skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The error could be (and I'd say, usually is) transient, i.e you hit a page and something is broken, you reload and then it's fixed.

Real-life example I'm familiar with: Content being served from a busy NAS that buckled under load. You'll have some requests time out with 504s, some return 500s, some that make the files appear missing and so you get 404s. I know, braindead design that shouldn't happen, but it does happen.
I just learned that Python allows overriding __isub__ separately from __sub__ and the same for __iadd__ [0].

Really interesting!

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...
Crypto is not the internet in 1996. It's a scam. The internet never was. "Crypto is the early internet" is such a lame over-repeated phrase by crypto enthusiasts. Doesn't make it correct in any way.
Regardless of that execrable Shkreli, you have de jure fiduciary duties if you are on the board of a private company, yes. At least in the most common forms of incorporation. I am not even sure if it requires you have other shareholders, let alone if you are a controlling shareholder or they are accredited investors.
Really? I thought no extensions are permitted to run on that page.
Agreed, there is definitely a need for 'smart' automation. There are a lot of tools out there which work however, finding the right tool for the right job is difficult. Also, I think its extremely difficult to get the automation right in 100% of the cases. False positives (even 1%) could be extremely dangerous in cases. Hence, I think there is a huge market for 'smart' automation tools, people who can build them and also for people who can use them efficiently.
Edge might mean leaf-level IoT devices. Plenty are smart enough to do their own trending or anomaly detection (ie ML), for example, and only report to the cloud the results of that.

So you have edge, cloud, and you might also ponder the "fog", where there's an intermediate aggregation layer. Think leaf devices in some building (edge) with some medium smarts done on prem (fog) before clouding it.
I love the level of detail in this analysis. Just typographic nerdiness at its finest. And I have never watched NGE or have particular interest in anime.

I found the mechanical compression the most interesting part of this. I suspect it started out as limited technical aptitude and/or an "efficiency hack", but has since morphed into an actual stylistic decision that both makes thematic sense[1] and sets NGE apart. To the point now that it might be harder to do mechanical compression than just use a condensed font variant[2].

[1] "[the mechanical compression's] ubiquitous occurrence did evoke haste and, at times, despair—an emotional motif perfectly suited to a postapocalyptic story with existentialist themes"

[2] "... loads the normal Matisse Pro EB and then uses the CSS transform property to achieve the compression effect."
I think that's the point. Existing cryptocurrencies are very likely to get eclipsed by new competitors that actually solve the problems people face with them. And if you want to have a big impact on humanity, solving those problems is a fruitful area. The financial system that'll pay for our retirements likely hasn't been invented yet.
The "mother of all demos" in 68 by Douglas Engelbart and his team.
Lonliness, particularly among the elderly.
>With that said, let's say I specifically name "Chase". Are you going to cancel your existing Chase bank account or credit card upon hearing this?

Well put it this way: if you specifically name "Chase", I'm going to think twice about applying for a credit card there or opening a bank account there. It's harder when you're already invested in a business, but when someone is shopping for a new one, when they hear credible information that shows that business to be a bad actor or that it will provide them a bad experience, it's pretty easy to cause many of them to choose something else.

BTW, I would never advise anyone to get a Chase bank account; they're pretty well-known to be horrible. You can get far better service and interest rates from a good online bank like Ally, Schwab, Discover, etc.
https://en.agricool.co is a French startup perfecting its technology to grow fruit (they focus on strawberries) in containers, within cities, using very little water. They raised €25M last year.
It seems like there's a lot of profit in synthesizing existing technonogies, like decades old tech and new stuff (bitcoin, uber, neural nets + GPUs). And also overlooked are dying industries. They tend to consolidate on their way down, which allows a new competitor to buy them up. A lot of software is changing its business and pricing model, so it would allow a smaller firm to offer up an alternative to what established players are doing. Software used to be the big next thing where everything and anything was new and innovative. People got used to thinking of it in those terms and now fail to see it as the established industry it is, chasing high risk investments that aren't even going to be that high reward. There may not be a next Google, Facebook, or Amazon. You may have to look for another industry entirely if you want to get in early to become an industry giant.
This is definitely my experience - breathing diesel exhaust now makes my lungs immediately tighten up in a way that didn't used to happen. Perhaps I'm just getting old though.
I see a huge trend coming in “DIY Medicine”. Doctors, insurers, and the FDA are way too expensive for mere gatekeeping, and technology is developing new treatments and dropping equipment costs an order of magnitude faster than they can respond. For example, I can buy all of the equipment necessary for a PRP injection for less than the cost of a single treatment, and the doctor that does it knows no more about how to do it than any nurse that took a weekend course. There are also many simple drugs that aren’t used because they either can’t be patented or because the cost is too low. Many of these treatments obviate the need for much more expensive and dangerous treatments with questionable outcomes, like surgery and high-priced drugs. Doctors know that the price of the most effective treatments may not sustain their profession. So if we’re not there already, it’s coming to the point where the medical industry does more harm than good, and gray market treatments will give far better outcomes for an order magnitude lower cost.
You don’t need to give incumbent landowners a veto over development. That’s a choice, and one that can be made differently.
Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]
If you don't need a monitor, you don't need the computer as we know it today. Combine it with a brain computer interface and you throw away the keyboard and mouse as well. Subsequently you also throw away all the OS'es as we know them. AR/VR is a toy today. In the future our computers and mobile phones might look as arcane as an eniac.
ConsenSys Space unveils TruSat satellite tracker app
Well, I wouldn't certainly call it a scam from the start, still at some point e-residency PR team have indeed started to disseminate lies, deliberately telling only some better parts of the story or manipulating the narrative etc (which of course some will call marketing, I call BS).

Like with those nasty surprises when in reality you need to "know" some Estonian to start and stop a company.
I'm not sure the thing people have been doing perfectly well for 100 years without AR glasses that billions of dollars are being invested in making people not need to do at all is the place to launch your AR dream company
As someone raised by helicopter parents that were way ahead of their time, this has been kind of nice for me.

It's pretty amusing to me that I used to be the weird one connected to the internet all the time because I pretty much couldn't do anything else, and now that's a shared experience with the entire new generation.
the current Xbox is running a Windows 10 (one kernel design) while the PS4 run a patched up FreeBSD.

Only Nintendo bothers with writing custom kernels, and historically Sony with the PS2 having exotic "Cell" processor units.
I was talking specifically about pre-WWII. My depression-era grand-parents learned it in school.
Possession of stolen goods is in fact a crime. It’s usually minor not prosecuted, but it does involve returning the stolen property.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_of_stolen_goods

There is also the irony of the professor stealing biblical fragments. (Thou shal not...)
This begs the question: why don't we have visible countdown timers? Now that I think about it, I use the adjacent crosswalk's counter timers to judge when to expect a yellow/red light when I can see them.
Another solution - block the recommendations altogether. On PC, you can use specialized extension, or just Stylus (the latter works especially well with old Youtube layout). On Android, use NewPipe[0] or Youtube Vanced[1]. On iOS, perhaps Ivory[2] will do. Or at least delete your watch & search history[3], so the recommendations will be related only to the video you are currently watching.

If you are subscribed to enough good channels, you won't notice anything aside of suddenly having much more free time. And whenever you're bored, unlock recommendations for a while to learn about new channels (I do it once every few months).

[0] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

[1] https://vanced.app/ , beware of scam sites

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-video-player/id129434748...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/feed/history (on old YT layout)
Thanks for sharing, that's very interesting. Does that decision have anything to do with Switzerland's reputation for neutrality?
Softbank ... now offically the Pets.com of 2019.
"Dust abatement" is quite a different story in the deserts of Iraq than in Colorodo.
It's also part 1 of 2 and part 2 isn't out yet, which renders it basically useless.
Not yet. I am planning to write a tutorial soon with code snippets.
Time Series Prediction – A short introduction for pragmatists
One of the most useful programs I made at my last job was an automated letters program.

We had a whole slew of standard letters that we'd send out, most of the time requests would go to the typing pool (yes, this was a thing) that were basically "Do letter ABC for client XYZ", where letter ABC was a standard thing that always went to the same recipient.

I built a screen in our system that let you tell it to request a letter (only the simple letters, obviously), it would pull the relevant data out of the client file and write the request out as an XML file. On the other side of things, a VB6 program would watch a folder for those XML files to appear and go through OLE Automation (as it was called back then) to make Word fill in the letter, print it, print an envelope, and save the result in the client's folder.

This kind of thing is an absolutely incredible time saver.
How the Triplebyte CEO Ammon Bartram Escaped the Credential Trap
> Out of curiosity, what services and products are you paying for?

To be fair you're asking the wrong person. I pay for a ton of products. I pay for IntelliJ which I think is $150 per year. HubSpot which will probably get $1k from me... I pay for Gmail... I think it's $4 per user per month? TeamCity, CircleCI ... NYTimes (yeah, I actually pay).

... but I do think you're right here.

I'm actually legitimately curious to understand this issue.

I want to focus my product, Polar, on being a premium document management platform for people VERY serious about research:

https://getpolarized.io

... I want to understand more about this mindset though. I think you can make a go at things if you have a VERY premium product focused on a tight niche (at least initially).

> both by license and by how it is developed.

I'd like to argue that this is false. The argument behind Open Source is that it's developed by the community and that by being open there is some sort of community development behind it.

However, that's not what we see from Open Source outside of enterpise. 99% of Mozilla's development comes from paid Mozilla engineers.

> I'd rather use Mozilla's Firefox, instead of products with obscure VC-backed business models

I mean this is sort of a logical fallacy. Just because something is based on a company doesn't mean they are trying to do something inherently wrong.
A guide to reaction wheels for small satellites
tools for micro-entrepreneurs: with the growth of automation (e.g. RPA and AI) and the consequent decline of the world middle class, many people are being forced to work informally as a food deliverer or be an uber driver. others will become micro-entrepreneurs (solo-entrepreneurs for many). the opportunity is that these entrepreneurs will need all kinds of specialized tools during their journey (payment, marketing, finance, distribution, etc.)
Adtech. Hence Facebook/Oculus.
I'm thinking of applying to McKinsey as a data scientist, could we have a chat sometime?
The Face of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris2024
possibly Behavior-driven code generation... meaning create some platform to enable watching users use an application, then it could make machine code to create a similar application. This would enable making videos for training that simulated a working application but the AI would not care if the application worked or not in reality but could make it work type thing?
Why do all of these mail services look like spam engines?

I know several companies that seems to shop for these mail services. Someone spams me though a service like this, I complain, next week I'm getting email from the same sender but through a different spam service.

You email/spam service providers need to create a clearing house for bad customers, because bad actors just move around and change names and always find a new home to land in.
Digital privacy / security.
People and companies are becoming more and more privacy aware/conscious/concerned. All the scandals (e.g. data breaches, targeted advertising, selling of user data) and new regulations such as GDPR are only increasing the need and demand for privacy
>> it's a pet-peeve of mine that people write large functions/expressions/statements as function parameters when not needed all in the name of conciseness -- I think it affects readability.

Worst thing ever. I was trying a gfx-rs example to do some drawing. One smallish function took another function as a parameter (a closure actually) so they just wrote an entire drawing function inline. The pipes helped clue me in that something strange was going on.

My own code pulled that function out into a clean definition eventually. As it should have been in example code.

It's not in the name of conciseness. Not sure what it is, but it's not that.
So when some Firefox tab gets owned by some Javascript exploit, does that mean its integrated password manager could be compromised too?
I remember a news crew interviewing Russian citizens on the street about climate change. One guy said, "I welcome global warming, it's f&cking cold here!"
A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced
Rust has some of the best Windows support, in my experience. It uses native ABIs and object/debuginfo formats (not MinGW), and I debug it from Visual Studio.
well, it seems like if the system is tracking you, then it should only be hard the first time. then it should default to your known preferences. unless you order a different pizza every time...
Sure. But ultimately, debt is meaningless unless collected. In a scenario of global economic collapse, anyone who wants to collect their debt (if it even means anything anymore) from the US would have to go through the US military first.
As an American, I also don't trust the American Government to not compel Google to provide them access to my data. Yes, I know I am supposedly protected by due process- but Barr is making it explicitly clear that the 4th amendment does not apply to our digital lives.
The principal here is that businesses with bad practices should be named and shamed. Companies that act like this are banking on their consumers not caring enough to do anything about it. Even a negative press reaction may be enough to dissuade companies from doing this. Refusing to name the companies is compliance.
Currently. And no current plans to change in the future. But they could change their plans. It's not a "no advertising as long as you keep paying", it's "no advertising as long as we feel like it."
Could you clarify? I don't follow your point.
I basically missed the whole thing.

Partially because of my location (Phoenix isn't exactly a hub of tech startups - while there is more activity now somewhat, back then it was much different), and partially because I stuck with my employer at the time and didn't participate outside of that.

I was working for a long established software company that developed an insurance claims management system using a variant of COBOL. I didn't participate in that side of things, though - I was involved on a different team for development of an internally used application which was written in VB6 with an Access DB backend MDB file (ugh).

I basically worked there for about 6 years doing that, and completely missed the whole "dot-com" thing. Might have been a bad career decision, but then again, maybe staying in Phoenix was also one. But the pay has been steady, it has kept a roof over my head and the electricity on.

Since then, I have moved on to other jobs and continued with my career. I haven't become rich, and at my age I don't expect to ever hit a unicorn and be on the bottom floor of a startup and retire early. I am expecting to work until I die, whatever form "work" takes. Currently, it is still coding as an SWE and hopefully that will remain the way it is for a while.
As a owner of a 3D Printer i was asking myself the exact same question. Also: The printed parts on the pictures look ok, but not exactly good. I understand that you have to take print time into consideration while mass production, but this is a device that directly interacts with a users hand. Sanding is needed in this case. Or: Printing it by myself in a decend resolution. Would be nice to have this option and pay a bit less for the kit.
Mozart's Ghost!
Fear, that's what it was. You never really know how well your company is doing till the shake down time.

Companies you thought were doing well go out of business.
Companies you had as a backup to maybe apply if you lose your job go out of business before yours.
So many unemployed developers fighting for the few jobs out there.
Hiring freeze in most places.
Whatever job you have even if it's tethering on the edge becomes the most secure job.

Layoffs were brutal, I saw someone got laid off on their start date! Those that worked for 3 months before layoff were lucky.

What can you do about it? Nothing! It's like being in the middle of a war zone, you can only pray you don't get hit by shrapnel.
Where Are the Hundreds of Billions in Loans from the Fed Going on Wall Street?
bullish on this as well
The climate emergency has pushed me hard into quite a few areas that have a lot of promise for huge impact, to name a few:

- electromobility: concerting bikes, kick-scooters, cars ... this all is much easier than it seems, also has a vibrant open source culture

- demand response in electricity grids has quite a few startups (one of which I just joined) that help integrating a lot of renewables in a way that does not break grid stability

- passivhaus buildings that can save 90% of heating/cooling for 10% extra cost in construction

- storing carbon into buildings with wood/CLT

- plating trees, reforesting deserts etc

- if you really want to go long there are a few fields of microbiology that could reduce our pollution from agriculture a lot
Not pay-walled:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/swedish-researcher...
But the number of people who will is very obviously tiny. For any well-off individual, it's cheaper to buy their way out of the downsides. Everyone else is wondering about rent and (in the US) healthcare with a lot more immediacy.

We can see this from the low takeup of carbon offsets.
Find a popular web app. Make a privacy-centric version of it. Features publicly listed on the home page:

- No 3rd party analytics

- No 3rd party data sharing

- GDPR for users worldwide

- Logs deleted after x days

- Clear data retention policies

- Clear process on how to communicate change on these features

Apple, Firefox, and others have started to realize that people are now taking privacy seriously and willing to pay a premium for it. And, no, security is not a acceptable form of privacy. We should not be complacent with "Trust us" platforms with out clear definitions.
I'm not defending Adam N, but Jeffrey Skilling committed out right fraud, as far as i know, no one has accused that of happening at We Work
I think the article forgets that Google is a business and they have an intrinsic motivation to make money. IMHO Google provides a ton of software at no charge to customers (I know, ads). Moving to a consumption-based pricing model w/ a generous free tier means that only the users who use Google's services the most end up paying for it.

Also, $20/yr for 100GB seems like a steal. I use G Suite even for my personal email but even on my longest-standing account with almost a decade of history I am only using 20GBs with the majority of that being photos.
>I do believe that any real solution would have to provide reasonable alternatives for people who do not meet the requirements.

Sorry, but that's completely impossible. You simply cannot have a spread-out, car-based society with "reasonable alternatives" for people who can't drive, unless perhaps you're going to heavily subsidize Uber and Lyft. Buses and trains don't work well in suburbs; trains only make sense with enough density to have enough ridership, and buses only make sense to fill in where train lines don't exist. In the suburbs, people stuck taking the bus get penalized with ridiculously long transit times, because the bus takes a long, circuitous route, only comes once or twice an hour, etc. That isn't a "reasonable alternative" when people with a car get get there in 10 minutes or less.

So you have two choices: a society like Germany's where at least in urban areas it's easy to get around without a car, and then you can have a very high competency requirement for car drivers; or a society like America's, where the whole society is designed for cars (except for a small handful of urban cores) and you have to have a car to achieve a middle-class existence, so you cannot have a high competency requirement because otherwise you are restricting peoples' right to movement and travel.
This is about liability. If you're not doing even the most basic things to protect other people's private data, then you can be held accountable for damages when the data is stolen.
True! And why would you expect a billionaire to invest some money i to his own company when said billionaire is a serial entrepreneur!
Not that big of a deal, they move satellites if there is more than a 1 in 10,000 chance of a collision, in this case it appears a bug was the problem:
https://www.cnet.com/news/esa-spacex-starlink-satellite-near...
> You are aware that there are more articles on this topic than that singular one presented, right?

Yes, I'm sure there are lots of articles, many of which are slanted to support one agenda or another and maybe a few that aspire to present a balanced viewpoint. I'm not sure what your point you're making.

> An objective view of this issue doesn't paint HL in a good light, imho.

Probably not, but it doesn't support the "hateful bigots" accusation. "Greedy capitalists disingenuously hiding behind religious rights" at worst.