skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political Censorship: Stripe Cancels Two Accounts for a MEP Campaign
The problem with YouTube specifically, is that while blog posts are easy to host on pretty much anything that has a CPU, self-hosting videos at scale is essentially impossible. So while Medium only added a marginal amount of convenience for your average blogger, YouTube straight up enabled the kind of content it hosts.
Yes; they did. It worked pretty well actually.

Why do you think it’s a bad idea? Most of the arguments against event sourcing that I’ve read seem to be “yes but the tooling isn’t very good”. That might be true, but maybe we solve that problem with more investment into event sourcing; not less of it.
I don't think people realize that SAT scores are a lot more arbitrary than they look. If you're one of the lucky kids whose parents set them up with reasonable coaching (and academic expectations in general), you do much better.

I did good but not great on the SAT and only got into CMU because I was a student athlete. But once I had my foot in the door I did very well (high gpa, TA'ed, graduated w/ honors and awards) and then continued to do very well in industry (arguably).

If an adversity score can help out other kids like me who don't happen to be "impressive-for-a-D3-school" level athletes, then I think it's a great thing.
The reason why the elites fixate on Harvard is because they’re completely out of touch with the 99% of folks that don’t apply to or don’t get into elite institutions. It’s pure condescension on their part.
TLDR; The article says that Medium locks up content behind its walled garden, requires login and then payment in some cases.

I think the article is not well researched and doesn’t understand the basic premise of Medium: Enable professional writers to make living off of writing. Medium is not your usual free blogging platform. There is an expectation that people will pay for good content and the hope that good writers should be able make living off of their writing. Medium wants to take on doing SEO, infrastructure, payments and let authors focus on just creating content.

Here’s some stats on how much writers can earn on Medium: https://medium.com/s/partner-program-updates/april-update-fr...

If I have to be devil’s advocate, I would ask why can’t Medium use ads as revenue source. Their $5/mo subscription may look like cup of coffee but honestly I am tired of having dozen such subscriptions in my life. Also, people outside developed world, kids, teenagers, college students will still find this unaffordable.
Makes sense for Amazon to purchase Deliveroo at some point. Now that they have planes in the air, owning that last mile to people’s doors closes the full journey.
I always assumed that preface to mean "I'm not a lawyer, please check with one before _you_ get into trouble", more so than "I'm not a lawyer, here's my opinion and don't sue _me_ over it".
Yeah, it's just you. A random baby below 2 y.o. is slightly less interesting (and less mentally developed) than a kitten. Unless you have an interest in medicine/psychology, there's not much to see there. It's also perceived a bit weird/creepy to be overly interested in other people's babies.

Seriously, were I to be given a chance to spent an hour with a random baby (!= my baby, that's a different thing) vs. an hour with a random comic book, I'd pick the comic book every time.

Can we admit that just because we're socially expected to consider something the cutest and most best thing in the world, doesn't mean it's actually all that interesting?
:angry face:
This is the main reason I don’t use much Kafka in my own projects. I hope at some point someone makes a redis equivalent of Kafka for small projects.

Is Rabbit much easier to set up for small projects? I haven’t used it much.
> Keynesianism is countercyclical stimulus spending which boosts the economy in general by increasing activity, balanced by higher taxes which prevent overheating.

As implemented by the Fed it means lowering interest rates during downturns to stimulate spending on credit and raising interest rates during times of exuberance to cool things off.

But the result of that is that everyone is always getting further into debt, because it's the bad times when people would otherwise normally have either defaulted or paid the debts back (to avoid what would otherwise be higher risk-driven interest rates at those times, compared to the then-lower investment returns from the borrowed money). So by stimulating borrowing during recessions, debt increases significantly then instead of being reduced.

Meanwhile it still doesn't get paid back during the good times because the higher rates reduce borrowing during those times but nobody really wants them so high during times of productive business opportunities that people divert money from growing businesses to paying back old debts.

So consumer debt goes up but never down.

The corollary on the government side only works because "high taxes" rather than "high interest rates" actually increases government revenue, which gives them something to pay the public debt back with. (Assuming that's what they did with the money, which it isn't -- and can't be with the Fed doing the opposite, because paying back government debt in good times would lower interest rates then.)

But on the consumer side, higher interest rates reduce the amount of money people have to pay back debts with rather than increase it. And so do higher taxes.

Which leaves the way out as the government creating new money and giving it to people so that they have something to pay their debts with. Then it doesn't come from taxes, so you aren't just taking money from people to give it back to them (or crashing the stock market by taking it from businesses), and it doesn't come from issuing more government debt, so you aren't increasing interest rates and causing people to have to pay the money they receive as interest rather than principal (or crashing the stock market again).
Those are standards and protocols, not software.
While I agree with you, as someone that is inherently inferior to someone like you (on the basis of not getting into any elite school, much less Harvard) currently that inferiority has a cascading effect throughout life. I think the goal should be to equalize opportunities for everyone instead of just people who might be borderline elites at 18.
The difference is these informations are produced or sourced by you, the extra 'adversity score', and what it replaces are external to you (and in this case it's not even personal)

I see the issue with info circulating outside of your oversight that has impact on your life, I am just thinking they are basically keeping the status quo on this.
Selectively applying laws (or not) is fundamentally what politics is about. The law is a tool here and it is being wielded by the very people who directly or indirectly were implicated by Manning. If the same amount of diligence were applied to the rather severe crimes that Manning unveiled, you'd have a point.

But of course that's not what has happened. Most of the people involved walk free having been pardoned or not even charged at all. Especially at the top level nobody suffered any consequences.

Manning is in jail because high ranking politicians want her to be there. Judges are doing as they are told here.
So he worked at MSFT till ~2011 (before they became open source friendly), and joined Netflix ~2011 (when they announced Qwikster [1]) and joined Facebook just a short while after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out? He may be talented, but boy does he have to work on his timing.

[1] https://theoatmeal.com/comics/netflix
Jekyll + Github Pages / Netlify / Surge is free with subdomain. Or you could buy .dev (or anything else) for minimal price. Personally i bought 1$ .xyz domain. Its not that “costy”.
Domain authority has some importance, but my understanding is that backlinks work per page, not per domain. Your newly published Medium article has the same back link profile as a newly published page on an owned blog.
Curious timing if this is legit. Cray just announced a large deal for ORNL [1]. Share prices jumped up around ~$3.

That being said maybe it's better PR to have such a deal announced with Cray than "Cray who have recently been acquired by..."?

[1] https://www.ornl.gov/news/us-department-energy-and-cray-deli...
> having lots of decent, desirable universities instead of a few elite ones and many weak ones?

it's not about the curriculum, it's about who you meet there and what can you make of those connections. you can't avoid the elite to bunch up in few places, because they intimately know that the game is about whom you know and how you can leverage family ties well before the smart kid from middle class background learn that the world outside academia isn't a meritocracy.

even if universities were all equally performant in teaching, people who managed to connect with the elite frequenting key places would still get a jump start in the life outside.
Email addresses do a better job of identifying particular individuals in bulk data than a name field in a variable format.

It's a very short hop from email to link technologies from this dataset to place of work and then potential attack routes for a sufficiently capable actor.
The thing that still bothers me is the cognitive dissonance of being told by people orders of magnitude smarter than me that institution doesn’t matter. Yeah, if it didn’t you wouldn’t have gone to a HYPSM or out of state public ivy.
If this is true, then it would be good for humankind!

My position on this has always been that people still working at Facebook and its other properties don't think much about what affects millions of other people negatively (they got their money and some interesting work though).

I wish that sometime in the next few years, a past job at Facebook is seen as a personal blemish and a question of character and conduct.
I thought all heating systems had outdoor input for temperature. I know all houses I have lived in has had that the last 40 years at least. But I live in a cold area so I guess that's different. -38 C is uncommon but happens now and then. Also the isolation of the houses are better and that also helps with leveling out temperature differences.
Other way around: It's a piece of Bing that was open sourced.
Er, you made a jump from „there were some flights that were done 100% on Autopilot” to „airplane autopilots are completely reliable”.
> Impossible for police to tell.

How's that? Here in Holland there's quite an industry making scooters faster, but the police regularly set up funnels where they test the maximum speed of the scooters they catch. From what I hear some people even install hidden buttons to limit the top speed whenever they're checked (which I suppose is not too difficult to figure out now the police knows).
Grow Your Audience Tip
I occasionally make comments supporting the basic actions of the government based on the data available which are wildly unpopular.

This time something different: why do people support Manning's decision / find her treatment inappropriate?

Respect for sticking up for beliefs? I get that and share those feelings even if I don't share the specific beliefs.

But do people feel the 5th Amendment covers "incriminating" yourself after you've been convicted and served time (and don't have any risk of further convictions)?

Do people want the 5th to include incriminating people you like?

What specifically about the grand jury system in place here do you think is problematic or unconstitutional?
On Windows there is great Powershell module Invoke-Build.
For most intents and purposes its OK if you are a bit inaccurate. The important thing is that we will never drift further and further away. In 1000 years time we will still have exactly the same kg as we have now.
Cool! I'm from Romania. What do you have on the menu on this fine evening? :)
I agree on your first point - it's like building a social network and having no users (chicken and the egg problem). There's a lot in it for the company / hiring manager, I think I've answered this question in the FAQs on the site but long story short: companies will also benefit from having candidates doing an interview that they feel shows their full potential.
A powerful tool for preparing your Linux OS
Hi, this is my new project on Github, I want to know your opinion about it.
Your ideas and comments will help me to improve it, thanks.

https://github.com/Naategh/Prepare
That's why I use 2 profiles for every social media I use (why?) Because I hate how YouTube recommendations puts you into an echo chamber (first account is stuff I find interesting and train YouTube by not recommending me 5 ways to be stoic etc).

The same goes for Reddit (stopped using it for years instead used hacker news)
This would have been an ideal situation for you to request your cc company issue a charge back fwiw.

Edit:
Learned about charge backs here on HN, I've contacted a cc company twice to request one and in both cases the charging company promptly reached out and resolved the dispute w/o actually needing to follow through.
I guess I only have anecdotal evidence, skewed by the fact that my friends are mostly techies but still.
Hertz doesn't have to accept liability; they made a false accusation, there's laws against / about that. It's trickier in a court when a company does it though, there's probably alternative laws meaning companies get away with it.

I mean look at the DMCA and the thousands of invalid takedowns happening on e.g. youtube. Different thing though because it's not a legal accusation, people don't get arrested over it, etc.
We can't defend everyone's morality equally. Most of us agree about the immorality of racist laws or forced sterilization. There just isn't the same kind of consensus about the morality of publishing leaked classified documents.
The economic case for the train was made on the bases of expected displaced road traffic

It wouldn't have disrupted freight traffic at all, which is the lion's share
Doing anything where mispredictions result in a few frames of doing the wrong thing escape to the user is going to make games feel really inconsistent. If the game is running at 60fps and you have a system that can predict with 99% accuracy (which seems wildly optimistic) you’re still going to have mispredictions at a pretty high rate.

Not to mention that the game will have to be written especially to allow for the simulation to be rolled back and forth. For example a misprediction triggers a sword swing it turns out you didn’t make that traps the player in a state for a second. You end up giving the player a horrible experience where the game seemingly has a mind of its own. Or you can roll back and interpolate from the bad state back to a good one which would be ideal. Then the middle ground is to rollback and have a cut in the action back from misprediction. Then you realise this is happening every second or two.
The point is that it's hard to make a constructive answer to a post that doesn't really offer a clear argument of its own.
Great news, we're using it at [1] and like it very much. Congrats to Tailwind team.

[1] https://db.nomics.world/
You should still get the records in the webapp / mobile app, and possibly (I don't know this service) e-mail receipts?
Sure. But that advice was written 12 years ago. I'd be surprised if they didn't update their password storage since then.
> This network may even include students from “elite” universities, who funnily enough often end up in the same internships and entry-level roles as their less-pedigreed counterparts

I did more internships than average at my school (the norm is 1, I did 4) and while I did cultivate contacts with “elites” I’d disagree that they end up in the same entry level roles as people like me. If anything there’s a bigger difference!
I vehemently disagree with this false dichotomy that either a project must strive endlessly or exile itself. Gradations are possible, and the way you achieve them is by strategically choosing the terms of engagement.

Embracing existential futility puts you in a state of mind to accept the consequences of subsequent concrete actions which limit future prospects of glory.
You can find the paper preprint here https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05438.pdf linked to by the author.

What you're asking for is impossible. A paper is already written to communicate to other mathematicians; teaching the prerequisites not mentioned in the paper can't fit in anything but a graduate textbook.

The magazine article still serves a purpose. It sketches the shape of the problem and the approach for the proof, and this is useful to math practitioners of at least undergraduate level, in the sense that they may take inspiration from the approach in their own problems, or may convinced enough to have a look at the actual paper, or have to a first approximation a sense of whether this paper can help them.
He wrote it in 2007.
The public is laughable here. It's a small cabal working entirely in their own self interest, using the power they have to punish those who challenged it. Its disgusting to bring up the public good.
Another gem from that page:

> Parity is for farmers.

> > On why he left memory error-detecting code out of the CDC 6600.

> I learned that a lot of farmers buy computers.

> > After he did include error-detecting code on the CDC 7600
Fantastic, because I look like the literal twin of a very famous actor who appears in multiple current blockbusters. It's not that either of us is especially good looking, but we have that sort of face that is bland enough to take on many different looks.
Quite the opposite, it is more dangerous to ride in a segregated manner because it contradicts the basic principles of traffic which exist so that vehicles of all types can safely share the road. For example there is a basic principle that says that when you reach an intersection you position yourself according to your destination, right if you are going to turn right and so on. Bike lanes that force vehicles not using it to turn right from the adjacent lane contradict this rule and increase the chances of right hook type of accident. The people who build these things completely ignore that bicycles are vehicles, they only build them for the convenience of motorists not for our safety.
In that case companies shouldn't be advertising services they cannot provide without facilitating crime (especially since they lie and tell their customers they aren't paying the criminals). Smells an awful lot like fraud, if not an outright criminal conspiracy given they are skimming the proceeds of a crime.
Well, then what is it doing? Crashing your vehicle into semis when your attention lapses for a second?

Then it should be properly marketed as autocrasher, not autopilot.

An autopilot that requires that you have your hands on wheels and pay attention at all times is missing the auto part of the autopilot (reminder that auto means self). So such a system can't be called an autopilot.
Ah yes, the classic temporary "free forever" plan.

Edit: Sorry for the snark, I misunderstood you.
Jails are to isolate violators of law or legal process from the general public regardless of any opinions there upon. Putting a person in jail for contempt of court is legally just even if the underlying court case is absurd because it is the judicial process that is at threat.
Stuff like this is why I don't understand why a potential employer should ever have access to a candidate's arrest record. Arrests mean nothing. Only convictions should be significant.
At the same time people across the pond begin to wake up to the dangers of monopolies and start calling for the break up of the tech giants.

What a propaganda article

"Under the pretext of protecting the European consumer from the creation of a potential monopoly, Brussels prevented the French and German companies from becoming a world leader in rail, even though their main competitor, the Chinese CRRC, is already twice as big as Alstom and Siemens combined."

Pretext? Really? How about it did actually protect the European consumer from the creation of a potential monopoly?

"“It seems certain that electrification will permanently penalise the German economy over the next few years,” said Dirk Schumacher, an economist at Natixis, who believes that if nothing is done, Germany’s car sector could lose half a million jobs by 2030."

German car industry has only itself to blame. They dragged their feet for years and engaged in diesel frauds instead of investing in EV. Creating a monopoly is not gonna fix that.

EDIT: formatting
Show HN: Kubevm – Manage local Kubernetes client versions
TSMC board approves nearly US$4B for advanced-node manufacturing
Lot of these can be done with simple open source blogging tools like Hugo combined with analytics. The main value of Medium in my mind is the amount of default “trust” that Google places on the content hosted on Medium. Your article on arcane topic on Medium will typically out rank other web sites who might have existed forever.
Doesn't Medium suggest articles, thus passing links to new pages? You wouldn't get this benefit on your own blog.
It sounds like this is similar to the harassment that he received over redis using the terms "master"/"slave". (Even DHH jumped in and used his platform to harass)

http://antirez.com/news/122

For someone that is giving parts of their life to help others, the amount of entitlement that people expect is unbelievable.
The curse of the data lake monster
That sounds pretty ridiculous, thank you for sharing the info about not hanging up on customers. I hope to never need it, but part of me worries that with enough bad luck, any customer support call can turn into this.
This was my first thought. Why not be on both sides of this. Make double the money
SEC Negotiations Have Cost Kik $5M, Says CEO
Tableau user here. It took me a while to get my head around the concept of'data blending' as the documentation a while back was aimed at non-technical users (the beauty of Tableau is that it's so easy to pick up and start making data visualisations with). I'm not sure about Alteryx, but in Tableau, a blend is fundamentally just a left outer join (so everything in the left table is always returned by the query). The clever bit is that Tableau will aggregate the data in the left table based on the fields (and therefore level of granularity) you choose from the right table(s) before the join is done. Hence, data blending is very useful when you want to join datasets that are at different levels of granularity. One thing to keep in mind though is, as an outer join is done between the left tables and right table(s), performance can quickly reduce as the sizes of the table(s) in your query get bigger.
If a driver uses a system based on information from advertisements instead of reading the manual that comes with it, they might not be suited to drive any car either because using a safety-critical system without knowing what its limitations are is reckless and irresponsible.
Zdb: Examining ZFS at Point-Blank Range (2008)
No, this free forever is meant to stay and get bigger in the future.

This post is talking about a way much bigger plan for beta testers, which I want to keep going in the future too.

There will always be a free forever basic plan, because I'm a developer myself, and I know how much I do hate services that ask you for the CC when creating an account :)
Ditto. Arch has the right attitude. I still have a bitter taste from a 0 day hack of one of my Debian servers, due to what I believed was a Debian only patch. I wish more distros followed the Arch approach. Redhat is particularly bad I think - I have had problems with the centos frankenkernel that I could never reproduce on other systems.
>To the viewer, that would just look like a person driving a car.

...which is exactly how current autopilot systems are meant to be operated, if you listen to the post-crash analysis.

Which, yes, defies the whole point of having these systems entirely.

Which is why they would be hard to sell.

Which would be right.