skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a 6 month parental leave learning it and experimenting with it. I enjoyed writing specifications so much that I thought programming was a waste of time. You should watch the video lectures. The first 2 or 3 will get you going. A first simple exercise might be to specify the least common multiple following Lamport's GCD example.

I'm a math major, by the way.
I saw with my own eyes people on some freelancer websites requesting 200 ProductHunt upvotes for like 200 US dollars. Getting SEO ranking today on Google is much much harder than it used to be until around 2014-2015, now everything is exponentially harder, Facebook doesn't get you reach until you pay them tons of money to even reach a tiny fraction of your own organic subscribers and they even cause automatic unlikes among your organic subscribers to extort you further, Twitter is less shameless when it comes to extortion for reach but it's not as it used to be 5 years ago. It's really very hard to go viral even with a good product unless you have at least tens of thousands of dollars to throw on direct (i.e. ads and promoted posts) and indirect marketing (e.g. paying blogs, journalists, youtubers, etc... to promote your products)
How does it make sense for Airbnb to own a service to scam their customers? It seems clear that the service is paying out to the scammers so people are clearly getting scammed, unless Airbnb are just taking the hit themselves.
The Shipping and Handling Behind That Black-Hole Picture
What I was trying to say was that if those are profitable investments then they will return their principle and even earn a return. So the program would not need continued taxpayer money.
I'm building https://esolangs.org/wiki/RarVM - wanna join? :)
I found a best diet so far to just cut sugar and alcohol. The rest in my diet was unchanged - I am loosing weight very slowly but steadily, day by day.
Everyone is focusing on telemetry being turned off by default, but I think the real benefit of VSCodium is that it doesn’t force you to agree to the non-free license https://code.visualstudio.com/License/ that comes with standard VS Code (which is different from the MIT license in the repo, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt). See the issue https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17996 for discussion of the problems with that license.
With AKS (at least in early days, not beta or anything mind you) the kubernetes coordinator node was managed by Microsoft, after a some arbitrary amount of days/weeks it would become unresponsive and the recommended action was to open a ticket and wait for them it restart it.
But is it abused?

Secrecy is for secrecy, keeping things secret is not an abuse, the abuse is what they have done, not that it was secret.

And anyway the US abuses are just a drop in the ocean when on the other side the abuses are public and used as a display of power.

And I'm not even an US supported ...
The perfected enterprise sales force at Microsoft. They are good, really good. Here is a fun anecdote - There was a lawsuit where it was alleged that Microsoft business practices against Novell were anticompetetive. Microsoft was forced to sell Suse Linux as part of the judgement. For the couple of quarters where this was in play, Microsoft managed to sell more Linux than Novell.
In other words, they were revolutionary tools in web development, but they did not create or present a revolutionary paradigm.
OK, then that $2T saved in the first decade ($200B per year), get significantly lowered, if the number is to be believed at all.
Software archeology in a mature programming environment

http://akkartik.name/post/deepness
That would be the perfect time for me to say “clever girl” - I mean she does run around the house like a little velociraptor anyway :)
It's also very effective at excluding people like me. Even when logged in to a Google account with a very benign history (mostly used to watch youtube) with years (>4) of regular activity, Google won't[1] even attempt reCAPTCHA (any version) because they think my browser isn't one of the handful of specific browser versions they support[2]. The actual browser version is fine, it's configured similar to the Tor browser minimize data leaks and browser fingerprinting. So I cannot use any site with reCAPTCHA not because of any technical limitation; unless I "upgrade"[1] to a configuration that leaks a lot more data.

[1] https://imgur.com/9wT9yZ2 [ignore font/layout issues in that image - my usercss and fontconfig/freetype font rendering settings are very unusual, complex, and often very disruptive]

[2] https://support.google.com/recaptcha/?hl=en#6223828 "We support the two most recent major versions of the following: [Desktop: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge]"
Yes but the article used the present tense.
How similar is the execution of Java and JavaScript?
That's why I'm saying semver is not a good fit for product versions. It's too technical and doesn't fit well with PR, marketing and product management.
the latter. It’s relatively easy to say “stop doing X”; it’s harder to say “...and have you considered Y instead?”
Ah, then, won't syncing it up to a computer reset the clock, and the lockout lessen?
But you can't give consent if the information is biased...
WikiLeaks Is not a neutral source of information.

It had (has) an agenda

What about leaking personal informations of everyone involved in the WL operations?

Do you think everyone of them would come out clear?
Some super-basic things I learned at a past job that might help newbies:

1. Use a subdirectory instead of a subdomain for your blog. That alone helped half of our customers get better ranking.

2. Keep editing older posts so they always stay up to date. Somehow Google picks this up, and people also bounce when they see outdated information. That was a quantum leap for certain blogs where we tested this approach.

3. Picking the right keywords is more important than relying purely on feeling. Lots of our customers fought that and wasted money. SemRush, Moz, etc can help you.

EDIT: And how could I forget...

4. Outsourcing content (and content alone) has great ROI but outsourcing strategy (at least to an agency or another company) is a money pit and a scam, and you'll still end up having to do A LOT of work yourself anyway.
If 4chan is heavily moderated and work-safe now, then I stand corrected in that regard. It's been a long time since I've been there. My reference to racism, violence and child pornography was to indicate the vast difference between the two sites' moderation and the sorts of 'toxic' things that were deemed acceptable at 4chan and unacceptable here. Although as you say, things must have improved greatly since I was last there.

Any downvotes you've received were not from me.
Would you happen to know if recent versions of icc still generate horrible code for AMD CPUs (particularly Ryzen/EPYC)?
I've been using org and org-mode for literate programming for the past few months. org-mode provides a really nice interactive environment suitable for literate programming, but tangling code is hilariously slow, to the point where several people [0] (including myself [1]), have written org tanglers. It'd be interesting to see benchmarks against the original org-mode implementation.

[0] https://github.com/orgtangle

[1] https://github.com/OrgTangle/Worgle
>So, it is not a meaningful to ask if the RTOS has been certified in some way to always meet deadlines.

It is meaningful. If the system doesn't offer these guarantees, no matter how good you are and how much effort you put into what's within your scope to implement, you won't be able to offer any guarantees.

This is ok if you can afford to fail. Just don't use it e.g. where human lives would be put at risk.
Makes me wonder if there exists an OS that is truly written from scratch designed for only modern hardware and devoid of all backward compatibility and bloat (like the JS frameworks ditching support for msie).

It would be certainty a very interested side project I guess.
So I migrated everything to Fargate.

Then I started questioning, is this any better than 1 container per ec2 instance and running docker myself?

Assume that 1 fargate task definition == 1 ec2 instance.

I can't really think of any way that fargate would win in cost.

The management overhead for ec2 seems to be limited to starting docker daemon and launching your containers.

Should I migrate off of fargate onto ec2?
“I, too, am Contrarian.”
> Its worthwhile reminding consumers

This is HN. I'm not sure the readership here are the kind of consumers in need of this perpetual reminder.
I reported one to them through their support chat, full url + screenshots, they said it was forwarded to “the concerned department” and then a few days later closed the ticket. It’s still up and I haven’t heard anything from them since. Maybe this article will make it a higher priority for them though if there is anything they can do.
Or he just correctly observes that neither is a particularly good investment period.
This falls under two wrongs.
this is wishful thinking, Uber is everywhere and too big to fail. It might be hard to see if you don't travel much outside the US.

On the other hand, I don't know anyone outside the US who knows Lyft.
Most jobs don't disappear entirely, but they disappear in a horse & buggy sense.

See travel agents.
I think it is clear they mean what the programmer would expect /even if they knew the code was wrong/:

"And that’s what programmers expect: In the normal case a read from an
array (even an out-of-bounds read) performs a load from the address computed
for the array element; the programmer expects that load to produce the value at
that address, or, in the out-of-bounds case, it may also lead to a segmentation
violation (Unix), general protection fault (Windows), or equivalent; but most
programmers do not expect it to “optimize” a bounded loop into an endless
loop."
Diving through dusty corners of numerous fields I'm finding many of my lunatic ravings have established precedent with pedigree. I find it validating.

There are few truly novel ideas, and yet too, few which truly emerge into public consciousness, and many of those are themselves wrong (or at least gravely flawed), or greatly misunderstood. Often because they've been misrepresented.

Keep on thinking and reading!
it can be, I think of a manifold (probably naively) as the mathematical abstraction that you end up with if you start from Euclidean space and fiddle with different features - e.g. if you're in a Euclidean space how do you get from one point to another - what are the minimum requirements? What if we want calculus to work what are the minimum requirements? If we're on a surface and we walk around is there any way to tell what shape that surface is?
I think I know how you feel. I owe my chosen profession to the fact that I had early access to a computer and GWBASIC, however letting her play Daniel Tiger night/day game doesn’t sound like any sort of developmental aid. I’ve bought a few ad free games for her that cover math, English, logic etc; and I try to play those with her, however I also want her to be a kid as well and don’t want to take the fun out of that part. It is not an easy balance.
> You can spend a year (seriously) just drilling down the source tree, more than a half million folders

I would be more inclined to switch to Windows if its source tree were smaller.

My guess is that a big reason I prefer MacOS over Windows is that Apple has been much more willing to drop support for legacy hardware and old applications to keep the source code more manageable.
"Illegal but regulated", "Illegal but tolerated". Really, when such things have been formalized, it's just really, legal — at a less symbolic level than a proper law maybe, and with limitations for sure, but arguing otherwise is nitpicking.
The business plan for all: the tool that gives you advices
I’d hope it was obvious from context that ML was the potential way to do better here.
This is from the morning star (ie a communist newspaper) so surely a jab at capitalism is to be expected.
I live in SF and I alternate between Lyft and Uber. Lyft has been doing some discounts so it's not always Uber who's winning in terms of price.
A dead man's switch is not necessarily based on a timeout when your internet connection is not guaranteed.

If the leak is nuclear level - e.g irrefutable proof that the ruling class ARE reptilians - you want to keep that unreleased for as long as you can.

I can imagine a bot somewhere scanning top 10 international newspapers daily and looking for the words 'Assange' and 'dead' before the countdown begins.
There really are ecosystems. And there's some really low-hanging fruit. Groups specializing in "a broad spectrum of shady activities, including spamming, wire fraud, account takeovers, phony tax refunds, 419 scams, denial-of-service attack-for-hire services and botnet creation tools" were on Facebook for an average of two years and over 300,000 users. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/deleted-facebook-cybercr...

And here's more about one of the larger parts of the ecosystem: carding websites. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/03/carders-park-piles-of-ca...
Yes, it means X+1 is backwards compatible with X so long as no deprecation notices were produced by your use in X. I get it, and find it reasonable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/manafort-assa...
Well considering Sweden wouldn't promise that he wouldn't just be shipped straight off to the USA after the trial then I am not surprised. Even if he had been convicted in Sweden he would have served far less time in far better conditions than his time in the embassy.
The title is misleading as the article doesn't really describe hedging. It gives examples of various individuals and groups who are placing increasing value on technologies and resources related to global warming. Their investments naturally reflect their assessments, which is actually a good thing. If global warming is happening, then price adjustments are needed to encourage conservation, the search for alternatives, and the advancement of needed technologies. This is a beneficial market mechanism where people are incentivized to drive prices up or down based on their best prediction of the future. The government's role should be to provide regulation, penalties, and incentives to prevent conflicts between profit and the public's welfare. As the article points out, the current government role in this area is haphazard and largely unproductive. This situation will surely persist until there is better political agreement on what is happening with our climate.
Kuka is small potatoes. I really should have been clearer that by "significant" I think of most of the Global 200: Exxon, Apple Nestlé, Danone, Google et al: Their revenues are global and their interests are global, as are their hiring, lobbying, usw.
Wait.

Did they install certificates in your personal private phone?
Probably because a lot programmers are just used to the fact pretty much at the desktop level it's x86/64.

However, when you start talking microcontrollers for instance the architectures are all over the place.

C covers both these use cases.
You can keep trying to hack Google all you want, and you can definitely be successful for short periods of time if you invest enough time and money. But there's also the difficult but straight forward way out -- write content that people want to read.

Digital Ocean, Cloudflare, and others have adopted this strategy with great success. Writing good quality content takes time, good copywriters, subject experts, editors, and designers. It's not easy. It's not a hack. But you can bet it will outrank any cheap hacks for the foreseeable future.
Specifically, the view I support, as well as a critique of Kuhn and those inspired by him is the one described here:

https://www.inventionofscience.com/
> My answer is, the amount that it's worth over the status quo which you still have the option to choose instead.

You are justifying high drug prices by saying the drugs wouldn't exist otherwise, yet offer no proof or reasoning the drugs really wouldn't exist otherwise. No matter how high drug prices would get, or how little of that money would go back into R&D, you'd still say "the drugs wouldn't exist otherwise".

> It's not collective bargaining in this case because the government is representing both sides of the table.

Exactly like insurance companies represent both sides - the people who need the drugs, and the larger pool paying for insurance. If you don't like the government's version of health insurance, you can always get additional insurance, or buy the treatment individually - government-provided healthcare doesn't mean private options become illegal.

And before you claim that, because they must survive on the Market, insurance companies act ever so virtuously in defense of the insured, this is false: http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/september/testimony_of_wendell...
In the Anglo-Saxon countries abandoning those unprofitable routes would be considered a smart move; subsequent private players with public subsidies would angle to maximise those rents and lobby to keep competition out.
i m willing to bet that 80% more revenue is due to the novelty factor. i believe the ad business is extremely more arbitrary than it is thought to be, and advertisers might be buying these slots because they are new and exciting, not because they are more effective.
There are many.

Tiktok. YouTube. Take your pick.
Oh wonderful. I mean like perfect for me.
Exactly, it’d just let you confidently make a fool of yourself, it won’t automatically make you a skilled orator.

The ideal approach would be to take propranolol, then use that confidence to take public speaking classes.
OG vs. OpenAI 5: The Dota 2 battle for the future of humanity
More proof that we're living in Clownworld. This was a joke from 1994: https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-02-27
It is within what's quoted as the acceptable margin of error of 5 points. It's 5 points either direction, so it's possible GP's IQ exceeds yours.
IANAL - But I think it depends on how much it is a "translation", and how much it is a reimplementation of an identical algorithm.

As I understand it copyright doesn't apply to the algorithm. It does apply to things like code organization, variable naming, and comments.
This is one untested hypothesis I guess. An alternative is that most people don't want the stress and risk of running a business and prefer to just sell their labour in the market. If only a small percentage of people want to be business owners and managers then we will end up with the business landscape we have.
doesnt bloomberg already reward articles that shake the markets? (at least thats a rumour)
It depends on what you mean by “returns on taxpayer money”. This seed investment is creating jobs, funding technology that creates even more jobs, that contribute to the local economy thus increasing tax receipts.

Private Capital can’t reap such benefits, which also tend to be longer term investments, and thus is not interested.
I'll admit that I didn't think terribly hard about who the audience is. This is another tricky thing of course - anyone can look at a YouTube video.

I guess I tried to give an intuitive explanation of how a topologist thinks about hole-like things. One can only get so far before you have to start getting precise (and technical). This is where I give the names "homotopy group" and "homology groups", so that viewers at least have something to look up to learn more if they want to. I certainly didn't intend to give the impression that viewers were supposed to know what those terms are already. Maybe there is a video to be done on giving a better introduction to homotopy or homology groups, without requiring any background knowledge, but this wasn't that video.

Incidentally, topologists don't use the word "hole" in a technical sense. So yes, we wouldn't claim to know what a hole should be better than anyone else. But in trying to make precise the intuitive ideas of what it means for something to have a hole, or a "loop" in it, we got to the kind of definitions we do work with. These ideas can, in principle, come back to be useful to analyze objects in the real world (persistent homology is trying to do this).

Glad you liked some of my other videos!
Maybe it only supports Euros, so they just block non euro IPs?
> What about the "production life cycle perspective" requires that major version numbers not bump in those cases?

Let's say you just finished a big campaign, promoting the new major version of the software (e.g. 2.0) to customers. After starting with rollout, couple of weeks down the line shit happens (it does happen) and you realise you have a bug, which you can only fix by introducing backward incompatibility and providing e.g. a migration tool to apply the fix and migrate data.

Now according to semver you would have to release version 3.0 with basically one change, which is something that product management will not accept (and rightly so), because next big release and marketing campaign would have to be for version 4.0, and customers will ask "what the heck happened with version 3.0".

Long story short, semver is "too automatic" to fit in product management, but it is a good fit for package managers and libraries where this is less obvious to the end user.
Speaking as a colorblind person browsing that page:

I don't think they did.
There is a misunderstanding here: the 'COPY FROM ... PROGRAM' command, according to both the vulnerability and the postgres article, only allows running commands as the OS user running the server process, NOT a superuser (also, Postgres won't start if you try to start it as root).

The confusion probably comes from the notion of a 'database superuser' - the point is that any DB user with enough privileges to run COPY FROM ... PROGRAM can also do anything else in the DB, so they are already considered a DB superuser.

Quote from the article :

> By design, there exists no security boundary between a database superuser and the operating system user the server runs under. As such, by design the PostgreSQL server is not allowed to run as an operating system superuser (e.g. "root").
I’ve used this theme for 3 years or more now and I can’t live without it.

It’s soothing and distinct at the same time. I have everything in this color range. There are few themes with such a wide range of ports. The support is fantastic too! Everything is on github and monitored.

Give it a spin, you won’t regret it!
Not clear that you can really monetize HN subscribers except if you have something that would probably rise in the rankings on its own.

Of course that's what all anti-SEO people would say. Hmm.
Looking at the Github page it doesn't look like it's maintained very well. Some of the work on ports haven't been updated for 2 years.
How is Uber, a company that has never made money, and has competitors in every market in taxi cabs, too big to fail? TBTF refers to banks, not side investments from SoftBank and Saudi Arabia.
i'm the article's author. a moment ago, i came to hn as i normally do throughout the week. my heart skipped a beat* when i saw my tc post was on here; i didn't tell anyone to upvote. for whatever that's worth.

* it's unfortunate that my reaction to seeing myself on hn is less "cool, readers!" and more "oh no, i'm about to get ripped apart in the comments"
If we conclude that people should have affordable and predictable rent it is hard to make rent control the problem. While not adjusting rent for inflation and upkeep seems counterproductive, someone occupying an apartment at a low margin is only really a problem if we can't produce more apartments, or more opportunities, at the same price. The housing market cannot increase forever. You either end up with massive inflation or massive inequality.

The few good ideas seem to essentially be to treat housing as infrastructure. Of course building infrastructure is a problem in itself for many countries.
Don't think that's a trend that is stopping any time soon.

It's also why I carry two phones...keeping the employer at bay.