skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand this is posted on a University website, so I guess it is ok, but gosh I've wasted way too many days of my early career chasing things that the 'seniors' said I 'should' do as a programmer.

This is just not true, but worse still it confuses people who are just starting. You can be an exceptional front end developer with HTML/CSS/JS scripts and not necessarily have a mini OS in your past projects.
If we can ant to play the why game: His handling of the exit scam was already super suspicious, cremation would have just been that much more of a red flag. At least burying gives a chance to delay.
Since when do pickup truck designers care about the European market?

Perhaps Tesla will make an EU-complaint version some day, but this is not that truck.

The market for pickup trucks in Europe is a rounding error compared to the market for pickup trucks in North America.

/Neither a pickup truck nor Tesla enthusiast.
Funny, if it wasn't for my family and my friends, I'd consider moving to the US.
Related: How to ask questions the smart way http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Most crime is situational. You would be a criminal too in the right situation.

Your thought process is a huge contributor of recidivism. When someone cannot escape their situation, they continue doing what they need to to survive.
>> How can you be sure that the red you see is the same as everybody else is seeing?

I can't, but my understanding is that if we all agree to call a certain frequency of visible light "red", the frequency won't change because some people perceive it in a different way than others. Neither will measuring the frequency depend on how people perceive it.

That seems to me to be a more consistent definition of "red" than the definitions of personality traits that are discussed here.
I know that the context of your statement pertained to modern globalized society, but if you consider isolated peoples [1], then it might be the case that exactly the same phenomenon that inspired medieval beastiary exists today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
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Last year, so maybe just a continuation of the maintenance work that has been in progress in Berlin for a few years now .. yeah, generally speaking European public transportation is awesome (especially compared to Australia/California) .. I didn't mind getting lost a few times. Berlin is a nice city for that!
Is there any actual evidence justifying digging him up or are we squinting really hard to make it look acceptable to dig him up just because a group of scam victims are upset?

I sure hope the bar is high for deciding to dig up someone's loved one and dragging them through indescribable further pain just to satisfy a mouth-frothing crypto crowd. The good news is that the legal system sits in the way so we do have a judge who will weigh the options.
I don't see much of hydrogen here in Germany. Volkswagen, the biggest car manufacturer has clearly set the bets on battery electric. Mercedes has a hydrogen car, but only leases it out, doesn't sell it. Of course, everyone who missed the battery electric car market so far is still talking about hydrogen as "the future".
> Asylum seekers are not permitted to do paid work

I’m aware of this (UK likewise), but I don’t understand it. Why prevent them from seeking work?
A listing of International Dark Sky Parks can be found at:

https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/parks/

In the US, the following are Dark Sky Parks:

https://www.npca.org/articles/1806-celebrate-dark-skies-at-t...
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"Crypto-" means "hidden" - the name "cryptozoology" was coined by people who think all of those mythical creatures actually exist and are just hiding/hidden from the rest of us.
It's enough radiation to warm and irritate tissue; for me it causes mild swelling. Mild swelling of the brain should be measurable with a cognitive test.
Languages like Swift and Objective-C hide the reference counting for you, so 'instruction pollution' is not really something I care about. The overhead at the instruction & memory level is fairly minimal for these language too, by means of using tagged pointers. I'm pretty sure the compiler is smart enough to factor out reference counting for complete sections where it can determine objects can impossibly go out of scope (e.g. sections where aliasing can be ruled out, and all assignments are to locals, such as in many loops).

Circular references can be a problem, this is just something you have to live with and design for, just as in languages with manual memory management. In the typical cases where this can be a problem (graphs of objects) its very straightforward how to fix them using weak references.

I don't understand point 3 and 4 and why they would be a property of reference counting for memory management. They both seem completely orthogonal problems that have nothing to do with the mechanisms that decide when to free memory.

Anyway, my original point was not that reference counting is perfect, or even more efficient compared to garbage collection. Just that it is predictable and deterministic, which is very often much more important, especially for code with real-time constraints.
How is a government debt that was mainly caused by a residential housing bubble being popped in 2007/2008 relevant here?

Edit: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GGGDTAESA188N
I don't know the details of the approach (though someday I would love to study them) but I gather that the correlations are very strong and that it has been replicated many times (including in different languages). Though what is key is that the correlations are weak between groups of traits. You can find large question banks they've used too. I think that even using disjoint sets of attributes/questions you will still get the same groupings.

EDIT: To add just a bit more, of all the replication scandals in psychology today, the Big Five is one of the few frameworks that has withheld the storm.
Is there a theoretical name for the "hash / fingerprint / key -> visual signifier" idea?

I've always thought it was underused in decentralized authentication spaces.
I understand your sentiment (good tip about GH issues as well), but I found SO to be useful at times.

I agree with the culture, which is why I always state:

1. How my question is different from related questions.

2. How I searched on Google and what I tried.

3. Where my knowledge is lacking, and how it still might be a duplicate of something. I'd then always make the argument that my question is different from an SEO standpoint, which it always is as my question is more "noob friendly".

My questions get closed/locked/duped about one-thirds to half of the time. The other half is upvoted and in some rare cases my questions are really appreciated.

It could be better, but it cold also be worse. I find HN to be quite a good place to ask more opinionated questions (as you can see in my ask HN submissions).
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More rules:

- Get as few train changes as possible. (Being a few minutes late is no issue if there are no connections to miss.)

- Any changes should be in big hubs. (You might be offered a route with a change in a smaller station, but if you miss the connection the next train might be hours off. If you change in a hub there will be many others.)

- Don't take the last connection of the day for the last leg of the journey, you might miss the connection and be stranded. Even worse if it's a small station (offices will be closed if there are even any there, there will be services like hotel and taxi somewhere but have fun finding them).
Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
I second this, when such advice comes from people who have some authority, it can be very confusing to a lot of young people entering the field. It could even be disheartening and really demotivating for some, who otherwise might have exceptional logicial/design/frontend/database/statistics/ML... skills.
How is that prohibited but I can call my company "Patent and Trademark Office" or "Patend and Trademark bureau" and send out fake bills that look like the come from the actual USPTO?

https://twitter.com/sschueller/status/1147081921719132160?s=...
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My best guess is that he was going to have plastic surgery in Jaipur. There are several plastic surgeons right near the Fortis hospital. Maybe to alter his appearance. And then the surgery went badly.
That is possibly the worst heuristic for evaluating an action. You may be right that it is somewhat natural to arrive at it, but it is by no means a good heuristic.

And why is it bad? For one, real intentions are inscrutable, so it is very easy to ascribe whatever intentions you want to an action. For another, the intentions behind an action have essentially no correlation with the effects of the action, at least insofar as the intentions are not explicitly malicious (e.g. 'hurt people').
One of the US's problems with (bicycle) road safety, is the hostile attitude between cars and cyclists. You're really not helping that by wearing a helmetcam and reporting minor traffic infractions.

Cars are generally respectful towards bikes in the Netherlands, but if some dude were to try this, don't expect too much sympathy ... from anyone, including the police apparently.
> don't really see the point since it's no more secure than just using the long passphrase directly.

a 5 word passphrase isn't automatically more secure than a 5 char password if the words are predictable. interesing paper goes into this[1]. brains are generally bad in coming up with good passphrases (not enough entropy :)).

while my example is certainly very hard to predict I want to rule out an attacker predicting what makes the (nonsensical) passphrase.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/246.pdf

Edit: there is also a video to the above paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-vrumB0UUw
My dog has 6 acres to run right now... I can't imagine keeping this tasmanian devil in an apartment...
What happens to people who want to onboard on the skipped stations?
>> This feels deeply unfair in some sense... Having said that, I’m not sure what Stack Overflow should do about this.

SO would benefit greatly by implementing a (relatively slow) decay function on all its reputation points. Technology inevitably moves forward, a great answer (or question) from 6,8,10 years ago is the most likely age to have a huge quantity of upvotes, while also most likely to be obsolete.

While rep alone shouldn't be the primary motivation for answering questions, when people see their point totals heading south after a few years, it might provide an incentive to get back on and reverse the negative flow by answering new questions and/or updating prior answers.
They are not harder to predict or control than garbage collection, and have the benefit of being completely deterministic. Of course you can always come up with some pathological case that would trigger a 'deallocation avalanche', but you would almost have to deliberately make an effort to run into a thing like that. And if you do, it's typically very easy to fix these kinds of things.

In the Objective-C era before automatic reference counting, you had these things called 'autorelease pools' which allow pretty straightforward control over deallocation. I think the same thing is still possible in ARC Obj-C and Swift.
I don't share this way of thinking of "relevance". Are Newton's principae mechanicae (+300yrs) still relevant? Obviously yes, they form what we call today "classical mechanics". Every student learns it, despite of course the best theories in physics are quantum mechanical or/and general relativitistic ones. What about the ancient Greeks? They frontiereed in math and philosophy and many proofs are almost 1000 years old.

That's how science works. All the items you listed are classical building blocks of computer science and will remain that forever, even if people come up with successor ideas.
How would identification actually work if the body is exhumed now? A DNA test? Against whose DNA? From a look at physical appearance, which might not be so recognisable anymore? Will relatives (who might be biased assuming it is a scam) be asked to take a look?
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Illegal migration is tautologically opposed by all countries; moral statements like “wrong” are almost (but not quite) tangential to what the law say — there are many evils throughout history which were not only lawful, but where the opposition to them was illegal.
Would louisville slugger get to claim any rights for a baseball game?

What about the designer of a fancy chess set?

The game itself is usually meaningless. It's the personality, skill, and strategy of the players that matters.
The nature argument doesn't say you can't change it. Just that the source of your inclination is built in genetically and from birth rather than being a result of nurture. Are boys more aggressive due to nature? Considering that we know what testosterone does to behavior and the stereotype exists across most cultures and all of history, I don't think "boys will be boys" means they were nurtured to be that way, at least not to most people.
Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year
Visa List started out as a simple list of visa requirements for all countries with detailed visa process and documents for 50 countries so that travellers can go anywhere they want easily. This was a solution to visa issues I faced when I wanted to travel. Since then it's grown to 100+ countries and now features visa exemptions, dual passport requirements and many data points like flight prices, weather, distance, economy status and travel advice. I’m adding new countries every day so that you can use Visa List for all your visa requirements.
Visa List makes money mostly from ads and affiliates. Most of the site is freely usable but to use some filters, community chat and visa advice, you need to pay. Users pay monthly, annual or once for a lifetime membership. Revenue ranges from $5,000/m to $6,000/m. It became profitable after 2 months of launch.

But it didn't start making $5000 immediately, it started with $500 per month and grew slowly over the span of a year.

Initially I placed ads on visa list and was getting around 100K pageviews around a month. But the ads revenue was not that great at all. I tried to apply for skyscanner partnership because I knew that there would be good need after getting visa, but unfortunately I got rejected. I think the main reason was it was I was not getting a lot of traffic.

With a heavy heart I tried different ad networks like video ads, content ads but none of them improved the revenue. All this while, i never lost sight of my goal to increase the SEO and along the way get more users to Visa List.

Suddenly after a month I got an email from skyscanner from saying that they are interested in partnering with, this was another team. I was so happy and realised that things come around eventually. In a month I integrated skyscanner and it started a good stream of revenue from visa list.

After 5 month around june, people from iVisa contacted me. They provide visa service and visa assistance across the world which was perfect. I was very happy to partner with them as well and thus opened 3rd revenue stream.

Along the way I also learning AdOps so i could monetize the traffic I was getting and finally after 6 months things started working out. So my first channel also started contributing a good chunk to overall revenue.

After around 8 month i started an experiment with Visa List membership which i have been sitting on it for a long time. I was not really sure what was the most valuable information that travelers really need so they won't mind paying. Looking at Nomad list and starter story, i finally put in a set of features that i thought can be useful for Pro members. I'm happy that the experiment paid off adding to the 4th revenue stream.

So looking back, it was not a single thing but a lot of small things done right over a year.

https://visalist.io
As much as anything the big outsourcing transformation projects are about "reducing or offloading risk".

What that actually means is the senior managers who commission them want somebody else to point the finger at if anything goes wrong. "Nobody ever got sacked for buying IBM."

Plus they have a nice big transformation project on their CV.
Visa List started out as a simple list of visa requirements for all countries with detailed visa process and documents for 50 countries so that travellers can go anywhere they want easily. This was a solution to visa issues I faced when I wanted to travel. Since then it's grown to 100+ countries and now features visa exemptions, dual passport requirements and many data points like flight prices, weather, distance, economy status and travel advice. I’m adding new countries every day so that you can use Visa List for all your visa requirements.

Visa List makes money mostly from ads and affiliates. Most of the site is freely usable but to use some filters, community chat and visa advice, you need to pay. Users pay monthly, annual or once for a lifetime membership. Revenue ranges from $5,000/m to $6,000/m. It became profitable after 2 months of launch.

But it didn't start making $5000 immediately, it started with $500 per month and grew slowly over the span of a year.

Initially I placed ads on visa list and was getting around 100K pageviews around a month. But the ads revenue was not that great at all. I tried to apply for skyscanner partnership because I knew that there would be good need after getting visa, but unfortunately I got rejected. I think the main reason was it was I was not getting a lot of traffic.

With a heavy heart I tried different ad networks like video ads, content ads but none of them improved the revenue. All this while, i never lost sight of my goal to increase the SEO and along the way get more users to Visa List.

Suddenly after a month I got an email from skyscanner from saying that they are interested in partnering with, this was another team. I was so happy and realised that things come around eventually. In a month I integrated skyscanner and it started a good stream of revenue from visa list.

After 5 month around june, people from iVisa contacted me. They provide visa service and visa assistance across the world which was perfect. I was very happy to partner with them as well and thus opened 3rd revenue stream.

Along the way I also learning AdOps so i could monetize the traffic I was getting and finally after 6 months things started working out. So my first channel also started contributing a good chunk to overall revenue.

After around 8 month i started an experiment with Visa List membership which i have been sitting on it for a long time. I was not really sure what was the most valuable information that travelers really need so they won't mind paying. Looking at Nomad list and starter story, i finally put in a set of features that i thought can be useful for Pro members. I'm happy that the experiment paid off adding to the 4th revenue stream.

So looking back, it was not a single thing but a lot of small things done right over a year.

https://visalist.io
The closest thing you'll find is probably the leaked auditors' report available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzx9DpxFgFielpIaXU0OW1yZms... Unfortunately it's a scanned PDF without any apparent OCR.
A rebuttal:

It's okay to ask 'dumb' questions. People that get upset about them are jerks.
Me too. And the extensions are quite buggy. gnome-shell crashes less often since I've removed them. But now I end up with inaccessible (except by launching the app again) Skype, Spotify, etc. instances.

This behavior is also difficult to understand for novice users.

I understand that the implementation of systray icons were a hack. But don't remove basic functionality until there is a supported replacement.

On the other hand, this should not have come as a surprise. They have also removed menus and replaced them by incomplete, unusable hamburger menus.

/grumpy GNOME user
> instruction pollution from all the refcount updates and their synchronization

If the language supports ownership tracking and non-synchronized Rc<> as in Rust, refcount updates ought to be rare and/or quick. I agree that this is very much an issue in languages with obligate "managed" memory such as Swift, and that tracing GC may sometimes be preferable to that.

> too much time spent freeing memory

If you're using Rc, you probably care about memory reclaim being deterministic, which tracing GC doesn't give you. You can also use arenas to free a bunch of objects all at once; this also addresses memory fragmentation and slow allocation to some extent.
It does not require JS on the client.
Yes, this is just standard bureaucracy and it's Skip's fault, as people are saying.

But the bigger point is that the SF government apparently places more weight on minor application mistakes than actual, historical "bad" behavior.

That's why this is so comical. It only feeds fuel to the truth that rules should be bent and there really is no point in "moving slow" for startups. You won't be rewarded for it. Most tech entrepreneurs already know this: Airbnb and Uber proved this point long ago.
Thank you for the citation. I’ve added that episode (and the rest) to my listening queue & look forward to your other episodes too. Looks like a cool podcast!
I think that last point illustrates the problem: you base your idea of "professional" on the professionals you have worked with or whose code you have read, who might not write such things. At the same time, in code I have read, I have seen it in ways that did not look out of place to me. What that tells me is that this is not a professional vs. unprofessional thing, it is just different programming norms. It is similar to how I think we can agree that neither tabs nor spaces are unprofessional, but insisting on either in a codebase already written using the other style is.
Longer than that. Monty Python did something very similar in Life of Brian: https://youtu.be/a0BpfwazhUA
Damore was fired for spreading "unhelpful stereotypes".

The truth or falsehood of the stereotypes was not mentioned by his employer; rather that it was unhelpful.
I went with ~1b per character precisely because OP stated that they use a passphrase. A long phrase with semantic meaning will be easier to remember than a 50-character diceware output, after all.

Now, admittedly for me a passphrase is something that could be identified and processed by NLP-like construction. (Hence it could be also produced by one.) A sequence of random words requires, at least in my case, to come up with a special mnemonic.

As a sibling post points out, if the phrase is generated by diceware (iow. sequence of words chosen at random from a large dictionary), then the entropy would be way, way higher - so high in fact that bruteforcing might be eclipsed by heat death of the universe.
Ask HN: What is your experience with maintaining k8s cluster nodes?
If you use traditional OSes (e.g. Ubuntu): Do you keep the OS immutable? If so, how? If not, how do you deal with nodes' configuration drift? Do you ever re-image your nodes?

If you use lightweight OSes (e.g. RancherOS): Do you bake your own OS image? If so, how? If not, how do you apply not-so-obvious customizations?
What if the police needed to pay/provide compensation to keep and hold evidence after say 90 days unless owner waves it?
This is a good write, I am a new father, 4 months old. Already in the process of adjusting my schedule to his. But it’s satisfying to stay with him than sticking with my laptop all the time. Given the fact we are all wired to be a good parent, it’s no surprising i guess.
maybe there should be two keybindings for mousing-over and clicking, i'd say hovering is relatively rare in comparison