skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Used to just be "journalism"

Bollocks. Look up the phrase "yellow journalism" and "muckraker". If anything there was more of an incentive to lie like a mofo because, outside of word-of-mouth, the only source of news was a newspaper.

Nowadays you're saturated with data, but you can turn it off, or dig for something that represents an alternative viewpoint. But in 1910 your only source of "truth" was what William Randolph Hearst said it was.

See also: the Spanish-American War, Fatty Arbuckle's trial, and "Rosebud"
The U.S.A. is now literally a poster child for WHY Citizen's United and Unlimited Capitalism or Unfettered Capitalism is probably just as damaging (if not more so) than socialism/communism. I lean a little libertarian-socialist or where I'd love to see M4A, but more personal freedom.

Like legalize all drugs, and only incarcerate people who've committed violent crimes: Rape, Murder, Gunpoint robberies, Assault, etc... Everything else gets an ankle bracelet and fines.

I feel we'd also benefit from more Worker Coops. But I come at it from an incremental point of view, I don't believe full ownership of the means of production by an authoritarian regime is EVER a good idea.. Instead more liquid/democratic control of some parts of industry I think make sense, in a more organic supply/demand way.

You can't have your capitalism without revolutions if you don't have regulations that protect the working class. Eventually guillotines are brought out. It's already happening in Puerto Rico.
So I have a fun thought. You can cantrip your ill gotten coin into more compute. Assuming you could work your way up and own every exchange before anyone caught on (not realistic), could you work up enough funds to buy enough general cloud compute to overtake BTC?
Laravel feels very similar to what Rails was like in 2006.

It has a great ecosystem and lots of great packages and tools to make it fun and easy to develop web applications.
At least one part of it is the faith that users can be smart people, rather than the current approach to customization UX which seems to be "take it all away from the fools".
This have me a hairbrained idea for a browser extension that drops every web page you visit into a private Lucene database.
I had 4 desk changes and 2 managers in a 3 years FAANG career, and my sense was that I was probably in the bottom 25%, primarily because two of the moves were into entirely new buildings (desk movement usually happened to help teams work near each other, so a new building meant you had space to expand). Relative to the three other companies I've worked at for more than a few months, I think FAANG had the second lowest desk moves/year (although, again, my sense is that I was on the low end within FAANG).
My default position on the follow-up is likewise skepticism. It seems like the filters at the time were so low that it is likely the follow-up is just a better constructed lie.
That could also be "the most promising students go to the best mathematicians", though.
The area around the Hbf in Munich, Gare du Nord in Paris, etc.
And it was only reported there because every other country was at war and censored internal news:

https://www.history.com/news/why-was-it-called-the-spanish-f...
Mine is https://www.chrisvogt.me. It's been my online experiment space since 2012. Right now it's a dashboard/blog showing data pulled from my social profiles on Goodreads, Instagram, and GitHub.
S4TF was started over 2 years ago, and hasn't really gained any ground since then. It's a project on life support and Lattner's departure means the project is going to be put down soon.

It's good to try different things; S4TF tried, and failed. No one really cares about it at Google except the team developing it. The researchers are adopting other new technologies, like JAX.
Google AI's “Reformer”: the new model that comprehends language context
Could you shed some light on "the specific source code used for App Maker" that prevents from migrating?
Url changed from https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/this-ra..., which points to this.
> Much of what you claim is just guessing.

Same with you. It's not statistically safe to say that because some people do better with Lisp that everybody will given enough time. That doesn't tell us whether it's a personal fit or something more general.

Your line of reasoning appears to be "I did X and got result Y, therefore if everybody else does X, they will also likely get result Y". You hopefully should recognize the statistical fallacy in that pattern.

Anyhow, we are going in circles. There are no solid studies to back either of our viewpoints so we just have "anecdote fights" that don't get anywhere, which is quite common in Lisp-related debates. BeenThereDoneThat.

> There are standards and conventions in Lisp code. You just don't know them.

But they mostly rely on "parsing" words. I personally believe in the power of symbols. My eyes/head process most symbols much faster than words. I can't explain it, they just do. That's just my brain, although others have told me similar. If YOUR brain can process textual words as fast as symbols, that's wonderful, but may be specific to you (and other Lisp fans). Your head is NOT my head.

It's not like I'm new to words such that after reading a billion words I'll finally get better. People's textual reading usually plateaus after about 5 years as adults. Throwing time at the problem won't significantly change this. Why should Lisp be different? Words are words.

And sure there are standards/conventions in Lisp, but the competition also has standards/conventions such that it's not a difference maker in comparisons. The difference maker is WORDS alone versus words + symbols. (Well, Lisp has parentheses, but mostly only parentheses, unless you "invent" something custom, which makes it non-standard by definition.)

And I'm not against new things, but if they don't seem to be making sufficient progress after a reasonable amount of time, I abandon them. If Lisp is unique in that it has a hockey-stick shaped benefits curve (flat for long stretches, then goes up), then it stands out from most tools. It's hard to know if it has a weird learning curve up front since there are no decent studies on it. Often fans of tools claim "just try it long enough". That's not sufficient because it's a fan habit to claim that.
I was expecting a lawyer joke, myself. Thanks for the chuckle.
The fit and finish items in new construction in the US is also what I would deem substandard but with the option to upgrade. That's typically how developers can offer homes starting at very low price points, because quality finishes can increase the home selling price by 25-50%.

There are plenty of renovators that will be happy to install floating floor systems and other garbage but the traditional materials and installers still exist and don't charge that much of a premium. Many times the newer methods require subfloor modifications or other added costs that usually bring them in parity with the traditional products but the end result is much lower quality.
For the most part, SAR dogs (and similar working dogs) are trained to view specific toys as incredibly high-value. For whatever play they really enjoy - fetch, tug-of-war, etc - they'll have a particular toy which only comes out in connection with "work" and always heralds praise and a play session with their trainer. Since SAR breeds are smart, high energy, and a bit intense, their reaction to that toy/event can be startlingly strong.

The goal is essentially to avoid this issue: a dog toy is unlikely, but maybe the subject has a peanut butter bar in their pocket, and that shouldn't derail the rescue. So ideally the desire for the work reward will outweigh basically anything found during work (squirrels, food, other toys, or even bad stimuli like loud noises), even if those things would be awesome to the dog when they're not "on the job".
My iPad air 2 is the daily driver for my family and its still going strong. This author is complaining they cannot open it and it hurts their feelings??? I wish I was half this privileged to have such small problems.
I learned this technique when I worked on the blue team of a cyber security firm.

It’s not about sending your passwords in clear text to your RDBMS. You’d still use bcrypt like you normally would but instead of querying the password table directly you’d have that prewritten as a stored procedure. That way you can have different permissions for the password table.

Some frameworks and/or other managed solutions might already be doing this but it’s worth mentioning anyway since people are talking about hand rolling their own auth.

I don’t know why I added the part about offloading encryption though. That doesn’t make sense. I guess that will teach me talking security before my first coffee of the day
Do you mean besides that fact that it is a RISC-V? You know it is an open source architecture right?
Because it was a pointless blanket statement? Anecdote - One classmate went on to study phage therapy in Europe, another went to work for Intralytix a phage therapy biotech in the US, both PhDs. They were not laughed at by their advisor or their contemporaries for their decisions.
Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075085

and in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10810454
Drive is down as well.
Standups are for small teams, e.g. less than 10 members.
IMHO, your 30-35 employees meeting with members of different projects is "all hands meeting", not a standup.
Your comment reeks of elitism
That's not what pump and dump means.

>Either way the long term health of the company and brand don't matter

It's does matter because the long term option will often result in more value overall to the new owners and customers. There is definitely a tension between short term profit and long term profit. It's well recognized and has been studied extensively.
Nice work man.
>As part of these attacks, hackers successfully breached some organizations that control top-level domains, which are the suffixes that appear at the end of web addresses immediately after the dot symbol, said James Shank, a researcher at U.S. cybersecurity firm Team Cymru ...

Anyone know which TLD orgs were hacked?
Google Adwords is most of their revenue and it won't exist without search
Grandparents on both sides are far enough away that they stay often. We also live in a popular vacation spot, so we're happy to host friends when they come through town.

That being said, the "guest room" is really because we're not done having kids.
Google Docs, Drive, and Photos all seem to be affected.

Currently have to download my files from Google and work on them in Excel and Word to get work done.
Anyone else disturbed that mods erased every post on Kobe Bryant's death yesterday? He was a national figure that transcended just basketball, if that was the issue.
Phage therapy saved my life when I was a newborn. Good to see the US considering it.
Anyone not familiar with GoT could certainly have easily misinterpreted that though.
Steve Jobs Introduced the First iPad to the World 10 Years Ago Today
We had a similar one when I worked for a large supermarket chain. We had one store that their In-Store Processor (ISP), which was a big IBM 6F1 RS/6000 box (about the size and looks of a large mini-fridge) was plagued with all kinds of weird and sporadic errors. Code that works fine in the rest of the chain would only sometimes work there, all kinds of disk errors, slowness, etc. We sent technicians to the store multiple times and they could never figure out the issue, we even swapped out most of the hardware.

Eventually, we discovered that the young girl that was responsible for changing all the prices was using the server room as her makeshift office. She would stick all her magnetic clipboards with the upcoming price changes to the side of the server. When she heard the tech was coming she would clear out all her stuff since she knew no one was supposed to be in there. The magnets were wreaking havoc on the disks causing the errors. The store manager got her some proper office space and the errors went away.
I’d love to start on this hobby this summer he’ll be 13). I’m not much of a HW or ham guy. What resources would you recommend to get started on our first balloon?
Huh, throughout this thread I had no spark of recognition even after the LJ mentions, but reading his name in full somehow triggered my memory bank.
2201 is really impressive streak. My current is just 355!

What I like about Duolingo is how casually it approaches you to make consistent efforts every day, without overexerting you to train, like many fitness apps usually do.

So far, I'm quite happy with it.
> The data obtained by Motherboard and PCMag includes Google searches, lookups of locations and GPS coordinates on Google Maps, people visiting companies' LinkedIn pages, particular YouTube videos, and people visiting porn websites.

> "It's very granular, and it's great data for these companies, because it's down to the device level with a timestamp," the source said, referring to the specificity and sensitivity of the data being sold

> Jumpshot gave Omnicom access to all click feeds[...] The product includes [...] "the entire URL string"

> A set of Jumpshot data obtained by Motherboard and PCMag shows how each visited URL comes with a precise timestamp down to the millisecond, which could allow a company with its own bank of customer data to see one user visiting their own site, and then follow them across other sites in the Jumpshot data.

How can you _possibly_ anonymise that at scale? Maybe someone searches an email address, or searches a unique phrase, such as a nickname, that identifies them. If someone makes multiple searches for directions from/to a particular place, it's probably their home or work. If you are logged in to a company's site, they likely know exactly who you are, and can correlate their logs with the Jumpshot logs (URL+millisecond timestamp could very well be unique) to follow you across other sites. The article notes that some products include "inferred gender" and "inferred age" - what _else_ can you infer from the provided data that may be enough to ID you?

Even if they _aren't_ directly selling it, it's a uncomfortable amount of information for a company to have (at best).
You don't want to share that data?

I keep running into the same phenomenon everywhere; everyone thinks they know whether they've been infected or not. I suppose everyone is a malware expert, so there's no need to share the data with anyone. I'm quite out of the loop here.
It's weird to read this article when there are legitimately good programming environments available on the iPad, like ‎Pythonista 3, which is an app that lets you run python on your device.

I think the thing that he's "standing by" is that he wants to continue making waves by sounding controversial when he has in fact become irrelevant. I like and appreciate the viewpoints of those shared by BoingBoing, but perhaps something less cringeworthy? I understand folks like to build electronics, and there are systems people can build on for 30 dollars. The iPad was always meant to be a computer for someone that didn't care to screw with all of the guts of hardware or software. But yes, if you really want to use your iPad to learn about hardware and software, you can certainly do so.

And every company has the right to enforce their rules in replacement of defective parts, based upon what prior abuse or misuse you put on it. The average person who "opens" their iPad to fix it deserves to have warranties and guarantees invalidated, even if Apple is a touch predatory in the rates they change for repairs.
Bitcoin is the three card monte of the tech world. It's going to be around a long time, but not because it's a good thing.
It's been great fun to follow bradfitz's career.

I first learned of him from a post on Slashdot about a cool remote controlled door hack in a college dorm. His roommate posted and basically said, "this guy is brilliant, it's just the tip of the iceberg - he posts what he's working on at bradfitz.com, check it out." This was in...1998? 1999?

Seeing him start to post a daily journal, get frustrated, then write LiveJournal was fascinating. Posts on the problems he faced scaling it, open discussions on caching architecture (leading to a LiveJournal user suggesting he investigate slab allocation technique that led to memcached), identity (leading to OpenID), moderation, etc. were always illuminating. Moving to Go because he understood what problems needed solving just made sense. Rewriting Google's downloader because it sucked? Well, of course he would.

I don't know Brad other than occasional comments/responses from the early livejournal days (user number ~10K, after procrastinating actually joining for too long), but it's clear that he draws inspiration from overcoming roadblocks.

Taken in that context, leaving Google is completely understandable - having a trillion dollar organization there to remove roadblocks would subvert a key driver for his personal innovation and inspiration.

Good for him that he recognized this and is taking the leap into the unknown. Can't wait to see what he comes up with next, but I'm guessing the real treasures will be found in the process and not the final outcome.
I think selection bias is involved here quite a bit as well. The best people in the field are more likely to take on pupils that they think are very good as well. And those people probably also do some self-selection.
Wow, this is really scary and tragic, except for white men that get sick. The only solution is to give up our gun rights -CNN
Is it possible to spread conflicting information get half people voting one way and half the other for the sole purpose of griefing their stakes?
I think you're supposed to call it 'WhatsApp by Facebook' now.

And that's part of why.
I wrote and use daily http://onemodel.org (AGPL, uses postgres), for many reasons listed there :) . One way to think of its current state is a text-mode, easy-to-learn (i hope) infinite mind map of things, where I store and can query effectively everything: calendar, reminders, quasi-anki-like knowledge review, journal, automatic activity log, notes on subjects, very efficiently for the user.
(It also stores documents, but that is not very smooth compared to other document systems, nor is browser integration smooth at all.)

Edit: It also has a very basic security model (private, public, unspecified), and with that in mind, can export trees of notes as html or as outline documents (text), with or w/o indentation & numbering, which I've found very useful. And anything can be in as many places in the tree as is helpful. The export to simple html, I use to generate my 2 web sites.

(I plan to move it to Rust, and maybe sqlite, eventually, as well as add features like anki, internal code attached to entity classes for cheap internal customization/automation, etc, but have been slow lately.)

(Edit: it is currently only self-hosted by each user. Have considered doing hosting for other users, and might some day.)
I was considering bringing this up as well. All of the Kobe related were getting flagged and killed: https://imgur.com/NHWUzBw
Software engineers complaining about a $450k salary?
Is this (https://www.teamblind.com/post/Would-you-go-to-Snap-from-Google-both-in-NY-E8FK34gT) the epitome of entitlement? It's sad to see there are "engineers" out there that could complain about this.
This is just a warm-up for taking on Bitcoin.
This is really the best way of looking at it. We are discussing these problems and how to solve them, but they aren't even problems of cryptocurrencies in general, they are only problems of these shitty forks that have added nothing to the field, that exist only because use managed to bamboozle a small number of poorly educated users into thinking that they offer some real value...
They show Outsystems in their upper right hand quadrant. They claim 1200 customers. Quickbase claims 6000. I excluded Microsoft and Salesforce because it's hard to single out just the low-code piece.
It's funny that you mention a McDonald's hamburger, since there's actually a lot of standards that their hamburger has to live up to. They have just simplified the creation of a hamburger to the point where teenagers can make them properly with minimal supervision.

Software development is not at that point. Sometimes we put three pickles on instead of two. Sometimes we forget the pickles. Sometimes we spread ketchup all over the outside of the bun. Sometimes we forget to cook the meat. And we don't aim for a good hamburger, we just aim to get something remotely hamburger shaped out the door to the customer.
You can have a sink. You don’t need a bath tub or shower to wash your hands.
1 . duolingo for vocab/grammer

2. italki for conversation with native speakers. You can find super cheap if you are just looking to talk.

3. hellotalk is free but takes more effort and mostly just spanish/english.
Any insight into why? I didn't know about this. (Haven't changed my desk ever while working somewhere)
Google Services Down(Gmail, Drive, Docs, Photos, etc.)
I had something similar happen — when my streak ended Duolingo asked me for $38 to restore it. It made me feel manipulated and sick to my stomach. I didn’t use it again for three months. Now I’ve turned off the leagues and try not to get sucked into the gamification. I’m a little sad because I used to love it. I wish there was a way to turn off the streak and XP and everything else.
Firstly, Rest In Peace, Bill Manning. Gone too soon. Condolences to his family.

As for Kobe, TBF, it wasn't the mods, but the users (via flagging). That being said, that definitely rubbed me the wrong way. There were at least 3 posts I saw completely wiped out within minutes.
>Man, I've for long been trying to have a "where the world is going" discussion with serious, moderately intellectual people.

It's somewhat disappointing that there isn't more substantive discussion going on here. My experience is that the La Leche/Breastfeeding folks are a bit nuts and wildly exaggerate the evidence. The biggest problem with all of these studies is that formula vs breast milk is self selected. Meaning that they don't randomly assign one group to breast milk and the other to formula. In the West, that dramatically skews the groups.

To exclusively breast feed you have to be wealthy enough for Mom not to work or have a job that allows her to pump. Then you have to have the knowledge that breastfeeding is optimal and the dedication to stick with it. And the baby has to be able to breast feed and gain an appropriate amount of weight (A baby not gaining weight would be switched to formula). All of this combines to significantly bias the breast feeding group towards wealthy and involved mothers physically able to breastfeed with healthy babies.

The breast feeding folks have taken these flawed studies and run with them. The pressure on new mothers to breastfeed is enormous and the "if you don't breastfeed you're harming your baby" message is pretty thinly veiled. It's causing a lot of emotional toll for a pretty dubious benefit.
While nobody counterfeits mechanical drives, you can still get screwed buying "refurbs"/"tested only, like new" and similar "deals". SMART data can, and is often reset, making 3 year old >30K hour drives pulled from storage racks report mere couple power on counts and less than hour total lifetime run time.
Memento Mori and the Legacy of Kobe Bryant
I would love to see the remains of these used for underground food farms, like described here: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-46221656

I'm not sure how well that would work alongside the existing salt mining operations, though.
for spanish, yes.