jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The problem is that engineers, including the people here, hate elegance.

If step 1 is identifying a customer problem. (I still have to cook myself eggs every morning.)

Step 2 is identifying a solution. I know - what if a robot can cook breakfast.

Step 3 is proof of physical concepts - is it possible for a roomful of expensive equipment to cook eggs? How do you even cook eggs - I've never really thought about it... I just kind of do it.

step 4 is prototyping - how could we get this down to something integrated that still works

step 5 is even more prototyping - can we make this any simpler?

step 6 is simplifying - how could we make this EVEN simpler and more foolproof. We need a breakthrough.

step 7 is wowww is that ever elegant.

steps 8-10 are simplifying even more and getting down to the smallest thing that could possibly work.

step 11 is sourcing market-available chips and components

steps 12-15 are programming them.

Then you announce step 15. It's just a magic fucking box that cooks you breakfast in the morning.

Then the tech reaction will be - "This is just a hot plate in a minifridge - the electronics are just a temperature sensor, and power relay, driven by a $0.50 8-bit chip. It's probably less than 200 lines of code. Cute, but worth maybe $1.5 over the cost of a hot plate and a minifridge, if we're generous. This thing maybe takes an hour to make†. Now what was done by Doc Brown in the intro to Back to the Future - 29 years ago; THAT is cool. That actually had motors."

† copy

Solution? Stop at step 3, back when it was a complicated solution with stepper motors and pumps. Or if step 3 wasn't complicated enough, abandon project - as it's obviously trivial.

On the other hand, if it involves a novel application of a completely impractical physical phenomenon - maybe directed 2.4 Ghz radiation while backscatter levels are monitored.

Well that, you can announce.
This is most of the world population. 99.999999%+
No email confirmation and plain text captcha. They got to be kidding.
I'm wrong about the culture of HN?

I've been on this site since 2006 or 2007. I've earned 5,000+ karma on most of my previous accounts. Everyone of them was shadowbanned at one point or another.

In one case I linked to a scientific paper about global warming that does not agree with global warming hysterics. That was the only post in several months at the time and the only commentary I added was "these guys disagree!"..... shadowbanned. For linking to a peer reviewed paper!

Another time, the last comment was talking about how I had met Grace Hopper. Nothing negative in it, Nothing "childish". Just relating how she gave me a "nanosecond". Shadowbanned.

I stopped putting effort into this site for several years because of that-- why try to discuss things with an extremely ideological and narrow minded group (which HN really is) if you're going to get banned for disagreeing?

I only created this account because I don't care. I do expect to get shadowboxed because the moderators of this site, in my experience, are unethical.

But of course, those who believe in rigid narrow minded censorship are incentivized to believe that all those who were shadowbanned were being "childish".

Because of course you want to believe you're broad minded and that criticizing Amazon is allowed, and the like. (Hey maybe it is, so far I've been allowed to.... but that's the thing about arbitrary shadow bans, you can't know what's verboten and what's allowed.)
Plus the report is referring to incidents of contact with contaminated surfaces not some random individual surface.
I understand that there's an endless number of edge cases that are hard or impossible to solve here. But the unlimited potential charges eliminate AWS for certain scenarios.

I would not use AWS for private stuff because of this, it is simply not worth it to risk huge bills to me personally. Of course what I might spend on AWS is peanuts, but it could translate into using AWS with my employer because I'm familiar with certain parts of it.

And even professionally this is kind of a risk, especially if you're working for a small company. And even more if you're not that experienced with AWS, there's a lot of parts to it and it can be really hard to figure out what is costing you money exactly, if you're not an AWS expert. I once created a relatively small, but noticeable charge on AWS due to a recurring script transferring a lot more data than intended. With my limited knowledge it was pretty much impossible to figure out the exact source from AWS tools. I more or less stumbled upon the issue randomly while looking into this, which is kinda scary to me.

All this does make AWS less attractive compared to classic hosting/renting a server, if that fits your use case and the lesser flexibility isn't an issue.
> - Rejection sensitivity

"Rejection sensitivity" is not medically accepted; this isn't to say it's being suppressed by big psych, it's just something an ADHD blog made up and everyone thought they were authoritative about it for some reason.

The symptoms of "rejection sensitivity" are just anxiety, which is often comorbid with ADHD.

> - Medication only helps with the attention issue for maybe 8 hours. It doesn’t help with the other 95% of the issues

The non-stimulant medications (Tenex, Strattera) have their issues but they are 24 hour effective. Maybe this one too.
I worry that the world has moved on from shaving a few bytes here and there into just assuming a 16 MB flash chip on an esp32 is the smallest anyone would want for a hello world...
I don't think there is much difference between your naked body and other information you might want to keep private.

Absolutely. Swap "porn" for "credit card details" and the point I made is still true. There are some things that people don't want to be shared online and they should be in a position to stop that happening.

One individual's right to privacy is more important than another individual's freedom of expression except in very limited circumstances of the public interest. Reporting news should happen even without consent from the people the news is about because it's good for society to be able to share that information. Uploading porn or a prank video should not happen without consent from all parties.

As for your example of Rick Astley - the law already enables him to do that if he wanted to. There are many legal mechanisms for copyright holders to revoke access to their material.

There doesn't have to be one simple rule that covers everything. We're intelligent human beings. We can have a bit of nuance without society collapsing.
Public housing used to be the solution to this problem. Then they stopped building it.
> if the problem is systemic, the company folds.

This is not the neccessary result. If a company is well established in its bullshit dealings it can survive for decades with inefficiencies and in some perverse cases even thrive.
100k?
Guy saw the Satan in the form of a coated almond. It's ridiculous. Twist it, turn it anyway you wish, you're only fooling yourself. It's extremism.

Then there are also the vegan protesters that throw themselves on the roads in front of food trucks. Adhering to their philosophy much? Faith Militants.
The real problem with AI ethics and fairness is that nobody actually listens to ethicists or philosophers. Nobody takes the subject seriously.

It’s just a hype vehicle to cram in whatever social justice outrage du jour that some liberal source wants to push as an agenda. I say this as a liberal who is sympathetic to most of those issues, but finds their representation in AI ethics or fairness debates to be ignorant and juvenile power grabs.

The whole Timnit Gebru affair is a direct example. The paper Google didn’t want to approve for publication was really poor. Lots of specious arguments. Lots of declarations of opinions as if they were fact (eg. nobody is required to agree with or accept woke vocabulary, let alone ensure NLP models are kept updated with it), and lots of sanctimonious assertions about various agendas that nobody has to agree “are right” and have zero appropriateness within a science publication.
Yes. He's pretty famous for iOS jailbreaking as well.
That Softonic site is probably totally unrelated to the original developer. This is the legit site: https://www.randyrants.com/software/

It's also on GitHub: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys
The only point in mining pools is to lower variance

If I have enough hardware to mine $10btc/day it would take on average ~70 years to mine a block (worth $300000), whereas with a pool I'd get my $10/day consistently
I suspect the people that love Twitter will love Clubhouse as well. As other commenters already mentioned, it’s geared towards those that are slightly self important.
> I signed up for a Gab account purely out of curiosity. There was literally nothing but misogynistic, homophobic, racist, antisemitic trash content on the entire timeline.

That's interesting. The public timeline on Gab is visible to everyone (there is no need to sign in). I just took a peek at it right now and I don't see anything misogynistic, etc. Would you mind sharing some of its specific timeline content that made you think that?
1. Carbon offsets do not reduce emissions

2. Bart and muni are not the majority of the $9000 difference. The majority of the cost is various social services. The actual cost of muni per sf resident is something like $500, which is still significant (muni is not a great rapid transit system), but that's far less than the cost of carbon offsets for every resident.
The pay isn't particularly attractive compared to other tech companies in those cities, but it's still massively better than 99% of other places in the world.
Toyota Corolla 2020 (got steering sensor with decent torque and the ability to do stop and go)
They could replace E-Ink in China, and maybe they already have. But China's disregard for IP protections doesn't mean that goods created in China that violate international IP agreements can be exported.
I have thought of something like that for teaching programming language, you dit it, this is very good !
You should make your tool a generic plateform an sell it to teaching organizations.
It reminded me of that too, since I read the article to the end.
The world clock for non-US HNers: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=17&...
I don't understand why this is confusing anyone.

There is a certain segment of the Internet populace that is interested only in browsing the web. It may be for lack of technical capability or interest (my mother-in-law) or it may be due to strict IT administration policies (K-12 schools).

In any case, Chrome OS is the perfect OS when you don't want the user to have to worry about any of the technical details of maintaining a running appliance. They don't have to back anything up. They don't have to worry about background services or anti-virus software. Everyone gets the exact same experience on Chrome OS and it is web browsing and nothing more.

I'll grant you that they probably could have gimped Android into a sort of "zero local state" mode. But at this point, Android is not capable of handling the desktop interaction model that people are accustomed to.
Can someone explain to me how they salted the password? From the db dump, I only saw one encrypted string. In a regular salt/hash situation, you have two encrypted strings.
If "the road to nowhere" was an article, it would be this article.
Voting you back up to 1, after you had predictably been downvoted...

You're not alone here.

I gave erlang more than one shot and really, really wanted to like it. It promises to simplify and robustify some of the most thorny distributed programming problems that I'm dealing with nearly every day, in ruby and python.

But, just like you, I couldn't get over the syntax. It's ugly. It's error-prone. It's ugly.

And that's a dealbreaker. The most powerful VM doesn't help when you have to work uphill against arcane syntax all day long. Nobody wants to do that. That's why ruby is so popular, despite the trainwreck that is MRI.
The size of India vs. United Kingdom and the relatively similar visit percentage is interesting. Does this mean the UK has a large number of devs or India has a small number?
Also, FlightPrep refer to a 2004 review of online flight planners from the Aviation Consumer magazine. So, I would guess they date their invention before that.

http://www.flightprep.com/rootpage.php?page=aviationconsumer
I actually wrote something like this a while back for myself. I find it a pain to keep track of sites like this and reddit where it's not a linear feed, items move up and down, and you need to scan the entire homepage to check for new content. In the end I made this http://www.serializer.io as a simple tool to make it a linear feed that's easier for me to follow.
What are the circumstances where normal people would need a soundproof faraday bag?
Not that quadrangle made that point, but a program written in point-free style could still exhibit dynamic behaviour.

Still not very constructive or relevant criticism on the page though.
Looks awesome. Looking for more templates!
A "feature" I found:
if you click Preview on an unsaved resume - you lose everything :( and no way to restore your entered data

Also, by mistake clicked on "minus" in Work History and all my lovely description got lost :(
You should really consider to feed your code with confirmations
Thanks for that.

What would you consider as "low cost"?
How could exactly one person be out of order? If one person is out of order he occupies other persons place - so that other person has to be out of order as well. Am I missing something?
Rejection Therapy http://www.rejectiontherapy.com is a game that helps people overcome shyness and social anxiety by taking on small challenges. Each challenge increases your comfort zone and your confidence.

I've done the 30 day Rejection Therapy challenge and, while it wasn't easy by a long shot, it did help me immensely. I'm much more comfortable starting small talk with strangers than I was before.

Remember, your comfort zone is elastic. If you don't stretch it, it will retract.
So basically, he'd live almost exactly like he does right now?
The video states that it worked on about two-thirds of people.
Nice story, but how is this a pivot exactly? What's the difference between a pivot and moving on with something else? My gut feeling is that when you start something totally, completely different without using the knowledge or product you built/gathered/accumulated before, it's more of a start over.
Why do you say that? I am using AdBlock Plus in Chromium. It works fine, as far as I notice.
The are all acronyms for functions on time series trade data. Investopedia has definitions without a lot of fluff if you want to learn them.
This whole post seems motivated by a misconception. One of the pioneers of computer graphics, Alvy Ray Smith, said it best in his paper "A Pixel Is Not A Little Square": https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall00/cs426/pa...

I prefer to treat pixel coordinates as being on the integer coordinates, and if you really need to imagine a box around it treat it as stretching from (-0.5,0.5). This makes different resolutions match up better, particularly when mixing raster and vector graphics.
I thought news sites maintained their own pages and followers on Facebook. How does your analogy account for that?
Yes, I have to disagree with that quote. Erico Fermi and Leo Szilard explicitly tried many times to prevent the bomb from being used. They were key scientists who were responsible for the bomb (Fermi discovered beta decay i think), and they knew what it mean once it was dropped.
Wow, that's a pretty horrible experience. Weird too since AFAIK recruiter/recruiting coordinatiors comp tied in some way to shepherding the successful candidates through the hiring process.

Me and a friend of mine interviewed in Nov and passed HC in Dec 2019 as well (different recruiters between the two of us). Our experience was different from yours: Immediate timely followups from the recruiting coordinators, team-matched and hired in the same month. Hopefully our experience is more common...
I beleive this is part of the tax systems of a few nordic countries at least.
Yeah, I too had an annoying case where the Best Buy salesperson pretty much said he wouldn't help me find the product that their web site claimed was in stock. He just pointed me to the aisle and said "If we have it, it's there" - ignoring my remarks about it not being in that aisle.

So I went online, ordered it for pickup, and simply came back a few hours later and picked it up.

I needed it the following day so I couldn't rely on an online purchase with shipping.
Why do the resolvers need to follow what ICANN says to use for .org? They could revolt if coordinated
> Yeah. No phone; I’m glad about that.

I was not talking about phones. There's plethora of buttons, knobs, switches and levers in car that are non-phone related.
If it’s not viably competitive against either a potential acquirer’s business or that of their competitors, why pay money for it?
In that case, offer a limited billing period in line with the trial time period (30 days in your example) and ask the customer for an extension at the end of the billing cycle. If your theory of "risk reversal" is true, they will extend the subscription. It's a win-win, consumers register for "risk reversal" and business get the chance to demonstrate their services.
Humans are not always logical. That’s never going to change. Still worthy to correct damaging beliefs, but they aren’t going away entirely.
What is the problem that such codes solves ? Why cant it just be json with a POST request with a field specifying the operation ?
Then maybe we should’t say:

> „The only problems cars solve are problems cars cause.”

Looks like it’s closer to:

„Cars solve lots of problems, e.g. they give us more options for choosing a place to work or a place to live; at the same time they cause problems too.”
>and unlike Tor, VPNs actually scale well for regular Internet browsing

What is "regular internet browsing"?
Chain of custody is standard for evidence already. It might not be 100% infallible, but it certainly works better than nothing.

Yes, if a state actor wants to create evidence to frame you, and they didn't care about cost or returns, they could do so. But they could always do so. The fact is most of us are never going to get framed by a nation state.

The notion that you're either secure against all possible attacks or nothing is absurd.
It's not about finding a particular change, it's about which change broke something.

In the best cases, it's totally automatic. You know that it worked at commit A and is broken by commit Z. So it checks out commit M and runs the tests. If they succeed, then it broke somewhere between M and Z. If they fail, then it broke somewhere between A and M. So it checks out either H or S, depending, and repeat.

It's not always that easy, especially when your tests and environment are complicated. There's often manual intervention, which is tedious. Still, log2 N steps is often manageable, especially if the computer is taking care of the tracking for you.
So just to summarize:

1. A cheerleader's mom anonymously texted some images and a video of a rival cheerleader to her coach. One of these images was a deepfake—a swimsuit photo off of Facebook edited to make the subject look nude. The other images and the video (of the girls drinking and smoking), were real.

2. The girl and her mom were charged with cyber harassment and harassment. The prosecutors weren't entirely clear on which of the photos + video were real and which were edited—the victim claimed they were all fake—but the whole thing was generally classed as harassment. Later, the police claimed that "metadata analysis" proved the video was fake.

3. ABC (among others, but ABC is mentioned in this article) ran a TV spot about this story, repeating the prosecutor's assertion that the video was manipulated

4. Twitter user @HenryAjder ("Deepfake expert"), among others, pointed out the error

5. The DailyDot published this article

This seems like a bit of a nothingburger? Any reason we're still talking about this? Nobody was "discrediting evidence", the videos & photos were only evidence to one thing—that someone sent them to her coach in order to get her kicked off the team. Whether they were real or not was immaterial to the harassment that occurred.
My totally armchair geopolitical opinion is that they know US companies can simply go elsewhere. Nobody manufactures in China for their "expertise".
How many rows does this support in a table before it starts becoming too slow? The cloud version. What’s the practical upper limit? 10k, 100k, 1million?
Why do a higher percentage of California prisoners identify as trans, than do non-criminal Californians?

Is there a known connection between transgenderism and higher crime rates?
Nice. It also catches things that are not app ideas, but interesting. Like:

"Is there an app that you hate but always use?"

YES! Instagram. I hate the app. But I have to use it for business purposes.
>Most of these sanctions don't really work either. China will get what it wants some other way. The US will get to look like it acted. Everyone will be happy...

What are you basing this on?
The entire point of sanctions is to exert a strategic influence over a rival.

> “Supercomputing capabilities are vital for the development of many – perhaps almost all – modern weapons and national security systems, such as nuclear weapons and hypersonic weapons, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a statement.
I got the same thing this morning and multiple times this afternoon at Both Sides. I @mentioned it to him on Twitter, but never heard back. Hope he is aware of it though.
Actually, it's normally used for humans, to analyze their gait so you can prescribe things like insoles or shoes.

However, I don't think you want to go buy an expensive measuring device just for your dog ;-)
I guess the value for me isn't. A lot of the time, I don't go through the effort to read it.
Because in many cases it's not stealing. What has historically been a very ubiquitous, mundane, and vital activity of sharing art becomes indistinguishable from piracy when translated into the limitations (or lack thereof) and capabilities of modern highly networked digital media.

This is a problem. Pretending that sharing is identical to stealing is not a solution it's merely the creation of an even bigger problem.
not really, not everyone plays a musical instrument either :/ Up to you what you enjoy.

I don't read novels.
Firefox 3.6.13. Yes, the whole top bar. It fades out after a timeout, and fades back in on the slightest move of a mouse. So, if you are mousing around, it fades out/in ("flashes") from time to time.
A credit card is id, for all intents and purposes.
A typical, very trading strategy was used by many people (including the biggest absolute return fund in my home country) and robots as well:

- CHFEUR floor is 1.2 (or that's what everybody thought)

- so you short the CHF @ 1.2

- side effect: your money is essentially stored safely in a position that has no downside but has upside (or so you think)

- if, for any reason, CHFEUR is >1.2, then you exit your short position with some profit

- when CHFEUR is back to 1.2, then do the same again.

Works brilliantly, until the black swan flies through your window, and everything is full of shattered glass. So in short, people relied on the SNB's promise, they thought there's zero risk of this thing happening (i.e. removing the floor without notice), and took positions that had small upside with ~1 probability and huge downside with ~0 probability. At least they have a good story to tell now.