skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well done to them for getting the feature out. I've been a long time user of Memcached.

Lol interesting the way we used it at my last place of business was to restart the memcached server every 5 minutes (cron). Because as we know.... there are only really two hard problems in computer science. Naming things and invalidating cache :D
Climate Change: what do you want me to say? [video]
It’s worth mentioning that sometimes there are legitimate reasons for removing reviews.

Our company had a slew of negative reviews suddenly. Upon closer look, the reviewers were working in positions we had never employed anyone for. They were posting about an office they worked at in Israel (we are in the USA).

Turns out there was another startup in Israel who had a very similar name to ours. That company closed a big seed round and started hiring a bunch of people (and apparently they don’t treat their employees well, based on the reviews mistakenly left on our page).

The process of getting the reviews removed was a major pain. It requires multiple emails and phone calls with Glassdoor. Ironically, Glassdoor sales reps started up selling us on a premium Glassdoor account after we had a sudden uptick if views on our company (which were actually from people trying to see reviews for the other company in Israel) so we also leveraged the sales process to push Glassdoor into looking at the legitimacy of the reviews.

I definitely wouldn’t say it was an easy process. Glassdoor was, by default, resistant and skeptical about any complaint relating to a request to remove a review. It took multiple months (and persistence) to convince them the reviews were not for our company.

It’s easy to jump to conclusions about Glassdoor moderating reviews and removing bad ones. But also remember there are cases when reviews are not legitimate and should be removed.

(In addition to the example I provided above, another example is competing companies leaving negative reviews on competitor profiles to sabotage their hiring efforts).
In what other areas do you get to decide you don’t like the price someone is charging for something, or the terms and conditions, and get the product for free instead?

I commute from a train station that has reserved parking spots. Quite a few are unused—if I park there, I’m not costing the garage any money. Is it okay if I park at one of those spots for free, so long as nobody was going to park there anyway? I’m not costing the garage anything right? Or displacing anyone else from getting a spot?
An imgur guide to the Saudi Arabia crisis
"Major US brand tries to enter well-developed foreign market, faces challenges, abandons attempt."

This happens all the time. It shouldn't be surprising that it is hard to compete with a) the already-translated version of your own paper, and b) the spanish-language print news media.
Seriously?

While I sometimes enjoy watching trailers for other films in the "bonuses/special features", when I buy a film (whatever the price), what I want is to watch the film:

I put the disc in the player, I press play a couple of times after I chose the spoken language/subtitles, and then, I watch the film.

Even if you can skip them, I really dislike the sequence of trailers, ads, "FBI WARNINGs", more ads, "enjoy the full experience of ULTRA HD", THX deep note, yet more ads.
I work in a large monorepo with so many commits you couldn't fathom.

Rebase isn't at all slow. I know this because I do it often to squash my own commits or move things around between branches.
They announced they were hiring 30,000 people. Having even 10 people apple for 1 job isn't highly unusual. So having 200k apply for 30k jobs doesn't seem odd. Plus because its a big announcement from a huge company, it will draw in far more than the usual random job ad on monster.com. I don't see anything surprising about this. One of the largest companies on earth had a huge hiring blitz and it brought in applicants from all over the country (and world, probably).
If I'm reading it right, it lets you build Rust libraries so you can use them in iOS programs.
I know this isn't the right way to think of it but it does attest somewhat to the rarity.

If every atom of the universe (1e82) was a specialized computer that was able to create a trillion universally unique combinations of a 200 base pair strand of DNA per second (1e12/second) , and you had them all working on this task from the beginning of known time (4.4e17 seconds), you would have discovered approximately .0000002% of the possible combinations (4.4e111/4^200).

It's a little difficult to get a straightforward answer but the simplest organism I'm finding right now has 160,000 base pairs in their DNA.
I have inherited about 4K LOC Bash, which mostly works as advertised. No one wants to touch it! suggestions ?
IndexedDB runs on web workers, so that might be a good way to push the work off the main thread but still share the result.
These night mode shots are seriously impressive. This might give DSLR manufacturers something to catch up with.
And I've paid a lot more than $150 a month for 8GB for a long time from Verizon. This is not a bad deal but is made to look like a bad deal, is my point, because the marketers just can't help themselves.
Beautiful photos, but why is the Exif scrubbed? I would have liked to see details.
Is that what they were gonna offer for the JEDI contract? :D
According to official statistics, China's middle class grew from 2.1% (29 million people) in 1999 to 39% (531 million people) in 2013. Average wagegrowth has been 11% between 2001 and 2015.

https://chinapower.csis.org/china-middle-class/
This seems like a fitting snippet in relation to a messy git history (full of README changes).

"But none of the money was available to fulfill those commitments; instead, he was going to wait for me to implement the new features for him, and then he needed the entire $28k to pay for writing documentation for my features."
drink your own champagne works..
The photography in these kinds of reviews is amazing, and the camera looks pretty stellar compared to the XS, but I find myself reading them wondering if it will make my pictures any better. I'm a mediocre photographer at best, and I'm certainly not going to be able to capture many images like the ones in this review.
I don't think so; in MAI v. Peak, the Ninth Circuit stated that merely loading a program from disk to RAM constituted copyright infringement if you didn't have a license for the software. So downloading and reproducing should be also infringing, since they also require such copies.

(Congress has since passed a law to explicitly authorize this, but it only applies to computer maintenance, so the ruling still stands for everything else)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Comp....
They’re anti-social. These are the same people who drive in the HOV lane with nobody else in the car, or litter or jaywalk. They’re free riders. They violate the following moral principle: “If everyone did what I’m doing, what would happen?” In the case of piracy, the thing you’re downloading wouldn’t exist unless the majority of people followed the rules.
4chan and 8chan – Monitoring the Hotbeds of Extremism and Radicalism
Automattic’s Series D
In current times given the proliferation of technology in every business and our daily life, it will be hard for any company to say they are not an IT company. But it will require a fundamental change in thinking for many companies to move the mindset from IT being a support to one of the core competency in the company.

Indeed they need to treat it like their core business and if necessary hire the services of ethical hacker to make sure they are prepared for the disaster and can survive.

But its easier said than done, most fortune 500 will still prefer to pay 5 or 6 digit sums to consultant to design a security instead of hiring ethical hacking services, to make sure in case of attack their processes and systems work.

Indeed they hire the services of the same IT outsourcing service provider to design the security, who themselves are a target. Most of this IT outsourcing company including IBM and Accenture are cost arbitrage firms providing manpower at a cost which is higher than the cost of that consultant. So except security by obscurity, I doubt they will be able to build a robust system or process to survive an attack.

Except big tech companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft or Facebook most are not having programs for bounty hunting or security audits. Hopefully other companies also have such programs in place with openness and transparency.
Good question. To remove GPS metadata perhaps?
It's Time to Unsmoke
> "If you need to give away money, you took too much in the first place".

This is a strange sentiment to find on a board that is at least partially targeted at aspiring company founders.

For example the money Bill Gates is giving away is mostly in the form of shares of Microsoft. Those didn't exist before he started the company (with others of course). He signed some paperwork, then later 500 million shares (or however many) came into existence and he had them. Who did he take them from?

Later on other people decided they also wanted shares of Microsoft and assigned them a monetary value. Did Bill Gates somehow force them to want the shares he had? To the extent that he "took" money it was in exchange for shares of a company that other people found valuable.
$201M if you want to spin up an Oracle Enterprise instance on it ($47,500/core x 1060 x 4).
the new york times had an article a few years back that touched on the issue of what might happen when we do make extra terrestrial contact: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/magazine/greetings-et-ple...
Easing into Automation with Ansible
I think its a rather rank misinterpretation of my comment to suggest that I believe there is no personal agency whatsoever. Obviously a great many of the thing things that happen to a person are causally related to their choices.

What is absurd is the believe that _everything_ is related to your own actions and thus that you deserve all the good and or bad that comes your way.

What bugs me about the quote is that its a perversion of a sort of stoicism towards which I am much more positively disposed. But the stoic is not so silly as to believe they are responsible for everything that happens to them. They believe they are responsible for _responding_ to it and ultimately not responsible for where it comes from. A true stoic accepts material success and failure with the same attitude: I must make the most of this situation to do good.

That is a respectable attitude, though it perhaps undersells our capacity to actually change the world. This attitude is just intellectual laziness and quite self serving as well.
Insane take. Latex can look like anything you want and also has amazing microtype features these days
Interesting given the prior acquisition of AppDynamics. If true, I think they should have taken the deal.

My reasoning: I worked in the APM space and there appeared to be an upper limit to how much companies were willing to spend on APM and related technologies that caps the opportunity. In general, the charging per agent/server model runs into trouble on big infrastructure - do I cover production? What about staging? If I don't cover staging, then am I creating a testing/QA problem? Etc. It just becomes a much tougher sell when you get over $500k. Hell, over $200k. I would regularly hear companies say things like "well, we can cover half of production because I can't bring that to our CEO - he'll freak."

So I think that might be part of what we're seeing with New Relic's recent revenue performance (they recently cut guidance on full year revenue). New Relic does about $600m a year and is valued at $3.5b - their max value was about 2x that - so $7b.

Caveats:
- Are they growing faster? Absolutely.
- Are they a great company? Absolutely.
- Does taking the deal and giving up full control of your company always make sense? Of course not.
- Is money the only metric of success? No of course not.
- Does it matter when you're talking billions? Probably not.
I have a personal dislike for "non human readable" used as shorthand for "not immediately and easily readable by me".
For some definitions of useful. Certainly useful if you find yourself enriched by chance and don't want to consider the circumstances of other people, less lucky.
The British left India with a pressurized, always-on water system.
Through lack of maintenance, most of that water system is no longer pressurized--the water comes on intermittently. That leads to the common practice by water consumers of having a pump on their end to fill their local cistern.

Since the originally-British water system was not maintained, it now leaks. So, unlike a pressurized water system--where leaks cause water to LEAVE the system, a non-pressurized system--as Indians now have--combined with the aforementioned pumps, makes it so leaky pipes cause outside filth to ENTER the system. Combine that with the practice of co-locating sewer lines in the same trenches as water lines, means that when the water comes on and individual pumps kick in, causes sewage water to enter the water system and be pulled into people's cisterns. That's why any Indian household like this must use reverse osmosis to make their water potable.

All because the pressurized water system was allowed to go derelict.
9:49 long, English audio but no subtitles.
Absolutely love the work of Julia Evans
She makes it easier to understand the more difficult subjects
> AFAIK EU wants closed borders

What? That is exactly the opposite of reality.

Its the UK that want hard Brexit.
_David_ Graeber. Great book. I recommend it to everyone.

It makes sense that in a village you'd have standing relationships so you wouldn't need to actually pass currency back and forth.

Even in 19th c. Russian novels you'd have the butcher and the baker coming a few times a year to ask for the debts to be settled, but for most of the time you'd just buy things on credit and have it marked on your tab for later payment. The big change in the mid-20th c. was that now there was one system of credit cards that are accepted everywhere instead of many small systems of credit with each particular merchant.
Wow thank you! I’ve always disliked the icon I came up for this, and I hadn’t ever considered the “Snap” as relation to the app/company aspect to the name (I just liked the idea of “snap”ping a photo and highlighting it.
> To say no-one creates art/tv/music with long term income in mind seems a little simplistic.

One could say the same thing about patents in an alternate universe with life of author + 70 year patent duration.

Yet, here we are.
If by different financial center you mean a lot of banks leaving the UK, that is more a side effect of the UK leaving the custom union than a restriction from the EU. Banks don't like being unable to move their money.
Thank you for sharing - sometimes you can save a lot of time just with highlighting.
Musicnn: An open source, deep learning-based music tagger
>Is Reitz involved in the project at all now?

Judging by the commit history and the README.md, with his name in fancy cursive on top of the PSF logo, this seems to be the Kenneth Reitz Show featuring PSF at best.
This seems to be very relevant. I have double BSc and MSc degrees in STEM fields and am still struggling to find a proper job. On my first job I made less than 2k (for 4 days a week, but still). I've had offers which were even lower as well.

I've seen people in other fields with a lot less education do a lot better. It really makes me sceptic about the shortage of developers in Europe. If there really would be a shortage, surely developers would get paid more.
It seems strange and wrong to me that the document be housed in America and not in England.
I think it was Tim Harford (possibly quoting someone else) who said "Microeconomics is everything we think we understand, macroeconomics is everything we don't".

My problem with macro-economics/economists is that so many of them seem so convinced aboout their own models and beliefs, or at least the conversation is dominated by those who are. It doesn't matter which view you have, there will be promonant economists who are convinced that it is the 'one true way" and the alternatives are bunk. Government policy then seems to swing depending on who is being listented to at the time.

I wouldn't mind macro-economists so much if they would just admit that a lot of thier views on the economy are largely faith, backed by cherry-picked data.
Interesting is that both Verizon and AT&T are in the top 10 of the Fortune Global 500 if you sort by profit. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_Global_500#Fortune_Glo.... Scroll up one table for 2018 profits top 10. Note that the reason why BAT is at number 2 seems to be related to some kind of acquisition if you read their wiki page, but the wiki is not complete enough to reference it as useful. If one looks at Comcast's net profit it also looks quite high, but I am not sure where it would place.
I think how systems are setup does matter though.

For example if you are running for a congressional seat which is 50% republican voters and 50% democrats I would imagine that being a moderate centrist is probably a relatively good strategy.

If the seat is 80% one side then probably you want to be much more extreme in that direction because what the other 20% thinks doesn't matter so much.

However I agree, the internet was meant to make us all open minded and tolerant and yet has had the opposite impact.
There are good corporate raiders and bad ones, T. Boone Pickens ends up near the far end of bad.

His main shtick was to propose a buy-out or merger, wait for the stock to rise on the news, dump it and then never follow through. That doesn't take care of 'struggling businesses', nor does it 'fix their management processes'. Your 401k might still agree but for wholly different reasons than you think.

Earlier in his career I'd say he was a lot better.
Is that one of the reasons listed in the post you replied to?

The equivalent to piracy is that you park in a spot that's equivalent to a reserved spot but doesn't take up physical space inside the train station's land. And, well, that sounds fine.
Goodhart’s Law really only applies to measures that aren't measuring the actual figure of merit but a proxy that is incorrectly assumed to be inextricably tied to it.

This is very common, though, and a real problem associated with it is people pick proxies without clearly documenting (or even thinking through) what they want to measure, why they pick a particular proxy, and how the proxy might fall. As a result, people remote from the decision (including the original decision maker) tend to incautiously apply the proxy because they aren't even aware that it is not the actual figure of merit.
I am really baffled that anyone with a clue would enable "smart" behavior from a consumer electronics product like a TV (ie, one from a company not known for privacy and security).

Our TV is old enough that it's not smart. We mostly watch things from the AppleTV on it, plus some from our very small cable package/DVR.

Choosing a set-top-box vendor you trust (and for us, that's Apple) gives you everything you'd get by trusting Samsung or Vizio, right? What even turn ON the network features of the TV?
Maybe there's no clear line between the two, but there's a difference between pirating something out of print which has greatly appreciated in value due to rarity far beyond the typical asking price for media of that type, and being unable/unwilling to pay the typical retail price of a currently in-print item. I may have tried to tell myself otherwise, but when I was pirating blockbuster video games in college it was just because I didn't have $60 spare, not because there's anything inherently unreasonable about a $60 price tag for the game. Not least among the reasons why is that the original creator won't get any of your money for the out of print item.
DSLR manufacturers already have compact mirrorless to catch up with. Now only if the mirrorless moguls would recognize the potential of ehnancing their comparatively giant APS-C sensors with at least half the computational photography wits of modern camera phones, now that would be magnificent.

Also, for me personally, the next waypoint for the phones should be the development of compact telephoto lenses -- it seems only Huawei got that right with their P30Pro.
D is pretty darn nice and you can write code as if it were a C project, you don't have to use classes if you don't need them. I also view Go as very C-like honestly. People complain about things missing in Go that are technically not in C either, except it has a lot more batteries included stuff out of the box.
That's interesting. This is totally off the wall, but I've noticed that many long time couples start to look like each other. I've assumed it was from environmental factors, but what if there was some biological basis as well? Crazy to think about.
Yes. There are no performance improvements, its just required by Apple.
I think he expected US consular services to fix his passport problem. After all, if hes paying taxes solely for consular services, and he is not getting that assistance, then it begs the question, why is he being taxed in the first olace if there are no benefits whatsovmever?
Awesome. I tried tinkering with this a hwile back and failed.
Pretty common in people of high net worth. After all, if it wasn't personal agency that got them all that wealth then why did it happen? The answer is uncomfortable and so it gets muted by a feel-good thought.
Also you can steal currency. At this very moment, I owe $8 to my friend because she bought me a drink last night. It is not possible for anyone to steal that $8 because it's a purely relational construct: I and she both know that I owe her $8. I can default, thereby deprive my friend what she's owed, but no third party can swoop in and take the money away from her. But in contrast, you can steal 8 $1 bills quite easily.
People do hold a grudge, I see it all the time in our data and feedback. People applying for entry level jobs angry because they were rejected quickly based on their CV.

You can do all the basics right, but a lot of people are still going to be pissed off when they get automatically rejected based on a computer scoring the 100 candidates for the position, even if you explain why that is necessary.

I do think more companies need to be more honest about applicant to hire ratios, but the reality is that a lot of people treat anything short of hand-written letter from the hiring manager explaining in detail how they could have done better as a slap in the face.
I think if you learn the rule of 2 thirds then it helps a lot. The few people I’ve taught that rule to are much happier with their photos.
John Gruber and Matthew Panzerino have good reviews in this respect. Very regular shots.

Panzerino does year on year comparisons at Disneyland with his family.

https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/the_iphone_11_and_iphones...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/17/iphone-11-pro-disney-after...
This is false. Downloading copyrighted works without permission is illegal. It can also lead to civil penalties but that's a different matter. I think you're confusing the general lack of prosecution with the action being legal.

"Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner's exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution." [1]

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
Does he smoke cigars? Throat (and mouth) cancer is common in cigar smokers.
Excellent, that paints a much clearer picture.
It's stolen from your kids. And mine.
Leave it alone if you don't need to modify it. If you start needing to modify it a lot start rewriting it in ruby, go, or python at that point. Use set -x at the top of the file to get an idea on what's going on.