skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the craziest parts of this article to me is the sheer number of technologies he picked right off the bat to implement the service. Datadog? Digital Ocean? Wal-e? If he had gone with a cloud provider like AWS he probably could have cut that list by 2/3 by just using built in solutions.
Thank you for the extra clarification.
This is seriously scary, how easy it is to make disinformation. The article never mentions beaming all this data to the car maker. In which world could you believe that GM could make enough from the data to pay to transfer that much data?

The fact is, they simply don't know what the data GM receive is, they only mentions what the computer store (and what it could potentially store).

This is the world we live in, an article about what data a computer store make everyone believe all this data is send to someone else.
Share Now Owned by Daimler AG and BMW Group, to Exit the North American Market
Google's position here is utterly disingenuous. They have been one of the leading forces blurring employees' home and work lives, and have reaped the productivity benefits thereof. But now that it's negatively impacting Google, they're advocating for a strict separation between the two. (Limited to organizing, of course — you're still free to push commits from home or stay late to play foosball with your coworkers and talk about work.)
Demystifying Venture Capital and Startup Fundraise
The FB mobile website works perfectly fine except for messenger.
I copied this from another submission/comment a while back, I wish I'd preserved the source. It's been my touchstone for my daily emotional rollercoaster of working at any job, and has helped me do a lot of this BS cutting.

> Loyalty in business has not been a thing for a long time. Where there's no loyalty, there's no betrayal. You're right to be angry about being lied to, but lies like this are so commonplace in the business world that I simply assume management is lying to me and do my own assessment of the situation.

> Take stock of your entire work situation. Don't just look at pay and benefits, but also intangibles like flexibility, do you like your coworkers, do you like what you're doing, commute time, etc. etc. Once you've done that, decide if the whole package still makes sense or if you're better off elsewhere.

> Most importantly IMO, let the anger go and coldly decide what's best for you and what you care about. This wasn't personal. This is simply a result of the political, economic, and cultural system we live in.
Why Sierra over High Sierra? To me, that's like saying Leopard is the pinnacle when Snow Leopard exists.

(I have very strong feelings about individual OS X versions)
>User Experience. Developer Experience. Community.

But that's what I'm saying. If you find some solution to a problem that's making decent money, some guy with big capital will just come in and "fast follow" you with better user experience and advertise the shit out of it until they have a better or at least more active community. Like suppose this guy's admissions scheduling app actually started making money. Why wouldn't some big player like Pearson just come in and roll him? They can easily hire a bunch of guys to copy what he's doing and then leverage their existing relationships with the education industry to lock him out.
That's one thing that Snowden mentions in his book. You cannot have a fair trial if you are an whistleblower, since that would include revealing/acknowledging the existence of such programs, thing they don't want to do.
> By providing a workaround for X, Y encourages people to avoid the issue instead of engaging with it.

You could say that about every defense-in-depth based approach to a problem. It doesn't necessarily mean that they're a net negative.
Minor point:

You don't start at zero. You start at one (yourself).

If you're trying to start at zero, that means you yourself don't believe in your own community, and you're doomed to fail.

You also need at least one other person who shares your values and/or interests. A "true fan", so to speak. https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_moveme...
Zigbee 3.0 will use the guard channels if there are collisions and allowed to auto select channels.
The fed holds US treasury bonds as collateral.

Would you be worried about default if you loaned me a million dollars, and I gave you a million dollars of treasuries as collateral?

It blows my mind that people are getting all worried about fully collateralized short term interbank lending.
That doesn't make any more sense. They seem to be conflating "it's been bound to the internal scripting system" with "open API"

Whether or not it's been bound to a scripting language does not make it any more or less "open" or stable (which is what they seem to actually be looking for - stability). They forked the code, everything is an "open API" at that point. There is no concept of open API vs. not when you're just talking about the source of a project.

Whether or not an internal API is stable is relevant. But that stability is independent of which language it's in, and the only way to determine that is to either look for author intent or history of the API. Just because it's currently exposed to JavaScript doesn't mean it's stable at all.
halfway in it describes Urbit. But i don't think net cafes were very social, the same way cinemas weren't ever a great place to meet new friends.
Thanks for replying with that research. I'll check it out and I'm not sure why my comment is being downvoted for curiosity.
> command cue ("Computer--") to respond with an activation bleep

This can be turned on in the Home app → Accessibility → "Play start sound" (as well as "Play end sound").
Is 5 seconds such a long time really? For parsing a file, then creating and evaluating 1 million local variables, all inserted into the local namespace?

Made me wonder, how long does it take to compile a million line long C program? Let's see:

N = int(1E6)

print("""#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
""")

for x in range(N):
print (f"int x{x}={x};")

print("""
return 0;
}
""")

now generate the code and compile it:

time gcc big.c

drumroll ... ummm ... look at that ... doesnt finish, hangs forever (or at least longer that care to stick around wich was 10 minutes) ...

notably for 10,000 variables it takes just 0.3 seconds, but raising that number one order of magnitude to 100,000 makes it hang, 100% CPU 3% memory used. Something has an awful scaling behind the scenes.
I was reacting to "just today's stock price" versus "today's price plus some history".
> I do think there will be a crash similar to 2008, but this is not evidence that it is coming.

i agree but i lack a specific metric or analysis that supports my thinking. do you have one?
You Died: The Dark Souls Companion by Tune and Fairweather
A World of 1k Nations
It would be cool if a new, unambiguous and simple language was developed to talk exclusively to computers instead of natural languages. Something like Loglan/Lojban.

Since it would be taught everywhere, people might start using it as lingua franca. It would certainly be better than Esperanto, which is not better than other natural languages despite being artificial.
Interesting, I wonder what sources they were relying on.

I recall it as something of a silly minority idea of the time, that had its moment. And that it was just a moment -- far less of a moment than Chariot of the Gods that did get TV programmes and discussion off the back of its idiocy. I don't ever remember seeing it in the papers we got at home. Maybe it got exposure via the Daily Mail or similar lover of fake and dodgy news or outrage - never read those.

It was only much, much later I heard it was taken far more seriously in the US, with pieces in media that should perhaps have known better, or checked sources...
> Pointing out that 95% (or more) climate scientists say that climate change is happening is not appeal to authority, but appeal to expertise.

If the statistic was actually true it would.

Not sure if there's a formal logical fallacy to refer to this situation, but I think it would be useful to have one.
Thefacebook.com Rule – Single Fault Domains
A fair amount of startups lately have been branding their companies using multiple fault domains. I wanted to share a simple rule I use to help everyone brand their startup better.

I call it the "Single Fault Domain Rule" or "TheFacebook.com" rule.

A perfect domain would be Facebook.com. (Drop the "The"...)
A single fault domain would be TheFacebook.com.
A multiple fault domain would be TheFacebook.io or worse...The-Facebook.ai

TheFacebook.com isn't perfect, but is ok to get started since it only has one fault.
TheFacebook.io has two faults. "The" & .io. This is a multiple fault domain and is non-ideal and really not necessary.

If you are going to use a non-dot-com domain (.io, ai, etc) it should be a perfect spelling of the word or phrase. There are too many great domains available to do this.

It is better to make up a short word ala Google.com, Twitter.com, Trulia.com, etc. or combine two words ala OpenDoor.com, RedPhoenix.com than to use a multiple fault domain.

I realize many people believe all the good domains are taken. I can assure you they are not. Many great domains expire everyday and there are plenty of brandable domains still available.

I also built https://marquix.com to help everyone discover a new brand for your startup. Feel free to play with it and give me feedback. It's just a side project I built for myself several years ago that I use nearly everyday.
Node v13.5.0 (Current)
>id argue one cannot change the composition of congress.

I hope that if term limits ever become a thing, it would only take a few elections of well informed voters to start making the change.

I think that congress is supposed to be a fluid body of people that are supposed to represent the population, and change as the population's interests change.

What we have now is career politicians making it to congress, and then milking it with all the donations, re election groups and lobby groups funneling them money making it very hard to actually enact any real change.

Even if one or two people make it to congress that are young and full of ideas/change they cannot get anything done because they are vastly outnumbered by the old fogies still writing policies like the 1950's.
> If we can mine coal in the United States without children and with relative safety, they can mine Cobalt in the same damn way. Cobalt doesn't by virtue of being cobalt need to be pried from the Earth by children.

oh you didn't know? The blood of the children is what christens the cobalt such that it works in computers...

/sarcasm
Considering that Marijuana is illegal, this seems impossible to prove.

Show me the development of a teen in a society where open marijuana consumption is a non-issue to compare against.
None! I also don’t know anyone from Mason City, Iowa. But everybody’s gotta be from somewhere.

Seriously, if you’re writing a whole article about someone it seems worthwhile to mention if they’re from Zambia, but if you’re writing a single sentence it’s a bit off putting.
Interesting that Mozilla is not on the list. They are one of the few companies I'd genuinely trust with smart home data.
depends on what you're vaping!
This sounds like good news for automated cloud systems that connect via ssh (like jenkins agents), where holding SSH keys in memory is an undesirable but necessary compromise made in favor of usability.

Security conscious users should be using a gpg smartcard for authentication, in which case the private keys are never held in RAM and shouldn't be susceptible to this type of attack in the first place.
But the non-farmer protesters are getting arrested while the farmers are breaking plenty of laws (road/obstruction) and the government is afraid to touch them.

Now the farmers are hanging nooses everywhere and trying to compare themselves with the Jews in WW2. I'm inclined to think that being forced to reduce your business production by 20-40% is not quite the same as being captured and put into a gas chamber to die.
I'm not familiar w/ cobalt, but materials are rarely 100% pure. One might look at non-cobalt materials associated with the pure material and what ratios they're in? Again not perfect but something.
> the kind of state where you get lost in your work and love what you do.

I don't disagree, but one of the challenges is that humans have become really good at synthesizing devices that artificially give you that sensation at the expense of future regret. We call them "games".

For me, playing a good videogame (I'm particularly prone to Minecraft and roguelikes) exactly gives me that delightful incremental reward lost-in-the-process flow state. It's so good that I can lose myself in it for hours.

But then when I look up and see I've spent the entire night on it, I regret the lost opportunity to do something more meaningful for myself and others. So, for me, I try to seek out activities that blend enjoying the process and enjoying* the outcome. Too much of the former feels like a waste of time. Too much of the latter feels inauthentic and like a grind.

There is a sweet spot in the middle for passions that do involve some chore and grunt work, but are also joyful and leave me with an artifact I feel good about and can share with the world. That positive outcome helps motivate me to get through the un-fun parts.

Of course, if you don't feel regret, then by all means game away. But I do. Beyond a certain point, playing games feels like eating junk food. Gloriously satisfying during, but unnourishing and regretful afterwards.
mbasic.facebook.com

It's not a great looking site, but you can read and respond to messages on there.
The cost for resettling will mostly be shouldered by the people of the Netherlands, that's how migration works: you pay up, you walk out on your own, or you stay behind in whatever misery you are tying to escape.
Correct, because we thought about the cost and risk of early human trials.
Which isn't the case here.
You're happy to forego any protection of the people involved.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21824957, which submitted the original source.

The site guidelines include: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Although this post did not reveal that it was taken from another source, other publications have credited ZDNet with being the first to report it. https://www.businessinsider.com/university-giessen-hack-pape...
See also: If everything was entirely different, then things... might be different.

>If we were to assume that there is always at least one responsible third party

>the administrators interest would be to advance the knowledge the users

So the US government enacts the largest socialist policy of this century. No one ever thinks to send or view pornograpy over the internet. Cloud computing is solved in the 80s. Cyber security is never a problem (because surely SysAdmins can never be phished, and software would never have bugs in it). No one realizes they can take this (now dirt cheap) simple terminal out of the public space and into their home...

I know people have different ideas of Utopia, but you really need to bend over backwards to get to this. Are there any humans in this world of free software?
Of course. Similarly, when you are submitting a PR to an open source project or a manuscript to an academic journal, it's your job as the author to take note of contributor guidelines.
Have you never heard of rookie vs veteran contracts? Player unions are incredibly stacked in favor of senior players.
Think they overextended themselves with the luxury fleet of Mercedes and BMWs. Worked pretty well with cheaper smart cars, IMO.
"I eat Tide Pods and I vote."
It does. For example Firefox made some features as API and declared interfaces, while Chrome didn't and left it as internal functions, which you cannot rely on, you cannot be sure that interface won't change.
Huckleberry raises $18M to put small business insurance online
On the topic of game dev diaries, Factorio's devs have been making some of the best weekly posts in the industry: https://factorio.com/blog/
> develop on every platform natively (React Native)

If "native" means bundling a runtime and having your program pass serialized messages to a different thread where the actual native platform code lives, the same can be said for any language. You just need to build the wrappers for the native API – which is a lot of work but could be done for QBASIC running in DOSBox just as well as for JS running on V8.
> You can't force a shop owner to sell his products to you if he doesn't want to.

Yes you can, for example in cases of racial segregation.

But this refusal seems to be based on anti-trust regulation and it seems that Turkey won't be able to further penalize Google for this. People seem to be upset that a company can refuse to comply with the law and showing a sovereign government the finger.

But there is even a precedent for this: Google also refused to cooperate with Chinese search censorship and retreated from that market.
The rule of thumb I would use for an “accessibility” permission is: if the application’s purpose is specifically for disabled people (like a screen reader or magnifier for blind people), and you are disabled, then you should choose Yes. In all other cases always click No. Accessibility tends to be a “back door” permission that allows apps to do all sorts of powerful things they shouldn’t, like read the contents of everything you type and scrape the screen. “Normal” apps should never ask for accessibility. If they are, their developer is likely up to no good.

Dropbox, for example, was recently in the news for silently granting itself accessibility permission, and Apple had to update the OS to prevent them from doing it. They still beg users to grant them this, even lying (EDIT: misleading users) on their web page about the purpose of the permission [1].

1: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/mac-p...

[EDITed instead of replying because HN limits the number of posts I can make for whatever reason.]
> How large of a group of people should be able to have secrets?

That's not really the issue. It's not a matter of the government being forced to tell you something. They can keep a secret if they can keep the secret. But if you can present evidence which you've gathered on your own, you should be allowed to present it to the court and be heard. And if the government doesn't care to contradict your version of the facts by presenting contrary evidence then they shouldn't have to, but that may mean they'll lose their case.
I think this is in address to creative types. It's ok to be a creative and have a day-job.

I'll say this, though. I hate development less than I would one of Rowe's jobs.
I agree. But being a hunter gatherer or farmer is much easier than working in today's society. We are working very hard and have little time to invest in our natural interests. If you look at existing hunter gatherer societies, the actual time that is required to be invested in subsistence is much less than the 40 hour weeks of today's society. Capatilism doesn't give us the rewards of our labour, it only gives us enough to subsist at the maximum amount of output that we are able to provide. This is written into the dynamics of the system.
Astroturfing in the most famous English dictionary:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astroturfing

Brigading in the most famous English dictionary (see definition 2):

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brigading
Why do you need to be in Africa to start changing US law and regulations?
Almost 70% of Goldman Sachs’ employees are under the age of 35 (2016)
Yes. The author is supposed to cite the sources.
Neltnerb said "it colors the way you think about the world to make the default gender male"

I'm not sure I see how "not getting upset" has an impact on that specific problem.
Annual Returns on Stock, T.Bonds and T.Bills: 1928 – Current
If I invest poorly, and have to eat $7M + losses, no.

If I invest poorly, and get a temporary bail-out until my investments pan out, I'd still like that $120B please.
Did you read the reasons for rejection and try to modify subsequent submissions to better comply with Wikipedia's published guidelines?
> But long before then you'll see the same in other countries, Italy, the UK, the USA, France, Germany and Spain all have areas that would be much harder and earlier hit than NL because they have no fortifications whatsoever as a starting point and it would take decades to plan and construct them.

No one here is arguing whether they can do anything about it. We are arguing about whether the Netherlands can do it. I'm pretty sure that anyone that believe that the Netherlands will disappear under water will agree that all theses coasts you mention will disappear too.
hard to develop technology is a very narrow moat.

You have the first problem that well-funded competitors can almost certainly replicate whatever you built if they care to do so.

You then have a second problem that well-funded competitors can almost certainly market inferior tech as being equal to or superior to yours, if they care to do so.
If you look at the Zigbee member list, there are many China based companies. They don't need to 'steal' anything as members.
Ask HN: What is the relation between Rx Observables and “raw” OO objects?
I think I have lack of a deeper understanding Rx especially its relation to OOP. By OOP (which is an overloaded term today) I mean message passing - like in Erlang.

To me every Observable seems like a piece of a state (aka object) which sends messages (events) to other Observables (objects).

If so, question arise:

* When to use "raw" objects which respond to events through their methods (1 method ~= 1 event), and when to use Observables?

* Is there anything an Observable can't do but a "raw" object can? Is there anything a "raw" object can't do, but Observable can? Simplicity, expressiveness matters!

* Shall I replace every object with an Observable? Are Observables "just superior" in every way? If not: what are the exceptions?
You couldn't use the european membership anyway, so it was useless to me.

Edit: also ending in: London, Brussels and Florence
Compared to a 64 bit size. But you're still saving space either way.
> This comment is so intellectually dishonest that I have to conclude that you're trolling.

This seems like an evasive rhetorical technique.

How about this idea, to try to reestablish a productive conversation, choose the weakest (most intellectually dishonest) point, and criticize it?

If you are unwilling to do that, please explain why (keeping in mind your reference to intellectual honesty).
If I'm thinking about this correctly, isn't this essentially what a Chromebook does? Google Sheets, for example, shows me a picture of a spreadsheet that's being generated on a Google server, not my machine. A Chromebook is just a display with a keyboard - and the Chrome browser is just the software that passes the images from the server to my display.
Not only that, oil companies share these lines. They know exactly what % of the oil flowing through that pipe is company A vs company B.

I know because I worked on some of the accounting software they use.
Isn't this the definition of a deep state?

Why do people think deep state is a conspiracy theory?
you can view m.facebook.com in desktop mode to avoid the redirect to install messenger
In the US, our laws don't provide blanket protection, as it appears they do in the Netherlands. We do protect certain classes of people in some circumstances. Generally, these classes are race, religion, national origin, age, sex, and disability. There are a few others, depending on which state and what circumstances.

This leads us to (IMO) ridiculous legal cases where a baker refuses to serve a gay couple, or a toy store with Christian owners refuses to abide by some employment laws.