skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you'd find the philosopher Jean Baudrillard really interesting [0]. He wrote extensively about how humans create structure/models/frameworks around everything that approximate the "real" world into something we can work with. He calls them simulations, and i think he goes as far as to argue that it is in fact the "real world" underlying those simulations that doesn't exist; or ceases to exist once it's been simulated.

0: Excerpt from his book Simulacra and Simulation -
https://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Baudrilla...
Seeing their ads, and only their ads, on reddit constantly since forever has rubbed me the wrong way.
You say this, but you offer no evidence to contradict the study, which is based on ... evidence that you're wrong.

But think about it: A single person making $105k is just touching the top 10% of income earners in the US: https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

Having spent some time in about that bracket in an average cost-of-living area (earned slightly more, but I'd spent the previous few years being a broke grad student), I can attest that it felt amazingly rich - there were few things I would have done with more money. My life satisfaction came from my job, my relationships, and my hobbies.

There's a lot of evidence supporting the general conclusion that happiness is either logarithmic in income, or asymptotic after a point. Just blowing it off as "a joke" doesn't hold water. There's also considerable evidence that things like friendships, family, good relationships with neighbors, etc., are much more important contributors to happiness than income.
MS Windows: That’s why we can’t have nice things.

Solution: don’t invite the village idiot of OS’s to the party :-)

Windows is why we can’t just use “Make”, and ended up with abominations like “Ant” :-(
Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas.

Or my own Louisville, which is smaller than those but still plenty big at 780,000 people.
There's a section in the FAQ titled "WHY USE PLEASE INSTEAD OF BAZEL, BUCK OR PANTS?" https://please.build/faq.html
It seems that some people have conflated the idea of "socially constructed" with something not being real. Nations are composed of people and power structures; while these may have been designed by people, in no way does it mean that they don't exist, or that they don't create distinctions and differences between groups people over long periods of time.

People naturally feel like their history and the shared history of their kin is part of their identity, something they can lay claim to in an abstract sense. The events of the past influence your birth and life, as they did for the generations preceding you. There is such a thing as a healthy variety of pride in your identity; obviously we know what it looks like when taken too far, but the cries to eliminate it completely seem to me to be dangerous propositions.
> If you didn't create the private key yourself, by definition it's not private.

In fairness, though, your certificate vendor already has the power to issue a brand new certificate for your domain if they wanted to quietly snoop on traffic.

Same thing with AWS generating SSH keys if you want them to - they can get at all the data on your server anyways. No, it's not the greatest practice, but it probably does help a bit for making things easier for less-technical users.
It's tuned to the preferences of another company; if you prefer their taste on the finer points, that's one. Secondly, it's written in Go, so installation should be simpler.
>In any case, the style of the review is pretty much par for the course in academia.

A bit off topic, but that's terribly damning of academia! It's not often you get a concrete example of the "educated elite talking down to the proles" stereotype, but that review is it, in the flesh.

It's off-putting. Viscerally so. I've read bad restaurant reviews by professional critics that are less venomous.
Improving Android Stability by Reducing Usage of Non-SDK Interfaces
That's bit harsh. I bet that significant amount of the impacted people had only the vaguest idea what they were actually buying ("a lock icon for the web thingy"), and never even heard of private keys, never mind CSRs or actually understanding public-key crypto and PKI.
Quick and simple setup, thanks!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/garrettgoss
Ah, didn't know that. While it lowers the barrier to entry for getting a cert, the idea is fundamentally insecure.
SEC Launches Cryptocurrency Probe
> Recertification of the software would blow it all away.

This makes me wonder, will self-driving cars need recertification if even one line of code is touched?
Spotify is for girls
> Any company doing that deserves to have their decision makers crucified, head down, on the outer wall of the town church, with the nails hammered through their genitals.

You're the security hero we need, but not the one we deserve
I remember when I would be excited/happy when Google would acquire some software/service that I use. Surely this means the project will be well supported for the foreseeable future... why else would Google pay XXX million...?!

These days the same announcements just fill me with dread and I expect the the software/service to be shutdown or gimped to the point of worthlessness within a year.
Are there any examples of core G-Suite products Google has deprecated? I can't think of any.

Reminder that "Core G-Suite" is an official designation, not something I just made up. Right now, their Core G-Suite products are: Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, Calendars, Hangouts, Hangouts Chat, Hangouts Meet, Plus, Keep, Vault, and Jamboard.
We Analyzed 10,000 Google Home Results.Here’s What We Learned
Noob question here: You receive $1mil in bitcoin as someone who knows nothing about bitcoin...then what? Do you sell it? Do you need to go find someone to sell it to?

I'd imagine you can't just go to an exchange and unload $1mil in bitcoin as most exchanges have limits on how much you can trade at once without more advanced accounts?
Yes, I didn't mention it but that's what you'd do in the first one. There are people that prefer dice get rolled more predictably (an even amount of 1s, 2s, 3s, etc), so you can just have a few sets of repeats and don't have them return the slips if you wanted that.

Some people get really mad with true randomness and think the system is rigged. Something I've learned when designing video games. Settlers of Catan have Dice Cards they sell for people who hate that "the 4 alwaaaaays gets rolled and my 8 didn't get rolled once, that's bullshit!"
> Ever hear of the Jehovah's Witnesses?

Yes, known some even.

> Ever hear how people who managed to pull themselves out of that looney bin talk about the way they view the outside world and especially games like DnD?

I've seen mixed reactions, from participating, to seeing it as time wasting, to seeing it as prohibited because of the use of dice (some JWs view the gambling prohibition to extend to all dice), to seeing it as undesirable because of content (specifically fantasy occultism), to stronger negative reactions based on the same kind of myths that originated and were, AFAICT, more popular in fundamentalist / evangelical mainstream American Christianity.
Spotify stock is going to get crushed. you think the powerful investments banks of wall street will let someone go around them and not make an example of the stock? If everyone did this and gets encouragement from Spotify - its serious bucks that wall street looses. It may work in the future, but Bold Spotify and its shareholders will pay the price...
This particular bug is often taught in university compsci classes as "bug that killed people" is a good attention grabber -- the CS/EE analysis is sound; its truthfulness is only suspect because of the DoD's claimed successes.

A more truthful "computer bugs that killed people" example would be the Therac-25 - a machine intended to treat cancer with tightly-focused radiation therapy. Six patients died as a result of massive overdoses of radiation, on the order of 20,000 rads. It was possible for the machine to end up in a state where it delivered full-power radiation without a hardware shield in place to protect the rest of the patient's body. No hardware interlocks were used to ensure that the full power mode was only usable with the shield in place - all safety features relied on software. In addition, the bug was only possible when an operator made a mistake in mode selection and then rapidly (proficiently) corrected it - the rapidity required prevented the bug from being discovered during slow, methodic, careful testing.

See Hackaday's article Killed by a Machine (and associated HN discussion) or for the especially curious, a 49-page post-mortem for more detail:

https://hackaday.com/2015/10/26/killed-by-a-machine-the-ther...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201147

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
> Users expect computers to work in a non-surprising ways.

"Users" is a very broad category with a bunch of partitioning.

The particular subgroup in question are authors of build automation systems for medium to large scale software projects. They (we) have a rather different perspective on "surprising".
He is not calling Dubai a communist state, he is calling people who are criticizing how a sovereign country spends its income communist - which is true by definition.
The F-1 tells the full story:

> As this listing is taking place via a novel process that is not an underwritten initial public offering, there will be no book building process and no price at which underwriters initially sold shares to the public to help inform efficient price discovery with respect to the opening trades on the NYSE. Pursuant to NYSE Rules, we have engaged Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“Morgan Stanley”) as a financial advisor to be available to consult with the designated market maker (the “DMM”) in setting the opening public price of our ordinary shares on the NYSE.

Morgan Stanley will be involved to help set the price with the market maker (sounds normal), but:

> However, because Morgan Stanley will not have engaged in a book building process, they will not be able to provide input to the DMM that is based on or informed by that process. Moreover, prior to the opening trade, there will not be a price at which underwriters initially sold ordinary shares to the public as there would be in an underwritten initial public offering.

So they didn't get hired to do a road show and won't have interest from institutional investors. As for having a stabilization agent? It sure doesn't sound like it:

> This lack of an initial public offering price could impact the range of buy and sell orders collected by the NYSE from various broker-dealers. Consequently, the public price of our ordinary shares may be more volatile than in an underwritten initial public offering and could, upon listing on the NYSE, decline significantly and rapidly.
And yet, power blackouts, police strikes and natural disasters usually lead to outbreaks of looting and vandalism.

At least some proportion of the population are deterred by the possibility of being caught and punished.
What is the best payment API?
Looking for the best payment API for card-present and card-not-present. Needs to support EMV integration and be JSON based.
These are cryptocurrency gifts, right? How would the recipients realize the money from them, or would they treat them as assets to hold?
Agreed. But, in my case I couldn't use grayscale without this. I need colour many times a day for work.

So, this is actually what made greyscale possibly at all. I do agree you have to watch for leaving it off though.

If you find yourself switching it off you can set a daily reminder until the habit sticks.
> I'm not sure what another state department might have done

The US State Department, and the entire US government, has for generations made human rights central to US foreign policy. It's believed that people with freedom and opportunity become vibrant trade partners and allies, not enemies in war. Democracies don't start wars against other democracies, as an historical rule.

That historic policy is widely believed to have given the US enormous influence, as people generally feel favorably towards others whose central goal is freedom and opportunity for all.

The current State Dept (including the Secretary of State) and other leading government officials have openly forewarn support for human rights. The Secretary of State said making money is more important (which fits the approach of many in the oil industry, and he was CEO of Exxon). Others deemphasize it for no given reason, and advocate even eliminating the State Dept in favor of military power.

> a continuation of politics that hardly offered Obama straightforward leverage

A lack of straightforward leverage is pretty normal for international relations; it's the sea in which diplomats swim. Almost every great thing that has been accomplished in that field was done in that environment.
You forgot Android Messages
On a fundamental level I really dislike the "always as root" operation of apt,yum and every other package manager.

In a security focused world we should be trying to minimise the privileges needed to do anything - and in that should gain a lot of portability.

I want to apt-get my desktop environment into my home directory, and then be able to migrate system to system by rsyncing that bundle and I want user namespaces to enforce security within that space.
Being deprived of your freedom is punishment enough. That should be easy to accept for any libertarian and even many conservatives (the ones with libertarian tendencies).

Anything beyond that is just adding insult to injury and only serves to reflect badly on the correctional system itself. For instance, I don't understand under what logic prisoners absolutely need to have their stuff chucked out on a regular basis. It serves to do what, besides further humiliate people who are already driven into the ground?

You fuck up once and then your whole life goes in the shitter? What sense does that make? Whom does it benefit?
I have a question, how can you register a website by being anonymous ? I don't understand, anyone care to explain ? Thanks.
While it feels icky to root for a billionaire hedge fund manager who probably couldn't care less if I lived or died, I was kind of pulling for Ackman. Herbalife is a complete scam, and in a sane universe they wouldn't have any valuation at all. But no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Sigh.
I acknowledge your experience, but I have to wonder how much of this is caused by setting a very high bar in the preliminary selection stages.

The number of people who can do Stanford-level research in computer science is probably pretty low. But the number of people who could teach first- and second-year computer science courses, even to Stanford standards, could be much higher.
Killed by CO poisoning from a faulty heater. Wow-- that sucks!
> if I see a malloc for a bunch of memory intended for the
> lifetime of the app and it's at the beginning of main and
> then it doesn't get freed before the end of process
> execution it's not really a memory leak in my book.

Not freeing such memory and otherwise not explicitly destroying all your state can hide bugs, hide legitimate leaks, and add noise to memory profilers like valgrind. Destroying your state exercises those code pathways, which is very valuable.

Plus, it's just a good habit in a language with manual memory management. It's like wearing your seatbelt--if it's a habit you just do it as a matter of course without thought, no matter whether you're driving around the block or across the country. You start making exceptions, you break the habit, you invite errors of judgment.
nice site. what does "capacity" mean? satoshis? mbtc?
If rebooting requires less than a few seconds, then I'd say they could simply do that, even while in flight, to collect the garbage.
Python 3.6 added a version field to dictionnaries. As all variables are looked up in dictionnaries (aka namespaces), a compiler can replace a call to a builtin by a test of the version of the builtins dict (aka a guarde), which chooses between an optimized version and the "naive" code.

Further reading: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0509/
When is he a kidnapper?

When he is A kidnapper who has yet to kidnap?
I uploaded hundreds of stock photos to Facebook and tagged myself (and a few friends) in all of them. I even used multiple photos of the same model to try to foil some attempts to filter inconsistencies. I hope to inject enough bad data into their system that it's totally unreliable for my face.
Depends on your definition of works. Hangouts is the only piece of software that is less reliable than visual studio.
Thing is, you still need to support smaller artists buy buying physical or going to live events. Spotify pays very close to nothing to small acts.
Why Systolic Architectures? – HT Kung (1982) [pdf]
Mao's Golden Mangoes (BBC Radio, 2016)
>ad-free Youtube TV is bundled in the plan

Only in US.
> And what about disabilities? How does your algorithm handle those? Racial bias? So many unanswerable questions.

Couldn't algorithms reduce racial bias by focusing on evaluating candidates independent of their race, and other personal attributes?
Here's a wacky idea: say no. Don't offer a perpetual license.

Alternatively, you can price it so high that a 1% money market account earns exactly X in interest in perpetuity.

With a perpetual, you lose autonomy. You will be forever unable to discontinue your product should it stop being profitable or worthwhile or relevant. When that day finally comes (you pass away at the tender age of 108) this client might be ticked off and demand a refund plus interest from your estate.
Agree probably mostly related to labour.

But further, could IP and acquisitions be split out and components attributed to this?

They file plenty of patents, and acquisition of entities such as Soundtrap could possibly have elements allocated to R&D. Is this standard/recommended practice?
Such a great service. Recruiting with real value add for both candidates and the companies. We love Triplebyte at Chartio!
How does taxation/deduction work on bitcoins which were not a taxable asset when originated but are maybe sort of an asset now that they're being given away? Is this donation of magic beans deductible now that the IRS has maybe started to notice? I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't have been deductible a year ago.
Noted. https://github.com/qznc/annoying-build-systems#please
Absolutely. Money saves time and stress. You can pay people to do other things for you. You can afford to take a vacation. You can also probably afford a temporary job loss (unless you are mortgaged to the hilt). You can afford to start a startup in some cases. Still I am pretty sure you can find people who make $250k that are miserable, possibly because of the working conditions.
It comes with Headspace free in the UK curiously enough
I think you can open an Institutional account at one of the exchanges like Gemini or Kraken and have them unload it for you slowly.

https://gemini.com/institutions/
What's your point? Blue Apron, Cloudera and Twilio have gone public already... Financials are secret until filing for an IPO and at any given point there are not many companies (tech or otherwise) who have filed, but not yet listed. We don't know who's profitable or who will go public, so the best we can go off of is past history.
Felt the same way. The documentary Betting On Zero was eye-opening, and I was surprised that he stuck to this bet for so long.

I suppose it isn't really a pyramid scheme in the sense of being unstable. It is perfectly stable at fleecing people who don't know any better.
I can't view the article behind paywall, but there was a recent documentary about this short position.

Worth a watch: http://bettingonzeromovie.com/
Just say no.
I'm thinking about starting a company that is treating passing coding challenges as a 'data problem'
It's hosted by Github pages which only needs an email address and is free so no billing info. Domain requires payment and stuff but you can easily use whois privacy protection. Looks like they use "Whois Guard Protection".

In the end they are relying on both whois guard and the domain registrar to keep their anonymity.
Thanks. I signed up for your beta and when check it out when I get an email seems interesting.

While I agree that genes aren’t absolute, but 1) sometimes it’s pretty close and 2) it doesn’t need to be absolute if it results in improved rates of behavior change.

I’m familiar with a condition with really high penetrance. So while not absolute it’s really high and almost a certainty. If computing could tell me how different risk factors or behaviors could offset or mitigate in understandable terms, that would be useful.

I’ve looked at sites and they all seem to reflect pretty blah guidance that isn’t specific enough to be able to model personalized changes. But I expect that to change with all of these large genetic data sets and trials going on.

Being fit and healthy would be great for everyone. But 60% of the US isn’t oversight or obese because they are stupid or lazy. It’s just hard and made harder by a very disconnected feedback loop.
Most domain registrars allow you to add "privacy protection" for a nominal fee, which basically replaces your name under the WHOIS registrant info with theirs instead of yours. While this effectively shields outsiders from discovering who you are, the registrar likely knows the information of the original buyer...
I'm curious, why can't you use VSOnline?
That makes sense. It's a lot and doesn't go very far in the Bay area but it makes things better than just 105k-120k for a family of 4 which can work but can be stressful.
oh, yeah, sorry, I left that out, but that's a subtle issue, because it's not clear whether he is actually a creature, or an embodiment of nature.
The default quality for the desktop app is in OGG Vorbis at 160kbps and for the mobile app is 96kbps. With a Premium subscription you can change these to 'Extreme' (320kbps). The web player reaches is 128kbps AAC or 256kbps with Premium [0]. Many users might be unaware they can change the quality at all (or they don't use the desktop app but use the web player so can't change the quality at all).

I can definitely hear the difference between 96/160/256. Between 256/320/lossless I'd probably fail an ABX test [1] and I'm very doubtful of anyone claiming to hear the differences between 320/lossless regardless of how much of an audiophile they claim to be if they refuse to take an ABX test. I'd maybe believe telling 256 and lossless apart but still be doubtful without any ABX results.

[0] https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/system_settings...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABX_test
Small things about AWS suggest it's a load of different products held together by duct tape.

Case in point - I was fixing an issue today, so had iam/s3/ec2 open. They have different favicons. I had the situation we all know where I had 40 different tabs open whilst trying to work out what was going on, thought I didn't have an AWS tab so opened another one purely because the iam favicon is completely different to the rest.

I know it sounds silly, but it is indicative of the entire thing - their ECR doesn't support going back in the browser for one. I'd run to GCloud, but unfortunately the company i'm contracting at won't move.
Really great to see MDMA research (MAPS, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) get funded by Pine. MDMA seems to be a high potential therapy.

I hope the next crypto philanthropist funds other psychedelic research, e.g. Heffter Research. https://heffter.org/ Psilocybin and classic psychedelics also seems to be very high potential - e.g. for addiction [0], problem solving/creativity [1], and for depression/anxiety [2].

[0]: https://hub.jhu.edu/2014/09/11/magic-mushrooms-smoking/

[1]: https://thethirdwave.co/psychedelics-creativity/

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/health/hallucinogenic-mus...