skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much does a couple of hours of people standing in the parking lot waving signs really cost them? It's not like Google is a manufacturer where the assembly line comes to a stop if nobody is on the line; everything should be automated so that a handful of people can keep the servers humming along in the data centers. Maybe a few status meetings of dubious worth don't happen, or a little less email gets shuffled around.

Most people aren't actually doing anything that really affects the bottom line in a typical software company. Maybe if a few people performed acts of sabotage as a statement, that would make a dent, but that would effectively be suicidal.
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Please don't compare everything he's doing in the same bucket. Even if starlink were to succeed technically, it's not clear how they'd pay for the ground system. The satellite is the only piece talked about, but the ground system is betting on technology to take a massive cut off what it costs currently. It's more likely to will only be sold to enterprise/business customers, and not Joe schmo in rural Kansas.

SpaceX needs this to succeed to increase revenue, based on a wsj story from last year. The launches, while fascinating to watch and a huge technical achievement, won't pay the bills forever.
To say stuxnet was akin to someone plugging a USB drive in really downplays how serious the operation surrounding stuxnet was.

Iran was having their nuclear scientists assassinated in the streets at the time stuxnet was being infiltrated into the nuclear facilities.

I have a feeling that when you have that level of resources being dedicated to a mission, your not hinging your whole plan on someone picking up a random usb and plugging it in.
Fwiw, I use Gmail exclusively in Firefox and have no problems at all. (And my machines are fairly dated.)
there was the funny magic string that would make half a channels modems disconnect too.
That is true, my standard of living is great and I think I am able so save quite a lot per month as well.
Let me get this straight: wealthy Saudis invest money in American companies, American companies do well and make billions, investors profit, Americans profit. Profits get reinvested so that investors make more money.

But wait!

Saudis come from a 'bad' country, and some of those profits will be taxed by 'bad' governments -- which means that indirectly we are funding 'bad' governments! Also, Women are not represented in tech, which is somehow related! Bad Silicon Valley! Bad!

P.S. Check out my VC firm which doesn't do these bad things.

If this is what rhetoric has become I'm not afraid of 1984 or Brave New World. Idiocracy hit the nail right on the head.
Amusingly, even the Thais often don't spell baht "correctly". I'm there right now and see prices specified any number of ways:

100 บาท (in the local language)
100 B
100 ฿
100 BAHT
100 BATH (disturbingly common)

None of it matters of course as the meaning is totally evident from the context, but it's interesting coming from countries where symbols like $ or ¥ are totally dominant. ฿ is probably the least common of all of them (yes, less common than "bath") and it's kind of easy to see why - there's only one conceivable meaning a capital B could have coming after a number in Thailand, so why even bother learning the keystrokes to bring up the unicode?
There is t-engine[1]. Ultimately, though, there's not so much that an engine can offer to a roguelike. Many use libraries such as SDL, bearlibterminal[2], or tcod for graphics, but aside from that most things are hand-rolled.

1: https://te4.org/te4

2: http://foo.wyrd.name/en:bearlibterminal
According to Star Trek history there was a logical progression from Navier-Stokes to the invention of the warp drive, so this should make that a lot easier.
Ask HN: MVP concept – find book lists of outstanding people
Hi,

I had this idea of collecting book lists of the people I admire, and over the weekend I built a MVP to show the concept: http://138.68.17.19/

It's to solve my 2 questions around the people I admire:
(1) what book did they read and recommend?
(2) for a book I want to buy, who recommended it?

I'm very curious about your opinions on this concept. Feedback is very appreciated :)

Thanks
Unless you aggressively moderate to keep quality high, question and answer sites inevitably degenerate into Yahoo Answers, as the bad poisons the pool and drives out the high quality users.

If you aggressively moderate to keep quality high, you drive off low quality users, and stall out your growth.
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While this might be technically true, my impression has always been that Fellows are still viewed as above DEs, and paid more, and there are absolutely Fellows working on the engineering side of the business.
Please leave the 'Russian shill' accusations to Twitter.
Have noticed this, too. A particularly flagrant example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032596

Flagged to oblivion but if you've been following recent events you can probably make a pretty good guess as to the article. (Hint: NY Times)
I'm surprised you're skeptical without knowing anything about peer review or climate modeling, yes: it's quite egotistical.
Brave browser has been flagged by Windows Defender for over a year, instead of blocking it Antimalware Service Executable goes into overdrive and chews up all cpu usage.

Many have reported the false positive, the browser is open source. Nothing has changed. So good luck with that.
Exactly, though in the case of TCP/IP you can just -lock- the door entirely for certain (people|addresses) - no need for violence!
> You should look at the impartial nonpartisan data I provided and do simple integration before you claim that, moving forward, the West will be what matters WRT climate change.

Your source looked at cumulative emissions per country, not per capita, even then the west is way over represented in your own source.

> WRT the past, your "baked in" argument makes no sense and is in any case irrelevant.

We have 1.5-2 degrees of warming baked in, even if the world stopped pumping out CO2 tomorrow. Most of that is from the West so we are responsible for that.

> Moving forward, if the West drops to zero emissions today, the developing world will burn the planet alive, if the climate models are correct.

If we drop to zero emissions tomorrow we will have created the technology and the model for the developing world to also get there. That's what leadership is.
Is it some kind of being nice telling people they are underpaid all the time just because someone else earns more? Let's be frank: Level of skill, experience (not just measured in years), productivity and (kinda important for salary and promotions) self-presentation vary greatly among employees. In a knowledge-based role like software engineer these make a huge impact on quality and quantity of work. Thus it's only natural in a free market that some individuals earn more and some less.

Salary isn't just a function of [years of experience] * [COL]. The majority is not skilled enough in some trait to make it into the high paying jobs or companies. It might not feel like that on HN, but this is a very selected/biased group of people. Statistically speaking not only are 50% above the average, 50% are below. This is not only true for salary, but for everything including skill etc.

Let's not forget that FAANG also make ridiculous margins and can afford to pay that well and pick every employee from hundreds of applications. That's also impossible for most traditional companies. A lot of big companies run between 200k-300k$ revenue per employee and not 1million. It's impossible for them to pay these wages (especially as revenue does not equal money available for salaries).

Am I saying that skill and productivity are always in line with salary? No. But it doesn't help to tell everyone paid less they are underpaid. Maybe they just lack some kind of skill and even if it's just the ability to correctly market their value, solve coding challenges in interviews or network into better positions. They might never earn the high figures and it really doesn't help to make them feel bad about it (granted this comment also isn't cheerful, but it's aimed at the people calling "underpaid" all the time)
It still is. But it's also posted as a serious rebuttal of "why not to work at Google" many many times on HN. Missed the /s :)
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Israel Mossad used remotely detonated magnetically attached bombs attached to the victim's car door while they were stuck in traffic using a motorcycle drive-by attack. That's unusual outside of the Middle East. In most other countries they trigger remote exploits (electronic and physical) in target vehicles which lead to terrible crashes.
That's the first obvious countermeasure and will prevent hackers targeting a specific account. But there are other ways to crack passwords, one is to try the same password but iterate over user ids instead. As hackers would start with the most common password you can't throttle globally on same password attempts either because well yeah, it is by definition the most commonly used one which should have a lot of traffic.
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One thing I’ve done recently in Common Lisp with macros was write a suite of macros to make working with objective-c in Common Lisp less burdensome: with a couple reader macros, I can almost copy-paste objective-c code samples into my Common Lisp program and have them work.
That is a wrong analogy. FB does recommendations prominently luring in you to things that you didn't knew existed. It also filters and sorts to decide for you what information you get to see.

The correct analogy is having a secretory that reads all your emails and only selectively lets you know what you got as well as inserting recommendations based on her belief system. So if this secretory tells you that your brother only sends you bad emails and here's the great model of gun you should buy if you are going to meet him - then your secretory is not merely a tool to manage your emails.
SpaceX can fly--or not--whomever they want. And they are, in fact, not flying their competitors. OneWeb is booked on a variety of SpaceX competitors: Arianespace (mostly Soyuz, but also optionally Ariane 6), Virgin, and Blue Origin.

SpaceX certainly hopes this gives them an advantage, and it probably does, though eventually someone is bound to copy them if they prove successful. Blue Origin is already well on their way to a Falcon 9-alike.

Launch is also only part of the cost of a satellite constellation.
Very much like c in place of ¢ for cents which is very common in some places. I've even seen e instead of €.
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Google is not in my internet hot path anymore. So, good for them. DDG & ProtonMail work just fine.
I used fastmail for a year and can recommend it, but if you’re European you should probably look up runbox instead as it’s housed in Norway.

That’s what I eventually switched to and it works fine.
But then you're just trading one surveillance state for another.

I can't wait for open-source devices.
Hello HN, author here. If you've ever wanted to get into data analysis, this is my best attempt at getting you past that first hump. A lot of these concepts are easier than you might think.
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> There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

The record of peaceful protest without something more meaningful like violence, the threat of violence or serious monetary cost (stopping the machine) is not a good one.
Also, some of the biggest complaints about redux and other JavaScript libraries is the amount of boilerplate you have to write, leading to really complicated scaffolding and code generation utilities: Babel, for example, is essentially just a big macroexpander for JavaScript enabling, among other things, the use of language features as soon as they are standardized rather than having to wait years until a sufficient portion of the available browsers support the new feature.
"Pretty soon your every action will be tracked throughout the Internet"

You're saying soon the computers that make up the internet will gain the capabilities of IBM machinery of the 1930s?
5 months sound about just right to get past the honeymoon phase with a new company and see what's swept under the rug, and seems fine given he/she wasn't fired.
That's how they got Diana. </tinfoil>
You'd have to have a pretty low opinion of Russian intelligence services if you didn't think they weren't keeping a tab open for this site.
I was getting a persistent but unhelpful error message from an airline website while trying to change my reservation shortly after midnight. I assumed at first I just hit the maintenance window and should try again in the morning, but now I am reading this thread and wondering if it's a deliberate obfuscation that it deemed my connection suspicious.
He's talking about the kernel. The Windows NT kernel and the Windows APIs use handles to represent kernel/API objects, and every handle has things like security associated with it.

For example, CreateProcess() gives you back a HANDLE value representing the process, and you can close it with CloseHandle(). Everything is a HANDLE: Files, pipes, threads, etc. A notable exception is sockets, which for historical reasons use an API modeled on BSD sockets.

The object stuff you're talking about is presumably COM, which is different. COM is great, but has nothing to do with the kernel.
It's always better if you come in new.
https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding
It's a way to describe the shape of data, a bit like schema but focus on non-exhaustive description and composability. The practical uses can be generative tests, is-a queries, conformity tests, "describe deviations from spec" queries, etc. You can also write spec for diffs in data structures, so you can use it for state changes. It's pretty open-ended.
That's quite a lot. For a site with a single feed that <50 articles surface on every day, one would think one story a day would be more than sufficient for new users.
>Spending more than 2 years at Eng I or Eng II is considered a cause for serious concern.

Is this just for within Google or also from Google's perspective of hires from elsewhere? Because I have to admit I have not been past mid-level (which I guess is the Eng II equivalent) for over five years.

I have 10 years experience in my career and never held a senior position, officially. Do I miss out a lot in seniority by just being a permatemp and contractor for small shops?
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when you say "hash them together" do you mean concatenate or use a merkle tree ? Merkle tree has the added advantage of being able to prove that a certain hash was part of the root with by a tree traversal.
What are the cost projections for system? If ~95-99% of customers (living in densely populated area) don't adopt it, economics may make it unviable for rest also.
Starlink service will not compete with cell phones; the terminals are too large. If anything, it will complement cell service, by making tower backhaul easier.

It's also unlikely to directly compete with wired ISPs in cities, as the bandwidth required for everyone to have a terminal would be high. But it could enable unwired 5G stations as micro-ISPs, which would be a similar effect.

What it will kill are rural or undeveloped area ISPs (such as they are) and provide high threat to undersea cables and cross-country fiber.
Modern American tech firms only offer insurance while you work for them, it is not a lifetime benefit. As a result, you stop working, you need to go hunting and paying for your own healthcare.
> Buy rural property that is undeveloped

Wish it was that simple. Maybe when there is a big enough community (then it would get expensive isn't it). I once wished for that but after getting married the priorities change 1) kids schooling 2) ours and kids social life 3) medical emergencies 4) window shopping and cheese burgers dammit :) I think we the average folks are enslaved
If you decide to retire early (say 50), before medicare kicks in (at 65), then you are on the hook to buy insurance yourself. That's maybe the difference between US and Europe that the above commenter refers to.
Proactively posting content is a good idea, assuming it is content that helps set the right tone. If handled well, this is the most effective goal you have listed.

You should have community guidelines. They should be fairly short and reasonable.

You may need to provide guidance and training to your volunteer moderators.

Moderation is an inherently challenging task because it is a form of policing. While necessary, if done too aggressively, it can easily be counterproductive. You want your primary emphasis to be on inviting people to a pleasant conversation, not on crabbing at them about doing it wrong.

You might try splitting moderator duties between enforcers who police behavior and a hostess position whose primary role is to actively post good content and foster good discussion.

If it's a small community, enforce two rules on staff:

1. Greet new people.

2. Leave no question unanswered.

I found that speaking with new people the first time they posted was the single best way to set the tone for the community and to encourage them to remain active participants. Ignoring new people meant they were much less likely to participate in the future.

Even if I didn't have the information they needed, if there was no response at all to a query after two or three days, I would reply to it personally. This bumped the discussion and sometimes got them the answer they needed. Even if it didn't result in an answer, they didn't feel ignored. It made a big difference in the atmosphere.

It's best to inform people of community norms in a friendly and respectful manner as a form of educating them when "first offenses" occur. In other words, don't crab at them like they are intentionally behaving badly if it is reasonable to assume they just didn't know. Instead, advise them, for example "We don't use all caps here because it's hard to read and comes across as yelling." Only if they persistent should you move to "Please don't do X. That's against community rules/guidelines." If they still persist, then you can break out policing type language.

I'm wondering why you are doing this via Facebook. My knee-jerk reaction is to feel like the venue is part of the problem. If you don't have a compelling reason for doing it via Facebook, consider trying a different venue. You could A/B test it by offering it as a second channel. See if a different medium gets a different result.

I would also start tracking who the troublemakers are. I have read some things suggesting that your non-paying customers are typically also your most high maintenance. If you find that this is generally the case, solutions might include a sequestered area for paying customers or even rethinking your monetization strategy with this issue in mind.

Find out where the problem is coming from.
I think we are not in disagreement here.
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Same issue here. Mails not loading, poor initial load time. That is with zero extensions enabled.

I am now using mutt/notmuch/mbsync to prevent having to go through their horrendously slow web interface, and eventually move away from Gmail completely (probably to ProtonMail or fastmail).
Fully replicable code, yay! I really hope this becomes the norm. In fact, I hope this approach becomes so expected that researchers outright ignore papers reporting experimental results without fully replicable code and instructions released with it.
Privacy? Gone! Everything can send their data out without going through your own network.

I mean this is really cool, but as more and more network access is available that can circumvent my own network control, the more I worry about the privacy implications. And while cellular antennas exist now, that network seems too expensive for mass adoption in every IoT device.
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Makes sense, not every battle should be fought.
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"...the addition of a wearable technology device to a standard behavioral intervention resulted in less weight loss over 24 months."

Almost 70% more weight loss in the standard group. Wow.
> How can an animal give brand identity?

O'Reilly books are a fantastic example of this that goes beyond something as simple as the name of the company/product being an animal (Penguin, Puma, Jaguar) -- any time you see a book with that cover with that style of animal, you know who published it.
With regards to NewPipe, you don't need to sign in to enjoy streaming YouTube in 4K (where supported).
How did you drive traffic to your quiz site? I feel like this will affect significantly your results.
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> Sorry, you don't have enough Google Points

In the past few months all our domestic devices have gradually hit that notional condition with Google Search. All the laptops one by one, and then last night my phone. My wife's phone is the only one that can still use their search without a ten-round Recaptcha challenge.

As each device was locked-out from Google I switched the default over to DDG.
I think zero stories for new users until 100 karma would be better. It is going to be almost impossible to build 100 karma through comments with automation.

By allowing new users to submit stories, they can build up enough karma to downvote all through automation. 1 a day would just slow the process but not stop the spammers.
AliExpress.com is the fastest e-commerce site I have experienced.
It was very apparent when I first browsed it - I wasn't even looking for speed, it simply jumped out at me. Especially the search.
Adding "
" to the end of a sentence doesn't make it any less of a strawman.
NIST may say that you should use "peppers" for passwords, but nobody else does.

None of bcrypt, scrypt, or Argon2 use them and are not materially worse for it.
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All my pencils growing up were either red/black or yellow/black, depending on how hard they were.

I miss Staedtler pencils.
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For those who haven't watch 'Star Trek Into Darkness' in awhile, go watch it again and note how the guy walks into the ultra secure facility and plugs in Khan's thumb-drive. That's how it goes down when shit gets real.
Someone might just have as super-cool story...that's different. But one every 48 hours unless that story or user received x karma.

A story every few hours is ridiculous for any user, let alone new users.
i have javascript disabled mostly to save bandwidth against nasty ads. Most sites that requires JS i usually ignore if possible (seriously why do some content provider think its ok to require JS?). For certain things like soon google login i do just whitelist them. But by default if i do not trust your site enough and/or its not that important in the end ill just close my tab