skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if all of what you wrote is true, in the Listener Notes statistics the US still makes up 10X as many as the next largest country (~800,000 vs 80,000), and would be the highest per capita by a significant margin of any large country. Assuming it's not a data problem (which I think is actually likely due to hosting), let me offer an unpopular possibility—Americans are just the most productive creatives on Earth. A culture full of side hustle.
Indeed; the initial Twitter implementation ran on Ruby on Rails, of all things. Several hundred copies. (Remember "fail whale"?)

Then they re-engineered it to scale.

If they started not with a simple RoR prototype but with a ton of scalable infrastructure, they'd launch maybe a couple years later, and burn much, much more money before the launch.
Why time feels so weird in 2020
Alex Berenson on Twitter: “1/ This smart 2006 paper discusses lockdowns
And while we're making pie-in-the-sky long-term plans, the amount of RAM you can shove into a single server chassis is growing faster than the world population. So you might as well use joins -- the people maintaining your code in the year 2999 will thank you!
Nice article, but I got sidetracked by this line near the beginning:

> Office software arguably solves no important problem: as Berglas convincingly argues, office automation results not in increased productivity, but in increased complexity of rules and regulations.

I’ve observed this phenomenon in my personal life, where I use automation and productivity tools to make my life more complex instead of reducing stress (especially my finances).
It may be a nice feature, but for me Firefox's implementation seems to be a bit too intrusive, because as a developer I can't disable it and it is always visible as a browser-styled overlay.

Not all video elements are for stand-alone consumption. For example, there are "hero" videos in landing pages, enterprise solutions requiring smart overlays, or imagine a component in an online video editor.

Firefox also have no plans to support the Picutre-in-picture web API: https://www.w3.org/TR/picture-in-picture/.

See, for example, this bugzilla issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1611831
It seems like they learned a lot of lessons from the Digg redesign and are being a lot smarter (or insidious...) about the transition. Digg rolled out massive changes overnight which caused a sharp, immediate rebuke.

Reddit has been slowly rolling out changes for a couple years, and at least so far are leaving the old interface available at old.reddit.com. The redesign is as bad or worse in every way; but it's so slow there hasn't been the organized revolt.

Reddit also has the advantage of doing it during a major UI shift - it's easy to justify design changes when everyone is heading for mobile browsers anyway. Digg didn't have that excuse.

It's funny though, I actually really like the new Digg. It's nothing like what it used to be, but it's a nice curated list of interesting articles, major headlines, and tech news.
I don’t see how CAP applies to distributed JOINs (provided the user is aware of it)
I'm not sure what the interface for trading should be, but some interfaces are definitely meant to have friction. The common example is React's `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`. It's a long and annoying name, with the word "dangerous" in it, it just screams "code smell", and that's the idea. It makes it harder to do the wrong thing, and makes it more likely for only people who know what they're doing to use it.

Whether trading/stock markets should have friction, and how much? I honestly don't know. There's obvious questions about nanny states, and giving people freedom to take risks, but there's also large actors taking advantage of the fact that they understand risk more than individuals and exploiting them.
If you control for whether a child grows up with two parents then race becomes virtually irrelevant in predicting a child's life prospects.

So why is race the focus?
They're using the libraries - the part that Oracle is claiming is copyrighted. The java.* packages.
In light of numerous browser exploited I've switched to an external third party password manager. On android, even givin proper permissions, the app fails to recognize many password inputs in apps, sites, etc. Probably the result of bad design on the site or app operators part. On desktop the pwd app just works.
> Worth noting that both Twitter and Facebook started with MySQL.

And both are still using it as primary data store.
This isn't newsworthy. There are hundreds of ways to use the browser's built-in API for fingerprinting purposes. It's actually overkill because you only need a handful and a decent statistical model derived from device testing.

Any big company with ad revenue has their own research and proprietary methods to catch fraudulent ads and TOS violators. It's been happening for years, and as long as browsers "improve", it will continue.
It wasn't about making antifa look bad. It was about showing people the double-standard that social media has. Its about waking people up.
>How has Reddit not had its Digg 2.0 moment yet? They are blatantly user-hostile in so many ways nowadays.

There's nothing more user hostile than going bankrupt due to advertising fraud.
CoreOS had Tectonic
I don't have the exact numbers for outages for every platform, but it seems like during the most recent RH outage in March, Ameritrade and Vanguard were down as well[0]. Which only fuels my initial suspicion that the rest aren't any better when it comes to outages.

Why do you like IB? Genuine question, because that's the one I've never tried, but now I am curious to try it out, so I want to know what the major things that drew you to it are.

0. https://www.barrons.com/articles/robinhood-trading-app-has-o...
XMPP works – 1 July 2020
Twitter crossed the Rubicon a few weeks ago by editorializing the US president's tweets with 'fact check' links. This has jeopardized the entire S230 gravy train for much of the BigTech platform service sector
I often take the perspective (with my loosely anti-capitalist sympathies, admittedly) that the mechanistic forces of capitalism aren't "bad", but simply aren't curious about certain things in the world. The system is just a bit incurious about some very human things, and just like an emotionally incurious person might ask less questions of a peer, so too does our dominant system act in some parts of human affairs.

I often tell friends that I enjoy working on neglected things that capitalism isn't curious about. This domain is a whole subset of reality, which has specific properties, especially in relation to network structure.

I would say that much of what's described in this post is to work on things that capitalism isn't _yet_ curious about.

While this is neat to suggest, I believe that maybe some things in the world (that are worth working on) might categorically be impossible for capitalism to become curious about -- capitalism is only eager to explore domains where value can [eventually] be skimmed by occupying a structural hole[1] (in other words, a choke point) in the social and/or information graph.

But some innovations are such that they only manifest and take form within resilient and redundant "clique"/"support" networks (in social capital theory parlance [2]). These networks by their very defintion lack a clear choke-point. To capture value there, someone must either (1) find the elusive but existing choke-points or (2) distort the whole system into produce a chokepoint. But this might be like capturing and compacting a cloud -- you force a phase transition and no longer have the thing you started with.

Anyhow, thanks for the chance to reflect :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network#Structural_hole...
[2]: p. 408, fig 8 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.652...
I'm guessing because most users are on mobile, using Apollo on iOS or Reddit is Fun on Android. Both of which are miles and above superior to the "official" Reddit app, which seems to have been the driving force for the redesign.
What I meant was, the returns will not have a material impact on your retirement. You may retire a year or five early. But if you just targeted your investments a bit more, you actually have a chance at making real money. Why are people working their whole lives? Pumping all their hard earned money into a security that wont do any better than their peers and thus gets them no further ahead? Its brainwashing sold to the masses.
Unless the engine question is solved, I don't see any of the new wave of civilian SSTs (Boom, Spike, Aerion) going anywhere.

The airplane talk, let alone an SST, is pretty much all about the engine. So, with none of them putting an engine on the table, whatever else they do is, honestly speaking, pointless.

Be sceptical.
The Evolution of Postmodern Thought – Helen Pluckrose on Cancel Culture
I have to say that when I was working in biosciences I did this and it was very helpful for me and I'm sure for my successor, but the culture of working around scientists was more conducive of it and I find the corporate world less open to it or more likely to use it in ways it shouldn't be, so I've not been doing it.

At the time I was using raw yaml, but eventually transitioned to emacs org-mode.

I still do it personally and find it invaluable. I still heavily use moleskins, but regularly sit down to transcibe them into digital form, but don't throw the physical notebooks away, just in case.
The Internet is still pretty rad if you avoid sites with the chode-monetization business model.

I agree with everything else you’ve stated.
Martial arts are useful especially because when you are proficient, you are less likely to use the art.

Not being afraid of a confrontation makes you more confident, serene, and less likely to have a confrontation. I am skilled in a martial art that's quite popular these days, and which had an unmistakeable, positive effect on my demeanor; you don't use the martial art once in a lifetime, but every day for a lifetime without actually using it. (I also enjoy dancing. Both martial arts and dancing are good activities to make friends)
Dad got to fly it once too. Air France was about to go on strike at any moment and the agent at CDG looked at the clock, looked at dad, looked back at the clock, and changed the ticket to Concorde.

He said it was an amazing experience. But he'd never pay for a ticket himself, and the company was pretty tight with expense money, so they weren't going to do it either.
I doubt they considered it risking their lives the way most of us do. The Polynesians were expert seamen and navigators. They knew how to build boats, provision them, navigate by the stars, and find tiny atolls across vast seas. Sure, sailing has inherent danger, but if you're an expert, the risks are not insurmountable. Even today, many people sail across entire oceans alone in tiny 27' sailboats. Some guy just sailed from England to Argentina on one to return home for his dad's birthday when he couldn't get a flight. One man's deadly risk is another man's adventure.
I use Gitbook to create dev docs and it incredulously doesn’t pass merge messages to GitHub via its integration. A big fail, imho. All you see in GitHub is “Gitbook updated ## files.” I mention this because I could use this flag to see if I can add a manual process to get my messages assigned to corresponding commits.
Has an issue been opened in their github for this? I looked quickly and didn't see one, but would love to track it.
Or to put that same idea differently: If you treat the extra code required as “boilerplate”, then you’re unlikely to get much of a benefit from switching to Vulkan.
If you value speed over storage, you can just replicate all the tables you need to join to every node, do a join on a subset on each node, then merge. It would improve latency quite a lot.

The problem arises when you can't fit an entire table on a single node, no matter how big your SAN is. But this would be really big data, few companies face this problem.
Amazing news. The upshot is, we are getting closer to a world where all popular torrents are streamable in a browser.

Libtorrent powers Deluge and a few other clients.

Brave Browser already has webtorrent support built in.

As more clients support BitTorrent over WebRTC, more of the torrent universe becomes available on the web.
I'm not sure what you mean. On OS X quitting the app certainly seems to actually quit it
Psychedelic Update
You meant 4chan, right? w.r.t. bubbling, how is Reddit as a platform different than a forum?
This is a well-reasoned and well-informed analysis of the current debate around cancel culture, and I found it incredibly thought provoking (and enlightening).

Posting this here to celebrate the level of clear thinking and nuance that has recently been discussed on the front page.
But did the authors of "who's afraid of peer review" face censure?

The only difference is who's ox got gored.
Exploring the Gendering of AI Voice Assistants
As much as it's a meme, something like reddit should exist. A lot of communities are too small to have a dedicated forum and often dedicated forums are even worse from a design perspective.

Old reddit had easy to use features like a built in wiki system that let a lot of communities form with minimal friction.

I'm not sure what a better alternative would be that is also as easy to use.
Thanks for sharing. I've been trying to use Clip Studio Paint for grids with limited success. You might find this interesting:

https://screendiver.com/digital-comics-manifesto/
The vast majority of people just want to go to the gym or a class and get sweaty for an hour or so. With out having to think about what they are actually doing. That’s what most of these apps and devices are aimed for. You may or may not get for this way depending on your definition of fitness.

So I agree with you, this is a far larger market than people who think about correct movement and actual gains.
The documentary Spaceship Earth on Hulu is about all of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Earth_(film). Really worth watching.
> But if you're absolutely sure you need to be planning to run at close to Twitter or Facebook scale one day

The only way you’ll know this is if you are already Google or Facebook

Best just always start with a RDBMS and then split out subsets if needed down the line
Smart. The dev tool I use automatically links my commits to the Jira issue that initiated the project/fix/update. The key and sha are forever linked. It does the same with Clubhouse.
The title is misleading because they are not using DRM to generate a unique identifier like, for example, Netflix would use. Instead, it is using the type of DRM implementation for fingerprinting/bot detection. It's just a few more bits of unique entropy, along the lines of your screen size and user agent.

This might seem like a small difference, but reason activists hate DRM is that it enables service providers to go a step beyond traditional fingerprinting and gain a truly unique identifier.
I'm sure there will be plenty of other people willing to do this for 3x the pay.

No need to use a gun. Just a strict contract.
I've been writing this newsletter about psychedelics & psychedelia for about the last year. Recently have been looking to grow the audience a bit while staying in integrity. Thought it might be interesting to HN!

Here's an attempt at describing the motivation:

1. Reintegrating psychedelics into our culture is a big deal

1a. Psychedelics can help us surface shadowed material, help us work with trauma & old patterns that are no longer serving us, help us become more trustworthy / cooperative / compassionate / less zero-sum

1b. Flow-through effects from doing this right could be huge; there's massive upside here

2. We don't really know how to do this reintegration, very much figuring it out as we go

3. I write to explore this, both trying to understanding the mechanisms of action better and to figure out which models are working as psychedelics come more & more into the mainstream
> Obviously indexed joins on a single database server scale just fine, that's the entire selling point of an RDMBS!

Is it really obvious, though?

In my experience, many people consistently fail to grasp this point. It seems likely that the underlying reason is that it's easy for most people to conflate nested loop join with hash join (or with merge join). Hash join really doesn't scale in the sense that the author conveys (though this in itself many not matter, because they're not really in competition in any practical sense).

When you point out that the key to good performance is to ensure that query results are fetched rather than searched and computed, it sounds obvious. It still seems very helpful to connect the dots.
I would love a whole essay on your “skill of energy”! Can you expand on this with examples. This is a lifelong question for me and I’d be grateful for any advice you can add on the topic.
> People who are into fitness don't need apps to track their fitness.

What do you make of Strava? Tons of elite runners and cyclists use it. I use it, Garmin Connect, Elevate, and various others to track my fitness. I would say that the vast majority of people who are "into fitness" use apps to track their fitness.
They don't _need_ apps but clearly an overwhelming majority _like_ or _want_ apps to track. Not everyone is into carrying a notebook and pen with them to the gym and already have their phone.
Just another reason why I am never going to touch the new reddit with a 10-foot pole. If they phase out the “old” design, I’m done with it.
Now that you mention it - I now recall the mouse connectors being underneath my 1040ST. What a horrible place for them, but the back panel was full (SCSI connector, DB-25 connector, MIDI ports, floppy DIN, and more) so they were tight on space.
Partially Stepping Down Isolation
I got a visitor pass for Equinox and honestly the gym itself was underwhelming. It was similar to good life here in Canada, the differentiator was the locker room, which indeed was luxurious. But I'm never paying $225/month for that gym.
A prepaid SIM card is $5.

There are also now services that do this for you so you don't even have to buy the SIM card yourself. They add some new phone numbers every day and publish the numbers along with every SMS they receive on a public site with ads on it. The "higher end" ones give you your own personal throwaway phone number but then you have to pay the $5.

This means sites should immediately stop using this verification method because it obviously isn't going to stop adversaries with even trivial resources, and the security implications of encouraging vulnerable populations to use random sites like that is hugely bad.

SMS verification is also ridiculous to begin with because phone numbers get recycled quickly and users should neither lose their account just because their phone number changed nor have some stranger enabled to steal it.
Seems to be fixed now!
Maybe not: https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/hnlhgi/please_do_n...
>People who are into fitness don't need apps to track their fitness. Their fitness routine has nothing to do with technology and they get questionable value out of something they could do much better with a notebook and a spreadsheet.

Doesn't align with my experiences, at all. Every single runner and cyclist I know (including myself) uses apps to track their activities. Notebooks are simply not as convenient as automatic GPS tracking. I understand why notebooks are sufficient for lifting, which has long rest periods to record relatively simple measurements. But it's a different story for lots of other sports.

Strava alone has something like 50 million users, and for good reason - it's an incredibly effective training tool.
Please stop responding to every comment asking for a source, it’s incredibly unhelpful. If that’s honestly all you got from this discussion about inequality then I truly feel sorry for you.
It's really fun to see the moment people realize things like this exist outside their bubble of knowledge.

I had some first and second-hand knowledge around pricing household appliances. There's a common assumption that "the manufacturer says 'charge X'", the retailer charges X+Y% and you all go home happy. And you could not be further from the truth if you tried: pricing is an insanely complicated process with negotiation from both sides and monitored by an army of secret shoppers to keep both sides honest.
On mobile it reverts you every few days whether you want it to or not and you have to set it again.

There are a few extensions around for each browser that fix this, but every time it happens it makes me angry at whatever person thought this was a good idea.

If they rely on metrics for old vs. new this 'feature' obviously distorts the reality.
I'm not sure why this is dead. The article has a rather objective tone and the piece is markedly unbiased (surprising given the title of the site). I didn't know there was previously controversy over whether charter schools perpetuate racial inequality, and now I do. Interesting read.

I would recommend adding a [2016] to the title as is customary when posting old links.
Reddit was already superior to Digg as a news aggregator. Before the exodus, the joke (and I had observed this to often be true) was that Digg’s content was mostly the same as reddit’s... just posted a day later.

At present there isn’t an obvious choice for where to migrate. Maybe more specialized boards like Hacker News will be the thriving suburbs outside of a dystopian reddit metropolis.
Previously:

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18675375

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708
They aren't "lying", it's the same glyph in many fonts.

That you think homoglyphs would somehow look different in any of those steps of your post is peculiar to me. l and I are the same in some fonts and they are in the ascii set.
Yeah. I’ve gotten to a gate 30 minutes ahead of time because I’ve been in a lounge or just had a connecting flight and basically gotten a cross “Why are you so late?” at the gate.
If you’re using a SAN, then surely every server node has at least read-only access to every table? The only thing they’d missing is in-memory indexes and cached execution-plans.
> This increase in bias cannot be blamed merely on the data.

This is debatable in this case. The grouped model might be a better fit to the data: it indicates a higher bias in salaries at higher skill levels.

It sounds completely plausible that the gender bias for unskilled workers is less than for high skilled workers.

Models can be under-fit as well as over fit. Just using a dummy variable for gender might not properly capture interactions like this.

But of course it’s always possible that this is just an artefact of the training data.
I don't know whether to downvote this comment for myopic focus on possibly the most irrelevant detail, or upvote it for masterfully interpreting the theme of this thread: dogmatically catastrophizing the inane.

Truly a Kaufmanian contribution.
This is a rumor started on 4chan, which doesn’t necessarily mean it is untrue, but take it with a grain of salt.
"In the century leading up to the formation of the Hivemind, there were many rebellions around the world. Individual adult humans resisted the Hum when they were not raised with it. In 3 BHE (2020 CE), an outbreak of rona killed a quarter million humans in the United States of America, sparking the Q Rebellion. Even after the formation of the Hivemind, there were rebellious humans. After the Pan-National Treaties were ratified in 4 HE, the People's Republic of China invaded Hong Kong, starting the Skynet Rebellion, which would continue until 6 HE."

"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." ~ Eames, "Inception"
The thread title could change to at least mention that this is inconclusive and not some kind of official announcement from legal proceedings, which I assumed at first.