skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really cool idea. I used Qrafter[1] to make a QR code from my contact. Uploaded the image to Google Drive, then dragged a GDrive widget onto my home screen on my Android phone for quick access to the QR code.

Even cooler, on Sunday made friends with someone just back from teaching English in China, and at lunch we're exchanging phone numbers and I go, "Wait a minute..." and opened up the image.

She scanned it and immediately demanded to know how I'd done it. Thanks for the tip! :)

1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qrafter-qr-code/id416098700
Acupuncture is nothing but pseudoscience.

Please don't stick needles into people.
It looks better but still not quite right in safari on iPad. Is there a reference image somewhere?
> In the case of government bonds, barely.

Interest on the debt totals nearly $600B/year -- about the same amount we spend on the military.

> Sub-inflation interest payments mean that wealth flows in the opposite direction.

People are paying a premium in order to have a risk-free place to park their money. It's worth something to not have to hoard gold in a hole in your back yard (and pay money to insure it against theft). That cost often gets partially or entirely offset by the return on capital, but it remains a valuable service that they are in fact receiving even when it costs more than the risk-free rate of return.

Meanwhile the taxpayer is still paying ~$600B/year. There is no way to spin that as a profit; it's money that wouldn't have to be paid if we had borrowed less in years past.

> Life expectancy has dropped for the 3rd year in a row.

Basically entirely due to an increase in suicides, and in particular suicides of working-aged people, which makes the problem worse rather than better.

More to the point, it remains the case that the life expectancy today is significantly longer than it was when social security was created, and yet we still have the same retirement age.

> I think you misspelled pointless wars

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

Have a look at the "Total Federal Spending" chart near the end. The Social Security and Medicare slices are each significantly larger than Military.

> but yes, it would be better if it was spent on infrastructure instead...

But that's the entire point! As it is it's an inter-generational transfer. If the money went to something else -- or even just middle class tax cuts -- then it might not be, but that isn't the case.
Yeah, it's flowery-design talk but I'd argue these nuances go a long way subconsciously.
The "elected representatives by the citizens of Los Angeles" (Government) are accessing GPS Data about a companies property in its jurisdiction because the companies are not regulating their own behavior and property.

This is where citizens need to advocate in their own neighborhoods and get involved and vote if that is what they want.
It is not just foreign governments using paid trolls. Apparently Hilary Clinton used paid trolls against Bernie Sanders in 2016.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-digital-troll...

>Hillary Clinton's well-heeled backers have opened a new frontier in digital campaigning, one that seems to have been inspired by some of the Internet's worst instincts. Correct the Record, a super PAC coordinating with Clinton's campaign, is spending some $1 million to find and confront social media users who post unflattering messages about the Democratic front-runner.

> “It is meant to appear to be coming organically from people and their social media networks in a groundswell of activism, when in fact it is highly paid and highly tactical,” said Brian Donahue, chief executive of the consulting firm Craft Media/Digital.
Tippecanoe and a Sword Caper, Too
http://archive.is/ttSg8
I was serious about that part - computing the hash requires energy, which is acquired in space instead of on land. By using the energy right there in space and shipping the final product
(the hash) you don't have to transfer the energy which you would have needed to make the computation on land.
I asked Mr. Tan how many people had requested their data from Sift since the company introduced the option to get it.

“Honestly, we haven’t seen much of a response,” he said.

Me thinks that will soon change after hitting HN
So common. Ive had all of these happen, too. I didn't know not being registered to vote could hurt you, was that in the US? I assume not due to BT being mentioned.

AT&T is currently doing the same thing BT did to you. I closed my account and shipped back hardware a year ago. Since then, they have been reporting either a bill with a random number from $100-3,000 or 0, and being either on time or late or none. It's maddening.
> Hehe, so true, and all the more hypocritical since she herself drew welfare benefits in the United States for years.

Her logic, and I agree, was that she was forced to pay in, she should get it out.
Here I saw some mentions that it may be related to recent google cloud problems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21418979
Like I said that was the only time I find it useful particularly useful, I wasn't implying that it was the general case.

TDD isn't a substitute for architecture but I think if throwing away code and tests so much is a problem, maybe planning some architecture at the start of the project might be required.
SQL Server doesn't make it easy to calculate median values. There are a number of slightly convoluted ways to do it but it's far from straightforward and usually I end up calculating it in C# if I can.
friendly, empathetic, and approachable...in all caps?

Not declaring a brand color and instead saying that it’s ‘empathetic to it’s context’ is reminiscent of A Scanner Darkly.
Identity thieves are masters of faking ID scans, their livelihood requires it. I have no doubt that an experienced person could get these reports on my behalf without me ever knowing.

It’s appalling to me how much we depend on easily photoshopped pictures to prove identity. I want a smart card photo ID in my country.
Liquor is tightly regulated for tax enforcement.
> The person being advertised to rarely (if ever) benefits.

Instagram has gotten so good at targeting me that I probably click on at least 1/2 the ads because I find them interesting. I've purchased things because of those clicks too, and have enjoyed the purchases. Things I would have never known about were it not for the ads.
This article seems to be fluff that hypes the game (paid marketing maybe?). It's just a new map. The end of season events are the novelty.
You just figured it out.
I wonder if people do timings for the variances between a function in the DB vs Python? Unless your queries are so small (like individual records) that a round-trip to the DB is impacted by network lag, I find it's almost always faster to ask the DB to do as much of the lifting as possible.

The downside, of course, is that your code potentially becomes unreadable, harder to migrate between database backends, and more difficult to debug.
This is incredibly high-value data to have on politicians and other high-profile people, too. Say, suppose you had a congressperson's dating app information in this report, and the usage overlaps with the period of time they've been married and in office. Great way to compromise them.
Tether can be both pumper and dumper.

Pump up BTC price with Tether. Use Tether to buy BTC. Sell BTC for USD (or hold onto it - it's free!). Doesn't matter that the Tether either never actually existed or were seized by governments.
> Anyone can choose not to execute my code on their machine, that's their call.

this is not even close to being true. Specially in the smartphone world.
You don't remember all the gameboy accessories? The lighted screen especially was incredible back when a backlight wasn't built in. I was jealous of the kid who had the light, the printer, and tons of games.

If you think the kids who didn't have gameboys at all didn't get bullied because they weren't in the ecosystem, you'd be gravely mistaken.
People with mental sickness live in social homes called "Apna Ghar", there you've a big family and you share meals together and do all chores.

In India they live far better, I suggest anyone with mental disability to join these social homes.

And these run with help of charity donations.

Funny, that people have this bad condition in developed countries when in India they've it far better, they don't have to worry about anything.
Generally you'll find at some point a mix of set based and loop based logic wins the day in most SQL's - but shy away from those cursors until you absolutely must use them.
Reminds me of the BGP nyancat[1]. Does anyone have another creative (ab)use of a network protocol?

https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history?pk_vid=09869001...
They're smart people, so I'm sure that's not the issue.

My complaints are probably less about co-located offices and more just corporate cruft.
Actually, yeah. That one jumped out at me, too: that’s kind of like saying “I know how to drive a car, but I always have to look up which one is the gas pedal and which one is the brake”. If you’ve done _anything_ in Python, the length function is ingrained in your brain, so if you honestly don’t remember it, you just haven’t written any Python (or it’s been more than 10 years).
Yes indeed. And I received the standard "we have a large range and offer based on experience and expertise," but no explicit figures.
No one wants to go there because freedom but I (reluctantly) agree. There might be safety considerations, too, but I'm guessing they are mostly edge case type issues
You are uninformed.

In fact, if we give it an English name and juice its performance with bi-metallic chemistry you get 'trigger point dry-needling'.

With some measurable, reproducible effects:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28158962
Scientists create ‘artificial leaf’ that sucks in carbon dioxide and makes fuel
Nice try Facebook moderator
I’ve been working from home on Fridays at my current job for awhile now. I’m finding I’m vastly more productive on the days I work from home. That might be because I don’t have to commute, people aren’t bothering me, or whatever.

Even if they are still working the 5th day from home, it’s still a better trade off than having to be in the office 5 days per week.

That being said, 4 day work weeks would be great and I’m sure people would be just as productive, if not more so, as they are now.
How come OpenBSD has no containers other than chroot?

Is there anything similar to firejail[1] for OpenBSD?

[1] Firejail is an easy to use SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, seccomp-bpf and Linux capabilities.
Which was broken up in 1984 via antitrust regulation?
Cool! I recently participated in developing an IPhone Swift application in Xcode on a MacBook. The IDE is amazingly simple, just click "play" to run an application in a simulator on a connected IPhone. I guess it's not that easy if you don't have any Mac software/hardware (what about an simulator?).
Israeli company bought by Microsoft works for Israel.
there's an OpenZFS summit going on this week, so I imagine that's why this and OmniOS became top-of-mind for some:
http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2019
“How’s the track pad? Track pad and MacOS is still far ahead of the competition.”

This is one of the main reasons I am keeping my MacBook. The trackpad feel and the gestures on the Mac are much better on then MacBook than on either windows or Linux. When I have my windows laptop on my lap to work everything’s feels really fiddly compared to the MacBook.
Ah didn't think about the cooling. Excellent point!
I learn algorithms by memorizing their general structure and filling in gaps using the invariants of the process. A selection sort is pulling the largest elements to the end of the list; an insertion sort sorts the first N elements and inserts the next element; a quick sort picks a pivot to divide the list for sorting; mergesort sorts half the list and then merges them; heap sort heapifies the input (this takes me some time to remember how to do efficiently) and then pulls out the top repeatedly.

But bubblesort? There's no invariant. Sure, I can tell you that it's this structure:

for i = ? .. ?:
for j = ? .. ?:
i1, i2 = ?, ?
if A[i1] < A[i2]:
A[i1], A[i2] = A[i2], A[i1]

But, with the lack of invariants, I don't know how to fill in the ? correctly. With trial and error, I could write a correct sort from this template. But insertion sort and selection sort also follow this template (as does any other sorting network if you try hard enough), and I can't guarantee that I'd hit bubblesort instead of those.
tin foil hat intensifies
Since it's hidden at the bottom:

> illumos based server OS with ZFS, DTrace, Crossbow, SMF, Bhyve, KVM and Linux zone support.
I'm very comfortable saying alcohol would never be approved/legal if it started being marketed 10 years ago.
True with the Gameboy, less so with the Pokemon cards. When you buy a pack, you're essentially pulling a slot machine lever. You hope to get one of those super rare cards (e.g. holographic Charizard).

Even if you weren't into collecting, it was difficult/more expensive to just buy the cards you needed for a good deck. You'd have to keep buying packs until you were able to build a deck you were happy with.

Probably the only thing that's changed is the immediacy and the scale: both of purchasing and of the social effects that come from the purchase.
> The mere existence of an observed phenomena doesn't imply that some other set of phenomena doesn't occur. It's about determining what can be observed. It's making sure that we don't see patterns where there are none.

I should note that the latter part of this statement is probably even more important that the first. Which is to say, it is not self-evident that a particular observation is how things actually are. The way in which you articulate things is a formulation of reality based on what you have observed and who you are (in all the millions of years of human development that implies). It's important to note that the observation has to be rooted in evidence: measurements and methods, and causal proofs. Even if, perhaps especially, a particular argument is compelling from the perspective of its ethical implications, it does not necessarily imply it stands on solid ground.

I believe, and perhaps this might be where the ethical implication comes from, that there is reason we formulate compelling arguments along the political spectrum or across anything that doesn't have its roots firmly grounded in the evidence (because maybe not all things can actually be observed, maybe you don't have the data, maybe there's a lot more to it). I believe that we do this because there is some kind of narrative structure that underlies the propositions we lay out. That narrative structure is vital to us because it might be that we base our entire emotional stability on the stability of that structure.

If the structure isn't reliable, or someone challenges our notions of how we see a problem, or how a problem could be solved, when its challenged we get the sense that it is challenging us. We don't like that - we don't believe it. Our entire psychological well being depends on whether the narrative structure of the viewpoint holds weight - perhaps most especially when we don't even want to look at the evidence.
I think that a high-performance team of even a hundred would probably be able to match Google’s efforts on Blink; another browser engine is doing this already. But when you’re working on an engine with another company, I think it’s generally difficult to have too much control of the direction the project is going without hard forking, as Google probably realized themselves when Blink was created. Plus I’m not sure how much effort Microsoft is putting into this and whether they’re trying to exert any control on the engine.
Wow, you usually don't see much Alpha Micro news! I've still got an old AM-100/L sitting in an unused office here at work. We ran our manufacturing business on it all through the 1980s.

I tried to get it running again about 10 years ago, but no dice. Some kind of hardware problem, and very little documentation still available.
Interesting. Could you give an example of this?
Is there a reason why it's limited to XPS 13 and not XPS 15? Is there a problem supporting the NVIDIA graphics cards on Ubuntu or something?
This really reminds me of "Tables" from the Silicon Valley TV show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWOGbu5BcT0
no-one tests on the actual problem devices which are low- to mid-range android phones on slow connections.

I do. But I work in healthcare for the rural and poor. Some of my target devices the kind of craptastic phones people on HN would buy as a joke burner, but for millions of people is their entire family's only connection to the internet.
Hosted on Netlify, so https://web.archive.org/web/20191104180034/https://anewdigit... for anyone running into problems related to their current CDN outage.
It's cheaper when you don't need to follow labor and environmental regulations.
Yes as other have stated the profession is rather hard on your body. I suffered some serious back problems as a result of the manual labor and decided to peruse my interests in engineering instead.
Arch Linux tried to do something like that if this next web page is any indication although whether they succeeded or not I do not know:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/56686#issuecommen...
Former tenured professor.

I think your impression is generally spot-on although there's nuances and it's more complicated than that.

In general, universities are suffering from many of the same pressures as other fields. Nonprofits are being run as profit-generating centers, and the implicit promotion track goes from faculty to senior faculty to administration, if you're even on tenure track. The administration salaries are increasing, as are the number of administrative positions (deans, associate deans, vice associate deans, assistant deans, etc.), and the structures are becoming increasingly hierarchical. Things are very top-heavy and expensive to run because the salary budget is so disproportionately distributed.

I don't think that's all of it, though. The rest of it is harder to quantify, but is the flip side of the educational bubble coin. Students are rushing to go to college in record numbers, which then puts pressure on colleges to stand out to attract more students and more high-paying students who become high-donating alumni. Institutions that should be getting public funding are not, which then trickles down to students; other private institutions then benefit from the increased tuition norms etc.

It's a complicated problem that involves HR and administrative practices and norms, economic incentives within university funding structures, incentives coming from a broken employment system in the US, problematic incentives coming from federal grant structures, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Great job! Hats off to them, I was only half expecting a see a sentence like "This truly captures the 'essence of Facebook', which we'll refer to as 'Mark' throughout the remainder on this document"
> I assume this is just a made-up number to signify how much they care about slight changes

Yes it is, I have no idea what they monitored but I'm sure they didn't chose randomly.
> it wasn't possible to buy ETH direct until ~2017

not even with paper wallets? I realize this would be uncommon given the late start of, ahem, intheoreum, but this should have still been common at meetups and such. Also, mining is essentially paying for ETH with only one layer of indirection, but without passing through Bitcoin.
No doubt, this is truly great design work, kudos to that team!
However, I can't help but feel my massive distrust for the company overshadow this work, and give me a very un-easy feeling about the true intentions of this entire thing.
For me, the "transparency" I want to hear about does not come from a font, but from open sharing of advertising!
> soulless ripoff of GTA V

What? It started a base building tower defense. I'm not a fan but this is way off, it's not like GTA in any way.

And you don't need story to have great gameplay. If you shoehorned a story into something like Rocket League it would actually be hilarious.
> they A/B tested their logos for months

I doubt it; I could instantly spot jagged edges of their design, it looks more like a rush job.
When you have millions or billions of rows, SQL calls absolutely become a huge bottleneck. I deal with this all the time from shortsighted developers at the office in other ORM environments. Most recent being a SELECT...NOT IN('a','b','c'), causing an INDEX SCAN on 200 million rows, and then complaining it takes 6 minutes to run.

Look at Django's select_related. It's one of those if you don't understand what's happening under the hood, then you're probably querying way more than you should be.
Voyager 2 Makes an Unexpectedly Clean Break from the Solar System
Warm-Up with Fall New Dapps
Is there anything that could've been done to actually stop him if he didn't comply short of refusing to sell to him at the stores he visited?
In my experience, most front end performance problems are just unoptimized assets, or huge JS bundles. After that, there's issues where you're doing a lot of unnecessary rendering, for example in a React app, a Redux mapStateToProps function that isn't memoizing an array map, which is causing the whole subtree to re-render on every state update. The only time I even needed algorithmic complexity was implementing a drag and drop control, for a list that could have several hundred thousand elements, and my naive implementation was n^2.
Most things has value by some definition. Question is if the sum is positive. I'm not sure that is the case for targeted advertising.
> The only motivators to reducing pricing are timeliness and government interference.

Additional supply of housing would not?
> Users have the right to subvert software and platform restrictions that would force them to consume content that they do not wish to see, and to teach other people how to subvert these restrictions. Users have the right to distribute software that circumvent technological restrictions for the purposes of personal content filtering.

How about "Users have the right to not use software that forces [...]"? I have a hard time agreeing with the idea that people agree to a ToS and then have a right to abuse the platform. Seems like that could lead to an inconsiderate/unsafe/unfair place for other people and stakeholders in that platform. I understand that anyone can do whatever they want whenever they wish and that it's up to the platform to battle "subversion" and misuse – but I don't believe it should be an indoctrinated imperative.

This applies to most of what is found in "Right to Modify". I think there's truly a legal nuance to who owns what (especially when a lot of folks are currently renting their phones from their device manufacturers or service providers).

The sentiment seems to elevate the end user and expose the software developers a bit more than I personally care for. There should be more emphasis on the responsibility of users to understand what they are getting themselves into.

EDIT: I drew my guns too quickly and forgot to mention I appreciate most of the other points and its simple presentation. I see the OP in the comments and commend ya for taking the leap.
This is 100% correct. FB and TWTR are publicly traded companies; their executives and their board have convinced themselves in an extremely cowardly fashion that their only duty is to the shareholders. They absolutely know that the second they take this stuff seriously, they have to report both how bad it was/is, and how much traffic/revenue to their product was fraudulent at best.

It’s so gross.
Saying that the reason FB is being targeted for anti-trust is that they are simply too successful feels like a vast oversimplification of the situation.
Shorts are really good for...well, short-term betting. Sustaining a short position even just medium-term, is extremely expensive.