skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any kind of system where you can translate http requests to money will have a problem with fake users. Might be click fraud for ads, sending spam to web forums, or liking YouTube videos to get the videos recommended.

For some of these operations, you can just work off of the content. Spam messages need to advertise something, so the text needs to look very different than for legit posts.

But something like an upvote or like? It's a single bit of information, you can't say if it's legit or fraudulent in isolation. So then you need to come up with additional signals to cluster on from wherever you can.

Some of it will be behavioural (these 10k users only liked these spammy videos), but a lot of it has to be environmental.
Actually the brilliant loner should be the norm (to have one), not the exception. If you believe in the 20:80 rule, that 20% of the people to 80% of the work. This rule doesnt sound so bad but actually (lets take these numbers as strict and not as a probability distribution). It means your top perfomer are 16 times more productive than the lower performers.
Lets say you have a team of 10 people doing 100 work units. So 2 do 80 work units which is 40 per person, and 8 do 20 units which is 2,5 units per person.

Of course you could say this principle does not apply to your team (good luck!)
I've read SSC for a while now, and check in with the community every so often. Before the takedown, there was talk about the reporter writing an article, with the general consensus being "nervous but optimistic".

I'd love to see clear evidence about the reporter clearly looking to get Scott cancelled. The scare quotes on "reporter" are unnecessary.

I'm sad that the blog is down. "Categories are for man" is an essay/lens that I find very valuable. I hope the situation resolves with the blog being up and the NYT not doxxing Scott.
And this is why in its current state you wouldn't be seeing something like RustUI or Rust Playgrounds.
As a team lead, this is the approach I try to take. I spend most of my time tackling the problems that are blocking other team members from getting work done. It's not sexy but keeping 3 guys working is more valuable than me getting to work on feature work. Sometimes the things that are blockers are the more interesting challenges and sometimes it's just frustrating bugs, but either way it's satisfying to me when I see the team cranking through our assigned feature.
I feel like if they tried anything, MC/Visa would try to squeeze them until it becomes unviable. They would still need to support MC/Visa until they get enough market share to not totally hinder their existing business.
Russia takes care of Russia, China takes care of China, and well, US takes care of US, but acts as if they take care of the world.

US foreign policy is meant to improve US. If you don't agree, please give me an example where they wanted to "spread democracy" without any personal gain.

And I'm perfectly fine here in EU thank you very much.
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>that ideal software development is just a continuous production

This ! Can't agree more... Scrum always made me feel like a production-line-worker making shoes... No craft nor space to discovery/explore problem solving. Urg and all those damn meetings and pulling numbers out of thin air ! What a waste of time those meetings were !
Would love to hear your thoughts on our "low code for devs" as I have tried to eliminate many of (my shared) complaints about low code as a dev. Text based so you can use your IDE and terminal

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

(sorry to post link twice in same topic, but seems helpful.to have it in the two spots more than not)
You don’t need all 50 to do it. Wyoming’s largest metro area isn’t that far from Colorado’s, and two of Missouri’s largest cities are on its East and West borders.

States stockpiling or relying on Federal stockpiles or making agreements to share stockpiles is as much a choice as any other. Seeing as how the Federal stockpile was not properly maintained and refilled by either the Obama administration or the Trump administration (who could have at least checked on it) after H1N1, maybe at least one of them would manage to do a competent job of it.
"Is receipt checking a practice that violates civil rights while treating customers as criminals until proven otherwise, or are retailers simply trying to cut shrink and avoid passing on the related costs to the same people who are loudly complaining?"

https://securitytoday.com/blogs/reaction/2011/03/the-right-a...
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> Version control

The other day I tried to reverse engineer a lego mindstorm program from a pan across it in a youtube video(stitching together screenshot frames with Hugin panorama editor), only to find that that visual language was dependent of a silverlight app, and OSX had deprecated it, so I could only use scratch to re-create the logic. Then the scratch editor crashed and corrupted my project file, which when opened in a text editor was just a big encoded data blob. So I started from scratch and took to copying the file (file (1), file (2)..) every so often.. I did not feel like the future to me..
Well now the videos are gone and I can't verify that any of those quotes were truly said. Many of them such as the one liners are obviously missing context as well.
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I remember we had a discussion about 10x developers a while ago and how some developers are perceived as moody divas.

My guess would be that the 10x-ers have are independent enough from any given employer that they can reject Scrum even if everyone else has to follow it. And later on, their ability to work on their own terms is what then makes them 10x more productive than the poor scrummers.
Well in the latest iOS update it was found that they are copying all clipboard data on your device constantly (even in other apps), so that’s shady as fuck.

Any user with a password manager has probably disclosed that to them.
You also have IndieAuth that is slowly gaining more adoption.

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

https://indieauth.net/
Spotify is a PITA for this. And there is no easy way to migrate to a "non facebook" account your playlists and stuff.
Also a country where millions of people from different backgrounds, religions, and races will unite and march for the justice of minorities. Will outright challenge authority in the street and march until negotiations are made during a pandemic.

This does not happen in China or Russia.
Exactly what the US just did now? (Removal of special economic and political status) HK receive "Special" treatment in many ways for being NOT really China. They are economically treated different from China and in someway exempt from certain export control restriction.

Also, HK is handed over to China on the basis of the 1984 Sino-British joint declaration. It's not a one and done deal. 50 years of no change is one of the basis on the handover, and China is breaking it right now.
I know in the case of physics simulations the neural net can perform better than the classical algorithm. Not sure if that's the case here but just thought it was worth mentioning.
Took type system and advanced compiler last year. This paper may not look very interesting but there are a lot of proof assistant softwares that verify featherweight Java's type system to show that they work. This paper also shows that there are a lot holes in Java type system even by 2002 that makes it broken. Java's type system is probably much worse now. I think it also started the trend of featherweight-X where you try to proof a subset of a language X type system to show that if you take away features y,z and etc then type system can be proven.
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Would you rather live in North Korea or South Korea? Hong Kong or Taiwan? West Germany or East Germany?
Very well articulated, thank you!
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Deciding to lend to someone because you know them (they are "part of the community"), or they are a friend, or they are family. Of course it can be seen as more "humane" but it can also be seen as nepotism and/or a system excluding newcommers/strangers.
Here are the statistics for Denmark.

"International Credit Card" are a small fraction of the total -- under 5%. The vast majority of transactions by number and value are by debit card.

(The national/international distinction is between Dankort, the Danish card payment system only used on most debit cards here, and the foreign companies like Visa and MasterCard.)

https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/penge-og-kapitalmarked...
does banning these apps do any good for the Indian Government? It just like taking revenge on Chinese companies rather than china gov.
Might be a good idea to stare at the light reflected from a white sheet of paper. The wavelength won’t change but the intensity (and FOV coverage ) certainly will
Paul Graham, of Y Combinator, commented on Patrick Collison's tweet:

“It is not without cost for the head of a global business to take this kind of stand, which is why you see so few doing it.”

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1277853802096398338
Could you be more clear then, the GP comment is already causing enough confusion.
You'll get further issues once Getty Images automatically generates copyrighted images covering as much of the latent space of interesting images as possible.
> Of that, probably the formal estimation methods (replaced in Scrum by intuition for some reason)

This has benefits and downsides. One of the one hand, the development team getting to control the estimate helps to control the workload.

On the other, I agree. Why are we pulling estimates of effort out of thin air? Why are we being asked how long it will take to do work in sections of code we have never seen?

Planning could be far more accurate if we just got a proposed task list a day before planning.
This article is not just about postage. It's about how cheap postage from China has subsidized Chinese webshops selling cheap crap to Europe and the US.
I get all the advantages of that but for some reason it's so hard when you get into a game and you're trying to get everyone there into a discord.

Riot does this with Valorant too and the implementation is a nightmare.
> Perl and CPAN are tightly integrated

I've been a CPAN author for over 20 years. They're actually not integrated. I guess I'd use the word cooperative.

The "cpan" utility is used to install them locally, but you don't have to run that command.

Having said that, PHP took over web development because ISPs didn't want to run cpan for end-users on shared hosting, and the PHP standard library had 3000 APIs built-in.

> Perl without CPAN is unthinkable

CPAN has 194,000 modules, but you can live without them just fine. (CGI.pm was taken out of core for some shortsighted reason, so you will likely need CPAN for that now.)

But this thread is about JS and npm, so what can we learn from CPAN?

- an effort was made back in the day to limit the size of CPAN to a single CD, but that obviously failed

- most CPAN modules have no or a few dependencies, so most programmers are comfortable installing and using them

- the Catalyst web framework has an insane number of dependencies, like a 1-hour download at 100 Mbps, and for that reason I don't recommend it

- I don't think it's allowed to delete a CPAN module, so we don't have rage-induced outages like leftpad
I think one of my favorite HN comment from this past year [1] addresses this a bit:

> Software has really interesting economics where as the cost/feature decreases by a factor, say 1x, then the set of features that can be profitably worked on expands by like 10x, so paradoxically, as cost/feature decreases, it makes sense to hire more engineers and expand R&D budgets.

"No code" is part of this, IMO. If a "no code" tool made certain things easier (e.g. building a landing site with some functionality), then the business starts to see the next set of features that can/should now be built because that previous problem was solved, that can't be done with a "no code" solution and needs some R&D effort to build out. The cycle continues as "no code" tools get more advanced to cover those use cases, and then more new business use cases will come out as a result of having those new tools in place.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23298080
You are correct, credit card transactions are about 18% by number and 25% by value.

https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/statistics/payments-notes-and-...

(Seriously, people, these kind of statistics are extremely easy to find. No need to make them up!)
Imo, the current leadership, as a whole, has taken a far more aggressive stance against China than any of their predecessors. Not saying the US will free Hong Kong single-handedly, but there's progress. Some senators like Josh Hawley are very active in this issue.

Many Hong Kongers will choose to flee, but more choose to stay. The future for Hong Kong is a grim one, and it's getting closer and closer to the worst scenario that we have imagined from the start - the whole city turning into what XinJiang is like now, only with more advanced technology because of the well-established infrastructure in Hong Kong.
If they are working for it, then yea?

Sounds like HKers are working hard for it and on a legal basis it's their right to make their own law within Basic Law , so what's your point here?
Is discourse regarding trans-gender really necessary though? It seems something a bunch of spoiled elitist bigots would discuss as their way to express distaste for plebs and pretends it's some sort of philosophical debate.

Someone's interpretation of their own sexuality or gender affects no one but themselves. You can discuss it over at /r/philosophy if your intentions are truly analytical.
I think you misread my last sentence. Stolen goods are internalized costs since they register directly as a write down of value. An employee getting murdered in the store does not seem to be appropriately internalized as a cost though, since they aren’t appropriately funding store safety and security. Instead, the communities are bearing those costs by losing their people and living among higher violence. There is an assumption baked into this (noted in the article) that robbery isn’t fungible. Instead, the suggestion is that stores heavy in cash and low in security foster robbery, which sounds logical to me.
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What I saw was people talking about how lots of apps check what type of content is on the clipboard in order to adjust what they show the user (e.g. if the user has a photo on their clipboard make it easy for them to attach it). At least at the time I saw the post about this there was no evidence TikTok was actually harvesting the copied data itself.

And what exactly would they want with arbitrary passwords anyway? Using them would basically destroy their business as soon as anyone figured it out, and selling them would not remotely be worth the risk.
Where does this "publisher/platform" meme come from? It's completely incorrect (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...) but I keep seeing it.

Suggest you give less credence to whoever you contracted it from.
Thanks, yes it's exactly just that. I thought that this was missing in all those keyboards filled with features (voice recognition, translation etc).

(I have to agree that the screenshots were bad. Press the globe-button to switch into my keyboard -> get a camera-view instead of keyboard-buttons -> take a picture and tap onto a part of the text to get the input.)
Chinese tech co's are getting a taste of the struggle US tech co's have in China
If you read his book, you'll see that he repeatedly drives the point home, that Scrum is not a set of pre-baked processes, but a philosophy around measurement, prioritizing, and continuous improvement. The cargo cult meetings and processes are more a product of the "Agile movement" that is championed by mediocre middle managers.
Ja I've seen teams without them (10x, brilliant loner, call them what you want). The times the teams are without that sort of talent(just talking pure problem solving ability here)... was the times the teams, product and company was also just that. mediocre/not-inspiring/meh. And they weren't solving a hard problems !

If we were to take this to the extreme. Where do you slot in someone like Jeff Dean ? Are you going to sit there and make someone like Jeff Dean, play poker-scrum about how long the next "big research jump/product" will take ? Granted not everyone will have a Jeff Dean. But I would never wan't to work in place that is as boring as a place without someone like him.

Yea in my experience, scrum sucks for innovation !
Fair point about the parenthetical, though I would say both the engine and the language are crucial, depending on what role you're playing in the system.

The setup I think of: you have "domain experts" writing policies with regexes, software engineers who embed the engine in an application, and operators of the entire service. My usages of regexes for "big data" followed that pattern, and I imagine the DPI applications of Hyperscan do too.

A lot of those rules are accumulated over time, are not easy to rewrite, and require testing. If you have a thousand regexes in one dialect painfully crafted over years, you can't just change the engine. It would break the whole application.

So that is why I emphasize the language. Backtracking engines are more common, and the language and the "code" written in the language has to be changed before you can change the engine. That happened at least partially at Google 10+ years ago, migrating from PCRE to RE2.

But yes, if you're an operator, you will be looking at it from the engine perspective. Obviously it is not enough to change the patterns themselves.

(The backreference point is interesting, although I'll probably leave it out of my mental model until someone implements it :) )

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Also the point of Eggex is to treat regexes more abstractly, like a real language. Just like I don't write C++ code for GCC or Clang, I don't write regexes for a specific engine. I have ported regexes between engines many times.

The typical application I've worked on uses multiple engines. Hell a one line shell script using grep and awk uses multiple engines!!!

Tangent: reminds me of this paper: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~dongyoon/papers/FSE-19-Lingu...
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That seems to be what we have in The Netherlands.

It's common for online stores to charge a few percent extra for credit card payment (the base price usually applies for the most common form of online payment, iDEAL, which is cheaper, I guess because the banks cut out Visa/MC).

On the other end of the spectrum, there are some physical stores and restaurants (usually chains) that don't accept cash. They're allowed to do that, given that they state so very clearly upfront.
>I actually kind of agree with this: Patreon is indeed a good way to earn enough money to buy dinner once a week or whatever. I guess it's also good for big time influencer types who are in growth mode and not worrying about their overhead. I just think it's a mediocre solution if what you want is to create a stable, predictable, and mature small business out of your work.

Pretty much, I was planning a system for bug bounties in 2011, after doing some back of the envelope calculations it turned out you would need 150% overhead for a $10 bounty with human due diligence and using master card/visa/pay pal. Oh and you could never support any project that has anything that the banks don't like, which then included porn, lgbt rights, fair use drm exemptions and a bunch of other stuff that I can't remember any more.

So you either had to convince people to use some alt-coin that wasn't a pyramid scheme, then build an escrow service on top of it, then use that service to fund the bug bounty program. Or you could just do everything terribly and end up with Patreon (which for the above reasons will get even more creator hostile in the coming years).
As explained in the article a lot of people use the iCloud mail for their apple account and they don’t check it because they use another provider main mail address. Furthermore if they contact them from their email for support they have no way to associate it with the mail registered in the system, so they can’t help them. If you ask me they seem both very valid points.
> I can't help but wonder if things would have been different if the US

Honestly not trying to be snarky or anything but purely observationally, I find it interesting how people automatically default to thinking America should have done something about something going on in a completely different country of which they do not really understand the history and culture.

And if you've been following global developments on any scale, you would have realized the time to learn mandarin was a long time ago
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> For the second issue, kook at the photo of the Asian girl with patterned skirt. A human cartoonist would most likely observe the regular grid pattern and replace it with thin lines, thereby communicating that all of it is one same thing. This algorithm, on the other hand, treats each tile of the pattern individually, thereby making it look more like a crystal or crumbled foil.

Something similar is going on with the photo of the merlion statue. The entire body is scaled, and a cartoonist would definitely represent that. But (because of lighting?), the algorithm renders the tail smooth instead of scaled.
Besides the politic, I eager to see the moving of the global technology industries with these moving of China. Do hope the technology will go up in spite of war, ban...