skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked the story about Singer. I didn't realize how drastically something small like a sewing machine changed day to day life for people and America as a whole

https://tareksway.com/visionaries/sew-much-hope/
It was fined $1.9 billion in Dec 2012[1]:

"HSBC admitted having poor money laundering controls and apologised.

"We accept responsibility for our past mistakes," said HSBC group chief executive Stuart Gulliver in a statement.

"We have said we are profoundly sorry for them, and we do so again."

The bank said it had spent $290m on improving its systems to prevent money laundering and clawed back some bonuses paid to senior executives in the past.

Then in 2013 and 2014 it started money laundering again. My guess is this time HSBC will lose their banking license, so if you hold any shares in them could be a good time to get out.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20673466
I kind of agree with you. Actually I think it looks more discomforting than just wearing a surgical mask with straps.
It's behind cloudflare. Depending on the sub level, they can use their own cert or cloudflares. In this case, looks like they use couldflare.
For the benefit of the thread: the variant of the CBC bitflipping attack that applies to the more common CTR stream cipher mode is: you simply XOR in whatever data you want, directly to the bytes you want to alter, and that's the end of the attack.
That the UI was shit and you’re the kind of person who endorses it.
ByteDance says not aware of $5B education fund in TikTok deal
Yeah it’s especially painful once you near 32GiB
There are other countries to compare to.
Sounds like clicky 3-pin A/B bi-phase type though. I’ve done stupid things and tried to read that and two buttons with single ADC. That jumped around when Vref fluctuates.
Ask HN: What's the next frontier in Data Science?
Scaling databases, optimised programming languages, serverless platforms and many. There are so many new systems & tools coming out that it's hard to keep track of them.

I am a seasoned data scientist and decent programmer myself. A few investors have approached me with a simple offer "Build something and we'll fund you. Just knock on our door when you have an interesting idea".

I have a few of mine (mainly around simplifying analytics on small data), yet I'd like to hear from HN: what's the next important frontier we should tackle as a community?
With project Valhalla (value types), as well as the GC improvements in recent JDK releases (e.g. they are much more aggressive in releasing unused heap back to the OS), this should be a much smaller issue going forward.

On another note, I'm not aware of other freely available GCs in other languages that are able to easily scale to multi-GB/TB scale memory usage. A while ago, I benchmarked an open source key/value golang project and it performed miserably when it reached GB level memory usage.
> American tech unions hating H1Bs

What the heck is a “tech union”? Who are in one?
The name is a bit confusing. Swift for TensorFlow combines a bunch of things:

- adding autodiff to Swift language & compiler
- neural net construction & training API in Swift
- low-friction Python bindings
- low-friction C++ interop
- ability to run neural nets TensorFlow using the C++ interop
- ability to alternately run neural nets directly on XLA ("X10")

The Swift changes are supposed to get mainlined and I think at least some of the stuff related to Python and C++ already are. The idea is that Swift is nice enough to cover experiment + train + embed as library even on mobile platforms. It's a big engineering project and I hope Google keeps funding the work.
I don't know what I'd do if my iPhone didn't have physical volume buttons. When I watch videos on YouTube now, as soon as an ad starts playing, I just mute it by using the volume button and look away for a few seconds as I can't stand ads (sadly there isn't a dedicated mute button).
I fondly remember the excitement around Java when it was initially released in 1995. I was in college and the Mosaic browser only recently appeared on computers in the campus library. "Applets" were positioned as the next evolution of the "Information Superhighway"--the ability to write real applications and distribute them to anyone directly over the "World Wide Web" without the need for floppy disks.

Although Java applets didn't pan out, it gave people a glimpse of the future; paving the way for Shockwave, Flash and the rich interactive web applications that dominated the 2000's. As Java pivoted to the server, it also ushered in the next generation of enterprise web applications.

Happy 25th Java! From a language many first experienced via scrolling web tickers to a rock solid server-side platform that went on to dominate the enterprise. Java will remain ubiquitous for many years to come--even if many don't even know it's there.
Curious if this applies to people who do not have the same wealth and power.
> Why does a coffee maker even need a touchscreen?

To differentiate it from the previous model so as to sell new product when the previous model that has already been purchased is continuing to perform its designated task. I.e., to convince some segment of their customer base to throw out the working model from last year in exchange for the "new fancy" model of this year.

Humans are often fooled way too many times by "oohhh... shiny and new and different... gotta have that...".
Nice to see patent system working as intended.
> Just as an example, what I visited just yesterday: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...

Well there's your problem. Microsoft counts as one of the sites that uses web tech to invade your privacy. Many parts of microsoft-dot-com don't work without javascript.
American citizens that use WeChat have first amendment rights
Now if only the other 38% would shut the hell up as well.
You have to be very wary of what defectors say, they often just make stuff up.

Also, as Snowden has shown us, the line between private and state control is very, very thin.
Go buy a fancy Apple Watch and jump in a pool. You won't be able to start or stop the timer with wet fingers.
Correlations can happen by chance or via a common cause. If it's not a randomized controlled trial then you need to be wary of any correlations that might distort the data.
The 80s was 30-40 years ago. So no, that doesn’t say there is “systemic racism.” We’re going in circles.
I am not sure it is 1A issue to begin with. US prohibiting US companies to work with overseas entities is commercial problem. A lot of gambling websites were shut down by court order and a lot of domains seized by FBI. So there is a lot of precedents about restricting US citizens access to foreign parts of the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws

But also, the government in the 19th century was much weaker than it became in the 20th and now 21st centuries.
Has any other filesystem added in i-node arbitrary attribute tags? This would be invaluable for collections of documents, and would make most library managers like calibre or tmm redundant.
> These visa are supposed to be for highly specialized labor — highly specialized to the point that the openings are rare

This is not true. The H1B program is intended to "allow U.S. employers to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. A specialty occupation requires the application of specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or the equivalent of work experience". Ie, it is intended to boost the economy by allowing in skilled college-educated immigrants. There's no requirement that they have to possess unique/extraordinary talent, or work in jobs where "openings are rare".

You're probably mixing up the H1B program with the EB1 program, which is indeed intended for immigrants possessing "extraordinary ability". The intent and requirements for H1B are far simpler
What about one single client writing and multiple clients in read-only mode? Any problems with storing the file on network storage? Basically, how far can you push it before it is better to just use PostgreSQL?
That's a great angle for looking at - do we have data on the average age of h1bs? How can a young person already have the specialized skill they're supposedly brought in for?
I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Once you have a system of software running over multiple computers on a network you will have to copy data to other computers and treat everything as not just an asynchronous node, but a somewhat unreliable node as well.

I think this is a given, but I don't think software architecture is very well solidified on how to scale large programs even within the same process.
If children have to step up that only means the adults have failed to live up to their responsibility. It's nothing to be smug about.
We also need hardware on/off switches for cameras and microphones.
Related to economic-commercial situation?
have a look at the raw data. Take a look at the columns on the right.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statist...
This is the precise insight that jumped out at me.

I often get raised eyebrows when I state that, by my definition, Python and Javascript are among the mostly brutally difficult programming languages out there.

Python is a wonderful candidate for one-off tooling and experimentation, particularly because the cost of wild explosions in these cases, and the odds of requiring long term maintenance, are rather low. However, if your plan is to hire fresh college grads, hand them a Python 2.7 interpreter, and ask them to a build a mission critical, 200k+ line, product - that just seems professionally negligent.
Why would it be "a complete fluke"? I mean, it is lucky that we get a Venus flyby so close to the announcement about phosphine, but it's not like the capsule was on that way by mistake or had no other purpose...
There is no mention of H-1B at all on the State Department page I linked you. Where are you getting this from? Sure some H-1B holders manage to later acquire an E visa, but nowhere is it stated to be a prerequisite. Exceptional individuals don't even need a US sponsor to apply.
Can't wait for project Loom:

https://openjdk.java.net/projects/loom
Are you meaning to say "RSA-CTR", as in, RSA as a direct stream cipher? Never do that.
[During the internal meeting]
"The SEC was shown an anonymised version of Apollo’s annual report in which the buyout group said it had generated an annual gross internal rate of return (IRR) of 39 per cent over the past 30 years.

“A $1bn investment earning 39 per cent annually over 30 years would be worth $20tn. And $20tn is the GDP of the United States. I think we would have noticed,” said Mr Phalippou.

The SEC was also shown an anonymised version of KKR’s annual report, which said it had generated an annual IRR of 25.6 per cent over the past 45 years.

“A $1bn investment earning 26 per cent annually over 45 years would be worth $32tn. That is 40 per cent of the GDP of planet earth. It is time for the SEC to ban the use of the IRR by private equity managers. It makes absolutely no sense,” said Mr Phalippou.

He also noted that the “two and 20” fee structure used by private equity managers translates into annual costs of between 6 per cent and 7 per cent. The average expense ratio of actively managed equity mutual funds sold in the US was 0.74 per cent in 2019, according to the Investment Company Institute, a trade association. "
At any scale, or with any perspective, all things become meaningless. You live, you die, others do the same.

Yet that rarely stops anyone from pursuing purpose or meaning, and for the ambitious, a legacy of any sort is the closest they'll ever be to reaching immortality, or relevance beyond their immediate sphere of influence. If you're purposeless, why shouldn't your decisions echo throughout history, and make you moderately less so on a less cosmic scale?

Nihilism is an outgrowth of atheistic convictions, when adopted without a supplemental normative framemework that prescribes and justifies a system of values, or when adopted by the depressed or otherwise mentally ailing.

I've seen no coherent argument that life should be considered sacred in the face of a universe devoid of meaning or purpose, whether one's own or that of others. The concept is hardly a cure for nihilism. Offering it as a more legitimate alternative simply because it's more comfortable or reassuring to many people occupying a nihilistic space.
I was working as a video/audio engineer for a bit and for Bluetooth especially the latency is insane. For some devices it was around half a second. I don't think I have seen two seconds though. The main thing was that we would need to stream the audio first, wait for the latency duration, then start showing video frames. If you press pause, the audio would stop after that much time. I haven't checked if some devices allowed sending of start/stop commands through less latency methods though. My job was mainly concerned with playback.
You would be correct, and also clay rhymed easy with play and away and thus made the text have a nice, soft flow to it.
Judging by the Palo Alto train tracks - it might not be as bright as you might be imagining.
If there is one thing that TarSnap isn't, is inexpensive.
>Why would someone want Twitter to have race-based image cropping?

-Victim mentality
-Virtue signaling
-Having a "proof" for a common enemy (twitter, social media , big evil corp etc. etc.)
There are even more solutions to this problem:

One is to convert the L/R Stereo image to Mid/Side do the volume control and then convert it back to L/R. This way any mismatch of the potentiometer would translate into a change in stereo width instead of shifting the image around.

Another solution would be to use one pot as a voltage divider, buffer that voltage and use the resulting current to drive two Blackmer VCA ICs (e.g. THAT2181).
it basically boils down to either buying a logitech craft or any decent audio interface and move on...

while such knob would be nice on a laptop I don't think it's downsides would justify adding one...
Google Home mini certainly has it, it's the only physical switch on the device.
Simple way to deploy Docker app on production machine
Is CTR more common?
I heard, the average nun looks much younger than the average woman, because of the rigid lifestyle.
Yes, that means if someone creates uMatrix and the original author won't do anything about it, then that other person can keep that name. We didn't get to that point yet.
Kinda costly? I wonder if a dead simple 10kΩ B-curve potentiometer would do, though they drift a lot
Reanimate – declarative animations with SVG and Haskell
That's not the only takeaway and the article and ICIJ are in the business of not providing any other takeaway.

I used to work for a US Federal financial regulator. Suspicious Activity Reports are discriminatory and that is how they are used. From the in person bank teller to the compliance officer behind the scenes.

ICIJ handpicked a few reports with "big numbers" that people could "get mad about" while providing no context about what should have happened. That’s their entire modus operandi. An alleged ponzi scheme that already settled with US authorities is not the same as a sanctions evading money mule. The expected outcome is not the same. What is the goal here? "Omg the bank filed a SAR and nothing happeneedddd 111!" What was supposed to happen?

This is a pointless dragnet. 9/11 wasn't that expensive, 6 figures at best. The Bank Secrecy Act and the subsequent Patriot Act would not have flagged the terrorists' transactions. They prevent nothing. If HSBC was laundering billions for the literal cartel for a decade after 9/11 and nothing happened, then what does that tell you about people? Dangerous organizations aren’t trying to attack American soil. Maybe they just want to have a nice life at the end of the day. Stigmatizing transactions is supposed to make that observation feel uncomfortable, its still not the way to curb the actual behavior we want to stop. All we have is a massive data mining operation and another way to imprison unintended targets. These regulations only ensnare individuals who have "will the bank/government freeze my $10,000 dollars" money because of that individual's complete unfamiliarity with reality and segregation from financial literacy. The US should get out of the business of whitelisting transactions as it is expensive and a complete waste of public and private sector resources.

Right now we have a mixture of the regulators being swamped, and the regulators using discretion that no politician can risk their career on.
I guess the takeaway is that everyday utility instruments should not require time invested in studying manuals to operate them. Imagine that every screwdriver you buy requires you to read 20 page document that tells you how to operate it. As a user all I want is "a cup of coffee". Why do I need to read that manual? What if I'm just a visitor, and was told that "the coffee machine is over there". Do I really want to read the manual to get a cup of coffee?
It is much more common. It's also much easier to use.
I’m wondering if there are any firewall/router/load balancer type of devices that use GPUs for their parallel processing capabilities (or whether that’s even possible). Anyone familiar with this ecosystem to comment?
I know, I use it =)
> e.g. they are much more aggressive in releasing unused heap back to the OS

By aggressive you mean they actual do that now right? As far as I know before ZGC no gc did that and they're still back porting that feature to G1 right?

Edit: I'm actually quite pleased with ZGC I have the eclipse language server use it and my editors memory usage on average is so much lower.
This kind of argument always ticks me off, because it's technically correct, assuming your brain can care and focus on infinitely many things.

But I know that I can't: I can care very effectively about one thing really well (typically oscillating between my job and family). Then there's space left in my brain to be sort-of effective at caring for three or four other things (social life, hobbies, sports, learning, personal growth, etc..). There's a little space in the end for things which are good, but I can't afford to think about more than the minimum amount necessary (voting, taxes, coffee machines, subscription services, recycling, keeping my plants alive, car/motorcycle maintenance, ...).

So the point is, I really really value things which don't require me to care or RTFM, because that frees me up to care and focus more on my job, family and friends. Maybe that's being spoiled, but it feels more to me like a pragmatic approach to mental health and productivity.
At least microwaves with digital controls actually have full numpads. Every digital-control oven I've ever had the misfortune of using only has increment/decrement buttons. Want to set the oven to 450F? Have fun pressing the increment button twenty times for five degree increments starting at 350F. It's an abomination.
So could the DuckDB, Postgresql combination function in a manner analogous to Firebird which has both embedded and server modes. I'd find that really exciting
I previously used Tarsnap, but I moved to using Borg on rsync.net. Borg can do all the stuff Tarsnap can do and comes with 'borg prune' included. In fact for Tarsnap I would have needed to write a custom script to perform regular pruning.

By relying on rsync.net's automated ZFS snapshots I get the same or similar protection compared to Tarsnaps's write-only keys.

For my personal use case cost wasn't an issue, though. It's less than 10 GB of data stored.
2 seconds? That’s kinda slow. Haha

Red Bull Racing did 1.82 last season. https://youtu.be/b1f51TOXWik
Arq: https://www.arqbackup.com/
I have a €400 microwave and it’s great. It has one big rotary button that will set the time, press start and it goes. You don’t need any of the other buttons to simply microwave stuff. What those buttons do give me is an oven and steamer. It’s not my main oven but having an extra oven can be convenient and the steamer function is great. Zero effort perfect rice every time. Toss some veggies and spices on a tray, steam for a couple of minutes and you have an easy, healthy and tasty side dish.

Another great feature is that it doesn’t have a rotating platform, I have square plates so that’s also super convenient.

I get buying a simple microwave if that’s all you need it to do, but don’t dismiss the models with more bells and whistles, they have their place as well.
This was the best trick I had when I was using Windows, for ALL drivers I can extract. No bloatware, no weird apps on the background.
Until CEOs face jailtime even after their departure from the company this will not change. Corporations and LLCs lack social accountability comparable to the accountability private citizens have.
> Right wingers in a couple countries said that.

Is Cuomo the governor for New York a right winger? He downplayed the pandemic as late as march 18. Pretty sure he wasn't the only democrat doing it either. If he didn't downplay it New York wouldn't have had one of the worst corona responses in the world.

Quotes:

> "That is not going to happen, shelter in place, for New York City," Cuomo said on The Daily podcast by The New York Times. "For any city or county to take an emergency action, the state has to approve it. And I wouldn't approve shelter in place."

> "Quarantine in place, you can't leave your home," Cuomo said. "The fear, the panic is a bigger problem than the virus."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/cuomo-says-he-wont-approve-c...
When there's a need there's a way. I find it interesting how the need to ship sewing machines across the US had triggered building entire railroads
Oh hell on earth, my work coffee machine takes no less than 6 consecutive choices including a scroll through options and questions, with lag at each step of the process to select what you want. To make black coffee. What drink do you want? What roast? What size? How much sugar? How much milk? Confirm your selection. All that for the option than more than 1/2 users are selecting.
Aren't you conflating the field of computer graphics programming with the Cg programming language?
> proclaim that people could just unplug their headphones

Actually I found plugging in headphones is the easiest and quickest way to mute mobile phones.
You'll love this
https://www.flairespresso.com/
Besides doing damn good espresso , it isn't even connected to the grid
3 options? I think on all the coffee pots I've owned it's just a POWER button. How can a company replace that with a screen to be better?
Have you ever tried being a landlord if you are in another part of the same metro area that is only an hour away? I can’t imagine being a landlord dealing with rentals in another country.
As I see it, beyond a certain level money and things don't make you much happier. They just give you a different set of things to feel the same level of happiness about.

edit: This is as someone who has experienced household lifestyles going from <$40k/year to >$250k/year.
What are they gonna do? Ban Google, Facebook, et al.? Oh wait, they’ve already been banning foreign companies for decades.

Or maybe they’ll force foreign companies to give up ownership to Chinese locals? Oh wait, they’ve already been doing that for decades (see GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, etc.)

Or maybe they’ll force foreign companies to let Chinese local companies to take control of their Chinese operations? Oh wait, they’ve already been doing that for decades (see Apple iCloud, Blizzard, etc.)
While I whole-heartedly agree with you, it's easy to frame this situation in a misleading light: "we've been fighting drugs for 50 years, and we still barely have them under control. Imagine how much worse the situation would have been if we hadn't fought them! Now give us more money and let us be even harsher!"

Of course, this is pure sophistry, but it will appeal to many people. The better line of argument I believe is about the extreme positive impact that decriminalization/legalization have had in every single country that have tried. That is much harder to dispute and twist.