skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It's like they get pet projects in their head from reading an article in a magazine and get locked into it.

>It's not like that, it's often exactly that.

And it usually is sold also from within from know-it-all primadonnas who want to climb the ladder. Or at least put something "spectacular" on their CV.
Are you confusing reality with Steins;Gate?
Now it runs on Windows! Yay!
> Its only real weakness is that is does not grant a right of private enforcement, and national regulatory agencies are too understaffed to address even a small portion of abuses today

Article 79, Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor

1. Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77, each data subject shall have the right to an effective judicial remedy where he or she considers that his or her rights under this Regulation have been infringed as a result of the processing of his or her personal data in non-compliance with this Regulation.

2. Proceedings against a controller or a processor shall be brought before the courts of the Member State where the controller or processor has an establishment. Alternatively, such proceedings may be brought before the courts of the Member State where the data subject has his or her habitual residence, unless the controller or processor is a public authority of a Member State acting in the exercise of its public powers.
> Spanish data protection agency claims that the app didn’t make [the use of the microphone permission] clear, and has ordered LaLiga to take down the app by June 30th

So all they have to do is describe what it does and hope users don't uninstall it? seems lesser than getting removed from the app stores
This feature is (ab)used heavily by pirate video/image sites
Moore's Law was pretty amazing while it was ruling the landscape.

The transition from monochrome monitors to color.

The explosion of new peripherals that did new things, not just the same thing slightly better.

The first (consumer) hard disks.

For that matter, a computer that a person could own, rather than a corporation, was an absolutely amazing shift. If you had an idea, you could try to make it a reality - not a reality for a company, but a reality that might become your company. You could do that with just a bit of money, in your spare time (it would eat all your spare time, though, and some more besides.)

I miss the 68000 series of chips. They were great to work on. (Others have said that the 32000 were even better, but I never worked on them.)

I miss SGI workstations. For their day, they were awesome.
> You found a problem, built a solution, got a few customers, and have kept them happy. The skills to do that are not related to the coding

If it's a software solution, the idea that the skills for the “built a solution” part of that are not related to coding seems to be generally untrue. Yes, a solo project of the type involved more than coding skills, but product owner skills without tech skills don't call forth software from the depths of the abyss, though they can produce a nice idea of what a software solution would look like if someone was available to build it.
I was a huge proponent of GraphQL and used it for many clients. For me, it solved a specific need - I can write an API backend that is scalable across clients (Web, iOS, Android). However, having said that, I have made the mistake of using GraphQL for projects that only have web interfaces with somewhat complex querying (but with vague ideas of expanding to apps later). It wasted so much of my time that I ditched the project halfway and re-wrote everything using normal CRUD interfaces. I use Phoenix + LiveView now, and it's truly a god send to write code without having to touch any Javascript. Not only are my interfaces way lighter, but they also feel very natural and I get server rendered error messages out of the box without having to parse them on my frontend.

GraphQL is a rabbit hole. Don't use it unless absolutely necessary or you have a small to mid-sized team for large scale projects. Atleast on Phoenix/Elixir side of things, it's just not worth the effort - you need to write resolvers apart from your schema/models, handle changeset errors in the frontend (which there is no way to deal with directly as of this comment) and if you're working with VueJS, then good luck. My package.json is so bloated that I am starting to feel it's all just a pack of cards. I can't stress enough how much valuable developer time I wasted getting all these bits and pieces working together. Usually, you can't use one because the other one is outdated, or has some weird Github issue you now need to address. And then that causes another probelm..and another one..[the rabbit hole goes deep]

"@babel/core": "^7.0.0",
"@babel/plugin-syntax-dynamic-import": "^7.2.0",
"@babel/preset-env": "^7.0.0",
"apollo-absinthe-upload-link": "^1.5.0",
"apollo-cache-inmemory": "^1.6.1",
"apollo-client": "^2.6.1",
"apollo-link": "^1.2.11",
"apollo-link-context": "^1.0.17",
"babel-loader": "^8.0.0",
"babel-preset-env": "^1.7.0",
"coffee-loader": "^0.9.0",
"copy-webpack-plugin": "^4.5.0",
"css-loader": "^2.1.1",
"file-loader": "^3.0.1",
"graphql": "^14.3.1",
"graphql-tag": "^2.10.1",
"mini-css-extract-plugin": "^0.4.0",
"node-sass": "^4.12.0",
"optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin": "^5.0.1",
"resolve-url-loader": "^3.1.0",
"sass-loader": "^7.1.0",
"script-loader": "^0.7.2",
"style-loader": "^0.23.1",
"uglifyjs-webpack-plugin": "^1.2.4",
"vue-apollo": "^3.0.0-beta.30",
"vue-loader": "^15.7.0",
"vue-template-compiler": "^2.6.10",

When DHH ranted about these, I never believed him and I always thought he was not upto par with JS frameworks. But turns out, everything he said was true. Turns out, you don't need GraphQL at all for most use cases when you can simply get away with something like Tubrolinks or LiveView.
You are making amazingly far-reaching decisions from very limited information, a quality I definitely wouldn't want to see in my superior. A dislike of a certain test must mean "to destroy some workplace". I am now wondering if all the issues we see with politics lately are happening because people are becoming single-dimensional, unable to even consider someone else's view if the way it's presented slightly deviates from what they demand.

As somebody who was often interviewing other people fighting for jobs at top companies I worked for, I would never ever offend them by throwing FizzBuzz in their faces; I don't have such arrogance in me. I would rather try to figure out what clicks with them and throw them something tasty where they can show off, then increase pressure to see what needs more work, then explain/discuss what could have been improved. I would respect their time and help them to learn something on that single interview they had with me. Never throw into their faces that they are frauds which is implied by employing FizzBuzz. One doesn't have to be a super psychologist, just simple empathy is sufficient to understand that people perform best when they are respected and treated as adults.
> A tremendous amount of these homeless don't want to quit heroin.

Their addictions would be better managed if they lived anywhere but the street.

> They don't want to live in shelters.

They don't want to live in dry shelters.

> They want to live in a tent and shoot heroin.

No, they want to shoot heroin, and when given the option between tent and heroin, versus a dry shelter, they'll take the former.

That doesn't mean that they wouldn't prefer having a managed addiction, and not living on the streets. [1]

There are people with therapists, homes, loving families, and good jobs, that are also opiate addicts. They have a hard enough time breaking their addictions. In light of that, condemning someone living in a tent by the on-ramp for failing to just drop their addiction, so they can live in a shelter is lunacy.

[1] Yes, there is a small percentage of the homeless population that can't reasonably be housed, period, regardless of whether their addictions are managed. I'm not talking about them - I'm talking about everyone else.
"In particular, they found that a tuning process known as neural architecture search, which tries to optimize a model by incrementally tweaking a neural network’s design through exhaustive trial and error, had extraordinarily high associated costs for little performance benefit."

This is specifically the ONE instance that uses five cars worth of CO2. The next highest example used 435x less CO2. Click-bait titles like this incite unnecessary ire.

If you're spending $1,000,000+ on cloud compute costs, you're (a) hopefully very aware that this is burning a lot of CPU/GPU cycles, (b) very unlikely to try it again if the gains are minimal as the paper states.
They seem to be using the "NOVA" definitions from Monteiro et al., 2018, which are apparently summarized here: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/nova
> No customer is going to hang out in a bar where their cell phone doesn't work.

I don't think that's true - there's plenty of coffee shops/bars where my phone is totally dead as most of the walls in the city I live in are solid stone and at least a foot thick.
Ideally all these choices you mention would be configurable settings...
Oldest evidence of cannabis smoking found in ancient Chinese cemetery
I've spoken with tens of real estate experts in 2017 and 2018, and everybody pretty much agreed that the transaction costs generally approach or even surpass 10%.

There's much more than just agent fees to include in these costs. Title insurance. Closing. Mortgage origination fees. Etc.
While there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vcy7I0zIM
Having Fun with Sparrow6 Framework
Most criminals are not using services like Luminati - they are using actual botnets made up of compromised computers. In that case, their bandwidth costs are far cheaper than yours.
I was watching highlights of WWDC and they mentioned that they're adding support to XCode to migrate iPad apps to the desktop.

I subscribe to the theory that the Air will move to ARM at some point. Adding this feature to XCode sounds like the sort of thing you would do to prepare the way for an architecture shift. Especially if you were still on the fence about that shift. Let's just get a feel of how viable this space is before committing to anything.
Helpful hint: Browse the slides by using the 2 arrows in the bottom left. Don't think this ui received much usability testing.
Right? What is this, reddit?
Netflix Unveils Plans to Develop Original Shows into Video Games
I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers (2017) [video]
AFAIK anything with bioavailable calories is quickly stored as fat if not used as energy. Is that not the case?
"- If you’re a graduate student, gloomily read through the abstracts, thinking to yourself that you don’t understand papers on the real arXiv any better.

- If you’re a post-doc, reload until you find something to work on.

- If you’re a professor, get really excited when a paper claims to solve the hierarchy problem, the little hierarchy problem, the mu problem, and the confinement problem. Then experience profound disappointment.

- If you’re a famous physicist, keep reloading until you see your name on something, then claim credit for it."

XD
Ask HN: What are real life applications of Fenwick trees?
Interesting? Wikipedia article doesn't even get close. There are various accounts of his life and achievements, memoirs of witnesses, people who knew him in various contexts, the descendants/family, records of his own recollections -- all available on Internet. Unfortunately, most of it is in Russian. Reading it gives you that messy, undefinable feeling of experiencing a genius.
Any sources to back that up?
The human body is pretty resilient for most foods. While fortifying "ultra-processed" foods with simple sugars and hydrogenated fats have negative health effects, people have been consuming processed proteins for a while now without that much negativity.

Problems arise when these faux meats are themselves over-fortified with simple sugars and trans fats, in order to mimic real meat. Then you're losing health benefits of eating the real thing, and you should be careful.
So you wouldn't mind if I copied bytes of yours, such as private pictures, private documents, etc?
Speculating here, the difference is two-fold:

(1) The drugs shouldn't have been prescribed in the first place. This system was creating the cycle of dependence, not attempting to manage it.

(2) Oxy and other opiates were prescribed for specific medical issues rather than recreationally. That leads to drug-seeking behavior once the normal course of treatment wears off, and eventually when cut off from legitimate supply, illicit alternatives.
> My calculus is predicated on the assumption of a materialistic mind and no afterlife

But even then, we can't know the difference in experience for brain matter sprayed all over the room vs contained in one place.

A materialistic model asks us to question what happens when the material in question is rapidly separated and damaged, no?

Are individual pieces of cortex capable of experiencing distress for the minutes or hours in question? We have no idea.
OxyContin was prescribed by doctors that believed it was not addictive to patients that were not yet addicts. The prescription is temporary and ends, so then there is a new illegal drug addict.
I don't think meat per se is fingered as the cause from what I read in these and similar comment threads, but the fat that usually comes with most affordable cuts of meat, so meat gets tarred with the same brush.
I know you're being facetious but email clients fail to satisfy me primarily when it comes to search and organization, remaining performant when dealing with large archives of mail, good UI/UX and robustness / reliability. None of these are really problems inherent to email, though they are perhaps inherent to software.
>HTTPS Everywhere noticed you were navigating to a non-HTTPS page, and tried to send you to the HTTPS version instead. The HTTPS version is unavailable.

Pretty much inexcusable for any company in 2019 (although, I run into this quite a bit...) let alone a tech-orientated one.
https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consu...

Seafood consumption is far higher than meat-- good luck to these folks, it could be highly profitable.

Update:

Worldwide meat consumption (first graph): 317,000,000 tonnes.

Worldwide seafood consumption (later down): 154,850 kilotonnes, or 154,850,000 tonnes.

Seafood is roughly half of meat. That's still a large market.
> "Layers are only ever added."

Vernor Vinge had "Software Archeology" as a thing, it's already too real.

We've already given up the pretense of privacy, let's use a geophysical coordinate for the basis of our addressing and routing system. All the problems of mesh networking and mobilty are, if not solved, at least exposed as what they are, and not hidden behind "and then we tunnel through 4 layers of protocol to emulate the lack of 7".
Sure, yes, I feel threatened - because it is visible in many educational institutions that the only focus is on somehow getting girls into STEM. The boys are on their own, it is assumed that they will be interested in STEM anyway. Which isn't even the case. More boys than girls go into STEM, but many boys don't go into STEM or much of anything, really (less men than women complete higher education these days).

I have a son and a daughter, and I don't like that approach for either of them. I think if boys or girls are having fun, that should be encouraged and used as a motivator. If "killing machines" is what motivates the boys to program robots, so be it. Although I don't think this toy robot can actually kill anything, so that is just hyperbole.

And presumably it goes further - will I be blamed if I give my son a water pistol, because I encourage his toxic masculinity? Where does it stop?
The title should be updated to read "circulating tumor cells". Major biologic difference.
Memphis Meats is one company I'm aware of that's working to commercialize cell cultured meats. I haven't really checked up on them since their demo day, but a cursory glance suggests that they seem to be going strong.
What happens at each of these benchmarks?
>symlinks to Windows (or at least WinXP since they didn't exist until Vista)

The version of NTFS in windows xp and the version of windows explorer both supported symlinks just fine. There was just no user-mode api to create them. You could use a kernel driver to make them, or even mount the disk offline and make them
Also, the meat substitutes that currently exist are all based on plants, which also went through all those years of evolution – they’re not chemically synthesized from the ground up. And they seem set to be supplanted in the future by meat grown artificially from real animal cells, which will make the whole point moot.
Seconded. Significantly better than Nextcloud for file syncing. Nextcloud syncs over Webdav which can be pretty painful.
No, Instagram Is Not Ruining Chernobyl
The first of these certainly does happen, in this case though I suspect it may be a bit of both. When it comes to negotiation this will likely go both ways, the prestige and association of a project like CERN is worth something to large tech companies, as is being involved with the people and projects.

It's unlikely that they will be able to quickly or even ever move everything to new platforms, but with time there's a good chance they can move much of it. It will come down to the economics and time pressures of buy-in vs build-in.
Oh, huh. I thought it was more heavyweight than that. I'll go take a look.

Sadly I don't know enough about FPGAs to know whether the Artix-7 is particularly big or not. But you know what would be _really_ cool, though? If your Z80 cores were all implemented using asynchronous logic...
If I were the parent I would've phrased that differently. But, as long as we're being pedantic, eating from plants is possible without killing the organism.
Sports bars are a bit different in that regard as people want to look at their bets or look at stats / follow events on Twitter etc
How do you think bosses are made? Usually two ways - by kissing up and befriending managers or by improving processes & methods that are no longer functional and becoming detrimental to the future of the company. I would side with the latter even if it is way more difficult than to make somebody feel good about themselves.
I’m really into the dark future of DRM enforcement drones flying around cities listening for illegal streaming.
Yes they are both big problems, the point is that not every problem can be solved through regulation. Sedentary lifestyles are a big problem but that doesn’t mean we should pass a law forcing people to move a set amount every day. At some point people have to be given the freedom to be allowed to hurt themselves and society’s role should be to help them make the decision not to. Ideally this is done through education, not force.
> Ulbricht made a fortune facilitating drug sales.

Ulbricht lived in a tiny apartment with roommates in SF and spent his days working from the public library. It really doesn't appear like he was in it for the selfish material rewards.
Possibly. But the path to greatness is largely dependent upon how you try to get there. "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi Jr.
Obviously it is my responsibility to keep those bytes away from you.

If you come into possession of them in the absence of some kind of contractual obligation regarding how you'll handle them (ie a privacy policy to which you and I have jointly agreed), then yes of course you can do what you wish with them.

Isn't this the same argument currently making its way through the public mindshare regarding WikiLeaks? Of course they had a right to distribute and comment on the contents of the State Dept. cables. The fact that the government claimed they were private (classified) can not overcome the basic thrust of freedoms of the press and speech.
Pot to kettle: you are black.
Chinese have been counterfeiting labels for US and European nock off brands for decades. Powdered milk being a prime example.
For sure! And the URLs aren't theoretical - you can view an older version of my own blog by adding '+version' to the end of the URL. Like so: dat://kickscondor.com+1600/.

Each atomic file change creates a new version.
Ah, the good old 'bus them out of town, let them be someone else's problem' non-solution.
is there a pricing page somewhere?
To me, seeing YuppieVCFoodStartup brand names in a restaurant is akin to the restaurant advertising they’re selling me Lays(tm) chips as the side to my burger. While I have no urge to eat food for its ability to imitate meat (so I’m not the target audience anyway), I think these products belong in a grocery or convenience store, not a dining establishment. It feels to me like paying a premium to eat frozen store-bought dinners, and as bonus points, they’re the vegetarian equivalent of over processed mystery meat. Can’t wait for this hype to level off or for the trend to go the way of shilling Soylent.

Sorry to be a downer, but anything remotely touching alt-food startups on HN is hyped with positive sentiment to the point where any criticism gets discouraged.
Hide all karma scoring from the entire site once a user reaches 1000 karma.
Exactly, it's not necessary. All it does is add complexity and unnecessary failure points.

Mobile providers use IPv6 for a reason. CGNAT is still used because, among other reasons, the internet (at least in the U.S. and Europe) is still predominately IPv4. If IPv4 disappeared tomorrow CGNAT (and the centralization of mobile network egress points) might be able to go away, too. If, additionally, QUIC completely replaced TCP, I can't think of any reason for maintaining such choke points.

In as much as IPv6 provides a faster, more reliable network, it benefits QUIC. And the more ubiquitous QUIC becomes the easier IPv6 will become to manage.

QUIC won't be a panacea any more than IPv6 was. But they're both important improvements to the network.
High end tech procurement is more like your average market stall haggling than you might imagine. It tends to be the middle ground that's most stable.
> 1. I never asked for anything more 2. you still charge me for more at a higher price

They were going to raise their rates anyway, this is just an attempt to make it look like you're getting something more in exchange.
XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress (2018)
> There’s been a lot of confusion and misconception around both the motivations and implications of this change

Oh, heck off. This is Google's fallback whenever people call them out on anything -- "you just don't understand the entire picture." It's just their way of gaslighting critics.

People understand the change perfectly.

a) The privacy arguments are untrue because the Observational capabilities of the WebRequest API aren't being deprecated. There are no privacy benefits unless an extension voluntarily ignores that part of the API -- which no one will do because, as Google says:

> when extension developers are given the choice between capability and security, the vast majority of developers choose capability.

Google makes the argument that 42% of malicious extensions use this API. Well, guess what they'll still be able to do under Manifest V3?

b) The vast majority of data suggests that ad blocker performance is not a serious issue on the web right now. Ad blockers pretty much universally help more than they hurt, so it's not clear why performance is such a big concern.

c) The declarative model is a less powerful alternative, which is the exact reason why Google is deprecating the blocking capabilities in the first place -- if they didn't force it, no one would switch (again, see their "why not both?" argument).

So what don't consumers and developers understand about this? It's an objectively less powerful API that does very little to improve privacy for the sake of performance improvements that aren't necessary.