skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to say this, but did you even read the post you actually linked?

From the second post (the one you linked), where Jeff quotes the hacker:

>>I guess I can tell you, so you don't fall into this trap again. There's a site I help out with that doesn't salt their passwords. They're MD5 encrypted, but if you've got a dictionary password, it's very easy to use a reverse-MD5 site to get the original. I was able to figure out you were a user on the site some time back, and realized I could do this, if only I knew your openid provider...

The "password vulnerability involving unsalted hashes" was on another site. The hacker was only able to gain access to Jeff's Stack Overflow account through a combination of their privileged access to the database for that other site and Jeff's own bad op-sec. The only real security error attributable to Stack Overflow in any way was Jeff's own and had nothing to do with Stack Overflow's infrastructure.
There are other reasons not to do things on-device. For instance, being able to pick your own ads might hinder the ability to defend against ad-viewing bots. Also, traditional ad-tech also has to deal with meeting global target spend rates (e.g. if client A pays for 1000 impressions, and client B pays for 9000 impressions, then 90% of the ads must be for client B even if every device would prefer ads for client A). Usually there are realtime databases keeping track of impression counts for all the campaigns and it would be infeasible to synchronize that with every device so that they could make local targeting decisions.

I.e. you can't necessarily make the decision locally if it's not local problem, and ad-targeting usually isn't a local problem.
> This is just not the reality. It's a well studied effect, denying it is depriving the science behind policy analysis from any legitimacy.

You are correct. People do go more often, and to counter it programs exist in the UK which drive people with less severe issues to local centers where they can get looked at without taxing the hospital system to the same extent. [1] It's not that big an issue. All that and they still deliver better health outcomes for a much lower price.

FWIW the NHS actually offers free mental health services with no co-pays too [2]. It looks like it's managed via GP which is a good middle ground IMO between co-pays and unlimited fee-free access. Canada does not as a rule, though it's an active conversation [3] and has been for years -- and it enjoys a (razor thin) majority of support with 51% in favor. Psychiatry is covered today, therapy is not.

> They told you that patients never go to the doctor for superfluous reasons? I won't believe it. I am in the industry and I can see every case imaginable.

No, they told me the US healthcare system is inhumane. I may have misread your post if I wasn't replying to the right section :)

> We have had this argument before. The U.S. socializing healthcare will not bring out-of-us healthcare results. It will get something else, because what makes healthcare suck is not private vs public, it's the regulatory framework.

The US is already at the bottom of the OECD, do you have reason to believe it'll get worse? We've got a lot of models that show it'll be better and really nothing to point to that shows it'll get worse. Socialized systems are cheaper and control costs better, even here.

[1] https://www.newdevonccg.nhs.uk/file/?rid=109734

[2] https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/mental-health-...

[3] https://globalnews.ca/news/5276022/canadians-mental-health-s...
Programming a supercomputer feel like having to write a program that uses thousands of computers, that’s about it.

Some supercomputer vendors have specialized software running, but others also support open source distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark.

If you are wondering why we call them supercomputers, it’s because it’s not as easy to just buy thousands of computers. Even easy things like shipping, installation and power consumption becomes a problem on its own. So rather than buying thousands of machines it pays off to buy them through a supercomputer vendor that will optimize space, power consumption, install cluster management software, etc.

So if you want to get started, I would just get a small n-node cluster from any cloud provider and get better at writing distributed code.
I worked for a freight brokerage in 2012 and the only thing I have to say is that there is plenty of money to go around. The company I worked for was a small player and they were doing 30 million a year as a simple middleman
I know only knew a little about this industry from dating someone who was a merchandiser, this filled in so many gaps in what I knew about those jobs! What a great comment
I cycle and also occasionally tow (which puts me in the group of annoying slow road users). My frustration with these type of articles is they only ever ask for the road to be shared, but do not share the road themselves. As a slower road user you should also be considerate of other road users. An example would be when towing and driving at a more sedate pace, when it comes to passing lanes - SLOW DOWN - to allow the pile up of cars behind you to pass. However most people simply maintain their speed, ignorant of the building frustration behind them. By slowing down you might add 30seconds to your travel time, but give 10-20 people back minutes to their travel time (a net win for society!).

In this case if the cyclist periodically slowed down and moved to the shoulder when going downhill (or in general), the pile up of cars and frustration might be mitigated.

"Through my eyeglass-mounted mirror, I watch cars inevitably pile up behind me. When the terrain flattens out and I move back to the shoulder, a stream of cars pass me."

I'd argue that the pool noodle may have unintended consequences, and will most likely increase road rage. It seems to scream EMPOWERMENT ("taking back the road"), but I think it leans more towards SELFISH BITCH.
Another LEFT WING MARKIST "woke" company that

Censors Westerners

Anti consumer

Tracks users

Steals data

Sells data to third parties

Works with Chinese

Anti free speech
I'm anti-nuclear waste. Get politicians on board with owning the disposal and I'd have no issues with it.
“Whole Paycheck”, but yeah.
As do I (bank file transmissions representing!) To compensate this partial file fiasco, we tend to rely on the .done file methodology (i.e. we won't pick your file from your server until your script writes out a dummy file we can locate). Or we'll allow you to just push the file to us. Our system will notice partial file send of course, where the transmission stopped. But we can't determine if the file was partial to begin with. So we rely on balance reports to come via alternate FTP or email transmissions.

Don't get me started on sending ASCII as binary to the mainframe to compensate for the EBCDIC formatting. Or the lack of carriage return and line feed characters that cause so many fun issues.

All of that to say that none of it's pretty, but all of it works. The balancing is key as are the extra staff needed to verify them against each other.
Only the end needs to be metal. In fact it just has to look metal. Wrapping with kitchen foil would probably have the required deterrent effect. It would also look hilarious.
Wouldn't it be simpler to upload a file with a tmp name and then at the end rename the file if there was no error? Renaming is pretty much an atomic operation.
> Parmesan Garlic is more popular than every other flavor, and Safeway should stock more of that flavor than they do of other flavors

Or they should increase the sale price relative to other flavors, so that it still sells out, but near the end of the sale period, maximizing profits.

Or, they are doing the right thing, and you aren't the only person who has noticed it, and the sales drive people to the store at the early part of the sale, which is why the Garlic Parmesan sells out, and Safeway has other means of taking advantage of that, like merchandising high margin complementary products in conjunction with it.
Here is an online course based on the book; "Digital Design and Computer Architecture, 2nd Edition by Harris & Harris" which teaches you processor design using FPGAs.

https://blog.digilentinc.com/teaching-computer-architecture-...

The boards are from Digilent, whose "Analog Discovery 2" and "Digital Discovery" multi-tools are extremely useful for learning Embedded Systems Programming.
Firstly, no-one has a right to drive distracted, any more that they have the right to drive drunk. Secondly, monitoring the attentiveness of a driver, as a backstop for weaknesses in the automation, does not require recording. Thirdly, this might be a good point to remind ourselves that this is, according to Tesla, a beta-testing program. The goal should be to get to the point where constant driver attentiveness is not necessary, but until that is achieved, additional safety measures are justified.
bru·tal

direct and lacking any attempt to disguise unpleasantness.
almost $100 to ship cheapest USPS so you don't get dinged brokerage, plus a $4.99 "Handling" fee.

The author is trying to share information and he has to fight this nonsense to basically give away his product.

super-frustrating...
Funnily enough, it looks like noa is built on the Babylon.js engine, which was the side project of some Microsoft employees, released under the Apache license, written in TypeScript. So it seems that open source software has stimulated some mutual benefit to all involved -- and rather more directly than usual.
HATEOAS is a good idea as well. It formalizes an idiom for schema upgrade and discovery.
Except that we now understand it is virtually impossible for even an intelligent person to meaningfully weigh risks like this.
Nuclear is the only alternative on a scale that can actually replace fossil fuel plants in a reasonable time scale. It does beat coal oil and gas. Solar, wind and hydro aren't going to come close to fulfilling our energy needs on their own (probably ever, certainly not in the next several decades).
There’s nothing about getting emancipated that legally obligates schools to care.
I've only purchased and read the W3D book.

To answer your question would depend on what you want to gain from the book(s). Are you looking to solely learn how the games were made and work to learn their techniques to apply to your own projects? Are you wanting to understand the history and other things that surrounded the period of development, and why certain choices in coding were made? Are you just a fan of historical perspectives in PC game development?

I think for each of these questions, the answer would be that there is value in investing time reading the book(s), but that level of value will be different for each person and for why they are thinking of reading the books.

I think if you had no idea about how these games worked or had never implemented a similar engine yourself, that they wouldn't be the best source to go to in order to learn how to do it. There are many other sources, in books, on the internet, and in various archives that will have details to teach you far better.

However, after doing so, you may still have some questions relating specifically to W3D or Doom about how their engines worked - and that's where these books (based on what I know from reading the W3D book) shine - they give you a fairly well written account about how these engines work at their core. I suspect that they also may help you understand the techniques you've already read about and/or implemented better - or give you a different perspective on them.

As far as whether the techniques are still valid?

Well - if you're interested in building a pseudo-3D engine in software, and understanding how that works, how to optimize things, etc - then yeah, those techniques are still valid. They are probably good techniques to know which tricks might still be applicable even in today's hardware powered 3D realm - knowing how to do these tricks might inspire a solution for, say, a shader implementation to eek out a tad bit more performance or something? Or maybe you just want to understand how old-school games did what they did?

If you're asking whether such techniques could lead to creating the next breakthru AAA game - well, unlikely, unless you did something compelling and the idea of it being completely done in software and old-school was part of its selling point/strategy...
When I choose PayPal, I always see sloppy stuff like this

- Me 10 years ago.

Maybe it's better now.
> Silicon Valley’s favorite mantra goes “Fail often, fail fast.”

This certainly wasn't the mantra in 1990 when the company was founded. This was a thing in the years after the dot-com boom. Definitely not in the early 1990s.

In the 1990s it was all about "first-movers advantage" which turned out to be a terrible idea: https://hbr.org/2001/10/first-mover-disadvantage

The first isn't always #1 but often fails before later companies enter the market, learn from the example, and mature it into a real business (see Friendster->FB; Palm->iPhone; search engines; Netscape; Atari - although these are the still-somwhat successful 'failures' which is far better than most which you've never heard of).
By far, the largest use of GMOs in the United States is to allow more use of Roundup.
React and firebase
-You can still grow your own non-gmo crops. It is ridiculous you're on the hook for IP infringement for gmo seeds blowing into your field, but that's a legal issue, not inherent to the concept of GMOs.

-There's no reason genetic variety can't be introduced on purpose, and pest resistance is part of what GMOs select for.
maybe power efficiency, and for the pure challenge of building something awesome with a minimum amount of resources? :D
Thank you for this.

She wasnt commuting here: this was a vacation/personal challenge ride. Meanwhile, cars piled up behind her age probably people going to work or hauling goods.

I really think the bourgeoisie image that modern cycling and it's conspicuous consumption attitude (my coworkers mostly ride 3-5000 dollar bikes) that converted simple affordably machines to status symbols has fueled more resentment from motorists.
> If I’d asked people what the wanted, they would have said, ‘A faster horse’

Is how I believe that quote goes.
excellent post, thank you.
> Is checkout speed really limiting factor in grocery store growth though? Like are people that sensitive to the few extra minutes (at most) at the checkout counter they'll switch where they shop?

Have ever been inside a walmart? There's only ever like 2 checkouts open and massive lines, that's a long time to stand there.

Waiting in line at the grocery store I thought was one of the most common annoyances people have?
Just playing devils advocate... Isn't the (poorly configured) mail client making the request?
http://deepisolation.com has a solution for the waste.
Article:

> They squeezed a droplet of room-temperature water between the pointy ends of two cut diamonds. By the time the pressure raised to about a gigapascal, roughly 10 times that at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, the water had transformed into a tetragonal crystal called ice VI. By about 2 gigapascals, it had switched into ice VII, a denser, cubic form transparent to the naked eye that scientists recently discovered also exists in tiny pockets inside natural diamonds.

Actual paper:

> Double-distilled, deionized water was loaded in diamond anvil cells (DACs) with 200×200μm quartz plates either 15 or 30μm thick and four ruby microspheres, then compressed at room temperature to 2.5GPa to form ice VII.

A great example of science journalism translating technical language into vernacular.
I guess I will be the one to complain about something that makes me look bad. Since no one else complains about this, it makes me think I might be the only one. However I doubt that.

The problem I have had with my open source projects so far is that most of them seem to not be very popular and they receive very little if any feedback at all.

It's gotten to the point where I feel like popularity and merit are not even directly related. It seems like maybe part of it is tied to some kind of social networking popularity contest. Certainly I have to think that way otherwise I would never try to contribute anything again.
> It also makes people not want to go there if they don’t have spare change.

Aldi doesn't have a membership fee, but it has a culture and following akin to Costco or Trader Joe's. It works for some people, but not for others. The barrier to entry isn't that big, it's just a bit different.

>Scan speed is never a bottleneck of a checkout process. Packing and payment are. They might be saving millisecond on scan time, but the paper and printing of a label cost money too. Not sure if it’s the best showcase of efficiency here

I entirely disagree with this point in the context of grocery stores. Convenience stores I'm likely to agree because people typically buy a couple items and the payment time is effectively identical to that of a grocery store.

I should look up metrics to see if it's tracked, but the scan speed makes a huge difference! They don't bag at Aldi at all, when they're checking out, the employee is pulling a cart around, scanning, or waiting for payment to process. I can pretty much guarantee they process more customers per hour and can complete more scans per minute than any other grocer in the US.

The marginal cost of printing barcode is effectively 0. They are already printing the packaging and black and white are always on the color palette for the single barcode.

One more item I forgot to list above is that they print their receipts one line at a time, so you never wait to have your 3 ft receipt printed after your payment is processed. They do a great job at eliminating the non-value added tasks in the entire store, cross training employees, and reducing overhead.
This is the second shallow article I've read today about deep work. I'm starting to think it's a worthwhile shallow activity to produce content about deep work.

I think Deep Work makes sense if you are thinking about a hard CS problem, coming up with a strategy for a company, or doing something that requires a lot of attention. It could be something hard for you, just because you don't know how to do it, but easy for somebody that has done the same thing ten times before.

I disagree with Newport that Deep Work would be a competitive advantage in the tech industry. Most of execution on a project is "shallow work" or another word that people like to use is "grinding".

Deep work or uninterrupted thought is needed for people who are domain experts to come up with a strategy and vision. However, if that's correct, then it's time to grind.
It's still no good reason to hide it from them.
Great article. Thought the author sounded really bright, practical, mature, customer focused and motivated, did a lot right. Seems like someone I’d love to found a company with. But the simple truth is startups are hard, most of them fail even if you get a tonne of things right.
I can imagine it happening, but it's hard to imagine how they applied it to their disaster recovery backups before noticing the issue.
If non-gmo produce tastes so much better then people will buy it and farmers will still grow it, but cheaply available produce is a clear win for everyone. And as I said in the other comment, you can have GMO without monocultures if the need arises.

The fear of eating it is all baseless fearmongering by the likes of homeopaths and crystal healers.
Do you have any source for that?
There are no legitimate reasons for being anti-GMO.
I shop at 1am or later at 24 hr stores just avoid waiting. Life is finite. Not enough of it to waste in line.
With automation, basic income and everybody having more free time this will only get worse.
yes, for sure
I think google has more context than Amex. They get the receipts, order summary emails, username/profile at the e-commerce site. Amex only gets a merchant, total and purchase date, and geo coordinates for physical swipes.
Please name them for those of us looking
It is still only a playground for the rich and wealthy. The Space industry needs to become like the Airline industry in minimizing the accidents and making it safe and cheap enough for the average person to afford.

There are people who want to go into space to be like Captain Kirk or some other scifi character. Some of them are rich or wealthy and can afford the $100K a week on the Moon.

Thing is a moon-base has to avoid meteorite strikes and other hazards. If the water or oxygen gets contaminated that's it for everyone.
Doesn't seem to be true, going by the Reddit discussion.

Potentially, everyone that happens to share a instance with an org that has every used Pardot is affected.
These are great. How have I never heard of this business?
Because consumers are also workers, that's how they have money to be consumers. If there are no worker rights, then there is no consumer income, and if there are no workers, because they have all been "made redundant" by a monpolostic oligarchy, there are no consumers.
60% of male managers now say they're uncomfortable mentoring women
In the 19th century the chimneys of the factories where modern, "beautiful" and a sign of progress.
Turned out that what came out of those chimneys was not so great.
There's no shortage of acceptable solutions. The challenge is getting politicians on board.
I saw this happen back in 1995. Back then people would leave carts just about anywhere in the parking lot. Then they introduced the concept of the quarter and having to return the cart to the stand. Soon enough it became a habit. And the practice continues till this day.
As someone who has joined a couple of accelerators and evaluated a few others, I would say no.

I've had a lot of great mentors who came from the wrong backgrounds and weren't able to advise me on it. Also joined many of these "guaranteed" programs that just didn't fit my approach - some felt too exploitative, some just didn't fit my personality and would make money but at a personal cost.

So just follow your gut.

Also as YC has advised, in the earliest stages, you need to be listening to customers and building what they want. Everything else - marketing, mentors, comes later. Otherwise it'll likely bite you back in the future.
I registered my account at last.fm in 2006 but stopped in 2015-2016 when they took away many of the most attractive and cool features of the site with the redesign despite an incredible amount of feedback on the forums (that were also taken away in favor of a survey...). I still can't believe what they've done. Last.fm has been neglected to a degree that surprises me to this day. I spent so much time posting in the discussion groups (also removed!), reading interesting journals about music that others had written (another feature removed).
I've since switched to Libre.fm. But it won't ever be the same. I think it's hugely disappointing to see what was such a transformative service tossed to the wayside at the hands of CBS.
And the Q-Logic IB business.
Well it is when a woman can file fake sexual harassment claims because she doesn't like you or doesn't like your management/criticism of her.

Ask why male teachers aren't as common in high schools and public schools as they used to be. It is easy to accuse them of sexual harassment when the women get low grades from the teacher.

Not all sexual harassment claims are false, but it can be used as a weapon against male managers.
> "If you share X with us, you're helping to build a better model Y that helps you with Z." Then the prompt "Do you want to share X?" makes a lot more sense than the current generic prompts "App V wants to access all your data W?" which doesn't tell you anything.

That would lead to wayy too much notifications. Just like ToS, people would say yes or no blindly.
Seems like this could be heavily correlated with weather.