skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interviewed Gabriel a couple years ago back when he was first really getting into Japanese. His pronunciation trainers are great! They're the very first Anki decks I'd reach for (or create) when starting on a new language.
Completely agree. The form of this quora answer is as interesting as the content itself.
I started my career as a graphic designer, and I studied typography from an early age (my parents are both retired graphic designers and worked in the pre-digital era when designers really had to know their stuff). With the exception of a few well known typefaces (roboto, open sans, probably less than five in all) those free fonts suck. The kerning is terrible, there are usually no variants, they don't anti-alias well at different sizes, the international support is non-existent, etc. There is an absolutely insane amount of detail work that goes into designing a font and only the most OCD designers can pull it off, and only with an enormous amount of effort. If you spend 6 months to a year developing a font, you should be paid for it. Since I do notice these things I don't mind paying $100 for a font that ticks all of the above boxes. I stare at my IDE all day, and I wouldn't use a shitty color scheme, so I wouldn't use a shitty font on top of it.
Both GSM and CDMA are going away. T-Mobile is a mostly-LTE carrier already. Both Sprint and T-Mobile use LTE and most Sprint customers will already have compatible handsets. Others will be given upgrade offers.

T-Mobile’s network will form the core of the new network because it’s significantly better, most Sprint devices will support GSM and UMTS 2G/3G standards (while the opposite isn’t true), T-Mobile’s network supports voice over LTE, T-Mobile’s network has significantly more cell sites, etc. Some Sprint sites will be added to the network and Sprint’s spectrum will be as well. Other sites will be divested to Dish.

The CDMA vs GSM divide just isn’t that important today given that carriers should be mostly LTE already.
Yep I've been stuck on less than inflation level raises at my job for the last 5 years, partially because I started at a really high salary and partially because I'm a wimp* when it comes to pushing for raises; I do like my job and company though.

Regardless, I keep stats, and I'm doing worse than I was 5 years ago. My rent has gone up about $300 a month (16%), health insurance about 30%, my daily coffee at Starbucks 18%, the toll road costs 33%, and various services like Netflix, cable, phone, etc. are up about 12%-15%. I just priced what it will cost to replace my car with the equivalent I bought in 2013, and it, too, looks like both the car and insurance will end up being about 15% higher.

I'm a single guy who makes good money and has few expenses, plus half my earnings end up in the stock market which has done well, so I can't complain. But I still don't understand how my coworkers - the guys with 2 kids, a wife who works part-time, and an average priced $600K house - do it year after year, especially when the biggest increase in prices seem to be things they spend far more on (health insurance, daycare, housing, education, etc).

* After five years of no raises, I just took matters into my own hands by moving, without asking, to a much more inexpensive city 120 miles away where housing is 1/2 the cost. I worked remote mostly anyway, and now only come back for important meetings about 1-2x a month. If they need me, I'm always on Slack or teleconference on Skype. My employer hasn't said a word, either. Guess we're both bad with confrontation. ;)
I imagine without early and widespread warning, an asteroid impact could be mistaken by nation-states for an attack. What safeguards (if any) might we have or develop to prevent an asteroid hitting country 1 from causing a “counter” strike by country 1 against country 2?
> Citation needed.

I don't believe I've ever heard of someone being charged with perjury for signing an IRS document that wasn't true

You could look for some perjury charges if you disbelieve.
Not sure what React hooks are other than maybe a replacement for Redux, but how does using closures help out?
Reminds me of case when Slack blocked the accounts of Iranian s living outside of Iran(ie. Iranian national with Canadian permanent residency). Tech companies should be more careful with these blanket blocks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18724107
They should have both a function key row and a touchbar then.

It has value, it doesnt have enough value to remove an entire row of keys that have been of use for decades.
The US seems hellbent on giving up their world hegemony. Stopping people from using US software (or banks, money, etc) won't do anything else than hasten the flight to other systems and alliances.

The plan is of course to give those who flee the death penalty, but that never accomplished more than entertainment for the twisted.

It is sad to see such a great idea as the US nation behave so stupidly.
Coral reefs are amazing things to behold. There all sorts of animals that defy your imagination, including fish of all shapes and sizes, there's coral everywhere, and EVERYTHING is alive. And if you don't want to go to the trouble/expense of learning scuba, just rent or buy a snorkel.

If you haven't been to one before, I highly recommend you add it to your bucket list, and go ASAP. The reefs are taking a real beating from pollution and rising sea temperatures and time isn't on your side. If you visit one, you will see what I mean.

It may not be easy to find a reef that is still flourishing. If you want to find one, do a little research online beforehand. I suspect the best reefs to visit will be the ones which are getting an influx of cold water, since they are somewhat insulated from rising sea temperatures.
On this topic, I suggest the parent (hogFeast) and others who share his view read A Random Walk Down Wall Street. It's very eye-opening.
"Coinbase doesn't know what any of the holdings or transactions represent"

I had a KYC interview with Coinbase wondering where my coins came from. (I mined them in the 2009 to 2010 era when they were worthless, mined before the famous 10000 bitcoin pizza delivery, LOL). So they have a statement from me, which is probably now on file with the IRS.

Now here's a puzzler... I got my 6174-A and so I verified my coinbase register and old tax form reported cap gains from sales match to the penny. Which they do. So now what do I do, just sweat I guess.
> They not investments; they're depreciating assets.

How is a house a depreciating asset when home values continually rise over the long term, especially in CA?

You may want them to be a depreciating asset but they are not. Real-estate ownership has arguably been one of the most secure forms investment.
An easy way to talk to your customers without going outside
> over mindlessly throwing money on useless crap because your money lose value every day

Your have more choices than spending and hoarding. Buying Treasuries, for instance, yield around inflation. (TIPs if you're more worried.) To say nothing of the entire universe of investable assets, from commercial paper to venture capital.
Another case:

https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub/issues/289
> Sure, some perhaps many, people are corrupt and exercise power given to them for wrong ends.

That's in the nature of power dynamics. Not abusing power is the exception to the rule.

> You have better suggestion to maintain law and order?

I think having the rules decided upon and enforced by the people (not some centralized institution that's disconnected from the social fabric) would help a lot.

What would help even more is to address the roots of criminality. There are for example many studies in the past two centuries showing that social inequalities necessarily lead to theft and violence (whether institutionalized or de facto), and that reducing unemployment (not with shitty uberized jobs) is an effective way to lower crime rates, if that is your objective.

Other root causes include the repression itself of crime: prisons and psychiatric hospitals are themselves fostering very violent human interactions.

Emma Goldman had a very good piece back in 1911 on prison as part of the problem:

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/aando/...
Project Glasswing: Adobe's new transparent display
Politics/commentary on the sanctions themselves aside, I do not know why the author keeps harping so strongly on the fact that it was a "FREE" service. The cost of the service/product is irrelevant. You are still doing business with a company by using their product even if you aren't explicitly giving them currency.

It's also entirely irrelevant because the purpose of the sanctions has nothing to do with restricting GitHub's revenue, but instead is supposed to restrict the sanctioned user's ability to use that service, which is exactly what's happening here, "free" or not.
Exactly. Spolsky did enormous harm to us all with his assertion, blindly accepted, that a single bad hire will destroy your company overnight. All the toxicity in the current hiring process should be laid at his door.
Based on the details in both articles, this seems like a mischaracterization. The issue is not the fact that he died after an inherently risky operation - it's that the doctors (allegedly) made mistakes afterward that unnecessarily increased the risk and potentially cost him his life.

"Do patients always die if wire removal causes bleeding? No — it is very rare, surgeons said. Patients should be rushed to the operating room ... But Mr. Armstrong was taken to a cardiac catheterization lab first, before he went to surgery. The cath lab, Dr. Haft said, 'is not the solution.' ... By the time Mr. Armstrong got to the operating room, his heart had stopped and he had brain damage from a lack of blood to his brain. He died without regaining consciousness."

"The expert reviews focus on the hospital’s decision to bring Mr. Armstrong to a catheterization lab rather than directly to an operating room when he began to experience complications. 'The decision to go to the cath lab was THE major error,' Dr. Joseph Bavaria, a vice-chair of cardiothoracic surgery at University of Pennsylvania wrote in a review conducted at the request of the Armstrong family."
I guess it's just more likely in crypto, and with crypto your money was a "currency" the whole time, not an asset.
I think that's the challenge. The CPI where people need/want to live is actually quite high.

California Urban Inflation
http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Economics/Indicators/Infla...

You can see average inflation averages about 4% for LA, San Diego and San Francisco.

I believe the St Louis FRED also has these inflation numbers for West Coast Urban CPI which reflect similar rates.
I read that, but I believe that's describing the problem. Anyone care to explain the answer in a similar simple way?

Actually one thing weird wiht that explanation is they call sensitive bits the ones that don't change the output? You'd think it would be the red ones
> It is very odd how vague their product description page is.

Surely the oddity is solved by postulating that it is a marketing strategy to build interest?
I actually think that there might be something to it. The current keyboards already have a small key travel. A solid-state keyboard with “taptic” feedback from individual keys could feel ok.
"Voting with your wallet" always matters. Doesn't matter if it's free or not. It always matters.

Do you understand how discouraging the network effect is on free products? Any social media app that breaks out is quickly bought by the big players and they reset the score again.
It seems like it does exactly (or a subset) of what Google Cloud Run already does. Just shove an application into a container and scale up/down depending on use. Other cloud providers probably have this too. So is the value add that this is less expensive or what?
Agreed, this makes no sense to me (sounds like something an "engineering manager" might recommend). If not defects, then what? Surely it's not the recommendation that someone who struggles to fix bugs should be given greenfield work...
deogeo is very right and you are very wrong.

If government paper has a return of 0% while private market marginal safe and liquid assets returns are in the negative (which can easily happen) 0% is an above market rate and a subsidy to people holding on to government paper instead of investing in the real economy.

If you look at long term history, negative real returns on stores of value were the norm. Before financial systems existed, almost all investments had negative returns if you didn’t put work and energy into them. To store value, you had to accumulate stuff, buildings or land. Most options either had high maintenance costs, were subject to risk of damage from natural causes and theft, were very volatile or required hard labor to get production out of.

Even in societies with financial systems, getting low risk, hassle free, liquid, positive real returns has been difficult for most of history. This just reflects the natural laws of thermodynamics that tell us that everything tends to decay without a constant supply of work and energy. In general, most things require maintenance to keep their worth.

The 20th century was probably the most notable exception. Because of unprecedented demographic and technological growth, positive risk free real returns were easy to find. The recency effect probably explains some of the confusion people have about this. It is possible that under favorable conditions, wealth can have positive returns and even compound into very good long run returns but it is not a guarantee and there is nothing natural about it. It may not continue forever, particularly amidst an aging and retiring population in a world no longer as rich in easy to exploit natural resources.

While people are used to get negative returns on very short term purchases, you buy fresh vegetables at the supermarket, even if they degrade over time, many can’t seem to accept the normalcy of negative returns on longer term assets. In nature, squirrels’ nut caches have a certain percentage of losses from theft and spoilage. Real returns tending towards the negative is natural even if they can seem unusual for humans just out of the 20th century.

More here: The World Deserves a Pay Raise (https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...)
A lot of superdefensive people over at quora everytime you ask a question about china.
You mean they completely redefined 'unlimited' to mean 'limited'..
True, but I think the rest of the comment does a good job of clarifying what he means... they're not (typically) out to get you for the purpose of putting the average person in jail; however, they are out to get money from you if you owe them.
They probably don't block on nationality as such, but on something like:

- Creation IP geocodes to Iran

- More than X% of the requests in last Y years came from IPs that geocode to Iran.

Just blocking requests from Iranian IPs will achieve nothing except move those users to proxies and VPNs. If the lawyers have decided that there needs to be a technical solution, they probably need to go with one that's not totally trivial to work around.

The alternative option would be some kind of proxy/VPN detection (which I assume Microsoft must have technology for already). But it seems particularly ill-suited for Github's business, since they must get a ton of valid traffic from datacenter IPs.
Biology of Cancer ed 2 is from 2013 and nothing has changed tremendously to the point where the book would be out of date.

Molecular Biology of the Cell ed 6 is from 2014

Molecular Biology fo the Gene is a bit older and I would generally not recommend people read it, but the problem is (IMHO) the alternative, Genetics by Lewin, is genetics-oriented instead of molecular biology, and I find that most CS folks understand MB and find genetics confusing.

Review articles are good, but I still recommend starting with textbooks before moving on to reviews.
Wow, Japan consumes more seafood then all of the US states combined and the EU countries combined? That’s amazing.
The non-antialiased “case” is one spot among the continuum of antialiased “cases”; it doesn’t satisfy totally different perceptual rules. What gamma curve would you propose to correct for the perceptual equality of a 9.3px white-on-black line with a 11.6px black-on-white line? What I’m saying is that you’re presupposing the wrong layer to make the correction (antialiasing or no).
Colocation without being physically nearby can be costly and a logistical nightmare. So-called "remote hands" can cost upwards of $100/hour, though initial installation might be included. Nobody wants to be in the position of helping someone fix their broken hardware (or what they think is broken hardware) as it's an absolute time sink and a sure way for the customer relationship to sour when things go sideways.

If you're doing this remotely, you need to send at least one backup, which likely means paying 2x. When things can't be fixed over IPMI or the BMC (presuming you trust keeping those connected to a network, internal or otherwise), just cross ship a new one with the old. But be sure to keep at least one backup on site as logistical problems can quickly crop up, and that's assuming you're prepared to respond immediately and remain engaged.

Regarding "very fast server", note that the biggest expense to colocation isn't space but power. There are lots of smaller colocation providers who would be happy to sell 4U of space rather cheaply, but you won't be able to power 4 x Xeon E5 or E7 machines. You'd be lucky to power just one.

I've been running several Xeon E3-1230s (v2 and v3) which top out at about 65W or less--65W for the v3 and 55W for the v2, IIRC. That's total--the peak power draw under load at the power outlet is less than the published TDP for the CPU alone!

I recently built a Supermicro EPYC 3201. AMD publishes 30W as the EPYC 3201's TDP, but peak draw under load at the outlet is 45W. The EPYC 3201 compiled Ubuntu's GCC package 11 minutes slower than my E3-1230v3 (219m vs 208m). The performance isn't surprising, but I'm a little disappointed at the 45W power draw. The E3s spoiled me. I'm still eager to switch to the EPYC simply because of the Spectre fiasco. It's why I got the EPYC 3201, which is 8 cores without SMT, instead of the 3251 with 8 cores and 16 threads.[1] Plus, without load the EPYC box only draws about 20W, IIRC, which is nice even if irrelevant to my immediate costs.

Probably these types of machines are not as powerful as you had in mind. But a colo provider may not let you plug in multiple servers which could exceed your power budget even if you promised not to run all of them under load simultaneously. When you have multiple machines power becomes a significant constraint.

[1] The TDP for the 3251 is 35W. The 3201 clocks memory at 2133MHz, but the 3251 clocks memory at 2666MHz. I think the extra 5W comes more from the increased memory speed than the SMT. The DIMMs themselves would also draw more power, so I would expect peak power draw at the outlet for the 3251 to be greater than 50W (45W + (5W TDP difference)), closer to 55W or even higher. (My E3-1230v3s clock memory at 1600MHz, which makes think DIMMs are actually a significant power draw. I think the v2s use 1333MHz, which may explain the ~10W lower power draw--also the Intel changing the voltage regulatory between v2 and v3.)
It's a bit much yeah. I started putting together a motion sensing unit, and realized (after leisurely reading related international law) that I had modified a component (changed its operating frequency) in a way that I may have had to declare it or talk to somebody in advance if I traveled with it outside the U.S. and Canada.

After dealing with stubborn, pedantic people in government, I don't even want to touch that unless I know there's good money in it.

I think it would be very cool if there were some tax credits or grant programs to offset the cost of compliance, particularly ones that don't require you to have a personal lobbyist to avail yourself of them.

My impression is that a lot of creative potential in arms and arms-adjacent (I actually agree with some of the ITAR's more dubious classifications to some extent, though I think there should be less onerous tiers of control for these things) industry is being squandered by unintended effects of the ITAR.
Is the facebook news feed actually widely loved now? I only hear yearning for the old chrono feed
Why focus on the irrelevant paragraph about nuclear weapons and ignore the very next paragraph, which even says the same thing as the website notice? Github repository services aren't food or medicine, or otherwise exempted from sanctions, as far as I can tell. [1]

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Sanctions/Page...
That's cool. Apart from the article being good, the design of your page is very nice.
Of course they do this on purpose, it does not require a lot to give you metrics on usage and tell you if you are over provisioned, when mint.com can suggest a lower interest credit card or a higher yielding account based on my financial history, AWS cab easily do the same.
But, why would they. They rather laugh all the way to the bank!
Not a bad idea.

There were other issues as well that contributed to the decision, namely:

- Legality: there are specific regulations around how employees can be paid. These stem, historically, from companies paying employees in coupons only redeemable at other company stores (think: railroad workers paid in coupons for the general store owned by the railroad.

- Reversibility: What happens if the payroll needs to be reversed? With bitcoin you can't. This is important for cases of fraud (e.g. stolen credentials), user error (e.g. mistyping hours worked), or bugs on our end.

- Anti-money laundering: We needed to be reasonably sure you weren't laundering money. In case you were, having a bank account makes tracing the money much easier. Coin tumblers and the like make obfuscation and cleaning dirty money trivial.

- User adoption and education: How many people really want this feature versus others in the pipeline? If we ship it, what load does this put on our support team to handle calls about bitcoin? About losing their private key?

These are a subset. There are many concerns. I hear you about employees taking that money and buying it anyway, but we did have additional concerns to think about. We weren't against crypto, but it wasn't a good fit for our platform, userbase, size, priorities, etc.
Reaction to the same news about Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20402070
For Mozilla, that's likely a conflict on interest between their search deal (which AFAIK is their primary source of income) with Google and the hardline privacy/FOSS direction they're moving toward.

I'm shocked no one pointed out the why of news media though. It's not about statists liking Google and not FB, and it's not about headline clicks (well, it is but there's more to it than just company name in headline = more clicks).

Eighteen months ago[1] Facebook effectively depublished news/journalism sites. Almost overnight, major news media outlets started publishing anti-Facebook articles and it hasn't stopped since.

I'm not going to cry about disproportionate media attention unless this yellow journalism results in Facebook getting trust-busted but not the other monopolists.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/11/facebook-...
> prior to 2018 this was not the case with crypto

This is "far from certain" [1]. After 31 December 2017, like-kind exchanges are limited to real estate transactions. Before that date, it's ambiguous.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/owe-irs-crypto-crypto-trades
How do you define a "decent" job? If you're a nurse you can probably find a decent job most anywhere. If you're a software developer then your options may be more limited.
Yeah. This is so amazingly unintuitive but kind of cool... And it worked!

-edit: In Mojave, I found it in prefs/keyboard/Customize Touch bar