skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, NO, that has nothing to do with how it works.

Source: my wife is an attny & worked at a top class-action firm for over a decade. Without breaking confidentiality, I still heard all kinds of interesting stories about the mechanics & internals of how the system works - how multiple firms work together, how cases are started, etc., but never anything remotely related to such a "targeted revenue" concept. Of course there's the obvious requirement that any case specify damages at the outset, but even this number can increase or decrease as the case proceeds.

A law firm can of course make big money with a big case, but it is a big risk that can take many years to return, and it can fail.
That article addresses essentially none of my points.

He remarks on the obfuscated nature of much JS as violating the principle of user interaction with the code; but HTML5 is very frequently generated in highly-convoluted form from server-side scripts that the user has no access to.

He remarks on the uncertain license of JS, but that applies just as much to HTML5 code.

He's concerned with tracking, but there are a number of ways to track a user using HTML5 alone. Cookies, canvas, webrtc, user agent, tracking images...

And he refers to HTML as mere markup, but the reality is that with no JS you can create a web application using HTML5 and server-side software as complex as any you can do in JS.

If i make a storefront based on Tomcat that relies on no JS, does the user have the freedom to inspect the software? Do they know the license, if I don't explicitly post it?
I assume he still retains the gobs or cash extracted through all his shenanigans and controlling shares?

And thus could reinstate himself after IPO?
It should be mentioned that IBM managed to simulate a 56 qubit version of the same problem Google describes in the paper (see https://pastebin.com/RfUMXJZE) on a classical super computer:

- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/10/quantum-computing...

- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151032-googles-quantum...

So technically Google cannot claim to reach quantum supremancy with only 54 qubits as described in the paper.
I'm quite familiar with the instances you're using as examples, and know you have taken them wildly out of context.

The "hoax meme", for example, was plainly a joke - but was wantonly & falsely construed as a genuine attempt to persuade/confuse people into not voting, and so abused to silence a prominent conservative (with 2,000,000 followers!). IT WAS A JOKE.

I'll take your advice. Your posts being but flames, I will just start ignoring you.
But regardless with those companies you tend to get options or grants. That’s real money with the reporting requirements of a public coma-any and entirely on you to decide whether to take it and ride it out.

They also tend to just pay more and have real bonus structures.

Not sure this is the same game.
Exactly. very well put.

> We (many poor children in the "Interior") wouldn't have any kind of curiosity about them.

This.They were actually disguising their own ignorance behind these kind of arguments. That, as well, is totally contrary to the idea of educating.
I think we are all guilty of this to a degree. We all measure risk/reward differently when the risk is perceived to be on our side and the reward on the other side.

The issue with perception is universal. We all feel these things.

How we act though? That's a choice. We can choose to read statistics and let our 'slow thinking' brain take over. But it has to be a choice and that lies with each of us.
Ten years isn’t much in the scale of the earth, but I’m not the earth, just a human living on it. I’d like manmade problems to not outlast the men responsible for them, even if the earth itself can wait.
> The price feels as a bargain.

The price isn't just a bargain, it's an unsustainable subsidy. The reason the places you looked at before WeWork were boring and expensive is because that's what it takes to actually be profitable in the short-term office leasing space. You're thankful for WeWork because they're effectively funneling investor money to people like you who wouldn't normally be able to afford trendy office space.

It's the same as when people were so thrilled that Uber was half the price of a taxi... because investors subsidized every single ride. Take advantage of these things while you can because they will inevitably go away when companies actually have to make a profit.
AWS Series: Which EC2 Is Right for You?
It depends greatly on the sector in Italy.

In construction I have seen more often than not the formula (jokingly) "180 days we'll see", meaning that for 6 months there is no way you'll get paid, then we'll see what we can do.

And the Law(s) do little about it (and no, these ones are not usually enforced).

But the issue is not actually the delay (for which - costly BTW - remedies exist) but rather the uncertainty and the time lost.

If we agree that you pay me after 60 or 90 or 180 days (talking of "continuous" work, supplies or services) it's ok, I can make a financial plan taking into account that delay, and include in my offer (at least part of ) the financial costs of that delay.

In the '80's and '90's I worked in a company that had "standard" payments terms for "large" suppliers set at 90 days, but then that actually meant that on the 90th day from the date of the invoice, a payment was made on the supplier bank account, always, sun, wind, rain or snow.

What happens often nowadays is that the agreement is actually 60 days, but after 60 days nothing happens, and so you have to call (and of course you can't ever find the right person) and then call again the day after, then you write an e-mail, then you wait, then you call again, then you write a letter and they tell you to have some patience as everything will be fixed next week, and next week you call again and there is a problem with the "system" (or with the bank's "system"), so you have a lawyer write a legal letter andm finally they pay with the 60 days becoming 90 or 120.

In the meantime you already delivered another supply, rinse and repeat.
That isn't what I would call a simple solution for lazy people, it requires the user to run a local service and download/setup their own blocklist, with no way to automatically update it.

Adguard DNS is a simple solution for lazy people. Change your DNS server and, well, that's it.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
> Touch devices don't have that, so you get the basic functionality exposed, but other stuff isn't as discoverable.
I don't think this is as much of a problem as people make it out to be. They've managed to keep the iPad just as accessible to everyone, and they prod you occasionally with notifications from the Tips app for people who are willing to learn more.

Indeed, I'd say the opposite: Most older folks simply do not discover stuff, or do so very rarely. They ask someone to show them how to do something, they memorize it, and they generalized/abstract from that only slightly. So they aren't missing the discoverability when changing to the tablet, while gaining a bit more intuition for swiping compared to the mouse.
What is the relation? The table? (I.e. the tuples describing the rows). Or is it the joins? (In which case the article is correct). The columns?
WeWork is basically a real estate company. Why would they need a data science engineer?
Predicting the climatic future is riddled with uncertainty (Economist)
I agree, but apple has made an exception for coding apps to run arbitrary code for some years now.

So, it doesn't make any sense for Apple to not allow 3rd party browsers apart from its intention for a walled garden even if it means compromising security for its users.
I'm not convinced. Plenty of suicidal situations are not already sure of what they want, and random passer-bys trying to help are not necessarily "opponents" in this situation. Sometimes (often?) it really is just a cry for help, and talking to a stranger is someone answering that cry
Netflix assuredly does not play this game. Their compensation almost 100% cash. It used to be exactly 100%
> corporate governance was one of the main factors why the market refused to accept anything close to their last private valuation

That’s not at all clear.
Those haven't really brought us much benefit. The benefit to effort relationship seems to be inverse.
This misrepresents their position - which was that they were patient-first and would NOT be using advertising.
Is this an opinion or is your position supported by evidence?

The only thing I think of when I hear "Volvo" is safety. Not luxury, not performance, not quality, not reliability, not anything but safety.

I would be very surprised if they were less reliable than most sports cars.
>Advertising is necessary (paid or not it's the same shit) for small businesses to get off the ground, at all.

I think there is an issue here because people are talking about different kinds of ads.

A new restaurant putting an ad out that lets people know what the attraction of the new restaurant is (the first Hispanic Sushi bar in town) is not a problem at all (to me, anyways). But if you listen to ads you will find that many don't fall into that category. Political ads are a big example, but also many ads for cosmetic surgery and weight loss. The ads for scams are some of the worst (though generally those last only a few days per scam). Ads for gold that try to scare people into making investment decisions that aren't likely in their best interest are another example.

If ads self policed themselves better perhaps people wouldn't be so set on blocking them.
Absolutely not. Serving a webpage request on Monday does absolutely nothing to obligate you to serve that same request again on Tuesday.

The responsibility is that of the fetcher to cache or mirror as required.
Counterpoint: $1 for a 30 minute podcast multiplied by 10k customers is $10k, which sounds like an absurd amount of money for something that probably took between 5 and 50 hours to make, depending on quality level. And there's no way in hell they're earning this kind of money through advertising, so if someone's going to honestly ask for money compensating lost ad revenue, we'll be talking $0.01 to $0.1 per episode.
There's a reason many country's police forces get trained for deescalation. It's not a natural or easy thing to do for most people
I've seen that comic before but have no idea what it's trying to express, could you explain? Is it just when you repeatedly pester someone with questions to annoy them?
why do you imagine they're kidding?
Nah.

Unresponsive = the app’s main event loop is not processing events. On macOS this is when the beach ball cursor is shown. In fact there’s a built-in watchdog in iOS that’ll kill your app after 10 seconds if the main thread is not processing events.

On the other hand an app can break in a variety of ways which won’t involve blocking the main thread, e.g. by simply opening a popup that can’t be closed, or getting stuck inside the wall in a game, etc.
Even in science there is too little due diligence.

I'm nearly done a PhD in mechanical engineering. Recently I was writing the review section of my dissertation and I decided to check one of the most used results in my field, the most common empirical equation for the boundary of the "atomization" regime in the breakup of liquid jets into droplets. This dates back to the late 1970s. Turns out that it's off by a factor of about 4 due to a math error. Out of the hundreds of people to examine this result, I think I'm the only one to notice the error. I spent a fair amount of time checking the literature to make sure I'm not crazy but seems no one noticed the problem.

A result being highly cited is no guarantee that it's correct.
The MyoWare sensor is a popular component for DIY projects (https://www.adafruit.com/product/2699?gclid=CJLytM3U0dICFQGT...).
WCF also originally supported peer-to-peer network topologies, discovery methods like PNRP (Microsoft's competitor standard to eventual "winner" Bonjour/mDNS), various versions of the SOAP metadata formats, and WS-* standards, etc.

It was definitely ambitious. When it worked it was sometimes magic, and when it didn't it was a giant mess to resolve.

[ETA: In one past life I made the mistake of trying to use WCF Peer-to-Peer for a project and I still have scars from that. :O]
Because they are cosplaying as a tech company.
> And they still support the very people who inflict this damage which I cannot fathom why.

For 80% people life was always brutish and nasty in India. They are not going to have sympathy for rich asshole is not buying car due to GST or BS V1. In fact they would really support political class which made well-off people suffer.
Audio programming in Nim is completely possible and reasonable.

Here is an example of a super collider plugin written entirely in Nim with the GC turned off:
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/3625

The author seemed to find the experience very pleasant, and the performance was great.
> strips about 2 million people of their nationality

That's a fantastic argument for why it's bad. "This isn't a normal registry". Thanks. I wonder why the previous person couldn't make that argument. Another person argued a risk that it would contain an element of ethnical/religious register, which is also a bad sign.

What I was trying to argue was that a register is not by definition a bad thing. There is something about it that is bad. Such that its implementation is discriminating, for example.
Yes, I've used that principle before; ask a question you know should be "no" and see what happens. Can that car tow this (way too heavy) thing? Will my dishwasher clean my dishes even though my water is full of sulpher? Will this (integrated graphics) computer play $LATEST_GAME at full settings? Will this plastic thing last ten years of solid use outdoors?

In my personal experience, I actually don't get the full-throated lie "Yes!" all that often, if ever, but I get a lot of uncomfortable waffling.
That's part of what fsck would do for filesystems
> Stuff like this can ruin people's lives.

But does it really? Sure, it sucks if you get tricked to accept a lower salary, but I'd assume that even a below average software developer salary will be enough to lead a somewhat comfortable life.
console.log(document.querySelector('.meteredContent').innerText.replace(/(.{80}\w*)\s*/g, '$1\n'))
Sure, depends on what type of game you like to play too. VR WoW would be a disaster though. The input scheme is too complex and you typically zoom way out to see what's going on around you. I don't see how that could work.
A bargain is supposed to be a good thing! Let the VCs spend their money if they want, I'm not their LPs.
I use uBlock Origin, I don't know if it helps block the subscription popup but I can read it properly in Firefox.
Well you could take the view, as I heard expressed on World at One at lunchtime, that the British Constitution needs the odd attempt to take the piss to keep it on the rails.

All those precedents, conventions and case law look so weak compared to a fully written constitution. Yet a written constitution can spawn no end of legal activity to decide the precise meaning of a comma.

Whether the British Constitution's famous flexibility is a good thing will be argued for centuries to come, I suspect.

> the kind of things we've seen over the last 3-4 years would have been borderline unthinkable

Which you could say is the result of the last time someone decided to take the piss constitutionally. The chances of another PM being quite so cavalier in the next 20 years or so are slim to none. Regardless of what you wished to happen, there's no way Johnson's "cunning plan" worked out as intended, or with positive press resulting.

> Boris - imagine being the first Prime Minister in British History to be found guilty of misleading the monarchy

I think there's precedent, but before it was formally PM, but still just First Lord of the Treasury. Lord North possibly?
I’ve found this to be one of the strongest arguments for a strong social safety net, at least one centered around helping people to find new jobs or be retrained for new careers. Taxpayers and the economy in general do not benefit from preserving unnecessary jobs (whether in the govt or the private sector). It would be much better if society accepted that job & career turnover are necessary to a healthy functioning economy and embraced that reality by countering the disruptive downsides.

Even free market economists like Milton Friedman have argued for such programs. And at least for the time being, there is still plenty of work for people to do even if it’s different than what they were doing previously.

The hard part of this is designing the system in a way that avoids inevitable abuse, and then convincing people that it does so effectively.
I guess that's how you get those SoftBank billions.
Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Static Websites
> For example, I am usually surprised when people talk about "web-scale", but they do not understand the difference between a "merge-join" and a "hash-join".

In fairness, I think "web-scale" generally means the serving path of a website with (say) hundreds of millions of active users. In other words, a heavy OLTP workload. The total query volume is too high for a single-machine DBMS but each operation executed is probably simple. They may not be doing joins at all; many of these websites have gotten away with key/value databases. Where they are joining, most likely at least one side of the join is a small amount of data directly owned by calling end user. (In social products, the other side might be say the users table, to map userids to names, email addresses, profile photos, etc.)

Big joins are more likely to happen in offline paths but likely via something like MapReduce rather than in the database server, and that batch processing framework may use different terminology for similar needs.

In that context, I think it's relatively understandable why someone would be fuzzy on merge-join vs hash-join. There are other skills they might need that are specific to key-value or "NewSQL" databases like Bigtable or Spanner. I wouldn't expect someone who doesn't work on a "web-scale" system to know much about this. These skills aren't simply additive, and "web-scale" isn't necessarily harder, just different.

And then of course there's people who think they have a web-scale website when it's not popular enough that you need to give up on single-machine DBMSs. There's just no hard problem there: not expense of single operations, not overall expense.
No doubt it's an interesting product, and if they provide a good SDK for it then a lot of researchers and tinkerers will be happy :).
I work for online learning startup [1]. Here are some pointers:
1. Lambda School has some great reviews, high % of students employed and great community. It's very intense though (9mo full-time or 18mo part-time).
2. Try reading some of the reviews on review sites yourself and see if it sounds objective. I find major part of reviews to be helpful, so don't dismiss a big data source without validating its quality.
3. Reddit Data Science communities have a lot of detailed reviews and advice on bootcamps. I recommend looking through some, although Reddit users are a bit biased towards heroic self-learning.

If you elaborate a bit why you want to go to DS bootcamp, I could give you a more specific recommendation :)

[1]: practicum.yandex.com
This is the most common cop-out of our day, and it's one I also used for many decades. But it is an intellectual cop-out. There is significantly more proof for Jesus's claims as represented by the Catholic Church than for any other religious beliefs. The only reason people do not believe it is because, at least deep down, they do not want to.
Our team recently put together a video describing how WeWork could deliver on their tech company and ecosystem aspirations: https://youtu.be/zg8LtBJoj1s
A small addendum. This comment was downvoted '-1' pretty quickly. Like Eric Weinstein and the IDW suggest, we need the voices that were cast aside and disregarded if we are going to move forward in a new paradigm. I'm not lying or selling anything here. I am healed. So can you be. Your choice.
Two fired over oxygen bottle sabotage aboard Cathay Pacific planes
My guess is to model the supply of available real estate and demand for scalable office space and then optimize their leases accordingly.
How else would they be able to determine that people like to drink coffee in the morning?

https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/10855834347880202...
(PM of Workers KV here)

I took a look at the code, and they're storing the contents in KV; this means that there's a 2MB limit on any particular file's size. Other than that, there's no limits, though you will be paying if you have a ton of stuff or excessive use. See here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/storage/...
That's what I did. Works fine. It would of course be far better if Pihole supported DNS over HTTPS natively.
Who deems what is "productive"? I've seen plenty of apps that were really great get turned into shit because they were monetized or put under new leadership.

See Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reddit.
It already was added for phones in iOS 13 update last week.
Are employees even able to sell on IPO day?
The 'light' variant of this question makes a lot of sence, though:

The askers were non-technical but very jaded in human nature, so they know the human-provided input might be slightly imperfect but not completely wrong.

Then the question is: Can a machine based on perfection cope? Will it output reasonable but slightly-wrong conclusions? Will it go off the rails and produce completely insane errors?

Answering this question requires a lot of interesting subtility, which has been completely rejected by babbage.
I had a similar (ridiculous) conversation with a startup that had already listed on the public stock exchange.

Okay, if the shares are really worth much more than their current market value, and you want to hire me for $X salary and $X/50 market value worth of your stock, it'd make more sense for me to take a different job that just pays $2X salary in cash, and then buy stock on the market...
I also dodged this bullet two months ago. They were hiring like crazy in Seattle. Thanks HN!
Yup, it shows up now, but it wasn't there when I first posted the comment.

Super Kudos to the CentOS people!
Yeah but when they are all having the same problem that means it's a problem. I've been on both sides of that situation, generic dismissals like this are not useful or helpful.
I have nothing but bad things to say about WeWork from our experience. Perhaps it was our location.

* they consistently lost mail (or claimed we didn't have it until we pushed hard), including tax documents and government documents more than once.

* facilities were constantly broken or dirty.

* There just weren't enough bathrooms, piping was constantly leaking.

* Common areas were really lacking, so sales folks often noised up the hallways.

They also insufferably pushed their networking events and their app. I suppose We's typical tenant wants that kind of stuff, but we just wanted to work.
How do the negative rates benefit WeWork?
>Even the claim of quality is dubious. Better than H&M, possibly, but who cares.

I do, and a lot of people. It is bit like arguing about Cars whether Bentley is any better, when they drive and accelerate , ( and all spec talks ) are similar to Toyota. It is one thing to admit something is good enough for you, it is another thing to admit something is better but not of value to your or you cant afford it. The latter understanding is severely lacking in todays world.
AWS Series: What's in the Bucket?
I don't think it is, though. WeWork's perks are a massive overhead cost, on top of the huge upfront cost of building out a space that is trendy. I have yet to see any evidence that this model is actually sustainable, even at smaller scale. Co-working spaces that are long-term sustainable tend to be some combination of more expensive, more boring, or less built-out.