skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given what I've seen in practice with companies that try to follow this architecture, I can't say I'm very surprised.

This type of architecture is really only suitable for a narrow problem domain, imho. Most people that I've seen attempt it don't understand all of the edge cases that arise from it.

For example, not getting immediate success or failure status from an API call, and having to constantly poll to see what the status of a submitted message is.
The comment above movement in the article had me thinking... banking movements must feel scarier close to the windows on these types of planes.
Text input is a priority but also hard to align on is complex, potentially risky, work.

Console log background was worked on by a contributor as its a good first bug.
The beauty of web clients is that you can control the font size if it looks bad on your device.
If a parent could model behavior which reliably leads out of poverty, their children likely wouldn't be poor in the first place.

So, yes, having a not-poor father (or mother) as a role model would be great, but that's often not a practical solution.
Still no LastPass on Android. Why is this so?
I can second that. It looks fine on mobile, but awful on my work Macbook. Head's up to the author, you might want to check your CSS.
Exactly. I can fully understand how they might be a paradigm shift from that sort of banking ecosystem.

For us it was just a bank that lacked features and had charges, without a memorable brand.
I agree, I tend to find myself assuming everything not "clean" is technical debt - putting things in these three buckets has helped (YMMV).

1. If you don't have users, you don't have technical debt (you might have lot's of #2 though). You could frag the entire app and the only thing of value (not potential value) lost would be your job. Debt implies value was quickly received in exchange for a flexible re-payment schedule (of time in this case, not money); if the code is not actively being used to save/spend/gain some resource then that value exchange has not happened yet.

2. Correct Code* that is unclean and could be improved in <= time that it took to write is just bad code. Fix this code now.

3. Correct Code that is unclean and would take significantly more time to improve than it took to write is technical debt (but only if you have users). This is where a balance needs to be struck between business needs and development needs. Manage this code carefully.

*code that correctly implements business logic, incorrect code is always bad - no matter how long it took to write.
People should learn not to go outside if they're not labelled.
Notably, in the chart, the US seems to do even worse.

If you doubt this, consider hiring a new BS grad sight unseen. Do you feel lucky?
A tube fuselage is also easier to build offsite. Boeing still carts 737 fuselages back and forth across Seattle on the railways.

Have you seen how Boeing was building (well, how Mitsubishi was building, in point if fact) carbon fiber wings? They were doing it with carbon fiber ribbons as a single piece.

I don’t know if that scales up to the size of a blended body, though.
Putting my tinfoil hat on, after reading the Snowden disclosures I'm convinced that they do have limited means of attacking encrypted communication but they would rather rely on these (expendable) means. Once they lose their crypto vulnerabilities it will force them to be even more overt.
Game changing!
It seems pretty obvious to me in context what the word means. You could play that game with literally every word in the sentence.

What does "achieve" mean? It's that way out of the box? If I invest in a special team of Unity developers it's possible? They'll give it to me if I work hard enough?

What does "beautiful" mean? High poly? Vibrant color? Critics or fans say it looks good? There's an object beauty score that it has high marks in?

ad nauseam
Yev here - it's interesting, we don't really chat about that often - what I would do is get the least expensive drive that has the most capacity and make sure the NAS is backed up somewhere in case of failure or theft. Personally I think the Toshiba drives are pretty good, but Seagates are affordable and do a good job. Plus there's always HGST which are rock-solid, but tend to run a bit more expensive.
Previously I had managed to force Firefox not to make unwanted automatic connections using gHacks user.js [0] and this official guide [1], but this new version makes a connection to firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com after startup no matter what. Not a big deal, but leaves a bad aftertaste from the upgrade.

[0] https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...
> I'm not against the poor having nice toys

But they aren't toys. They are very cheap, and very bad childcare.
Lots of reading (books, blogs, etc.) has been helpful for me the past few years and it seems like I pickup new things all the time. A few things I use/reference:

- YNAB (You Need A Budget) - budgeting/tracking app, plus lots of great content on how to use the software and generally manage your budget/expenses

- /r/personalfinance subreddit - checkout their wiki [1] and flowchart [2] in particular for a really helpful overview

- For investments I use spreadsheets to track allocation, targets, etc.

- Bogleheads wiki - investing, heavy on index funds, low fees, etc.

- Whitecoat investor - a lot of good content, mostly aimed at high income earners plus some content specific to medical doctors [3]

- A variety of books - there are a lot of good ones out there

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics#w...

3. https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/new-to-the-blog-start-here...
Ok, looks like you all prefer to use the tabs as bookmarks!

If I have too many tabs open, I just bookmark and tag the site I still may want to want peruse later, and close the tab.
A well-paid peasant is still a peasant.

Remember when the big tech co's were conspiring together against their own employees?

"Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees"

https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

You're just buying into "The Man"'s propaganda to keep the working class divided, yo.

(It reminds me of a joke from Futurama. Leela gets a bunch of valuable stock and says, "Wow! I suddenly have an opinion about the capital gains tax!")
VERY interested in "Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications"

I noticed that it was released Sept 2018. That's not too old, but I'm curious if there's a more up-to-date version.
DHH on coding bootcamps, Lambda School and US higher education
I always assumed that this is exactly what happened to Skype and Whatsapp.
The point of doing an operating system UI in a game engine is so that you can use that operating system UI within games written in that engine!

There's several examples - Simulacra, Emily was Away, Hypnospace Outlaw - that use the interface of an (imaginary) computer as their primary framing device.

Or it could be useful in an immersive-sim type game where there happen to be computers you can interact with; you could immediately see the applications in some kind of hacking-themed game.
It's scary when you consider two other factors:

First, the AI hype train. People think that calling something "Artificial Intelligence" implies that it is artificial, yes, but also, critically, that it is intelligent. Many enthusiastic people, and also many policymakers, don't fully realize the extent to which machine learning is constrained by both the quality and nature of its training data, and the capabilities of the larger, non-intelligent, software framework that it's being plugged into.

Second, that we have one case study - the post-mortem analysis of the fatal pedestrian collision in Arizona - that strongly indicates that commercial products are not free of the sorts problems being highlighted here, and that, unlike what others have suggested, misclassification problems aren't necessarily an issue that's isolated to individual frames and that will come out in the wash when the software is dealing with a stream of frames.

Me, I think that self-driving cars are probably a lot like nuclear power. In theory, yes, it is a great idea. In practice, there are a lot of little details that one must get right, and there seem to be a whole lot of opportunities for flaky engineering decisions and incompetent public policy, both enabled by insufficiently-tempered optimism, to scuttle the whole thing.
The Past and the Future of Hub
I think they will slowly turn into IBM. Maybe a better version of IBM though.
> At least in the US there is some legal procedure, accountability and civil society culture around limiting govt power.

No: go read about National Security Letters.
Snowflake Vaults to $12B Valuation, Partners with Salesforce
That's a funny joke. But really, I'm sure it's outdated.

There really shouldn't be any JS books in print...
RMS did not coerce an underage woman, and no one is alleging this.
I use Backblaze's B2 service for both backup (via restic) and archival storage (via git-annex). I only maintain a distinction between the two in case I ever want to move to another service, and also because git-annex and restic have different strengths that make them more or less suitable for unchanging archives and often changing backups respectively. Between the two I have about 1 TB stored with them.

I have yet needed to do a full restore, but I do partial restores from time to time to double-check my backup procedures and every time it's done what I wanted. My monthly costs are usually a bit under $5.

Note I essentially never use B2's API directly, and only use it as a backend through wrappers others have written, so I have no real experience with how good its API is. One of the few times I did try the API, I remember at one point I think I was getting Java exceptions back in the error messages, which was mildly concerning from a hygiene perspective and made for rather terrible error messages, but no sensitive data was being emitted. I also think that's been fixed.

The bottom line is that B2 has worked fine for me and at a good price point.
Can the King of Ultrarunning Conquer a Race as Short as the Marathon?
"Recent studies have found that women in STEM fields publish less, are paid less for their research, and do not progress as far as men in their careers"...I hope this continues to change. Would be curious to hear what others think needs to happen on a practical, day-to-day level in order to bring about this change. Also looking forward to celebrating International Women's Day on March 8th!
Why did this drop completely from the front page?
I agree with your skepticism, but it's important to note that Brexit being pushed back implied that it might not happen, or that it might be very soft. It wasn't certain until a couple of months ago, when the vote effectively reaffirmed Brexit (or at the very least, that the Remain vote was so badly confused as to make it a fait accompli).

So there is almost certainly more going on here than Brexit, but there's also a chance that they were hoping that a soft/nonexistent Brexit would create a more favorable environment.
It's scary not because this specific dataset was used to train Teslas that are on the road today. Rather, because it makes us aware of an entire class of errors that most of us probably hadn't thought about before. I guess you are absolutely certain that training data used in production cars will be free of these issues, but it's not clear why.
No, they were talking about doing that or leaving without a deal. That message didn't really change until the Chequers speech in July 2018, when no deal was essentially taken off the table.
Not sure if you actually follow Brexit but the situation now is completely different to the last 2 years.

Michael Gove this week formerly advised businesses that the UK is going down the hard Brexit path i.e. leaving the customs union, single market and with full regulatory divergence from the EU.

Under these circumstances it is impossible to run a business like N26 in the UK serving the EU.
IME it's just the opposite: my uncle is a retired mechanic who used to work at Boeing, and over Christmas dinner he opined that the press and armchair hot takes are if anything not going far enough, and that internally Boeing is even more of a disaster than we know.
> for smaller amounts of data (under 30 TB)

Did you mean to say 30 GB or 30 TB? Calling 30 TB as "smaller amount" seems weird to me in 2020, especially for personal data. Perhaps it would be the norm in a couple of decades. :)

FWIW, I have way under 1 TB of personal data to backup to different locations, and I consider that to be relatively large.
Next step for UK is to reduce regulations compared to EU to make it easier for people to setup shop in UK compared to EU.
I'm not sure exactly what the author's thesis is. Yes, there are people that live in the city, and they don't all hang out at Caesars Palace every weekend. This is not news. What strikes me about the Las Vegas metro area, apart from the gaming zones, is how boring it is.

Yes, there's a lot of natural beauty, and I love hiking when I'm there. But I've also been all around the metro area and honestly, there is just not a lot going on. Apart from the casinos, it's a pretty generic desert city; lots of chain restaurants and strip malls. There's not very much industry outside of tourism/hospitality.

I would never say "I could never live in Vegas" because of the casinos. I say "I could never live in Vegas" because there is almost nothing else going on.
Sounds Enterprise
That is brilliant. Here is a list of 10 experts in their field. #5 Self.
Free Online Full Stack Web Development Bootcamps
I can't imagine that they skipped testing altogether. It seems much more likely that it was just very poor testing that managed to completely skirt the issue
Patent Wars in Digital Era
That's a very dangerous suggestion.

The risk is buying into status symbols of a class beyond your reach. You may signal a certain amount of wealth by buying the latest iPhone, but the "rich and educated" won't be fooled. They will quickly notice where you are living, the car you are driving, the clothes you are wearing and how you spend your vacations, etc... And if it doesn't match, you will get ridiculed. You will be better off living within your means. The rich usually have good finances, that's why they are rich, and they will be more likely to accept you if you have it too.

But getting shunned is not the worst that can happen. If you try to follow them, you are going to get burned very quickly. If they can afford a $100 dinner on a whim, they are going to do it, why wouldn't they. And if you want to stay in their group, you will be tempted to follow, except that you can't afford it.
I mean giving up so easily when they have the capital to become a bank in the UK is really the issue here. Sure, it would have been harder than inside the EU, the real story is about them having no customers :-)
There is some level of mechanical control. The airframe is stable in wing design computer is continuously adjusting control surfaces it's not flyable by a human.
For a fuller discussion of statistical process control charts in the NHS (an English NHS example this time) you might be interested in "Making Data Count". https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/making-data-count/

Especially the Plot the Dots booklet: https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/2748/NHS_MAKING_DATA_CO...
Thorsten Ball's Writing An Interpreter In Go.

A fantastically written technical book that walks through writing an interpreter for a simple programming language. It's test driven and a great introduction to the core concepts. Also a good book to get hands on with idiomatic Go code.

https://interpreterbook.com/

Thorsten does a great job talking about the concepts in the book in this Go Time podcast: https://changelog.com/gotime/107
Ask HN: Platform for Developer Analytics in Portfolio?
I'm thinking of building this platform where developers can analyze the code that they have written over the years and stored on GitHub. I was wondering how much would people like it if that data was integrated with their portfolio. So for those of you who can take some time out to respond to the survey, please do. Here is the link: https://adityagiri.typeform.com/to/cEOFhg
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We're seeking highly skilled scientists and engineers to join our Research staff, which invents and implements the quantitative models that drive trading in our funds. There are two open roles:

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"A Boy and A Battery" (1942), Yates.

There was a whole series, "A Boy and a Motor", "The Boy's Guide to Gas Engines", etc. How to build your own toys if you have few tools but the skills of a master machinist.
Not feeling spoiled at all, not at all. Especially not with 2 to 3 percent of failure rate. The failure rate I experienced in my workstation makes me worry about not having raid 1 or 10. HDs for 9 TB in raid 10 are not that cheap.

But the bigger issue is that the warranty terms for HDs nowadays is down to 2 or 3 years, so this investment is short living. It also tell you something about the manufacturers reliability estimation of their products.
Ask HN: What ML datasets do you wish were available as a real time event feed?
They weren't. This was never an option for banking, it is heavily protected almost everywhere (even within the Single Market).

The issue is that the UK is a very hard market: infinite competition from startups that are well-capitalised, and huge mega-banks that invest heavily in technology and run at low cost. For example, Lloyds has £400bn in retail deposits and cost/income of ~50%...German/French banks run closer to ~75-80%. We have some laggards (RBS) but generally, it is very tough (as are the Nordics).
Ex-Google finance chief quits Oxford university spin-out fund
Revolut has ~10m customers. Not all in the UK, but Revolut and Monzo both have enough accounts to be inside the top 10 current account providers in the Uk
Yes, very common here in Berlin expat community.
He's saying the reason they failed is nothing to do with brexit and everything to do with the fact that no one knew about them.

But they are blaming brexit instead of their own failure.
Where are you getting that crazy idea? Why wouldn't the US government trust them going forward? It doesn't matter if they don't deliver or their planes crash and kill hundreds: what's important is that they know all the right people, and they're "too big to fail". I see no indication that the government will stop preferring them.

Of course, foreign government and airlines might very well stop doing business with them, but that'll just cause the US government to prop them up even more.
Yeah, I was thinking the same... along with "don't let the door bang behind you on the way out". Not that I voted for Brexit - quite the opposite as it happens, and I'd be a lot happier if we were still in the EU - but I don't have much patience with questionable excuses from businesses who failed to effectively compete with other companies in their space.

If they were running a commercially viable operation in the U.K., or had realistic hopes of doing so in the foreseeable future, of course they'd have applied for a UK banking license. The only reason not to do so is if that isn't the case.

Brexit has nothing to do with it, and I suppose we learn again that success requires more than just hubris and a truckload of money.
I recommend the National Atomic Testing Museum, which isn't as random as it seems to be located in Vegas. Vegas is near where the above-ground nuclear tests used to be held, and as various pictures in the museum attest, people could see the mushroom clouds from Vegas hotels.
Hybrid Incremental Compilers f. Cross-Module Extensibility/Internal Build System
Ok, using browser tabs as "bookmarks".

I used to do something similar too with Opera (the original one with Presto engine) but with their "Speed Dial" feature. I miss Presto Opera - it was light-weight, fast and wasn't bogged down by even with 100's of open tabs and had fantastic browser features that nearly all their competitors copied.
My 401k is maxed out and all in on FSKAX. Taxable brokerage is all in on VT and VTI. I have a Roth that I max out and invest more aggressively in due to the favorable tax treatment. 6 month emergency fund I’m thinking about bumping up to 9.

I don’t have any debt at a rate that makes me feel like I’m in any hurry to pay it off.
Leaving without a deal under May was a meaningless threat. It was never going to happen and Parliament had the numbers to prevent that from logistically happening anyway.

The difference now is that Johnson has the numbers, the mandate and the will for a no-deal Brexit. And Gove has just warned businesses this is happening:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/10/checks-on-e...
This is fundamental to trading/speculating on anything.

Buying a stock/bond/asset comes with the intrinsic belief the value will increase. Being more specific, purchasing any speculative asset comes with the belief that the thing I am buying will increase in value relative to the thing I'm buying it.

The reverse is also true for selling a speculative asset.

Now that that is out of the way. Let's continue cherry picking as you've done and consider traders that specialize in short selling companies they deem as bad market actors. What do high profile short sellers do? They go on all sorts of media rants warning about companies/assets ect TO WARN PEOPLE AND INFORM THEM (legitimate or otherwise) for their own gain.

Cherry picking these ideas with respect to crypto is totally naive.
Deep Dive into VPC Flow Logs: Practical Tutorial
A few ideas:

- App store downloads

- YouTube viewing statistics

- Stock market data

- Tweets from specific individuals

- Hacker News upvotes by story
I have my budget in a spreadsheet. Top line is income, then the rest are expenses. The spreadsheet is really just for projecting what fixed costs and savings I can afford, I don't follow it strictly.

The key thing is the way all my accounts are set up. All money flows into the checking account, and then automatic deductions take the savings into different accounts for short term and long term. Money does not sit in the checking account for long (except for a small-ish cushion.) All spending is done on credit cards, which I pay off in full with automatic payments from the checking account. This way, I know when I'm over-spending, because I have to transfer money back into the checking account. This is key, because it means as long it's planned (for a vacation, for example), it's fine. But if it's unplanned, I know I need to be more careful.
Clearview AI. Facial recognition as used by US law enforcement
Tesla claims using 110 fps in their older and 2,300 fps in their newer cars.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot#Hardware_3)
It does not make use aware of a new class of errors. Labeling issues is nothing new, but plenty of systems trained on them continue to work just fine. This is FUD.
Michael Bloomberg's Secret Weapon
Ask HN: How to use developer skills for occasionally making money on the side?
Once you have a portfolio of skills you can use professionally, how can you "make a quick buck"? Most alternative revenue streams described by developers are either grown slowly (eg. side-business) or require already established and trusted profile (eg. Upwork) and plenty of time to actually complete the project.