skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a simple trick that will help you to never ever have a cross threaded bolt: turn the bolt the wrong way until it clicks. That's the step of the threads disengaging from each other. Now they're perfectly aligned to mate so you move forward just a 10th of a turn or so and it will immediately engage. If it doesn't there is something wrong and you need to inspect the threads.
LifeHash: Hash visualization based on Conway’s Game of Life
YouTube Axes Community Captions Feature, Citing Low Usage
Wouldn't work in a lot of places where there's no LTE reception, though that will probably change with things like 5G and Starlink.

I also wouldn't want my ability to pay to be tied to my phone. Not only do I want to be able to pay for things even when my phone is dead, but it just seems like it would add yet another vector of attack to steal my money.
There’s still a ton of interesting content on YouTube. They have taken down stuff that didn’t deserve to be taken down, but it’s a very small portion of overall content. Other than people who are only interested in watching borderline material, I don’t think it affected the average user much. I can still watch a guy marvel in an endearing Canadian accent as he inspects the manufacturing of a $500 toaster.

And YouTube continued to grow quickly last year, so in the empirical sense it is doing well. The nature of the platform is that it is full of content producers with massive followings. If a small portion of those producers get dinged, they can make a lot of noise, but it doesn’t necessarily amount to much compared to YouTube as a whole.
Coming from someone whose goto history podcast is Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, I appreciate you for the suggestion!
Context for those who missed yesterday's anti-trust hearings:

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple said that Apple treats developers equally - under oath. The problem is that Amazon got a special deal. Baidu (the Chinese Google) got a special deal where Apple fast tracks App Store approval for them and have special assigned Apple employees for their app(s). This might be one of the evidence that Apple's CEO lied under oath.
I just asked my CISO, about this product.

He said, "For small, and really small companies they already have the talent to deal with the database directly because that's how they handle most of their problems because they don't have a "console" interface. So this would be just another product for them, and the technical staff wouldn't find it terribly useful because they already know how to interact with the database.

For medium to large companies it doesn't fit because those companies spend all of their time trying to limit direct access to the database, so buying a tool that makes it easier is counter productive.

However, it's a cool idea and looks like it was well implemented."

Oh, I forgot to add that he said "Allowing a 3rd party web site to connect directly to a production database for the purpose allowing direct database manipulation will only happen with companies that don't have a security department, or their "security person" is just in name only. There are so many things that can go wrong that is just not worth doing. Even if this could run on site, is runs against basically all Information Security and IT operations best practices."
> as long as their financials look good.

He's a McKinsey guy. That's all he knows: to make the financials "look good".

Look at the Google search results page. It's chock full of ads if the query even remotely looks commercial. Gone are the days of the "10 blue links" and "get you out of here as quickly as possible". Now they want to keep you on Google's O&O properties, so they can sell you more stuff, as each pageview is looked at as an opportunity to show more ads to you.
If the hn consensus is that ideas have zero value, it should also be that a bulk of smart people also has zero value, in that it isn't the abstract but the concrete. Smart is mostly a bullshit term anyway, we need to be careful and precise in how we use it.

Every company has lots of smart people, it is how it utilizes them that concretely matters.
Ask HN: Best way to publish a free book online?
What's the best way to publish a free book online? Possibly by allowing readers to comment and interact? Topic would be technical evangelism.

I am looking at https://www.gitbook.com. Have you used it? Do you know any good alternative?
Getting back to your code after a while. What have I done?
I recently watched a great video showing a toaster from the 40's.

It's amazing the features and engineering used to make such a little gem:
https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y

All this without IoT, Block chain or Deep Learning ;)
The examples you give are driven by competition forcing the suppliers to share their economies of scale. Those deals are available to everyone and the pricing is also upfront.

This Apple-Amazon situation on the other hand is a secret deal between two monopolistic powers, that's why it's coming up in hearings on anticompetitive behaviour. Such a deal is not available to everyone equally, it's not at all similar to Monoline / homedepot pricing.
This is why "we've had enough of experts" is such a dangerous mindset.
On anything with two wheels you better be sure that you inspect it and if at all possible work on it yourself. Your life depends on just about every single bolt. Think ground bound helicopter levels of care.
I haven’t had success with that. It’s hard enough to just get procedure codes out of them so that I can ask the insurance company how much something will cost.
For people running into a paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20200730155558/https://www.bloom...
I would hope that a card would be flagged as suspicious before a hundred tries. They’d still could get some transactions through, but that would cut the success rate by a couple of orders of magnitude compared to just hoping that the bank won’t check.

What really needs to be done is letting go of the magnetic stripe.
There's a big grey area between two family businesses doing deals to help each other out and two dominant market players tipping the scales in their own mutual favor to keep out other players.

Problems ensue when the behavior is anticompetitive, and when one or more of the parties engaged in the behavior have a dominant position in their market.

This played out with Microsoft's abuse of its dominant position in the operating systems space to advance their browser ambitions.

Apple presents a really interesting case here, since they pointedly do not have a monopoly on mobile app stores -- Apple's mobile business is a minority player measured by device count, and a majority player by revenue. IANAL, and not even really an armchair one, so I really have no idea if their majority-revenue position matters, or is sufficiently dominant, etc.
Bloomberg itself reported in 2016 that fees were halved for all video streaming services: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/apple-is-... . You could take this to mean that rather than negotiate a special rate for Amazon, they changed App Store rules for a whole category on the store, informed by discussions with Amazon.

Hard to know if that's actually how it went down based on the info that's out there right now though.
I like that lens of analysis, thank you for sharing.
I think the "fit men" can be an issue when you are testing whether a drug works to reduce severity (treat) an infection. However, the question of whether the vaccine actually prevents infection should be relevant regardless of the level of fitness. You should probably only vaccinate half of them and when inevitably an unvaccinated person gets it, you should have very good data about protection two weeks later. This is all just a thought experiment of course (unless there are volunteers . . .)
What store? I specifically buy the elderly people in my family iOS devices so that they are restricted to things from Apple’s App Store.

Unless someone came around and showed they have a better track record than Apple, I wouldn’t be interested in changing. But I suspect they would be just as restrictive as Apple is now.

Not worrying about malware and tech support is worth so much in saved time.
Referer and Referrer-Policy best practices
I think it definitely is pretty standard. What's not standard is, when you are buying physical goods like that, you have competition. You can source better rates.

With Apple, you have no competition. It is accept the pricing model, or leave.
No, US interchange fees pay for "reward" cards. You charge everybody 5% extra, you give Karen 5% cashback, she thinks you're "rewarding" her and everybody else get screwed, the payment network keeps the difference.

The EU caps the interchange fee, does that mean the networks exit the business because they can't make money? No. Does it mean they've eliminated fraud? No. But it does mean they can't pay Karen 5% "reward" so they don't. There aren't any cards like that in Europe. For everybody else it makes the system cheaper.
Scientists Just Released a DIY Covid-19 Vaccine Under a Creative Commons License
> Each time I read a story about how doing X improves a child's ability I simply think, well yeah, paying more attention to them does that.

This is a problem with a lot of research on educational methodologies as well, in that there is usually some selection bias being applied to the teachers participating in a study, as well as a placebo effect.
Ok, I agree, but is a kid who spent several years on intentional chess practice better academically then a kid who spent several years on intentional math practice?
CEO Blog: Some news about fundraising
It looks like they're trying to shame the publishers, perhaps in the hopes that 'cancel culture' will benefit IA.
It's pretty risky for a news organization to directly accuse one of the most powerful men in America of a crime. It's much easier for them to present facts and let people read that out of it. (And I nearly guarantee you the Congresspeople who spoke with him yesterday will see this article.)
Metasearch engines are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

Here's a nice one with many public instances you can try: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
Yeah it is ironic, isn't it? I've never seen one on the ground, and only rarely seen them on cliffs.
Welcome to earth. You get what you can take, not what you "deserve."
This matches what I'm seeing as well--smaller companies looking for AppSec often want to bootstrap a new program.
I'm seeing it as well. I haven't been able to find any experiment combinations that work but if you know of any, my email is my profile!
Some of the Standard Oil companies have been re-merged into Exxon-Mobil and they'd gladly do more mergers if they were allowed to.
Ask HN: Who is your role model for Entrepreneur?
Forget the cliche' Steve jobs and Bill Gates, who are the Entrepreneurs whom you regard as your role models? And also, what are the qualities that make an Entrepreneur a good role model?

I'll start:

Joel Spolsky

David Kelley (IDEO)

Jason Fried (37signals)

The qualities:

* Smart AF

* Humility

* Openness

* Willingness to make mistakes in public

* Unapologetic when things don't work as intended

* Transparency

* Process oriented

* Creative

* Innovative

* Not narcissist / sociopath manifestations

* A laissez Faire type of leadership within a very structured Strategy and strict hiring practices (they hire really smart AF people)
> and all of us would be way more likely to be able to set aside money for college, what with us not having to use our incomes for rent.

Savings from a child's part-time job would not come anywhere close to the hypothetical $250k proposed for the trust fund. This is a completely unconvincing argument. And you are still defending theft rather than condemning it!

Do you honestly believe it is acceptable for parents to steal money from their children? If not, why are you arguing that children should work to make up for the stolen money?
The point about subjecting your external vendor to the technical audit of their security services as well is a good one.
You leave as in going to Lowes? Or going to Android?
And what if a more radical piece of demonstrably false information ended up being believed by enough people that they'd rise up to take corrective action?

Will there come a point where the only way to prevent violence from demonstrable falsehoods and flamebait social media posts would be to protect people from themselves and their ignorance?

If that amounts to censorship, then maybe the focus will have to be deflecting the rioters than forcibly removing the information.

I thought about this a lot recently. Why We Sleep is still legal to buy in bookstores but people have shared anecdotes of friends who have read it and gotten insomnia and anxiety from the advice in it, and in the end so much of the book that was responsible for triggering that anxiety was provably false or unsourced. So why do we still let people read it, if them doing so is a net negative? Because they didn't do enough research, so it's on them if the book causes harm? That's strange, given that people on the other side wish there were public retractions or ways to stop people from reading the book. It feels like the people that did the research are just unable to do much but watch the damage such misinformation causes to unfold because the misinformation is already in such wide circulation that it can't be prevented from being read by people who, if they got possession of the book and read it, would believe it fully and inadvertently do harm in some way.

So if a person is just not going to do the research, which I'm not sure is possible to be helped in every circumstance, and the only difference between their life or other innocent people's being impacted negatively or not is whether or not they become aware of the misinformation and read it, then what's the solution? Is there a solution at all?
Sure - the hypervisor is the isolation vehicle - the same as firecracker.

The only? reason I can see for wanting to deploy N unikernels to one AWS instance is if you want full control on the orchestration of things like multi-tenancy, however, it is very much possible and it is possible on GCloud as well. It should be noted that you are in the same boat as firecracker here. They both use virtualization.
I hope this amounts to something. Apple and others need to be held accountable, especially when there is blatant evidence.
But I honestly think nothing will come of it, since Apple is America's golden boy, investors love Apple because of it's growth and consumers love their products, bordering near fanaticsm of the brand.

Just look at HN and read the comments regarding Apple. Any thread which speaks something positive about Apple (even when it is fake news, like today's false claim about the App store refunds) gets upvoted to the sky, but dare say something negative about Apple and people will hunt you out of the woods.

Devs sure love their Macs.
P.S. Windows all the way
Yeah, if it turns out that a standard rate of 25% would work out better for them than 30%, they should lower the rate to 25%. Is the current app ecosystem not vibrant enough? I think they’re doing fine as it is but it’s very literally not my business :)
> This kind of approach could and should replace rust.

Rust could definitely be augmented with formal verification; it's just that this requires more research into semantics for Rust itself and Rust-like languages - especially wrt. the 'unsafe' subset.
If you do not have insurance, then most medical bills will be discounted. However if you have insurance, they won't give you a discount beyond what the insurance company negotiated.

I'm part of a healthshare, which isn't considered insurance, so whenever I have a health care bill, I ask for a "self insured discount", and most places give anywhere from 10-50% discounts (the more common in my experience being closer to the 50%). In my experience labs (blood work) tend to have smaller discounts (10%) compared to hospitals (35-50%).
oh no not a 40% higher cavity rate! what a joke, just because there is a higher risk of cavities doesn't mean it's bad to want chemical free water
Of course, but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that some organizations explicitly create the incentive for criminal or unethical behavior, fail to setup the safeguards to prevent it, and then use the line level workers as scapegoats if they get caught.

This is significantly different than a good faith organization having some members engage in criminal behavior.
> UBI, to a significant degree, keeps you from falling into debt in the first place.

So you are saying the current poor already in debt are screwed, but the rising generation can use UBI to prevent themselves from getting into debt?

Plausible, but again, I doubt it. Like I mentioned earlier, a big chunk of the middle class are living above their means. If you suddenly have more money, for a lot of people it just means you can go into bigger debts for better housing, better cars, etc.

If middle class people with dual incomes are living life on the knife's edge, with little savings and big debts, why wouldn't the poor do the same if they suddenly had more money?

Where does the voice of frugality come from? You act like it's an instinct people naturally develop when things are stable, but it's not. I was taught frugality by my parents. I have many middle class friends who were not taught frugality by their parents and guess what? They have much nicer cars and bigger houses than me (but also deeper debt and less savings).

> Indeed, these things are bad. I'm claiming they're a symptom.

Predatory insurance/warranty companies are a symptom of what? I claim they exist as a consequence of exploiting ignorance. A $1k monthly check won't make that exploitable ignorance go away, and indeed it will continue to be exploited, perhaps to an even greater degree. Then what? UBI proponents will have to argue for a bigger and bigger monthly check until we are practically a communistic society.
The brits like to think they are First with everything.. when lots of times its repurposing others idea..
I'm definitely not as savvy - can you expound on how the decisions that Ballmer and Muglia made paved the way for Nadella's success?
Getting rid of copyright for content may lead to extensive DRM for books; I'm not sure whether you're in favor or against, but HN seems to hate DRM.
I guess thinking about it, them knowing they're basically giving away ink as I described would be just another confirmation that ink is basically free to manufacture and sell.

Print heads probably aren't, though. I mean, I was thinking that a $160 MSRP for the four-cart CMYK set from HP seemed absurd, considering that an eight-cart set for my Pixma Pro 100 only runs about a hundred bucks. But then I remembered that that Pixma set is just ink tanks and ink. The print head is a separate part - and it costs $350.

Given the precision manufacturing requirements for a modern inkjet print head, it would not surprise me at all to learn that the economics of the Instant Ink program actually work out as well for HP as they do for me, despite that the way I use the program means I get basically free ink. What I mean by that is, part of the deal I forgot to mention earlier is that you use the packaging from the replacement cartridge set to ship back the cartridges it's replacing - I would not be at all surprised to learn that those carts get refurbished, refilled, and reused, and that the reason it can work so cheaply and no one cares is because (damage and mishandling excepted) it's still saving the manufacturing cost of a new print head.

Likewise, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that if you subtract profit from that $160 MSRP for a fresh set of HP CMYK cartridges, you'd find most of what was left going to pay for the four print heads in those cartridges, not the ink that you'd be running through them.

Does anyone in the "printer ink costs more than gold" discourse ever think about this? I don't recall seeing it mentioned anywhere, and I guess that's fair since it was only thinking about my relatively unusual high-end photo printer that led me to realize it. But I feel like it might be a pretty important point in that whole discussion.
Henry Wallace? https://www.conservapedia.com/Henry_A._Wallace

"A sympathizer of the Communist Soviet Union, Wallace was replaced as VP by the dying President Roosevelt, a Freemason, with fellow Freemason Harry Truman. Wallace then became Secretary of Commerce, but opposed then-President Truman on the Cold War, arguing for friendship with the Soviet Union. He was fired in 1946 by Truman for giving a pro-Soviet Union speech, and then ran as the Communist-supported Progressive Party candidate against Truman for President in 1948. The CPUSA took control of Wallace's campaign and he won few votes."
In my mind, this is basically a form of network peering, but on a biz-dev level. These two tech giants are peers in many ways, such as customer reach, developer footprint, company size, global stature, etc. Amazon wasn't able to get a zero-fee arrangement, but half off is pretty good.
AI is expected to boost India’s annual growth rate by 1.3% by 2035: NITI Aayog
Not sure the smart the post talks about here is IQ, if it is,
I believe there is no such thing can make children's IQ higher.
sure, will ping you if I find.
Perhaps ;) The methodology behind the model can be applied to other binary short text classification problems given sufficient labelled training data.
Two-factor authentication is the "Are you sure you want to X?" pattern applied to logins. While the world has been moving away from that interaction pattern elsewhere, it was simultaneously introducing it in a high-friction way somewhere new.

The takeaway from the attempts to eradicate "Are you sure[...]?" has been to just do the thing the user said to do, but make it easy to undo rather than double checking. It would be interesting to see how that philosophy could be applied as an alternative to 2FA.

EDIT: Boy, the replies that this comment spawned sure say something about HN. I count one (muxl's) that has any sense of self-awareness. Do you really believe that I don't understand the "purpose of 2FA"? Come on. Be more charitable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

EDIT2: It's a little weird that folks who start out with the goal of being intellectually lazy are willing to put so much effort into it.
Definitely agree that my analogy is on the opposite side of the spectrum, but it was the best I could come up with to try and establish where I was coming from with my question.

As another user helped me understand with the context of this is there is a bit of an issue with Cook's denials to Congress vs. what's actually happening. And your point regarding scale is certainly understood.

I suppose I'm just having trouble with where the line gets drawn, so to speak.
On Inflection Points
Well, to be honest, the negative beliefs about Facebook and Palantir are pretty common; I suspect rather a lot of people here would agree that Facebook is "poisoning the very communities that gave them opportunities to thrive" and Palantir is creating "a nightmare surveillance state".

If that is the case, it seems like Stephen would be just a little less hypocritical than most, trying to convince programmers to actually follow through.

A short while back, I mentioned here that Henry Petroski said that the origin of engineering ethics is that engineers shouldn't compete solely on price. That hasn't been the case for a long time, not since some bridge fell down and killed a bunch of people. Now, engineering ethics involves saying "no" when you boss wants you to do something you feel is unethical, illegal, or just plain stupid. Nobody wants to do that. It hurts. But some people think it's a part of professional behavior.
The Amazon deal appears to buttress lawmakers’ claims that not all apps are treated equally, a contention Cook rejected during the hearing.

“That is not correct,” Cook said when asked if some developers are treated differently. “We treat every developer the same.”