skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I'm just too much of an engineer. But I'm finding it hard to imagine how anyone would find it easier rather than harder to choose a bookcase when IKEA's search results include media units, shelves, doors for kitchen cupboards, hinges for doors for kitchen cupboards, and doll furniture.

To be fair, the experience is as confusing and distracting as wandering through a store, so perhaps it really is deliberate.
MIT was probably most knowledgeable about programming computers back then that anywhere else in the world.
I believe Microsoft isn't innocent in this at all.

Every school in my city used to pirate every Microsoft product there is. I was taught how to pirate their stuff as a part of my curriculum. Now they don't, but now they're tied to Office 365 via a multi-year contract.

Nobody knew they were looking to make things legal beforehand, so nobody could offer them LibreOffice installation and support before Microsoft. There were no calls for proposals or public discussions, just news stories after the contract got signed. Us who knew better were genuinely baffled by what we could have done to avoid this situation.
Wasn't there something with an overheating or leaking fuel tank too?
Absolutely not. They'll get too used to you not getting paid. Please seek appropriate compensation, and understand that most interview processes have no way to find your true future productivity so just game the interviews and see if the company is a fit for yourself after getting hired.
I was excited about this, as I need to update our architecture diagrams. However, first feedback:

* Heroku didn't return anything in the search

* AWS API gateway neither.

* ok, I'll start from our webserver (on heroku). No general webserver icon either.

* I'll start with the DB. No generic DB icon. MariaDB only for Azure..

So far, all my starting points are dead ends. I could work partially around them by selecting other services (mariaDb does exist as a Azure service), but that feels ugly/hacky..
Not related to cryptography, but this reminds me of Alyssa P. Hacker from SICP.
I think it's more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence

We are be born with some functions at level 4, as well as acquire new skills without going through stages 1-3, otherwise there's no possible bootstrapping mechanism.

At bottom, the reason is always "because the structures in my brain create a signal pattern". Understanding that is really the ultimate knowledge.
It’s been real. After owning 6+ Mac laptops for the past 15 years I’m out.
Here's an archive link

http://archive.fo/TcUsg
Notion comes close, perhaps?

https://www.notion.so/
Honestly, this just makes the story's credibility even worse: the author is just picking a foundation with a lot of members and linking all of them to authoritarian regimes by virtue of having one or two members who may be helping government surveillance.
> In Florida, its not personal though and its not just DMVs. Basically if the government has your information, anyone can submit a FOIA request to get it. This is particularly bad with licensed professionals (Real Estate agents, hair saloon cutters, etc.) that have to have a business license to operate.

But it sounds like this case is different - the companies in question didn't submit FOIA requests, the DMV sold them for profit.

Speaking of FOIA, from further in the article:

> The I-Team wanted to know how much of that money came from marketing firms, but the agency in charge of driver information estimated it would take 154 hours of research and cost nearly $3,000 for the state to give taxpayers an answer.
Didn't some "anti-fascist" try to attack a detention center recently? It did not end well.
Fastcompany published a similar article about the 4th crew member of Apollo 11 a few weeks ago. I shared it on HN but it did not get any traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173672
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Writer Edith Wharton (of "The age of innocence" fame) traveled across France by automobile in 1908. She wrote her experiences in "A Motor-Flight Through France" http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57347 which is a good read.

> The motor-car has restored the romance of travel.

> Freeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, the bondage to fixed hours and the beaten track, the approach to each town through the area of ugliness and desolation created by the railway itself, it has given us back the wonder, the adventure and the novelty which enlivened the way of our posting grand-parents. Above all these recovered pleasures must be ranked the delight of taking a town unawares, stealing on it by back ways and unchronicled paths, and surprising in it some intimate aspect of past time, some silhouette hidden for half a century or more by the ugly mask of railway embankments and the iron bulk of a huge station. Then the villages that we missed and yearned for from the windows of the train—the unseen villages have been given back to us!
I don't think we're that reliant here (even excluding those who don't drink coffee), it's rather closer to an annoyance (a big one, like dealing with slow computer/bad network), but we could still get work done. It's just that since the coffee is free (and good), we're drinking a lot of it.
1. It was created during the current management era.
2. It was built in South Carolina at a new plant that had huge production issues, such as leaving metal shavings inside the airplanes where they would get into wiring harnesses.
It still doesn't actually block everything on those clouds. I can go get my own ASN, run my own edge server (or use a small CDN company not on your list) and use whatever I want on the back end for database, queue, backup, storage, compute, etc. All you'll know my IP is where the edge node is.
And it happens all the time. But no need to brand it especially, and kill the lucrative recycled lines by associating recycled with el-cheapo...
I believe it helps to define how "doesn't suck" is evaluated. Is it visual? UX?

One suggestion is to use something like hotjar to see how users use the dashboard (once you get something up and running), and analyze what they look for, how they use it, and what they spend a lot of time doing. This might give some ideas on how to make it easier for them to do their jobs. IMO that's the main purpose of a dashboard, so starting there makes sense to me.
I'm wondering, in the absence of junk mail, if the post office could reduce prices on package delivery. I'm not sure where the main costs are, but if they're in the last mile... well now the post office would have trucks with a lot more space on them driving through the same routes anyway.
Just curious: are there any calls for the resignation of the entire management board?
The cause of the problem is systemic in today's Boeing. Bad engineering coupled with corporate deception to hide it.

Until executives are fired and senior engineers that have been laid-off are rehired you should expect no substantive changes.

It is not just commercial, the US Air Force has been turning back tankers for sloppy work as well.
https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-ramp-up-inspections-a...
Who of us has never clicked the wrong button? Touch UI interfaces make it even easier
Tour of C++, 2nd edition, from Bjarne Stroustroup is quite good to get to know all major updates how to write good C++20 code (the book goes through all relevant updates since C++11).
Three million people in the US were living on less than $1.90 a day in 2013, and five million on less than $4.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-st...

Extreme poverty in the US is real: https://www.al.com/news/2017/12/un_poverty_official_touring_...
No one's protesting binge shopping, it's all about how Amazon treats its warehouse workers (spoiler: horribly). The first link of the article says

> in solidarity with striking workers in several fulfillment centers in Spain
I have joked that maybe Reddit is a shill for Big Mouse because they are making us click so much we will wear out our mice and have to buy new ones more quickly.
This suggestion is about as intelligible as saying back in 2006: "To break Microsoft's monopoly in the OS market, make it's kernel source code public". (i.e. Absolutely useless)
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Got it!

Thanks for the feedback. Consensus seems solidly in the direction of NO.

If they were on the fence, could I offer to negotiate a trial month with pay? I.E. enough to break even but with an understanding I'd walk away if low-balled later?
Kind of off topic, but for those interested, this reminded me of the public repo on github which has the original guidance computer source code for the command and lunar modules[0].

[0] https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
The engineers and regulators have already proven they can't be trusted to do their jobs. Thankfully, the EASA has stepped up to do some proper regulation now that they've seen that they can't trust the FAA any more, and are keeping the plane grounded.
Yes, that statement was contradictory and I realize I should stop using Hangouts too.

Does that answer your question?
Stephen Hawking would not be a good choice. He wasn't a major force in saving a whole nation, and he had hateful, controversial political opinions.

Alan Turing was truly a great man.
Better yet just combine map and filter into a list comprehension:

def action(thing):
...
return [func(x) for x in thing if func2(x)]
I recently started listening to a fantastic podcast called 13 Minutes To The Moon[0] produced by the BBC. It’s a retelling of the last 13 minutes until the Apollo 11 lander touched down. Episode 2 talked about the software and the 1202 program code. They interviewed the Guidance controller who was only 26 at the time and talked about how the average age of the flight controllers was 27. I thought that was incredible, you don’t see that much responsibility placed in such junior people anymore.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2
Broadly speaking, in most countries you're always required to accept legal tender for debts, but for up-front transactions you can limit what you accept to whatever you want, whether that be credit cards or live chickens.
I think more often than not it is purely the IT nightmare that is for IT to manage all those devices. Schools generally don't have the best staff or resources.
Would be curious of whether this is before or after the cache. My understanding is that, for instance, newer Samsung QLC SSDs are slower but they include a very fast SLC cache, and in practice you spend your time in the cache unless you are copying >15GB files.
Shared codebase + more offload ASIC processors is exactly what I'd expect
The idea was to limit the risk of hiring someone like me who might not be as experienced as they were hoping - by offering to show them what my velocity / ability was like actually doing work for them.

I might be totally off-base and naive about this - totally willing to be called out / corrected :)
Being a monopoly isn't actually the issue. Having a dominant market position is. This is where European competition law works well.

Google definitely has a dominant market position.
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As I wrote below, slower SSD for lower prices is something I agree with, their SSD prices are just completely disconnected from the market.
In Amsterdam there is a steakhouse that has been serving horse steaks as just ‘steaks’ for over 40 years.

People thought they were great and prefered them over beef, untill they found out it was horse.

Its all in the mind!

(Steak doesn’t kill you though, airplanes do)

Edit: resto is called Piet de Leeuw
NYC, and other cities, have outlawed or are moving to outlaw cashless stores.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/nyc-...
The whole point was that 2^1471 is wrong.
I’m of the opinion that US Companies (or companies operating in the us) selling software/hardware that is designed for the purpose of violating human rights or the terms of the US constitution should be taxed at 100% of their international profits.

If you don’t believe the human rights or the US constitution are of any value you shouldn’t get to use those protections to profit. Move your company to China or wherever, and operate in the constraint you enforce on others.
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What mid-size and above company lets you book your own flights at all?
Ask HN: How do you figure out your next career move?
I recently left my last job as a PM at a tech company in SF and feeling professionally lost. I have 6 years of experience in various analytics and product roles at relatively high visible cos, but have felt stagnant in the last 2 years or so and not feeling like I've been on the right path.

Fortunately I've managed to get decently lucky as far as the "startup lottery" is concerned and have the means to figure things out, but suffering from decision paralysis on what to do next. Have spent the last few weeks working on some web dev project to brush up on coding so I can better flesh out my own projects if I go down that path.
Given most people who will buy and use this device will spend more time waiting on JavaScript to load than on the SSD, I would say it is correct to assert nobody will notice.
1.3 GB/s vs 2 GB/s read. I think it's perfectly reasonable given most users aren't going to be doing high I/O, and if they did, they'd just get a MBP.
> It's so easy to find this stuff out that I have to wonder if you have some kind of agenda here.

I don't wonder at all!
Don't they use Mechanical Turks as a fallback?
I tend to see bad apples just like tornadoes or forest fires. They are natural catastrophes, and they will always be there, not matter the society we build.

The important part is how we react to those people. In that sense, I feel we are more responsible for the problem than them. Indeed, why blame a tornado ? Better learn to behave in case of one, and make houses the proper way.

So I don't think we should focus on the immorality as much as we should make sure we create generations of persons than know how to deal with it: remember bad deeds, detect manipulations, choose what they consume, etc.
When I type "Donald Trump R" I don't see any autocomplete for "Donald Trump Russia" despite plenty of news coverage on this topic. So what? This isn't proof of anything. I can indeed discount "one observation" because it is literally a single search query used to draw a conclusion about an insanely complex system that processes billions of queries a day. I am open to the possibility that google is manipulating search results, but to demonstrate this you need to account for many other possible search queries that produce seemingly unexpected results. Dissecting one politically charged query and claiming it is proof of google's malfeasance doesn't make sense. Anyone can string together a couple strange query results to support their own subjective narrative about what should appear and the supposed sinister machinations behind the query results.
Kids do not learn by taking their freedom away. They learn something by exploring their environment. Yes, you need to prevent abuse, but simply locking down their system is just an easy way out for the school admin.

How would you feel about your boss taking away all your rights regarding software installation and browsing? As a dev, I'd be thoroughly pissed. Why do they question my authority?

But, there are people who'd install all crapware and browse Facebook all day without any restrictions. So what to do?

You give them all the power until they abuse it, then you take it away. Not the other way around.
Why does the state need to obtain illegal execution drugs?

Let’s say you’re the prison. You’re supposed to execute a prisoner tomorrow. You don’t have the drugs to do so.

You could either fail to execute the prisoner, or take a fairly large risk and get illegal methods. Would the prison really lose face if it just said that it didn’t have the means to carry out the execution and thus did not?
"In 2015, the federal government seized drugs the state bought illegally off the black market. The shoddy, shady sources for the deadly cocktails have become a weak spot death penalty opponents have leveraged."

wat?
This is a remarkable deposition transcript. Attorney Harmon comes off as quite a character.
The USPS sells address updates in bulk for marketing purposes, and they are federally regulated.
> Basically "quality over quantity" if you can say that.

This is even more depressing. Google was such a wonderful tool for us nerds because we could finally find those usenet posts, personal blogs, tech mail lists, etc. of all the esoteric subjects that had been hard to find previously. Before Google, you'd use lists of curated links (e.g. Yahoo) for a given topic that had been traded back and forth between various sites and other interested netizens.

It's apparent that Google is becoming worse and worse for these types of searches, while it concentrates of more popular queries like "When is the next <my show> on" or "What is the current sports-ball score" or "How big are Kim Kardashian's boobs".

Just like Craig of Craigslist recently came out with an article saying the internet has actually made the news media worse, not better for informing citizens - something he did not predict correctly - it's apparent that Google is pushing us in the same negative direction in the ability to find quality information on non-consumer knowledge.

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/14/craigslis...
what were his hateful political opinions?
> Counter-intuitively, AWS makes it very easy to do this! They publish and continuously update a list of IP ranges

It's not like any legitimate company could keep their IP address ranges private (other than by using seemingly unrelated shell companies) :)
The link you provide A) has a very low N (24, half of which are controls) and B) does not account for genetic confounding. Am I missing something?

Also, there is essentially zero evidence for hereditary epigenetic mechanisms. Epigenetic changes are common in the somatic cell lineages (which make up the entire organism except for the sperm and eggs), but there are very few plausible mechanisms by which epigenetic changes in somatic cells can somehow make their way back to the germ line cells (eggs and sperm) and, thus, exert an influence on subsequent generations. On top of the theoretical underpinnings being essentially implausible, there is no good evidence that hereditary epigenetic mechanisms exist. The only evidence I am aware of in humans are the children of Dutch women who went through a famine in 1944. However, that evidence has since evaporated. Here's a quote from the Wikipedia[0]:

"Moreover, the children of the women who were pregnant during the famine were smaller, as expected. However, surprisingly, when these children grew up and had children those children were thought to also be smaller than average.[11] This data suggested that the famine experienced by the mothers caused some kind of epigenetic changes that were passed down to the next generation. Despite this, a subsequent study by the same author failed to find a correlation between maternal exposure to famine and birth weight of the next generation."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944–45
Still I suspect people are applying this out of context:

When people are designing business applications, ecommerce software etc using ideas from Google and Twitter, companies that are trying to eke out the last percent of usability, and in the process destroys their product for everyone else I don't think it is smart.

Case in point: Google has lost me and I guess a number of other engineers as users and evangelists because their software just doesn't cut it anymore after 10 yeas of dumbification as it now too often refuses to respect even double quotes and verbatim setting.
Is a computer or general purpose device shipped to China that someone uses for surveillance something that would qualify?
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> When the DOC deposed her, Isner had to answer deeply personal questions about her faith, her social media habits, her adopted children, her political beliefs, her charitable donations, her work history and just about everything you might imagine apart from the only question that mattered — whether the DOC documents are public records.

IANAL but I don't think she "had" to answer these questions. I'm not defending Alabama at all here, but depositions are not an open forum where anything goes. She is legally required to answer truthfully, but she doesn't have to answer at all if the question isn't germane. Maybe she opened the door to some of the questions by providing a religious basis for her information request, but most of these questions are completely irrelevant. She should have refused to play the game.
I imagine the guys building AWS are treated pretty well, compared to their warehouse guys.
"keep what I've already paid for, but never charge me again" == "cancel now"

This is the same on every subscription service I've cancelled recently, they let you carry on reading / watching / whatever until the end of the month.
This press release from the British Antarctic Survey says about that incident that a coolant leak caused the generator to overheat and shutdown.

https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/update-power-down-at-britis...
> "We are going to make this environment more like a Google office"

> "I saw this presentation by a Google developer and I think we need to copy their release process"

One of these is very different from the other. Fancy coffee and whatnot affects your environment but release processes, frameworks, interview methods, etc, change your productivity and are all made to fit an organization of Google's size and bureaucracy. They're a terrible fit for most small/medium sized companies.

I also always find it weird how nobody picks other giant companies to emulate, nobody's like "Well JP Morgan has great employee mortgage rates!" or whatever.
Why do you presume they are American?
"These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views."

That is from the initial page load. So it would seem that the title pattern that you observed is intentional
Every time I hear these stories, I don't know if they've done the math.

Let's say I live in Toronto (an expensive city to live in) and make 10$/h after taxes working at Starbucks.

40h/week, 4.5 weeks/mo = 1800$

Bedroom in apartment = 700$

Metropass = 150$

Phone = 50$

Internet = 50$

Food = 350$

Total = 1300$

That's 500$ left for things like going out, clothes, etc.

Nobody is exploiting your friends - it sounds like she complained to you, you took her words at face value and concluded that those other people are at fault.
I wonder if the UK one is a later build and they've gone for a 'mobile first' type approach.
Winston Churchill is on the £5 and he was and is controversial. Controversial in India, the Liberal party, the Conservative party, the Liberal party.
Eh, I have heard of people asking for a remunerated week trial (40 hours, could be spread over more weeks if the candidate is working another job) personally not a fan but I guess it could work. One month is a lot of effort and you really risk being used for low paid work and then being discarded.
It's also nice to be a billionaire with close ties to the president, being on Facebooks BoD, founding a domestic surveillance company with a number of defense and law enforcement contracts.

It's also nice to be invited to a conference in DC as a speaker and say the government should interrogate your competitors.

Given those circumstances, it seems like getting press coverage for this is predictable and unsurprising.