skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting! Thanks so much for sharing. I have a couple questions:

1) The `bump` function interacts with the worker GenServers via `send(pid, :bump)` and the GenServer has a `handle_info` for that. I would normally add a client function to the worker module which uses a `GenServer.call(...)` instead. Was that just to make the blog post a bit shorter, or are there tradeoffs I'm missing?

2) In the case of millions of pages, the post suggests terminating the processes. What about `hibernate`? Could that be an intermediate approach to reach for, for some relatively large number of pages?
Just doing that would be suspicious. Establishing a record of doing similar things for months to a year before the hack and THEN doing it, and continuing to do so for other stocks for a while after... well, then there'd be a LOT more plausible deniability.
Can you explain how the lies and mind games come into play at your company?

It seems like most other people are talking about gaming metrics, not lying and playing games.
It's always interesting to me how much of a hivemind the internet has and how many coincidences there are. Just last night I dug out my cheapo pulse oximeter and checked everyone in my house to get a baseline.

I then googled how they work and read pretty much the same thing.
> “This is NOT a method, you will be given a full refund if for any reason you aren’t given the email/@, however if it is revered/suspended I will not be held accountable,” Chaewon wrote in their sales thread, which was titled “Pulling email for any Twitter/Taking Requests.”

If access were being sold via message board, I wonder if the thread contains stipulations on which accounts are off-limits for being hacked. My theory to why we didn't see any active government officials accounts get pranked is because the hackers, no matter how confident they were about covering their tracks, still might have worried that such a breach would almost guarantee FBI/NSA-level involvement.
It's not real hacking unless it's chopping with an ax.

I think simple account takeovers started being called "hacks" jokingly on Facebook, when a friend would find your phone or computer unlocked and logged in.
Ask HN: How do apps build encryption in calls? Any libraries or open source?
I know it consists of separating the audio in small packets and then encrypting them before theyre being sent to another user. However, theres so many of these encrypted call apps that I am getting the feeling that its either easy to make one or theres open source stuff or libraries that can help?
What’s New in Thunderbird 78
Getting? They've always been like this.
... and pneumatic tires.

I'll admit I threw AC, airbags, and power windows in for comedic value, but as for the rest of those, my car definitely does not have them.

It's not just which gizmos, but also the specific gizmos. If your car's audio has two speakers, versus a dozen woofers, tweeters, and what-not, more things can go wrong. If there's split front/rear AC, more things can go wrong. If your car has a motor to move the seats, more things can go wrong. When I sit in a Tesla (or many luxury cars), it has about three or four times as many things to break as my much more basic car. And when they break, they take a lot more to fix.

I don't want that. If someone still sold a VW Bug classic, or an old-school Ford Truck, I'd be driving that.

Or to be fair, the one thing on the list I do want is bluetooth. I'd trade my fancy-schmancy power windows for bluetooth if I could.
1000 years from now, I can only imagine the hidden Y3K bugs...
It’s got to be teens that fall for it. I can’t imagine the elderly (the demographic that usually fall for this scam) managing a bitcoin transfer.

‘Mom can I please buy $50 worth of bitcoin, pretty please?’
No one on the left is either?!? What the hell dude, did you take a wrong turn from Infowars or something?
Seconding this as employee of said company : )
The most painful thing I've experienced medically was an arterial blood draw to measure my o2 sat levels. (They numb your inner wrist with novocaine then go in with a giant needle to the artery deep in there. If it's that painful numb, I can't imagine what it'd be like otherwise.

And each time it was no more accurate than the pulse oximeter.
No. Housing should be an asset. If all housing and land were liabilities, then they would all be owned by the government (we tried that, most people didn't like it). The fact that homes are assets are not stopping people from owning homes (and why the f would someone want to own one if they were a liability in the first place?!?!).

the median income in the US is about 60k and median home price is about 200k. you only need 3.5% to qualify for a FHA loan. I managed to save that when I was making less than half of the median income.

We dont have a problem of people investing in homes, we have a problem of people not having good financial health (do to their own bad financial decisions).

in 2013, home prices were falling and interest rates were at a then all time low of 3.25%. I told people 'go buy a home, any home!' people were like 'but home prices are going down' 'interest rates may drop further'. or people were proud and smug that they didnt own a home, as if they achieved something because of the 'losers' that bought homes had their home values go down. but they didnt buy, now those same people are complaining that prices are too high, yet they dont have 7k saved for a down payment.
Bitcoin isn't just for "technical" people anymore. The 2017 craze caused a ton of non-techies to hear about Bitcoin and get involved. It was front page CNN a decent amount. Coinbase made it their mission to make Bitcoin as accessible as just downloading an app and giving it your credit card info, and IIRC at one point Coinbase was the most downloaded app on the App Store.

There's an argument to be made that the only reason Bitcoin became popular the last few years is because of the amount of non-techies who have been falling for all the same, tired "join my ICO and get rich!" scams.
If you post like this here again we will ban you. Adding a nationalistic flamewar to what is already a gender flamewar is either arson or criminal negligence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this is a good solution, but maybe not viable. Going past Crypto this could apply to so many issues needed to be reviewed on YouTube. But at that scale, the human cost is something YouTube refuses to pay.
It is part of PRC according to almost all countries. Sure a few disagrees.
Regulation isn't always about rent price caps.

In the US, cities frequently have "zoning requirements" so it's very difficult to get a new high-density structure built in a neighborhood of 1-floor single family homes. Also, NIMBY groups usually have a veto vote of sorts, which makes it more expensive for a real estate developer to come into a pre-existing neighborhood and make more units (because it's a gamble and usually they have to spend more to acquiesce to the NIMBY if they are able to build at all).

Even when there is a rental price cap, that tends to only work in the short term and exacerbates supply/demand problems long term. San Francisco, for example, implemented a rent control system in ~1980. Since then, only 40% of rental units are eligible for rent control and lots of potential rentals stay off the rental market. There are loopholes which allow conversion of a rent-controlled unit to a market-priced rental and no new built units are rent controlled, so there is a bifurcation of the market. Rent controlled units are very affordable, but increasingly scarce. Market priced units are growing (slowly) in numbers, but cost 2x - 5x what a comparable rent-controlled unit does.
makes me wonder why they did the scam in the afternoon PST when everyone is at work. why not wait until midnight. bitcoin is as popular overseas as in america.
They didn't have E6000 back in those days.
This is not true. There is no law of physics guaranteeing some standard income distribution over a society. There at least hypothetically exists societies with very minimal or no income inequality although in practice this is extremely unlikely.

The idea however that the bottom n% of some society have to skew with x deviation from the mean or median is not exactly correct. And the idea that some segment of society will always not be able to afford some amount nominally denominated in that society's currency is explicitly wrong.
GoLand seems to be lighter than IntelliJ though. I'll try using the plugins to see if the experience is different. Maybe I'm paying too much for the whole suite.
4chan somehow has this reputation for being savants despite being just as vulnerable as Twitter in getting swept up into a mob with lazily research facts being dressed up as genuine when someone uses complete sentences. * chans only work largely because of moderation (That doesn't mean the moderation has to operate in a way you like). Likewise the for HN.

IMO, no single feature ruins online social platforms more than size. The best subreddits are the small ones, the best * chans are the small ones, the best forums are the small ones. "Features" don't ruin platforms, users do.
Thanks for the description. Sounds like the typical very difficult full day interview as in every other big tech company, so it doesn't seem to me to be easy to hire or to be hired by any stretch.
What are examples of keywords that would have a low false positive (and ideally, low false negative) rate, such that a minimum wage worker could efficiently disable videos with little context or time?
Rev-ind: a bash script to cleanly reverse-indent any file
Had a blast at LauzHack '16 using this library to make a Chrome extension enabling "no-hands scrolling"[1]. Sadly, reading web articles while eating with both hands is still a dream. We managed to get okay-ish results on a MacBook Pro in perfect lighting from time to time, but nothing consistent. In variable lighting and on lower-end laptops we found it impossible.

I wonder if it would be possible with a better webcam and good, consistent lighting.

[1] https://github.com/jarlg/lookmanohands
Still having the issue, weird.
Please don't start up tedious flamewar tropes here.

If there's to be a substantive conversation about a story like the OP, it needs to stay rooted in specifics, not slide off into tired talking points and angry arguments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Clicking any of the blog posts takes me to the installation guide.

I cant seem to find any feature overview? Id like to see screenshots and a nice overview of the features when browsing a project site like this
I downvote comments which I think don't add anything to the conversation. Lately I find myself downvoting comments which try to interject U.S. politics—of any ideological stripe—into discussions of non-political topics.

I don't think the commentators are "breaking the rules," per se, but they aren't contributing positively. I'm sure they feel their political opinion is being suppressed, but my votes reflect that I come here for technical insights, not politics.
Apple has apparently had both since their first watch models, but only uses them for heart rate. https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6126991/apple-watch-four-b...

EDIT: Apple says it uses green LEDs during workouts and IR for background measurements. Maybe it’s for energy reasons? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204666
I think your experience is totally valid. For me, a Swiss Army Knife is often provides a better tool for the job than a knife.

In descending frequency of use as a city slicker:

- scissors

- Philips screwdriver

- tweezers

- awl

- package hook (untying knots)

The knife doesn't make it in the top 5, but would get used on the occasional picnic when someone forgets to bring a knife.
The trick is the scale at which you teach people. You only need a few people who are new to Bitcoin and stupid, intoxicated or otherwise not at their best in that moment and you made a profit that's significant in many countries. If you reach 100k+ people your odds should be good.
Indeed, Rust macros are a descendant of Scheme macros, not of C macros.
Kotlin, too!
Don’t confuse this with normal or common treatment

What are these normal treatments? Pharmaceuticals like Ritalin and Adderall? Asking because I don’t know not that I’m taking this anywhere, but when people talk about behavioral control of children acting out of line with some kind of “norm”, I’m uneducated as to what the norm is or what the status quo for this is.

What I do know (via anecdotes of having sister who works in childhood behavioral science), medicating kids was for a long time the norm and is being harshly critiqued and challenge more recently, but I admit not really bothering to look into this much further.
Your unspoken assumption is that "treatment" was a primary goal at all. Here, I would consider if "treatment" is instead the weapon of choice used in service of the actual goal: to brutalize one person so severely that it causes others to sit silently in fear, rather than stand up and speak out.

"This boy was super aggressive towards me, a doctor! so I must punish him for that transgression against me, a doctor! and ensure that I make an example of him! I have just the thing, I'll humiliate him by making him into a girl! I'll lose my license, but it's worth it because I'll be remembered forever as the boogeyman in every juvey in the country!"
We have that in France as well, I assumed it was common everywhere. Otherwise how do you justify yourself to your employer/school/whatever if you're late because your commute took one hour more than usual because of something completely out of your control?
Krebs should get someone half as good at html and CSS as he is in security to update his awful site. Doesnt even work in Firefox reader.
>> I would look to China instead of USA

and now you know why China is investing in Pakistan, it is not because they are good hearted wanting to help Pakistan

It is destabilize the Region by putting a wedge between the US and Pakistan,

The US keeps Pakistan and India stable, if the US loses it's influence over Pakistan well that will be very bad for the region.
I've carried a Spyderco Ladybug for over a decade. If you get the serrated blade (and you should), you'll want a sharpener that works on them. The closed length is about 2-1/4" (57mm)

Note that it has a locking blade, which makes it illegal in the UK, even though the length is under the limit.

https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
We've banned this account for ideological flamewar and personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I recently switched from old sync versions of hyper and postgres to the new async versions. [1]

It wasn't hard, but yeah it was not fun either.

I can only imagine it's worse if you're actually writing the libraries and not just a CRUD app like I am

[1] Apparently the postgres crate was a wrapper around tokio_postgres all along and I didn't notice. So to remove a dependency I switched to using tokio_postgres directly
It depends on the motivation, if it was ideologically motivated I would be outraged at the ideology that lead to it and people justifying it, just like I would be outraged at state of high school sports that lead to a coach doing this and people defending that.

But I sort of agree, there is no proof this is ideological (in fact it sounds just as likely that the doctor was experimenting), the other guy is spinning it his way as well - I think you can say that without the need to defend/downplay the action.
Go lookup Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig.

China isn't afraid to play nasty political football using imprisoned and tortured and unconnected westerners as pawns.
So do you expect to be paid while you refuse to work?
This is CCP Propaganda.
You can click the three dots next to the video in your feed, click "Not Interested", and then in the "tell us why" section it sometimes exposes a choice "not interested in recommendations based on X video".
Did you read the story all the way through? If we're going to live in a world dominated by AI/Automation it presents a compelling alternative to the current path.
Sorry to reply off-topic, but I wanted to let you know that in response to your request here (which I can no longer reply to):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23677225

I’m about to release an update to Orgro with LaTeX support powered by KaTeX. More info here:
https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/hsa3ik/orgro_update_inli...

I don’t use LaTeX much, so if you would be willing to test with the kinds of documents you write, or even send me a file to test with, that would be greatly appreciated.
Agreed. It's hard for me not to suspect that there's some strong motivation by interested parties to make TikTok a boogeyman. I'm much more concerned about unintentional harm caused by incompetence (Facebook) or deliberate messaging for a purpose (Fox News, or pick whoever your personal least favorite media source is).
I had a microbiologist friend who said: "If you can name something, there's a bacterium that will eat it".
This is great! Reminds me of those websites people would make a decade or two ago that would spam you with nonstop alert() boxes saying ridiculous things. Fortunately this is a lot easier to take a break from. Congrats on your first React project!
That's just one layer of the stack though. Future archaeologists will also need to create mock npm registries and maven repositories, and set up docker and k8s so they can deploy a complex set of microservices to look up our birthdays.
Thanks for posting this. A couple of years ago I was logging examples of media bias which has become so normalised it's sometimes difficult to put your finger on. I think part of the problem is that journalism used to be a profession with experienced well-paid staff and now isn't. Perhaps journalism needs to be regulated with standards and case studies taught as part of the training.
You may not choose to reply if you see this but I'm going to ask anyway: I'm curious if you were concerned about going to the party?
So silencing the original Covid-19 whistleblower allowing the virus to devastate Wuhan and propagate to the rest of the world is better than free press? How is that benevolent?
Wow! that was a fantastic, insightful read. did not know the pleth was of note.
In the US, the criminal justice system is not concerned primarily with reforming criminals or deterring future crimes. It’s concerned mostly with making the lives of people convicted or accused of crimes (many of whom are innocent or otherwise had extenuating circumstances) absolutely miserable, retribution taken to the extreme (tangentially, I’m not against retribution in principle, but don’t think it should always be the only reason to punish someone). And any sort of “non-compliance” while retribution is being exacted leads to the misery being dialed up. Is there any civilized country other than the US where long prison terms in sadistic conditions is considered “normal”?
or just institute a UBI program specifically covering housing that is the average rent cost for a 2 bedroom apartment in the locale in which you live.

So you always have rent covered, regardless of your paycheck. They could maybe double that, and have it cover food stamps too, to cut out some of the administrative costs to manage both programs.

This works for married couples too, because you'd get double that, which is closer to what a mortgage would be, and would esp, help lower income families.

I think we could look into a VAT if needed for supplmental tax to cover it, but there's plenty of governmental spending we could also cut like maybe 1/3rd of the defense budget for one.
Social proof. People would see others donating and assume it was indeed legit.
Just to be abundantly clear I think this is a terrible idea. But I'd like to see it dispassionately debated on its merits. One could make the argument that "sufficient therapy" is reminiscent of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. I do not know of any methods that can reliably work with the most violent of offenders. Chemical castration is evil, but so is life imprisonment. Which is lesser? Does it matter if it were a choice?

I'm prepared to burn some more karma on this.
I see this news as a loss for the US. It has to resort to regulations to stop TSMC from doing business with Huawei. When you can't incentivize your ally, that means your opponent's business is still very attractive. Regulations will only cripple your ally. Taiwan may comply on the outside. But inside, they'll cut under-the-table deals with China. They'll find loop holes to skirt regulations.

Taiwan seems to be heading to be the next Hong Kong. Their political class is still publicly resistant. But their business leaders are slowly surrendering. At some point, the political class will follow. The US will then need to rely on the activism of the young renegade "colonels" like Joshua Wong. Crippling an ally can buy the US some time. But it is losing ground.
I wonder if this spec increases or decrease memory access latency. The article doesn’t say, which makes me suspicious.

After all, DDR4 has higher latency than DDR3 running at the same clock speed.
Honest question: from a consumer perspective, what is deeply flawed about it?

You're not necessarily aware of the inherent insecurity until you are on the wrong side of a breach. You might assume you can charge back if anything goes wrong, but you might have absolutely no guarantee in law that you will be able to do so. As with so much about cards, you are then at the mercy of your card issuer and/or the underlying card network, and they will act in their best interests, which might not coincide with yours.

You might think it's useful to have the credit facility, but the rates you're paying will almost always be far higher than you could get on a competitive loan from a bank. (And if you can't get such a loan, you certainly shouldn't be building up credit card debts either. The model becomes predatory and abusive at this point.)

You might think you're getting a good deal with the cashback schemes, but the merchants are getting hit with higher fees on the other side and they will be pricing that into the amount you were paying in the first place. Worse, since various places now limit or prohibit charging extra fees for card transactions, governments have legislated competition out of the payment methods market and anyone who chooses not to pay with a card is now stuck with the same higher prices.

You might find the automatic conversions for foreign payments useful, but you are almost certainly paying a silly exchange rate and maybe extra fees on top for the privilege.

Card payments are comically unreliable at the best of times. In a "good" case, this just causes some embarrassment when your card is unexpectedly declined at the store and you have to try it again or use something else to pay. In a more serious case, perhaps your card gets blocked because of a false positive on the security checks while you're abroad, and you are left with no easy way to pay for anything for potentially several days until it gets sorted out.

On top of this, there are the indirect effects of all the one-sided obligations imposed on credit card providers by governments and on merchants by credit card providers, where a bunch of people are required to take on potentially severe risks that should be entirely unnecessary just to carry out a simple financial transaction. Much of what is wrong with the industry actually comes down to these effects and what happens when the risk gets passed on or priced in.

In short, the people who benefit the most from card payments are the card networks. For everyone else involved, they are likely inferior to other payment methods in one or probably more important ways, and it is their established infrastructure and ubiquity internationally that keeps them relevant more than anything else. There is no good reason we shouldn't all switch to alternatives today, given the ease of doing so with modern mobile devices and Internet access, but again it comes down to momentum more than anything else.