skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn’t this premise part of the story in The Matrix where they initially created a perfect work but the humans didn’t thrive in that. We needed a world with some pain so we can enjoy living.

In discussions about what you’d change in your past I’m fairly unusual in that I wouldn’t change anything, including the bad bits [0] because it’s all part of what has formed the person I am now.

In the plant world a forest fire is often good in the long term as it helps with the distribution of nutrients so allows fresh growth.

[0] I appreciate that for some people there will have been possibly devastating events or rabbit holes they’ve been down from which they haven’t been able to recover and they may well have a different view.
You might want to use the --vimgrep option:

Show results with every match on its own line, including line numbers and
column numbers. With this option, a line with more than one match will be
printed more than once.
>Like it or not, we are back to Victorian rules. At work, you never allow yourself to be alone with a female colleague.

Even the Victorians, for the most part, weren't actually this mental.
I'd argue that it can apply to any situation where someone is unhappy with the current set of solutions, decided to create a better one for people to use, but simply ends up adding another one to the pile and increasing the convolution.
>Then you're using a select few apps that fit your use-case.

Please enlighten me of the apps I miss.

>It's not going away, and it's eating every Desktop GUI framework's lunch.

Not for any app that matters. Form-based apps and glorified chat apps like Slack and FB, perhaps...
One point that I'm missing, is that the government of China can legally force any of their companies to start spying. And there would be no way that we would know.

Then often the argument becomes: But the US are already spying on us, so it's not too bad. Which is fair, but in the US, there are checks and balances and freedoms so that somebody has recourse. All these things are absent in China.

So the question is one of trust. Who do you trust more when they are spying on you: The US or China? For me as a European, this is definitely the former.
That's what we'll call advertising.
This is a well documented bias: jurys don't react the same depending on the time of day and how long ago they ate. One study was about parole boards and was extensively reported on:

https://www.wired.com/2011/04/judges-mental-fatigue/

Does YC has stats about acceptance vs the time of the interview? That would be interesting.
I, of course, understand the "Puom" koan, but I am not sure how to explain it to my friend... can anyone help?
It surprise me that people take those allegations seriously. I mean, some spying is to be expected but not to justify the banning of all the company.

I thought it was obvious that this have nothing to do with spying. Some elements in the USA government and legislative have decided that China could be a threat to American only superpower status.

By the way, what happened with the Bloomberg allegations? (1)

(1) - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
UDP DDOSes are hard to prevent against because they're volumetric in nature. Generally, they rely on UDP's statelessness, poorly configured networks, and various applications that respond with significantly more data than requested over UDP. These types of DDOSes are useful against any service that's running on TCP or UDP, and Cloudflare has protected against them all along.
This is really odd. I am going to run some tests on my own Pixel 3a and see if I can replicate it. Seems stupid.
The Value of Correlation IDs
"there are checks and balances and freedoms"

you are so full of child like innocence, I envy you
> The Netherlands is currently at risk of turning into the Mexico of Europe

Perhaps I misunderstood, but what are you basing this on? The Netherlands has one of the lowest rates of intentional homicide in the world (0.5/100.000)[0] and ranks fourth in World Press Freedom Index by Reporters without Borders[1].

With having Europe‘s largest port (Rotterdam), The Netherlands does serve as a gateway for South American drugs, cocaine in particular. The vast amount of global MDMA is also manufactured here[2], but the fallout in the form of violence is nowhere near that of Mexico?

0. https://dataunodc.un.org/crime/intentional-homicide-victims

1. https://rsf.org/en/ranking

2. http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/2473/T... (p. 5)
> Also same logic can be applied to any minority who is not in power.

No, not really. There are basically zero (published) incidents where, for example, a black guy claims somebody else insulted him when they were alone. For trans women (not f2m, as far as I know), it gets dicey as well.

And you're certainly right: you'll treat them differently, which may be unfair to them, but risk you career to treat them fairly? I doubt that a lot of people will choose fairness to others over their future.
Thank you for a detailed and highly enlightening response.

>it would be vanishingly unlikely that a person or group of people had managed to reconstruct it with enough accuracy that they could write an entire manuscript in an invented writing system that happened to mirror it

What about the case where the author of the Voynich Manuscript still spoke the proto-human tongue, i.e. that it was authored in an environment where that language was still relatively active, and has since dissipated? We do know that there have been communities of humans that have persisted since pre-history - the Sentinelese. Its an idle speculation, but one has to wonder if their language has been studied well enough to have been applied to the Voynich solution.

Anyway, thanks again for the insight. Protong is a pet hobby of mine, but I don't take it fully seriously - I just happen to think the idea of an encoded, pre-historic language to be found in all ancient art is fascinating, even if not legitimate in terms of scientific accuracy. Its the programmer in me, I suppose, which hopes to see the assembly language instructions that make up a broader set of symbols...
In America what person is going to gain by bringing accusations.

The best case is pay out, but they definitely lost this job, future opportunities, etc. They are not going to get recommendations letters.

As soon as you accuse someone you start costing company gigaton of money.

In America we promote/keep people who make money not cost money.
Kaspersky Lab will open office in Kigali
There is no need to be so condescending.
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You can be sure Gmail is harvesting your mails for tracking or profiling purpose while you still have to demonstrate totallynohacker-email do that.

One of my email and cloud storage provider is Zaclys, a little french non-profit organisation which host owncloud/nextcloud instance and an email service for 10€/year...

I can't be sure Zaclys is not harvesting my emails, but the fact I pay them for that service reassure me about their intention. In other hand I know for sure Gmail is not trustworthy regarding my privacy.
I hope Huawei make a fully open source and hack-able mobile phone. I think that would sell like crazy on the western market where everyone hates Google, and ride the news wave and turn it around into their favor.
It's just a job like anything else. Since forever word of mouth advertising was the most valuable and this is just a natural evolution of it since people spend a lot of time on social media.
Excel is fine until you have to work with nested data structure/relationship.
You got me there.

Sure, the research will likely at least clarify the challenges. For actually being very successful for the military purposes in the four years of the program, I'd say little to no hope.

But where you got me is even if the military goals are not achieved in the four years, maybe there will be some progress for what you mention. And even if there is no such progress, go ahead and spend the money, if only to clarify the challenges also for the non-military hope.

In effect, you have partially made my point: The DARPA program is for healthy people, say, super healthy airplane fighter pilots, each with a $100+ million office. As I noted, for them, they already have eyes, ears, .... And, I didn't mention but obvious, the mammalian visual system, and there fighter pilots are especially good, is deep into the brain and its design so that we can anticipate that nothing just external can hope to compete. Same for hearing. Much the same for speech. But, again, that holds for super healthy fighter pilots. For people without sight, hearing, etc. as you mentioned, the potential is much easier to believe in and much easier to justify whatever the chances.

I don't always laugh at DARPA: (1) They played a constructive role in making TCP/IP real, and now that it has gone commercial, with the rest of the technology of the Internet, it is one of the bigger steps up in civilization. (2) They pushed self-driving vehicles. My view is that for current traffic on current US public roads, self-driving, i.e., without a human right there, is hopeless for a very long time. BUT!!! What DARPA did might actually be good enough for 1000 army trucks charging across a road in a desert in Saudi Arabia as in Gulf War I.
I always suspected mine must be faulty since it was so loud. You could swap the power supply to something else but that was quite costly and left you with a sea of wires sticking out of your otherwise very smart case.
Very good movie by the way. I'm only marginally interested in Formula 1 and thoroughly enjoyed it.
That seems unnecessarily harsh. In most cases it is quite clear which post is sponsored and which isn't. Are podcasters with ads sellouts too?
> As non-native to Mexico, I really am more interested in the probability "being murdered in Mexico given you're a tourist"...

I think a more meaningful metric for tourists is the probability of getting murdered as a tourist in Mexico vs the probability of getting murdered while on vacation in another country X.
I had a situation in a certain business field where the calculations the customer designed and implemented in a spreadsheet changed so regularly that implementing them in code was unworkable because by the time the code was out if was both late and outdated. I designed[0] a solution that recursively parsed and resolved the formulas from a list of input and output cells, built an AST out of it and transpiled it to actual code or bytecode. The prototype worked beautifully and made the result diffable, extendable with, and easily embeddable within real code. My then boss found the solution useless and NASA-class, outright rejected it, and had another team just spin up some Excel, calling it with OLE or whatever and called it a day, which had abysmal performance, reliability, and runtime cost (as in $$) which ended up killing the deal with the now irate customer.

[0] Actually since I had the idea waaaay before the business need and project, I had a personal MIT-licensed clean room toy implementation of it sleeping somewhere on my hard drive and used that for the business prototype.
When I enjoy what I am doing. The funny part is that I would not call this work, which is exactly the reason why I can "work" that hard.
I work mostly in JS these days. I would just like to say, it’s funny to read something like this and reflect on frontend development’s reputation for constant churn, always new tools to solve old problems.

While this article does a good job of describing why these services came to be (and the ways in which they are better than what came before), I wonder how many of them didn’t exist 5 years ago, or weren’t in common usage then?

Maybe our worlds are not so different.
Yes. On serious note, it is huge opportunity even as non VC scale biz. It is infinite in nature.

I think the problem lies in gender education in schools and colleges, where people get lost in transition to adult life.

Like hitting on everyone/anyone in college is fair game because there is no power differential, but as soon as people enter workforce, they need to be retrained.
Babel’s rise to financial sustainability: Making a living making open source
Does getting root in a container typically give you access to much more then the application?
> You know what Chicago and Mexico have in common? Failed liberal policies.

Agreed. It's time to get Tough On Crime, and declare a War On Drugs. Shame no one's thought of it before.
> True Scotsman have a very low mortality rate.

Haha, I like this sentence :-)
If you like science fiction at all, give Accelerando a read. Of course it's just a story, but it feels like a possible real future (at least the first section). In it, there is definitely a place for people who reject integrating with technology, but that place is in the back and left behind. Instant access to all of digital knowledge, unlimited storage for every thought or experience that interests you, performing complicated calculations, visualizing higher dimensions, and so on. Your fingers, ears, and voice aren't that quick, and your eyes are limited to 2D and only have decent resolution around the center. There is certainly room for improvement over what evolved in mammals (or any animal).

It probably won't be real before I die of old age, and I'd certainly let the early adopters find the bugs, but sign me up for version 3.0 or later if I'm still around.
It is mentioned a few times, but never w/ any reference or explanation :-) Could someone please provide some pointers on this?
This is not a hypothetical question at all. Denmark is certainly asking this question, with the understanding that currently the US can tap anything they want in our communications infrastructure, and buying 5G from Huawei would instead give that power to the Chinese.

I think it is fortunate that Danish political consensus is converging toward avoiding Huawei infrastructure. American politicians might be as bad as Chinese leaders, but the former are sometimes held accountable, however meekly.
We were recently considering quick prototyping using Google Forms but ran into two key limitations:

(1) Getting a _validated_ email address of the submitter. It does support an email field, but makes it a free-form text input with no way of enforcing ownership of that email.

(2) Pre-populating some of the fields when we send the user to a form via a link. Without this, the user ends up filling the fields even though they have already submitted that information in another form.

Are there any powerful (forms + spreadsheet) products out there that solve these (and are cheaper than, say, AirTable) ?

(2)
This, exactly. Spreadsheets have received enough abuse already.
My guess would be that this is a video compression artifact, not a deliberate image enhancement effect.

Though that doesn't help when you can't adjust the quality.
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For me, as an ex-Australian who has lived in America and Europe, I don't trust either China or America with regards to their spying. Both countries have a long line of human rights violations in their history, and neither has shown a particular improvement in the last few decades.

The USA has committed untold strife in the world. It has toppled democratically elected governments and installed dictators, it has declared war on innocent nations and racked up hundreds of thousands of innocent victims in its rush to war glory. It has spent more on war in the last decade than any other nation, by far, while its people suffer under one of the most tyrannical, terrible health systems the modern world has constructed.

China has concentration camps. America has a thousand top-secret military prisons scattered around the globe.

The idea that one can be trusted over the other is utterly naive, and in light of the real evidence on the ground, a terribly ignorant point of view. I mean, we may be able to say, in all fairness, that there is a great chance that Huawei MAY spy for the Chinese government - but we can say for certainty that every single ISP in the USA HAS spied for the US Government, and we have no way to be sure it isn't still happening given the immense resources poured into making us look the other way as a civil society.
> I think it's a terrible idea to abuse spreadsheets like this.

It currently maintains millions of business software jobs.
By 50 is equally out of reality, as they are much higher.

>I've paid for a bit of influencer marketing.

Rates depend on the influencer, demographic, industry, and many other factors.
Just go with a full tower, you will be able to fit more cheap HDD's. And use ZFS mirrors.
It's skyrocketing across the world. Sweden for example has seen levels of growth in real estate prices that rivals Hong Kong, the Bay Area or London.

There are many, many, many reasons why but I wouldn't expect the prices of homes across the world to drop when basically all interest rates have been at rock bottom for a decade. People with capital to leverage really have it made.
This precisely.

Think back to your interactions with others (siblings, playmates, etc.) as a kid. Those experiences taught you how to interact with others. Obviously there were mistakes - you learn to not punch others, call names, etc. The punishment was often a simple timeout, note to parents, etc.

People need to "learn" how to interact with "others" in a professional setting. This process of learning involves making mistakes. Unfortunately, in the professional workplace, the "punishment" usually involves HR, lawyers, and a risk to ruin one's career/reputation.

So most people prefer to not "learn", and instead stick to interacting with only those they are already comfortable with - e.g. people of the same gender, color, social class etc. Social media has already made this hell. More laws will only make this worse. Of course, this isn't helped by the fact that there are actual assholes who deliberately abuse others.

Anecdote - I once sent a stern/corrective email to a female colleague/junior. There was nothing gender specific in the message. My/our boss was in cc. She forwarded the mail to HR, and I got a rebuke from the boss (male) and an informal warning to not critique women. Voila.
>Wow, so they're basically pretending to be marketers, as a marketing move to market themselves to marketers, in hopes of becoming marketers?

Isn't that the ages old, "fake it till you make it"?
That's not actually relevant to what I'm saying.

The more relevant question would be, what % of 20-30 and 30-40 year olds start businesses?

I'm not surprised most become successful over 30, it takes time to learn.
It should be specific and measurable, like “25% of customers can’t access service X for more than 15 minutes”, or some service is behind its SLA for data freshness (where the SLA itself is specific and measurable), etc.

Weasel words like “minor” and “major” are just asking for this to happen, for incidents to become tools used for political leverage.
Argument validation library fully based on Jsdoc syntax
To me it's unrealistic in the sense that it's an artificial test

Images are the lowest priority resource on the page and apart from the visual appearance aspects there are no dependencies on which order they're fetched in.

Most other resources on a page have greater side effects and and dependencies e.g. sync JS blocking the HTML parser, sync and deferred JS need to be executed in order etc.

You can saturate a last mile connection with image downloads in a way you man not be able to with other resources due to effect of the browser processing those resources.
I'm excited by any research that brings our understanding of animals closer to that of humans. Switching from human-centric (if it doesn't match how humans do it, must not exist) to species-first analysis over the past few decades is getting us closer.

Decoding the basics of an existing animal language is an inflection point I hope we hit soon, which should lead to regular discoveries. We almost always assume each individual exists in a vacuum; so much can be gained once a few verbal cues click.
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Or until a member on the team has an older version of Excel that causes compatibility problems for the rest of the team.

Or until a spreadsheet is edited in Excel that uses language other than English - formula functions will also take nationalised names.

Or until multiple people make changes to a spreadsheet, but there is no version control in Excel.
Niki is going to be missed greatly around F1, what a fighter.

> Niki Lauda was given up for dead and administered the last rites by a priest. [1976]

What Niki said to the priest at this point is a matter for debate....

- https://www.formula1.com/en/drivers/hall-of-fame/Niki_Lauda....
Try "underground" MMO games or some niche community, that are not on Facebook et al.
What American company provides 5G carrier capabilities currently? I can’t think of any the only two that come in mind that aren’t Chinese are Alcatel-Nokia-Siemens-Lucent or w/e they are called now and Ericsson.

For the most part the US can compromise networks without needing to control the companies that provide the equipment they’ll just compromise the operator and the supply chain.
I get what you're saying, but anecodtally I can say I've never worked on a codebase like that. The pattern I came across most frequently would use JS values to store state, scoped as tightly to the relevant event handler as possible, e.g.

$(function(){
var myState = 123;
var myElem = $('<span>' + myState + '</span>');
$('#myParent').append(
myElem,
$('<button text="Increment" />').click(function(){
myState = myState + 1;
myElem.text(myState + '');
}));
});

Interaction with the DOM was treated as I/O, akin to file or stdio access: for reading, get it into a sensible internal variable as soon as possible; for writing, dump it out as the final step. Using the DOM to hold state seems, to me, akin to holding state in an external file (reading and writing as needed), rather than a variable.
> glorified chat apps like Slack

Sure, let's just call the app that many many tech teams use as an app that doesn't matter.

It's not perfect. But it's certainly not insignificant.
A Brief History of OpenTelemetry (So Far)
From what I understood via local company legal, "necessary" means "this type of service cannot possibly exist without this data". Ie, your email may be required to use a service that notifies you via email for shopping deals. Email addresses are private data and in this case, you can't use the service without it.

Making a profit is not necessary to operate a service in the same way. It's necessary for the company to be profitable but that is irrelevant to the GDPR.
It shows that as a Formula 1 driver (and much earlier) he gained deep insight into complex machines and what can go wrong with them.