skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacker News readers are a pretty biased sample of people -- they generally have direct interests in lowering commissions paid because they run businesses paying such commissions. And advocating that any platform provider is a monopoly restricting free exercise of selling goods. Often, the arguments will be phrased in terms of "should" or "fair" or "can't".

But this is the oldest position in the book and is a fight that comes naturally with commercial activity -- everyone wants to not have a middleman, and fight against it.

The question is, are you entitled legally to have some certain % charged to you? As a matter of "fairness"? Is a platform that controls access to a fraction of mobile device software sales an exclusionary monopoly? Has that prevented you from selling software elsewhere, or exercising your trade as a programmer? I personally (and I have no financial interests either way) think the issue is not as principled as some people make it out to be.
> That is not healthy for anyone that wants a free open society. Consumers will vote with their wallet. Those outraged aren't the target market.

I understand you may be disappointed if you would have enjoyed this kit, but I cannot understand your logic here at all. Either:

1) Lego are adhering to a broader set of principles - acting as in a free or open society

Or

2) Lego are purely seeking to maximise profits - in which case they have determined that releasing the product will, in a broader sense, reduce profitability.

One of these two outlooks is driving the decision right?Which one do you object to?
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I agree to an extent. AWS is beginning to feel like a duct taped spaghetti mess. It is becoming increasingly difficult to do things “right” without getting deep into their confusing documentation.

However, I’m not necessarily sure that it is the wrong approach. You can use AWS at almost any level you like and if you go deep into the woods with any service you’re eventually going to find yourself buried in documentation.
Wittgenstein was one of the first to argue that adding the [Gödel 1931] proposition I’mUnprovable results in contradiction by providing the following correct but somewhat convoluted argument [Wittgenstein 1937-1944] which has been explained by adding explanations of steps in brackets:

“Let us suppose [Gödel 1931 was correct and therefore] I prove the unprovability (in Russell’s system) of [Gödel’s proposition] P [that is, ⊢⊬P where P⇔⊬P]; then by this proof I have proved P [⊢P because P⇔⊬P]. Now if this proof were one in Russell’s system [⊢⊢P] — I should in this case have proved at once that it belonged [⊢P] and did not belong [⊢¬P because ¬P⇔⊢P] to Russell’s system. But there is a contradiction here! [⊢P as well as ⊢¬P]
…[This] is what comes of making up such propositions.”

However, Wittgenstein did not point out that the [Gödel 1931] proposition I’mUnprovable is not allowed by the rules of Russell’s system because of restrictions on orders of propositions.

Nothing of practical importance depends on the existence of Gödel’s proposition I’mUnprovable. As discussed in https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
, the important property of inferential undecidability (incompleteness) of Russell’s system can be proved in a different way without using I’mUnprovable. Furthermore, having Gödel's monster proposition I’mUnprovable comes at the heavy cost of introducing another monster, namely, “A powerful theory cannot prove its own consistency” as discussed here: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
Yes, one would hope so. My guess is that we're still in the data-collection phase. It's probably a tough problem because you want the number of false-negatives to be extremely small.
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I am not sure what percentage of patients still require surgery as opposed to the more modern radiation treatments. My father's radiation treatment was painless except for the placement of the 3 tracking markers in his prostate, and although his side effects were more severe than most, they have disappeared after 3 months. So if prostate cancer treatment does not affect eventual death from the cancer over 11 years, then the questions are whether the treatment improve QOL during the 11 years, and whether the onset is delayed within that 11 years.
I didn't realize there were guns in the 4th century BC.
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Could you expand on how one would do this? I'm trying to figure it out but am a bit overwhelmed.
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

On the compression point:

- I believe the Altinity Benchmarks [0] are from 2018, on TimescaleDB 0.12.1. TimescaleDB has gotten much better since then (now on version 1.7.2), and most notably, offers native compression now (it did not then).

- I believe manigandham's 70% comment is more of an offhand estimate and not a concrete benchmark. But perhaps he can weigh in. :-)

- Re: compression algorithms, TimescaleDB now employs several best-in-class algorithms, including delta-delta, gorilla, Simple-8b RLE. Much more than just LZ4. [1]

Overall, I don't think anyone has done a real storage comparison between TimescaleDB and Clickhouse since we launched native compression. It's on our todo list, but we also welcome external benchmarks. But based on what we've found versus similar systems, I suspect our storage usage would be really similar.

[0] https://www.altinity.com/blog/clickhouse-for-time-series

[1] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/time-series-compression-algo...
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If Trump is re-elected, escape would be essential.
Can you use something tried and tested over something custom?

It's common for people to suggest not inventing your own hashing algorithm because you'll likely make a mistake and open yourself up to security exploits - I'd go further and say don't write your own login system at all if you don't have to.
If you leave school for a year, how hard is it to return? I.e. any re-admission issues?
Apple Will Start Sending Special Devices to iPhone Hackers
I agree this is theater; no serious whitehat researcher would sign a deal forcing them to accept dates from the manufacturer. It won't be useful for its intended purpose.

On the bright side, it will be very useful for jailbreak research and in a way, those bugs _do_ get disclosed to Apple for them to subsequently fix. Not necessarily the way Apple wants, but it does shine daylight on their code.

These guys keep working exploits close to their hearts and don't release them specifically so they can get a look at new hardware. That will no longer be necessary. You find an exploit, you can release it right away.

And on the gripping hand, it will also be used by malicious criminals and state actors to develop zero days for various evil purposes.
It's not knowing what you don't know. Sure, you can stumble into things, reinventing the wheel from time to time, but life gets a lot easier when you know what wheels are going in. I'm put in mind of Konrad Zuse finding out that Boolean algebra was a thing while he was wrestling with the mechanisms needed to make his first machines - just knowing that there was an established formalism and a calculus for binary made a huge difference in how and how quickly his work progressed. If he'd also learned about recurrence relationships, Z2 nd Z3 would probably have been Turing-complete by design rather than merely in potential restrospectively.
This case is similar to the discussion of online shooters and whether they should be banned or not.

It is sad that a vocal minority can sway the public opinion and force companies into submission.

Too many people are ready to be offended over small things, it sucks !
True, but the second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time. So I think the discussion at this point will revolve around whether a spacially infinite universe can be seen as an isolated system.

My original point was merely to use humor to caution against the use of "never", which breeds statements that are never true.
Banks in US Can Now Offer Crypto Custody Services, Regulator Says
There are and have been probes and observatories at L1 and L2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrangian_...
Ask HN: Is your company's code open to all employees
What considerations go in when a company decides to restrict codebase access to respective teams? I cannot see any code another team is working on. How common is this practice? What can one gauge about the company culture if this is the case?
I'm not saying these companies provide any value. Looking how I wrote my previous comment, I might've mispoken. What I was trying to say is that early on, whenever someone pitches B2Cs to me, I tend to think they're all stupid. I don't get them.

That's not to say they don't provide value. Same thing on the B2B side. They provide a ton of value, so no reason to think one is better than the other.
The heart was added in an update maybe 2 years ago. If you had the game longer than that, it wasn't unlocked automatically. Call that a bug or bad user experience.

Suggest you google how to unlock the heart and replay whatever needs to be done. It's really not intuitive if you already got all the characters and cards.
Ask HN: Review My Startup
Introducing Gelry: https://hammadn.wixsite.com/gelry It is Jewelry but as a tech company.

An all in one jewelry box which contains necklace, bracelet, earring, hair-clip, finger-ring one each - which are designed by AI & is sold as a software product giving monthly updates as another jewelry box which contains updated designs.

Would love to have your feedback. Signup if interested.
Google autocompletes a lot of names, and Scott's isn't exactly unique. Checking just now, SSC is not on the front page of a Google search in a private window for his professional name.

Note that if you're already using the blog name as part of your search, then you're not in the protected audience Scott wants to avoid spoiling.
Ask HN: Shouldn't we start ti syntax highlight natural language?
We skim over walls and walls of text every day. Why not use syntax coloring to give more visual clues to the reader?

Would it be a positive thing? How would you do that? Would any dark pattern emerge?
And frankly that's how most of the design docs at Google really are. They're post-facto descriptions put together for the purpose of gaining promotion.
This is fantastic, and here I was using .jpg compression in paint to do it artificially.
My personal stance towards high-risk startups changed dramatically a few years ago when I took on a big chunk of responsibility for my parents' retirement. My "nest egg" that could be absorbed in a pre-revenue startup has more or less been transformed into the house they've retired into. Having my first kid a couple of years later only compounded the effect. (They're also mutually-dependent, since my parents provide essential childcare while schools and daycare are shut down due to COVID. My parents not having to work right now is literally a matter of life and death given their age and medical histories.)

Regardless, "smart, sustainable work that will support my family" doesn't really map to the intentionally-accelerated make-or-break pace of most incubators and funds. Nor do those programs naturally align with founders who want to create a solid long-term business working from sound operating fundamentals (positive cashflow, measured and even conservative hiring, working to the team's strengths) instead of chasing the next exploding market and "faking it until you make it".

Coincidentally those safer, longer-term plays are also the ones most likely to actually build generational wealth and financial independence for people starting without either. The lack of a safety net (or the presence of one that you're thoroughly entangled in for others' sake) makes all-or-nothing, giant bets far less tenable when you aren't effectively free from having to worry about mundane details like housing or medical costs. That in turn discourages if not de facto shuts out both the least privileged and those with meaningful resources but too much to lose if it all goes wrong.
So the best course to take seems to be a combination of the probabilities of each case along with the risk tolerance of the patient, thus it is not a question the medical community can answer, but needs to be an individual discussion with each patient.
The turbines driving the pumped produced 41 MW or 55,000 horsepower each. Absolutely stunning.
I disagree with the article. Universities already offer DIY degrees. They are called General Studies or Liberal Arts degrees. They offer, in my opinion, a much better education than a CS degree.

CS should be a trade school because programming is an unlicensed skill like carpentry or plumbing opposed to a licensed profession like medicine, law, engineering, or even truck driving. You can teach yourself programming and be just as employable as somebody with a CS degree, so why not get a real education while also teaching yourself the necessary technical skills. Why spend that kind money on something you can teach yourself? I don’t have a CS degree and it hasn’t prevented me from getting any job or from being a senior developer.
It's not far-fetched to say that if you have bad teeth, you will chew worse and your digestion might suffer as a consequence.
>that they are even working right now on suing Corellium, a company which makes an iPhone emulator (which again, has strong legal precedent), in order to prevent anyone but a handful of highly controlled people from being able to debug their platform.

Anyone can debug their platform, as they have been. You just need to be approved for this specific program.

Apple's case against Corellium is about intellectual property, and it's frankly going to be a slam dunk in court. There's already established precedent with Apple v. Psystar with an almost identical set of facts.
Has anyone here ever been paid a bounty for a vulnerability reported to Apple?
Honestly, this post speaks a lot of truth, at least in my experience. I use to be subbed to /r/watchpeopledie, really just out of morbid curiosity.

One day I had an anxiety attack because I had a dream that I had a heart attack and suddenly I had a deep fear of randomly dying.

All the random deaths on that sub started to really get to me, I even started to get depressed. It became harder and harder to watch content on it. Eventually I unsubbed from it and gradually bounced back to normal.

I don't really regret it because it gave me a new perspective on life and how valuable it is. But I would be lying if I said it didn't fuck me up in a way.
This is amazing to me:
> "Their conjecture was based on a hunch that an operation as fundamental as multiplication must have a limit more elegant than n × log n × log(log n)"

Only in maths (and sometimes in its "implementation"/ expression in nature in conjunction with physical systems) can such a subjective viewpoint be so powerful.

Also blows me away, at least at first, that multiplying using an FFT would be the fastest method so far. (I guess I have an older mindset based on how slow FFTs used to be.) I wonder in actual implementations at how many digits the perf curves meet at break-even compared to other methods.
Honestly, given how masochistically some gamers chase max-difficulty wins, I wouldn't be surprised if a game in which only 1% of seeds were winnable would be appealing to some.

But it would definitely diminish many gamers' enjoyment, as you say.

Dark Souls is an example where some players just aren't interested in the difficulty (even though the game is winnable), and some players relish it. Perhaps "win % for the median player" and other populations are more practically useful lenses for the discussion of general enjoyment.
Rifles, pistols and weaponry in Star Wars, Pirates, Jurassic Park etc. all bear resemblance to modern firearms.

We regularly found pre WWII Era weapons in Afghanistan, Iraq, and throughout Northern Africa.

In this instance "Realistic weapons don't apply". The argument must stand on equipment children might recognize from hotspots around the world.

There are hundreds of Jets, Police vehicles, Helicopters, Cars, Trucks, that are all based on vehicles in use by the military. The only variance with the Osprey was the branding.
Lego recently pulled Police and Firemen sets for the same arguments. So lets say I agree.

Why did Lego remove promotion for the White House Architecture set? It doesn't represent weapons or military equipment? They did it because someone decided that it was a symbol of oppression. It's pure lunacy.

All of these sets were manufactured after 2010. The only commonality is that someone felt offended. In fact, I can't find any historic evidence of either of these situations having ever happened in the history of Lego (one that is long and varied). It all happened within the past couple of months.

You can't say it's not complete hysteria over nonsense. Forcing all these brands to bend to your unique opinion is horrible. The fact that they're bending is just as deplorable.

Thankfully some brands like Redbull are pushing back.
> all documented in detail

Thanks for the giggle.
> What you don't see behind the scenes of tribal knowledge are people with a lot of it who constantly get interrupted to answer those questions. It ends up being very inefficient at scale. Not to mention the overhead that comes with the person trying to answer the question -- like finding old breadcrumbs about the problem like code or emails.

Absolutely correct, which is where that "good management" comes in.

I managed the team that I mentioned, earlier, and I'd like to think that I did it well.

My single biggest task was to shield people from corporate shenanigans, take on as much of the structural overhead as possible, and be a "gatekeeper."

I managed the team for 25 years. We got a lot done, in that time, but also suffered a lot of "lessons learned." I certainly made my share of mistakes; most of which were about me deprecating my "management shield" responsibilities, in misguided attempts to be a working team member.

I kept my tech chops up in extracurricular open-source work. No one wanted to pay me for my tech skills.
Paul Allen's Stratolaunch has a wider wingspan, but less cargo capacity. Wonder where that monster will end up. It's intended for high-altitude rocket launches and not useful for much else.
Agreed. On the second point, it’s definitely a bit cultural thing of the group/org. Worth note that at the higher level of the Corp ladder, there’s indeed fewer work(with the wanted scope) then the people (that’s looking to do next level work)
To be fair, I think they both likely started on 4Chan, which has those same features.

In a way, it's a natural evolution of the "meme", which was originally a word coined by Dawkins to describe the gene of biological evolution equivalent in cultural evolution. Nobody owns a meme. Rarely can we prove who was actually the first to use a meme (KnowYourMeme attempts this, but occasionally can't definitively identify the creator). Memes keep their virility based on the collective LARP that all humans participate in (sometimes the meme goes away and other times it stays active).
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Your indexing is off :) Propositions (or 'facts' as you call them) are the (-1)-types, whereas 0-types are usually referred to as sets. A way to remember this is that the path-spaces (i.e. equalities) in a set are propositions, bringing you one level down.

While you're right that "proof relevance" is one of the key features of HoTT, I don't agree that what's being described here "is the HoTT point of view". Any mathematical proof bears on techniques that may be interesting beyond the proven result itself; HoTT doesn't clarify or elucidate that, nor does it aim to.
If u like hob, dark souls, rpgs... You will love slay the spire. It's so fun man and was one of my first roguelikes. If you get hooked on a roguelike you are in for hundreds of hours. EASY!
A snuff film is a video in which someone actually IRL dies. There are about a zillion of them.
Having spent the past couple years working on a large design system, I am most excited about @react-aria and @react-stately. There is huge potential for allowing resource constrained teams to build out a truly customized DS in a fraction of the time. Even for a well resourced team, these hooks can make extending their existing DS and borrowing complex behavior much simpler/faster. The biggest challenge for a DS at scale is in how you can adapt it to the infinite edge cases that a product eventually uncovers- while staying consistent and leveraging existing code. I think these libraries offer the best model yet for achieving this. Congrats to @devongovett and the team at Adobe for realizing these ambitious projects and successfully open-sourcing them.
I’m actually not proposing shutting down any website that allows uploaded content, just large / public sites that require this sort of moderation. Not every site gets this stuff uploaded to it. The more private the network, the less need for this kind of company-led moderation.

As far as “worth it” goes, some people have to be exposed to it so long as we have law enforcement (but I’m certainly open to alternatives here). I’m not sure the train operator is a fair comparison, because seeing a suicide is an exceptional circumstance in their job, it’s not the norm. The content moderators, however, are sadly expected to be exposed to traumatizing content as part of their job description — it’s essentially the point of their job.

There are plenty of kinds of work we deem as hazardous to people’s health, and thus are either banned or regulated. I’m not sure if there’s a healthy way to expose people in these moderator jobs to the traumatizing content they face. It just doesn’t seem worth the tradeoff to endanger them like this.
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There are different types of reporting, specifically there's a difference between reporting a story and running a profile.

If your piece is about morale within the state department, an unnamed source who works there could be acceptable. If your piece is "here is this interesting person who runs this community" then identifying who the person actually is seems defensible.

http://egmncorp.com/student-journalist-toolbox/how-to-write-...
The financial purgatory expected by angels is ridiculous and one we never subscribed to and is far too much like a parent child relationship than an adult to adult relationship. Investors who want their founders in a tonne of personal debt and living on baked beans are hurting their investment and stroking their ego.

Investors are trying to sell money, companies are selling a possibly enormous return on that money, it's a win-win and founders should be treated like the professionals they would be in industry.

Start ups have basically unlimited upside risk for investors and totally limited (to the amount of money invested) downside risk for them (and in the UK very healthy tax breaks for investing), the founders on the other hand loose years building a product that may prove worthwhile, don't make them carry years of financial pain and repercussions because they tried to grow your $5-$100K.
It does, when the vast majority of these issues can be drastically reduced by education and strong adult interaction with youth.

This whole issue of peoples feelings being hurt is only going to backfire against those that think it protects them.
love slay, this is really interesting and fun work i would guess. Game is hard but after you play a lot, it becomes less hard because you know a lot. A20 still fucks ya hard, not sure i really enjoy it that much. Climbed to A20 with all 4 chars. Recommend the game!