skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Best Buy and Sears in the late 90’s. People tried to scam us every day.

Sears didn’t do any checks if anything. You just took your boxed up computer to the back of the store and you got your money back. It was common to pull the RAM and HD from a computer, return it for another, and then you had double the memory and drive space for free.

You couldn’t do that at Best Buy, the Tech bench (before they had the Geek Squad) would inspect your returns. If you wanted to fool us, you’d have to make it look like you never opened the boxes, and put the correct amount of patio bricks in it.

You couldn’t swap video cards or RAM, we checked the model numbers. So you’d have to take the video card over to the appliance department, slice the side of the box with a knife, remove the video card and throw the empty box in a washer or microwave. When the Voodoo 5 came out we found every single one was stolen and the boxes in a freezer that was on display.

We even had a RAM tester that would tell you the speed and size of the chips. We never got one that would do DIMMs, just SIMMs, so as the Pentium II became popular it was less useful.

Now, if you knew someone who worked at the tech bench, you could bring your home PC in for a bullshit service like a $29.99 disk defrag, and you could get it loaded up with memory, disk drives, or hell, you could just stick as many audio CD’s as you could in your tower. Just make sure the case screws are on tight when you leave, or the panel falls off along with whatever you were smuggling out, right in front of the whole store.

Lastly, there was a DEVO area towards the back of the store, basically a dumpster full of returns. I heard they got sold to the lowest bidder, stuff we couldn’t return to the manufacturer for some reason. Memory, hard drives, all kinds of random stuff would end up back there because the computer said so. Anything that could fit in a pocket, people helped themselves to.
What blows my mind even more than that is the fact that the universe is apparently 93 billion light years in diameter despite being only 14 billion years old. Intuitively, I'd think that the radius of the universe would be smaller than the age of the universe. Stuff in the universe would go outward more slowly than light in the universe would go outward, because stuff moves slower than light. Apparently that's not the case. Space and time are weird.
Dear Adam, indeed, Hotjar and Fullstory are great tools, and as an avid user of both of them I can say they are, as of now, far more polished, solid, and complete UX suites than SessionForward really is. The straightforward answer to your question, is that as a developement oriented PM I was feeling like I wanted a frills free product focused on simplicity and performance, and that is 100% targeted towards tech, rather than marketing people. The 'vision' answer (i.e., why SF will be better than competition in the future) is based on automated neural networks driven actionable insights: sometimes you don't want/have time to go through 200 of your users not clicking on a button, you just want to receive an email telling you to please move your call to action button from the top left corner to the top right corner of your page!
Communication is a 2way street. If this was my manager I'd never try and help them make decisions again.
"A minority of angry people on twitter can't cancel her life.

Cancel culture is a distraction from more relevant issues."

Not true at all.

It's not about her money, it's about her ability to speak and to have a public opinion, and therefore a relationship with us - not about her 'personal wealth'.

She has specific views on gender, which she should be allowed to have and which I don't think are objectively 'anti trans'.

The statement above, ie that her views are 'anti trans' is really a problem.

'Shutting down her voice' is significantly worse than 'taking her money' - because it means the rest of us are not allowed to have a debate or to have our own opinions.

I generally agree with her assessment. It's nuanced, informed and not 'anti trans'.

Labelling it 'anti trans' is precisely the kind of 'Red Guards killing the unpure' we need to worry about.

'Cancel culture' has succeeded in banning speakers on most University campuses, and systematically disabled tons of voices from being heard. Speakers aren't even on the slot anymore 'can't afford the security' is now a common statement.
This is inexcusable.

The fact that 100 or so of the world's leading thinkers had to take out page to tamp down people in their own midst is crazy, and a sign of a problem.

It's a fairly existential problem right now.

A lot of this actually may be a kind of 'anti Trump' anger exhibiting in an odd kind of way, maybe it dies down a little bit, but the 'winds' are heading in one direction right now, and the press in particular seem to have joined in.
It's present for me as a % match to a restaurant I'm a regular at back home. Signals I have seen in this are menu item similarity, photo count by similar reviewers, and more basic metadata.

It didn't really translate well to visiting Japan, but does great when in a new metro and not having any personal recommendations to go off.
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A small company that’s not currently hiring (sorry). A small company is not for everyone. But I like it.
The most common mistake in implementations of RSA signature verification seems to be just plain not validating the padding at all. That does not require a "experienced cryptographer" it requires actually doing everything on the checklist, a reflex that's worthwhile in many pursuits.

Historically sometimes people would say "Well nobody would make an error like that in a modern elliptic curve scheme" and then Microsoft turns out to have shipped a very popular operating system named "Windows" which didn't do curve validation - so much for that belief.

Padding oracles aren't a thing for signature verification. You can work this out for yourself, everybody can do signature verification using the public key, so if there was a way to do it "badly" that somehow gives away the private key, you'd do it that way yourself and skip all the effort.

What does exist and might have confused you is an oracle for RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 decryption. In this case the party doing decryption knows the private key and so it makes sense that if this is done poorly they can leak vital information. It doesn't seem fair to call this a flaw in the signature scheme.
Your car will also start exhibiting random failures if you leave it parked long enough. Parts will corrode, stick, develop flat spots, cold weld themselves together, water gets in, bugs and mice set up shop, chew on the wires, etc.

Especially if you leave it out in the weather.
As I take my daily runs through the woods (with my Garmin 935!) I have been thinking about the near future and what a 2nd wave of COVID19 might bring. What if we end up with a France/Spain/Italy style hard lockdown? Like troops on the street type lockdown?, can't go out at all except to go directly to the store, neighbors calling 911 on neighbors who go outside (which is how my Italian friends tell me it was in Italy).

I could just go run in the woods in the dark, no-one would know right? And it's highly unlikely I'd be seen at night (a Spanish friend of mine ended up hiking several nights a week in the dark so he wouldn't be seen as he was going stir crazy being trapped inside).

But my GPS data would be uploaded to the cloud! They would know! There would be evidence, fed to the NSA! Would I hear their standard issue kicking in my door!

Of course I could just leave the Garmin at home, but I like my GPS and stats. So now I know how I can pull the data off watch, process it myself and remove it before it can be synced!

Thank you!

/s (a little bit)
Obligatory Matt Levine take[1]

> I just want to spell it out a bit here because, again, the common story these days is that a SPAC is a substitute for an IPO that is cheaper and avoids mispricing. I have argued before that that is wrong, but in particular here I want to point out that the SPAC is (sometimes) a marriage and an IPO generally isn’t.

> An IPO is, you sell stock to some people who want to buy it, and in general you hope that they’ll be good stable long-term investors, but you don’t lock them up forever. They get to vote for directors, usually, but the big IPO investors don’t generally get their own representatives on your board. And in particular, the trend in tech unicorn IPOs in recent years has been to minimize the power and input of public investors. Lots of tech unicorns go public with dual-class stock so that investors can’t really vote for directors; the founders’ goal in going public is to raise money (or at least get liquidity for early investors) but keep control of their companies for themselves. They are not looking for a marriage partner; they are looking for a transaction, for money, while keeping their independence.

> Which is fine too! Some companies stay independent, some merge, some want something in between, a powerful outside shareholder who can give them advice and support. My point here is just that if you are a tech unicorn founder, and your goals are (1) to go public without giving up any control to outside public shareholders and (2) to go public without going through the vagaries of the IPO process, you may have to make some tradeoffs.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-24/goldma...
Thank you. After reading a few explanations, I think the phrase was fine. I was just parsing it in a political context, as opposed to the original meaning of the word "conservative".

Where can you find up-to-date temperature readings (as up-to-date as possible)? Are there public datasets available?
i don't need to 'google' what closing one eye does. that's the whole point of my comment. you claim it's unreasonable when people use their eyes for basic information. i say having to google what your own eyes tell you is what is unreasonable.
Paywall links need to be downvoted
i'd love to work at machine learning, machines are too dumb.
It's literally our fascists trying to paint the opposition as fascists, marxists, traitors.

It's not that the Democrats are blameless far from it its just that the Republicans have wandered so far afield that they are no longer in the same universe and nothing they say even makes sense anymore.
Brace for GPT-3 based reviews.
Is that on Android, iOS, or both?
Yes there is so much mental gymnastics involved in "basket of goods"

My dad bought a house and had a kid in London aged 27. He didn't even have a degree and was an immigrant arriving with all the money he had scrounged in his hand.

Compare that with the London of today where £200k buys you a 80sqft squat:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8541513/Micro-studi...

But you know, house prices and rent aren't a good so there's no inflation so there's no problem right? /s
> But the USCIS seems to be a bit vague on what would happen if I did that.

That's because the CBP officer who evaluates your request for entry on a permanent resident visa has the discretion to say that you are "likely" residing elsewhere and "remind"/"advise" you of the requirement to be permanently resident inside the United States in order to keep PR status.

The six month rule is less of a rule and more of a presumption but if a CBP officer sees a series of entry stamps all hovering around that six month mark, the officer can make that note and the next officer might declare that you've abandoned PR status and you'd then have to go through the process overcome that.
Stop buying things because a small percentage of them are broken. Makes sense.
> Today, it may sound harsh but America's elites allowed American institutions become something like a dumpster fire because the situation didn't bother them.

Well, I would say it didn't bother them initially, and it changed so fast that by the time it did bother them (if it does), it was too late. We're talking about a decade or less of time here, since that's about the period of time that social media has had major usage by a majority of people, and while there were less efficient precursor networks (such as radio and television), nothing really compares to the current immediate feedback look of of the current systems, where time for info to permeate a platform and then regurgitates and eaten again can be measured in minutes in some cases, but often in just a few hours.

I doubt even the people that "saw it coming" really understood where it would get to, and there's no concrete indication that we're at the peak (there's pushback, but that can be steamrolled for while).

Elites have more power, and can get stuff done because there's a purity of intent and will expressed by one person with power that's hard to match with many people pooling power... but then again, we're dealing with runaway feedback loops, so who knows what the public can do if a good meme is found.

> At this point, I'd look at Ralph Nader's Only The Super Rich Can Save Us. Because everything points to the very rich having decisive power and this quite willing to let things fall to hell. We can hope these people realize that triumph over a flaming ruin might not actually help as much as they're imagine.

I'd much rather have the stability of the 1990s or 2000s that what we seem to have now when considering my own situation, but I'm white middle class, and I imagine people that have felt disenfranchised their whole lives may see the balance of good and bad happening now a bit differently, and I'm not willing to say they are better off as they were in the 1990s or 2000s. I dunno.
Deflation tends to decrease labor demand. The ranks of the unemployed grow, and the purchasing power of paychecks (e.g. offered wages, etc) diminish faster than prices. This has happened time and again in economies all over the world. Not coincidentally, this happened to the U.K. during the interwar period, which John Keynes observed first hand.

And Keynes got to contrast the U.K.'s monetary policy with France's moderately inflationary policy. France made it through the Great Depression relatively unscathed.

Of course, Germany had strongly inflationary policies leading to hyperinflation. They also suffered terribly during the Great Depression. But Germany deliberately chose hyperinflation to spite the U.K. and France for enforcing crushing war reparations.
Well I’m talking about present time. Past your cynical take, the reality is that the last crisis was exactly the reason why banks in the US have been growing their cash on hand the last decade faster than they did the two decades before that, while putting aside money on other reserves.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/business/bank-earnings-defaul...
Thanks! I guess I just made a place that I’d want to work at. It turns out that f you hire smart people they just figure out what needs to get done. No sense in micromanaging them.

On the other hand I only had limited experiences working at big companies I didn’t want to work at.
Inoreader does this too.
Non-profits and startups are welcome to use my service for free.

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All joking aside, I recognize that this is strong language, but it certainly describes the tactics used.

Although obviously no one is in immediate physical danger, with the exception of medical equipment. Even that I'm not sure of, I've just heard hearsay.
> Do I take travel insurance for routine trips that might involve me losing $200 for having to cancel a plane flight and maybe some hotels. Nope.

The cost of the flight and hotels is irrelevant though.

If you have a medical emergency while in a foreign country you could be looking at millions of dollars of costs to treat and repatriate you. That would bankrupt most people. Even if you're just popping to another city for a day - if it's in another country I think you really must be insured.
The difference is that India has a very large population willing to train for the relevant skills. America does not.
A craft able to manipulate gravitational fields as a means of propulsion would likely not need to airbrake through the atmosphere to slow down.
> why do you think this is?

Because the fundamental nature of Indian politicians is socialist and statist.
> But the lead developer is the worst stereotype for the egotistical god-complex.

This is either a sad state for the project or an excellent use of self-deprecating humor. :)
"We all are. Conservatives and liberals."

Genuine question, does this include black people?
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And yet companies make a fortune betting on markets

Until they don't.

This happened in March, and I just love the Reddit headline:

Someone yolo’d a pension fund

The trade was easy money until fat tails caught up with it. I think Matt Levine also discussed this, as did HN.

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/g5r5n6/some...
This sort of astronomy used eyeballs and oral tradition. What archeological traces would that leave?
Hey there, I checked out usertrack and it looks great! Yes indeed, I just released SessionForward publicly a few days ago and it is curently in its validation stage. Specifically, I want to test if there is a segment of tech oriented PMs, which want one tool in this space, which does one thing only and one thing very well (replays and Heatmaps), rather than dealing with a full extensive but heavy suite of UX/UI functionalities, such as Hotjar and FullStory!
India was in one of the strictest lockdown for a period of 2 months starting March 23rd.
At the _very_ beginning it was just colors. The color/grey setting was added in Public Beta: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/09/macos-x-beta/4/
The converse is also true. Say more to have less replies.

When writing business email, be an epistolary writer. Imagine what you vis-a-vis will feel or do or need at the moment they receive your letter and address that.

Basically, to have less replies is to save time for you and your correspondence. They will not take [1] their time answering with questions and you will have more time not answering their mail.

This is where programming (and business) needs empathy in full.

[1] I thought about using "waste" there but declined that after some consideration. They will not waste their time creating a reply to you - because they'll show you your shortcomings. But they will be more productive in case you hit all the spots and your email does not need to be answered.
It sounds like a perfect answer to those claiming "harassement" is a technology problem.
Hello, I just got informed that I passed the interviews at google and got accepted by the hiring committee. I am a Mexican and I went to college and passed all my courses but I don't have my title yet , it might take a year or 2 to do the paperwork to get my college degree.

The recruiter told me I will start working remotely and then after covid move to the us, what are my options? I have been working as a software engineer in Mexico for two years. I know the TN visa from nafta may be an option for me but I am not very informed, could you help me?
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The touchless screens would be great at kiosks, ATM’s, etc.

One less way to transmit disease. Google has a similar technology in its Pixel phones.
After the AppStore launched the app prices underwent serious compression over time, but a decade later the prices have decompressed and inflated way past the starting point - turns out there were enough people willing to pay for the privilege of using quality goods (codes).

I wonder if news reporting will go through a similar rebound? We've always complained that news don't have a way to pay for themselves, but maybe now there is...
"Only two people can launch a nuke, the president, and the engineer who installed the system."
I've received a lot of newsletters that I never asked to receive. It can be both.
That's just what you'd expect, as in the 19th century Britain probably had more ocean going vessels than the rest of the world COMBINED.
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Indeed. I believe you've phrased it much better then I did.
Alright yea, technically, but push vs polling is a just a low level implementation detail for how to power a a feed.
Welcome to home ownership. Location everywhere.

Most places like not places like Oakland, Berkeley and Santa Cruz County, this sort of thing depends on the neighbors. It's inane what neighbors will go running to the city for. Or not. Friend of mine in the east bay completely gutted and remodeled his house no problem. In San Jose neighbors complained to the city about a disused dishwasher in my garage.
the issue with you calculation is that you are trying to save $40 a month by spending 100-500 person hours and screwing your code base.
They may just have a different system of axiomatic beliefs and are stuck in their own inconsistent state (per godels incompleteness theorem). I actually think most 'disagreements' fall into this fundamental 'human condition' so to speak.
How does one discover new writers in this world of balkanized newsletters? Even more importantly, how does one get exposed to different perspectives? Not necessarily radically different ones either, just writers with blind-spots that differ from those of your 5-10 favourite reporters/commenters/pundits?
Another wrong analogy. If you look at the statistics correctly, you will notice a lot of emigrant from India to to the US tend to be from the upper class
Discussed 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14804018
"Melon" (メロン) in Japan always means honeydew. $100 is a perfectly normal price for a high-end melon (Yubari etc) and the record is over $20000.

https://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-melons-cost-price-s...

That said, the pricy melons are usually bought as gifts, not eating yourself. Compare with eg. high-end whiskey.
Convention and independently-minded is based on "majority" belief. With time "majority" belief changes so the one who was "independently-minded" becomes "conventional". Not sure how to categorize the old-convention minded one as.
I'd love to see your write-up when it's ready!

I think as more people discover this equipment, we're going to see better and more inexpensive software in this space, and hopefully all these projects can benefit from one another.
Diverse in terms of religion food habits culture race and of course language. Over the course of human history India has been a melting pot of people coming from all over the world.
That the tolerances are so precise is exactly why you can do that on most modern rifles. It depends on the design - specifically, how they achieve headspace. On an AR-15, or almost any firearm with a similar bolt locking arrangement, bolts - indeed, entire BCGs - are swappable in practice, and people do that routinely without bothering with gauges regardless of what the manual says. On AK and similar designs, yeah, that's a really bad idea.
I picked this up on Steam and its quite fun for a while, I just hope it continues to see development
the detectives referenced in the article are just a loud da posturing. it's the special operations division, and all they can do is launch a probe -not enforce anything, or arrest anyone.

just because you have a secretary employed by you doesn't mean she's allowed to rewire your electric because you tell her. if the detectives try to actually arrest police or feds, they themselves would be arrested. by the police and the feds.

this da is simply on a power grab, just like trump, while accusing trump of a power grab. 2 monkeys throwing poop at each other in a war about how different they are.
Impacts can and have liquified the entire surface of the Earth (eg the one that formed the moon). How do you plan to survive that?
He copied his martial arts "technique" from the climax of the Karate Kid movie (crane kick trick)?

> Wired Magazine’s “Greatest Self-Promoter of 2008”

Certainly
Yes, this is correct. Sessionforward is based in a fork of rrweb, which integrates into multiple other MIT licensed libraries. As such, it creates a full snapshot of your page and it's mutations, and it then renders them through and iframe.