skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean Megaupload? If so, it isn't essentially the same thing at all. Megaupload was deliberately hosting content without permission of the copyright holders, pretending to remove it when notified but actually just invalidating the particular URLs that the copyright holders knew about but keeping the material available at different URLs. Their business model was to be a piracy site.

If you can find a copy of the original Megaupload indictment, it includes several emails between Kim Dotcom and other top Megaupload people that lay this all out.
Brazil, post amazon destruction, may be able to provide agricultural goods as cheap as China needs.
I'll take a cabin in the woods.
Lasers are the only workable option, I think. But locating a small object at some km altitude would be nontrivial. And hitting one with a laser would be ~impossible.

Also, it would see scattered light long before you hit it directly. And even if it had an autonomous targeting system, there'd be a record of its movements. So it would be very hard so stay anonymous.
you do not trust layer X. so you add layer A, B, C, Y and Z. none have more merits to be more trustworthy than X. You are downgrading your total network trust by adding vpns you do not control fully.
In a tech boom the startups go broke but the property owners make boatloads in rent.
Help! Help! I’m being forced to use non free proprietary software!

Can just have both.
Or invest a small amount in a number of small shovel-part, shovel-services, and shovel-as-a-service outfits all shuffling money between each other looking like they have actual traction in hopes of fooling other investors into buying in
She's a PhD that literally teaches the stuff, and you're the person who couldn't even be bothered to read the mini-bio, not to mention the references at the end.
> Actions that eventually net undesirable consequences are stupid, not brilliant.

I think it depends on how predictable the consequences are (it may be brilliant, or at least smart, to act in a way that offers a small possibility of an undesireable consequence in return for a large possibility of a highly desireable one), and on how long the time horizon is (it may be brilliant, or at least smart, to act in a way that offers certain undesireable consequences much later in return for certain desireable consequences for a long time before that). To overstate the objection, all actions eventually result in death, which is presumably undesireable.
? Assuming you meant to reply to me, I think this is orthogonal to what I posted

ETA since we seem to have reached maximum comment depth: To clarify, the context suggests you mean to disagree with me, but I don't see any incompatibility between your comment and mine. These examples are not bringing back species that are currently extinct. That is not to say that life is not adaptable or that vacated ecological niches will not eventually be re-filled. Judging from the paleontological record, they definitely will -- sometimes rapidly and sometimes not for many Myr. Sometimes, due to convergent evolution, the replacements for a given niche are shockingly close in appearance to the extinct originals, but it's never quite the same as before.

I think the only thing I actually disagree with here is the apparent (implied?) suggestion that folks concerned about climate change are in a state of "hysteria." The climate scientists I know would be among the first to agree that we don't know everything!
Becoming an accredited investor doesn't take a lot of money... I would bet a good chunk of this site qualifies under the rules.
I think you could easily buy an hq (or any other relatively liquid asset that would also help the business in other ways) outright with that kind of money and use that to collateralize a much larger credit limit
But they will likely step in for companies and criminal gangs. This limits to the Government.
Weird that this is downvoted.
You missed the point. The FAA will allow government surveillance but not criminal orgs.
Google already monitors Github repositories and notify's if a Firebase configuration file was accidentally committed.

The same could be done for credit cards, passwords etc, not sure it's Github's responsibility though...
Amazon, I believe, checks for the weight of the package to ascertain if the contents are what they were supposed to be.
> Think about infant mortality, sanitation or historical practices like suttee.

Those are (I presume) referring to instances where the colonised were 'bad', and the colonisers have done 'good' (to put it in simplistic terms). I agree that there are such instances! There are also instances where the colonised were 'good', and the colonisers have done 'bad'. Or, if the presence of any 'bad'ness is enough to lead one to be an appropriate target for colonisation, there are also instances where the colonisers' civilisation was 'bad'. How many of each? Well, obviously my position is that colonisers overall do much more harm than good. Maybe that's not true, but you won't disprove it by mentioning a couple of good things that they've done.

(There are also instances where keepers of slaves have done good, but that doesn't mean we condone slavery.)
they're still at the top of the game
A man who can remember every day of his life
I don’t think this is true. 4/7 people wouldn’t pay regardless. 2/7 might, and that last one was paying anyway because insurance covered everything.
2. Amazon kind of sorts them onto pallets that they eventually auction off, blindly. A lot of sellers buy these, like prepackaged storage lockers. They then sort through the junk, see what they can make a buck on, and resell on eBay or elsewhere.
Leaving commenter it code is like leaving full trash bags on your kitchen floor. Why are they there? Could the be necessary at some point? Is there a specific time we need to get rid of them?

I agree with you, commented out code is not ok, unless it is an example or pseudo code. The rest is trash and has no place in any reasonable codebase. If you want to see what the code was like six months ago, use git.
Human sacrifice was widely prevalent in prehistory. It's present in the Bible (Abraham and Isaac), in Homeric legends (Iphigenia at Aulis), and countless other ancient societies. [1] The notion that some must die that others may live is deeply ingrained in human behavior and still exists today.

The interesting question to me at least is why did it stop?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice
Very odd. Fats and proteins should help you feel satiated versus the fast burn and decline after having processed carbs. Consider trying a few meals of salmon or chicken breast, with only veggies for sides. That should provide quality macros, and you shouldn’t feel like garbage after each of those meals. If I can be of any further assistance, please email me (email in profile).
> you just give them the money and they can figure out what they need better than you.

Alternatively they fall prey to lotteries, casinos, drugs, alcohol, or any other number of things and you're right back at square one... give them more money.

It's a blackhole feel-good policy that ignores reality. It's better to put strong social safety nets in place. Buy the food and the clothes for them, maybe even establish a discretionary stippend. But don't just say to people here's 20K ... Good luck! Most people don't have a concept of budgeting... It's not going to work.
Could you script something with CamelCamelCamel?
ANSI art and Warez were pretty closely tied scenes.
it is a pretty ironic comment on a site called hacker news
I've been thinking about this and I've come to the conclusion that Trump doesn't really want to work out a trade deal with China at this time. What I think he's trying to do is to prod China into dumping their Treasuries.

From above: "The effect would be to drive up the price of foreign imports for U.S. consumers and drive down the price of U.S. exports."

What would this do? It would make Americans buy American products. It would make the world buy American products. It would make American companies invest in US manufacturing, rather than overseas.

What does massive economic growth do for the US? Pays down the national debt fast.
What religion would that be?
Around 800 square meters of lawn. Every week, or every second week, depending on season and rainfall, I plug in a mower and mow it, a bit of exercise and fresh air thrown in for free. If for some reason I skip a turn, grass and weeds grow a little taller.
Where's the stress?
Bad times? Only lazy bums like me and poor H1s are still sitting at our old BigCo (life work balance is amazing, plus there are too few of us left who is doing the stuff so we are treated pretty soft and accurately :) . Anybody who left during the last year and a half got minimum 300 (junior and/or really incapable engineers) with the normal engineers getting 400-500K and that isn't in a red hot AI and the likes. The money is just sloshing around. Granted everything comes to an end, and we're definitely due for the one, yet it definitely didn't happen yet.
What would be the advantage of making the land private compared to planting trees in public land?
>GitHub should moderate every repository that has a 9-digit sequence

and this is assuming it even works, which it won't. It's a cat and mouse game. Once they start to monitor repos for 9 digit sequences, hackers would base64 encode their payload. Once github adds automatic base64 decoding, people would encrypt the payload.
Eh. We're currently at a stage in which we sort of have the tools to go carbon-neutral but aren't fully there yet.

For example, producing an EV currently involves releasing a bunch of CO2.

I can't name all of the reasons why but I imagine it'll be stuff like mining equipment being fossil powered, the trucks that transport the cars, the power that goes into refining stuff, etc.

Eventually all of that can be made carbon neutral; the only processes I can see potentially being an issue would be if like, actually digging the soil released CO2.

It would be literally impossible for the first EV to be made using only renewable energy by definition because it's the first.

Location matters too.

Sweden's electrical grid averages ~10-20g of CO2 per kWh because it's mostly nuclear/hydro.

The UK is at about 300g.

Trucks, vans, trains, etc should all be electrified as soon as possible. A last final burst of CO2 in order to create all of that, then we stop, perhaps sequester some, and off we go.

One can hope.
Reactive Programming in the Netflix API with RxJava (2013)
Wow. That is... almost incomprehensible, how bad reverse logistics are that it’s not even worth opening the packages.

But then, where do the Amazon Warehouse deals come from?
It is really similar.

For me it was surprisingly easy to move my math heavy code from Ruby to Julia, and got a 30x speedup.
I find it unlikely that someone referring to himself as mixmastamyk (mix master mike?) isn’t familiar with millennial slang.
You can use the same codebase to service mobile platforms with something like Cordova. It still needs some effort but gives you access to the app stores, which can be huge acquisition channels.
I've had multiple Amazon returns in which I dropped off the packages at a physical Amazon location, had them scanned, and received a paper receipt with the confirmation number. A few days later, look on your account and there has been no return. Try to look it up using the confirmation number and it doesn't exist. Open a customer support ticket, go back and forth a dozen times before they understand what you are trying to tell them, and all of the sudden the item is returned and you get your credit.

I think Amazon has a data loss problem in their returns processing, and this guy accidentally stumbled upon a way to trigger it repeatedly. And he only got caught when someone opened a box, got mad, and went out of their way to track down who mailed it to them.
A missing DVD cover discovered by a weight discrepancy?

Who’s to say it was returned in the original envelope?

Perhaps more likely the extremely light items weight is hidden in the variance of the return packaging weight and so those packages have to be opened?
How has medicine evolved in the last 20 years? I don’t doubt your statement, but you make it sound like common knowledge, and from my point of view (average non-medical person) not much has changed.
Don't most OSS licenses have a "no warranties" clause that protects the author against this? I'm sure that github also has a clause in their ToS saying they make no warranties about the code posted to their platform.
It seems the premise of every rental or subscription service is that you will send them more money, on average, than if you purchased the items a la cart (on average). I'm basically betting against a company with way more time, data, and expertise which seems like a fools agreement.

The flip side of this coin is that I get free stuff subsidized by investors in hopes that eventually they get big enough or kill enough of their competition to get to the above state.
Well, some people in my household have various food sensitivites. We have to be very careful about what we buy (different brands of milk, say, are very much not equivalent.) I'm not buying food from a vendor who's known to do brand substitution.
Memory editing from science fiction to clinical practice
> What did this man think was going to happen? That Amazon would never open the boxes he returned?

To be fair Amazon actually sells bags of dirt, so if there is just a bar code and a bag of dirt then the person opening the box might not think anything of it.
The problem is that margins in manufacturing are usually in the single digits. So you can’t really sustain eating a 10% tariff, to say nothing of a 25% tariff, for that long. Money doesn’t grow on trees. You either have to borrow to cover the tariff or pay out of savings. At some point you run out of money or your creditors come to think that you will.
This article conflicts with A16Z earlier article on the "lack of data network effects as moats"

https://a16z.com/2019/05/09/data-network-effects-moats/

One of the cited examples of slow network effects is lending. Even if you draw a line saying "it's acquisition, not data"...due to nature of underwriting and acquisition in lending, there's no way around ignoring data there.

Which essentially means that this article is implicitly making the case for data network effects.
You are correct. What's the term for a minimally violent act?
Total novice here, but a drone locked onto the balloon transponder? You could pre-program the drone hours or days in advance. Use all 3D printed parts with reclaimed batteries? Assembled in a clean room? (just a thought experiment)
What fraction of videos are actually problematic? What if it's one in a thousand, and they're reviewing 10x over that? I mean, they also have $120B in the bank. If they thought more reviewers would fix things, I'm pretty sure they'd get more reviewers.
Why isn’t geometric algebra more popular when it is described glowingly as “the most powerful language for mathematical physics”? (Honest question)
I had an MSCS when I started, but if you did a STEM undergrad, you should be fine - he actually explains everything you need. Don’t get me wrong: the problems are brain-bendingly difficult, but you don’t need to know how to do them before you start.
I've added up all the shits that are given, and the stunning total is... zero.
Yes, just as you describe, but the addition of a transformer allows you to reference the neutral to ground, therefore the hot swings above and below ground. It’s a little more complicated than what I described, as your breaker box is 240V split phase, but the transformer outside your house allows for a ground reference at its center tap.

If you have ever made the mistake of connecting a diode rectifier directly to AC mains, then grounding the negative output, you’ll blow a breaker. A 1:1 isolation transformer is still needed.
I think autopilot is an apt name. It’s not like planes on autopilot do everything and just fly themselves. It’s more like setting the cruise control. I still need to be paying attention when my car is on autopilot, real pilots don’t set their autopilot and then just leave the cockpit.
Customization sells
> mods are quick to silence anything tangentially political (that is not about US propaganda war)

Really? Plenty of stuff here could easily be classified political. The US/China threads do descend into absurd jingoism pretty quickly but they are popular and probably why you see them more.
I don't know. I would imagine that if a github employee came across a repository with realistic-looking data from millions of people I am guessing they would probably suspend the account.
The day that starts happening is the day that some CEO's need to be removed from the gene pool.
absolute legend tbh
A person 500 years in the future is more likely to give a shit about you than a person 5 minutes from now.

Consider your comment, a throwaway one liner of no significance. Most people just read it and move on. But what if, your comment and our comments were all preserved through a series of backups and database migrations over time until eventually they were 500 years old! Imagine some future archaeologist coming across our threads and seeing what people of this day were thinking and saying to each other. Sometimes I stumble across old posts from 2001 or so and read with fascination about what the world used to be like back then. It’d be pretty meta if that future archaeologist was actually the one reading this comment right now.

Imagine if we found some text in a 500 year old book somewhere plainly asking the same question “why would people 500 years in the future give a shit about us?”

Clearly there will be people in the future that give a shit so long as the human race remains a curious species.
How much energy does this use compared to RO?
Leveraging Amazon's disinterest in its own processes, to the MAXIMUM effect, surely is brilliant social engineering. It required knowing how return products are handled and treated, which is basically "they are weighed and forgotten in a lottery/auction". The exploitation of existing policies and practices was foiled by greed. Not enough to order products to keep, he had to try to make a business of it.
When going outside is prison: The world of American hikikomori
The money is going to them, in the sense that a) the money will be used to strengthen protections against such a thing happening again, and catching others who do it and b) that's that much less money that CFPB has to get appropriated by Congress, so that much more taxpayer money available for other programs.

They're using the money for the public good.
Via: https://www.metafilter.com/182276/American-Hikikomori
At 65,000 feet, I don't think you do.
Tell that to Sun Microsystems
I wonder whether people would care more about infrastructure if all buildings required this kind of annual, public, participatory maintenance? Could a less durable structural design on paper produce a higher quality of upkeep in practice?

Reminds me of a problem with the Kindle e-readers. Anecdotally, when the battery life was closer to a month or more, customers would forget that the device needed charging and ultimately let the battery run down. When the battery life was closer to a week, the need to charge it would stay fresh in their minds and they’d keep it from running all they way down.
Wow! They are REALLY excited about this!

« The Terminal is now DRAGGABLE FROM ANYWHERE ON THE TITLE BAR!!! »
I'm curious why Amazon didn't investigate what was happening until his returns totaled $370k.
It's very carefully worded.

They understand the importance of operating ethically. They didn't say that they do.
Literature-Based Discovery
I understand if being indoors isn't for you, but programming can categorically be the highest paid job with the lowest requirements physically. When I need is an internet connection and a laptop, it allowed me to do things like live out of an RV full time traveling, or flying to different cities, or being able to spend more time with my family/friends while we are all healthy.

I go to my family reunion and out of 5 of us in the same age bracket, everyone else has to rush back to their jobs in 2 or 3 days, whereas I can spend the full week with the "old folks" - that's time I can't get back.

Am I changing the world with my code? No, not really. Am I helping people in turn work less while still getting to solve increasingly harder problems? Yes. I can only think of a few other professions that would keep me as happy, and none offer the reward/effort level of this.

Maybe the one difference is I started with computers out of a love for problem solving, not for the other things I said. Those are just a nice side benefit I now won't give up now that I'm older by a bit.

University of Phoenix pitch, it is not.
> What did this man think was going to happen?

I think you're giving him too much credit. People try things. They repeat the things that work. Most thinking happens when the behavior stops working.

That's why long/broken feedback loops in systems are so dangerous. E.g., a big reason the Challenger disaster happened is NASA ignoring warning signs because they had gotten away with it before. If a zillion NASA engineers didn't really think it through when lives were on the line, it's no surprise some 22-year-old rando just kept doing the thing that worked.

Another good point for comparison is Theranos. How many people with advanced degrees worked there without ever catching on to how screwed they were? Without ever really verifying that it was a successful business that actually produced value for its customers? And that's just the obvious fraud. I've seen many insider stories here about startups that were only slightly less dubious.
I imagine depending on the country, and the price of the items, they probably open a selection of these packages to check to see it they can sell open package. But with the volume they’re pushing, its really hard to check every tiny thing.
Those numbers only matter if you're very good at finding the problematic videos via some automatic means. You are vastly underestimating the size of the problem.

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
That's what I mean. If you read popular wuxia/xianxia novels from China you'd see exactly this kind of "saving face" and being arrogant as GP mentioned. The next step in stories is usually that the conflict boils over and innocent people become collateral damage.
You’re comparing getting decapitated by a truck to an array overrun, which might be a sign your analogy is strained.
Uni is even to a cap which is completely different than even. Making sure everyone has enough to comfortably survive without restricting high earners from chasing riches is not the same as evenly distributing wealth.
It doesn’t raise consumer prices by much. The tariffs are on cost of good sold, not retail price. For most of the goods you buy at Walmart, the cost of goods sold is a fraction of the retail price. Most of the retail price is paying for shipping, retail presence, etc. So a 25% tariff might only result in 5-10% higher prices for consumers. And that’s only on non-grocery goods, which make up a small fraction of most households’ expenditures. Not really a big deal, in other words.
Are you suggesting they should have been doing this as a matter of course, or once they were notified of the breach and the data available on GitHub?
Old BigCo is good enough for the good times and even better for the bad times hopefully eh?