skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you are right, I think the parent's idea if that with a large enough sample, even if every actor is making decisions randomly, you will get actors that will just crush it.

I mean Warren Buffet invested in Apple about a year ago based on the idea that they have a sticky brand and went so far as to say that iPhones were underpriced (which is just flat out wrong given how poorly they sold relative to predictions). . .and it turned out to be a terrible investment decision (so far). While I find it hard to believe that WB is all luck I think you can't dismiss that argument entirely based on his track record, no matter how successful.
I think that this is people finally getting fed up with corporate hypocrisy. When you quit, for example, it's expected that you give at least two week's notice, and anything less would be "unprofessional". When there's a layoff, though, people are shown the door immediately (or sometimes even fired over the phone). Why should I be held to rules that don't apply to the company that I'm working for?
Mindfulness app Calm valued at $1B
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After reading a part i had to scratch my ahead and ask myself, am i the only idiot in the room who cant take this in?
shellcode vs shell-code.

Shellcode traditionally meant binary that would do something like exec("/bin/bash") (i.e. code that launches a shell).
When abusing a buffer overflow, you would usually want to somehow get this code to be executed.
Later, the term expanded to mean any kind of user-provided bytes an attacker wants to be interperted and executed as machine instructions.
This is important.

I sometimes go on vacation and sleep in the back of my car. Cosier than it sounds, but no van. The money I save I spend on dining in a restaurant.

The stereotype of surfers who stay on the beach for weeks developed a system for that: They litter the beach, until it's all dirty.

I was amazed how much "van life" suddenly comes back to normal camping except for the litter left behind.
Which makes sense, but reading emails to provide smart features is not an automatic loss of privacy.

Google runs the SmartBot2000 software for you. If you use FOSS but run it on AWS EC2, you still need to trust the software, manage the upgrades (or trust the auto upgrade feature, trust the maintainers), and trust AWS for not fucking with your VM.

We have a few physical servers. And probably always will. We run our own email, but also use gmail too. Because sometimes our email breaks, sometimes [understandably fewer times] gmail breaks (or is not available, such as in China). And we will probably always run our email, but it's a lot of work, and it's not for everybody. And even though postfix, dovecot and K9/thunderbird/roundcube are all fine, they are not as smart as gmail. (but usually snappier)

You need decades of experience to set up a secure email host. GMail does it for people in exchange for showing them ads. (uBlock FTW, BTW)

NSA/Prism is a valid reason to use your own mailserver, but then again, keeping up with TLS/OpenSSL issues is a valid reason to use a non-self-hosted solution (as they do it for you, though gmail accepts unencrypted SMTP :/).

And of course, at the end of the day, there's ProtonMail!
If they all behaved purely randomly WB would be a high sigma event - he's got to be loaded in some way - the issue here is which of WB's properties are behind his financial success - one strategy would be to emulate him as accurately as possible in all his idiosyncrasies or to use a more scientific method (e.g. looking at common traits among agents of his class).
Defining Afrika's digital reinvention
The actual level of confidence is near zero, not what is written. Climate scientists can prove it really easily; give a forecast of the weather more than 30 days out. Anybody claiming to be able to predict decades+ of weather should easily be able to do a 30 day forecast.
> Please check the wikipedia page for what is actually claimed.

You want to point me to a fact you are trying to refute?
You should correct your impressions.

You have made about 23 comments in this discussion, many regarding "your country", but you haven't stated it once. You've then generalised across all of the EU based on the one country.
Microservice to screenshot from a webpage and upload it to a AWS S3 Bucket
Here in NZ they are also the go-to for swallowing issues (they are called SLTs here - speech-language therapists). Our 10 month old daughter is fed 50/50 via bottle and nasogastric tube due to an as yet undiagnosed issue that causes her to stop drinking partway through a feed when she is still hungry. Among the many specialists involved in her case, the SLTs are responsible for observing the mechanics of how she drinks and checking that she is safely swallowing etc.
> Imagine you had a company that was trying to start a video service and the expert on ffmpeg goes on parental leave half way through.

Imagine you had that same company and your expert was hit by a bus and instantly killed. Don't run your business with a single point of failure.
Are companies not paying severance to laid off employees? The old norm, which seemed pretty reasonable to me, was that employees gave notice and companies paid severance. The walking out the door part is unpleasant, but it's the pay that's more important IMO.
According to Wikipedia[0], it's EVE Online. I couldn't find any notes on where the name came from, however.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Online
Any email host reads you emails. And not everyone is up to the task of hosting their own emails.
Well, if you take the random-chance/selection-bias as the core of a snowball and add to it the various mechanisms which mean that the game of asset management is rigged in favour of the manager, then I think there is something to this. For example, asset managers get a part of their income from a MANAGEMENT fee which is a percentage of the assets under management, that they collect regardless of whether the fund actually does well. If you get a few bets right, make a name for yourself, more people will be putting money into your funds, and it all turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Patreon will fail and thankfully it will be purely down to the marketplace.

You see the marketplace does not have the same ideology as Patreon.

> More than $1 billion will be paid out to creators since the company's inception in 2013.

Patreon does not pay out (it's own money) to creators, although they act like they do. They are merely a middle man. That's it. However, Patreon sees themselves as some sort of moral compass policing the internet and choosing whether or not to payout to a creator whether or not they have broken their terms of service.

Now that other competitors like bitPatreon and SubscribeStar have come into view and actively taking payments on-behalf of creators that would otherwise not be allowed to under Patreon. This will be seen as the start of a shift for creators overall.

One last thing. Last I heard, Patreon has over 140 employees. Seriously, for what. Fraud should be down to Stripe. Paying out, again to Stripe. Their platform could be built over a week using Vue.

Oh right, those 140 employees. It's for policing the content creators... I gotcha.

Needless to say. I'm not happy about this situation. Maybe I'll do something about it.
"The Gun" by C.J. Chivers (https://www.amazon.com/Gun-C-J-Chivers/dp/0743271734)

I read it not so much as a historical text but as a story about dramatic shifts in power attributed to technological advancement and strategy.
3 hours later, database still struggling.
Sounds something like "reduce search and purchase friction and people will stop pirating your stuff".

Seems like the fragmentation for video streaming is heading in the opposite direction. Too many different providers, and too much unwanted behavior, like the Netflix autoplay anything you hover over feature.

Is there a "amount of pirate downloading" history chart somewhere?
This is such an excellent point. I made a prototype of a class based alternative to hooks, and while I liked some aspects of the API more, it definitely did not take this use case into account!
So will someone quitting to get a different job, being hit by a bus, etc.
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Depends on your business model, in the case of Patreon it would be impossible by definition. I don't think it applies as much to GitLab.
Severance is a rarity. It’s also probably not enough. I’ve seen people get 1 or 2 weeks pay as severance.
I am sorry, but you did not get the point. Do all small cities of Philippines have aquatic activities and parks and outdoor activities? Why people are trading it to stay on the Internet?

PS: I am not saying that the Philippines is not good. I am saying that the Internet is cheap entertainment and fills a gap in places where you do not have entertainment.
I consider myself a right-leaning libertarian, and I am totally on-board with everything you said, save one. The more I ruminate on it, the more I think abortion is the single issue that encapsulates the political dichotomy of left vs. right in the US. Where you fall on the line, from "no abortions, ever" to "abortion up to a week after birth, no questions asked" readily defines how "right" or "left" you are, according to the press in the US.
You sound like exactly the kind of person this test is supposed to weed out: making unfounded assumptions, over-complicating things with a resentful attitude and not even completing the very basic thing that was asked of you.
A sustainable business can have 10 million revenues and 10 millions expenses. Expenses contain the salaries of all people employed. As long as the salaries make for a good living for everyone involved that's good enough if you don't have investors that want to extract profits.

You'll still want a bit of a rainy-day fund to cover unexpected losses and you'll want sufficient growth to cover inflation. Not growing beyond that is not necessarily a bad sign, it may be a conscious decision. Growth brings its own kinds of problems, stability has its own appeal.
Crypto exchange owes $190m after founder 'dies without telling vault passwords'
For multiple reasons: most people don’t use MIPS, don’t have to write shellcode, and don’t have to deal with cache coherency :)
Shout out to OpenDNS, who my company uses and whom I made a free account with.
OK, so the issue is that references aren't updated when a move occurs. That does make sense.

So to make this work, references would need to be re-written when a move/copy occurs.

I can still see having an easy way to construct self-referential structs being a useful thing, even if the compiler prevents you from moving them. Maybe with a smart clone() method that can update references correctly.

However, I am a little confused about this specific example. I don't understand why oh_no() taking ownership causes f to be copied to a new location. Shouldn't it remain in the same place on the stack? I feel like I'm missing something.
About the 'white' part: the Roman empire apparently did not categorize people based on something as superficial as their skin color: "physiognomy did not function as a criterion of social status in the Roman system of stratification". [1]

[1] https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V1N4/thompson.htm...
French here, but isn't it a typo ?

"Use this list with so payments by these customers are always allowed automatically."
>Patreon was doing a Netflix. [...] So it used the $60m to bribe creators to sign up.

I haven't seen Patreon do this. Can you link to stories where Patreon has paid for original content creation similar to how Netflix/Amazon/HBO funds original content?

$60 million would be a very tiny warchest to pay for producing original content.

I think the $60 million (~$100 million total) is being used to expand the platform's services for creators' such as backoffice and ecommerce. I wrote in more detail about that strategy in my other comment.
I agree that from the employees' standpoint more is better, but should there be a connection between expected length of notice and expected amount of severance? I believe in Europe the expected notice periods are significantly longer.
only for 64-bit, but disclaimers might apply in (32-bit) IoT land:

> Our results suggest that, for current 32-bit architectures, address-space randomization is ineffective against the possibility of generic exploit code for a single flaw; and brute force attacks can be efficient, and hence effective

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~blp/papers/asrandom.pdf

edit: also ROP
To me half a year is a long time, and for an experiment it certainly is. You should cross the word "only" from your mind, it's no competition. Freedom can also mean to have stable home, relationship, work.
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Performance comparison of video coding standards
Buffett shows how investors like him are not random in this lecture,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham...
Even with DNS/HTTPS and such, wouldn't using a home DNS resolver with a VPN on both ends of the connection still make you a little more vulnerable to network analysis and timing attacks since your DNS requests are guaranteed to go through a specific IP which only serves you?
Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy
There is also, practically, a massive gulf between:

1) Being vaguely aware that something exists and knowing you can Google for it.

2) Having such a deep, intuitive understanding of said thing that you can actually use knowledge of that thing to solve complex problems.
Appart from the obvious benefit of not storing the credit card yourself, I imagine if a user switch cards, the number change and we are back to the same.
> Though I've noticed this to be more common in the blockchain/cryptocurrency sphere

No, this is a technique used elsewhere too. I believe it is called an anecdotal lede or a delayed lede.
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Technologizing Agriculture
More UI than UI/UX. I'd prefer a UX expert overall, it would at least imply a reasonably decent UI.
Not over the time period he has been successful. Or at least the longer he lasts as a successful person doing what he does the less likely he's just acting at random. It's possible to get 1000000 heads in a row flipping a fair coin, but around 20 I'm going to be suspicious.

edit:
With Buffet, he's not actually getting everything right, so I guess a better metaphor would be like 70% heads over 1000000 flips... more likely under random circumstances, but still pretty suspicious.
This is only correct reasoning if you assume that every time someone google's something, they do so from a clean slate.

They are not either or. You do not need to know facts. You need to know how to recognize good and bad answers.
This seems weird to me. Patreon isn't really a platform, at least it isn't considered as such by any of the people I patronize. Their platform is youtube, or software. Patreon is just a way they get their work funded by people like me. As was shown during patreon's last big fuck-up, it is pretty easy for people to pack up shop and get their money through some other channel.
Dnsperf.com is worth a look as well, to compare performance of all of these.

Public DNS resolvers: https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers

DNS services for your own domain: https://www.dnsperf.com/
Just as an FYI, I believe Rasmus was the original Design Lead at Spotify.
Another option here is DNS servers that block ads. I can't vouch for the company itself, but I have found AdGuard DNS reliable and effective, if not memorable:

176.103.130.130, 176.103.130.131

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
What we heard primarily from people favoring restrictions against Muslims such as the travel ban, is the need for security against the bad behavior which is associated with the targeted demographic.

It was not petty when Muslims only response to the travel ban was to get their feelings hurt. They can not accept the framing of the narrative that all Muslims are responsible for terrorism any more than men can accept that all men are responsible for sexism. It is impossible to have a civil discussion with such starting point and thus what we get is a singular response of objection to the narrative rather than a civil debate about the real down to earth problems that society has and how to fix them. Only by removing the framing around the demographic and focusing on the individual can any real progress be had.

> whether "toxic Islam" exists and whether it is an expression of toxic masculinity

Or maybe "toxic masculinity" is an expression of religion, given religion role in defining gender roles. Opium of the people and all that jazz.
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Making the world a better place for the colorblind
Louis Menand’s _The Metaphysical Club_, from 2001. It is a combined history of William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and their later acolyte, John Dewey, as well as of their related ideas, which go by the shorthands Pragmatism and Pluralism. Although a formal history, Menand is a fine writer and there’s much practical philosophy in here, much of which serves as the wellspring for other contemporary books cited in comments here. It was a great book for understanding America, strains of American thought, and how not to be wrong.
he probably meant 'within' instead of 'without'.
myself to use aws-serverless-express and connect my lambda hosted in us-east-virginia to a mlab (now Mongo Atlas) mongo database hosted in the same us-east-virginia amazon region
This state of things is not an accident. It is precisely the result of information asymmetry between voters and politicians. When you have no information, you must go on other sources. If you grow up lacking information, used to acting on feeling, you don't know how to process information and tend to reject i when you have no information, you must go on other sources. If you spend your life lacking information, used to acting on feeling, you don't know how to process information and tend to reject it. Or you have been convinced that you are knowledgeable and informed, by people interested in keeping you uninformed.

Politicians benefit when politics works this way. They always have and will continue to do so. And now that we have a news media, they are complicit.

No facts will convince most Russian nationalists that Ukraine has a moral right to crimea

Maybe so, but when powerful interests benefit from such a state of affairs, it's almost illogical to assume that said interests had no hand in crafting it.
Traceroute uses ICMP as well, and may send more packets then ping. It works by setting the TTL on the ICMP packet, which is the number of route hops to traverse before the packet is dropped. Routers are supposed to ( this can be disabled, and is why you get * * * sometimes) respond with a TTL expired. So it starts with a TTL of 1, and then increments by 1 after each hop is discovered (or no response in some timeout).
Not everyone is living in the US though. For us EU residents it’s still fairly relatable, even though salaries have risen here as well, it’s nothing like the US.
To be fair Svelte does have the word "magical" in its motto.

I personally don't see it as anymore magical than MobX - it's just taking it a step further by taking advantage of the fact that bindings are created at compile time.

This is consistent with how things are generally done in this framework.
You can buy RVs online for $26K
Beside the obvious advertising for the site, is there a particular tech I missed ?
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I recently listened to The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and feel that it has changed the way I think. As an entrepreneur who has been in the trenches, I felt a lot of empathy for Roark's uncompromising ideals, his pursuit of excellence, his wanting to leave the world a better place with his work even if he wasn't able to claim credit and his continual battles with the status quo.
A “slam dunk” in the sense of paying 10s of thousands in attorney fees to get and enforce a judgment, when you’re probably in financially tricky circumstances specifically due to the rescinded offer?
Except Buffet has been emailing everyone every year since 1962; unless he has a way to pick branching timelines.
Technology also becomes cheaper over time, and efficiencies can be exploited both of which which can offset some of the other expenses that grow and at the very least lengthen the runway substantially.
So the author is a security expert who recommends two companies that are notorious for their security flaws (Norton, Cisco), two companies that track your DNS queries for profiling (Google, Cloudflare) and IBM...

Yeah, this sounds totally legit...
That doesn't mean they're not a platform, just that they're a platform with very limited lock-in effects.

(I like Patreon, but I kind of agree with this)
Wanted to try it, but it's US only unfortunatly.
Should link to: https://www.jetbrains.com/research/python-developers-survey-...
"It would be slow and boring."
I disagree, just knowing how toxic the corporate management would be in such a case. If you try to give sincere feedback to fix what’s going wrong, you’re just putting the target on your own back.
I recently learn, and therefore want to tell everyone, the ham in Ham radio isn’t an acronym.

It means ham as in ham fisted, as in amateurish or unskilled.

See the Wikipedia entry for more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio
Fun thought experiment. Made me smile even though the direct relation to Buffet perhaps is a little vague.

But your second saying about only getting rich once is probably closer to the truth.
10% is still optimistic. The Russian, French and Haitian revolutions all worked out pretty horribly and the American Revolution killed a ton of people and destroyed an enormous amount of property to avoid the terrors of Canada.
You can also insert stack-protecting canaries with some compilers (-fstack-protector on GCC). A bit more limited and it incurs a small runtime cost but you only need compiler support.
I have an insufficiency of pearls to clutch.
That's why a having a degree in something, where you have the knowledge relatively close at hand, is valuable. It can turn a deep report into a routine article.
> One thing to remember is that in Python, STDOUT and STDOUT are buffered.

That's not really a correct explanation, and not just because it says standard output twice. This is a commonly misunderstood part of running things under service management, and faulty explanations like this just confuse people.

Other than that, almost none of the article is about writing stuff in Python. Which is good, because my initial reaction before reading the article was to think that there's nothing really Python-specific to making a service. Even the language I/O buffering rules that one has to remember are largely shared with some other programming languages. (-:
32-bit IoT usually has a lot more problems that are easier to exploit than being able to brute force ASLR, but yes: if you are able to run attacks quickly, it’s pretty easy to get lucky and find the offset. There really isn’t much you can do on 32 bit to fix this, unfortunately, unless you start doing fancy things like reordering functions themselves to increase the number of bits of entropy (and even then, you’re not getting much…)
No book on the subject is perfect, but I recommend this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/555926.The_New_Penguin_H...

Approachable by anyone, readable, and doesn't have an ending until we really screw things up.
In a network of just a few computers, are there really that many cached requests? Local DNS caches will already cache short term and TTL of most domains is probably too short to get much caching beyond that.
> unless he has a way to pick branching timelines.

Now that would be a skill that would set you up for success!