skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 9, my next eldest brother of 16 was captivated by calculus at school and wanted to share it with me. Without algebra he managed to get across to me how it worked though I am sure I had no idea what the point of it was. Sadly I have little capacity for memorising anything so eight years later in my final school exams I was still using first principles. It didn't go too well.
Writing hello world in 10 languages
They fund some cables, but most of them are not private to my knowledge. A cursory search suggests that of 16 undersea cable investments by Google, this one is one of six that are private to Google. So maybe there can be some partial relief in that the cables actually have a diverse set of owners and funders still. I’m not sure where this puts us practically.
Ask HN: ML engineers of HN, how much do you code?
I'm a ML engineer myself. Most of the time I'm running experiments. I don't actually write a lot of code except when doing data processing. Other times I'm just fine-tuning BERT/GPT based models which does not require much code writing.

Is this the same situation for you? Any idea how we can bring more software engineering into this? I miss writing interesting/architecture code
What kills me about Android is that F-Droid can't auto-update the apps without rooting the phone and doing some trickery. I appreciate the security measures, but having no official way to appoint another trusted app store is nonsense.
The conclusion of this article is more of a 'death sentence' to BBC online journalistic quality in the last half decade, than it being the 'end of the road' for petrol stations; written as if the owners of these stations won't adapt towards integrating with electric charging stations themselves rather than being withered away completely.

The comments section in the article says it all really.
Being Dutch and a history-buff, I have one mayor gripe with historical maps, that sees land as 'moving lines' on a fixed map. When I look at a historical maps (also in books), I often see the Netherlands represented in it's current form, i.e. containing land that is not even 50 years old, being prestent hundreds or even thousands of years. I get that it is an intricate history, and maybe too much effort in some cases, but please at least remove flevoland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland
>And the ones that don't care about having a license would not have used / payed for it in the first place.

Speak for yourself. I don't play at all these days, but when I did, I was almost always running a "pirated" version from my favorite torrent tracker, and only after purchasing a license which was almost never used (because of DRM, not being able to run it under Wine, or other reasons).
Your response to this article about how contingent advice is usually better than universal advice is to propose a universal theory?
Only if grandma works as an insurance agent.
Thank you! Glad you like it. Yes this is in a repo. Should be able to click through to it via several links in the post. Definitely a little bit of work to implement it given how brittle/bad my code and workflow are but it should be reusable.
> This system is designed to require smoke to activate and should not have discharged.

The Smoke Detector cloud instance was down for some reason so the system had to go with temperature!
I'm inclined to laugh at them but honestly what does it even mean at this point to take security seriously?

It appears that the only companies capable of being secure are Google and Apple. Aside them everyone is getting hacked every other day.
Yes. Obviously. There's plenty of privacy destroying actions a society could take that would "save lives" but we don't do these exactly because of the encroachment on civil liberties they would entail.
You might like to hear about Henrietta Lacks, arguably the first immortal human being, now called HeLa. Her living cells are one of the most widely distributed living human tissue available, still alive, still replicating because they have activated telomerase, which means the cells are not 'aging' in the way normal human cells do. I think it's about $400 for about a vial's size of tissue.
A lot of songs were only available on iTunes, which is annoying if you're not an Apple user, you're forced to use its clunky app just to purchase song. I hope YouTube Music could offer song and album purchases to download later.
> if they use illegal monitoring devices, hacking for info etc, they may fall afoul of federal espionage, wiretapping or CFFA, but it would still not be insider trading.

Thats an interesting point, if I hack the CEO’s phone and get the earnings number a day ahead, then trade off them, I kind of wonder how that isnt insider information.

Although laws around that are so odd, especially in US, that it wouldn’t surprise me.
Statements like this:

"The reward system on the corporate ladder has become inextricably attached to a kind of professional abuse - that the only way to rise within a company is to be able to 'take control' of a department and its people."

without sources to back them up should not convince anybody. Just because the author is spouting social science of the workplace is no reason to give them carte blanche as far as sources go.

Man every time I think about leaving my company I read an article like this and realize how good I must have it. I mean I work in an industry that generally does help the world, but we just don't have to deal with the stuff in this article. Middle management is there to assist, not be cops. The CEO works his ass off because he believes in what he's doing and what he's built. He delegates because he has to. We're embracing remote work as the "new normal" and the bosses are working with those of us in the trenches to find solutions that work for everybody. It's not perfect but it certainly isn't the environment this article describes.
I'm curious what's going to be left when the dust settles, probably in about 5 years.

After all, since we're talking about the Netherlands, tulip bulbs are still around but most people don't care about them anymore.
> My brother Mike... was in the Navy on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf during the 1990s Gulf War, and later worked at Amazon, and declared after four years that Amazon was _way_ more stressful

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
The same happens in OSM, to which this seems to be very similar, both in name and on a technical level.
The fact it doesn't exist doesn't mean it can't exist. The only reason ads are so prevalent is because they're the easiest and most lucrative way to monetize, at the expense of the user.

FWIW I think the Brave Browser model is a step in the right direction, even though Brave Inc. has made some missteps along the way. Give the user the choice of which services they want to support, and make that process as frictionless as possible.

If the tech giants had incentives to come up with a user-friendly business model, I'm sure those genius minds would think of something. Alas, the status quo benefits their shareholders and they have no reason to change.

FLoC is just marketing fluff to paint their predatory practices in a better light, not an indication that they actually care about their users. Their #1 priority is still profit from advertisers.
This needs to be opt in. Both from a web site and from a user.
Apple to Eliminate Passwords with Face ID/Touch ID Passkeys
Depends on the kind of contract involved. A full-time employment contract (what is often called "permanent" in the west) is one thing, a B2B arrangement is another.

Personally, I haven't had an employment contract for over 6 years now, and in fact to stay in the clear one should ensure they have at least two simultaneous clients - though most ignore that, at least in Poland.
And just to make sure it works if misinterpreted, I have both $firstname@$lastname.pl and firstname@lastname.pl :)
"Limiting Amazon's harm" is an honorable to put it - one which I do not agree is necessarily true. My cynical view is that Amazon is rich, and can afford to pay more, so a lot of projects are miffed that Amazon is not aiming a firehose of dollars at them for using code that they granted Amazon a license to use, but "not like that".
100% agree.

I think the inability to accept uncertainty in the world is, unfortunately, a big reason conspiracies thrive.

Too frightening to grok that a random virus can emerge and maybe kill us all or at least turn society upside down? There’s a conspiracy that makes it an easy “good guys vs. bad guys” story for you.
Stopping production of petrol/diesel cars and lowering carbon taxes on electric cars is pretty strong encouragement though.
The "let me fix your email for you" thing is pretty annoying. I don't get it a lot, but I have a catch-all email on one of my domains and I often register new accounts as service@domain.tld to keep track of spam. I've gotten people contacting me through other measures (when they require a phone number, for example) because they thought I put my email in wrong.
I think this my first time I see a leaked source code for a closed source product before its lunch. Viva battlefield 2042. Cheats will be available in a time record.
>gasoline consumption.

That's only true if we talk about hybrids.

>even vehicles from 10 years ago aren't competitive in creature comforts

That depends a lot on your priorities, I drive a nearly 20 year old premium car that holds up very well against many new cars
I hope you learnt something while doing that, but I present you https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
It's a poor definition by itself (though it's hard to explain "source code" succinctly without also getting into terms like "compiling", all of which means very little to someone not familiar with software development - I think a significant number of lay people honestly believe we just enter zeroes and ones all day!), but the bit about reverse engineering makes more sense in the context of the very next paragraph:

> "For example, the Frostbite engine, which hackers claim to have the source code for, is a powerful game creation tool used in dozens of games, from FIFA to the Battlefield series and several recent Star Wars games from EA."
hxxps://sub_sub_sub_domain.sub_sub_domain.sub_domain.help234.io/3456/546546/54645/6546/546/4

how would it look for this
Everyone needs to ban Bitcoin... and likely other cryptocurrencies. Not only are they by far the biggest enablers of ransomware (which we're supposedly taking seriously now), but Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C. [1] Bitcoin already consumes 0.55% of energy produced globally. [2]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8

[2] https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...
If you're in a position to know that kind of information, especially for a behemoth like Amazon, the banks they deal with are going to keep a close eye on you, and your close family (and they've seen most tricks in the book I'd guess).

Just foolish and overconfident, although the fact the dad was mentioned probably means they roped him into doing the deeds thinking it'd be a connection removed enough.

Two tech salaries between em, and they still got greedy. I don't really understand that, trashed their careers ongoing.
Just introduce a new function. Don't break old users.
I think adopting the “each” syntax would help every language that has containers - including Python and C#

It is semantically more like “map” than “foreach”, but syntactically emphasized the applied function rather than the fact that it is applied to the container - and that shows especially when nested - f””x or f”[2]x means “apply at depth two”. Compare that to a nested map/foreach

There are other syntax features I like, but most of them do interact with semantics (some more, some less). This one is useful in any language.
Plaid is crazy expensive. Teller is free, however, does have some connectivity issues with CreditOne.
Strongly disagree. I think most ordinary people expect roughly every email address to end with .com. I think some people might be ok with eg .co.<country-code> (in that country) or .org, but I would expect you to risk them writing down .com anyway. If you give an address like abc.xyz, you risk people not believing that it’s a real address and doing weird things or random problems with spam filters not liking the tld.
Some instances of our services went down but our deployments are multi-AZ by default so minimal perceptible outage to our customers
No they were wrong about the virus’ ability to stay airborne.

They didn’t lie, they made a mistake. And when it became apparent they changed the advice.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
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I'm not convinced. That sounds just like the reasoning China uses. "We are not targeting a people but a terror organisation".
Ask HN: What are the human tasks which frustrate you most in your workplace?
Hey all, I’m working at a small startup which is actually doing great business-wise, but I feel can do a lot better in terms of productivity. I feel like there’s so manual work of deploying the product to our customers, working out the data, etc which prevents us from evolving & scaling quicker. Been looking for ways around it, and wondering what are your day to day challenges in terms of frustrating manual work which can be automated? Does it happen in larger organizations as well?
Citizen Scientists Discover Two Gaseous Planets Around a Bright Sun-Like Star
if your own body is manufacturing it then how is it foreign material?
And nothing of value was lost.

Seriously who is still lining up to buy these lootbox infested gambling simulators in 2021?
List of Sailfish OS alternatives for open source Android apps
So they should care about their reputation, but they should also let their platform be known as a place where they allow malware to flourish?
As a consultant, I've been helping startups with their hiring process, and I've noticed, at this point, even very junior engineers, just starting, are expecting flexibility of schedule, and many are looking for work from home options. (I am not saying this is good or bad, I'm only noting it.) At some point in the past I think there was a bit more of an attitude that one had to "pay one's dues", at least for a few years, but now there is more of an assumption of work from home options being available. And even though Amazon is, typically, hiring a more experienced engineer, and paying more, than the startups I've consulted with, this is certainly the right move for them. It's good for a company to offer flexibility and to be very clear about exactly what is being offered.
Indeed but what should we do? Nothing???

We have to make the best decision for ourselves and the society around us based on the best knowledge we have. Yes science always allows for things to be disproven, but if we follow your logic we’d not use any medicines or treatments. Come on.
It's a monoclonal antibody. Biologics are expensive to produce.
I have a particular domain with an email on it, I spell "my name, at, one two three four five six, dot tld".

It's one 2, three 4, and five 6 (244466666).

People usually don't get it, think it's clever, or think it's totally stupid.
It couldn't happen to a more deserving company.. Well, maybe Ubisoft.
Bitcoin mining goes green in El Salvador
Yeah, now try to measure a very weak accelerational signal with a reasonable size (even at high frequencies)

Remember how big and complicated LIGO and VIRGO are and that's to detect the loudest signals of that nature in the universe (at a very narrow frequency range)
The EU's and China's fleet emissions standards are forcing manufacturers increase their electric car sales. All manufacturers need to sell enough EVs (BEV, FCEV, and plug-in hybrid) to avoid fleet emissions fines.

And future bans on new car sales of petrol and diesel cars have been announced in various states and countries.

Norway by 2025: https://www.thedrive.com/news/7917/norway-doubles-down-on-pl...

The UK by 2030 (but plug-in hybrids still allowed): https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54981425

California by 2035: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/23/916209659/california-governor...
I agree with the point about non common top level domains. I was considering getting firstname@lastname.email at one point, but decided against it because I imagine I’d have to explain the concept of the .email tld to a lot of non technical people.
They also have Bandcamp Weekly[1] and similar "radio" shows which I like, exposes me to music I'd otherwise likely not stumble over.

[1]: https://bandcamp.com/?show=458
I’m kind of surprised to not find Ghana on that list. It has all of the benefits of most of those countries but best of all it’s an English speaking country in the British commonwealth. Familiar goods and a familiar language.

Sure you can move to Costa Rica but outside of the tourist zone you’re going to have to learn Spanish.
The HN headline is a bit alarmist. The headline I see is "CPB director: The Netherlands must ban bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies".

This is the opinion of the CPB director in a letter, so it's not binding in any way.

> A cryptocurrency crash is inevitable, he says. That is why the Netherlands must intervene.

Should the government be banning any speculative investment that appears to be in a bubble?
Are you able to find out why it didn’t work? Very surprising.
Cool project! Too bad there's not much detail in these maps. The Dutch land registry and national mapping agency maintains a website with highly detailed, historical maps of the Netherlands that go back to 1815: https://topotijdreis.nl/
We need to ban all proof-of-work and generally all resource intensive cryptocurrencies.
I am quite bad at history but quickly looking at central Europe this project seems to have some inaccuracies.

- I couldn't find any mention of Prussia [0]

- during years 1920-1938 the borders between Czechoslovakia and Poland are messing so it looks like it is a single country

I am sure anyone can find what is missing/wrong with the history of their country. This is a community project after all so I am not surprised but based on Wayback machine this project started at least 7 years ago.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
Given how many people die from medical mistakes, many of which can be traced to fatigue, maybe we'd be better off with two doctors instead of one tired/exhausted fatigue zombie.
I agree with that, I'm just slightly worried because I can imagine complications being underreported due to the politicisation of the issue.

It might also move the risk/benefit of vaccinating children and people who already had COVID.
I’ve read here that in prison, if inmates are learning to code without internet access that they’re given offline dumps of stack overflow. Or maybe offline Wikipedia in the library is a better example.

I’d really like to be able to buy preloaded offline versions of certain websites to be able to use indiscriminately.

For things like embarrassing questions which I might want to search for within a given subreddit without broadcasting it to who knows what systems.

I don’t even necessarily care if there’s a result, or even if the information/responses/comments are a decade stale - i can live without current events.

I just want the peace of mind that I’m not being observed. That’s something that I’d pay for.
If this gets enough traction this could make historical maps so much more accessible. Instead of every historian writing their own magnum opus of a particular area and timespan, all the geographical information can be combined in a single system. Is there a system built in for keeping track of annotations/sources? How are debated topics/unresolved locations dealt with?

What if different schools of thought exist for where something was in the past, could multiple hypothesized locations exist for a single object? Direct link with Wikipedia would also be useful

Very nice project, hope it becomes as useful and detailed as the present day OSM
Maybe take a deep breath and relax a bit before posting next time.
Great article. It put into words a problem I've had with the holier-than-thou advice giving mafia :) I now realise that the reason I found teh advice irritating was because it was generic and unfocussed on my problem
> Wow, this behavior seems perfect for sneakily verifying that an email was received.

Isn't that pretty much the definition of "confirming your email address" transactional emails? Wouldn't really call this "sneaky".
At a quick glance it seems like some React component is constantly re-rending.

Quick glance in this case: took a couple second snapshot on the Performance tab and saw a lot of React related calls.
Half Life 2 was a big one https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-st...
Weird, at first I thought that there must be a (1999) missing in the headline :)

Aren't images in HTML emails initially disabled in most "proper" mail client (like Outlook), exactly to prevent tracking through things like tracking pixels? I thought that's standard practice since at least a decade.
We would struggle to discuss anything of any significant size if simplified models were not used. John Deere forecasted earnings of $5 billion this year and statistics about the education of all of their customers presumably don't exist.

You may disagree with the model used, but it was clearly an opinionated one based on personal experience. If you have a different one, then we can all compare, contrast and hopefully continue a curious conversation.
being asked to load test our system to make sure it can handle the load (of 3 people?)

The problematic load in a dashboard isn't users; it's querying the data sources to get up to date information. For example, if you're running a query to aggregate a bunch of things with lots of joins and that query takes 1.5s to run but your dashboard tries to run it every second so it can be 'real time' then you're in for a bad time even with just 1 user. You absolutely need to load test a dashboard application that's running against production data.

being asked to integrate with various analytics platforms so we can alert some poor schmuck at 3 AM in case the API goes down then (it's not a vital part of any platform)

It might not be vital right now, but if you make a dashboard for it then it'll quickly become vital. Putting metrics in front of people focuses them on those metrics...
Why should others decide if I can run useless hashing functions on my computer? Price the electricity accordingly, and make PoW impossible.

Cryptocurrency is no the enabler of ransomware. Ransomware was prevalent before cryptocurrencies. The real enablers of ransomware are the countries that shelter the R10 groups, raking in millions.

There's a reason some ransomware doesn't run when your system has a Russian language keyboard, and it's not because they know Russians never pay ransom...
Well, pyramid games are routinely banned. There are good arguments to be made that Bitcoin is a pyramid game much more than a "asset class in a bubble".