skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you cope knowing that people inherit money from their parents?

How do you cope knowing that people win the lottery?

How do you cope knowing that janitors often work harder than landlords?
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Yes you do. I do that all the time. It just depends on who you're talking to. You can usually tell within a very short period of time who is going to get invested and add value, versus who is going to fall behind and demand a disproportionate amount of attention.
Supercomputers hacked across Europe to mine cryptocurrency
Multiple supercomputers across Europe have been infected this week with cryptocurrency mining malware and have shut down to investigate the intrusions.

Security incidents have been reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, while a similar intrusion is rumored to have also happened at a high-performance computing center located in Spain.
Org Roam
Looks amazing! You don't happen to have any kind of write-up, do you? WOuld love to read more about how it came about.
The Cadaver Synod
It's worth noting that most managed Kafka solutions offer a service which will transform a stream into a database table so you can query it later. We've also built our own tooling to do it. We read from the Kafka stream directly when we're building a pipeline between microservices; for almost everything else we query the database. It works pretty well and we haven't found ourselves wishing we could write pseudo-queries on streams yet.
You won’t, can’t , and really don’t need to know everything perfectly. Just start with the thing that looks the most interesting / accessible to you. go down the rabbit hole. Come back up, go down another. When you start getting bored, start producing some stuff. there will always be opportunity costs no matter what you chose to do. Just try to enjoy what you are doing. Another trick is to copy someone you respect. Try to learn what they know. And when you know more than them, find someone else to copy. One day people will start emulating you.
Dying to go out to eat? Here's how viruses like Covid-19 spread in a restaurant
To me, 'Whale Fall' makes think of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, when the Heart of Gold invokes it's infinite improbability drive to avoid incoming missiles and said missiles turn into a pot of Petunias and a Whale, with both then falling towards the nearby planet at high speed[1].

--

[1] 'I wonder if it [the planet] will be friends with me?', thought the Whale.
Wouldn't touch the USA with my worst enemies barge pole.
Except you need to make sure you built against the correct version of libc because you cannot statically link that.

I remember when docker first came out and people were losing their minds about how they will be able to deploy their applications with all their dependencies in a single shippable bundle, kind of like an uber jar.
This assumes that the farmer has to remain a farmer. This can be true for one generation, but the next generation can choose another profession. People don't become farmers if they have to pay too much.
Is your manager a DINK himself? I empathize, honestly. Don't question your life choices though :)
HN: Size of the HN Forum Database?
I'm interested in hosting a forum for a niche market I work in. What is the current size of the HN forum? How fast has it grown/does it grow - daily/monthly/annually?

If there have been previous HN posts on this, please link them below.
Ask HN: Favourite DNSBLs
The half-life on domain name blacklists seems to be weirdly short. Many of my old favourites have been shuttered or have not been updated in some time.

So, for those of you who are more up-to-date on the best lists these days, what do you recommend for the best blocking of ads, tracking and malware?
> I have worked for decades in regulated markets.

> It sucks to have a dozen implementations to fit each regulation and a thousand similar but slightly different reports.

I am becoming familiar with this pain. I wonder (obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/) whether there is a way to simplify, or at least manage, compliance with multiple partially overlapping regulations, e.g. by having one database with reports generated per-regulation. I am curious about learning what experienced people in this space know. Any pointers?
It's evolutionarily favourable to accept the ultimatum. They claim that if you have theory of the other players mind you should reject the ultimatum and hope the other player gives you a better deal. Giving you a better deal isn't possible in the original ultimatum game, but this is more of an iterated ultimatum game.
Good luck when you need to deploy to a system with a different version of libc.
Why do you care how much paper money someone has? As you recognize, they can’t do anything with that—buy houses, yachts, lobbyists, etc.—without realizing the gains. So why does it matter what they are worth in paper?
Thanks for acknowledging this might be a language or cultural thing. I’m sure this kind of „smalltalk“ is appreciated when you put your free time into what others maybe use for their job.

One thing I would like to suggest is to have a question in the feature or bug issue template to ask what people use the lib for and what they like about it. Maybe even set expectations.
Right on. Please reply in the 'path forward' issue with a link to your fork. I'm interested in learning how people have taken upon themselves to improve the package.
Five Tools for Delivering Projects While Working Remotely
If I were representing the wishes of extremely wealthy landlords I'd try and make sure the rationale for killing LVT were something like "it would introduce upheavals and uncertainties" too.

I'm certainly not going to say something like "because me and my mates and people like me would lose a stream of unearned income".
right but im saying that is NOT a good solution, not really a solution at all
That's not as much of an improvement as you might think... Caesar was absolutely murderous and no stranger to ordering ethnic genocide either.. During the Gallic Wars, his armies butchered off at least a million and a half people, while enslaving a few hundred thousand others, partly for the crude sake of boosting Caesar's political career and paying off his debts. Paving the way for smoother Roman colonization was another benefit of this genocide. These things should remind you much more of Hitler than they do of Napoleon.

Bear in mind also that this was done without modern weapons and killing techniques. Hardly a humane ruler. That Caesar happened to be much more rational and erudite than the German dictator certainly helped his long-term image, but just because 2000+ years of history and some good political observations for posterity blot out the mass murder of civilians doesn't make it any less grotesque.
Just a FYI for the library authors out there, but you can usually set a template for submitting bug reports and issues (for instance, Github has this feature). This can help put a message in front of users right as they are making the issue. It might not fully alleviate the issue, but it might help set expectations! (i.e. "Please feel free to submit a bug report, but please note we are volunteers. We cannot get to every issue, and we can more easily resolve issues that are well researched before making it here.")
Well this happens in the neighborhood you live in when you have kids. Some people live in big houses set far apart so it's harder to have that neighborhood feel. You can replicate this in condos and other living arrangements too if you want. When I was a kid I lived in a big 1 acre house surrounded by 1 acre homes of mostly retirees.. you basically had to drive to play with friends or interact. Beautiful house with beautiful views but really no neighborhood community. A lot of people will give up the house in the country to move into neighborhoods with kids of similar ages just for this reason. It's a bonus if you can make it multi-generational.
1. Key ideas: I basically skim through blog posts and videos from conferences to be aware of key ideas in Machine Learning

2. Fundamentals: Parallelly, I take MOOC course every once in a while to learn fundamental concepts from first principles

3. Implementation: I either use the ideas I learned from (1) and (2) in a work project or write a blog post to make it concrete on my personal blog: https://amitness.com/
Doesn't using webm require sigining away their right to ever sue Google for patent infringement?
Unless there’s significant clearly defined differences - in my opinion (2018) should be added to the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17877616
FYI lz4 and zstd are made by the same guy, so there is no surprise both of them complement each other. lz4 targets the (de)compress-as-fast-as-possible domain, while zstd is for the rest (good (de)compression with slower speed).

For something that is write-once read-many-times, like a filesystem, a good compression algorithm might be more interesting in the future. lz4 is more targeted at write-once read-once, like file transfers for example
Bailed-Out Colleges Should Be Forced to Cut Administrative Bloat
There is brilliant way to solve it so that value and market-value meet. Keep the land always in market.

It's called Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax (COST).

Land owner would self-assess the value of assets they possess, pay a tax on that value. The owner would be required to sell the asset to anyone willing to purchase them at this self-assessed price.

If you value the land high for any reason and want to keep it, you must self-assess the value higher than anyone is willing to pay for it and pay tax for it. If value it too low, someone might buy it.
I hear them if I concentrate to isolate the voices out of the music. And you can pick up on quite noticeable flaws, especially in cadence and intonation. What somebody described as vocal fry sounds more like synthesis artifacts. The bare samples further on the page also highlight issues in cadence.

This is obviously an early demo, but this isn't yet to the level you could narrate an audio book - those little problems will quickly become noticeable.
At this point that is more data than you have provided.
more to the point, in the past few years ive come to see SWE as the best paid grunt on the team. what i mean is, you have tremendous amounts of power, but that power is not recognized by the political power holders of the organization. i find that annoying, but i know it isn't unique to SWE
I think commons like fish in the ocean and air quality in cities should be priced. If of you fish its not free you pay to the country whos fish you fish. If the fish is extinct or heavily MSC on the red list the price is sky high in the millions this is to protest the species and our eco system so future generations can enjoy that fish.

By pricing eco systems and sustainable common resources. We avoid tragedy of the commons where few extract all value from common resources for free.

Ie such a new economic system would price the rain forest at its true value to humans and earth eco systems.

Carbo emissions would also be priced differently.

Tradegy of the commons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Well, it would be cool if there was a site that just took the rSS feed of an Youtube channel, extracted it, and converted it to the podcast format so I could put it in my podcatcher.
Will the 98.css version do?

https://github.com/jdan/98.css
I get an idea, try to build it, Google anything I don't know how to do, launch it as soon as possible, usually get loads of users until everything breaks down, try to fix it, Google anyth.. etc.

It's completely reactive but it forces me to learn by doing.
The best way for society to move forward is active conflict between institutions, of which government is merely one.
You do realize Java has maintained it's backwards compatibility making choosing your deployment runtime significantly easier.
The status quo is a jawdroppingly fast and totally unprecedented reduction in poverty [0]. If my goal were to reduce poverty; my strategy would be to defend the status quo.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
Linux Kernel Oops
>Hardly anything with any amount of complexity is shipped like that, especially not cross-platform.

Including the JVM. The paths alone.
> Which needs are we talking about? Why does this society's rulers think it needs them, and not the society next door? And are these so-called needs really about entrenched powers oppressing someone?

Counter question: Why would Facebook (or any other tech company of your choosing) know any better what a society needs than the society itself?

Tech companies love to paint themselves as the brave protectors of the powerless against the oppressive regimes of the world.

This may be true in certain cases - however, this still doesn't seem to keep them from doing business with the exact same regimes - and it doesn't seem to motivate them to adhere to regulations any better if they are passed by functioning democracies.
Hi there - thanks for both your comment and question!

As others have said, this is first and foremost a marketing video aimed at attracting target customers. We've got additional clean samples (without background music) further down on our homepage and we plan on adding even more on their own subpage of the site in the future. We've also done a few technical demos at conferences over the past year and will continue to do so.

We did meet at EF and it was totally worth it! There is no cost of admission for EF, they actually pay you to complete the program! Granted the monetary funds they provide could be a heck of a lot less than what you are earning at a full time job, so everyone's opportunity cost is different. EF's biggest selling point is their world-class network of highly ambitious individuals, so if you're interested in founding a company (pre-team / pre-idea) I would absolutely recommend looking into it.
I love it. I’m sure we can also get a Vista theme using things like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/backdrop-fi... some time.
Just checked Wikipedia[wiki]:

CGTN (China Global Television Network), formerly known as CCTV-9 and CCTV News, is an international English-language news channel based in Beijing and is also referred as a mouthpiece of Chinese government.[1] A part of the China Global Television Network group, it is owned and operated by China Central Television (CCTV), a state-owned media organization of China, under the control of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China.[2] The service is aimed at the overseas market, and it was launched on 25 September 2000. Coverage includes newscasts, in-depth reports, and commentary programs, as well as feature presentations. Its free-to-air satellite signal is received in over 100 countries.

[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTN_(TV_channel)
Should output "hello, world!\n" (Kernighan, A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B, 1972) or "hello, world\n" (Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial 1974 and Kernighan/Ritchie, The C Programming Language 1978).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_World!%22_program
These guys think just because they have made a lot of money know they're medical experts
But no rhyme.
Thanks for the brutal honesty of what I can easily believe is a widespread view in the tech scene.

I guess by that standard, the US under Trump is a model society.
Scientific Advocacy and Biases of the Ideological and Industry Kinds
O_o

haha thanks, we'll take that as a compliment!
It actually makes much more sense to use a uniform sales tax:

(1) If you spend more, you're taxed more. Obviously this is better for poorer people, who spend less, but also for rich yet reserved people, who keep most of their money in the bank (which lends it) and are earning an income (=productive). Both will not penalized.

(2) It's much hard to raise, because people will just stop buying stuff, which is much easier than quitting a job to not pay income tax

(3) Being uniform, it doesn't choose favorites. Everything is taxed the same
Yep.

That's because in Germany, "healthcare" is about caring for your health.

In the US "healthcare" is about keeping laborers productive. Anyone who can generate value for capital will get the care they need to remain productive. When the cost of that care exceeds the value they generate, they are not covered. Public assistance programs are really just the bare minimum that is necessary to keep the following QOL issues from popping up in view of the upper class: homeless overrunning the streets, shantytowns and slums, rioting, black markets.
Tenure Is Dying
I thought it was about a gamer whale failing.
If they're claiming to know the language when they actually don't then they are being fraudulent. How do these people manage to ship any real Go software without understanding basic language constructs? Are you next going to tell me that they don't understand interfaces or type embedding? I would appreciate your article more if you titled it something like "Learning about Go slices" instead of something so clearly click-bait.
How is charging X more for Y's behavior not screwing X?
A AB B Deployments
https://www.econtalk.org/vanessa-williamson-on-taxes-and-rea...
Coal, oil, and gas.
>> If the farmer is willing to accept a $1200 price, then what prevents the land owner from charging $1200 right now?

The same reasons that have kept my landlord from raising the rent me and my partner pay in over 14 years now. When we asked him if he didn't want a raise (we were concerned he was not making enough and would have to sell the house) he said that no, he prefers to know that the house is rented long-term and he doesn't have to find a new tennant every few months.

So, basically: stability. Some people tend to value that very highly. I know I (and my partner) do, which is btw the reason why we've stayed in the same place for over 14 years. That and all the scare stories of asshole landlords we've heard from friends who moved frequently (we're in the UK btw).
Why the Pandemic Could Lead to the Legalization of Society’s Vices
Racket Stories
Contribution of magnetism to the rings of Saturn due to superconductivity
Added this article to https://www.quitfacebook.org a while ago. It's got other great sources for those who are on the fence.

I just can't stand it that fb is everywhere online and in public. "Follow and like us on fb" is even displayed in my local swimming pool; ridiculous. For some people the World Wide Web doesn't amount to more than visiting social media and that completely defeats the purpose of the internet.

I'm disappointed that the majority normalizes this.
Land value (like all value) is subjective. There is no inherent value to land. What one person is willing to pay is not the same for everyone. Appointing someone to imagine a price for the purposes of taxation doesn't change this fact.
QI in H+HD → H2+D between direct abstraction and roaming insertion pathways
Onlyfans will commoditize what your cousin is selling in short order, just like early adopters on Uber, Airbnb, Ebay, etc...the laws of supply and demand will only allow this to last a couple years, tops! Then what will she have learned and what skills and experiences will she have to be ready for the following two years? What skills and experiences will you have at that time? Easy come, easy go.

Also, "depressed," is different than, "discouraged." Careful of your word choice and make sure you are labeling your emotions correctly.
> The main Georgist policy recommendation is a tax assessed on land value. Georgists argue that revenues from a land value tax (LVT) can be used to reduce or eliminate existing taxes (for example, on income, trade, or purchases) that are unfair and inefficient.

Fine in theory, the reality is that you get nailed for property taxes AND income taxes AND sales taxes AND everything else. If a government CAN tax it, it will and will not restrain itself.
As an example, the one used in Singapore is open source and implements a public standard (bluetrace.io), so you don't even need to trust them, you can check it yourself. And before you ask, yes, people have decompiled the app to verify this.
Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
Modern browsers these days are powerful things - almost an operating system in their own right. So I'm asking the community, should everything now be developed as 'web first', or is there still a place for native desktop applications?
Yeah, questioning peoples' biological choices is pretty bad stuff and you should avoid it.

I understand the concern over somebody with a hereditable condition "maliciously" reproducing. That would certainly be pretty bad.

What's also pretty bad is assuming that the author did such a thing, or feeling that the author owed you an explanation.

I'm childfree; pretty much the opposite of some kind of rabid "everybody should have kids!" breeder type.

But my default reaction to somebody having a child is that it was some kind of reasoned choice on their behalf and that they don't need to justify themselves to me. Especially after the fact. Where is the logic or humanity in questioning the value of having a child once the child already exists?
Trump is exactly why a great deal of power needs to be vested in non-state institutions which are comfortable defying the state. Imagine the situation if the US didn't have robust free speech laws. Trump would have clamped down on dissent and we would be much worse off.
The only intrusive "ad" is their call to action for subscriptions/donations. The others appear in normal ad boxes on the page. The same type you get with most websites.
Not exactly, but on the right line of thought. Antibody drugs are a common type of drug (think humira) thatbaremt that hard to manufacture (compared to something like a gene therapy). And their platform is an antibody design platform, so they've used it to design and screen antibodies to find one that will bind to and neutralize the covid virus. They're not the only ones either, there have been a few discovered so far. The next steps are to move them into clinical trials just producing these antibodies as the drug, no need for finding anything with a similar shape
That's a slightly odd reading of the situation. The Guardian is a member of the other regulatory body IMPRESS. The history of both organisations is a bit complex, but the short version is that press self-regulation in the UK has been something of a joke for the last hundred years or so, and IPSO is the latest incarnation of that. The Leveson enquiry tried to set up regulators with more teeth, which was faced by a heavy rearguard action by the established press. This was either a principled attempt to head off censorship, or a shameless attempt to protect profits, depending on which side you were on.

IMPRESS is the Leveson-compliant regulator, IPSO the continuation of the old PCC by another name. Most newspapers went with IPSO, The Guardian didn't.
The tech list you describe usually is handled by a whole team (or multiple teams), not by a single Jack-of-all-trades person. For that amount of learning material you must be a superhuman to retain that knowledge. Here comes the other problem: unless you are working on that tech stack actively, you cannot remember it all. You may learn it for a certain period of time, but will eventually forget it in a while. Even if you successfully manage to keep that info “fresh” in your mind, the hype train moves so fast that “the new cool thing” will render your knowledge obsolete. You learned Docker? Sorry, the world is moving to WASM containers now.
Learn fundamentals. Learn only things based on YOUR needs. The interviewing process is broken. You cannot “hack” it by doing everything they require.
Or: learn a laundry list of tech only to realise the company requiring them uses Angular 0.5 and some nightmarish practices. I remember top engineer in a high profile company saying how he would not pass the current hiring process.

P.S.: My company is looking for experienced Deno developer, min 5 years of production experience. Unpaid internship position.
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