skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you trust them on privacy or are willing to let them analyze your emails in exchange for some feature, there are very few companies that I trust to handle my email securely.

If a hacker gained access to my Gmail access tokens, they're a password reset link away from taking over most of my other online accounts and probably more than a few banking accounts. And then deleting the password reset emails.

Having worked for large and small companies (including ones that handle emails), security is always second (or third) compared to other business priorities. It takes a large effort to make sure everything is locked down and most companies don't have the skills, resources, and commitment to properly secure everything even if they nominally claim that security is important.
I run both Chrome and Legacy Firefox at the same time.
Ok, we've added three years to the title above. Thanks to both of you!
That’s a saga for another time.
And still no support for RegExp features from ES2018(!), i.e. named groups [1]. I love FF as much as the next web dev, but sometimes features fall by the wayside, and it takes forever for FF to implement them. For example, it took literally years for FF to implement focusin/focusout events after they were standardized and all other browsers implemented them.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1362154
I've been running FF on Fedora for the last 14 months with no problems. I typically have 20-40 tabs open, but then again, I'm also using NoScript so maybe 10-20 of those tabs are not doing so much damage to my performance. (The ones that stick around, like 4 Gmail tabs, Slack, RSS reader, etc. are whitelisted)
What are you using as TCP congestion controller? BBR should provide better utilization on long pipes (e.g. transoceanic transfers if stuff isn't geo-replicated). Totally anecdotal, but it helped me FTPing data from the US to europe.
It’s not controlled by flight computer
Where's the info about the free CDN?
Before reading this post I had no idea of who Mattias was and had never heard of Oh Dear! or DNS Spy. I'm happy to read about other people's finance during my lunch break, but I question what are the motivations other than cheap marketing reach.
(Early in my gamedev career, I've started with CVS/VSS quickly to switch to p4, then went for 2 years to google using CiTC+g4, then back to gamedev with p4).

Even the tool is called "g4" from "p4", has similar style of commands. The best part is that I can work from any directory ("client" p4 terms - https://www.perforce.com/manuals/v17.1/cmdref/Content/CmdRef...) and in "g4" they all have virtual (unrealized) view + merges from my changes.
What's even more appealing, is that I can do that from home, from a browser - no VPN, just UbiKey + https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp/ - then I can even start a build (not on my laptop, it's just a dumb terminal at this point). I can later even (try) to debug with interface like https://source.chromium.org/ but my jobs on borg - not real debug, but I can add print statements, and it'll sync with the CL (changelist number) of my pushed binary.

So - this is all cool. But then I never really knew how many people, and how man-hours were behind this coolness..

One of the things I miss about Google, is exactly that dedication to the engineer and make their work not impeded.
Amazon patent for “Personalized recap clips”
is the database server running on a $700 workstation? how many rows? what types of queries? what is a typical query execution time? interested in your response because I generally find RDBMS performance quite poor, although I've never used SQL server. Pandas gets to be fairly painful after the data size hits 10GB, in my experience. I do think you are missing how pandas fits into a data exploration pipeline for someone who knows how to code - there's plenty of tasks for which SQL+BI is not going to cut it.
All error handling is fundamentally the same. I think this one is as far from exception handling as possible while still being error handling.
Show HN: Census – Sync your warehouse data to any app
Wow, thanks for that trip down memory lane!

For anyone else who needs a reminder, have a read: https://www.startrek.com/article/picard-and-dathon-at-el-adr...
How will Coronavirus affect your portfolio?
>unintended apathy

I think there’s a psychology term for that, Learned Helplessness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
What's the point of spending time on that?? Some bugs have been open for a very long time that don't appear to have been fixed in this release [0]... but we can select a background color in the console????

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1220696
GoDaddy Acquires Uniregistry
One Commenter put it best: _Bitcoins are to be owned for 35 min while you place the order for drugs and that is all._
That's true, except I don't think that's the case here, or in most other notable cases that some vocal segment calls "cancel culture".
The seeds are believed to be the source of the heart shaped icon used throughout history (itself having little resemblance to the shape of our actual hearts).

Cyrene's, an ancient Greek city on the north African coast, entire economy was based on growing silphium, and the heart shaped icon of its seeds can be seen on its coins.

Silphium is often refered to as laser in Latin books such as the famous De Re Coquinara. There's a very close substitute spice originally from Persia but now more widely used in India called asafoetida named for its stench. Apparently the taste is very similar, but the intense smell isn't! Though it only reeks uncooked. By the late republic to early empire (which happens to be the primary time period we have for extant literature) Silphium had already become rare and soon died out. Though there's reports of early church monks sending each other seeds & stalks.

It's too bad Libya is a warzone in our time, and the area comprising the ruined Cyrene was recently under ISIS control. I wonder if there was any damage or looting at the site.
My personal laptop (mostly used for travel these days) is still a 5 year old $800 ASUS ROG G551J. The battery did go bad, but I got a replacement in less than 24 hours (which is far from normal over here), and the installation was tool-free.

I upgraded both the RAM and storage over time, which was trivial. Hell, they have an official guide on how to avoid voiding the warranty while doing it![0]

[0]: https://rog.asus.com/articles/g-series-gaming-laptops/g551-u...
I work in the AV space. There's a lot of ambiguity in labeling.

How should a crowd of people be annotated? A line of parked cars? A photograph of a car?

Examine the training set!
Yea I don't know. I'm not big on statistics either. I just noticed that the drives that did the worst were the ones that had the most usage overall.
People don't need cash. That's the easy way out for intellectuals. And they sure as shit don't need a casino in their town.

They need social infrastructure (families, extended families, social institutions like churches and service organizations), cultural infrastructure, and economic opportunity within this stable social structure.

All of which the intellectual class has been helping the financial elites destroy for the past century or more.
I mean, code less. I'm fine landing in 3k lines of garbage that makes perfect use of some great libraries and platform features. Much better that vs taking ownership of 30k lines of great code that duplicates a lot of stuff that should be imported.

Of course, more likely case is that bad code + bad factoring comes together
This is not a thing I knew existed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin
Thank you; and how much data are you transferring each month?
> Government funded culture” is literally how all of Europe and Canada pays for their culture

America isn’t Europe. For one thing, it’s not nearly as culturally homogenous. More Americans want their state to leave the union (about 1 in 4 nation wide) than people in Basque Country want independence from Spain (about 1 in 6). The French have an idea of what “French culture” is and what’s desirable about it. Americans have highly divergent views on what is American culture or what’s desirable about it (or even if anything is desirable about it). In practice, the NEA and NEH end up funding not “American culture” but “coastal urban culture.”

Now, I happen to like coastal urban culture. My wife and I take the kids to the MOMA when we’re in NYC. But a federally funded agency picking sides in an active and ongoing culture war is wrong. The government shouldn’t be putting a thumb in the scale when it comes to influencing the evolution of culture. But that’s exactly what NEA and NEH end up doing in practice. They hand an elite cultural minority a $300 million a year platform.
> Arguably you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket, i.e., you'd split it up across many wallets.

Has anybody brought up how user friendly bitcoin is?

I too enjoy having to print bitcoin private keys on archival paper, wrap them in ten ziplock bags, shove that into a watertight container and bury it under the backyard bird feeder. Otherwise somebody would get my keys and take ownership of my entire net worth, leaving me destined for the poor house.

Because with bitcoin, whoever has the key owns the bitcoin.
> Surely it doesn’t matter when you have 10,000s of drives? Aren’t you already at a large enough sample size? If it isn’t, what is the point of them publishing this every year? I don’t know the math of the matter though.

I think drive age matters? I'm not clear if they cycle drives out at a certain age or just run them until they fail.

Also, if a drive is low enough in cost, then the additional cost of replacing an incremental 1% may be lower than the cost of acquisition of a more reliable drive.
At least 500 Wuhan medical staff infected with coronavirus
Sure? I'm not sure how that's relevant...

I'm confused about why folks seem so upset by people expressing this opinion .
Agree, data.table is the perfect blend of table and dataframe syntaxis for scientists. It's also performant.
Check Cloudflare bandwidth alliance
What company do you work for? That sounds awesome.
Unfortunately Firefox on iOS doesn't have access to content blockers and can't install its own ad-blockers.
Robert E. Howard
Start with Dokku
I'm using firefox and am currently at over ~20 Tabs (TreestyleTab makes this easy ;), usually I have more) with ~600MB mem usage on a 8GB machine.

I care about the feature but i don't see any reason to switch away from Firefox for it...
Where are they?
Even end to end encryption often leaves them with metadata [0]

[0] https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-base...
No they could have shipped Nokia maps as default just as long as Google Maps was included as part of the GAPPs suite. Samsung still ships many of their proprietary apps as default (Samsung Pay, their own messaging and mail app etc)
I found Paradigms of AI Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigms_of_AI_Programming) an amazing book to work through.

It takes you through implementing some classic AI examples (such as Eliza) and teaches you how to write code in a data-first style through Lisp.

I worked through the whole thing building it in Clojure and learnt loads (not just about AI, but about writing readable code in general). I can't recommend it highly enough!
I wonder if this can be rephrased in terms of walruses, carpenters and oysters
I agree, but I also think there's social cost to not spending your money on status symbols. You will be ostracized by the rich and educated groups for not fitting in, and then how will you acclimate to a higher social sphere? Example[1]

[1] https://gizmodo.com/im-buying-an-iphone-because-im-ashamed-o...

edit: Ok this obviously isn't black and white, but I'm saying this should be considered among other things.
Mastercard wins approval to set up a bank card clearing business in China
>unintended apathy.

I believe the psychological term for this is 'learned helplessness'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Poverty is not a lack of cash alone...

Its a lack of cash, education-mentoring, and lack of good choices..ie no economic difference between all the bad choices before them
> These kids need mentors more than they need cash. They need adults they can emulate who can help them break free from the viscious cycle.

A father, perhaps?
That's awesome, it does a good job of explaining it in layman terms which I needed, thank you.
Ah yes, LN will has been poised to save bitcoin for the last decade now. The one little secret to bitcoin investors don’t want you to know! Want bitcoin to be a success? Don’t use it!

Too bad it is still vaporware.
we have a lesson_log channel [with standard entry format] in slack -- for all Slack's shortcomings, this works great, as the whole team can see lessons learned from every department
Frank Luna's Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11 is an underrated gem in the genre. I was surprised when I saw Microsoft recently recommending it to people to learn D3D11 before they jump into D3D12.

It doesn't actually cover game programming per-se, it's more of an introduction to 3d graphics programming book, but each chapter builds upon the last and there are assignments at the end of each chapter that allow you to play around with concepts that he walks you through so you can build a good understanding.

I've seen other books that are often recommended, and they're great by themselves, and they are nowhere near as utilitarian as this book. I cannot recommend them to beginners even if they're marketed as such.

By the end of it, you have a very good handle on a variety of concepts that you can readily apply towards, say, building a modern-day PBR pipeline.

It was my first exposure to spaced repetition learning, before I knew such a thing existed.
We Need to Talk About ‘Cloud Neutrality’
FTC Plans to Examine Past Acquisitions by Big Tech Companies
What's the dataset size? If there's billions of pedestrians tagged and a couple hundreds are missing, would it actually have a big impact on the training? Also looks like a lot of the people in those images are off the road. What's the current standard in AV? Is everything tagged on the sidewalk? (Genuine questions)
There are some really cool projects in the "500 Lines or Less"[0] book which is a part of the "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" series.

[0]: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
This is a fairly good article explaining the benefits of HS2 - it sounds like politicians have simply failed to get across what exactly HS2 is intended to accomplish and how it will benefit the country beyond LDN.

Certainly, I'd not much thought of it in these terms.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hs2-logistic...

(Form the Independent too, I once loved but now loathe).

Seems like our government has a bit of a track record explaining the benefits of grand but socially-contentious schemes... .
I liked "Deep Learning and the Game of Go" (by Max Pumperla and Kevin Ferguson). You actually create an AI Go player, one which may not be quite on the level of AlphaGo, but one that is probably better than any traditional min-max based player that was the state of the art until recently.
Why sequencing the human genome failed to produce big breakthroughs in disease
I’m going to be cynical and applaud the author at one of the most effective S.E.O. efforts I have seen lately: including his own app on a list of effective and well-curated apps for startups.
Let's not forget how advertising plays into this mentality. Advertising's sole purpose is to make you feel inferior/incomplete/inadequate without shiny new X. It's blasting at us constantly from every direction. Who is the most susceptible to it, those who are not struggling, or those who are? So they buy shiny new X, which is a bad financial decision.
Making Money, Making Happiness
I don't have a strong background in those in particular besides relearning basic math (up to linear algebra) and taking an online course in biology. So that one would probably be over my head.

I just want to know how everything works, it's just a matter of priority :)

The other commenters video did a pretty good overview at a basic level.
@mherrmann - Only about 10-20GB, so not the TB levels you are dealing with, but backblaze isn't actually doing the transfer, it is CloudFlare.

@toomuchtodo - Yes, and on top of that, both B2 and CloudFlare are completely free since I'm under the 10gb storage limit (for now), and i'm a personal user of CloudFlare(for now).
Even if it was an insane amount of cash, it'd quickly disappear and end up in the same position or worse. Look at the outcomes of lottery winners and others who come into a sudden windfall. Even when it's not sudden, you have clogs to clogs in 3 generations.

I think one of the biggest impacts we could make is to teach financial literacy in school, to everyone. Form and reinforce good habits early on. Demonstrate the danger of credit card interest. Demonstrate the power of compounding all throughout 1st to 12th grade. Taken seriously, it could have a huge effect on outcomes. It'd also make something like the Freedom Dividend (UBI) more effective when/if it happens.
Personal trivia... I once lived in area code 909, which was the worst of the rotary-dial era.
FTC will examine prior acquisitions by Big Tech companies
While at the same time taking out the competition they can't get to comply [0]

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/30/cyberbunker_cb3rob_...
I might be alone in this sentiment, but is anyone else out there with a history working with Boeing or in the industry feel slightly irritated with the armchair hot takes seen in the comments sections?
Thanks, I'll keep this in mind in the future.
The problem I always see with using taxation to solve problems (to prevent too many people from doing X), is that you're filtering by socioeconomic status. You're making it so that only the richer people can do it, and the poorer people are screwed once again. It's a simple fix from an institutional point of view, and it might "solve" the problem, but it just feels wrong to me. Not that I have a better solution though...
There's no other way to say this without sounding rude, but you weren't unable to learn R because you couldn't understand what a dataframe was - you were unable to learn R because you gave up. Blaming a data structure for the failure seems like a bit of a stretch.
What you're describing isn't poverty though. It's a bad financial situation, but not poverty. There doesn't seem to be any accountability for such spending - why is that?

I don't know your neighbours situation, but in general you can learn to be a good parent without having had one yourself.
The interesting thing is that the Trump supporters benefited the most, but they just didn’t realize it.

They blamed China for taking their jobs, and Trump capitalized on it. A foreign country with people that don’t look like yourself, or even speak the same language, and with a different political system was an easy target to scapegoat.

What they failed to realize was the impact that technology and automation had on their lives.

Do you see people working inside the heart of a car manufacturing factory anymore? No, it’s all robotic. What used to take hundreds of men, is now streamlined into an assembly line of 10 robots.

First, in the 80s and 90s, Walmart came and killed off the small businesses, but at least they provided some minimum wage jobs in their stores. Then, Amazon came and killed off the remaining smaller retailers, and tried to kill off Walmart. No more minimum wage cashier jobs, but more jobs for delivery people and warehouse workers.

Then, the software and hardware got better, that it started to replace those minimum wage cashiers jobs. Then robots got better, that they even started replacing the warehouse jobs.

But the United States had the benefit of creating technology over the past 70 years, and massively benefiting from the royalties that followed. Qualcomm doesn’t physically make any phones or computer chips, but 50% of their revenue comes from China.

Other jobs in technology like software, engineering, design, QA, project management, etc., were created in relation to technology, but these are not celebrated. Microsoft spawned a lot of software companies. Apple spawned a lot of smaller software businesses vying for space in their app market. But it seems none of these are celebrated in the world of Trump supporters.

Meanwhile, the Trump supporters benefited handsomely in one area: farming. Massive windfalls were made in selling grains and soy to China, who eagerly bought it all. The industrialized farms were literally printing money. And they thought they deserved that business, as if it was a god given right to them.

Maybe they got greedy, but more likely, they fell for the charm of a charlatan, and voted Trump into office, to take on the China problem. You know, the exact foreign customer that was buying up all their farm products. This baffles the mind on how they couldn’t make this connection.

Then in one fell swoop, Trump took that all away. Farm bankruptcies went higher and higher under Trump. He came in and demonized the very customer that was buying their products.

And now we have the coronavirus, and those dreams of decoupling the two economies of China and the United States, are about to come true.

The question is: are those Trump supporters ready for the ensuing fallout?
I have wondered about system downtime or time operating in a degraded state.

My understanding is other than mirrored, RAID configurations may take a long time to rebuild on the larger drives and this is a contributing factor to why the highest sales volume of drives has been 'stuck' at 4TB (thus the lower $/GB price).
We're launching a service that helps growth/ops teams get data about customers into go-to-market tools (a HN-worthy description would be "Fivetran in reverse"). Census connects directly to your data warehouse and syncs into apps like Salesforce, Marketo, Google Sheets, and FB Audiences.

You can customize how data is mapped and how frequently it’s synced. You can also use SQL to build custom views on your data. Our goal is to help you build an effective customer data hub out of your data warehouse.

Would love to hear feedback from the HN community.
upwork has a non-circumvention clause with a minimal $3500 fee to break (it pretty much always scales to be not worth breaking).

As to "how will they catch us" it would seem to fairly obvious from the freelancers schedule
The future of influencer outreach is becoming hostile for new marketers
> they can read it from beginning to end and it makes sense.

I disagree. First 20 lines in a single block means that any single line can have interact with any other. The 19th line's behavior can be subtly influenced by what's on the first line. That means it's not just an issue of reading line-by-line. You have to keep every line in the entire code block in working memory simultaneously.

The limits of human working memory is about seven or eight chunks. When functions get longer than this, they take exponentially longer to understand. 100 lines of code broken up into 25 line functions can take ten times longer to understand than 1000 lines of code broken up into well-abstracted four line functions.
It's not just the northern regions that lose out. HS2 improves rail travel into and out of London at the expense of diverting funds and resources away from improving rail travel within the commuter belt and allowing it to function as something other than housing for London workers that can't afford to live there.
Ok, we've changed to that first link from https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/f-secure-just-made-an-un.... Thanks!
Strangely lately Firefox has been failing both Acid2 and Acid3 tests (see https://www.acidtests.org/) even though it used to pass them years ago.
They got fat and complacent, and they can no longer do the thing competitively at all. SpaceX has lapped them on new spacecraft development as well as cost. And I don't think they'll be the last, either. I'd sooner trust a new design out of Blue Origin over Boeing, as well.