skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's tough to think about the negative long-term impact of pollution on health or think about the connection between burning fossil fuels and flooding, etc. when you're starving, feel like you don't have any economic stability and have no idea how to adequately educate your kids because you know the public education system sucks but have no money to put towards private education.

Provide economic stability to enough people in the short-term to reach a critical mass of people that have the privilege to care about the longer-term. Until then, I don't see most areas (e.g. many regions in India) have the bandwidth to trade-off short-term economic gain for long-term health.

To clarify: I agree with your point. I just don't see the current economic climate in many parts of the world allow for shaping local policy that promotes long-term environmental stability.
If we are so transparent about everything, can we know the name of that customer?
faild.
> I assume they’ve improved in that area immensely.

Why would you assume that without significant reason? This is a company that has, as you said, had problems with privacy.

2015, tracking concerns hit the news. [0]

2017, there's a class action. [1] And FTC auditing. [2]

2018, there's massive fines. [3]

We're in 2019, years on from actual problems being raised, and then being forced to confronted. How are Uber doing on that front?

> By focusing on global hiring, you will have people on the ground in other regions who can better understand the local laws, better understand the culture that drove the laws and how a new law is likely to be enforced, and build better relationships with regulators and other influencers.

Sounds more like they're interested in controlling the laws, not actually improving themselves overall.

(And none of this is to suggest the government is any way a better caretaker - they're worse in almost every way.)

[0] https://www.wired.com/insights/2015/01/uber-privacy-woes-cau...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/24/uber-hell...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/technology/uber-agrees-to...

[3] https://techwireasia.com/2019/08/uber-chief-privacy-officer-...
Exchanges had to literally stop registration, because they couldn't scale, apparently of the same user creating accounts. Seriously this is a terrible article.
Last year, I created a website called iOS Ref.[1] After it took off in the iOS dev community, I realized just how much interest there was in clutter-free reference sites in the iOS development world. At the same time, I was switching between Swift and Kotlin a lot, and getting syntax mixed up. I would google how to do basic thing X in Swift, but end up on outdated StackOverflow questions with Swift 2.0 answers.

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> First, the very act of requesting your data is in a way confirming and verifying the accuracy of the data.

Could you explain what you mean by that? And also hypothesize some implications of 'confirming and verifying the accuracy of the data'?
Kinda like how whale oil was displaced by dug up hydrocarbons.
FWIW I have seen government contracts that specifically request only US citizens have access to certain parts of systems.
I'm guessing you opt-in when you request a quote.
> switching to the oral tradition replacing facts with mythological creatures & fantastic stories.

...and thus the circle is completed, next step: Berlin court opens Twitter/Facebook account to spread their fantastic stories.
Grass is always greener :). After years of webdev and js madness I've found a recent iOS development project to be a welcome break.
Thanks, that's scary. May be I'm wrong.
There are a lot of attempts to create the perfect personal information management application, as there's a real need for this kind of "augmented intellect" tool.

Several of these tools are converging on a similar design for an "active outliner", joining the power of a wiki with the programmability of a spreadsheet. The killer app will be the first one to get the interaction model right for a generic "information workers" audience.
Plugging in AnyCable
Image without JS? Oh the blasphemy! /s
Once you use more than 75% of the available DRAM bandwidth, things start to get wonky, with large unpredictable CPU spikes, as the CPU stalls increase. So I think you'd see a definite benefit if you use more than 75% of the available bandwidth.

We (Netflix CDN) are currently bandwidth limited for serving TLS encrypted video using software ktls. (~100Gb/s on broadwell, 150-160Gb/s on skylake/cascade lake, 220Gb/s on EPYC Rome). So I'd love to have twice the bandwidth. With twice the bandwidth, I think we could probably serve 400Gb/s from a single Rome based box.

Note that I'm also looking forward to trying new kTLS offload NICs that should cut the bandwidth requirements.. those are a much more viable short-term path forward.
I lived and worked in China for almost 10 years. I get that the foreigner glass ceiling is much lower there than here, and things like naked officials are actively discriminated against in government. That has nothing to do with the USA, however.
What items did you redact from your ID/passport?
More companies, more jobs, more competition.

For example, other ad networks can buy ad placement in google search.
> We even had a practical example in Syrian Kurdistan

That's getting rid of capital, in the physical sense; war will do that quite nicely indeed. It's not what's normally meant by socialism - even Marx knew better than that!
"a poor country that now has a way to print money"

Nonsense, of course.
For example, checking if you ever had an account at companies mentioned in your data takeout - to spot if someone does shit while using your name/personal information, or some incompetent/malicious clerk mixed up data.
The Bitcoin rally of 2017 was caused by Ethereum, specifically the rise of ICOs.
As a former software eng. who has been on the management side for a few years, I am quite ambivalent about remote work, and I find most arguments for it a bit naive. For example, the idea that the manager schedule is built around taylorism is not true IMO. I have never seen a single senior manager who do not have their life consisting mostly of 30 / 60 / 90 mins slots in my life, and I have worked in very technical environments, e.g. where the average engineer had a PhD.

First, to let it out of the way: yes, you can definitely have remote teams which work very well and produce high quality products. In my experience, those have the following characteristics: clear and fairly technical product definition (e.g viz software which are built for scientists), excellent teams with no bad performer, and healthy business environments.

The problem is when at least some of those conditions are not met:

1. Most organizations are dysfunctional in some ways. Product and engineering are not aligned, or there are constant re-organizations, lack of ownership. It is extremely challenging for managers to improve this situation if everybody is remote, because communication is your main tool here, and doing so remotely is even more difficult. My experience in those situations is that face to face discussions are the most effective tool to untangle the mess.

2. When things go south (e.g. you lose a big client, etc.), it is almost always the case that people will start to find teams / people to blame. Executives have shallow information, and most will rely on what is available to them (kind of availability bias, but for people instead of ideas). Remote teams will be at a disadvantage.

3. When your team is not very good, or not very experienced, it is very difficult to improve their skills remotely. First, being remote means you lose a lot of very useful information, such as "do they often talk to other people when they are stuck". Instead of observing how people act, you have to ask, which paradoxically means more interruption.

Generally, my sense is that remote-first work is quite fragile, or said differently, is an unstable equilibrium. As soon as things go badly, it is much harder to fix things. As long as everything goes well, it may well be more efficient though.
And Trilium also supports synchronization (though it would be more awesome if it would work decentralized like git).

I'm somehow not very comfortable putting my ideas or research into some graph db I don't own.
One of the measures of being an ancient celt was culture more than ethnicity. In the same way that the Britons became Anglosized after the fall of Rome so the Picts has became Celticized centuries earlier.

One of the pythons did a really good series on the celts and I think it’s on YouTube.
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Falling oil prices were inevitable anyway. As renewable become more competitive and the shift towards electric vehicles continues demand for oil will fall back. Increased supply, or reduced demand, the effect on prices is the same.

Of course the problem is that as prices fall, the range of economically viable uses increase, but I doubt this will be too much of an issue. Petrochemicals are already incredibly cheap compared to many other bulk materials, that's how come supermarkets can afford to give away plastic bags, and so many goods come in plastic packaging. There's only so much further that 'even cheaper' can take us.

There are some major decisions we need to make in terms of energy policy. The drive towards renewable is underway, that's good but not enough. I'm beginning to think the environmentalists that have gone pro-nuclear have it right. I read an article a while ago where an environmentalist said Fukushima persuaded him to go pro-nuke. One of the worst designed plants took a direct hit from a once a century Tsunami, the response was bungled, but still there was hardly any leak and no direct radiation casualties. The latest tech is several orders of magnitude safer, and it may well be this or kill the planet. If we go heavy into Nuke and electrify everything, nobody will want the oil for much anyway.
Developer's Inner Conflicts, or How Over-Engineering Increased Our Expenses 10x
We have a different kind of DNS war these days with DoH and DoT and everyone who does not know what SNI in TLS is.
Don’t forget PowerDNS and ErlDNS.
It's possible a single entity was behind massive world wide promotion campaign. But unlikely. More likely many players who had to gain something on speculation all contributed to the campaign on their own.
There was certainly hype and hysteria -- but ultimately every time it would look like it was going to turn down, more USDT would magically appear and prop the price up.

It's really a textbook study in how to manipulate markets -- and yes, it was probably one entity doing it. Now who that entity is may be a matter of speculation, but it's likely bitfinex/tether, which are really the same company run by the same people.
Nothing stops state actor to access sensitive information through backdooring cleared engineer's system.
Go for the payment processors - seize any funds destined for the target company, for example.
US courts have no problem treating 14yo kids as adults, but Epstein pays a few of them for sex and he’s the devil incarnate.
Unless he burns out.

Usually 10 years old (speaking from experience) don’t worry about job or employment prospect, they just want to do the cool thing. And if it’s the former that’s pushing I suspect a strong possibility of burning out.

Heck, even as an adult I can barely tolerate working on things I’m not interested in but pressured so.
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There is an "easy" solution to this problem - introduce a new (preferably renewable) energy source that is an order of magnitude cheaper than oil.
One of the best "Intro to Stats" at scale is Kaggle's Titanic Survivability dataset. Real-world, tangible data. Providing an intuitive feel for the power of multi-variate linear regression. Those interested can then seek out a more rigorous essential backgrounding.

Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster

https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic
to elaborate: defence.
They don't want people to have potential leverage (e.g. family members) within the grasp of other national powers who may not be allies.
This is great! On my tablet the perf isn't great though (no fault to the author). I'm wondering what CSS properties cause perf to degrade on a use like this? Looking at the CSS myself I'm guessing it's the box-shadow usage. But I could be wrong. Any chance some of this could be put on the GPU?
Tongue Twisters: Invented languages have impact far beyond Klingon
Windows now has "Nearby Sharing"[1], which should at least solve this problem between Windows computers. I think the idea was that it would eventually also be available on Android, but I haven't yet seen an implementation of it.

Of course of you're using the Apple ecosystem, there's AirDrop...

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4091344/windows-10-...
The example picture gives a good idea about some cool usecases.

E.g, a user writes in a note labeled to be about a specific date, that they did yoga.

This now shows up as a log entry on the yoga note (presumably automatically. If not, the whole point is gone)
I think that’s the sad truth. There are currently no good cross-platform UI Toolkits.
Largely this has to do with the financial market. In the US capital is extremely cheap, the root cause of that can be traced back to the petrodollar system.

US cherry-picking on- and intelligence inference in EU economic actors is way higher than the very meager reverse. If a EU company becomes successful or strategically interesting, it will typically be bought out by the US to be assimilated or disrupted.

In software US befitted immensely from a more homogeneous home market at a time where internationalization was very far from trivial and higher costs of software development favored a more coarse business granularity (in the EU a 'large' company starts at 251 employees).

All these taken together means the EU software market is disproportionately skewed towards bespoke B2B software development and embedded systems linked to more traditional industries such as automotive.
I know 'gender differences' is in the headline of the submitted article, but it made me think the paper was about physiological differences (e.g. female and male brains are different when doing physics work), when it's more about gender disparity in the field. I'm looking forward to seeing the data he publishes (the paper states "Data are made available in Appendix A", but I'm assuming the appendix hasn't been published yet).
I've used it seriously. Paying people in countries without a functional banking system is a real problem and bitcoin nicely helped with that. I also collected some donations for reocities.com which helped to keep it alive. I never bought any, just mined a bit and I never sold any either.
Serving Static Files from Flask with WhiteNoise and Amazon CloudFront
No one is obligated to amplify opinions either though. HN has a bizzare streak that private publishers and organisations must grant their medium to every controversial opinion that asks, which is bizarre on a forum that is based on letting downvotes directly silence an opinion (and where down votes are only enabled once you clear the bar of a certain amount of up votes in the first place)
Whaling was still happily going until there was an international ban in the seventies or eighties. Despite hydrocarbons whale oil and other products were still used in a surprising range of things. Even now after the "ban" that catch is pushing up near 10,000 a year.
Oil doesn't extract and process itself, and there are many reserves of oil that will never make sense to pump. Already in a lot of areas, such as the oil sands, it's tenuous because oil is barely at a price to support extraction, yet oil is expensive enough that it's being undercut by clean energy.

Enormous reserves will never be extracted through simple, basic economics. We're already at a breaking point.
I consider not using Gitlab.
Which is ironic, because Lem liked PKD's work:

https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm
> I guess I don't see any way a dockless bike/scooter rental scheme can be compatible with privacy. Their need to know where available bikes are, and to be able to detect thefts makes it hard to imagine they could work without GPS tracking.

I fail to understand why it's an issue if the government has this data but people are okay with Uber having it. Surely trusting the government is a more reasonable policy?
Disagree. Just look at what happen the last time the cost of oil plunged - exploration slows to a crawl and some wells are just shut down as they can’t make money off the oil.

It makes no sense to spend $10 to create a barrel of crude oil you can sell for $9.
yes but where does Snowden now live?

You can't deny the hypocrisy here. While our citizens might support him they don't to the extent that they can pressure governments enough to allow him to return home.
> I'm curious whether you believe lack of affordable health care in the US causes a lot of death from diseases of despair

There are several underlying causes leading to deaths of despair in the first place; sudden job loss (largely due to automation) [1] I think is a big one–and as you point out– an increase in loneliness and a lack of societal cohesion in general. The fact that 70,237 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2017 alone [2] just boggles my mind, and there is no reason to believe that this trend has slowed down the last few years.

Without readily available (mental) health care or strong social security, there is next to nothing that protects people that are out of a job (in areas where the economy is winding down) from a downward spiral.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/29/news/economy/us-manufacturi... (2016)
https://futurism.com/new-chart-proves-automation-serious-thr... (2017)

[2] https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...
wxWidgets. The original toolkit is C++ and rather MFC-like, but there are bindings to other languages that are quite a bit easier to use.
Haven't you heard about Russell's teapot? The burden of proof lies on you.

For one thing, such isolation of Russian internet would have negative economic effect and it's the last thing Putin needs.
The people I see with MBAs obtained them because they were more or less told to. If you want to advance you need to do this. When I was mentoring an intern we had an event with the CIO. All his top VPs were there and he had them state their masters degrees. The executives value the commitment to get a masters as much as they value the degree itself. Some times they don’t even care much about the education, we gave you a challenge and you completed it.

I’ve seen similar situations where managers were told to teach an EE, SE, or even business classes at a local college at night.
I can't find a link to the paper not here nor in other websites. Is this correlation passing as causation?

OTOH, this:
"will be surprised to learn investors handed over billions to people they didn’t know and who faced little oversight"

will surprise nobody. It's exactly the reason why BTC was created

edit: I see the paper now
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066

"First, following periods of negative Bitcoin return, Tether flows from Bitfinex to Poloniex and Bittrex, and in exchange, Bitcoin is sent back to Bitfinex. Second, when there are positive net hourly flows from Bitfinex to Poloniex and Bittrex, Bitcoin prices move up over the next three hours, resulting in predictably high Bitcoin returns. The price impact is present after periods of negative returns and periods following the printing of Tether, that is, when there is likely an oversupply of Tether in the system. This phenomenon strongly suggests that the price effect is driven by Tether issuances"

I don't see if the researchers checked to see whether the wallets used were exchange wallets, and what happens to the coins exchanged. It could easily be bot actions that purchase altcoins when bitcoin is going down (poloniex having more altcoins than bitfinex), or just plain arbitrage bots. Is this evidence considered solid? It seems flimsy
I sent a driving licence and redacted the licence number, then overtyped the whole thing with the text in my previous post.

My goal was to make certain that if it leaked, the overtyped expiry date should make it useless after a certain point, and the company name should make any company other than that one question the source.

As a side effect, it'd also clearly identify the source of any leaks - but that wasn't my primary goal.

I moved the text so the name and address (which they already had) and date of birth (which isn't really a secret) were clearly readable.
> Well, the US government wont make my family disappear if I don’t cooperate, for starters.

Right, if you're a U.S citizen maybe not, otherwise they'll do that and worse, read on "enhanced integrations", kidnappings etc.

So the U.S is better domestically, (still employs prisoners as effectively slave labor, treats minorities harshly, lets people die due to lack of healthcare...), but it is worse in terms of foreign policy, so in the end it seems to be a bit of a wash, doesn't it?
> "Why not? And Australians, they're explicitly (by law) required to be spies."

How come we don't see Gitlab re-considering hiring Australians then?

> "And your comment suggests as much - why would opsec about consumer / sensitive data be important unless you expect your employees to act in less-than-fair manner (be that for personal gain, a competitor's gain, a national gain, ...)?"

The defense industry will put you through background checks, demand a security clearance, and won't hire you unless you're a citizen - whilst simultaneously employing some of the strictest security measures available today. Security will stay there long after you've stopped hiring Chinese and Russian individuals.
> it's naive to think that humans will leave any oil in the ground despite climate change

I think it's worth pointing out that you and I are also humans. Whether they, humans, leave any oil in the ground or not partially depends on us. If we are worried about climate change, we humans can actually do something about it.
The argument made in the thread is that someone could be pressured by the foreign government into leaking sensitive information.

Where an employee's family lives seems like the single most important point to consider...
China and India are not desperate enough to choose to reduce their projected increase in coal-fired power stations. Nuke themselves?