skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a slightly more useful credit score (more useful, not more accurate - see sibling comment), you'll want to get a version of your FICO score instead of a version of your VantageScore. You can get one for free here: https://www.freecreditscore.com/ - it's run by Experian, I haven't read the private policy but no payment information is required.
> I love Rust, but my "node_modules" in Rust is absolutely huge.

Why does Rust need a node_modules folder?
Thank you! Someone just forked the notebook, adding satellite texturing — that's a really cool aspect of Observable (and I'll probably merge it back): https://observablehq.com/@rzoller/martin-real-time-rtin-terr...
The same analysis makes it untenable for centralized platforms, as you noticed yourself.

Strong disagree, though I certainly hope that I am wrong and that decentralized platforms are more viable than I suspect.

It is not easy, but it is most definitely tenable for centralized platforms with sufficient funding and motivation i.e. Facebook, Google, etc.

They have:

1. Many millions (billions, in Facebook's case) of users, some percentage of which are willing to click those "Report..." buttons

2. Their own farms of in-house workers

3. Their own bespoke tools and heuristics to identify trends and more easily identify malicious actors/content, for review by the human moderators. this would presumably incorporate reports from users.

It's arguably harder to do it on a decentralized platforms

Again, I really can't agree but hope to be wrong.

How does a malicious social media team "attack" Facebook? For the most part, they produce content that winds up being spread virally. They don't spead the information around Facebook; the users do. This would function largely the same way in a decentralized network.

Keep in mind that today's decentralized networks are a bit like the Usenet was before "Eternal September."

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

In other words, these decentralized networks are currently populated primarily with relatively savvy users. Not perfect by any means, but on average, more savvy than your average FB or Twitter user who will eagerly share articles and links without even a cursory vetting. That will change in a hurry if any of these decentralized networks ever gains critical mainstream mass.
Because the amount of force use by employers against unions in very anti social countries such as corporate US is extreme, then you might get that feeling.
But countries where business and unions understand that they're partners and not enemies , both sides usually are not on a war path.

The problem is not big business, or socialism, the problem is of mentality.

Sadly the US business mentality is centered around bullying and zero sum perception of the world.
violence begets violence.

Too bad this brain virus is catching on at other cultures. It'll end up with either a big blowout, or suppression of the masses.
How can you know that there's no sanitization just from this blog post?
I like they put their money where their mouth is and shorted GE. Actually puts their skin in the game before making accusations.
> To me the FCA's came off like normal human beings

Oh come on, this is contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism. The overwhelming consensus is that their behavior is bizarre.
The EQC is set to launch as a 2020 model, meaning it should be available soon.
In case anyone else is curious, async/await isn't part of this release but should be in the next (1.38):

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/62149
There are some quirky name generators elsewhere on the internet. Perhaps you could mash some of the firstname lastname combinations together?
I seem to remember that "Last Week Tonight" said that Amazon wasn't as bad, it was the outsourcing companies that were far worse.
The Rust Programming Language book includes tests and how to break down code into packages and other good habits:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

Coming from a background in scripting languages, Rust is still a lot more difficult to learn than Go, but I found that book very helpful.
I used to work a hard labor job. People got injured. I got injured more than once. Some people died. It was part of the job and we knew what we were getting into in exchange for money. It was the best way we had to make a living.

I don't know if conditions were as hard as working in an Amazon FC, but it was definitely hard work. We needed the money and appreciated the opportunity to earn a living.

If the media had decided that we were some kind of downtrodden worker class cause and had descended upon us to ask these kinds of antagonizing questions our answers would have been very much the same. I'm sure we would have answered back with our employers talking points when ridiculed for the type of work we were doing. People in tech do this all the time when they explain why they work at some tech company "changing the world".

This whole thing is in very poor taste. This public Amazon FC bashing feels very much like virtue signaling and I find it disgusting.
I'm friends with a couple people who work (or have worked) in these FC centers. They don't complain about these things. They work their ass off and happily collect their paycheck.

In my younger days, I used to work unloading boxes at FedEx for minimum wage. It was hard, back breaking work, and you better believe at holiday time it was crazy hectic and no time off. So I can imagine what it's like at one of these facilities, it's got to be hard as hell.

I'm sure all of us want these people to have the best conditions possible. The concerning thing to me is the tone of conversations like this in the 'Age of outrage'. It's a lot of virtue signaling, and then attacking of anyone who says anything to the contrary. "Oh you're not outraged about this like I am? Well you're an Amazon shill & hate the workers!"

Isn't the bigger issue, why is it these folks don't have better opportunities available to them? They are working these hard, back breaking jobs likely because it is better than anything else they can find in their area.
Times do change. In 1996 a dumpster dive of the local computer store would reveal hundreds of names, addresses and full credit card numbers with expiry dates.

A super high end hotel in Singapore would leave client bookings at the check in counter with address, name, credit card also.
> I agree with you. We cant ask to return to middle ages.

True. So, maybe high-speed trains are not the solution, yet. It might be that they're missing a technological pinch, yet. In the same way battery technology was a pinch to electrical cars (which are around at least as long as fossil burning cars, just not usable, because... battery...).

As long as a solution is dependent on politics or taxation, it is a sign that there is still some pinch to tweak, some idea to discover or some detail to improve.

> fossil-burning-car travel compared to train travel is not reflected on the price.

Partly agreed. It's difficult to find a price. What does the emission of one metric ton of CO2 cost? The sum of the actuarial costs of damages to property attributed to climate change divided by the total number of tonnes produced? Is it the sum of the costs of the effort to save such tonne?

Then, is a tonne a tonne? What if you emit CO2 to produce a material which reduces the damages to houses from thunderstorms? Will you get credited the part which led to lower costs of damages?

And even, if you found the right price. Who is the beneficiary whom this price is paid to? Is it the people? So, what if democracy decides to use (a chunk of?) these taxes to rise pensions? Or to support young families? Or to rescue people from drowning in the Mediterranean on their escape from violations of their human rights? Or to improve the healthcare system?

There is no such thing as earmarked taxes.
Research Team Engineers a Better Plastic-Degrading Enzyme (2018)
Well, because I consume most of my media at home, so I’d much rather store it there instead of having to stream it from the internet. But I also like listening to my music when I’m out of the house, so I need a way to connect to my home when I’m on a different network.
Norway detects radioactive iodine by Russian border days after blast
I know I'm in the minority, but I honestly never really understood why people get so up in arms about this. People keep saying it's so difficult to read, and I just don't understand why. I know that linters and such can catch this most of the time, but a lot of places I've seen don't use them. (I don't know why, that's a whole other discussion.) It just seems to me that it's something that keeps you from wasting time on silly mistakes should be common place. I really don't understand.
> Germany probably didn't go down this path due to coal lobbying

Germany and Austria is strongly anti-atom. It comes from cold war where Germany was primary nuclear target for Soviets and US.
Reddit politics is the same.
Direct Link from CNBC:

http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editorial...
C-Life wasted away by GE.
You are thinking of bureaucrats in the western world. These are eunuchs working under the thumb of political appointees within the context of democratic politics. They are hedged in by expectations that they are there to perform a public service. In China, the people exist to serve the party, so there is a role reversal when it comes to who is in charge. This is how/why the government is able to force companies to come together and share their secrets.
By the same token, people who buy the stock before engaging in "pump and dump" have skin in the game before making their statements.
I wonder if that could be considered securities fraud. They had insider knowledge that their report would damage the stock price of GE.
Is there anything preventing unions from growing huge and essentially dominating entire sectors in the US?
Seems like async/await is going to slip into Rust 1.39 instead: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/63209#issuecomment-52...
Good point.

In books I've often seen sequences of dates signifying new editions, updates, or reprints in the colophon.

Ex:

(C) 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2008, 2016
Or, they find something that has generally hidden flaws, short it, and then shine light on those flaws.
They can win, if they prove their case and it is found to be true and comes to pass as they say it will. Until then, the company being shorted will generally lash out regardless of the truth or not of their accusations.
It's not that strange. When people buy a stock, they'll pump it with positive stories too. Or they'll downplay any malfeasance.
Reforming Land Use Regulations
I'd give Amazon a lot more credit if I wasn't certain that account was purely there for the memes.

Their twitter bio makes it pretty clear they're not a real... propaganda account? I'm not even sure what to call the other ones in the thread.
it's a battle of wits for sure :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EkBuKQEkio
Is it insider knowledge? Or merely non-public knowledge that they legally generated from their own research efforts?
Charge-Free Mixing Entropy Battery Enabled by Low-Cost Electrode Materials
But you see, I didn't say that they were wrong or right. I merely was pointing out the fact that they put in their disclaimer that they did in fact have short positions on GE prior to publication.
But for that definition it's not "pre" anything. It's either a safing sound, or a pre-collision sound.
I know when you make an account with Nordea, they give you a page with several hundred codes printed on it. Each time you authenticate, you have to use the next code in the list. If you use any other code on the page, it's considered invalid. They instruct you not to mark the page so if someone takes your code page they do not know which one is the current code.
How does someone in their 50s watch six hours of television a day?

I'm 63 and even on days when i am not working I'd be hard put to find six hours to sit in front of a television.

I'm not American; but I can't see what difference that should make.
Some kids do like doing that actually. I don't get it either. I also hated math when I was her age. It took till about 30 before I could see the beauty in mathematics.

I will probably still do the flashcards with her - one thing (not mentioned in the original question come to think of it) is to build some independent study into her repertoire. Seemingly an app would be a good way to do that.
Cosmic JS (YC W19) API Now Powered by Fastly
Full changelog article: https://cosmicjs.com/changelog/cosmic-js-api-now-powered-by-fastly

We're excited to announce that all Cosmic JS API endpoints (REST and GraphQL) are now powered by the Fastly global CDN. You should now notice huge performance gains on your Bucket API endpoints. For example, if a large endpoint used to take 400ms it is now clocking in under 20ms!

What is Fastly?
Fastly is the leading global CDN cache layer provider that powers some of the most highly-trafficked websites on the internet. The New York Times, Airbnb, and more choose Fastly because of their global CDN of over 60 high-powered point of presence servers (POPs). These POPs are distributed closest to your users so they can get your content as fast as possible. This also shields your cached content from any issues caused by the origin infrastructure.

From the Fastly Network Map page, "we’ve focused our efforts on placing fewer, more powerful POPs at strategic locations around the world."
It rubs me the wrong way that they require your name & email in order to access the report.
A wavelet naturally gives a spectrogram. The Fourier transform taken on a signal will give you only frequency content, but no idea in time where this frequency occurred. A wavelet naturally gives both time and frequency information. Of course, if you take the Fourier transform at discrete time intervals in blocks, you can also construct a spectrogram.
So use a do-while instead.
Svelte author here. That post overlooks a number of important points; I've responded here https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/ckpdxk/long_liv...
Still only use them for two things - the weather and setting alarms/timers. Great stuff
I'll add in my two cents.

I had a sneaking suspicion that Amazon's product quality overall was in the toilet due to low qualify manufacturing and co-mingling genuine products with knockoffs in the warehouses, but I didn't really have anything to back me up other than products that I was unsatisfied with. Then HN threads and comments started mentioning the same thing. That stuff has been spreading like wildfire.

I'd argue that voices in unison on Twitter would have a farther reach that a niche community like HN. I know people in my circles have been even more skeptical of products sold on Amazon for these very reasons.
Borg customer service is a cousin to chum box advertising.

For those who aren't familiar with 'chum ads', they simply optimize for what gets the most clicks and longest views. Of course, the thing with the highest click through rate would be pornography, but since pornography is banned, it selects the closest thing to that. As well as things that trigger raw emotion like miracle cures and lots of weird holes.

This kind of Borg service also sounds like an abuse of data analytics.

They have a system that identifies angry people. They find an optimum thing to say in response to a certain kind of reaction (say, Amazon worker treatment). They assign $15/hour workers to respond to this tweet and give an optimum response. The service person then sits around responding to thousands of tweets per day, forgetting what conversations they've had, and it results in this experience.
Yeah, writing your own language and self-modifying code can give you a lot of leverage, but usually they also make the code so much harder for other people to pick up that it's not worth it.
How to Convert Tables from PDF to Excel or CSV
Ask HN: Any resources on detecting market opportunities to build a SaaS product?
Doubt it. GE is small potatoes nowadays.
Fail Fast and Fail Often: Handling API Errors at Scale
I recently had a use-case where that wasn't enough, and AWS would not give us enough concurrent invocations either.
Author here — thanks for checking this out, everyone! Happy to answer any questions in comments.
Very cool. Seems to have some striking similarity to the quadtree map used for efficient position querying of variably complicated areas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadtree
> by introducing paid services

The only ones I'd pay for is email hosting, search engine and paid clean browser app in iOS and Mac stores. Neither exists. Ahh, and paid uBlock Origin for Safari :)
AI for Humans: A Discussion with Rob McCargow, PWC
Some sort of 2FA code, either from an app on your phone, or a unique code page provided by your bank.
Flat Earthers Stymie Facebook Ads for NASA Book Project
If you feel like you're talking to a drone, why keep talking? If you're not talking to the Queen, the only effective course of action you've got is to fire on the Cube.
H.264 is pretty widespread.
Not a tutorial but here's a project that goes over the architecture of building one using best practices. You may not need everything in it (so take from it what you will), but it should be helpful:

https://github.com/ardanlabs/service
Every light bulb has to be accessible enough to be changed. Most in-home bulbs are accessible by hand. The remainder are accessible by stepladder or by an extendable pole tool that is easily affordable by everyone who has ceilings that high.

The obvious placement for a reset button is somewhere that it cannot be accessed while the bulb is powered, such as near the screw-in Edison base, accessible only from the direction of the base. If the bulb is still screwed-in, you just can't align your paper clip with the pinhole, because the socket hardware is in the way. So the user has to remove the bulb, maybe also letting it cool off, before performing a pinhole reset.

And adding a reset button does not preclude a switch-controlled reset procedure, either. Press the reset button OR switch off for at least 15 seconds, on for two beats, off for one beat, on for three beats, off for one beat, on for five beats, off for one beat, then on again to receive the reset feedback flashes. Allow some percentage variance in the timing, so the slower the tempo, the easier it is to trigger the reset. "Off-one-two-off-one-two-three-off-one-two-three-four-five-off-reset." No one is going to do a sequence of primes by accident. And if you adjust timing on the fly, a machine-controlled bulb-resetter could reset a bulb in less than a second using a clock pulse generator, while a human could still do it in less than ten seconds by switching to a steady musical beat or by watching a timepiece.

Really, the only reason we want a button is because their timed power-cycle reset process is so ridiculous. Your reasons for not putting one in are valid, mainly under the assumption that a reset button would be mutually exclusive with a reset process. There's no reason why a bulb can't have both.
Hey man, don't take the criticism here too hard. You did an amazing job, and it's one the better WIPs I've seen yet. Have some fun!
I'm pretty sure it's data driven like the rest of Amazon, probably even operated similarly to MTurk. The borg effect comes from people getting assignments but not sticking around long enough to have an actual conversation.
Nearby locations have radically different 3 words - thus it is useless for distances and small typos can lead to arbitrarily large errors.
This was a pleasure to play with on an iPad. Excellent work.
Prior to the initial distribution of this Report on August 15, 2019, the Company also submitted this Report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Whistleblower Program and the U.S. Department of Justice’s FIRREA Whistleblower Program. Both or either of those submissions may generate profits for the Company independent of the financial performance of GE and/or the securities, derivatives, and other financial instruments of, and/or relating to, GE.
if this is based on public record, how come it is only exposed now
I could pardon a lot of stuff early on, but what worries me is that _development_ of Teams is horribly slow. Given how basic it still is there's almost no progress.

Probably the worst thing for me is that Teams seem to be able to hold like 6 chat messages in memory, if I scroll to the past it starts loading and it takes about 5+ seconds to load 6 more. If I go back it starts to load the messages I just seen again. Performance-wise it's catastrophically bad
GE has been a mess for a while now. I know many vendors that won't ink a deal with them because they always try and pay at the end of next quarter. Ironically, because everyone knows their tactics, they either end up paying more for reputable vendors that need an insurance buffer, or they end up with a worse product from fringe companies that are willing to roll the dice on getting paid.
Chase had exactly the same issue a while back: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/chase-glitch-exposed-cus...
duh, whether it's true or not when their accusations are release the initial knee jerk reaction from the sheeple will be to sell which will drive down the price.

Shorting GE before making the accusations is profiteering in my book. If it turns out they were wrong they'll still be able to make money on the short, buy back in with the profits and then when the stocks rebound they cash in again.

The entire stock market is a ponzi scheme for insiders.
Looks like vaporware. Doesn't announce a price. I won't hold my breath.

Also, double-opt-in for e-mail should be the default now. This screams 'scam' to me.
Think like Marvin the Paranoid Android. It's not about your beliefs or emotions, but those of the person that you're talking to. Your goal isn't to feel good about yourself, but to be confident that they cannot feel good about their position in light of what's been brought up.
There is a FullStory engineering blog, but as we've been pretty much heads down for a while on our product we've been unable to write up some of our internal discoveries. I'm hoping that we can open-source some of the mobile<->Rust glue (iOS + Android), and write up what we believe is effective sharing of business logic between platforms.
Never noticed that before, good call
If the state had treated people equally, none of this would have happened
Hedonometer
How do you do the switching? Using a MOSFET or something else?
By the way, it is widespread a myth that (c) is an acceptable replacement for the copyright symbol or the word "copyright". That is, it makes for an invalid copyright notice, BUT IT DOES NOT INVALIDATE YOUR COPYRIGHT, which is automatic anyway (in the US.)

It is optional (in the US) to provide a valid notice, but if you really want the extra benefits of a copyright notice, the notice must conform to the copyright law. Note that outside of the US, a proper notice may be required, not optional.
Ideally the state shouldn't spend a rupee on any religious subject. But the Indian law allows the government to take the revenue from Hindu institutions while minority institutions are exempt. If we are to accept your point, the government shouldn't take the profits from the Temples either. You just don't seem to see this at all.
Wait, so the preferred solution was a (presumably RF) remote and voice activation? So you've finished watching a movie, and now have to search the couch cushions just to turn the light on? Or you are going to the bathroom late at night and have to say "OK Google" loudly enough for the mic to hear you, possibly waking people up? Carrying around a portable lantern sounds more convenient.

Congratulations, somehow this house's lighting system is less ergonomic than my great-grandfather's house that was lit by kerosene lantern.
My company has a quarterly "engagement" survey. If our supervisor doesn't get a 5 rating (highest) from us, he gets in trouble, so as shit rolls downhill, we get in trouble.

The majority of the team answers the survey questions dishonestly, so as to avoid rolling shit. The others feel it's their only way of expressing discontent short of leaving.