skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do something similar but with a bit more ceremony. I use a gitbook and keep committing every week or so. Instead of text I use markdown instead of plain text which makes it more readable in my text editor (VSCode). Not able to write too much these days due to wrist pain (possibly due to CTS) but this has been a effective way for last 3 years. I have around 500 files now.
Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover
Another unpopular opinion:

And that's the exact reason why Youtube should be considered a platform, that Youtube is so viciously fighting now and all the Youtube believers are blindly accepting.

Not that I believe PragerU's videos are factful or informative, but I think the argument by the court that Youtube is not a state actor is completely missing the point, and it only shows how outdated the legal system is in the US, but it doesn't actually reflect on the actual situation, i.e. how much power Youtube is wielding, and how it is censoring and actively blocking free speech.

These kind of decisions shouldn't be granted to any private firms with such user and content size without public, democratic and transparent influence on the decision making.

BTW, all your arguments seems anecdotal to me. Sentences like "I see", "I feel", etc. don't really convince me and should not anyone else either.
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Cool, thanks for expanding on that man.
Directories. Sections inside text files.
>Zero complaints is a straw-man end-state.

The comment of yours I was responding to

>use it to optimize user frustration rather than minimize it

It is not at all a straw man. You are criticizing nonzero optimization and encouraging minimization. To minimize is to have a goal of zero. What other definitions do minimize and optimize have in the dichotomy you are trying to make here?
I'm curious why "getting your cup of coffee at Starbucks is a negotiation". https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-voss-teaches-the-a... (first time watching it there, been shown it 100+ times on YouTube)
For those unfamiliar with the source, it is not an unbiased or reliable one[1].

Generally speaking, one should be wary of any article (even a purported review) without a name attached to it.

1. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/swiss-policy-research/
How would the auto stashing work if you were to checkout in an irregular pattern? Say I:

- Make changes to branch A

- Checkout B (A changes are auto stashed)

- Make changes to B

- Checkout C (B changes are auto stashed)

- Checkout A again

As far as I know git stashes are FIFO, so it wouldn't be that easy to pop my stash for branch A at this point.
Amazon Treasure Truck is a step in this direction, you order and the truck comes near you. I can see similar pop-up store variations on this. Consider a truck pulling into your neighborhood with clothing. Walk inside, try on what you like, take what you want and go home.

Scalability is a resource problem when you don't require as much human management and overhead. Its simply a resource allocation problem.
If you like wall-of-text, try Planescape: Torment, arguably the greatest (C)RPG ever.
He is the opposing candidate of the current president, however. And why should we trust news outlets that are blatantly in favor of one candidate over another, and bury stories that look bad for their favored candidate?
If Russia gave it to them via China which made it from research stolen from the USA, I wouldn't call it "funny." I would call it "saving half a face, just in case."
>>>f you take the Heritage Foundation's analysis as fact (1,285 votes fraudulent out of 119,000,000 who voted in 2016)

That's not how I interpreted the data. Not 1 incident = 1 vote, but 1 incident = 1 criminal case affecting 1 election. So election fraud at Timbuktu County could have impacted 2 voters, or 500 voters, but either way is recorded as 1 incident. I'm not seeing a link to their actual database so we can't dig into the records to confirm either way, which is disappointing. But the narrative text seems to support this.
But isn't a driver still necessary for moving packages form the van to a home/business?
This is an interesting purchase for Amazon on a number of levels. Obviously they have a huge delivery fleet that could benefit from self driving vehicles. And a giant company like Amazon must love an opportunity with an enormous addressable market such as this one.

But the timing is interesting too IMHO. Amazon played the long game a little bit here and waited until self-driving technology was in the "trough of disillusionment" [1] to pounce on a promising startup. It saved itself billions of dollars in the process, let some of the pretenders fade away, and gave itself better odds of success.

Self-driving tech is still a slog though, and success is not guaranteed by any stretch. But I give them kudos for this.

[1] https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hy...
> I read about 3 books in a month and 60 pages per hour. Not quite the same as Bill Gates who reads about 150 pages in an hour with 90% retention but I’m slowly getting closer.

Reading books and trying to remember the maximum information seems rather pointless unless you're specifically studying for an exam or something. Your brain already optimises and retains the most relevant/interesting information for you. We don't have limitless memory and we need to forget things in order to learn new ones. Reading 3 books per month and retaining 90% seems both highly unlikely and pointless in the long term.
Why should we use 2^10? Bits matter in the small—a machine with a 12-bit word and 1024 words of memory or whatever was popular in the ’70s—but at the scale of gigabytes, individual bits don’t matter anymore, so may as well just use decimal because that’s what our number system is based on. I don’t see any point besides retro nostalgia to use base 2 after you move out of the each bit counts space.
There's also the WeakRef proposal: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs
Since everyone else is throwing out recommendations I personally think https://github.com/spf13/cobra is the best CLI templating system, especially because of how well it pairs with https://github.com/spf13/viper.

Large projects like Hugo and Kubernetes have used Cobra to build their CLI tools, and it's fairly light as well even if you need simpler usage. We use it at my workplace simply for wrapping our microservices and the few commands (serve, migrate, etc)
If you're on mac, Alfred makes it super easy to create workflows like this. I've sped up the time to goofing off drastically !
Yes, for fiction, you're supposed to be part of the flow, and the story. Do not need to worry about notes or trying to 'absorb' anything in particular.
"It’d known wet markets and the wildlife trafficked"

This is not on topic. The discussion thread is talking about bioengineered viruses.
This looks good. Does it offer features similar to hemingwayapp? Like nuances in sentences and such?
10 short years ago, huge swaths of the population were swayed to accept non-scientific statements like eating fat and cholesterol were unhealthy. I don't think Facebook is the problem here.

How much exactly do you think Facebook ought to donate to independent researchers? Most tech companies donate ~0$ to such efforts.
You're tangling a bunch of stuff together in a confusing mess. Let's take one thing at a time.

1. You're right that you can't use the & operator on a variable that was declared using the register keyword.

2. However, if you look very carefully at the example code, it actually follows this rule. In fact, it doesn't use the & operator at all. There's a lot of pointers all over the place, but no usage of the & operator.

3. You're also right that the register keyword is just a hint that the compiler is free to ignore.

4. Expanding on the previous point: modern compilers usually will ignore it, but in the olden days, compilers were not so good at register allocation, so this keyword was needed if you wanted speeds competitive with assembly. Since this is code from the 80s, no surprise that it uses this keyword.

5. Now that we've got all that out of the way: the register keyword is a complete distraction here, and has nothing at all to do Duff's device. Since modern compilers ignore it anyway, you can take the original example and just delete all uses of the word "register". The point of Duff's device is how to do manual loop unrolling without then having a special "pre-loop" or "post-loop" which takes care of "leftovers" because your array size was not divisible by 8, or 4, or whatever unroll factor you happened to use.
I dont see any email listed on your profile. Would like to have a chat to work/learn on this stuff
Wow talk about timing. I just created a simple Markdown viewer with a CSS switcher.

Shameless promotion:

https://github.com/christiansakai/md
RoamResearch's approach seems promising: most thoughts are organized by date, plus a bunch of tools that make search easier.

Trying to invent a hierarchy for unorganized thoughts is certainly a waste of effort.
Microsoft is so large, and so disjointed, its not as simple as you make it out to be. The corporate culture prevents it. You forgot all the bureaucratic middle managers whos sole job is to enforce IT Silo'ing and gatekeep other teams from intruding into their area. I hate to say it like this, but the boomers created this mentality on purpose. Its rampant in incumbent tech/IT/dev, and fundamentally opposed to freedom of information and open source, because its focused on maintaining control and power and keeping people in their pre-designated place. If it was only a tech problem, we could absolutely solve this, but its a socio-political one first.
He refers to the prostitute as "her."
Reminds me of Genghis [1], the granddaddy of walking insect-bots made by Rodnay Brooks back in 1989. Brooks' robot had a vary cool approach to learning to walk where he "removed all cognition processors from Genghis and left only the sensors and the code/hardware to allow it to walk"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_(robot)
If you really need their walled garden services perhaps.

Personally I feel like AWS has forever poisoned the well for me on those but I get the appeal.
Turns out, we end up evolving said general intelligence system into doing bespoke creative work, and it slows down the compilation time by around as much as it takes a human to think up the analytical solution =P

Then we end up with a tunable knob to speed up compilation. But then this more or less reduces to coding up either method depending on the situation, aka what we began with!
Off top of head, the recent Ebola vaccine was created almost exclusively from gov. research. Merck bought a company who was supposed to commercialize it but they did a really poor job . There are people who would not be dead if the vaccine had been available, sooner
>> How many customers would each [CSR] be handling per day?

You need to answer that one before concluding that customers' experience would improve.
This is a good point actually. The instructors with prior TV experience seem to produce much better content than those without.
when you're successful in one sector, the logical progression is to leverage that success to move into a new sector.

Microsoft has done it for the browser market. Amazon has done it (more than once i might add) with online selling platform, into SaaS platform, which they now leverage into other businesses.

Monopoly laws that were used to prevent this (ostensibly unfair practise) has lost their teeth.
>Why would the FBI be hesitant about faking/sensationalizing this?

BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CHINESE. The fact that you don't get it tells stories.
I pray to God that there's an Archive.org for biology somewhere, that scientists are trying to sequence the genome of every possible species that we can find, just so that we can give _something_ to the future before we wipe it all out. I'd even settle for the dystopian version where a biotech company does it just to patent all of the genes that nature has already paid the cost to evolve.
Clearly both major parties in the US are guilty of fraud. All the more reason to implement objective, unbiased security measures to ensure the integrity of the process.
It would be interesting to check the difference in retention over a day, a week, a month, and 6 months. I thought I was awesome like that until I realized that there are huge amounts of things that I don't really remember after a time because I never think about them. The memories can be elicited by reminders or some kind of trigger, but otherwise, they are outside of my conscious thought process. It's sort of like archival storage versus what I keep in RAM.
Yeah, except those aren't left wing sites. The problem is not the lack of balance, and I think your words keep making it seem like it is. There aren't reliable conservative sources on these issues, and the sources that are linked are all moderate. At this point conservatives will pretty much call anything or anyone that disagrees with them leftist, so it doesn't really matter what sources you put there so long as they're reflecting anything close to the truth.
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It's all anecdotal but I also had fast support for my G Suite issues, even when marked at the lowest priority level P4.
If you have just as many controls, you're faced with the same amount of mental space, and when that mental space no longer corresponds to physical space, seems like it just gets more difficult.
70% of many audiences, even of tech news sites? Sure. But of Hacker News' audience? I would expect many here could follow the basic setup tutorial relatively easily.
Yes, that is a critical step, of course. But the "last mile" problem is only a part of the logistics business. Trucks drive loads of packages between warehouses/fulfillment centers before being placed on smaller vans for home delivery.
> It puts the onus on the employee, rather than the Security team to stop phishing attacks

Hits the nail on the head right there. Phishing simulation training (both externally paid and internal) is a way for organizations to say they are at least trying to do something to minimize the #1 attack vector. Plus, it's cheaper than actually tackling the problem at the technical level (tweaking/updating email rules/settings) with whatever email defensive appliance is (or isn't) being used.

I launched PhishBarrel (https://phishbarrel.com) based on the thesis that most phishing emails can be identified using technology, and if one gets by, having a robust API for investigations, security automation, and/or remediation is table stakes in today's security products. If you're serious about upping your organization's email phishing defensive capabilities, please reach out to me (email is on phishbarrel.com site). I'm looking for forward thinking infosec folks that are looking for a partner to tackle this problem!
Wow, that is a beautiful creature.
> (How do you return a borrowed ebook I wonder?)

That is actually a feature built into some ebook formats & proprietary software packages. Adobe's bloatware supports this feature, and it is actively utilized in academia, libraries, and archive.org.

Basically how it works is the software sets a limit on how many people can use the file at once. When more people want to use the file than that limit, they go onto a waiting list. In the case of libraries & archive.org, your access times out after a predefined amount of time (say 2 weeks), after which the app no longer allows you to use the file and you must get back in line to use it again. However, if you finish with it earlier, you can "return it" by volunteering to loose access sooner.

With individually "owned" copies it works basically the same way, only with only "one copy" in circulation between you and your friend who is borrowing it (while they're using it, you can't access it yourself), and access for the owner does not time-out.
You might want to reconsider using Safari on iOS...
Definitely not the best looking app, but KDiff3 is the best one I’ve found that can do a 4-panel 3-way merge, i.e. showing original, left, right, and merged.
Except that we have several years of experience with mail-in voting in states like Oregon, Washington and others. No one has ever uncovered any impactful voter fraud.

Paper-based voting like this is very hard to hack or commit fraud on a scale that is large enough to have an effect. If you were to fill out your aunt’s ballot, as someone suggested, it would have a nearly unmeasurable effect.
Why Doesn't Your CI Pipeline Have Security Bug Testing?
Where are you getting this idea of "Facebook replacement"?

You introduce your own idea, then shoot it down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Facebook does not provide software to set up small overlay networks.

Nor is the business of Facebook to provide messaging or free web pages. That is just bait. The business of Facebook is providing a way to advertise to targeted audiences within the billions of people who visit Facebook. That is what people pay for. It is a website with billions of daily visitors.

Unless you have a webite with billions of visitors then you are not competing with Facebook.

A small overlay network is not a website, it is a computer network. It does not have a large audience because the number of nodes is small. It is an interface you see when you type ifconfig or ip addr, not an email server, a blog website or an SMS provider. You could could use it for those things or you could use it for other things, anything you can do on a LAN.

It makes zero difference what you think people want. This is not a popularity contest of any sort. If you want to argue against the premise of my comment then you need to argue that small, personally-managed overlay networks and peer to peer connections are less efficient for sharing content with friends and family than using a public website, subject to "curation" and "censorship".
>Most tech companies donate ~0$ to such efforts.

If they actually pay their taxes, they all do.
Why are you asking third parties to conduct this research?
Why isn’t this an initiative driven by an internal team? Where applications for this program advertised outside of Facebook?
Is $2M realistic for this research? I know I wouldn’t be enthused considering my total compensation. Do you expect top quality researchers to apply?
If you can't figure out how to scale proper customer service, there's a simple solution: don't grow too large too fast.

I know, blasphemy to the VC crowd.
> Even a Boolean vector taking just 1 bit per element would have to be more than 3e10 bytes long, so it was clear that the problem had to be partitioned.

That's 28GB. That's just astronomical in those days' terms, even stored on hard drives it would have taken a massive array of commodity HDDs. I love these little reminders of how far we've come.
Check out the Fiat 500e. The 2021 will be Fiat’s own design, but older ones are basically Bosch internals stuffed into a Fiat 500 shell. Cheap off lease ones are available and so far (6 months in) dead reliable. And a very fun ride.
Crops destroyed as India faces 'worst locust attack in 27 years'
This is classic whataboutism. What does people being led to believe that fat was healthy have to do with Facebook’s deliberate inability to make their content less divisive
If it’s stock options at the last round valuation then they will be worthless. In theory the 409A valuation should be adjusted but in practice it’s most likely still at the 2018 round value.
A cache shared by a couple thousand people would have lots of stuff already cached. Running your own would be add latency as you'd need to fully resolve more domains.
This may come off as condescending, but I'm honestly just curious.

From the outside looking in, it seems as though you are paid to drink cool-aid and paint FB in a positive light. How does one get to be in your position? What are the qualifications for your job?
What's lacking regarding the community?
Ask HN: Unrecognized Google Cloud charge – scared to chargeback
I recently found a charge from Google Cloud on my credit card statement (small charge ~$20) that I didn't recognize. Asked friends + family, no one has used my card. Checked GCP and firebase, no usage or charges.

I filed a report here (https://payments.google.com/payments/u/0/unauthorizedtransactions#)

And they closed my case stating that it was not an unauthorized charge without stating what the charge was for. Since the case is closed, I have no way to contact them. At this point, I would usually just chargeback the company, but it's Google. I've heard of Amazon shutting off access to their entire platform and products over disputes/chargebacks and I can't afford to do with Google since I have emails and such going back ~15 years.

What would you do in this situation?
A snowball rolling down hill is a metaphor for compounding growth.
Online voting could be vulnerable to such an attack but paper-based voting such as is used by mail in voting is very low tech and distributed. hacking and fraud are hard to scale in that case.
I agree, but its a personal blog that got self-posted to HN, its just his opinion man. You can disregard it if you want.
> I see a lot of people complaining about things like this, but I also see a lot of people complaining that YouTube/Twitter/etc aren't doing enough to take down false/immoral/illegal content quick enough.

At large enough scale (e.g. Youtube scale) there will always be people complaining about almost everything.

You can't please everybody, but it's in Youtube's long-term self interest to please the people that produce the content that keeps people coming back to Youtube, otherwise the creators will look towards other platforms (and we're already starting to see this).

> It really sucks when a legitimate video is taken down by mistake. But it also really sucks when revenge porn is left up....YouTube is dealing with two opposing issues

Except here, a third factor is in play - the extortion which caused a legitimate video to be taken down. Youtube's going to need to fix that problem fast.
I won't say I've mastered it but I have started forming a pattern when reading books. As the article's author mentioned, I usually have few books 'on-read' at a time (both physical and kindle).

Once upon a time, when I used to travel, I tend to finish a single book of decent size/page. Now that I read more at home, I use tiny post-its and stick them across pages and let a small portion of it stick out of the book's page. I find it useful for me to quickly go through afterwards or when done as some sort of revision.

For a more intense/focused reading, I combine the above with notes. Recently (a year since), I moved to a text-based life (kinda org-mode) and I have a folder just for books where I write key points and write out what I read.

I don't mind skipping, and/or speed reading at times when the content is similar or not-so-interesting. Many a book shares similar sentiments, phrases, and key points which you can just do a fly-by kinda reading.

Btw, with the current COVID-19 circumstances, I might have completed my target to read 50 odd books this year. I have increased myself to 100, which I believe won't make it. I might actually be re-reading a lot more of the old ones.
Throttling got better with every revision of the XPS 15 that I had. On 9550 it was abysmal - sudden downclocks to 800 Mhz, mouse cursor starting to lag and making the laptop unusable. On 9560 it got mostly fine, with occasional downclocks to 800 Mhz, but much less frequent. With my current 9570 it's all good, I can use it on any charger starting from 45 watts and it's working fine.
Your entire reply sounds like gaslighting and enabling. Minimizing reponsibility and deflecting.