skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really fascinating article, and once again a reminder that hardware and software are two different animals with different timelines and processes.

2 humorous tidbits and 1 scary:
>>The eight in Building 8 represented the number of letters in Facebook. Its physical location was inside Building 59 on Facebook’s main campus in Menlo Park, California.

So the Building 8 team is not actually at a building called Building 8, but Building 59?

>>The exclusive invitations had arrived in the form of stainless steel slabs. To get into the event, attendees handed their invitation to a staffer, who put the slabs onto a machine programmed to cut the metal into a bottle opener. The staffer then handed back the bottle opener, along with a beer.

Just... peak Silicon Valley.

>>In early 2018, the remaining research projects were moved to Oculus Research, which has since been rebranded as Facebook Reality Labs, based in Redmond, Washington. That’s where the company is working on a brain-reading interface — a noninvasive wearable device that will allow people to type using their thoughts.

The implications of this type of technology (especially used by FB) make me really uncomfortable. The ability to access, store, and analyze user thoughts is something that has the potential to be used in very wrong ways. Just another way to get even more specific and targeted user information, potentially information that I never intended on sharing with Facebook. What do other people think about this technology? Am I crazy?
Using WebThings Gateway notifications as a warning system for your home
Fighting distractions: write-only mode
I see you got downvoted here, but I think it is worth replying. We evaluated using Java on both iOS + Android (transpiled to iOS in some form), but what tipped the scales towards Rust was the "fearless concurrency" (that turned out to match the marketing) and the risk around the current state of transpilers.

I was a fan of Java for a very long time. It was my language of choice from early 2000s to mid 2010s. It does _amazing_ things with keeping memory management out of mind (while still giving you the the "backdoors" to make things work well if you need a non-gc approach), but thread safety continues to be a glaring hole.

From a former Java super-fan, I honestly think the future is Go + Rust.

FWIW we also evaluated Go as a shared language, but there were risks around integrating our Go shared library with apps that may include some pre-existing Go code.
You are remembering correctly. But it also pointed out that Amazon sets the standard in the industry and just because they're not the worst doesn't mean they shouldn't get better.
Wouldn’t it be better to break your tasks into smaller, discrete units instead of a 15 minute job, such as using a message queue (SQS)?
Gibraltar paper reports Iranian tanker released
GRID?
So to summarize... basically any exercise will help blood pressure. Benefits observed as low as 15 minutes of low intensity cardio, although it does look like higher intensity is preferred for strength training.
I got the actual start, but there's some scrolljacking going on: it took significantly longer to reach the top than it did to go back down to the "borg" tweet. Maybe you did hit the real top, then were immediately bounced back down?
Man this has come a long way. I remember my first Pi I wanted to do this SOO badly. I wound up doing it with a 48w/hr battery and a 7" non-touch automotive backup camera screen. [1]

This was just after the launch of RPi1 and well before Adafruit had all the cool parts that just work out of the box.

[1] https://www.honestrepair.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Micr...
Put some effort in then, because I have no idea what hair you're trying to split.
Spotify will reportedly test price hike for its premium service in some markets
CNN, and most news agencies, don't do news anymore. All they do is opinion. Perspectives are paid advertisements like OpEd articles from shills.
(R) is only for registered marks, using it improperly can amount to Trademark Fraud. Consult a lawyer not HN.

Improper use of the federal registration symbol, ®, that is deliberate and intends to deceive or mislead the public or the USPTO is fraud. See Copelands’ Enters. Inc. v. CNV Inc., 945 F.2d 1563, 20 USPQ2d 1295 (Fed. Cir. 1991); Wells Fargo & Co. v. Lundeen & Assocs., 20 USPQ2d 1156 (TTAB 1991) .

Edit: Otherwise those marks are used to put the public on notice of the claim of the mark. A brand like Mercedes isn't worried about their marks/logos looking ugly with the addition of (r) or (TM), they are worried about their legal rights, and using those symbols (properly) will only assist in their legal claims and enforcement of the same.
It's simple: GE is down, as of right now, over 11%. Knowing the sensational allegations of the report would have a short-term deleterious effect, they shorted the stock. They can turn the profit from the successful short around into buying GE at its depressed price, and profit a second time when the stock returns to normal levels after the report is found to be exaggerated.

This assumes the report is, in fact, exaggerated.
During the last crash, most 401k investors didn't think they had much exposure to mortgage-backed securities. Turned out they had lots of exposure to companies that held those securities. I don't know how much that's also true with these IPO stocks.
Can't answer the small question, but they did send out an email that they're going to tighten their marketing budget for a bit and comp/refund everyone's $9.99 membership fee for the month.

Griddy's communication efforts have generally grown increasingly proactive since we joined in June 2017, and they have been very proactive over the past ~10 days. They sent informational emails on the 6th, 9th, 12th, 13th, and 14th notifying us about upcoming high-price/demand periods, what hours things are expected to spike, and providing suggestions for avoiding/mitigating energy use.
I use Yoda style string comparations in java all the time since they are null safe. But other than that I wouldn't have much use for them because they're more difficult to read
Russia Suspected by Some in Giant Bulgaria Hack
> heavily rubberized weights

They're called bumper plates! They're so you can drop a loaded bar without causing everyone to glare at you - and also to help avoid the plates bouncing onto your foot.

But you shouldn't need these on the bench. If you bench without a spotter and get stuck, move the weights to your hip and then sit up and shift them slowly to the floor like you're finishing a deadlift. (I've always called this the 'strongman escape' but it has no formal name afaik)
At Twitter, It Seems No One Can Hear the Screams
It is the most common format for clubs in virtual worlds, and I've found a lot of new music that way. One of my favorites is the saturday afternoon show in Utopia Skye, which is simulcast on Discord, allowing people who aren't in the virtual club to listen and to interact with the DJs.

Utopia Skye Discord: https://discord.gg/hScth5T
collectively forget something

What do you mean by this?
Fixed! Sorry about that!
Amazon is an evil company. Just...stop buying stuff from them! You can find better quality goods on other websites and you won't be paying for employees to be abused. Saving 50 cents on a twenty pack of Charmin isn't worth propping up gross people.
I read the whole thread.

I was commenting on twitter as a medium.
I originally glossed over your comment pretty quickly, but the more I think about it, the more I realize this is true in practice for me as well. I know what it feels like to feel joy or sadness, but for me anxiety is more often a collection of things I observe about myself than something I feel. This is partly because my anxiety is so often coupled with depression, and partly because anxiety pushes your brain into a fight/freeze/flee trichotomy, and the "freeze" and "flee" responses can feel pretty emotionally blank when the fear is distant or ill-defined (like a deadline or social rejection as opposed to a grizzly bear.)

Again depending on the fight/freeze/flee response, my anxiety can manifest as stiffness in my body, requiring special concentration to force myself to do normal things, or it can manifest as a jitteriness, like when you drive a car with a lot more power than you're used to and every time you touch the accelerator it surges forward in an alarming way. It can be accompanied by elevated body temperature, even sweating.

The way I differentiate the paralyzing kind of anxiety from depression is that depression paralyzes with lack of energy and an inability to believe that anything you do will come out well. Anxiety paralyzes with stiffness and a blank mind that is too twitchy to make plans.

Paralysis is the flight/freeze response to anxiety, but it also has a fight response, where I single-mindedly execute the next thing to do. I can get a lot of things done this way, and sometimes this is the only thing that snaps me out of procrastination, but sometimes the "clear next step" I'm unthinkingly executing is not the right thing. And when it becomes unclear what the next thing is, I'm back to being paralyzed.

Likewise, in social situations, anxiety can make me talk a lot (for me) and become much more open and engaging, and it can be a great thing to get me over the hump to knowing someone well, but more often it just makes my mind blank and makes me so slow to say the things I want to say that the moment passes. From the point of view of my social anxiety, I guess that's a win, preventing me from engaging more than superficially.
I use nonsense terms which are easily readable.
Mother's maiden name: Lady of Amberly, first maid of countess Blue, inheritor of the golden bull.
This is an important trend, but as usual the news people have slanted it to their own benefit: Advertisers are not blacklisting "hard news", they're just fed up with their brands being associated with negative, sensationalist reporting.

These types of blacklists are good, especially if they ideally force media companies to drop the emotional clap-trap and get back to proper reporting and journalism.

Media has always been manipulative, but it's become incredibly heightened in the deathmatch for eyeballs and ad clicks. If the ad-buying companies continue this pushback, perhaps the media companies will start reporting the news in a more neutral & factual way.
Police: Motorist Was Playing Pokémon Go on Eight Phones Simultaneously
The first two points are absolutely not "woefully wrong". Many laws are essentially written and controlled by corporations via lobbyists, and most politicians are incredibly uninformed/misinformed about tech
I'm torn because I've definitely heard plenty of rumblings about GE Capital over the past decade so the accusations certainly seem plausible. I feel like I even opened the report expecting to confirm the rumors I had heard. But I've only made it to page 5 and so far it's a lot of hot air without any substance. And the tone of the writing is needlessly flippant. It's difficult for me to take the report seriously.

For example, this sentence raises red flags to me:

> I won’t reveal every technique we used because every wannabe accounting fraudster out there is going to be
reading this section closely looking at it as a “how not to get caught” primer. There’s no point in making them harder to
catch than they already are.

We're just supposed to take him at his word in order to protect ourselves from "wannabe accounting fraudsters" who might try to repeat what GE has done? That doesn't make sense to me. Revealing GE's supposed tricks would allow everyone else in the industry to better monitor for them.
If you have a calendar where every month links to the previous and next months, a crawler can get stuck and hammer the server. That's the kind of thing robots.txt is for.
The issue is that in the US, being able to produce enough info to identify a specific person is considered enough to authenticate as that person. In essence, all you need to 'login' is something equivalent to a 'username'.

This should be seen as negligence by whatever company uses this as an excuse for user authentication. Because they are simply taking actions in the name of a person without having done the due-dilligence to authenticate that person.

Its not like a password leak, where you can blame the user for leaking/re-using their password. In that case, there is at least an argument that it is not the fault of the company. But you cannot blame a user for having data that is expected to be public, be public.

At the moment, the credit-agencies provide this horribly weak form of authentication under the name "Knowledge Based Authentication". Last I heard, it is actually used by the IRS for online forms. This has lead to peoples tax-returns being stolen[1].

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/26/
I distinctly recall a USA top-ten business school with an ad for "Financial Engineering MBA" (yes, real math) showing a small, smiling brown-skinned woman in Fortune 500 business attire. At the same time, top management at GE mentioned "financial engineering" as a strength in the business press.

Perhaps it is an obvious evolution of their complex asset leasing models from forty years ago to "financial engineering", but the implications of a USA engineering firm, outsourcing all the work and focusing on money tricks instead.. it just shouts everything that went wrong with American Business, to me.
Almost every article anybody writes is an ad for one thing or another, and be it the person itself.

It's a nice story, and maybe you could just not grudge him a few thousand eyeballs.
Amazon launches FBA Donations program for unsold inventory
The antenna, not the whole tv
Amazon Music Unlimited isn't growing faster than Spotify
Is Elon Musk Wrong about Lidar? A Quantitative Analysis
Sure, but how does the vendor benefit from including the (R) in their advertising?
Wework loses $5200/customer, lost $1.3B in H1/2019
I insist on taking those terms literally, and you should too. Public discourse isn't going to work if "bot" and "Russian troll" become synonyms for "I don't believe what you're saying and don't think you do either".
You didn’t “merely point it out”, you described it as “hilarious”. This implies that you view the disclosure as some sort of evidence of impropriety, as if you discovered what game they were truly playing or something.

As others have told you, this is standard practice for short sellers, and the financial industry as a whole.

What would you rather them do? Simply claim that GE is a fraud without having any stake in GE, long or short? Don’t you lend their claim more weight given that they’ve taken a financial position based on their belief? I would think that would be a more rational view.
This is everything wrong with the internet from every side. The creepy Amazon workers, the echo chamber, the unreasonable Twitterer. Just everything.
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Nearly everything you put in body like silicone, plastic, titanium have known negative effects.
Yes, that's not how unions are structured by law in the US. Every union is shop-based and organized against a specific employer. They usually throw in with a larger union or an association, but not always. This is where the "Local 404" comes from -- the union itself is the local ###, aligned with the national federation. The union at Powell's Books, for example, is a retail union but they're connected to the ILWU, the longshoremen.

Portland is also undergoing an tremendous unionization battle at a local burger chain (Burgerville); one or two of the shops have successfully unionized, while the rest are still fighting for their right to organize. That's because unions here are at the shop level, and there just couldn't be one burger union that dominated all burger-making.
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Building and distributing desktop applications on Linux
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So I post a video in response to someone using anecdotal evidence as a counterpoint to Amazon treating their workers poorly. Included in the video are testimonials from actual Amazon workers and your response is to dismiss the video because it's not real news, not funny and heavily biased. None of the things you listed have anything to do with the evidence presented.

And now I see in your other response in this topic you express anecdotal evidence as well. It's simply a poor way to counterpoint something. It really is.
My thoughts on this is that a code base is a living thing. Things go out. Things go it. We have a history of every change made (and often you can interpret the reasons why)
> And yes, agree that it's a useless definition. I've never seen it used outside of esoteric political debates.

Esoteric? It's a central concept for understanding how capitalist societies are structured. The central concept, even. It's not math, it's language, exceptions or hard-to-pin-down boundary regions don't wholly invalidate or render useless an idea.
Bots or not, it's not very authentic or honest, and certainly not good PR.
ShapeShift: Tracing transactions across cryptocurrency ledgers
Seems like this is just an ad for Sila Nanotech basically.

Obviously lower cost batteries will make electric cars more available to everyone, but at ~$200/kWh in cell cost, are we really that far away now? It seems to me the bigger issues include:

* Lack of charging infrastructure (incl at home, apartment dwellers, or for roadtrip purposes)

* Consumer education/dissuasion of fears regarding 'range anxiety

* Lack of battery production facilities. Obviously Tesla is tackling this, but it seems other manufacturers are lagging behind in production abilities.

* Compelling offerings from more mainstream manufacturers on the lower end in greater quantities (Kona EV/Nero EV/Bolt being some of the first, but production seems limited)
Fork of Zircon?

https://9to5google.com/2018/11/22/google-fuchsia-huawei-hono...
Huawei is testing Google's Fuchsia OS on the Honor Play ...

https://9to5google.com/2019/07/30/huawei-working-fuchsia-san...
Huawei still working w/ Fuchsia OS, despite US sanctions ...
Reading Gramna, I get the sense that Cuba is a country where no one dies, there is no public corruption, and the infrastructure is fine. Censorship is an amazing thing.

The thing about sensationalism is that on some level, people think they are being well informed.
I was going to respond, but there is no point arguing with trolls posting pro-authoritarian opinions from a fake account because they're too scared to have their thoughts tied to their identity in any way
That's not the same risk. That's a voluntary agreement of work in exchange for cash, and either side can stop at anytime. Legal and contractual obligations like pensions and severance can also be layered on. What assets and liabilities that employee has in their personal life doesn't factor into calculation, they could be independently wealthy for all you know.

Also why does it have to be "large quantities"? Buy 1 share and you're a part owner. Many large companies have stock plans. It's not rare and if you're an employee then by definition you "have money" from working.
Some ambasssador in the thread says she tweets two days and works in the warehouse two days. So it's not really comparable to using the bathroom.
Even this framing is suspect -- China has very publicly been trying to shift from an export-driven economy to a domestic consumption economy recently.

I question how stable the relationship is when that stability rests on the assumption China fails to meet its economic goals.
We're inclined to agree with RO because her account looks genuine, whereas the Amazon accounts look like this: https://mobile.twitter.com/TheKenChilds/status/1161847717397...
I just want to confirm this is what I meant. While I wasn't as badly affected as some of my peers, I still remember when I truly realized what equality meant. That occurred in college, and embarrassingly late in college at that (though it was in undergrad at least). I suspect I got some extra cognitive interference from my programming language experience, so non-programmers would hopefully have an easier time of it.

And I was solving systems of equations with substitution and doing all the usual things to equations one does in math classes, and to all external appearances I would have looked like I understood equality prior to that. But I didn't. Not fully. In hindsight, the best evidence of this was in physics class, where I was perfectly adequate at taking the provided equations and using them, and I understood their derivation, but I still wasn't all that great at combining them fluidly; F = ma, yes, but it still didn't quite fully register that that meant anywhere I saw an F, in any other equation in which it appeared, I could drop in an ma. It's not that F is "convertable" to ma, or that ma simplifies to F, or that the name of ma is F... it's that they ARE each other, there is no conceivable way you can separate them, there is no conceivably witnessable in any way, mathematically or practically, effect from substituting one for the other, there is only one entity that can be named in various ways. I did not fluidly combine them the way I should. If I had the class to do over again, I would do way better this time, even we could somehow erase my first pass entirely from my mind.
Three nights ago was near the peak of the Perseids meteor shower, too.
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Libor manipulation was on the public record years before the scandal blew up. Exposing anything but dirt-simple financial fraud is hard, even to people who know all the facts.
Actually this is standard practice in the shorting industry and perfectly legal since the information is publicly available. It was entirely their goal to push the stock price down just as there are legions of folks trying to do the opposite (in perhaps not so immediately obvious ways).
Why deal with the complexity of one when you can have both!

(/s...)
> This is a fallacy. If you're going to talk about profit then you must also consider that the risk and loss also goes to owners while workers get paid either way.

I think you're falling into a set pattern of argument rather than looking at what's under examination and considering it on merit.

> This is something that should be rather simple to understand in the HN/Startup crowd. Considering that anyone can buy shares or start their own business, my point stands that this is the most non-exclusive club possible.

Please look back over the previous posts in the thread and consider the points that have already been raised.
No, it's not that, it's really so that Twitter won't shut them down.

Maybe being "honest" is some side-effect, but they wouldn't be doing it if Twitter didn't have a history of deleting Russian troll accounts (for example).
I'd break this up by lines, every time.

int result = systemcall(“some string”, expression_argument(args), SC_MODE_1 | SC_MODE_DEFAULT))
if (result != 0)

Separation of concerns. Each line does one thing. Making a system call and branching on its result are two separate tasks.
Right? When you add up all the hassle of configuring everything and troubleshooting it... christ, give me a damn switch any day.
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WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
We recently did work for a very large corporation that switched from net 60 to net 180. I'm not sure if they did it for cash flow reasons, but I doubt it. We're a small company, so it was tough for us considering we'd be paying developers 6-months of salary before we'd see a dime. They did conveniently offer financing so that we could get paid sooner, albeit with interest.

It seemed to me like large corporations feel that they can strong-arm their vendors into unsavory terms because of their clout.
It's not node_modules but it is the same concept, it's called target in Rust.