in private" is an oxymoron.
Will it compile takes 10 minutes. Is this good long term design or am I building a castle on quicksand takes much longer.
Nobody comes off looking particularly good here. If these corporations are going to act like grade schoolers calling each other names on the playground, I'm inclined to not use either of them.

I used NordVPN for about a year a couple of years ago and I found their quality of service unsatisfactory. I've been using ProtonVPN for about a year now and I've been very satisfied. But that's just my personal experience and YMMV.
Prices have dropped then, cause the G-Speed shuttle I use is 96TB and doesn't cost half that much. I've also used almost every model and in the real world and you don't ever get close to advertised speeds for R/W on those. Plus when the volume gets full it will drop to <100MB/s write.

They are popular though. I see them a lot, but I have had very little success with them over the years.