skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But what I think a lot of this misses is that the more a financial system is prone to cash extraction, the less good it becomes at value generation. As an example, we can look in software at the era of Microsoft's dominance. Microsoft was a great cash generator, but its dominance (and misuse of its market power) discouraged a lot of startups). Then antitrust enforcement and the rise of the browser unleashed a whole wave of innovation.
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Pretty much all big companies are good at making cash while killing innovation. Compared to their size the innovation output of the big tech companies is pretty low.

Since 2008 it has become clear that the financial sector is viewed as an industry that needs to be protected no matter what the cost so you should expect them to keep doing crooked stuff while making boatloads of money. This comes at the expense of other sectors in the economy.
Apple acquires NextVR
There's a conspiracy theory that the world ended in 2012 and it makes sense
It probably isn't, but I suspect the result I describe would be much the same.
I know a couple skinny chain smokers with alcohol problems. They go shirtless all the time -- southern VA, so that's how you do.

No way they are healthy, and if they catch the COVID they're going to suffer; if they don't then I bet they're gonna get cancer by 55. I'm related to them and not hoping for those outcomes, but they ain't gonna change and we've just accepted it.
True, but you're always exhaling CO2, even when you're not exercising. Exercise simply doesn't create a very large increase the amount of calories you burn.

Consider: a person at my height/weight burns approximately 2500 calories/day just by resting metabolic rate. According to this calculator[1], a person of my weight running a mile at an 8 minute pace burns 136 calories. In other words, running a 5k every day would only increase my calories burned by 17%. And running 8 minute miles is one of the more efficient ways to burn calories--if you're doing some other exercise, your calories burned are likely much lower.

Compare the effort involved in running a 5k with drinking two less cans of cola (about equivalent in calories) and you'll quickly see how diet has a much larger effect on weight loss than exercise. There's a reason they say abs are made in the kitchen not in the gym.

[1] https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a20801301/calories-bur...
To many of us, it seems obvious that any moral system which can lead to these conclusions is not a complete moral system, in much the same sense that Newtonian physics is not a complete physics system.

I imagine that gulf of perception is what actually needs to be crossed somehow in the debate between hardcore utilitarians and those of us who are not.
This article doesn’t really say much. It makes a vague claim that cycling promotes social distancing, but so do cars. In fact, enclosed cars are much more distant than bikes trailing each other at ten feet lengths. As far as I can tell the author is asking for driving infrastructure to be repurposed under the guise of the pandemic, but it just comes off as an opportunist grab while everyone who might care about driving convenience is distracted by the virus.
Damnit, I turned down a follow-up interview with Giphy years ago since I didn't think they were sustainable and I had been burned by startups in the past. Shows how much business sense I have!
It's ambiguous, and this is why significant whitespace can be so frustrating. Unless it's specified, some people will interpret a full-line comment as a blank line with a comment ending it (`^#.$`), and others will interpret it as you have (`^#.?\n`). Neither is obviously correct (even if it's obvious to you).

Edit: I don't know how to escape in HN formatting. Obviously there are italics where literal asterisks should be.
This really makes it easy to see that the SLS (far right) is derived from the space shuttle, with the orbiter removed and the payload placed on top instead.
I have created a RSS scraper for 9gag that also colors posts you have already seen: https://9gagrss.xyz/
I think we need to remember the fact that the FISA court was a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
Def check out Xodo PDF reader. It's been my favourite in terms of speed/functionality. It has been the best for use on Win10 touch screen.
On chlorine trifluoride:

”It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”

(via https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sa...)
Do you have a solution for automatic archival? I'd like to have every single page I've been to archived, with awesome search. I've so often wanted to find a page I remember to have read, but simply cannot find it anymore. The archive would be "my known subset of the internet", a checkbox that sadly is missing in Google.
I don't understand why someone downvoted you. Giphy is used by many services and Facebook owning, having access to that data and the insights it could provide into the whole landscape would lead me to looking for another solution, although them purchasing it will give them all of the historical data they'd need to find new niches, successful and growing competitors or market segments that they can just copy into FB. The laws certainly haven't caught up with this new age of anti-competitiveness that's possible with how a single entity is tied into so many competing companies, and so just a big competitor buying up that resource certainly gives an arguably unfair competitive advantage.

Edit to add - TLDR: this essentially gives a backdoor to Facebook for usage at other companies who integrated the service.
I don't know but on the 24'th of march 15 people had died of COVID19 in Stockholm. 6 of those where Somali. This is from a SVT article and one of the first where this is reported. 6/15=0.4 so maybe this is where the 40% figure comes from.
You must not actually believe that the "technical perspective" is the only thing that drives value.
As discussed on a recent thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23137324), there are a variety of nice frontend tricks to make a server-rendered site feel nicer (LiveView, TurboLinks, Livewire, instant.page).

I'm a fan of these kinds of solutions. For my 100% static website, https://instant.page does make it feel instant. TurboLinks feels a little "heavier" and has a more complex interaction with other frontend code, but it works very well.
Same with Lost back in the day.

They littered the first few seasons with all these potentially mind-blowing things and events... and then just never did anything with them. At all.

It’s like they knew about Chekhov’s gun and deliberately decided to blow it off in the biggest way possible.
It's funny to think about it that way given how much we've pushed back on them over the years, but a pop-up window might actually provide the best experience (bonus points if it was local to the tab).

I just shift-clicked reply, and it works quite well. I might add a rule to my sway config to make the "Add comment" windows floating :)

In the end, everyone is different and has different needs. That's why I like standards: everyone can set their user experience as they prefer it (or pick a web browser that chooses good defaults for them).
Calc just asks upon opening, no hidden tricks needed. Whenever I see people struggling with Excel and CSV, also when pasting CSV data into Excel, I can't stop wondering why people still bother with the Office suite. It has zero advantages aside from the cost of change (time spent on re-learning where things are), yet we teach it to kids in school and send them reminders that Microsoft benevolently gives them very steep discounts to reduce piracy (never mentioning that you could also just use this other free thing...), never mind the legislation saying governments and schools should use free software unless there is some strong and documented reason to divert from the rule.
I can only presume things have improved in the meantime.

Still, I regularly chat with Rails devs and to have a MacBook Pro 2018 return responses in 150+ ms is alarming. But you might be right that it could be a N+1 query problem.

Even without those though, I've still seen Rails apps perform quite horribly. So 50/50 from me, you might be correct but I wouldn't entirely discount the option that Rails is still quite suboptimal in terms of performance, compared to many other frameworks.
Do any of these services let you share your own gifs over slack?

Last time I tried: dragging in gifs (or mp4s or webps) resulted in an attachment, not an inline gif, giphy wanted money to upload your own gifs, and gfycat had some kind of slow and inconsistent review process so that your gifs don't show up in search (or in the slack plugin) for weeks to months after you upload them.
Contact data doesn’t contain CRM references
They are very very quick at creating integrations with other services and as a result they were able to push their brand alongside the growth of gifs these past 5-8 years.
"hypergolic: igniting spontaneously on mixing with another substance."
The book Digital Apollo [0] is fascinating on this subject. It describes the tensions that had to be resolved in terms who had overall authority, e.g. mission control vs. the crew vs. automation.

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-apollo
Jane Street is one
1. Keyloggers written entirely in CSS have been demonstrated for some time now [a]

2. Malicious Javascript could have been embedded into their CI/CD pipeline and made it onto the site.

3. Somehow stealing SSH keys from a developer and simply logging into the box to change things at the OS level. In fact, it looks like at least one subdomain of theirs is hosted on GoDaddy. SSH keys for some of their customers were recently compromised. Note that I don't think this actually happened, but wanted to list. [b]

4. Smashing Magazine could also improve security by adding the Expect-CT, Feature Policy, and especially a Content Security Policy. Ironically a Smashing Magazine article from 2017 mentions at least having a CSP. [c,d]

5. I recall some speech by the NSA at DEFCON, I think in 2012 or something. One of their speakers said that for all the cool stuff they do...95% of this time it's just password reuse that gets people or phishing for credentials. This would seem to me the most likely way and the best investment of a hackers time.

[a] - https://css-tricks.com/css-keylogger/

[b] - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/05/godaddy_ssh_login_d...

[c] - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/04/secure-web-app-http...

[d] - https://www.keycdn.com/blog/http-security-headers
I am sure China likes this. If TSCM is scared of a PRC takeover and trying to move investment out of the country, Well China's messaging is working.

Maybe before Taiwan was sufficiently richer per capita that taking it over had something to do with its wealth, but now it's a almost exclusively a matter of pride and nationalism. If they get control of a deindustrialized husk, they can say "Look at all the US boot-lickers we chased out".
If it makes you feel any better, "business sense" is nonsense in situations like that. No need to feel bad about buying the wrong lottery ticket.
Use Citymapper to find a quiet route.

Vauxhall to Kings Cross is fine, there’s a segregated route pretty much the whole way, crossing Blackfriars bridge. The new elephant and castle roundabout is segregated too, and easy to navigate. Traffic levels won’t make all that much of a difference.

The roads are nicer anyway since the 20mph limit came in.

I accept the tube is quicker as the Victoria line is very good, but the returns from cycling make it worthwhile.
I've not been looking really there, most of my thoughts have been around the commercial real estate market and media entertainment private equity companies.

Giphy, could (total spitballing here) could be a company that was a bit overvalued in VC terms, and might not have consistent cash flows and solid fundamentals where an acquisition makes sense to take their money off the table now. There might be others.

Or this marriage has been in the works since December and just got pushed through now. Strange times.
You can run and interface with statsd_exporter to switch your Prometheus to a push-based model.

If you want to get away from Prometheus, InfluxDB and its TICK stack is great.

VictoriaMetrics ingests data in a variety of popular formats and offers a superset of the Prometheus query language to query the data. Super easy to run.
Statistically you were still right
In the spirit of good faith, I think the comment was explaining the (incorrect) tropes, not supporting these ideas as fact.
What is human readable about a tab?
My initial comment was going to be that "The Python CSV library is only 448 lines (378 LOC) [1]".

Only later did I realize that the bulk of the work is done by the C library, which is ~1500 LOC [2].

I guess parsing CSVs reliably is a reasonably difficult undertaking.

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.8/Lib/csv.py
[2] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4a21e57fe55076c77b0ee...
I wrote my own CSV code rarher thsn using a library because the input CSVs were produced by guys who didn't use a library. The columns had a fixed "real width" but also had a column that contained an indeterminate number of comma-separated, values. One can escape commas in CSV for just such a purpose, but these guys didn't. So, to deal with this issue quickly, I had to basically parse the line forwards until I hit the variable-length field, then backwards until I hit it as well. Then I could parse the field to determine how many values it had and extract them.
It’s a Trojan horse play. Giphy is used by all of FB’s competitors, including Tik Tok.

Scummy imo.
Tool/Process/System to document processes and code that isn't on GitHub?
Hello everyone, I'm a freelance software developer.

I have lots of pieces of code lying around (hopefully, everyone does), that I refer to frequently - some for POCs, some for demos, some regarding a particularly difficult logic, useful code snippets, some which is frequently required, etc. Along with that, there is the documentation of the code - how to run it, the process description, design description, api documentation, etc.

I sometimes have to share some pieces of code, code documentation & other documentation with my teammates, if I'm collaborating with other freelancers and software teams. I share using google drive and docs, mostly.

I do have a github account and have stored all the production grade code there. However, it is not possible to store all these code pieces there.

Do you guys face similar issues or am I being particularly sloppy?

If you do, what do you do (or tool do you use) to make it more streamlined?
Most likely because their operational costs are borderline obscene due to reliance on Google Cloud for their ML pipeline and moving all their metadata to dynamodb.
eh, it's silly to have those kinds of regrets. You can't predict the future, and you made a reasonable decision based on the information you had. I wrote this a few years back when thinking about what it means to regret something: https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/science/time/
Facebook just open-sourced new state managment lib for React
Yeah because they sell cheap. Yeah because they didnt incur the cost of IP, it’s on the backs of others whose work was stolen.

This is the problem with China, they unashamedly want to eat the hand that feeds them. Even in China there’s a saying, somethink like “Don’t wake up the sleepy giant” in reference to the US’ lax policy in dealing with this. They, the Chinese themselves, think that the US is dumb for letting them get away with so much.
These kinds of acquisitions intrigue me. what is valuation crieteria?
from technical and innovation perspective, what part of it is worth millions?
Yikes. Feels like my privacy is leaking again. Time to find some alternative.
Same, I'm currently receiving a Bank of America customer's emails.

I tried emailing them but I'm still receiving the emails.
Finally! THIS, rightgif, is exactly what at least 90% of people wanting to use. But another commenter on this very thread mentioned they pretty much just did SEO. Arrgh, hate it.
I am not saying that I believe or agree with any of this just that I can see this valid research being twisted to fit a very toxic narrative that already exists.
Ianal but isn't this what the DMCA safe harbor is about? Comply with takedown requests and you are fine.
Speaking only for myself, I found this article to be particularly difficult to comprehend. If there are any physicians or molecular biologists who could more plainly summarize the authors' conclusions, I would greatly appreciate it.

From what I can gather:
— SARS-CoV-2 uses ACE2 in the alveolar epithelium as an entry receptor. ACE2 may also be involved in regulating cytokine activity and in viral replication.
— "Pro-inflammatory cytokines have a central role in the progression of COVID-19 infection."
— Anti-cytokine therapy may help reduce pulmonary inflammation in C19 patients.
— ACE2 is also present in the leydig (testosterone producing) cells of male rats.
— Long-term smokers express higher levels of ACE2 in their lungs. COPD patients are more likely to have low testosterone levels. And low testosterone has been linked to increased Pro-inflammatory cytokine activity.
——> Maybe testosterone reduces inflammation and, by extension, mortality, in COVID-19 patients?
(I still do not really understand how the production of ACE2 in the leydig cells is related to this.)

Or, on the high-testostetone side:
— Androgen receptors activate the transcription of TMPRSS2, a transmembrane serine protease found primarily in prostate epithelium.
— "TMPRSS2 activity is regarded as essential for viral spread and pathogenesis in the infected hosts."
——> Elevated testosterone in some young men may increase TMPRSS2 activation, and be a common cause in the relatively small number of severe cases in that age group.
I've been creating a single track mountain bike trail at my parents farm. Learning how to build sustainable trails, manage erosion, using proper grading on hills, and build fun features has been a great challenge. It's like extreme landscaping and woodworking combined. Then you get to ride your creation. I've been running the "operation" a lot similar to creating software with sprints, testing, and planning -- excepts sprints are hard labor, testing is riding bikes, and planning is waking up in the middle of the night with an idea for a new line.

There's a book by the IMBA (International Mountain Bike Association) that has extensive guides on how to create all sorts of features sustainably.
It happens. I turned down a job at Shazam very early on because I couldn't understand what on earth their business model was. They were recently acquired by Apple for (coincidentally) $400m. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(application) The actual start up I founded instead fizzled into administration.
Why does the US having an arguably better domestic human rights record than China make it preferable for a European to be spied on by the US government rather than the Chinese government?

As an American I'd rather be spied on by China than my own government because China spying on me won't discover anything that they can use against me themselves. That's not so for my own government.

I'd expect this is similar in most countries. Your own government is the biggest danger because your own government has much more power over you than foreign governments and much more interest in you. The biggest threat for an average civilian from a foreign government spying on them is that the foreign government might share that information with their their own government.

Since many European governments have close intelligence sharing arrangements with the US and do not have such arrangements with China, I'd expect that for the average European it would be better to be spied on by China than the US.
This is kind of the charm we like in our slack. We have preview turned off so you can't cycle through, you just get whichever one it picks. It can be amusing.
Even though GP meant to highlight compiler error messages, I also have to take my hat off for the library/application error-handling story in Rust.

Using a crate such as thiserror[1] combined with displaydoc[2] makes handling errors in a structured manner a great experience. I love how the error handling story has evolved over the last couple of years in Rust, and it really feels like we're entering into the final stretch of fine-tuning to get the best possible experience.

And yes, anyhow[3] is also great, it serves a different purpose, but I frequently reach for all three crates.

[1]: https://crates.io/crates/thiserror
[2]: https://crates.io/crates/displaydoc
[3]: https://crates.io/crates/anyhow
TikTok could switch to Tenor, which is already what Discord and a few other services use.
I thought his most recent (Fall, or Dodge in Hell) was a followup to Reamde, not Anathem or Snow Crash?

And I was pretty sure Cryptonomicon led into Snow Crash and then The Diamond Age...
I think it's important to note: in most cases they are not the only moderators on those subreddits. For example, /r/relationship_advice has 10 listed moderators. However, the list is correct about the five users being moderators for those subreddits, and the elephant in the room about the few controlling the many is definitely still the elephant in the room.
oh boy, nepotism is rampant. It might as well be a written rule, if your father works as a director, you can expect his kid gets to run a department for 6 figures a year
Or

"It's often useful to take context into account when evaluating statistics"
Can we trust data anymore?
I needed to read this after fighting with Upwork (an apparently Angular website, which i found out via necessity, trying to figure out if my payment was being processed, double-billed, or not processing at all). Here is another primary example of a victim of the modern web, a website that needs none of it, yet had to be converted to one of the 'constantly spinning wheels on 20MB pages' framework. Thanks, modern web for slowly destroying every service that i use. At this rate, by next year the web will grind to a complete halt.
ML? For what? It’s not like it finds the GIF you’re looking for. Serious question.
> The friend sell on time just before stock price crashes amd nets millions.

Doesn’t this get looked at by the SEC? Not always, but they monitor these kinds of transactions especially when millions are involved.
Once a business grows to certain size and beyond the shareholders don't want to hear anything about tech rewrites. They are happy the product is working, they are not alarmed by slow response times (which GitHub has plenty of on my gigabit connection that streams 4k@30fps without any lag) unless there's a big customer churn, and hosting costs, even if big-ish, to them are just the cost of doing business.

My point is, yes, you are right -- but there's a lot of conservatism involved once the business gets to a certain size. Nobody cares about improving anything from then on (which usually leads to the now-giant to start steadily losing relevance; GitHub is quite far from that but we all remember Microsoft, right?).