skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, mid-tier accounting has a two year part-time ramp-up time for an otherwise experienced professional. From world-class $db expert to... $generic_backend_dev... has, what? a few weeks of figure out how to chameleon to the local interview culture?

> But a guy who knows how to run an ice cream shop in many senses has a lot more career freedom and stability than a Google engineer or Goldman trader.

Yeah, probably a lot of ice cream vendors in the midwest right now who are really glad that they're not Goldman traders!
I usually click no for microphone and camera requests unless I need it... I bet you do too
I don't disagree with shadowbanning as a concept; rather, I disagree with HN's implementation of it. Being shadowbanned should be a last resort, after a warning and a more transparent ban. Once you've gotten a certain amount of strikes within a certain period, then I have no problem with a shadowban.

I agree with you on moderator transparency. There should be a certain amount of it visible to all, and that amount should definitely be more than what's available here on HN and Reddit.

Reddit is far worse, because you can be banned for arbitrary things without recourse, even though it's theoretically against the site moderation guidelines. You can be banned from one subreddit simply for participating in another.

I don't think HN has the same degree of problem, but I think the solution is the same. Sometimes, sunlight really is the best disinfectant.
Ask HN: Standalone Helpdesk Software?
Helpdesk software seems to be bundled as one of the features of another SaSS. For example - Intercom, Crisp, etc provide helpdesk as part of their offering. Is there any service that offers helpdesk only?
All containers on a single host very much share the same kernel. You're confused about virtualization vs containers.
China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys,Using US Equipment
It’s programmed to function as a ProRes and ProRes RAW video accelerator, so is more useful for video production. Apple has it locked down though, so while they can update it, 3rd party devs would have to find a way to hack it to do anything useful with it, and I’m not sure how appealing a target the Afterburner is with other FPGAs around.
in the room of a lot of people who have no idea :)
They did say hyperinflation.

Characteristic of hyperinflation, is that nothing keeps up with it. Forget wages keeping up: your very paycheck is worth less at the end of two weeks than it was when you received it.
Dropping the Java class =/= dropping out of college. At most it means dropping/switching their major.
If you don’t like trackpads... why would you get a trackpad.
> like the things I have heard about early hitler Germany

Yes, there are strong similarities between dictatorships in general.

China was thought of as inward-focused and benign until recently. However their goal of having a navy as large as the US and their behavior in the 9-dashes area has changed that.

The Belt-and-Road initiative is a thinly-veiled attempt to colonize weak countries economically.

The corona pandemic has made the world aware of behavior that was previously downplayed.

But what will cause extreme friction with other countries is China's refusal to ever accept no for an answer. This posture of "never compromise" will lead to war with forceful leaders like Trump or proud neighbors like India.

I think the US should give Japan 100 nuclear weapons, then after that, the US should forcibly clear the 9-dashes islands.
Personally, I think a lot of people not used to long meetings are now forced to participate in them. I don't think it's any 'worse' then in-person meetings, it just people are suddenly having to attend meetings everyday. Previously, those same people might have had 1 or 2 meetings a week...

Btw - I don't own a web cam, and I use a wireless headset (2.5Ghz, over the ear). So I can be on meetings and go outside for a smoke, wander over to make coffee, etc. I find it really makes the daily 'status' meeting stuff a lot more bearable.
The GitHub page has lots of fairly recent updates:
https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep
I feel like once Adobe bought it it started to just not be worth caring about anymore. But... that was a long time ago.
That’s exactly what I’m saying. To actually get free trade a country has to refuse to reciprocate in trade restrictions. This is my point, it’s not “free trade” for one country to match other countries’ restrictions on trade.
How come we haven't had big privacy scandals from Visa/ Mastercard?

Big companies, a rent-like business, no pressure to do things well, own lots of very sensitive personal data, clients giving the data away without realizing it, little regulatory oversight on the data front, etc.

I would expect them to sell or leak poorly anonymised personal data, leading to huge privacy issues.

Why hasn't this happened?
I remember using UUCP to link the half-dozen or so nodes of our little local net back 1991 (or thereabouts).

One of our members shared an excited piece of information: "Hey, wow! I just heard there's a whole million nodes on the Net."

The Net back then was Usenet, email, and (sometimes) ftp.

That new-fangled WWW thing was just a strange curiosity. It would never take off anyway, how would you know what websites were around? And anyway, hour-long long-distance phone calls were prohibitively expensive.
What are you talking about? Just the 1.5Tb of RAM would cost you around $10K alone...
> I use a Chrome app that lets me install APKs over USB thanks to this API

What the fuck.

> Most of the people responding on HackerNews seem to think Web apps can use these APIs without requesting user permission.

Nobody will have malware sideloaded because it requires clicking an OK button?

Most of the web is scams. Search for anything and most links will be scams. From that perspective, these APIs are profoundly reckless.
“I could clone Facebook in a weekend”
I have one of those aviator LED flashlights that has the red LED for chart reading at night without destroying your night vision.

I'm going to give this a try!
I don't disagree that this is regressive and unfortunate, although the bigger issue in my mind (and I get we can have two problems and solve both at once) is free parking. The poor tend to use transit but the cost of parking is baked into each purchase thereby subsidizing the wealthy, too. [1]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2014/6/27/5849280/why-free-parking-is-ba...
After a little research, it seems that "good" is a bit of a stretch. But, the current median batting average in MLB is .248, so you're not really that far off. And, I think it's fair to say that given your other contributions to HN, .200 is enough to be above the "Mendoza line." ;)
Is this really a thing outside of SF? I haven't seen any cashless stores in my city yet. In fact, 3 of my favorite restaurants are still cash-only.
> Fair question, you shouldn't be getting downvoted for it imo.

Well, the question is pretty much answered in the actual article. From the looks of it, this seems to be responding to just the title without having actually read the page.
Apple Pay is the thing. And it makes peer to peer money moving simple while not violating privacy like Venmo. You can use Apple Cash or a payment card. It’s all pretty easy — and private. Venmo is a privacy nightmare. You can use Apple Pay without even having a debit or credit card.
What parts of the chip do they burn off for the consumer version?
I’m sure a Autodesk Animator was also a precursor to Autodesk 3D Studio, but doesn’t seem to be mentioned here
My NYC lease got renewed in Feb just before all of this.

If I was on the summer cycle I’d be moving to the burbs.

Edit: landlord said they’d consider letting me out for 2-3 months of rent paid as a fee. That’s 7-10k.
Actually, you're free to add "check out our online store" in the packaging of the product sold at Walmart or Amazon.

So Apple is being extra controlling here. They consider all Apple users property of Apple, so they take a cut off all digital transactions.
Sorry, but that's called the slippery slope fallacy
> "Cash is not free for a store to handle."

that's like saying opening the doors everyday to customers is not free. it's true, but misses the point. handling cash, like paying for utilities, is a fundamental cost of doing business, and so it should be, because the right to anonymity and privacy is woven into cash. not so much with electronic transactions, which are optional, alternative costs.
Lua 5.4.0
Since I returned to commuting, I've been watching far more red lights. Finally I know why my sight is improving!
> Inflation doesn't affect the poor so long as wages keep up with inflation

Does it? In an inflationary environment the status quo is that your wages shrink. I guess it’s better than holding cash because you can renegotiate your wages back, but I don’t think rich people have most of their assets as cash.
This an interesting interview with Hayek from 1982:

https://www.cato.org/policy-report/february-1982/interview-f...

His quote here makes me think he would have rejoiced at the idea of Bitcoin:

"Well, I have despaired of ever again finding a way of restraining government abuse of any money which it issues. My proposal to denationalize money was always in a sense Utopian because governments will never freely allow competition in this business. I believe there are ways around this, and my present view—which I hope before long to state in detail—is that there is probably a possibility of not issuing currency but starting with credit accounts under some other name—say, call the unit a “stable” and promise to redeem it with enough of whatever current monies are required to buy a certain list of raw materials. So it doesn’t involve issuing any circulating money, but it enables the holder to keep a stable unit in the form of a credit. Once you’ve succeeded in this, the next step would be issuing credit cards on these accounts. And then you have circumvented the whole monopoly of government. Since it is politically impractical to deprive the government of its monopoly, you have to circumvent it."
Who controls the military?
Sometimes humans are selfish, sometimes they are generous.

You don't like the term "systemic inequality" yet you're framing the problem in terms of our current system: very impersonal, only-the-numbers-and-ROI matters.

If you phrased it as "most of us would choose to exploit the more desperate because they have very little alternatives instead of willingly helping out" you might trigger different instincts. Instincts that would favor restricting interest rates and favoring a stronger social safety net.

There are more generous and forgiving systems that have existed successfully elsewhere in human history, so they're not incompatible with human nature, so yes, I think it's fair to characterize the American system as iniquitous.

Why should someone else's desparation and need be solely viewed through the lens of economic opportunity for someone else?
> In an inflationary environment the status quo is that your wages shrink.

The US is a classical inflationary environment and wages have kept pace with inflation forever.

Indeed, inflation only, and intentionally, punishes those who hoard cash.
It's definitely a machine optimized more for throughput than latency. Though 1.5TB of RAM can go a long way toward hiding storage latency for some workloads.
You are color grading a $200 million movie and want to apply various tweaks to the video and see the effect in real time. With a regular PC you have to render and then view... with something like this you could render in real time at 8k.
Is there a quicker alternative to web crawling?
For very large static websites that cannot possibly be crawled within a reasonable time frame, what are other possibly lesser-known options that are efficient to find a keyword in the source code?
The PC version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_IHSRPVqwQ
Do you store your par2 files on different discs from the data they refer to? Do you have multiple copies? Do you store the discs in a cool, dark place when you're not using them? Do you have another form of backup, preferably offsite?

If you do all these things, I think that's about the best you can do with optical media.
Grassmann.jl dev looking for science funding
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My goal is to create software foundations based on geometric algebra for scientists and engineers. I believe this work to be essential for the advancement of science and it must be open source, so that it can be built on by future researchers.

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College may ask you to sign a waiver for harm inflicted by Covid-19
I usually take YAGNI further and avoid using database (sql or nosql) at all (at least in the beginning)

My typical approach is to log all the commands to the file(s), and keep the system state in memory. When the server restarts, it simply replay most of the commands (skipping those intended to cause side effect)

This is like simplified event sourcing, or command sourcing.

I'm not relaying on any framework to build the backend, simple library handing rest and websocket API is enough.

I'll open source it soon but it's mostly as simple as it sounds, with some optimization to reduce disk space consumption after they becomes a problem in practice.
Most of the large car rental companies in the US will let you rent with a deposit on a debit card.
It's a good move and cleans things up. Lots of great people here that know what they're doing. If they can't do it remote, it's ok. Hire American.
Disk space and LTO improvements in Rustc and Cargo
You will still have credit checks and collaterals as usual. The person taking on the loan absorbs all risk in exchange for not having a interest accumulate. Think of it this way, with APR loan, how much you pay at the end depends on how the interrst rate is adjusted and how long it takes you to pay off. With my approach you might end up owing a lot of money but it will never depend on how fast you can pay it off. It will not canibalize your cash flow like an interest debt. The debtor gets free loss insurance and debtee gets freedom from interest and the total cost depends on the currency value at the time of first payment. Also,the total cost will not be a surprise to anyone, the person taking on the loan knows how much they have to pay back. Ideally if you don't have credit, you will need to place in escrow some amount of the base loan and take on more risk in terms of paying at a higher valuation should the currency value be higher at the time of payment(which all goes away with collateral or good credit score)

Anyway, I was just thinking out loud my idea. I hate interest and mandatory insurance alike.
Disclosure: am a dev working in the MCN business.

The "private data" the app collected, is used, for most part, fingerprint the unique user.

In every MCN app, there was a huge fake user problem. If an app collect zero identifiable fingerprint, then a spammer can easily fake millions of views and manipulate ranked content. The app developers are asked think clever to collect every piece of info they can, while spammers spent night and days spoof every parameter in a virtual machine or even on a matrix of remote controlled real phones.

For example, if a iPhone 11 user logs in, but only with screen resolution of 320x240, is it legit? I have caught tens of thousands of fake users with simple checks like this. However the tricks expires pretty quickly, you have to move on with new feature checks, together with decision trees and bayesian networks.

Some of the fingerprint collecting SDKs are even using native code to check some ARM specific instructions to tell if the device is fake or not. The parameters check had to be done in every important API calls, or spammers can easily pretend be good citizen during parameter checking process and swap the session to a cheaper VM/phone or spam the targeted API with scripts.

Chinese companies all have their own team dealing with frauds or spamming on daily basis, the same way as everything can be faked in China.

Think cyber attacks from Chinese IPs are bad? Now imagine doing business in China and all users of your product are bots, what methods do you have to filter out the real human users? Good luck.

Many ads network SDKs are collecting user data in the same way. Otherwise it's easy to spoof fake clicks and page views.

I not stating if it's the right or wrong thing to do, I am just saying it's how things are done in current state of business.
Maybe, though I suspect most of these boycotts are temporary and will likely revert quietly - or that they had almost zero ad spend on Facebook anyway.

The pricing of Facebook Ads isn't changing, so it's unclear if there's any impact.
The consumer isn’t getting screwed. There is purchase protection, fraud protection as well as extreme convenience. If we are worried about consumer prices, let’s talk about taxes and government malfeasance with the spending of those taxes. Some countries have a 20% VAT. Surely they could survive on 18%? Or even 10%? Less than a percent (in Europe) for interchange or less than 3% (in the US) is minor compared to the 9-20% one directly pays in sales taxes.
> His quote here makes me think he would have rejoiced at the idea of Bitcoin:

Except for the “stable” part
I struggle to find any job that requires a Bugatti. Few jobs exist that require a 50,000$ computer, but they do exist.
I gave him a chance because my cousin is one of these "anarcho-capitalism" guys (which is a contradiction, anarchy means lack of a control system or gov't, and capitalism is a power structure) and loved Molyneux. I've always been more of a fan of Richard Wolff and his project, Democracy at Work.[0]

But a less serious intellectual than Dr. Wolff (of Yale, Harvard, Stanford), Peter Joseph of the Zeitgeist Project has made Stefan look foolish.[1]

And an even less serious intellectual than Peter Joseph has caught out Stefan (me), he's one of those that says "communism kills people", but yet "guns do not kill people". If inanimate objects don't spontaneously kill people Stefan, neither do ideas. He's beneath a lightweight on his ability to think clearly.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/user/democracyatwrk

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaP2GJvZlWY
Any software worth making is worth planning
Show HN: Kcl, a Kafka command line client
Doubt it. FPGA is almost guaranteed worse in performance/watt and performance/dollar compared to ASIC.

Only in cases where reprogramming capability or lack of initial cost of production make sense FPGA is used.
Hardly a surprise that they're so crap, then.
Prob since KDE has an automated crash reporter system.
Visa is now a publicly traded company, but it used to be a chaord, owned by the banks that used it. It's a data network and a standards organization. It doesn't issue cards or handle the money, it just passes transactions from one bank to another. The banks settle up separately.
If the technology for interactive web front ends were to somehow slow or stop changing rapidly... maybe that could happen.

But it hasn't and I'm not sure we're there yet.

And no code I don't think has taken over the desktop world yet has it? That's a hell of a lot more mature area front end wise.
Bingo, came in to throw my two cents out as a driver. Only difference between the OP and trucks is that trucks typically measure the pressure in the suspension (virtually all trucks built in the last 20 years use air suspension, at least for the rear axles), which gives a surprisingly accurate reading.

Most of the trucks I've driven have either an analog "rear suspension pressure" gauge, or a digital calculation of approximately how much weight is there for the given pressure. With an analog gauge, you as a driver start to get a better idea of how much weight is on your drives, possibly saving yourself from shelling out $20 to scale up on a regular basis. As I sit in my truck without a trailer, I currently have a reading of ~10psi; this truck for instance, every additional ~5k lbs over the drives is an additional ~10 psi in the bags.
NDAs and Patent issues are number one in this. It's the same reason AMD can't open source their platform security processor and why it took so long for AMD to start being able to contribute to open source Linux drivers.

Going through and open sourcing any part of a modern piece of silicon or the software interfacing with it is a miserable process. Basically everything has to get arduously churned through legal to verify that it doesn't expose the company to any risks.

Unfortunately that open sourcing process is largely thankless work and as a result, companies either never make the leap or end up dissuaded during the multi-year process of clearing the "to be open-sourced" code through legal.
Not extending credit to people who are likely to default: makes sense

Denying a 2% discount to people who are likely to default: ???
> on Dell

That's why :-)
Because you're looking at manufacturers that primarily cater to enterprise. There is a big difference if you look at MSI or Acer for monitors generally and build your own PC.
Haha, I keep the par2s on the same disc, and then I make multiple copies of the same disc and they're in a cardboard box in my basement somewhere.
My gf googled a Mexican restaurant neither of us had been too on her phone and when we got in my truck literally 5 minutes later android auto maps on my phone suggested it as a destination. If they can do this, they can get your other email addresses.
And even with that - they are not going to use Google.

Even though there is way more value in supporting Google, than Apple. Google SSO is widely used in small businesses, unlike Apple ID.
The terms "White-box model" and "Black-box model" mentioned in the paper seem to be standard terms from the ML literature, though I didn't understand precisely what they meant here. I know the metaphor: As we can see inside a white box but not inside a black box, so we can observe the inner workings of a white box model. Similar terminology is used for other domains such as system design and testing.

The conclusion here, broadly, is that white-box is better than black-box for this application.

Is there a modern terminology that avoids concerns about racial bias in language?
Yeah but I dont want to be found. That's why I don't share my email. If I want to share with someone, I don't want the use that app to establish a link between us, because I don't want the app to know anything about us except what it must to do it's job.

"Go find some setting and figure it out" is a UX fail. When I share eg a Dropbox link or a Google Photos link, you can get to it whether you have an established account or not. If there's something special about an app that requires an account before interaction is possible, then you can still make it a one-time share.

Yes, it does make user support more complicated. Yes, that's what I want and expect. I hope when I come asking for help, you can't help me because you have no clue who I am and have no way to get in touch with me because I used some email obscuring service. That's on me.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Appeal-...
Bookmarked (well, saved to Instapaper). Thank you for link.
0.75 per transaction locks out the small banks. It would be the most expensive way to transfer money.
you know that feeling when you worked at a company, and you tried to push it in a certain direction, but the powers that be made it impossible to really get to the core issues? yeah.
They threw a silly amount of RAM in it, so ended up using one of the AMD server CPUs/mainboards rather than a threadripper, since the threadripper could only leverage 256G of RAM. $1200 a stick... woof. I doubt the workload they put on things used that much memory. Would have been interesting to match a cheaper 24 core CPU ($1300) and 256G ($1000) or less of memory with that same test.