skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ad-supported internet is not an open internet. It is an internet of content that caters to the sponsors with the deepest pockets, for fear of losing their attention.
Some can complement but many are voodoo magic with no evidence of efficacy and advocating for their adoption to the detriment in trust in actual medical science is a grave disservice to society. You might be able to tell the difference but many people can't and what you're advocating will turn many people into Steve Jobs esque avoidable disasters because they believe some practitioner with traditional knowledge who can't read an x-ray.

Think carefully about all the effects of what you're recommending
It was annoying because it felt like my employment could be terminated rightfully at any time due to no fault of my own - but I'm happy that the company forced me to deal with it.

What happened was, while I had more than enough credits to graduate, I had an "incomplete" for a course in my last semester. I had dropped the course before the semester begam with the approval of my professor, but he marked me as incomplete instead of dropped, and apparently you can't get a diploma with an incomplete on your record(despite them letting me walk in graduation, and sending me a diploma a few weeks later).

Thankfully I had the whole email chain(because I bulk forwarded all of my college emails to my personal gmail address) at the time between my professor, the college administrator, and myself. If I didn't have that, theoretically I would have had to go back to college for a single class to finish out my degree.
Perfect - starting the AngelList syndicate right now. Haha
Sony had a golden age in the 80s when they were making quality hardware for reasonable prices. It was unfortunately brief.

By the late 90s, Sony was such a huge company with so many competing interests that I'm surprised they didn't accidentally sue themselves during the digital music fiasco.
Say you and I each buy a house. Yours is new construction and cost $1mm, mine was built in 1970, never remodeled, and is perhaps located somewhere more expensive and also cost $1mm. Common scenario in the SFBA.

Is one year of your consumption equivalent to one year of my consumption? Like a car, the longer you use it the higher the likelihood that something expensive goes wrong. But unlike a car, our homes are probably appreciating at close to the same rate.
I read Peter Norton's Inside the IBM PC (1986 edition) [1] a while back, out of an interest in computer history. It struck me as being quite a bit different than today's technical books. It had a very conversational writing style, and it seemed like it was aiming to accommodate computer hobbyists/enthusiasts who wanted to learn more about how their machine actually worked. There were probably a lot more such people back in the 80's than today.

[1] https://archive.org/details/insideibmpc00nort
Great, congrates, sounds like your bot is going to be the first computer program to demand worker's rights and protection from cruel and unusual punishment.

But seriously wanted to say it's pretty stellar and so far none of these seem "bot" like. They read pretty genuine... which says a lot of how idiotic a lot of these VCs are.
Eliminating duplicative or wasteful structures are “synergies” whether that’s engineering, sales, support, manufacturing, or G&A staff, real estate, or basically anything else that has a fixed cost component.

The fact that we’re in a people-heavy and asset-light industry means that these synergies are often people-related doesn’t make the use of the term improper or a euphemism any more than any other industry common term.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/18/boeing-...
Kudos for being up to the challenge of trying Kambo, it ain't an easy medicine. Am curious about any benefits you've seen to your condition (has your doctor noticed any changes?).

Western medicine does seem more concerned with maintenance of the symptoms than treating root causes unfortunately.

Since you mentioned TCM, I'd take a hard look at medicinal mushrooms like reishi and lion's mane as they're said to help with ulcers (I'm not a doctor, definitely do your own research and ask your doctor).
> "if you have a 1000X returner, then that is still pretty good. VC is asymmetric. You don't try to get 9 out of 10."

Vaguely meaningful.
Perhaps you misunderstood what the app does?
They're running employee testimonial ads about how great it is to work at their warehouses on national broadcasts pretty regularly now. That's all I needed to know that it's going downhill faster rather than slower.
One of the bigger 737 operators is Ryanair. They mostly fly to small airports, so it's staircases not jetways.

Their product and their brand are worse than bad, but they make a lot of money.

Yes, I agree the 50 year old design seems to have reached its end of life.
Capital is in such oversupply that you have to lock down the system from yourself to credibly tell customers you won't screw them over.

https://www.parrot.vc/-Luq3q03hYSF0vm4mVUb
If anything, Bayes increases complexity because of a variety of infinite priors that can be chosen. Frequentists is more straight forward because of the removal of this bias. A constant prior along with _actually reading the study/paper_ generally is sufficient. It doesn't preclude future testing. If anything, big discoveries in science require big scrutiny. Bayes does not add anything but complexity and another lever to tune in this regard.
Agreed - nonsense. It appears to just be copying segments of tweets and matching words to join the phrases at that word.
On StackOverflow there's not much difference.
Just a heads up, there's another IoT product called pulse: getpulse.co
works well, it would have fooled me. The quotes are as bizarre as the real ones :-)
It's like the EA of the enterprise world?
> Nothing new here imho.

True statement. However - the laws are mostly officially predicated on this not being true. They're predicated on people whose stuff gets subpoened and end up under surveillance actually having more of a hint of guilt, rather than mere association. There's a mismatch between laws and a legal system that surveil and subpoena and investigate based on some kind of evidence, and putting someone into that system based on mere association.
Canonical Now Offers AWS Optimized Ubuntu Linux
I love this use of multicolumn.

Now it just needs an 'Inside of a Dog' mode for libgen books on the darkweb...
The wealth difference is not as great as it seems, it's just the interest on the mortgage minus tax incentives and the opportunity cost of paying it off.
You're welcome to pay someone else making the content, aren't you? And then throw this developer another $1.99 so that the other creator doesn't have to put in more hard work to make a special ad-free stream for you.
Exactly. Internet naming is a situation where artificial value is assigned to a nearly valueless resource for the purpose of collecting rent.

There's no technical reason we can't have multiple systems for translating names into addresses. There's no longer any technical reason for having neatly organized dot separated addresses based on TLDs.

Allowing the translation of any text string into an address is entirely possible with present day computing power, and a truly distributed system similar to the global routing table would work to organize different providers announcing their own name domains.

Maintaining the old DNS TLD domains is stupid and subject to manipulation by corporations and corrupt politicians.

Like this sale.
It's my device, what I do is none of their business. I do not want to be advertised to, period.
Best I can tell from the bot's output, I guess VCs just run around on twitter doing nothing but providing inane drive-by commentary...
>Most FDE does not lock the disk when the computer goes to sleep, so the attacker can now try to break in via Firewire, ...

Fair point, but this is a very untypical threat model. Basically it protects you against targeted physical attacks. Targetted, because your average laptop thief isn't going to be pulling off DMA attacks. I certainly have not heard of it occurring (targeted or untargeted) in the wild.

>This seems to be targeting python developers. Now, with a python developers ssh keyfile and gpg keyfile (if I manage to unlock it),

There lies the problem. If you used a reasonably secure password (ideally from a password manager), your keys would be as secure as they would be stored on a token. This wasn't an attack that only tokens could mitigate. A free password manager would do just as well.
Take this a step farther.

Advertisers care about conversions -- this is why promo codes exist. If podcast advertisers don't see a steady tick of users spending money via the promo codes they distribute, they'll stop advertising. The impressions are way less valuable than conversions are.

So is it unethical (or "un-strategic" if you prefer) to not buy from brands that are mentioned by your favorite podcaster? If people en-mass start making educated purchasing decisions and ignoring openly silly ads from WeWork or matress companies, is that harmful to the industry?

Advertising itself in its current state is harmful. People treat it like, "you listen for ads and you get the content for free." But no -- the ads manipulate you. If on average most people are not being manipulated, then the system doesn't work. The manipulation is the part that advertisers care about. It's not free. Objectively, if advertising was not manipulating your purchasing decisions in a non-optimal way, it would not be worth doing.

From that perspective, I'm more than happy to burn advertising to the ground, even if it means taking out a few podcasters.

You can also take the perspective that advertising is a zero-sum game where nobody wins and consumers aren't affected, but every business has to spend just to keep up with each other. In which case, I'm also happy to burn the industry to the ground to reduce pointless corporate waste and reduce the cost of entry for new businesses.
It's not removing the ads. The ads are still in there. It skips over them. I think that many people are already pressing the 30 second forward button to skip. This app skips for you automatically, at exactly the right place. It saves the user from having to do it manually.
“My long-promised current view of what I want to be remembered, the guy who invented the crapper rule.”

... A rogue philosopher VC

“There’s nothing lean about spending 12-18 mo working hard to make a lot of money.“
What is it like to be a penetration tester?
I would be interesting to see this trained using GPT-2.
The part where a big social media outcry got their put reinstated sounds so much like the stories we see on HN about developers who get their accounts suspended and resort to Twitter to get their issues resolved.
Right, this is staged b.s.

Anyone with the slightest experience dealing with rodents knows there'd be droppings everywhere.
This is neat! I had no idea they included the "Background of the Offer" in their SEC filings. Thanks for sharing.
How they are using AI on your industry?
Yes, if you use OpenSSL it will ask if you want to encrypt with a password. You can verify this by just opening the file in a text editor and you'll see that the contents are obfuscated via that password.
Not on modern TV's and monitors. They have less than 2ms latency now.
"Canceling sneaky charges is one of the most predictable but consequential developments of the 2020s"[0]

Instantly reminded of all of the posts about ISPs and cellular carriers tacking on all sorts of goofy fees and their usual monetary "practices", felt it was especially relevant now that some of those fees are being exposed as being BS surcharges anyway. Can't name any sources off the top of my head but there was an article here on HN about it some months ago.

[0] https://www.parrot.vc/-Lv6SAuk6w0OJpbhw22_
I have to see which works best for Apple anyway. I think Backblaze is best for that.
Not sure about which model, but 200 pounds is actually a bit light for a 36" CRT.

https://www.cnet.com/products/sony-kv-36fs12-wega-36-crt-tv/

(It's 222 pounds for those who don't want to click the link).

I used to lug around a 27" CRT by myself every time I moved, and it was a giant pain in the ass. It was worth it though for the picture quality.
Even today, on every OS, I still manage files using a two-pane window and the keyboard unless I'm using a terminal.
This is really cool! I've had to do the same thing with PGBouncer for Postgres + serverless and it's a pain.

Would love to see this come out for Postgres and come to Google Cloud :)
Hey dude just wanted to say your extension makes my YouTube experience hugely more enjoyable
"With a powerful narrative, you should be able to go from raw materials to a launch ready vehicle in 60 days."

If this isn't the best sign of the times, idk what is.

Edit: This one killed me

"VC is hard. This is a great fucking deck..."
> Using plain functions with slightly longer but globally unique names so many issues go away.

That makes me assume two things: you work alone and your projects don't exceed 5.000 (fivethousand) lines of code. Without some namespacing and an expected method length less than 100, more likely 10 lines than 90 or more, you end up with roughly 160 names. An average human knows 150 people, maybe by their name. And while you have friends or at least parents and grandparents occupying some of the »address sace« few of your methods will not be »at hand« for your brain.

And in case you already prefix your methods with something like io_write(...), db_query(...) and you hand in context-specific references like io_write with a sort of file handle and db_query with a sort of database connection I transform all this 1:1 in an OO-style language and back.
That is becoming less of a problem than it used to be. There are upscalers that can, with zero lag, take an RGB signal and output something over HDMI that a modern display can use. And there are certain displays (generally computer monitors) that can deliver sub-frame input lag with used with a good upscaler. It's not QUITE the same as playing on a CRT, but it's good enough for speedrunners of many retro games.

Such a setup isn't cheap, but it's far more reliable and space-efficient than a giant CRT.
I have a Sandstorm server for my private cloud aspect, but I'd really most like to just carry my data with me and then have a backup at home. I don't like to be reliant on the Internet being available at any given time, ideally.
If you're interested in trying Campari in other settings in order to acquire a taste for it, I would suggest trying a Jasmine: http://drinkboy.com/Cocktails/Recipe.aspx?itemid=88
If you bought a DVR and recorded a TV show would you want the one with the commercial break skipper feature?
That is an interesting angle, but I can't see the similarity. Podcasts are open and freely available to download. People are already skipping the ads with a 30 second forward button. This app skips automatically.
Show HN: Simple List App usable by screen readers
I am not a huge podcast listener, but I understand some of the most supported people on Patreon are podcasters. I also use Patreon, however I support YouTubers as I find videos much more engaging than podcasts. So in general yes, I am willing to pay creators through platforms like Patreon, as I guess millions of people are.
One of the typical arguments in favor of small base languages is that frequently the best package will be written by a third party and become the "default", making the language bloated. For example, everyone uses Requests in Python instead of the built-in alternative. On the other hand, I think a big advantage of batteries-included languages that they define a standard implementation that other libraries can copy. Because there's an official JSON package for Go, everyone already knows how to use this new one, since it's a drop-in replacement. Obviously this won't happen in all cases, but when it does it feels really nice.
Hah that's pretty good
Sometimes what a person calls “chronic Lyme” isn’t actually anything, at least not anything pathological. I have very noticeable eye floaters (which any doctor will tell you are completely benign debris in the eye’s vitreous) and I have occasionally done a web search to learn more about how they arise, what they really look like, etc. But web searches for eye floaters these days tend to bring up a lot of people claiming that eye floaters are Lyme bacteria, or whatever, and having them is a sign of “chronic Lyme”.

In one forum thread I stumbled upon in the self-diagnosed “chronic Lyme“ community, people were claiming that eye floaters are "morgellons", i.e. the person must have chronic Lyme which in turn led to Morgellons syndrome. It was both of the imaginary diseases of the new millennium combined into one superstition!
> but I'd imagine the big aerospace companies have significant proprietary internal tooling

Right, but for mechanical CAD it's heavily based on Catia. The customization is more on the PLM side.
> A big Trinitron CRT 27 to 36 inches in size, in good condition, is actually appreciating in market value now due to how many of them have been trashed.

Yeah, not for very much. And certainly not for an amount worth dealing with the "You should take money off that because it doesn't have HDMI. Hurr-durr." crowd on fleabay.

When I see my Sony GDM-FW900 boat anchor actually selling for more than $1000, then I'll believe you.
Ugh my relationship with Spectrum
‘How do you spell’, ‘play tchaikovsky‘, ‘tell me bedtime story’, ‘what is %X + %Y’, ‘what is the weather’

Recently the 3 and 5 year old have had fun trying to turn on Alexa without saying Alexa (because we told them to stop using it to randomly play baby shark without asking...).

Ah lek ah
> "Industrial farming is one of the days for me."

- Jack Dorsey (?)
Your mistake here is in saying that because the p-value is 1/32 you reject the null hypothesis. You just decided to do that with utterly no justification. There is a problem with people unthinkingly deciding that a p-value of .05 is reasonable is most situations but that is not actually an issue with frequentist statistics anymore then people starting out with bizarre priors would be a problem with Bayesian statistics.
It is not clear at all from the article that they never had a business model. Most likely they had to scratch their original plan at one point.
Just because the data flows to somewhere you control doesn’t mean it has to be local.

I mean we’re firmly in hobbiest/semi-pro territory here but shipping the data encrypted to your own cloud instance or box colo’d in a local data center would be fine.
> in that they are engaging in inhumane actions against people at the border

ICE doesn't conduct border operations, that's the domain of Border Patrol. Considering you don't even know this basic fact, what else might you be completely wrong about?
It doesn't. But the workflow of Bayes forces you be explicit. If you try and cook the books, it will be shown for the world to see. Can you provide a paper that quoted a p value for a regression and also validated all the asymptotic conditions are close to being true in order for that p value to be even somewhat reliable?
As long as your product is perfectly scalable and generates a profit for money spent that way, it makes perfect sense to take a loan, spend a fortune, make a fortune, then pay off the loan and take in profits. Then turn around and do it again.

It isn't the absolute size of the numbers that matters. It is the ability to rapidly scale the business once you have the right business model and product.
"Ever since I left Facebook board, I have become convinced its the new diabetes."

(Ok, I wrote that.)
Police get actual user data when users agree to submit video to them, they know that requests are sent to every user within a certain range of the location they choose, and they often know exactly who has the cameras installed in that area (because the cameras were sold/installed by them or purchased using taxpayer-funded discount programs or just by driving past and looking at the doors). If you refuse to share the data but most of your neighbors do it would not be hard for them to narrow down which houses didn't.
Yeah, looking at the list I know 99pi and Reply-all play special music at the beginning of their ads.
"Trading legally on inside information is one of the most valuable places on the Internet."

https://www.parrot.vc/-Lutw051bTJRl4uGlK0i
-- wallstreetbets here I come!
After Crashplan decided they didn't want my money, I just stuck with Acronis TrueImage. I primarily keep my backups on my NAS, but they added cloud storage option not long ago. I've not had to test out a full rescue disk restore from the cloud yet, for file-level stuff it works fine.

Nice thing is it can actually store disk images, so when your disk decides to die, like my OCZ SSD did, you can be back up and running within 30 minutes or less.

Windows only though.

Would like to be able to use some filebased solution ala Crashplan, but haven't found anything that has similar features.
Feature request: highlight the sampled text in the generated tweet when you hover over each source? Seems like you're 90% there
> it had to be near 200 pounds (probably exaggerating

You are probably pretty close based on the details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FD_Trinitron/WEGA
It looks like it uses tweets that were a reply to another tweet. This makes some of them read weird since there is missing context. I wonder what it would look like if it only used tweets that were original.
Just to clarify, does VC stand for Venture Capitalist in this context?
I reject the premise that ICE must incarcerate these people. Instead of continuing to hold people in camps with inadequate facilities, ICE could have changed their detention policies when faced with reduced funding. After all, that is clearly the intent of Congress, whose duty it is to set policy priorities via budgetary allocations.
This is hilarious. Can we get a blog on how you built it?
TL;DR: AWS now has a managed connection pooling service for MySQL on RDS only (public preview right now). The article talks about using it in conjunction with Lambda.
I recently went to renew a domain I own that I was getting notifications about, and discovered that my other two versions of the same domain (i.e. the .net and .org ones) had already expired but I wasn't getting any emails about those! So yeah, double and triple check those notification settings!
And there are chipsets now capable of simultaneously using GPS, Galileo, and BeiDou (Chinese system) for greater accuracy. Any ability of the US government or military to "cut off" GPS has been nullified.
Yes, China has found it is incredibly effective to just pay individual leaders in Africa to get their business and win bids.

I don’t see how the west wins this one
> This will be one of the places technology is financed. But the future would be built somewhere else.

> But the software market is about to get a lot out of drug experimentation but I would recommend those who want to work will need to work.

Seems like overfitting a bit. But it's a super funny output.
Looking at rsync.net's pricing system, I calculate that backing up 1TB of data would run about $25/mth. Do you consider that competitive for a home user just trying to backup his photos? I have considerably more--4TB, to be exact, so that seems really untenable to me.
By running ads, the opposition can gain more support, but the establishment can't. How is this hard to understand?
My wife says we'd never ever let any hardware from Amazon inside the house. Now that's outside too.
Hah oh jeez.
Is one year of your consumption equivalent to one year of my consumption?

Yes. That's why both houses cost the same.