skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friendster, Hyves, Tumblr all struggled with their feed technology. Twitter and Facebook also struggled but at least managed to fix it. My first startup, Fashiolista, also struggled with the feed technology as we grew to millions of users.

On the flip side, it was that experience that prompted me to start Stream. We power feeds for over 500 million end users these days (https://getstream.io/). Kinda cool how nowadays you can buy a scalable version of pretty much all tech off the shelve. Algolia for Search, Stripe for payments, Twilio for voice, emails etc.
It's literally impossible to "solve homelessness". You can't stop someone walking I to your town and sitting down on the street.

Thats not even getting into what you allude to, in that "solving it" creates more homelessness
Yes, this is a metaphor for people building algorithms (or other systems) they don't fully understand that could have poor consequences for others / society. At least, that's how I understood the relevance of the metaphor.
What exactly have you experienced that makes you so confident that Amazon is lying about tracking the original source of manufacturer barcode products?

I've sold millions on Amazon and am friends with many sellers who've collectively sold at least hundreds of millions. I've heard many people with issues with inauthentic complaints. I've never heard of one that can be traced back to commingling.

I've dealt with phantom inventory many times. The correct thing to do is report it. It doesn't always get fixed. The fact that they occasionally have stranded inventory and assign it to a seller doesn't mean they don't generally track transfers of manufacturer barcode inventory, like they say they do. They never claim inventory receiving is perfect. They do claim they track the original source of sales, and there's no reason to think it's not true.
Thankfully, it's not my site - the name just happens to be "My Subscription Addiction" and I suppose I'm more of a hate-follower than a fan. Like many other women in their early-20s I subscribed to Birchbox when it first came out ~2012. Eventually I cancelled and told friends that it kind of felt like low-stakes beauty sample gambling. Of course they thought I was nuts so I googled "subscription box gambling addiction" and stumbled upon this site.

None of my friends still have Birchbox subscriptions but following along on MSA I do think the boxes "target" a certain type of people/part of the brain. I get the impression there are a small number of people who spend a lot of money on several boxes as more of a hobby or entertainment than a convenience thing. They subscribe to a handful of boxes but only for 6-12 months before switching to a new box.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I bet a subscription box of random subscription boxes would actually do really well...
Best-case scenario if you want to consolidate power: Dirty westerners blew up our IT industry to maintain dominance!
and nothing of value was lost..
Have you experimented with removing your free plan? Curious to know what your support-time is in relation free:paid plans. Just from my anecdotal experience free-plans attracted the wrong type of customer for me, switching to paid with a free trial worked much better. When you have a large team and can built fancy funnels to make freemium work it seems like a great idea from a marketing perspective but for small(ish) companies I really doubt the numbers (% of upgrades from free to paid after a certain period of time) make sense in a lot of cases.
I don't follow. MacOS has very extensive keyboard shortcuts and they dynamically show in the menu bar of every application. Is there a specific thing that's missing? It actually drives me nuts on Windows that apps don't consistently have to show you the keyboard shortcuts. Moving to Office on the PC from the Mac was infuriating because some of the shortcuts are different but there's not even any way to see what they are easily. If there is, it must be right in front of my eyes because I just don't believe that it could be that hidden.
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FriendsReunited was big at some time in the UK, it’s schtick was around reconnecting people who had gone to school together. It died because once everyone had assured themselves that they were doing better than people they hated, or the person they used to fancy is fat now, it served no purpose.
Engineers are increasingly not going to be upper class in china. There's that whole 996 thing, and the term for software engineer literally translates to "code peasant".
Of course. I can practically guarantee that for them, it's a given that the party needs to control everyone and everything, all the time.
I know what the term "dog-whistle" means. The parent comment you responded to is "TIL there's a place called the Firth of Clyde", what is the dog whistle in that name?
The real problem is that the people who decide to use the software are not the ones actually using it. This is the problem with top down decision making. And this is why enterprise software often sucks
These types of systems are generally not competitive with PV for electricity

You should tell that to the people who built at least a dozen of these plants in the American west, with more to come.

Right now there are at least four that I've seen in Nevada exporting electricity to California.
>Honestly, I think the West's best defense is young otherwise powerless people on the internet making memes mocking the irresponsible behavior of people in power.

I honestly am going to need you to explain why this is your thought.
This bears to me a striking resemblance to maintaining software. The temptation is to think, "Right, that solution works, now our work is done." But no, maintenance is a job that never ends.
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Because of facial identification and other kinds of vigilance implemented these protesters probably can’t afford to go back to their daily lives therefore I think they will just keep fighting.
A case being mutually dismissed with prejudice means a settlement happened. If it's dismissed without prejudice it could be either way.
True. But I was reminded of this quote from Firefly:

Jubal Early: You oughta be shot, or stabbed, lose a leg... to be a surgeon. You know? Know the kind of pain you're dealing with. They make Psychiatrists get psychoanalyzed before they can get certified, but they don't make surgeons get cut on. That seem right to you?
The good place makes me think it's a version of the trolly problem.

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Marc is a grade A showboat asshole. Your comment hits the nail on the head.
Really, /r/worldnews on reddit exists for those who want to discuss world news in a reddit-esque format.
But if they pay can't they override that or are you saying that even a paid account on linkedin can't see if you looked at their profile if you (on a free account) have said 'don't allow anyone to see'?
It has everything to do with "human rights" and "democracy"! No one said its simple, but a generic „its complex“ is not a proper refutation. What exactly makes this impossible? Countries form along ethnic boundaries when permitted to do so, and it is then that they are most peaceful and stable. Otherwise you will end up with suppressed minorities and ultimately war. Look at what happened upon decolonization and the fall of Yugoslavia.

People are more peaceful as neighbors than flat mates.
class actions exist solely to enrich lawyers. They generally do little to nothing for the people who are the parties to them.
China strikes back huh.

This is big issue no matter how you look at it.

Maybe "no trade secrets" is a bit exaggeration.
Barcelona airport is blocked! Finally we catalans seem to have found some blood in our veins! Sadly the catalan establishment will try to defuse the situation, they are quite a bunch of cowards. Hoping we can be as strong and deterimned as the hongkongers.
MVCC in PostgreSQL-2. Forks, files, pages
And you can pick 2 dozen African "revolutions" that left everyone way worse off than a small elite.

Sell people the idea you will strip the rich of everything and give it to them (requires a fundamental removal of freedom)... Take power... Profit.
I cite Quarrantine all the time, its logo was a master stroke of design, combining a steering wheel, the biohazard logo, and the letter Q.

You're spot-on about the soundtrack, too It was one of the first games that came on CDROM and used mixed-mode to put CD-DA tracks after the data track. Once the game was running, you could swap discs and listen to your own music, but the included tunes (from some Australian band, I believe) were great.
For every automated trading system that is operating on major exchanges today, there are people responsible for its actions. If a system disrupts a market significantly, regulatory agencies work to be sure the responsible people are fined, banned from trading, or even imprisoned. There is no deferment of responsibility to "computers did it".

Edit: Just have a look at the disiplinary notices of some of the exchanges to get a feel for this. For example, here are notices for Nasdaq: https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=NDisciplinaryAct...
I would like to introduce you to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) at https://www.nhtsa.gov/.

Here's an example of one of their famous investigative reports on a Tesla Model S crash while operating under AutoPilot back in 2016:

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2016/INCLA-PE16007-7876.PDF
Pretty much always if the incoming CEO can competitively negotiate and is a good hire.

Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of career CEOs are good hardworking people. Like any high profile position, the outliers skew perception for everyone.
Short segments of a massive tome can be good! Honestly all decent expositions of groups are basically equally good, though different styles can still appeal more depending on the person.

The problem is when people try to use the whole book for some goal -- whatever that goal is, it's never an efficient route.
I get the sentiment, but I don't think video game competition isn't deeply physical in nature. Sure, experience and kinetic intelligence matter a lot in video games, but as any fighting game player can tell you: some folks just have fast reflexes and can train their bodies to react to even your best setup. Games build in cooldowns, frame locks and combos to help smooth out these ability curves but there is a lot of raw physical ability in pro gaming.

But I have to ask, isn't the pointless, manufactured competition actually the worst part of all this?

Games could recreate any universe we can imagine. Worlds without scarcity, worlds without conflict, worlds deeply simulating fantastical aspects of an alternative universe where any experience is possible. Weirdly, all those games end up with people pointing guns at one another.

Even a lot of AR games try to recreate all the "fun" of urban warfare by manufacturing. It's pretty depressing, if you ask me.
In this regard, the late Jerry Pournelle had this to say about the Vietnam War. http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/mail-new-technology...

I recall in a debate with Allard Lowenstein back in those days, he said “Jerry, you want to win this and get out. I just want to get out. But your friends there “—indicating the Secretary of Defense —“want to lose it and stay in.” I admit to being silenced. I didn’t have the minutes to give a lecture on how to win a war of attrition when it is part of a strategy of containment, and I am not sure I understood the situation that well in 1968 anyway.
It is not "Earth"'s obligation to have mechanisms to support abstract human societal concepts like governments, countries and secession from them.

Geopolitics, country-scale policies, are a very different ballpark than civil politics, which deal with individual rights and freedoms. Just as civil politics require an individual's rights to be justified with respect to the rights of those around them, policies on an international level are tuned to work with the policies of surrounding nations. If the surrounding nations don't want you to exist, then you won't exist -- you have no obligation to have a country which represents your people. If you want one, you will have to fight to get and retain it's independence, and find ways to work with other countries on the international level to secure your legitimacy.

>What if 90% of the population desires to secede?

Doesn't matter. The only factor is whether or not the surrounding nations will allow your country to exist.

>Should there be a peaceful way that we encourage as an alternative to escalation & violent revolt?

No, because if there was, we wouldn't have a need for countries or borders. Countries generally exist because they represent a certain population. By fracturing a country, you are choosing to support one culture/population at the expense of another. This is an inherently violent act.

>Should this become some sort of right?

No population has a right to a country that represents them or their culture.

Note that none of these reflect my own belief or viewpoint on what the ideal situation would be, I'm just stating this is how the world works and having it suddenly upend itself so that we can all live peacefully and happy-ever-after is not a realistic outcome in the near future.
> for Chinese trade and international relations.

It's a full blown military state guilty of several crimes against humanity, we have proof of muslim detention camps, sterilisation campaigns, destruction of churches, &c... doesn't look like anyone care as long as they build iphones and cpus. I doubt HK would be the last straw.
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On the other hand look at Germany, who has arguable gone the furthest in the "green transition", which includes shutting down their nuclear power plats. It imports 60+% of its energy, most of it from fossil fuel sources.

But hey, German energy production looks awesome from an environmental perspective!
Protests in Catalonia against referendum trial verdict have little to no impact on technology, computers or science.
I read it differently: the powers that be will always punish the ones who dare to stand in the way in the harshest possible way. Something to think about when being excited about disrupting some well established and powerful sector - e.g. government.
Absolutely.

I have a friend who went to prison for a crime someone else committed, almost solely because the defense did not have the financial resources to fight the charges effectively.
> It is a huge market, almost every single one of my colleagues uses the built in MacBook note taking app on a daily basis (as do I).

What makes this a "huge market" for a Markdown app if everyone uses the not Markdown based note taking app shipping with macOS? I would guess that dedicated Markdown based editors is mostly a niche market, even if it seems to be common in the tech bubble.
A very good point!
It's rare to see introspective questions around here. The fear is not all fictional, but the fictional part, the fear of the totalitarian Other, is definitely helpful in justifying the establishment status quo and maintaining consensus. The excesses in the status quo are instead projected onto the Other, disavowed.

The other part of the fear is just what is called ideology, the lens through which the world is understood. In this case the western ideology is universalism, the philosophy that certain ideas are to be applied universally and infinitely. The works you list here are really examples of how universalism (utopianism, technologism, capitalism, totalitarianism) as a historical process necessarily develops into its own failure, in a Hegelian sense. I don't see univeralism as predominant as particularism in eastern fiction or even philosophy. The "eastern" particularism means that no idea is to be blindly applied to the end, no law is absolute, and no principle is sacred if it doesn't "work" in practice. The Hegelian process shall be halted if it is going to evolve into dystopia. This is why there is no such fear in eastern fiction.
> does anyone doubt that with massive, publicly-funded investment we could not achieve them?

Yes, I doubt it. The scale of the problem is massively bigger than anybody will admit right now. To get to the point where an automated car will kill fewer people than human drivers, the car must have an understanding of its environment. Machine learning isn't going to get us there.
I dunno, I like view-throughs. I can definitely remember viewing an ad and then converting many, many times so I regard it as pretty normal. I totally get where you're coming from with providers and attributions though :)
They may not be a perfect solution but people already waste hours of their lives stuck in traffic and clearly hate riding the bus. Look at the stats for declines in mass transportation ridership since Lyft/Uber took the US by storm. I love rail and subways, particularly high speed rail, but currently because of so many reasons, it's expensive to build per mile in major cities. Affordable mass produced semi-autonomous vehicles will quickly improve lives. We're already on the cusp of it. I own two them. Tesla and Comma.ai are the functional autonomous vehicle equivalent of the Apple iPhone and the Android T-Mobile G1. And there's no reason these sorts of industries won't be massively subsidized by a future (perhaps more liberal) American government, once we move on from subsidizing companies who barely innovate (General Motors, etc)
> The i7-2600K is a desktop CPU, the i3-8121U is a laptop CPU.

The i3-8121U is a low-power CPU. Low-power processors often end up in desktops like the Mac Mini (which doesn't use that specific model but has used U-series processors) or the Intel NUC (which uses that exact CPU):

https://www.newegg.com/intel-nuc-8-home-boxnuc8i3cysm1-stude...

Meanwhile the i3-8350K is the top end i3 which has the same number of cores and cache and a higher clock speed than the i7-2600K. No surprise it wins when the only thing it really lacks is hyperthreading, and even that causes it to lose some of the threaded tests.

The point was that e.g. an old quad core could often beat a new dual core. Every new dual core i3 is low-power, but if you want to see the 2600K acquitting itself well against a modern dual core "desktop" processor, here you are:

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2268?vs=2413
So I have an idea I'm kicking off a POC for regarding note taking that I think is a very different spin on how the process typically flows. I'm interested in building up a roster of folks willing to give it a try, would you (or others reading this) be interested?
Paperspace team here. We offer a 24GB GPU option with minimal RAM. Check out the P6000 here: https://gradient.paperspace.com/instances Hope that's what you're looking for :)
>countless people

We've got very accurate counts. To say countless is hyperbole.

>If they'll kill fewer people

Everyone assumes ML / AI will be better drivers than humans, but I think that's just blind hope at this point.

I've seen no proof or studies that show any better logic than fusion power being about 20 years away (indefinitely).
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Sarcasm aside, the discussion seems to be driven by technology fetish and a promise to buy / sell more stuff.
I agree that maintaining some independence from a central provider with little accountability is a Good Idea(tm). But Apple is far less dangerous than Google. Partly because you're actually a customer to begin with, rather than just a data source. And partly because there are well-known ways to get ahold of humans at Apple, one of which is to walk into the local Apple Store.
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It doesn't matter, as they spend less of it than the poor do, and hence the same amount of money will circulate less, causing the economy to grow less.
> If big companies don't want to play the game for whatever legal reasons, that's on them. And... so there is the commercial license (even if I'm pretty sure I'll never sell a single one for Vulcain). If they really want to use it, they can pay (they pay for AWS, Windows, Sales Force... and a lot of other proprietary software after all).

If I were looking at using this, it's somewhat of a show-stopper for me not because I think that my company wouldn't want to pay for it; it's that the procurement process is so painful that it becomes almost not worth it for the limited scope of use.

I think a lot of people miss one of AWS' greatest selling points: I go through procurement once to get authorized to use AWS, and it then opens up a whole cache of services I can utilize. Things with a wide range of functionality are worth fighting with procurement over; things that implement a single function start to kick in cost-benefit questions over whether I can get by with the functionality provided by MIT or Apache licensed projects, or if I can re-implement the portions I'm interested in.

> In the case of Vulcain, the protocol is what has most value (IMHO), and it is not licensed under AGPL.

I shudder at the thought of trying to convince legal of this. That may be your interpretation or goal, but Legal is likely going to take the broadest possible interpretation of the licensing. I'm not a lawyer, I have no context to discuss who's right here, but my experiences with legal have been to always assume that they will take an extremely conservative approach (as is their job). That being said, Mongo does do the same thing, and the surrounding discussions seem to agree that using Mongo's API does not make your software a derived work.

The AGPL introduces a risk that someone, maybe an intern or someone 3 years later who doesn't know the licensing context around the AGPL software, will do something that makes internal applications a derived work. Even denoting what makes something a "derived work" gets into murky territory that, afaik, has not entirely been legally tested in court.

It has far less to do with being unwilling to contribute the changes back to upstream, and more to do with a fear of the risk that someone will accidentally violate the segregation between our applications and the AGPL'ed one, and suddenly all of our proprietary code is under the AGPL because one application violated that boundary. Which is legitimate fear if your codebases are tightly coupled (i.e. this app used Vulcan as a library, and that app links to this library that almost all of our applications use, so now it's all under the AGPL). The problem is not contributing changes to Vulcan upstream, it's the risk of the license infecting proprietary software.

This is super cool, and I am definitely going to dig into this for personal projects. I really appreciate the work you put in, and you open sourcing this. The licensing is entirely up to you, and I'm going to poke around in it either way; but it is a killer for trying to use it in enterprise-y environments.
Their influence is more at the level of university and higher-education. My personal opinion is that they should be doing more for K-12, but I hesitate to let large corporations be involved in deciding what gets taught and who gets hired in public schools. I'm not sure what their role is at that level.
Show HN: Phishing with Ngrok
Choose a website to impersonate. In this case example.com.

ngrok http https://example.com -host-header=example.com

Note the generated ngrok URL.

eg: https://asdfasdf.ngrok.io/login

Send the link to someone and inspect the traffic https://ngrok.com/docs#getting-started-inspect.

You'll be able to see any POST params. If it is a login form you could see their email and password which they might use for other sites.

Link can be disguised by specifying a -subdomain and getting hold of an HTML email of the website you are trying to impersonate. Update all hyperlinks in that email to point to the ngrok URL.

Scary how easy this is.

You can go one step further and buy a domain of the website with a different TLD. eg example.sg and use it with ngrok.