skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To counter that metaphor, what would the objection be to doors that lock, but the police are given a master key?

There are a few obvious issues with centralisation and the possibility of bad actors on the police, but I’m not sure how persuasive it is against “think of the children!!”
Does this apply only to oral pharmaceutical antifungals? Or does it also apply to topical ones like clotrimazole for yeast, or food based oral antifungals like garlic?
It's funny how on hacker news apparently buying a fancy keyboard for your home where no one can see it is "signalling", but if you point out that wearing Apple watch, holding iPhone, and displaying those ear buds is also signalling/branding/status symboling, I am generally very aggressively downvoted.

I'd say buying a mechanical keyboard with RGB lights and nice switches is probably 100X less signalling (several orders of magnitude) than buying a $300 phone for $1100 and wearing gaudy white ear buds.

It's very rare personally that I see other people's setups. It's not like people lug around $300 keyboards with their laptops.

But walk down any popular street in any major city and I bet you can tell who is signalling that they're part of the apple brand.
Or, you know, just don't waste your time/money subscribing to any service at all. I don't have a TV and have never subscribed to a streaming service. My life is perfectly happy and full of entertainment outside work, and my wallet says thanks.
My old Sony reader gets a few 1000 pages of read time/ 8 weeks (& more) or so of occasional use. On WiFi it drops to a week or so. Making an antenna work uses heaps of energy. It's worse when roaming as it searches for a known network.
The library function is my biggest gripe about calibre. It makes you copy all of your ebooks into a new directory if you want to use it.
Absolutely. For all our taxes, it’s borderline criminal how underfunded Polizei education and training is.
I wonder if the use of a lensmeter makes you fall into a local optimum while missing out on a potential global optimum?

Let's say I go to a bad optician and get a pair of lenses that have something way off like the cylinder is the wrong way around, or toric lenses for astigmatism when you actually don't have it. Everything looks like crap but then you get used to it (the brain is amazing at adapting). Then a few years later you go get another pair, and they use the lensmeter reading as the baseline.

I think I have astigmatism, or do I? It took me more than two months until I stopped getting headaches after getting my first glasses and I could see decently. Every glasses since then are based on that first reading. Maybe I've just become used to it, and there exists a significantly better lens that I could become used to as well.
I am the owner of several keyboards whose total price is a few thousand. Most of that comes from one rare board which can fetch $3k+ in the aftermarket (TGR Jane V2 CE).

I really have a hard time explaining to people my purchases because it is just something I like for some reason. I love the customization and I liken it to having a project car... something I am saving up for right now.

I have also attended meetups and met a ton of great people through the hobby, so it is not just all throwing money around there is a social component.

Happy to answer any keyboard related questions!
GCP I'd say could worth definitely tens of billions, but not hundreds.
Not really. WebRTC could work just fine without the encryption. The fact that it exists and people use it not in and of itself an argument in favour of E2E.
There is no limit to demand.

If X becomes cheaper, humans spend the surplus resources on Y. If Y becomes cheaper, humans spend the surplus resources on Z. And on it goes.

"Save thousands of hours of human labor" doesn't mean humanity is working thousands of hours less total; it means that they accomplished the same specific X with thousands fewer hours (and then almost certainly spend thousands of hours on Y).

That's not just an armchair theory. Time-honored tradition of technology advancement. Agriculture fell from 70% to 25% of all U.S. jobs in a single lifetime. Staggering economic change. And humanity is better off for it.
> I'd keep defending this principle even in case one of those criminals would exterminate my entire family.

I think that's a bit too far... but I get your point.

When having a discussion around privacy, I had no response to "you shouldn't have anything to hide" because I know privacy should somewhat be a human right (especially given its commoditization) but didn't know exactly why it's so important given that most Gen Z kids are sharing every aspect of their lives on social media.
Just a thought what does attending a play, movie, or sporting event cost. On a per hour basis, cable TV is cheap.

I really hope that the cord cutting alternates start to drive prices down from the legacy satellite and cable providers. It seems they haven't yet.
Unicomp manufactures Model Ms and sell the 104 keys for ~$108 (inc tax+ship). Haven't checked the Model F in awhile, but they're still rare and expensive.
>The problem is you get to choose either a better layout or better keycaps.

Very much this. I'm very fond of Kailh Chocs and use them in many of my designs [1], while an excellent switch you have exactly two colour options White Blanks and Black Blanks. If that wasn't bad enough they're different sizes then regular MX so if you don't have a board _specfically_ designed for them you end up with gaps in the caps. It sucks because there is only so far you can go with low travel MX and good luck convincing someone to switch that's using 150$ of the latest GMK.

[1] https://www.gboards.ca/
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Next time you check in to a hotel, notice that the little hanging sign on the door no longer has a side that says "do not disturb."
And make sure you use tabs!
> There's definitely issues in science with things like repeatability in individual studies, but that doesn't apply to something like AGW.

That's nonsense. Not only have you not supported your assertion, but: 1) there's no reason to think that AGW is immune to these problems; and, worse, 2) AGW research is not reproducible, because it's not falsifiable, so it specifically does apply to AGW; and 3) even if you think models are meaningful, falsifiable predictions, the models have proven to be inaccurate. The claim fails in every way, from general to specific.

> It's supported by thousands (millions?) of papers, models, meta-studies, science bodies, and so on, all agreeing.

I have to wonder here if you actually believe what you're saying. "All agreeing"? That's a nonsensical, blanket statement. That's not science.

Five seconds on a search engine would prove to you that there are many scientists who do not agree with AGW hypotheses and alarmism. The parallels between your mindset and those of religious true believers who can't tolerate dissenting views are striking. Nope, don't look at any information that might contradict your scriptures, that might reveal their weaknesses, that might undermine the foundations of your faith.

> See for example NASA's overview: https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

See for example this former NASA employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20997978

I worked on NASA's "Mission to Planet Earth" program for a few years. Cherry-picking of models that produce results that meet the current agenda is not uncommon. Just as researchers have a (deserved IMHO) reputation for publishing data that concurs with their topics...

> Gosh, you're furious.

Let's recap:

1. You accuse me of "bullshit."
2. I make a truthful claim.
3. You accuse me of lying.
4. I prove my claim and say you should retract your accusation.
5. You say, "Gosh, you're furious!"

Where did you learn to act so shamefully? You accuse someone of bullshitting and lying, then when they prove they're not, your response is, "lol u mad." You can't even handle the truth, and your trolling is predictable.

> He was not suggesting misleading the public.

Of course he was. But he's practiced at couching, characterization, deflection, and projection, just like you are.

Have you looked up John Cook's fraudulence yet? Can you admit that knowledge to your psyche, or does it need to be protected from dissent?
two weeks later they said it's only worth ~ 10B
There's no hypocrisy, but this article is skimming on the most important piece of information. This ban is enacted as a law using emergency powers (which grants the CE almost dictatorial powers), meaning it bypassed the deliberations of the legislature, and worse, enacted, nay, decreed at a time when the government in HK has next to zero support except the police force. This is not only unjust and immoral, but just plain stupid, since this will only serve to further escalate the situation. It's simply amazing that 4 months since the first reading of the extradition bill, no one has died as a direct result of confrontation yet. But this decree may change everything.
Well, AWS actually is highly profitable and changed the game so most of the recent startups could actually be built. I wouldn't associate WeWork with it. I won't even associate Tesla with WeWork. At least if you give $10B to Musk, you get rocket ships and category-leading car companies out of it.
Absolutely disgusting, I wish the US could demonstrate how to humanely deal with prison inmates, but unfortunately, conditions here are piss poor as well. :(
its also Deutsche Bank one of the most reckless banks around.
> the tax is made up, I never knew what to add

Neither do we.
They could mess around with the amount of ad time per program and the plan price.

I think Hulu is showing at least 5 minutes of ads per 22 minute program, so watching two hours of programming would exceed the ad time you mentioned. This is reasonable for a single day, but a high bar for a daily average.
It is in their blog. But perhaps the content is not directly relevant to a project you're working on.

I just completed SUS, and implemented Amplitude establishing primary and secondary metrics that I believe result in growing revenue for my startup.

While I've been successful at data capture after signup / login, I have not built this trail from anon users. So at the very least the content reminds me that I need to make this link.

Other than that, I'm very interested in landing pages because I have one market segment that performs alright, but I have people representing other segments who want other versions of what I've done. I need organic search to get them to my product and I need to find out if I can drive them to the existing product before completely building it out. A fake door to some extent.

I have no idea if I can programmatically build landing pages or not, but the insight that compelling organic growth is a mandatory step for a startup to compete with established players is also valuable.

I don't have to need an api to customer analytics and marketing packages to get useful info from this.

edit: I just realized the SUS lecture on instrumentation / analytics was presented by a Segment co-founder.
Not one mention of AWS.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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I'd say that when you're buying a $1000 t-shirt, there are around 3 different options:

1) High-fashion brand item. This is usually a middle-of-the-road item with steep designer markup. Gucci, Tom Ford, etc.

2) Collector item. It could be a $5 shirt which has suddenly become very expensive due to collection-value. Supreme, etc.

3) Hand-made small scale luxury brand item, using rare materials (Vicuña blends, extremely fine wools, etc.). They still have a markup, but more justified than those in 1). Loro Piana, Stefano Ricci, etc.
Yes, but this data isn't available to (most) administrations. I guess that the risk is that the access might slowly be granted to more and more of them ?
I assure, as someone who worked alongside of traders and had access to hundreds of hedge fund portfolios, that you are wrong.
I just downloaded a book from Amazon and was able to convert it from azw3 to epub.
Anecdotal story:

I was working on a personal project where I wanted to try a "server-less" setup and I found Google's firebase authentication pretty handy and when I was looking into Firestore I found these handy videos on Youtube that Google made that I thought were pretty good introductions ... and they even updated the videos here and there so they weren't up to date. I felt like I understood how things worked pretty quickly considering I was comming from SQL land.

I had previously been playing with AWS and tied a domain to some S3 stuff and some other things and holy crap it was pure frustration and I kept thinking using AWS that "There is nothing about how this works that I could possibly have guessed correctly without googling for a painfully long time... so if / when things go wrong how would I ever know how to fix it?"

Even when I found the "right" way to do things on AWS, just the setup felt wrong it was such a "click here click there now go back to ..." adventure.

I just felt unsure and had an uneasy feeling about AWS the entire time, even after I did it right...

Google Cloud I felt like they were trying to help me understand the complexity and once I completed the task I could do it again with limited difficulty. They also were providing services tied together for me already.
AWS is only highly profitable for an investor if you cut it loose from Amazon retail so it's not subsidizing it (spin it out) and other Amazon endeavors that aren't profitable. Otherwise, it's only of benefit to Amazon proper.
You can never know what to add for tax, because there are often local taxes that can be higher for one municipality than another. Even then, within a municipality, they can have a higher tax on a single intersection or shopping center.
Not that I want to defend Google or anything, but there are some impressive customers here [1]

[1] https://cloud.google.com/customers
Tarantulas have 3 legs, with 5 spares, i thought, having just seen one this morning out with our dog, though i realize that's a technicality wrt the posed question.
The only somewhat compelling argument I’ve heard is that ads are usually sold by region (be they television, radio, or print) but many regions have multiple taxing jurisdictions where the rate can vary so how do you craft a regional price with these variations. And what do you do if one jurisdiction in the region has much higher or much lower taxes than other jurisdictions?

I’m not entirely convinced that this is a very compelling argument but it is the one that at least seems reasonable.
[Citation needed] for sure, but probably true if the idea is "to use 100% nuclear power you need utility-scale storage"?

Nuclear as used doesn't need utility-scale storage, but that's because it's almost always providing the base load with mixed generation. Modern European plants are sometimes load-following, but that's generally just two phases of high and low output. And even then, it's often more efficient to run at peak output 24/7, with cogeneration during low demand.

As far as I know, nuclear has never been used for peaking demand, but doing so would presumably require battery or pumped-water energy storage. (Since current nuclear is steam cooled, I don't believe molten salt storage is especially viable outside of theoretical high-temp plants?) Although pumped-storage hydro doesn't necessarily look much like damned-river hydro, so I don't think it's a great comparison there either.

That said, the gulf between where we are now and "nuclear as all of base load and some load-following output" is absolutely massive, and I'm not sure anyone actually intends 100% nuclear generation?
I think everyone has taken notice. The propaganda right now is too all encompassing so we can't help but to take notice.

Even on HN the past few years the number of propaganda posts and comments has gone up and up and up. Continues to increase right now.

What can people do though? Other people have the right to free speech. You just have to try to tune out all of the Anti-Tech, Anti-China, Anti-US, Anti-Amazon, Anti-Iran, Anti-Trump, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Obama, Anti-minority, Anti-etc etc etc blather.
From Bloomberg re GCP: "The unit could report compound annual growth of 55% between 2018 and 2022, and reach annual sales of about $38 billion by 2025"

AWS q2 2019 was was 8.4 billion so AWS in 2019 is near where GCP is projected to be in 2025. AWS q1 to q2 growth was 37%, so much slower growth than Azure and GCP.

From Barrons earlier this year: "He sees AWS revenues of $36.1 billion this year, growing about 31% a year to $140 billion in 2024. He ... estimates the value of AWS alone as $506 billion."

https://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-stock-web-services-w...
And, slightly larger, Russia.
Are you using macOS? He didn't test that:

correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32)
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Eh, I see a lot of of the same stuff from middle class people in the US as well tbf, so I don't think it's just poor people.
I don't really consider either having superior UI... but AWS's endless list of services when you click for the dropdown is a bit too much to handle. Not to mention how you'll have to use their search bar to get to what you want.

One thing I do credit them on is SSHing into an instance is a lot easier than GCP's "gcloud" way (I say this since I recently found the "gcloud" sdk to take over 10g on my laptop) and even if you use SSH on GCP, they make it considerably harder than AWS (although somewhat more secure for beginners... to prevent from attackers to getting to port 22).
Google Cloud is worth $225B and Waymo is worth $100B [1], so the rest of Alphabet is worth less than $500B in market cap? The math doesn't add up.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/waymo-valuation-cut-40percen...
Comparing governments as bad actors (malevolent groups of people trying to retain and increase their power yielding already disproportionate amounts of power) to cars and diseases (inanimate objects or, well, diseases) is not a fair argument.

On one hand, organized crime, observable in most countries where governments are present, on the other hand everyday objects and a disease.

Doesn’t look like an argument made in good faith.
Reckless? Loaning hundreds of million to the same people that just refused to pay you back the last few hundred you lent them, after they refused to pay back other backs before that, is the investment strategy of the future! /s
I just pushed up a typo fix, thanks for pointing this out!
Ask HN: Interview Process Expectations
Hi all,
I recently interviewed for an internship position at a company and am looking to get feedback on the process.

* Sent a cold email to see if they were interested in bringing me on as an intern. Get back an enthusiastic response. A video call was scheduled that their head of engineering ghosted on. When emailed, he didn't respond. After contacting my original contact, they apologized and we scheduled an in person interview.

* The in person interview went well. Talked to the whole team (including leadership) and everyone seemed excited about bringing me on. They then sent me a coding exercise to do over the weekend.

* I completed the coding exercise and felt I did a reasonable job on it. After sending it back to them, the head of engineering asked me how to run my code (python). After that I received no response from them. Waited a little over a week and sent a follow up to the head of engineering which didn't receive a response. Finally emailed my original point of contact and got an email saying that they were heading in a different direction.

I've found the process frustrating. I spent a day of my time completing their exercise and expected some response in a reasonable time frame.

Are my expectations unreasonable?
Flat.io – online collaborative music notation software
They did not write about it though.

Web Workers were used for running untrusted plugins in the past. They run off-the-main-thread, are terminateable, don't have access to DOM, etc.

You'd still need to cleanup their environment, before running untrusted code there. It's some challenge, but not too hard.

The only trouble is that they're hard to monitor for abuses of CPU/Memeory use. But that will at most crash your browser.
Beauty and the Code
Is it truly dishonest though? Are all subsidies cash handouts?

There are eg environmental and health costs paid due to fossil fuel usage. These costs are paid (in Canada) by taxpayers via the govt since FF producers don’t pay them.

Certainly seems like a subsidy to me.
It's not. There's no mention of web workers.
Ever looked at Sjogren?
Pancreatitis is a precursor
> However, each keyboard case + switch + keycap setup is going to feel and sound slightly different. So it isn't really an objective improvement but they will likely be distinguishable from one another. Some people are into it for the way it sounds.

This sounds pretty much like what headphone audiophiles say.

> However, each driver + housing + amp setup is going to feel and sound slightly different. So it isn't really an objective improvement but they will likely be distinguishable from one another.

Brands like Sennheiser have a very different sound from Audio-Technica which have different sound than Campfire Audio etc etc. Which is "better" is very subjective but there is a difference between say a pair of Sennheiser HD650 and Beyerdynamic DT1990
AWS isn't mentioned in the article at all... not sure why you're mentioning it. It's considered to have a similar valuation to Google Cloud though.

According to this, however, AWS seems like it should be valued considerably higher (and this is in line with my industry experience - AWS is used everywhere, Google Cloud is not): https://kinsta.com/blog/google-cloud-vs-aws/
Calibre-Web has shelves (that can be public or private), and a built-in OPDS server (that you can use from within phone apps such as Moon+ or a rooted Kindle).

It not only replaced Calibre's server for me, but also those few functionalities for which I've previously used Goodreads: organizing books into shelves, marking them as read, keeping track of how many books I read in a year.
I would like to support this argument with my own experience. Running, biking, lifting, camping, fasting, and generally suffering in a positive way has made me feel so much better.

It's like my hind brain thinks I need to get out and hunt/gather or I'll starve to death and that involves the above ordeals. If I just eat and do nothing my brain thinks I'm going to end up destitute and starving or something.
We probably need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to use encryption, otherwise this cat and mouse game will never end.
Orwell was a communist, though. It sort of confuses me what he meant by all that. Did he not understand that the kind of mistreatment of humanity was what he supported? I have read his memoirs and articles, I know he was a smart guy who took big chances in Spain and places. I just don't understand why such intelligent people support big, top-down, collectivist structures.
How much data/information that the UN used was able to be influenced by the Soviet Union and its records? genuinely curious, I have no idea where the UN estimates come from nor a particular thought/agenda on the matter
> If I had a nickel for every incorrect email validity checker I ran across, I'd have an awful lot of nickels.

I won't argue with that. Email is a clusterf---. To make a validator to be truly "correct" is essentially impossible. Three RFCs have successively created standardized regexes and the latest RFC 5322 still has a bug. [1]

You'd have to convince me that you'd be significantly fewer nickles had they used Rosie.

> library of useful patterns

That's cool. I certainly use a library if I need to validate emails.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/201378