skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Balaji Srinivasan...

I'd like to see the evidence of him as well, I was very suspicious of him during 21 as he was simply acting as middleman for traditional VC money (Horowitz?) to buy up Bitcoin via a very lofty mining operation. With a raised eyebrow I continued to remain cautiously optimistic, but then when they exited 21inc with a pointless thing like VC email after being a significant miner in the Bitmain days and then eventually got bought out by COiNbase I felt this was the same SV guys having its way again burning money to hide their gains.

To this day I still cannot understand why they didn't just buy bitcoin over the counter over time, would it have shifted the price so much that it would spook the Market and spike? I mean Draper has been pumping millions into it since at least 2013 and his DCA holding's ROI up until 2017 would have probably beat anything on Horowitz's portfolio. But the truth is Horowitz has been in the Bitcoin space for sometime as well, I want to say 2014.

Hell, when Jack Dorsey went all into Bitcoin and essentially pivoted Square towards that end, not long after selling Caviar and going to Africa and stating that he would move there to build Bitcoin usecases, it didn't do anything noticeable and he is still CEO of both Twitter and Square/CASH.

I guess I just don't get the machinations of these tech billionaires who think they can fool people into thinking they're not into a certain tech, and use absurd ways to prove otherwise.
Not everybody should have a bullhorn and social media has given everyone the ability to weaponize de facto threats & intimidation so as to destroy lives.

The social terrorist behavior that has become routine on Twitter et al., needs to be extinguished by giving the behavior a financial cost to the corporations in charge of enabling or stopping it from being broadcast on their services. Twitter as a prominent example needs to be made financially liable for what happens on their service. They're a biased broadcast platform that censors and restricts based on their own subjective rules, they stopped being a mostly non-biased utility ~8-10 years ago. Since they're the opposite of neutral, they're properly entirely responsible for everything broadcast on their platform.

You can watch hordes of malevolent actors on Twitter emotionally masturbate in the open to the notion of harming people, wildly lusting for who they're going to hurt next. Cancel some person next, destroy this person next. It's all over Twitter. The entire service has become a platform for social terrorists to organize and attack with.

The first step is to make it prohibitively expensive for Twitter to continue to abet the social terrorists (they're terrorists - and yes the definition fits - because they intentionally, specifically seek to terrorize other people) and to force the social platforms to apply their terms of service equally for all users. The fines should be large enough that Twitter should be bankrupted if they fail to comply. And if someone can come up with a better term for the criminals on services like Twitter that use it to terrorize, threaten, intimidate, and destroy, that'd be great, given the obvious problems with the terrorist label. This is a new class of criminal cooperation that has never existed before, as these types of open, massive broadcast platforms have ever existed before. It used to be extremely difficult to organize thousands of people together to try to destroy someone's life, it was a mostly impractical concept previously. That type of weapon (it's a weapon because eg intimidation & threatening people with harm to their life is an act of violence; intimidation at the scale of Twitter is a machine gun version) should not only be illegal, it should cost the corporations to an epic degree if they abet it.

Fortunately politicians have begun to figure out how to neuter the socials using these approaches. The only problem now, is that they're not going big enough yet. The fines have to be crushing to be effective.
I went further, to log the logical changes of state as json files. (aka command sourcing)

To reduce the IO overhead, I batch multiple json values into a larger file.

I don't need random access because I'll replay all the changes when the server start.

Going to open source the library soon.
Some day it'll get taken down and we'll all be sad.
I wonder what modern day ideas are considered utter insanity in 70 years.
What if there was a forum or app where every comment/post had to be more than 280 characters and allowed no links?
Could have been quicker but it's still far better than some smarmy non-apology and continuing as usual, which is sadly what we've come to accept. I don't think they've done too poorly.
The problem is that the right wing in the US has demonstrated that "Dedicated intransigence and slander works."

Well, congratulations, the left has internalized the lesson and has more people and now is going to drive that until they bury the right.

Whoops.
I've actually gotten my current job and just received an offer from a FAANG due to LinkedIn cold calls. I can't speak to dark patterns, but saying the service has no value is disingenuous.
> What are the overages??! Why is it not just sliding back to pay-as-you-go pricing, like reservations for say EC2 work.

I'd guess because they'd like to accurately model their compute requirements to try to get as low of a price as possible (e.g. via reserved EC2 instances).

If clients constantly and consistently shoot past what Algolia plans for, it might cause issues or at the very least cause the company to spend more on, on-demand instances than they intended to.
As a developer of automotive ecommerce sites, it is very common for sites to list a higher price 0h the catalog, and show the true (generaly lower) price in the cart. This is becuase the businessmodels are highly margin sensative, and competative pricing can have big impact, so its a measure to try and mask real pricing.
The 380 has many special issues, primarily that it is too big for most airports.
I conceded no such thing.
And vice-versa too. The ability to honestly say that you have never had company IP on your personal computers is also invaluable for many reasons.
How so? Wikimedia-provided data can be used by anyone. Google could have kept using and building on their Freebase dataset had they wanted to - other actors in the industry don't have it nearly as easy.
Not the GP, but I figure their point is as follows:

If I'm running an e-commerce website, I don't mind pay-per-search since those searches may turn into sales, so the cost is justified. My income scales with search count, and the Algolia price is part of user acquisition costs.

If I'm running a SaaS business, the search is a feature for customers who have already paid, so I don't see any further returns from the search being used. The more a client uses search, the less I'm profiting from having them as a client. They could potentially even cost me money to service them!
> With the rise of cancel culture and remotely offensive language being censored where can one go to find a community more tolerant of opposing views?

If you're itching to call someone the N or F word or want to brood about the sudden rise of feminism in America, may I suggest finding a pen pal and communicating that way?
Amazed or not, symbol or not, political or not, a person displaying a flag is quite literally not propaganda. Honestly, look it up: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda

And I'm not American in case you were referring to me.
Any underground IDM recommendations?
Many years ago I spied on employees (of my client). Specifically, there were always few sales guys who'd spend hours a day lost in games, dating sites, etc.

Who hasn't gotten lost on the internet? However, these guys were at it every day. From my perspective, they were caught in a trap that wasn't good for them or the company. I wanted was to help them find their way back to doing what they were good at.

I setup a squid proxy, got good at regex & category blocking.

After hitting my proxy, the sales guys would get a little frustrated but they invariably redirected themselves and that'd be the end of it. No need to involve management.

Non-stupid employers know that what employees need are duties they can care about & opportunities to make something better.

What employees don't need, to excel at their jobs, is to be surveilled, micromanaged or tightly restricted. (Granted, a few might hit a dark patch & need some guidance. A rare few might be beyond guiding and have to be let go.)

tl;dr: Don't be a crapty employer & you won't have an imaginary need to spy on your employees.
Reddit is neither "less known" nor a good place to find a new general community, unless you have a niche interest.
>This is why all drugs should be legalized

This libertarian trope has gotten more annoying as I get older. No matter what you want legalized/deregulated, there is something that even you can't stomach. And organized crime can focus their business on that something. They probably already have.

You say legalize everything and then you say there will be "quality and proper labeling". Well duh, you have to enforce that; that means drugs that don't meet the standards are illegal. And your organized criminals will deal in them. There's no way out.

Current drug laws can be framed as a matter of "quality and proper labeling", we're just quibbling about the details.
> Since we can both submit to the fact that neither the moderators dilemma nor what we have today is very ideal, what would you suggest?

That's a great question, and I'm not sure I have a good answer to it.

> Fwiw my contention is likely that I simply think that falling back on the extreme that is the dilemma is the only option that actually has some consistency to it. I do not however ignore the fact that it comes at great cost. I guess im just willing to bear those costs more than the next guy.

I can appreciate that too.
Funny how everyone missed the fact I was suggesting firing PHP workers, which are a background processes in PHP servers..
Generally, flashing that sign below the waist is a juvenile game where if one's friend sees the sign, one is entitled to punch them in the genitals (or something to that effect). That would be my first assumption before any kind of racism.
People have complained about PC culture since at least the mid-90s. This article is yet another of the same. I have news for the author - the thing you're upset with isn't going away. You can't hide from it, and you'll never understand it.
Hear, hear!

Not only that: stand in the way of cancel culture.

Commit to being an anger dampener.

Don't share outrage porn on social media, and flag it when you see it -- from either side.

Do like Monty Python. Whenever somebody you know starts chanting "Burn the witch!", don't outright disagree, and don't try to argue with facts and figures. Instead, ask them how they know she's a witch. Add nuance. Ask them to imagine how they would want to be treated if they were accused of witchcraft. And so on.

Reach out, in-person, to others, and encourage them to do the same.

Talk to people, in-person, with strong political views, and present counter-arguments to help them moderate.

Yes, this carries reputational risk.

Not doing so carries existential risk.
they may or they may not... no one knows.
No, this is actually normal. For instance, each time you make a SSH connection, it will use a different key for the bulk encryption. A key exchange has to happen to negotiate this randomly generated session key.
Giving your personal data away for free to social media for public exhibition and to be monetized as a weapon against you.
This is a cardinal rule for me. I have a personally-owned PC that is used for my work, but it is exclusively used for that purpose. The only extent of personal use on my work PC is this website. Everything else I will RDP from my work PC to a personal machine, or physically go use it. I've extended this ideology to other areas. I have a separate physical machine I use only for banking and stock transactions. It's kinda like a shitty DIY Bloomberg terminal in my kitchen.

I find that having multiple physical computers, each with a very specific purpose, is an excellent way to context switch and maintain that psychological isolation between duties. There are definitely security/privacy benefits as well, but I hesitate to delve into that rabbit hole of a discussion here.
Why do people want this product? If I use the demo search on their homepage, theres several annoyances on mobile that made me nope out.
Is it because backend free form search queries are hard? or do people use this primarily for the frontend quality?
Edited for typo.
There's a different aspect of all this that troubles me and it has to do with projecting malice into people when it's unwarranted.

One example is all the actors and such who did positive and loving impersonations of people which happened to involve wearing dark makeup. I completely understand the this practice is distasteful, but do we really need to go back years and cancel Kimmel for impersonating Chris Rock from a place of love and adoration?

I also understand the feeling some others have when they see the Confederate flag. I grew up in the South. I'm confident many people I grew up with do not associate the Confederate flag with slavery or racism. For them it's merely a symbol of rebellion against authority.

In my opinion banning the Confederate flag is fine. Banning black face, also fine. But neither of those things is sufficient to prove a person is racist. This current moral panic is taking us to dark places. Racism is real. Evil is real. Witch hunts are bad. We need more love in the world, we need to give people the space to be ignorant or wrong without being evil so we can welcome them out of the darkness instead of forcing them into it.
I love the pick logo, and of course all the references to Black Sabbath. And the url. I hope that Tony doesn't have a trademark problem with it.
If only very few understood it they just sound dumb and can’t spread the ideas.
i don't think this is the message you're trying to convey, but seriously i'm reading so many stories in this post about how non-technical people can get into these (presumably) high-paying architect jobs where they are not expected to do any coding... how do i apply for those jobs? i have 2 degrees, business and computer science, but i hate coding. so far, the most value i could have leveraged out of my CS degree without having to do coding is working as a technical project manager, but i know architects get paid WAY more. how do i find those jobs?
Google is pretty vocal about how only reviewed, submitted, and hermetically built code can run in production, how they audit such things, how their hardware security module helps them achieve this, etc. Cloudflare has been pretty vocal about the opposite: how they use tons of off-the-shelf software components, vendor firmware, etc. There's no reason to believe that Cloudflare is as able to provide the privacy they promise as Google is.
Indeed. In dollar terms it’s provided the most value of any service I’ve ever used.
My worry is that companies like Zoom will start offering enterprises higher paid plans that effectively install this software. So think about the next time you join a meeting you may be installing something like this. And... what if you join some of those meetings on your personal laptop?
> Because, despite attempts to rewrite history, until recently most people did not know that flag was racist.

I find this extremely unbelievable. The American Civil War is a milestone in American history that has been taught in schools for a long time. Most people, despite attempts to rewrite history, know that the Confederacy fought for the right to own black slaves.
During the housing price bubble 2001-2007, the economics profession on the whole, lead by University of Chicago economists (which is where Friedman taught) told us everything was fine, due to efficient market theory.
It sounds like you're advocating drugs as a kind of shortcut to resetting the mind and noticing thoughts as passing arisings. Can you talk more about your experience with this?
I worked at a company that made software that could record employee phone calls and the video of their screens. It was a source of great fun to watch some of the videos where the employees got busted watching porn. One guy even used a customer credit card to order a bed off Amazon.

If you’re dealing with hourly employees that are bottom of the barrel, this kind of monitoring is absolutely necessary to keep them in line.
> What would happen if advertisers pulled out and Facebook fell on hard times?

This is very unlikely, as Facebook has more money than it knows what to do with and will easily weather this storm.

Don't get me wrong, I'm the last person to defend the company, but this is the reality: Companies who say they are boycotting Facebook are only doing it as a PR stunt. Give a few months, and you'll see their ads back on your News Feed.
https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
It's never been possible to uninstall Edge from a Windows PC.
Sexual attraction includes attraction to genitals. You cannot separate the gender identity from the genitals when it comes to having sex. Just because somebody says they're a woman, doesn't mean I want to have sex with them. This applies to trans and biological females. Plenty of biological females are unattractive to me. That isn't bigoted. Why does them being trans suddenly make me a bigot? It's such a ridiculous question to ask.
SpriteCoin: An Exercise in Real-Life Ransomware Development
Both could be true. Acting earlier could have prevented much of the economic damage, and the lockdowns could be causing them.

Taiwan and South Korea never instituted a lockdown. They instituted mask-wearing and aggressive contact tracing and did so early-on.

It could also be true that not acting early only leads to economic devasatation if the govermment's response to a high death toll is to institute lockdowns. In Sweden, the government did not respond to the high per capita death rate with a lockdown. In the EU and the US, most states did.

>Put it this way: it took weeks to get a single check out to Americans in need and they haven't seen anything since. Are these not things that could be improved?

So more personal savings is the kind of preparation that you're referring to, that would have lessened the damage? Well it's a well known fact in Economics that a social safety net reduces the personal savings rate.

One reason China has a personal savings rate of 40% is that it has very little in the way of a state-administered social safety net.

So to encourage people to better prepare with respect to personal savings, the West should have reduced its social welfare spending, instead of massively increasing it over the last 50 years.
Complex Fibonacci Numbers?
Bandcamp is the best. Reasonable prices on drm-free, lossless downloads plus an app that lets you easily stream your purchases on the go. I happily spend my money there on a weekly basis.

On a related note, if there were a similar site for drm-free movie purchases, I’d be all over it.
But it doesn't work that way.

If there's an entity already there, then the difference is split. You can't just extend your territorial jurisdiction and take over another country.
> I wish Facebook could motivate and inform people to attend local government meetings.

B...but that doesn't help with profits? Why bother?
At least they are transparent about what they can do. Many if not most companies are surreptitious about it, including the FANGs.
You are using "legal" in a way that implies unregulated. Regulations have a large value, at least to some people. For instance, I would like to try CBD, but I don't trust that some random product will be safe and effective and have the right amount of the active ingredient. Unless it's an approved drug.

If you have regulations on drugs, then you have all the problems, to some extent, that people attribute to their illegality.

I am afraid of opioids, and I don't trust even doctors, so I never took the ones I was offered and didn't get addicted. But there must be millions of people who wouldn't trust a heroin dealer and would trust their doctor, so legality makes a big difference.
An appeal to free speech made insincerely isn't much of an appeal. The question is whether she feels strongly enough about the inherent value of contrasting enough to preserve them in her own recommendations.

And she doesn't. She's Just Another Angry Libertarian, only protesting when "her" side is criticized. If you agree with her, she makes sense. If you don't, she seems... duplicitous.

To wit: I don't trust this woman (or most of the posters here) to preserve my speech. Or that of many others. I mean, we're literally seeing armed suppression of peaceful protestors in the news. And what's the Real Problem in her head? The protestors. Because they yelled at people on the internet.
> So it's worth asking why that never took over the world as a counter to why python exploded.

JavaScript would like a word.
They also had plans to nuke the moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119
Just like with any other evidence. My point is that the possibility of forgery makes no difference at all to that.
Computrace?
There's a simple solution: quit Twitter.

I resuscitated my old neglected Twitter account recently. It stressed me out and felt addictive, so I quit.

It turns out that if you're not on Twitter you don't hear that noise and it doesn't affect you.
Waving about "families of mathematics" when selling a product is just an attempt to bamboozle the gullible.

The number of branches of mathematics that you involve in the product doesn't mean anything.

Encrypting a message twice with different keys using exactly the same algorithm (thus the same branch of mathematics) is prima facie as effective a security increase as using some different algorithms involving different mathematics.

Most everyday crypto products rely on the results from several different areas of cryptography with different mathematics.
I've always been a bit curious, do these types of programs make any attempt to identify whether they're running in a VM?
The book is terrible. Mark Manson is terrible. Yes, by all means people should read, but not this. There is plenty of good literature, especially fiction, that doles out the same advice but in more tactful manner, rather than the writings of a guy's lifetime of good fortune.
More to the point, there's no need because we're already very close to hitting the theoretical maximum flight distance - the point at which you could connect any airport to any other airport - which is slightly less than 13,000 miles [0]. Call it about 12,300.

The A-350ULR has a range of a bit more than 11,000 miles [1].

Basically, probably some time in the next decade or so we will break through that barrier and be able to connect any two airports on Earth nonstop if we wanted to. Whether it is economical to do so is another question.

[0] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?DU=mi&P=AGP-AKL

[1] https://www.flightglobal.com/a350-900ulr-range-figure-not-a-...
When Proof Is Not Enough
I learned that Teams has idle reporting recently. Now I don't trust any of these collaboration apps.