skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a company, forcerank, that was fantasy stock market. Rank stocks based on expected performance, and winner gets points, with cash prizes. They ran into a little SEC trouble, so careful with gamificating investing. https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-216.html

That said, it was a fun idea. Instead of picking lottery numbers, ranking tickers in the right order, and then pulling a date out of a hat? Something that only operates on past data?
Presumably you would also say this to coders who work for, I don't know ... Palantir, or companies that make software primarily (but not necessarily) used by spammers?
Balkanization is the fastest way to find out what works and doesn't and allow for local control and decision making, it also makes nice for frequent wars and nutty leaders.
It's almost certainly easier than it used to be because you can do so much online, everyone has a mobile number, etc. There are even basically "address as a service" services for mail forwarding and the like. Still, there's probably more peace of mind (and it's probably somewhat more legit) to be officially living somewhere with someone reliable even if you just happen to almost never be there.

When I was doing it for my friend, it was never that big a deal. But stuff did come up every now and then that needed to be handled.
Uh... free for the taking is not exactly right. They patented the shit out of it. Look up the "Wright brothers patent war" they waged world wide for licensing fees. It took WW1, with the USA extremely far behind in aircraft innovation, for the gov to end their patent trolling adventure.
There’s a lot of misunderstanding about what UX really is, but it’s quite easy to give a good definition: it’s a data-driven approach to UI design, which is based on studies of user psychology and diversity and using those studies to align UI with the business needs (which may not coincide with user needs, hence „dark UX patterns“). UX is never about personal perception or preference of designers and developers, there‘s no place for likes and dislikes. The „UI/UX“ in the job title is a non-sensical recruiting bullshit, usually describing a visual designer without any real UX knowledge.
Upvoted for sharing that article.

However, I think your comment would have been more impactful if you coolly made your point and linked to the WaPo article for further reading instead of using that inflammatory tone and language.
It claims 20Hz at 90 dB. How in the heck is that possible with such a tiny device?
Agreed. Adobe severely mismanaged Macromedia's baby. They kept adding features at a frantic pace while breaking core functionality. I remember AS3 being so broken by the early 2010s i wasn't even sure anymore if my code was wrong or Flash was just broken... It is shocking in retrospect a technology with all but 100% market share went to zero in just a few years with no suitable replacement in many respects.

A WASM / Node / Canvas combination with a development GUI similar to Flash that all but bypasses HTML and CSS would be amazing; and if done correctly, possibly revolutionary. It is my dream project for some future time....
You can do many things: You can pass those laws, put people in jail, make up the term "hate speech" and condemn everyone who does that. But you can not say that we have internet (or any other) freedom in Germany. There is some nice english proverb about a cake and eating it too
Pretty shocking in a state that has such strict privacy laws. Not sure how the two can come from the same mouth, and even be in public view.

My understanding is that the privacy restrictions are largely the result of half the country having lived under the Statsi, and thus being extremely weary of government eyes. Here it’s out in the open!
No bs: I've had TSA refuse to accept my US passport card for domestic travel. He claimed there is no such thing. Twenty years down the line and we need some basic training...
They just have to hijack one existing CA that's within their jurisdiction and force it to issue MITM certs. Key pinning or certificate transparency may mitigate this.

Or the MITM box could use some kind of HTTP downgrade attack and not worry about certificates at all.
Or in the vehicle that delivers it to you, like Zume Pizza.
It's been verified that primary school teachers, who have all gone to work as usual, as primary schools never closed, haven't shown a significantly higher number of infection than others.
However DACA itself is unlawful in that it is an Executive Order undermining Federal immigration law, so the administration's rescinding it on the basis of its unlawfulness should be sufficient enough justification. The problem is that the Court's ruling indicates that an EO which subverts existing law cannot be overturned by subsequent administrations simply on the basis of its illegality. Justice Thomas' dissent says exactly this.

That's incredibly problematic. According to the recent ruling therefore, a President has the power to issue and EO which prevents the enforcement of certain laws.
Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek snitched for Austrian right-wing party FPÖ
> Congress made a promise

When exactly did that happen?
Maybe, maybe not. Plenty of activist judges out there, so you never know how stuff will go. SCOTUS also gets to select what they will look at, and there are plenty of topics that they have left as split circuit opinions (look at all the stuff under gun rights).
I said subtle, not non-existent.

For example you tout the advantages of enforced access rules. And indeed enforcement is good for avoiding bugs from accidental concurrent access. But said enforcement also means that bugs in releasing access at the proper time are harder to recover from. I've seen systems fail both ways, and it is unclear to me which one is better. (For example I've had more problems with Windows enforcing locking in its filesystem than with bugs in Unix's advisory only locking policy.)
I get branding and brand guidelines. I just don't get what "brand values" are and what they have to do with UX.
No, I understand, and agree with the decision.

My disagreement is with people who excuse executive overreach by saying, "congress refused to act." Put another way, they're saying, "I had to work around the law to get what I wanted."
Wow, those numbers are astonishing. I think "defaults matter" has been one of the biggest themes in modern tech. Countless inferior products have won out simply by being the most discoverable and least friction option. That the new design is still failing despite that massive advantage is damning.
So I know Moore's law is "dead" (dead as in Cobol or dead as in Elvis?) and progress is definitely slower than it has been historically however we have only began to really start leveraging parallelization at scale from a software perspective, so I think we have some runway in that direction, and of course the looming elephant on the horizon, Quantum computing.

Sure it is in it's infancy but assuming that the research continues to prove that quantum computing is viable I expect it to be an even bigger deal than the move from vacuum tubes to transistors. At that point we'll be dealing with an entirely different world in computing.
Maybe, maybe not. Easter island is one of the most isolated islands in the world and is also one of the easternmost islands in the Pacific. It's still a long way to go to get to South America from there. Maybe a few family units arrived and then forgot about boat building and navigation for a few generations because the islands land resources were so plentiful. I think something similar happened to native people on Tasmania - they took a boat to get there, but forgot how to build boats eventually and so were stuck on their island without the ability to go to mainland Australia.
"Falsehoods programmers believe about maps. #1 It is possible to create one consistent and complete world map"

Law and geopolitics is not code. Treaties only have the meaning that signatories read into it.

> Does the government just accept that Israel or Germany get to decide who are Israeli and German citizens?

Certainly not!

Israel has its uncertain relationship with the occuptied terrotories / Palestein.

Germany had the East/West occuptation.

China has its disputes regarding Taiwan and Hong Kong.
They are sovereign. Neither you nor the state of California should impose your views on them. If anything, we should ask permission from them to be on California land.
Scott, answering to a different question: "I’m not sure what kind of evidence you want me to give. But if you want, you can confirm with Cade that I begged him, at great length, many times, over the course of days, not to use my real name in the article. I gave him a warning that I would delete the blog if he used my real name, in order to pressure him to reconsider, and I only deleted the blog after he refused."

https://www.coindesk.com/i-failed-terribly-at-keeping-my-ide...
I'm sure the reasons for collecting your PII are not frivolous to the consumers of that data.
Do undue the decades assault on the very idea that government can be good or efficient.
For over a decade, every July someone has posted this exact question to LKML
Being stuck at home this summer has inspired my wife and I to show our kids the classic movies that we grew up with during the 80s and 90s (Goonies, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, etc). After going through the obvious ones, we started having difficulty remembering them all, so I created a website for just this purpose: to help parents rediscover movies from their childhood. It shows every film rated PG-13 and lower that was released at least 15 years ago. You can filter the movies by maturity level, add movies to your watch list and see where you can stream the movies. It's a simple website, without ads, that aims to help parents get through the summer with some good kid-friendly movies.

Made with boring technology (PHP and a bit of JS) because it was fastest this way. An interesting technical challenge for me (still ongoing a bit) is cleaning the data. Some screen-scraping, a few APIs to integrate and still a bunch of manual labor for myself hunting for urls to relevant review sites and normalizing things. I ended up pushing most of this manual labor through another one of my projects (https://www.t4sk.dev) which is basically mechanical turk for your personal private microtasks.

Ive already used MovieNight.tips to discover several great 80s movies that I somehow missed while growing up. I hope it helps others as well.
Scott Alexander only recently moved to the Bay Area, and as a clinician, he is very unlikely to be associated with any tech companies, although many techies read his blog, of course.

The NYT behavior here was despicable. Not quite Wen-Ho Lee yellow-baiting despicable, but despicable nonetheless. The New Yorker shares the same envious hatred of tech companies most of the New York media scene seems to evince, not surprisingly as their livelihoods are evaporating. That said, the reason this is happening is not tech companies, but the take-over of news companies by entertainment conglomerates, the replacement of actual reporting by infotainment goop, and the turning of reporting from a slightly disreputable working-class scrabble to a respectable profession for fancy liberal-arts college graduates who would never dream of being rude to their fellow classmates working in PR, law or other professions dedicated to preserving the status quo, let alone afflicting the comfortable.
Yeah we actually studied the FNB program when we were setting out to develop Yotta. Basically, it got shut down because it got so popular in its ~2 years of operation and was taking away from the National Lottery.

The difference in the U.S is that there has been legislation explicitly supporting prize-linked savings, which didn't exist in South Africa. It was more of a grey area there.

A great academic read on the FNB MaMa program here: http://beniverson.org/papers/MaMa.pdf
Indeed, the publicity stunt in question currently seems to be favoring Alexander.
> This seems counterproductive: if it's my personal information blurb I don't much want other people looking at its history and I certainly don't want them forking it.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this would mean you're opposed to the existence of web archives (which you probably aren't).
Meaning that no non-frivolous purpose exists?
There are good reasons for that. At an old company I was at, over a couple years I was around there were multiple (~5) instances of clients asking for custom reports or data dumps, and they were sent data from other clients (as well as their own) because a tenant id was missed in some joins, or something similar. Yes, sloppy practices all around allowed that to happen. That being said, it would have been much less likely to happen if data segregation were enforced at the database level (using either RLS, or separate database/schema/tables per-client).
Ironically this degrades privacy as the CDN can track you everywhere..
It's not a well thought out protest. Do the Ford employees expect the cops to jog to their house when someone has broken in?
> Did the US government ever acknowledge them as independent foreign nations?

Yes. That's why we had to write treaties with them, to gain proper title to the land. Even if we treated those who signed the treaties as having more authority than they actually did, and if we treated the treaties as mere scraps of paper, those treaties were still seen as treaties with legitimate sovereign nations.
Well this type of employee activism is happening everywhere even in tech, or especially so in tech.

I work at a company in SF that's gone full ACAB ("all cops are bastards"), defund the police, you must be with us or you are not an "anti-racist", et. There's a lot of internal activist groups and what not.

I worry that investors have no idea how much time and resources are spent on this, but then I consider that activist shareholders themselves have become a movement.

The reality is that this type of thing is going to become more and more common and accepted.
I'm surprised you don't consider other possibilities, like that he was genuinely concerned about his real name being made known, for the reasons he stated. You don't address these.

I'm also surprised that you feel able to diagnose someone you presumably don't know as a sociopath. This seem like hyperbole.

Honestly, I don't think this post is up to YC standards.
I don’t have kids so I have no idea what is thought/taught anymore, but this is the sort of thing I was exposed to repeatedly starting in late grade school through early high school. I found government boring back then so I didn’t elect to take classes beyond the basic curriculum in that area.
Money buys even more happiness than it used to
Same here, after the video i couldn't tell why would this guy want to finish to the end. He could go with one big try\catch exception that returns empty array in except block.
It's not so simple for many people. We are very privileged in IT.
That's a false dichotomy… and it's the conclusion of the (sub)argument, not the evidence.
Giving the Florida Seminoles territory in Oklahoma (or giving land to an Oklahoma tribe and calling that a ceding to Seminoles?) would be weird at best.
Thanks for checking it out. The browser is indeed chromium based - and it blends into the larger app as a component.

The most difficult part was actually managing scope creep. I think when building productivity tools, it can be easy to try and optimize everything and be a place for everything. So drawing the line at focus work and really pushing on those items was critical to stay grounded.
Would be nice to see this published to the Microsoft Edge Addons store - https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons
What does clinic mean in this context? Thanks
Nvidia has been producing their own ARM cores since at least 2014:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver

The ARM core performance hasn't been spectacular vs the latest and greatest from Samsung and Apple but combined with CUDA and tensor cores it can provide pretty incredible results considering the cost, form factor, and power consumption. Carmel is also at least two years old at this point...

Their project Denver announcement from 2011 discusses plans for server and HPC applications:

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2011/01/05/project-denver-proc...
Backbones appear to be included.
I am looking for a new non-macbook and one of my primary criteria is that is should have Intel Integrated Graphics as the Linux drivers are open source and well integrated.

It feels like nvidia as a whole is leaning more towards special applications and proprietary solutions. They care more about gaming/hpc/machine-learning/self-driving and they are just not that interested in personal computers.

If I ever need the horsepower physically present on my desk I can still buy an external nvidia unit.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393432
I would if I believed in the system. The system has become an oligarchy where the ruling class is not subject to rule of law. The system ignores blatant violation of law by making frivolous excuses. For example, how can we allow people to wait years for a trial when the constitution guarantees the right to a speedy trial?
It has been tried but the laws protecting police were broadly written before the supreme court invented qualified immunity. When every court case ends with either 'well he said he feared for his life when confronting this sitting/fleeing subject so it was a good shoot' or 'well this is clearly a violation of your rights but the courts haven't ruled that in this exact situation before so we can't expect the cop to have realized that' is it surprising that people are starting to look for other avenues to express their disapproval?
So what's the third option? Do you believe that Alexander deleted his blog because he was trying to hide something, as the sentence I quoted implies?

If so, why did he take an action that he must have known would draw wide public attention (from a wide audience, including people much less sympathetic to his opinions than his usual readers), while leaving the content available with only slight inconvenience? You can read his blog on the Internet Archive now, and cherry-pick whatever fragments you want. As another poster notes, the IA does allow webmasters to request removal, but he doesn't seem to have done so.
As a European whose exposure to SV's culture and politics has mainly been through HN and similar sites, it definitely was a fascinating read.

Apart from some unfair points (the definition of doxxing for example), I think it was a pretty reasonable old media take on SV tech libertarianish viewpoints.
It's a political and cultural disagreement that I don't think has a clear-cut "good" and "bad" side, but it's certainly an interesting back-and-forth discussion to follow.
The US has evolved a similar rigging for our privileged. We supply various obscure sports accolades that can be purchased for the children of wealthy families to obtain admission to our leading universities. Unfortunately our schemes have also been exposed and a number of people are being prosecuted. So for the moment one must resort to investing in rather costly facility construction or similar expansion projects while we develop low cost alternatives to replace the now compromised schemes.
Might makes Right gave way to White makes Right.
Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation Will Drive Creativity in Future
Agreed. I think there's a lot of overreaction in these comments. Yes, the writer has his own point of view, but he tries pretty hard to be fair and balanced, and I learnt a lot from reading it.
Additionally, this is a much less clean break than "blah blah blah thank you all blah blah blah new projects blah blah blah goodbye" would be. Also, the NYT could have backed down on the spot and he would be expected to put the blog back up.
> This not accurate. Congress failing to act due to deadlock does not indicate that either party agrees that no change ought to be made, only that congress couldn’t come to an agreement about how it should be made.

That is actually literally what it means. The way the Union is set up, there is a certain amount of consensus necessary to pass legislation over 50 States across 300+ million people.

If there is a deadlock, then it's the system telling you that the consensus isn't met. In a Federal system, this means that the next best place to (try to) pass the law is at the State level, where you may have less of a deadlock.
I mean, shipping prices when shopping online also aren't the exact cost of shipping your package. "Free" shipping when you hit a minimum order is still being paid for in the price you pay per-item. Pretty much no prices magically reflect true costs anywhere. Delivery is no different. I don't know why you think delivery deserves to be super-transparently-related-to-costs when literally nothing else is in business except sales tax. (Pizzerias also make a tiny or no profit on cheese pizza but waaaay more on toppings, and cinemas make most of their profit from popcorn and sugar water, not your movie ticket. By your logic, all these are equally misleading.)

And your idea that competition results in "reasonable terms" is just wrong, I'm afraid. You're stating this as fact when it's not. There's tons of competition in airfares and in signing up for credit cards, but they're full of scummy terms. And restaurants objectively have lots of choices of delivery services to sign up with. In fact, there has never been a time in human history when they had more choices for delivery. Those are facts.
Lol, its ironic that the people who claim that liberals or people on the left have a victim complex, uh, have a victim complex.

Yikes, Quilette is such psuedo-intellectual garbage. 5 dollar words, 1 cent thoughts.
The numbers should really be 100% instead of 25% and 10%. Much has been stolen from them.
Think of it like this:

You own quite a bit of fenced-land and have built some dwellings on it, a main home, a couple outbuildings, a barn, etc... you and your family farm it, raise livestock, hunt, fish, etc... and live quite well off the land without ever needing to leave or venture beyond the fence.

One day you see some strangers outside your fence, looking quite haggard, and ill setting up a camp using nothing but the meager supplies left in their vehicles, and what looks to be parts of the vehicles themselves...

Feeling compassion you attempt to help them, you open your gate and land to them, your home even, providing food, additional shelter, and even teaching them some basic things about your land and how to harvest, hunt, fish and generally live off it...

Fast forward a couple centuries, and now your "guests" have double-crossed
you... taken all your land by force, persecuted your family while committing countless crimes including rapes, murders, and basically genocide on a continental scale.

In an act of "graciousness" during one of countless "treaties" you've been forced into accepting under duress - so that your entire family wasn't completely wiped from the face of the earth... you were "allowed" some small areas of undesireable land by your new masters where you be confined and kept out of the way without constantly needing to be harrased and supervised into submission... that was until those same people found out there was oil and other commodities buried underneath your newly constucted hovels... at which point they just pushed you into smaller and smaller areas, and took what they wanted from you and yours at-will anyway... I mean who could you complain to? their bought-and-paid for system of goverment and courts? the same that were used to persecute your family and steal your lands and heritage?

Now apparently some judges have decided to interpret the law as written, instead of posing for pictures in black gowns with pretty little wooden hammers...