jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Prisoners handling radioactive material without protective material and gear, was also done in the Gulag system - e.g. Butugychag in Magadan, Siberia [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butugychag
> Whatever fines might come out in the EU around this will be nothing compared to the cost of loosing the customers they notify and the cost of notifying them.

There is no mention of GDPR in the article, but in the worst case of not notifying _at all_, the GDPR fine should be $3.5B (4% of their global revenue). Is this quantity insignificant enough for them to ignore? (not rhetorical, i have no idea how much capital they are happy to burn).

> Zuckerberg is probably right in this one.

Right from an economic perspective perhaps, but not an ethical one...
The finer point is, I think, that they did not get they power legally in the elections, because no such power can be granted in elections. Elections are a way to elect the national assembly which can then create a government, write laws etc.; but things that happened after 1946 and especially after 1948 were not supported by legal power, but by Stalin's terror and totalitarian dictature.
I expect that there are whole networks of channels that put out this stuff. The channel in question hasn't been active in a year. The "content creators" probably don't depend on any one channel to deliver their "creations".
You could check if these work with your ISP.

https://en.avm.de/products/fritzbox/fritzbox-5490/
Utile the does the EU does notify them, which would be really funny tbh.

Just imagine getting a SMS (chain):

> You phone number and some of your data (<listed>) had been involved into a Facebook data breach. While Facebook is required by <insert law> to inform you about this breach they insists of not complying with the law and keeping they users in the dark. As such we <insert EU/local government agency> decided to do so. More information can be found here: <link to official EU site + link to local government sites with official translations>
> If companies like big oil (BP et al.) stopped polluting, if companies like Coca-Cola, Nestlé et al. stopped polluting, if big agribusiness and chemical giants stopped polluting, this whole thing would simply be a non-issue.

I strongly oppose this is the type of argumentation for the following reasons:

(1) It's rhetorical and moralizing. It hides systemic causes.

(2) It hides everything actionable behind the word "If".

(3) It gives companies moral dimension. They don't have any. Companies follow incentives. first. Companies can sell bad business to other companies, but they never voluntarily wind down business because it's bad. They respond to costs from the regulators or taxes.

> The actual consumer's part in this is so minuscule,

Every sale from these companies translates directly into end consumption (private individuals or the government). Fhe final goods flow trough companies.

Companies and individuals are different sides of the same equation. Nestle responds to competition and demand. People favor cheaper price over less pollution.

> fight for political change to stop it.

This is the only way. You must tax and regulate negative externalities or consumer demand for cheap products creates companies that pollute.
There is no such thing as a politics-free network, only one that only allows politics you agree with.
Great points. The idea that Google was evil had been out there long before 2014 of course, and perhaps some of that tin foil hatism was prescient rather than ridiculous.
I was under the impression that simulation sickness was largely solved outside of extreme cases (like a vr portal game). I thought we're just waiting for hardware to catch up.

Years ago John said if you have 20k and a dedicated room you can make a convincing vr experience that won't make anyone sick.
Less famous person here :)

I also did a blog post in back in 2018 on whats keeping blockchains from full mainstream adoption.

For those interested, its here https://asindu.drileba.capital/2018/05/why-bockchain-is-not-...
validation Api, nice argument i would read more about that
They bought this domain to prove a point which they thought it might be amusing to a certain type if audience. Don't read too much into it.
I'm never going to use emacs - I don't like it. Org Mode is entirely irrelevant for me. This might be relevant for me.
For those not familiar with stock market 101, this article is pretty equivalent to «you can greet the world via echo "Hello, World!" in bash». Not that it’s not worth sharing, but

Teaching everything I learnt about investing and decision making on Wall Street.

Oh, god. Wall Street’s not what it used to be, apparently. Sorry for a bitter tone, but really?
Thanks for the pointers - on latest release with Python 3.8 and roughly 2~5 of those rooms are on the larger ends of the spectrum.

Sounds like I should tune some caches then - I have memory to spare if it turns out to make a difference.

BTW, I just noticed there is an option to add a Redis - would that be a significant improvement compared to just using the process caching?
Underrated point. There are people for whom investing energy into saving money has a decent ROI, but if you are reading HN that’s probably not you.

Instead it’s far more likely the most efficient way to get more money is to work on your career and not learn how to cook well, fix your own car, or extend your commute way out into the country.

That doesn’t mean you can’t have a hobby of cooking, if that’s what you love—go for it, but be honest with yourself. If it was about getting to FIRE you should order in a pizza and working on leetcode.
You are wrong. HF traders front run to profit off individual trades by beating them to better prices. Day traders try to get an edge and exploit it to profit intraday by simply selling higher than they bought.
"With a new year comes change, and one change we’re glad to see in 2021 is new leadership at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). On Thursday, Jan. 21, Jessica Rosenworcel, a longtime FCC commissioner, was appointed as acting chair. It’s an important role that will drive policy discussions affecting the internet and all of us who use it. Her appointment gives us hope that under her wing, the agency will develop strong policies that look out for everyday people. Here are a few reasons Jessica Rosenworcel’s appointment is good for the internet."
Someone losing money on an unwise trade is more of a rhetorical instrument than an actual rationale. I don't think the SEC ever "fixes" it for an individual, but their investigations can open the door to fraud litigation (often class action) of some sort.

The SEC and the regulatory complex as a whole is more generally concerned with market integrity.

Statements like "social media attempts to artificially inflate their stock price" sound quite solid but is actually a nightmare to define directly. But, working definitions and action-inducers are usually related to market integrity issues.
The time it takes to aquire this knowledge is underestimated too. Sure it's all in books and on YouTube but it's knowing which advice to use in a particular circumstance and the devil is in the details. Much like software development in these respects.
It would be nice to have a PDF filter to imitate ink bleed.
I'm definitely more productive if I can park tasks when I reach a natural stopping point and not have to abort right when I'm in the middle of my flow.

I don't at all think my long term productivity increases if I work more than 40 hours a week, but I think it would increase if I could be more flexible (just +/- an hour or two a day) about when those 40 hours happen.
My comment was a statement of fact. Maybe he was inspired to sell the visual coding tool BECAUSE of his beliefs, not the other way around.
The current release has no (very very limited?) flexbox support, making PhantomJS less and less useful for working with modern layouts. I'm very excited about this release.
Nice article. "I'll quickly rewrite the engine", said no wise developer ever.
Excellent work bro. It is awesome for any product hunter like us. PH community is such an awesome community with mature level of understanding for the products. Keep supporting the community by creating awesome hacks around the platform. Give try to PH APIs sometime. You can do better with PH anayltics for the product.
I've been doing this for years and had absolutely no problems. I buy eggs and leave them out with no problem at all. In one case I bought a case and left it out for a full month - not a single spoiled egg.
Posting like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is. You may not owe that person better, but you owe the rest of us much, much better, if you want to keep commenting here.

I'm going to put this down as an isolated lapse, but please take the spirit of this site to heart and don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This article is a little rambling and is only loosely related to anti-piracy

(1) There are all sorts of subsidies internationally for movie related industries/services. (2) US studios are "exporting jobs" by taking advantage of these subsidies to to various editing tasks overseas. (3) This is unfair because of various WTO rules and principles of free trade. (4) US states are responding by doing the same (5) Anti piracy is a higher priority for the US industry.

I don't really see the last point as related to the first 4. The other points are part of a bigger picture in the ongoing globalization process. Countries are "competing" with each other in all sorts of ways. They compete for jobs, FDI & tax revenue in ways they didn't previously, at least not as much. This gets translated into tax breaks, subsidize and lots of other things.

IMO the most interesting part of all this is that a movie cannot be said to be a US, French or South African production anymore. Shooting takes place all over the place. Editing and post production now happen place all over the place too. "Quality" in the form of the best actors or best special effects people is important. Money always flowed more freely than goods, services or labour so that comes from everywhere too as it always has.

IMO the industry is in a unique position. Much of the work is easy to parcel. The 'firm' comes into existence to make a film and then goes away so personal relationships, buildings, equipment and other things that keep firms monolithic (reduced transaction costs is usually considered the biggest advantage large firms have over individual actors transacting in spot markets, Ronald Coase's theoroms) are not much of a factor.
Or in a more scrupulous light: let some pay for a story and others pay for a commodity.
Well on the software side I saw it as the difference between software as a product, versus bespoke development (although it can get fuzzy with enterprise sales, I am sure) - but the principle is the same. Many consumers == no wasting time (and no need) bargaining, vs 1 consumer: you have no choice.
I stand corrected. JWTs seem perfect for their purpose.
Other frequently seen risk factors are people who are inclined to belligerence when requested to stop eating on the BART, and people who are doing illegal things that don't leave evidence but also eating on the BART, making it easier to cite them for eating.
I the context of CI, what’s the point if you can’t run tests?
This sounds suspiciously like all business everywhere.
Google has some internal IDE, presumably maintained by a small (paid) team: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12842284

IDA Pro has been doing alright: https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/order.shtml

But it's definitely hard to compete with open-source alternatives, piracy, general skepticism, etc.
Because state goal is not the advancement of the particular field(s). State goal is to maintain (build) communism within particular county (USSR) and Warsaw Pact block.

Smart people opposed (unrealistic) party goals. so their death was net positive for Communist state.

For details see multiple waves of intelligentsia cleansing during 1920-40.
“ but I've never understood the JVM community's obsession with getting off Maven”

XML - if for whatever reason you decide to make a good product unpopular, just add XML
https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/05/whatsapp-chat-history-migrati...

happening right now as a test
I have a very noisy environment, but after reading up on the topic I realized I don't need noise cancellation anymore. All I needed was a properly setup software-based equalizer that filters out noise regions like electricity and fans.

Noise cancellation, especially ML based ones, have weird artifacts which I assume result from false positives. Sure, you can filter out a hair dryer or a vacuum cleaner with those and still get a "decent" result. But if you have things like that constantly in your background probably you shouldn't try to record any voice there in the first place ...
Or, you know, since I'm already working from home I can just not be in a "digital office". An open floor office is already bad, so there's not need to reproduce it.

It's simply intrusive and unnecessary.
Incredible that people with power have a real lack of understanding in their field
This has been possible for decades without an implant.

The problem is that without an implant, only this is possible. Anything significantly more complex than moving a cursor on a screen is just not possible or feasible without an implant, because of physical (electromagnetic) limitations.
It's super easy to find your identity from just your IP. I can't remember the service that does it... maybe drift.com?

So putting your phone into a website also ties it to your identity.
I mean by usage, not executing code. The consequences already occurred: AT&T charging Skype for 3G calls.
Step into any IKEA in America, and there's no hint it's a European company. Step into a McDonald's in Germany, and it's like you stepped into America.

Besides, McDonald's are everywhere in Germany. I even ate at one at Checkpoint Charlie. An obvious triumph over communism :-)

I'm sure there is an IKEA around here somewhere, but I don't know where. I know where all the McD's within 10 miles are!
It does when you automate takedowns, because it is just a verified lookup table.
If the law requires it, yes. The uploader should be the liable party if the subject or subjects didn't consent.

Why is this a strange concept? Why should someone be able to upload whatever they want to platforms with no responsibility for what they’re uploading?
It's not quite as binary as that. Milk tolerance ranges from poison to healthy and everything in between.
Yes, but chances of getting useful data out of the helicopter are much greater if you test the thing before subjecting it to harsh conditions.

For example: if you know that lift-off works, then that's a huge datapoint.
I think Americans would relate to -90C even less. Many Americans are used to thinking about sub-zero temperatures, it seems less of a burden to conceptualize a really low temperature on the scale you're used to than to conceptualize a really low temperature on a completely different measuring system. The first question most Americans would ask is "What's the equiv of -90 in F?".
The meat you can buy in any big supermarket in the US is awful quality that much of the world bans from importing. It's no surprise that meat is more expensive elsewhere.
>He scuppered Barack Obama’s environmental agenda and voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

How is this better than simply using the word "thwarted"?
Isn't it better to take Vitamin D pills every day as a cure in winter for example instead of big boost with 100 000 UI?

I don't recall exactly where I read this but I remember that the level of Vitamin D quickly decrease after this kind of takes.

In my case, I try to eat lunch with the sun on me for at least 15 minutes and I take a 5mg pill when I can't. I don't know if it's enough.
Certain parts of it do make sense, but it can also cause a feedback loop whereby the shift is away from concrete policy goals and towards power seeking behavior. Much of the present day political toolkit is postmodern flavored which unfortunately erodes the role of reason in communication and makes it less likely that that power is wielded towards concrete policy objectives.

> folks have a hard time divorcing their interpretations for a moment to hear someone out.

I think the key here is that in our current political landscape, "interpretation" and "hear someone out" don't really mean what they used to mean. Communication today is increasingly performative and less oriented towards synthesis and common understanding. In many of our recent political discussions, the topic hasn't been a specific policy or proposal, but a vague nebula of idea and mindsets that some would like people to adopt wholesale.
How would this work for Facebook offices in Europe? Should employees there demand the same pay as their colleagues in the Bay area?
If you claim that a blockchain is just an auditable trail of state changes (i.e. a Merkle tree) Then the proponents of blockchain technology chime in on how it's more than just that. It's also a matter of consensus for that technology. And in point of fact the consensus mechanisms of most blockchains are terrible. Highly inefficient, vulnerable to majority attacks for different types. The "idea" of a globally consistent audit trail for digital assets that can survive in an adversarial environment is great. The most popular implementations all seem to be terrible.
Can you recommend any books on negotiation? I checked your profile but I couldn't find what you were referring to earlier.
I've been using Nine for ages and it's great*. How well does AquaMail work with Exchange / ActiveSync?

(*My only real complaint about Nine is if I try to import more than a few months worth of email history into the local cache it slows to a crawl and starts breaking. I'd pay for an app that locally indexes a few tens of GB of email history and makes it instantly searchable.)
If you pay less for goods the salary of the producer has to be compensated downwards to match the fall in price. Essentially your salary is going down every year. Your highest salary will be in your 20s and from that point on you will earn less and less.

Now imagine that your dad is a wealthy business man in the 20th century. He keeps all his wealth in dollars and never does anything with the wealth. You inherit his dollars and will become more wealthy than your father will ever be just from deflation alone, without having to do anything to earn the additional wealth.

Here's the irony. Old people are entirely dependent on the work of young people. Once old people retire and decide to spend their money it will be worthless because there won't be enough young workers to provide for all their spending.

It's simply not possible to buy enough apples and water in your 20s to last until your 80s. The ability to save money over long periods of time would imply that such a thing is possible.

A dollar is basically the promise that someone, somewhere in the US will work for you and provide you with a service or good. The value of the dollar is entirely dependent on the existence of an economy that lets you exchange the dollar for a service or good.

In short, the dollar is backed by the economy of the US. If that economy disappears or shrinks then so does the value of your dollar. By having an inflationary currency you basically promise that future income will be greater than current income. Businesses love growing incomes and grow their business accordingly and employ workers along the way. Thus the existence of an economy that allows you to exchange dollars for goods and services is guaranteed.

It's quite easy to see how deflation is bad for business. You put money into resource inputs and transform them into goods. With deflation you want to buy as late as possible and sell as early as possible. The obvious problem with this is that you must produce before you sell. It's not possible to buy inputs after selling the product. Any company that keeps an inventory of goods is discouraged to do so because the value of the goods is constantly going down.
> How can libre software have evil intentions?

This might not be a particularly nuanced view, but I'm totally fine with non-libre software being used to make a profit, if there's a market for it and there isn't some kind of extortionary force at work. Taking the code and "liberating" it could be considered nefarious because it directly undermines a company's ability to profit off of intellectual property that is entirely theirs.
In artist-land, it's unethical to not give artists the services they want on the terms they want. Because art is the most important thing in the world.

I know that sounds sarcastic, but it's actually how a lot of artists behave and speak.
As far as I know, that wasn't part of the rulings, no.
Well, Lance Armstrong thought of it. Worked or him pretty well. Sort of.
If your "independent" clone is hot linking assets from the original, you probably have less control than you think. Ironically, Trello probably knows (or could learn) the IP of every person to use this.
That's not what the comment said. It has been misconstrued in an unfair way, as the caricature you've posted here exemplifies.

What Brandon actually said was that he had some "qualms" about their YC application. His comment was clearly intended to be helpful, and he had a nice exchange with Drew, as anyone can see if they would bother to read the replies (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224).

In the context of 2007, the conventional wisdom about file synchronization—the thing everyone thought they knew—was that it was a solution-in-search-of-a-problem that would never be a successful business because the idea only appealed to technical users. Joel Spolsky wrote a famous blog post mocking the (seemingly) clueless technical people who kept imagining that they could make a product out of such a thing. That's the context in which the comment was posted.

Of course that turned out to be totally wrong, but it took the success of Dropbox for everyone to know that (and then forget that anybody ever said otherwise). Brandon's comment ended up getting stranded like a little island in an ocean of hindsight fallacy.

Speaking of oceans, it's hopeless of course to fight the internet once people have decided on a meme. But it bugs me when unfair distortions get repeated, especially when someone is being scapegoated, so even though it's hopeless, I still post about it from time to time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28293146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275
I was previously a professional trader.

For quantitative mid frequency trading on a retail size account that doesn't require ultralow latency:
Many pros use IB personally and their java API is quite good. You'll be disappointed to know that MOST finance apps are built for windows environments and are frustrating to work with. IB's is quite reasonable. IB also lets you pull historical data that is quite decent, though they cap the rate at which you can pull historical data bars.

http://www.maxdama.com/ has written quite a bit about the IB API and I've found the provided documentation is actually quite good.

For pseudo HF type trading I'd say to take a look at lime brokerage.

REDI plus (Goldman sachs' platform) also has reasonable resources, though its harder to set up an account. for IB I think you just need 8k or so to open an account. Transaction costs are also the best for most retail/hackerish type applications (smallish quantitative based trading).

Also i'm interested in collaborating with HN people regarding trading strategies. I think the HN crowd is actually sort of the idea crowd to try to make it. There seem to be quite a few pros that actually read HN as well.

Would love to get in touch with anyone who is interested in working on strategies or even just talking.
Postgresql and MS SQL aren't really alternatives to SQLite. Maybe you just had the wrong tool to begin with.
No, commons is exactly what I'm avoiding here by making all the land privately owned.