skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to see the US Government and the N.I.H taking better precautions on data and research security - China has had a track record for sneakily exporting scientific/medical/_everything_ information from other countries for years now and I think the USA along with other countries are wising up to it now.

As to the allegations of racism - unfortunately due to human nature and the sensitivity of the issue, there of course will be some racial bias against the Chinese. I hope the majority will be able to sense this and reconsider their thoughts before they come actions.
Those kind of environments happened only because those companies had near-monopoly like status that protected research activity from the need to commercialize. Most corporate research labs aren't going to do anything that won't lead to some kind of revenue generation 3-5 years down the line. Gov'ts can invest in the long-term
Interesting; that never, ever, ever happens where I work, and most of our engineers are fresh-outs.
Not everyone wants to be a CEO.
Even in Venezuela, with their huge currency issues, Bitcoin makes up only hundredths of a percentage point of transactions (I did the math in a comment elsewhere but I’m on mobile right now)
in this cave you need internet access :)
I hate to burst the bubble here, but everyone I know at Microsoft Japan is still working at least a 5-day week.

It's just that they don't come into the office on the 5th day.

This is actually probably the key result from this experiment. Working at home that 5th day, allows workers, especially in Japan, where people feel a huge obligation to just hold down a chair even if there isn't work to be done, to work flexibly in a manner that works for them.
Yes it sounds like common mentality in US - "you need to deserve your spot under the sun". This mindset can push society to achieve great things rather effectively (as seen numerous times in the past with US), but it can also mean cruelty to fellow citizens because... usually money, power, status.

Everybody for themselves ain't a good model for a healthy society in long run. Way too many predators out there.
In my opinion, the communication approach we are using is obviously (from observing the results) ineffective.

Corodra above says: "Don't think for a second I'm "for oil". But I'm a realist. A lot more needs to happen to end oil's stranglehold. Not drum circles, UN circle jerks climate summits with teenagers crying nor bullshit "plant trees" PR stunts(past tree planting stunts have real piss poor success rates of the trees surviving after a year."

I think there's a lot of truth in this. The current propaganda/meme-based approach (repetitive half true newspaper articles, Greta Thunberg, etc) to the issue is not only not moving the ball forward, it's actually causing unrest and resentment in our populations. It is causing people who likely don't really differ all that much in underlying beliefs to split into opposing psychological/ideological camps, and as the conversation continues in this same form, become further entrenched in their opposing stances. If you pay close attention when reading forum discussions, this seems quite apparent to me, even here among relatively more intelligent HN folks.

I believe people need to start realizing this, and then we have to study the nature of the problem, and then we have to find a new approach to the global public discussion on this topic, and others like it.
Wow, this is the isolated track I never knew I needed to hear.
Nice to see Apple doing something that is the job of a government. Or they could pay taxes and not have to worry about it.
> Programmers can’t write algorithms without help

And that might be a good thing. How often does a normal software engineer have to write bubble sort from scratch in his daily life? If someone from my team came to me telling me he had to sort an array and wrote bubble sort from scratch, then I'd probably not be very happy with that unless there is a really good reason to spend that time on it rather than using an existing solution.
Very nice, I like that you're including access to your other products under the same account/license
I’ve never heard of a liquor board that required stores to deliver to the government a real time feed of who’s buying what liquor. If such a policy were created, and BevMo announced they refuse to comply, I’d be fully in support of that despite my normal concerns about companies ignoring regulations.

It’s not about the general principle here. If Uber’s claim about deanonymization is accurate, this specific policy is PRISM level bad.
I guess this is part of the post-Reagan civic reality of the US. We've given up on taxation as a means to raise money for the public good. Instead, we must rely on a random patchwork of private enterprises to occasionally improve things for some people.
It was actually easy to predict when Bitcoin would rise at that time: shortly after hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Tether were printed.
There is a much simpler explanation.

1. It’s an order of magnitude easier to fire people in the US Vs the EU. That means American employers are more willing to take chances on people, ideas and growth. EU small business are family run for a reason.

2. It’s an order of magnitude easier to shut down a business in the US Vs the EU. So, again, an entrepreneur can take more chances in the US.

The EU favors big businesses that are hand-in-glove with the government. The US does so to a much smaller extent - smaller players and individuals have a fighting chance. Most US mega businesses today were tiny not too long ago (e.g. almost all of tech).
Because it's paid by taxes, everyone has access and since it is taxes it is % of income. No income means access to healthcare but there's no cost associated to it. A median wage essentially pays their own health care, a high wage subsidizes lower income.

As someone living in a country with this what this means in the end is that I have never in my life considered health care as an issue. I.e. having a job living at my parents house, moving away and studying and so on.
In fact, although it's not super-common, some US companies have official "summer hours" where they maintain a nominal 40-hour week but Friday is a half-day or off entirely (maybe every second week). TBH, part of the theory is that a lot of people take short days on Friday anyway, especially in areas where a lot of people want to beat the weekend traffic to the beach/coast/mountains.

And if it's going to tend to happen informally anyway, it's probably fairer to make it an official policy for everyone.

That said, I personally mostly lean towards more vacation days I can take together rather than every week being shorter.
I cannot visualise what to do with the (convex) curvy pieces that would be cut from the circle's border.

There would be no concave pieces to slot them into - and I couldn't cut out new concavities for them without producing even more convex curves.
There are article examples on the landing page. They demonstrate good examples of the kinds of articles that'll appear on the newsletter.

I hope to start kind of broad then narrow into specific areas based off of feedback from the audience. I don't want to shoot in the dark haha
Portrait of a Customer Success Manager
This strikes me as switching out one type of bias for another, with no proof of improvement as to the end result. As long as you're not breaking labor law, not a problem, but without stats showing outcome, you can't say it's objectively better.
The software doesn't issue you a ticket, so there's nothing to contest. It simple slows the scooter down in the restricted zone. And if the software is wrong, you stop using the system, and move to a vendor that makes it work.

Anyway, not claiming this is ideal. Just sounds (without much thought) like a better solution than traffic cops.
I miss this greatly from when I was remote. If I am walking back from a meeting and get detoured into helping some people with a specific problem it's hard to remember everything from the meeting. Having that "hard proof" of everything said and easy to refer to is powerful.
Consumers hold the responsibility. Their choices on where to spend money determine what kind of producers can exist. They can only make the right choices if they have the right education and data though, and that requires the government to step in.
But I never gave Milliman permission to hold this data, so didn't they already violate HIPAA?
I think this was on HackerNews before

https://javier.xyz/img2css/

Code: https://github.com/javierbyte/img2css/
Carbon tax Carbon tax Carbon tax

It sucks that as BEVs chase ICEs and become more prevalent that will drop demand of oil and therefore oil will get cheaper.

I only hope that the higher extraction costs of current reserves make a floor for gasoline that supply/demand curves can't go under fundamentally, and that BEVs can beat that.

But a goddamn rational, common sense carbon tax would fix a whole lot of things that are wrong with the world.
You have the dynamic correct but the values backwards. Cities are defined by their physical and social density and their long-term investments in physical capital. Uber lacks a sustainable business model. Transportation within a city features many "natural" monopolies (i.e. train tracks), and the promise of an emergent overarching monopoly: providing one-App entry into multi-modal transportation. If Uber can capture those monopoly rents it has a chance to survive as a permanent parasite. If it doesn't, it's doomed.
A Plan to Engage Hackers in Election Security
Or for a while, with gas being so cheap, you could run your miners off nearly free electricity with generators. Or through AC mains.

So instead of exporting energy directly via tanker, they would export indirectly down the wire.
Interestingly, as I was searching Airbnb today, I came across this...
https://www.airbnb.com/plus

It appears they do have some homes/hosts that are verified in-person. For whatever that's worth.
"Part of the new world order is that the space defined by the actions of applications is well beyond the traditional domain of communications regulation and even beyond the domain of regulation trade and commerce."

Russia and China would beg to differ. UK could totally dictate terms if they had protected their own market and infrastructure, but they didn't, so now Google/Apple/Mozilla call the shots.
I've been using it to buy gift cards since the vendor gives a larger discount for using bitcoin. My exposure to price volatility is limited since I purchase the bitcoin a few seconds before buying the gift card.
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> The "store of value" proposition of Bitcoin is that it can't be printed by a central bank, so you can be sure that your holdings relative to the size of the money supply cannot be diluted.

Except that's not true. The block reward consists of newly created coins of which there are 1800 per day. Currently, that is a 3.7% annual inflation rate in supply, which is far more than the 2% target most central banks from developed countries have. In value terms, at a price of $9300 per coin, that is $16.7M that need to flow into the Bitcoin eco system each day for it to remain stable.

But "store of value" also means something beyond just money supply, namely stable buying power. And that is not something that Bitcoin has ever offered on account of being more volatile than a micro cap biotech penny stock. Bitcoin may very well be one of the worst stores of values imaginable.
Yes :) Isn't modern computing excellent?

One quite significant difference though; portability.

Also not quite $1000s; $800 for the ipad (and a $400 one would do fine) and $20/mo for the mac. Beats a mbp most of the time in a modern 4g/wifi environment. Ofcourse there are many caveats; embedded programming, game programming, mobile app testing etc. But I still do about 60-70% (depending) on it; it's great for building / testing / deploying API's and some months that's all I do.
The United States was once a 3rd world country that lost 10% of its population in the American Civil War. Within 5 decades of that, it produced 50% of the worlds manufacturing output.

Needless to say, Europe was it its peak at the time, and has only declined since.

Excuses are easy to come by - root causes are more useful to examine.
But it's not written in Electron, which is my point.
I have an undergrad bachelor of arts with a double major in business and accounting. It has served me well in tech and I'm a data engineer now. The tech learnig was all on the job and self-paced.

I did take two quarters of MBA classes but they were mostly redundant with my undergrad. I was bored and dropped out.
Bad management often uses metrics like this. Instead, it is managements job to define goals and distribute work. A developer should be measured if he reached the defined goal and the efficiency of the solution. Any other metric would probably fall short.
It surprises me the sort of conclusions that some scientists draw from data. Considering that modern people in prison make wine from grape juice and old pieces of bread, why would random people living in isolation 4000 years ago not make their own wine?

As far as vessels, anecdotally, I make fancy wine glasses, but personally drink wine out of coffee cups from the thrift store or whatever is handy.
I would assume that some of the data being stolen is from current, on-going, potentially high confidentiality research projects - otherwise this wouldn't be making headlines.

The article is also saying that as part of doing medical research at the NIH, you cannot accept financial contributions from the "Thousand Talents" program in China. It seems like the article is more about researchers breaking important conflict-of-interest policies and it just happens that those researchers are mostly chinese and the stolen data is being exported to China.
Convert any image to pure CSS
BSDs aren't a "monolith", but the system and tools are developed together and parts can be replaced wholesale if you choose to do so.

Also, there's what, Gentoo and GUIX that don't use systemd? Gentoo still prefers building all source on the system which is a non-starter for most, and GUIX I didn't think was ready for a daily-driver role yet.
Locating Moving Objects Using Stereo Sound Instead of Visual Input
I believe cognitive dissonance is extremely widespread. 100% of smokers know that what they are doing is extremely bad for their health.

Everybody knows about the suffering the animal industry inflicts on billions of cows, chicken and pigs.

The awareness of these problems does not seem to lead to widespread and lasting changes in behavior.

The taste of a burger and the sensation of driving a powerful car seems to trump moral considerations for a majority of humans.

As an example: Green party members in Germany are the ones who fly the most
Student mistook unsolved math problems for homework and solved them (1996)
It is you who obsesses over gender I'm afraid, not me. What I am saying is that as the hirer, you are able to give someone a chance. Therefore, you can look at the potential of your candidates, rather than accomplishments. You can also look at how much you can afford a wrong hire, because it is a risk, sure.

Knowing that people from group X (be they women, men, minorities, people from poor background without access to networks) on average are going to need bit more help than people from the right background, the right education, the right everything, that is something you can use in order to a) be the change you want to see b) run the risk of fresh ideas in your org. Even if you do not feel inclined towards a), b) is needed in all dynamic companies, and certainly institutes such as CERN.
I entirely disagree. By buying and owning shares of Exxon, you’re contributing and supporting the oil and gas industry. It’s completely a choice, as opposed to driving a car which is a financial necessity to some.
What will happen to manifest v2 extensions once manifest v3 lands in Chrome stable? Will they suddenly stop working or would there be a time period to update them?
Ask HN: Is there a real time electricity price API?
Coal is down-trending in the USA, but it still makes up 30% of the electricity in the USA. In other countries, especially China and India, coal is expected to be burned in massive quantities for the next couple of decades. Granted, they use much more efficient coal than the US does, but let's not act like coal is disappearing overnight. It's been over 30% of the mix for decades and it will continue to be so, in a global scale, for at least a decade.
If you're autistic, once you hit 18 you are tossed out with the trash
I used to work with a lot of SaaS companies at my previous consulting company, these are the most common tools I saw:

- Sales: Salesforce, Gong.io, Intercom, Outreach, Highspot

- Product Development: Github, Jira, Pendo or Heap, Sketch, InVision

- HR: BambooHR, Lever

- Other: G Suite, Slack

That being said, this is what's the most common, not what's the best that's available. There's plenty of other SaaS products that might be better for your company and use cases!
>Really, you can't understand it? You've never had to work long hours at an unfulfilling,

I've literally dug graves for a living.

I've thrown trucks for a living in 90F heat in 80%+ humidity.

I've worked 40 hours for a company and 40-50 hours a week for myself trying to get ahead some.

I've been working since I was 12 years old just to help make ends meet. Sitting at a desk doing 'unfulfilling, repetitive' work is the easiest thing I've ever done and I'd take it over every single other job I've ever had without hesitation. I get to sit in a temperature controlled office all day, I can go to the bathroom when I need to, I'm not in the heat/cold all day getting sun poisoning anymore, I have set hours with a reliable schedule and steady pay. It's amazing.
This problem is much bigger than just the CRAs. The fundamental problem is that the information that is used to authorize transactions (including financial transactions) is not bound to the transactions. It's re-usable. That makes phishing trivial and hence inevitable.

The situation has gotten slightly better recently because of the widespread deployment of chip cards, but these only protect POS transactions. They don't help with e-commerce or non-financial transactions like credit report requests.
I saw @maryjofoley refer to it as 'Chredge' the other day which gave me a chuckle
I would really like any sort of supporting evidence for this claim. I imagine churning 28% of your employee base regardless of gender would produce a culture shift--probably a very negative one. Even more negative if you're targeting people based on their immutable characteristics--and that's before the (rightful) discrimination lawsuits start pouring in.

Maybe start with free catered lunches on Fridays or something.
I am overwhelmingly more productive and valuable now as a specialized, highly educated, experienced engineer than I would have been as a subsistence farmer. As a result of my efforts and the efforts of the rest of society, I have a much higher standard of living.

However, I can't truly pick when I want to work. There are no jobs in my area that pay 80% of my current rate for the same task done 4 days a week.

If a job was truly an even exchange of value between employer and employee, I would expect to see some people working 7 days a week and making 40% more than me, and some people working 3 day weeks and making 40% less. But aside from service workers with work on nights, weekends, and holidays, everyone in my city went to work in the dark this morning and will go home in the dark tonight.

I am not against trading labor for money - that's the point of a job. I am against trading freedom plus labor for money.
This gives me a bad feeling. On the one hand companies are arguing that their only obligation is shareholder value. How can they square this with spending money on stuff that doesn’t benefit them? More likely this is geared towards benefitting Apple but probably doesn’t do anything to address systemic problems. In the end California needs to build much more housing especially in areas like SV or LA.
This whole comment is pretty telling, but not in the way you'd imagine.
I think it's just... art. And also a hobby. She likes doing this very fiddly, impractical way of working in her spare time. She could be putting together jigsaw puzzles, she could be gardening, she could be making intricate motorized sculptures out of cardboard, she could be doing all sorts of things. But instead she takes the CSS skills that she uses for her day job and sees how far she can push them.

Hell, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if she's even had people approach her asking for CSS portrait commissions. I'm sure the number she's quoted them is pretty large, if so.

I'm a pro artist who mostly use Illustrator and I am pretty sure I could reproduce any of her pieces in a fraction of the time it took her to type them out by hand. If I did, nobody would care, because I'd be using a tool actually made for art.
Surely UofChicago did not cost so little 10 years ago? A factor of 4 in ten years does not seem realistic.
It must be really hard being obese in a media-saturated world of photoshopped instagram.
Graphics Chip Chronicles – Nvidia's RIVA 128
I was told when I started my current position that remote work would be available for any employee with 12 months of experience. Then, upper management changed, and my boss's hands are tied: he can only request remote for special circumstances. All of my older co-workers were grandfathered in with their old remote access, granted before I arrived, but I essentially have zero chance of gaining remote work, all due to upper management not trusting its employees to know what's best for themselves.
Honestly I’d rather have this over unlimited vacation.
Agreed, and I don’t necessarily agree with the real-time requirement as the best way to regulate. That said, while the data providing burden is certainly more than the liquor store must provide, it doesn’t seem like they’ve delayed permitting for months, requiring public notice, checking to ensure named individuals are at work, etc (not to mention some of the graft that has been associated with liquor licenses in other cities).

They have a data requirement. It is not new, the company is not responding. Don’t they already do this with ride data from Uber?

EDIT: Looks like they don't do this for rides yet, and may be using this as a trial balloon for greater data access? (based on this article from May, if accurate?) https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/tech/uber-lyft-cities-data/in...

EDIT2: DC has been doing this with car / ride-sharing agencies for awhile but I don't believe it's published. Not sure of the status of SharedStreets:
https://www.wired.com/story/uber-nacto-data-sharing/
>But I think any other description is more of a stretch. If (B) is correct it’s a speculative bubble, which happened in response to the whale’s activity, and wouldn’t have happened if not for the whale.

That's what I dispute. If that one-time spike was enough to set off that kind of activity, then it was probably going to happen eventually, and the whale, at most, hastened it.

And yes, it gets kind of tricky, because most of us, including me, are comfortable saying, "This jerk tossing his lit cigarette caused this massive fire", even if the whole place was a tinderbox just waiting to turn into a blaze from anyone's single spark.

But the point is, when people write these articles, they're promoting the narrative that this single whale is the major determinant of the price. I dispute that narrative, just as I dispute that one cigarette-jerk's ability to determine how many forest fires there will be.