skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather just send $5 somewhere. If they earn a few cents per ad clicked, I'd have to click like 250 different ads in order to get to that $5.
> That is very far from correct.

Fair enough, that was poorly phrased. For practical purposes, buyers of such bonds operate under the assumption that the country won't default on its debt, because it can always service it nominally by creating the money. Of course that has a risk of depreciation, but so does holding the currency itself.

> And I still don't think the risk differential is enough to make them 2 different things.

You don't think a junk bond, a mortgage and a government bond are different things? I never said that a government bond is not a loan. Of course it is a loan, but in terms of risk and (more importantly) liquidity these are all very different.

What asset has lower risk than a short-term government bond? If you know, tell the banks in Europe that are currently paying negative interest on German bonds all the way up to 10 years.
And manage patches, worry about security, PCI compliance, data loss, etc.
Yes, but only for larger tech firms, so this will somewhat level the playing field between large and small companies (offsetting the economies of scale that larger firms benefit from). This would hypothetically lead to greater consumer choice, which is probably a good thing.
You can replace the battery by going to an apple store, giving them $49, and then picking it up a few hours later. That's not a terrific challenge.
IppSec. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa6eh7gCkpPo5XXUDfygQQA He does offline HackTheBox boxes, very detailed clear explanation. Excellent resource for anyone interested in hacking and exploits. It's also very fun to spin up the box yourself and follow along.
Google had plenty of leverage early on with carriers that didn’t have the iPhone. Google still has leverage by threatening to withhold Google Play Services. The last thing carriers want is not to have an alternative to Apple and no cheap phones to entice customers.
Becoming more relevant with each passing day, it seems.
New 'Zip Bomb' Turns 46MB into 4.5PB
Yeah well he's been rounding up those pedos up so I can forgive him some inconsistencies. [1]

1. https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/trump-busts-1500...
I find unconstructive comments which hand waive away valid criticism by trying to tie you to a group (in this case fans) to be a disingenuous.
Yes, looks like October 2019 is the end: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#pixel_...
Advertising needs a luxury tax for wasting peoples attention, preventing them from being productive and encouraging unhealthy habits - like alcohol and cigarettes.
I wonder what the success rate is for their retraining program to turn factory workers into coders.

When watching Andrew Yang's Presidential pitch for UBI he said most government retraining programs only have a success rate of 17%.
Self-Learning Optical Music Recognition [pdf]
Shouldn't mktemp -d -t name.XXXXXX do it? Possibly in combination with setting TMPDIR if you want to create the directory somewhere else than within the default temp directory.

Works with GNU mktemp, the old BSD variant on macOS and also Busybox. Current Android uses Toybox, I think? Its mktemp implementation looks like it takes the same flags as Busybox mktemp.

https://landley.net/toybox/help.html#mktemp
strong :: (Integral i) => [i] -> [i]
strong = mapMaybe fst3 . scanr g (Nothing, 0, 0)
where fst3 (x, _, _) = x
g n (_, p, pp) = (p <$ guard (2 * p > pp + n), n, p)

Haskell makes a better Perl (especially if, like here, you don't bother with readability).
Steam uses machine learning for its new game recommendation engine
It's solid state LIDAR. Doesn't require the massive mechanical precision that spinning LIDAR needs.
> Runaway consumption is what has gotten us into this ecological mess in the first place.

In part. If instead of almost 8 billion humans there were 4 billions we wouldn't be in this mess either.
Maybe my perspective is a bit skewed as a Canadian, our government requires X% of content on tv to be Canadian made. Which was fine because tons of stuff is made in vancouver and toronto but it never pushed the little guy out. We still have all the small time crap like ice road truckers or trailer park boys.

>At the end of the day this business has nothing to do with technology

I disagree that technology isnt involved. As I said, changing formats but then you bring up all the technologies which were developed which changed things. Youtube/Netflix itself is technology.
Ads don't make money from thin air; someone pays for those ads. Google accesses a market of French advertisers, and that market exists because of French government.

(Also, arguably, French eyeballs are a resource belonging to France, which Google exploits.)
Lol. They should have ran with that.
I'm all up for constructing my own meanings, but I reject the premise that it's all "just a story".

The enjoyment I get from riding my mountain bike comes at least in part from adrenaline, endorphins and exposure to sunlight - these are biological realities we likely share with species which can't tell stories.
It would be nice if this language was extensible to running on various compute cluster managers. From what I can tell, these workflows only run on one machine. I like the bioinformatics tool examples though... you can tell who their target market is ;P
In both cases, it's really not dangerous to merely be there for a visit. Chernobyl's other reactors continued to operate until 2000, for example.

Don't go into the reactor sarcophagus, don't eat the soil at Love Canal, and you'll be fine for a romantic weekend.
Good on you for trying. It gets easier, this I swear.

...But between us and Virtue the gods have placed sweat: long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.

(Hesiod, Works and Days)
Extending Atomic Design
Convert the QuickJS code into Rust using c2rust[1], then reuse in rq.

[1] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
If they are going to pay for 1/10 a developer, is anything stopping you from picking up 10 of these orgs as employers at the same time and delivering 1/10 of your effort to each?
it doesn't really matter who pays the tax; it's pretty much orthogonal to tax burden. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
> The nature of the book necessitates gross generalizations. It literally could not be anything else.

If you say so.

I don't think that's a shield against criticism. His treatment of humanism is asinine. In addition to engaging in gross generalizations on the topic, he is - to use your words - "really wrong." Getting the history of modern ideas right seems like it ought to be the easy part with a book like this, particularly if you're content with generalizations.
For those interested in a book about both management AND nuclear submarine safety I highly recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Ship-Around-Turning-Followers-eb...

One great example:
Junior folks kept hitting the wrong buttons during safety evaluations so the crew instituted a "positive action" e.g. "I am about to turn on this device" before they did anything.

During the safety review, the reviewers came back and said:

"You performed fewer errors than anyone we've ever tested. Actually, we take that back, your crew was ABOUT TO make as many mistakes as normal but the verbal call out meant that everything was double checked leading to such a lower error count"
I mean a French startup using the American services.
Just regarding Airflow: unless Google has done a lot of work upgrading the internals since embracing Airflow as a supported cloud provider, I would think twice about using it.

It's amazing it works at all in my opinion.

This file [0] contains much of the complexity as a messy, stateful, monolithic block of Python. Having had to chase down deep bugs / limitations in this software, I'm now convinced that Python, with it's GIL, weak typing, lack of concurrency primitives, and generally OOP / imperative style is just the wrong tool for the job.

[0]: https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/master/airflow/jobs/s...
I'm devil's advocating here a bit, but how do you make money showing ads when the people those ads are targetting can't read, have no money and don't own a computer?
Except the privacy policy always warned about this. Everyone doing speech recognition is doing this — you have to in order to get any kind of QA.

The caveat is that it should be both anonymizes as well as only in respond to the wake up command. It seems to be both, so I don’t see the problem.

Actually I do — the editorializing of these headlines makes it seem nefarious when it’s not.
This is also solvable by Android taking a slightly different approach. Isolating the OS and security framework so that it can always just be updated. The carriers and and manufacturers are still free to install whatever bloatware they want and do what ever logo nonsense they want.

We ran into nonsense issues creating a cross platform development toolchain when HTC phones just didn't implement certain functions of the WebView. We were then stuck trying to create workarounds for no reason. Android could have been the best of both worlds but they just punted it and left their users holding the bag.
> That’s because they cared about the end user experience.

I'm sure 100% of any revenue going to Apple and not shared with anyone had nothing to do with that.
Similar discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20402070
The nebulous, shadowy axis of "Sabotage", "Malingers" and "Wreckers" is what captains and admirals love to blame, when they want to cover their ass. It pushes some private under the bus, and absolves them of any organizational failures.
Pretty much.

The GTP applies as well in wildlife census counts. Paleoarcheology is a bit like a wilddeath census -- the subjects have long since been pining for the fjords, but encounters are randomly distributed.

Online ranking and collaborative review systems function similarly as well, with the ratings being the wildlife, and the "true" value being the total production estimate. At least if no gaming or other incentives exist (and yes, they do).
> "if you want to see the other applicants, you have to upgrade your account and pay $375/mo until you call them to cancel (I know, because I still pay $10/mo to keep my account on pause because I don’t feel like talking to people, and $10/mo is probably less expensive over 2 years than fighting with them to cancel my account is is worth, and they know it… fuckers)."

I hate sites that allow you to subscribe without talking to someone, but don't allow you to unsubscribe without picking up the phone. I'm surprised it's not downright illegal. I've found Privacy.com[1] is a good service for these kinds of subscriptions, because you can just cancel the card to avoid keep getting charged. Not sure if anyone has a better solution.

[1]: https://privacy.com/ (I am not associated with this site, just a user)
I applied thank you!
I worked for a mobile gaming company who did mainly casino games with fake chips that you could buy, and they're now under investigation for violating gambling laws because their chips _acted like real money_ therefore the same laws apply.

Might be the same with crypto money where they'll be under the same laws as real money and trading.
Welcome to social rule making.

All of it based upon what’s agreeable to the negotiators.

Was just reading about term limits in the Constitution are set at a number the decision for which was negotiated by those invited to the party. Absolutely no argument given at the time addressed age or anything real. Just how many 4 year terms they felt was long enough.

It’s the same with all cultural laws and norms.
> Any tips for freelancers who are recent engineering grads?

If you have a relevant degree, why not to apply for a remote job position instead? That would help to build your CV, and allow to switch to contracting later on.
A battery replacement is $79. No one is forcing you to buy a new phone.
What do you mean? All tech companies train their algorithms by annotating real world samples. It was not a secret.
I guess the responsibility is on the user to dig through the FAQ or privacy policy to discover they use Bing and then read between the lines?

It’s disingenuous and misleading to the average user. They should be criticized for it.
This is a good point. Whilst it might be just about defensible to describe Perl 5 as a wacky ass language that people still use, Perl 6 is different - it's a wacky ass language that nobody uses yet.
> There's configuration for automated system updates, which most technical people understand to mean security patches and things that are equivalent to windows hotfixes and servicepacks.

Microsoft do exactly the same, and have done for over a decade now:

> Malicious Software Removal Tool is a freely distributed virus removal tool developed by Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows operating system. First released on January 13, 2005, it is an on-demand anti-virus tool ("on-demand" means it lacks real-time protection) that scans the computer for specific widespread malware and tries to eliminate the infection. [...] The program is usually updated on the second Tuesday of every month (commonly called "Patch Tuesday") and distributed via Windows Update, at which point it runs once automatically in the background and reports if malicious software is found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_Software_Removal_Too...

> Having something as simple as a functional-equivalent to Windows Defender with its own icon in Control Panel

MSRT is independent from Windows Defender.
Honestly that laundromat job sounds interesting assuming its bunch of IoT devices sync'ing data to the cloud (eg: CoF payments, push notifications when laundry is done, etc), retrofitting machines with SBC devices to identify when a cycle is done, triggering payments etc.
There are other options. Controllers with knobs are often made for music, but can also be used effectively for stuff like 3D and image/video editing. A popular choice for editing photos is the Behringer X-Touch Mini.

Also, you generally don't want potentiometers for these applications, but rotary encoders. Pots = physical min and max position; encoders = infinite rotation. So for example, when you're switching from one photo to the next, pots would annoyingly keep the old value, while encoders will switch to the correct value. Just a little detail, but it's nice to have to right term to search for.
Another cynical way or looking at it is Amazon kills two birds with one stone. More employee built to exactly fit an Amazon need while having mostly been trained on non-standard tooling and process that make it difficult to transfer companies.

Because of this, and preconceptions of what a good salary is mixed with talking about comp being a bit of a no-no in the US, Amazon could get away with paying these developers a lot lower than market rate.

From my personal experience my first ever eng job was at 50k/year. I had no idea that was messed up before telling a co-worker/manager that's what I made and had them laugh thinking I was joking which followed into awkward silence followed by "you need a raise".

Something else to worry about is "internal trained" vs "external trained" devs might stratify.
Monitoring your Shopify page speed just got 10x easier
> the lifetime needs to be 'static only as the task starts to execute.

It would seem the lifetime needs to be coerceable to the lifetime of the executor, but as far as I can tell never really should need to be 'static.

> Most borrows are not exclusive.

Sorry, I meant, exclusive mutability.

> Rust's borrows have not been lexical since last year.

As I understand it, the borrows are not lexical in the classic sense of lasting until the end of the function, but they are still determined completely lexically, correct? Here the async/await syntax is provide lexical cues regarding the sequencing of asynchronous code, which is how it helps the borrow checker, right?

> But the team working on this has a ton of experience; multiple PhDs, etc, etc.

Of course. You've all done a great job producing a solid language! I'm not questioning the technical chops. And I don't think I said "just", I appreciate the scale of the problem. I'm just arguing about a tradeoff that I have not been able to find much discussion of.

It's great to improve the ergonomics of the language. We need more people to want to use it! Is it possible that this is going too far? It sounds like it introduces an awful lot of magic.
NordPass: A Password Manager from NordVPN
Nobody is going to do that.

It's goo-icks.
Hey Paul, nice to see you here on HN. Very promising start!

What's the best way to contact you? (I'm $HNusername @ gmail).
Yes, I think we have come full circle.

The content is becoming more and more fragmented across an increasing number of services, so to obtain the content legally, you will have to pay a lot more than we are now.

Piracy will definitely increase again and I'll have no sympathy for these companies who will cry poor over the issue. If you want to silo your own content, then you're just thing to have to suck it up.
Ease of maintenance is rarely a marketable feature in mass-market consumer products, and most often is deprioritized.
Yes, that's correct. I have a small amount of BTC, and cashed one in yesterday, so had to send, which I've not done for a year or so. Had to select an appropriate fee, and was a little concerned when it didn't show up as confirmed in the next block, but then 20 minutes later was confirmed and all was well. Still, it's a fairly dicey moment when there's potentially £10k caught up in a transaction.... (I'm sure it's small beans to a lot of people, but that's the biggest single transaction I've ever done).
You missed the question. why is France charging tax to these particular companies? As opposed to all companies?

Your answer makes no distinction between them so doesn't actually answer the question.
Doesn't look like. It uses the `os` module name for its own thing, so you'd need at a minimum to patch that (in addition to actually having to implement all of Node's APIs on top of the `std` primitives or as C modules)
1. Satellites

2. You don't need French schools to learn how to Google things
Using automated bug finding tools to catch the MakerDAO voting vulnerability
Be 10x smarter and faster than the mean
Come on, I'm sure Google's privacy policy allows them to listen to audio with no metadata in order to improve their service. The team is responding to the public leak of the audio, which is a violation of Google's privacy policy.
The switching costs alone would eat half your day, and of course they're hoping to get much more than 1/10th of a developer despite only paying for 1/10th of one.
>The mantra is to cancel subscriptions to whatever you're not watching ATM, but with young children that's untenable

Young children don't need to watch TV, in fact it'd be better if they didn't watch any at all. Maybe have some DVDs they can watch when they want; that's certainly a lot cheaper than any kind of subscription.
It depends on the complexity of your business, although every Shopify site is going to need a handful of plugins to do the basics. Things like the email signup modal aren't base features, but require a plugin.

If you've got even a moderately complex business, plugins add up pretty quickly, and each Shopify app you add to your site slows down your pageload. When Shopify pitches you, they show you some really great looking sites, but after you've bought in, you find out that they're not only operating with 35 apps (at an additional cost of thousands a month), that some of them are hacky custom workarounds, and even though status.shopify.com is all green lights, the servers these third party apps are running on aren't on the same infrastructure, and you're dealing with dozens of points of failure on black Friday...

But thousands of shops are on the Shopify platform, and the "Just Grow Bro" Sales Lead told me they do B2B and international, so how bad could it be?
While on the topic of Algerian War, there was a ~spy operation: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleuite

I'm sorry there doesn't seem to be any English text about it but it was an amazing low tech psychological warfare maneuver. Worth reading if you have some french reading ability or friend.
'Progressive' taxation (taxing higher individual incomes at higher rates) seemed arbitrary when it was introduced, too.
Well, tech is full of famous smarties who, let's say, have famously underperformed in the emotions department.

If the tech world got filled with similarly emotionally unaware folks who idolize the smarties, it's quite likely they interpret those two traits as a package deal and emulate both.

Since most technies aren't famously smart, the emotional unawareness at least gets them 1 out of 2.

This rank speculation explains why technies get famously angry when asked to be even minimally aware of the effect their behavior has on others.
It would have been graceful if the phone gave a pop-up on every boot with 'Your iPhone has a worn-out battery. Have it serviced at your nearest Apple retailer'. Apple was fully aware that people with slowed down phones would buy a newer model iPhone. And besides the free battery replacement for the old model they gave zero recompense if you bought a new phone because your old phone was performing suboptimally.
Aside from 3/4 of your post being a gigantic ad about your own platform (which if you ever reached the scale of Upwork, I guarantee you’d run into the same issues you mention), how is it really a race to the bottom? You give the price you’re willing to work for, and the buyer agrees to the terms. Just like any other marketplace. I guess Fiverr is a race to the bottom, but that’s because their name and original mission statement (any work for $5) incentives that behavior.

I’ve used Upwork and had good success, but also there have been bad actors. It’s up to the person hiring to do research before they hire, and cut ties by firing if they don’t work out, like pretty much any other workplace. Maybe the vetting process could be better, but Upwork is the best contract to hire marketplace for a variety of work, IMO.
I made a different comment in the other article about this study that was in the Guardian (I think it's the same study?); essentially I thought it was fear mongering, and the likely increase in risk, while mathematically probable, was likely so low as to be virtually the same to priors. I mentioned Bayes theorem, but I am not certain or not if it applies.

But anyhow - reading this article - that last part (my summarization):

"While this study doesn't offer a definitive causative answer about sugar and cancer...the message from the totality of evidence on excess sugar consumption and various health outcomes is clear -- reducing the amount of sugar in our diet is extremely important," Lake told the Science Media Centre in the UK. She was not involved in the current study.

So just grab some rando "reader in public health nutrition at Teesside University" (is a "reader" just someone who reads things? Is this an actual job position?) and have them give you an opinion - one that basically says "yeah...this whole study may mean almost nothing...I really don't know...but limit your sugar intake people!"

Again - this article, and the Guardian one, both seem like your standard "omgweregonnadie!" fear article to sell papers and advertising, via the use of out-of-context numbers and percentages, and the fact that people don't understand probabilities.

Sigh.