skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its crazy to me that gdp only shrunk by 9 percent for the quarter. Thinking of the fuel that wasn't used, the entertainment services that weren't consumed, the non essential shopping that wasn't done and then all of the side effects like reduced financial transactions on the other things that didnt happen, it's crazy to me that that wasn't more than that.

Thinking through this does help me to see why you have to annualize if you aren't doing a quarter to quarter comparison.
I think they've got a tough legal case. I think they will lose the battle, but I hope win the war. Maybe they can somehow get a win in the court of public opinion.

Since they are probably going to lose anyway, I hope they go down swinging and start the conversation to abolish all copyright and patent laws. I for one am tired of all these obtuse groups who think their minuscule contributions to our common intellectual library, which are mostly regurgitated ideas from the past thousands of years, entitle them to some monopoly profits and control over others.

Personally I think the 13th Amendment should be their argument. But I think that's a losing strategy, at least for the next 20-50 years until popular opinion wakes up. But if you're going to lose anyway...
> I have my doubts Apple (or Tim Cook) is going to end up being taken down for committing perjury. But these Congresspeople will be making recommendations and/or introducing bills on regulating these companies, and my guess is that their distaste for being lied to may tinge their attitudes as they legislate.

Based on what’s happened with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg so far, which is nothing substantial for the company or him, I wouldn’t worry about Apple or Tim Cook.

I do believe that Apple has arbitrary policies with too many twists and turns on the App Store and that it’s high time it cleans up that part sooner though.
Grinding corn and butchering game are also activities that would be relatively uncommon for the foraging humans that started communicating with more complexity.
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The ultimate solution to the looming GPT-3 problem is another AI that can strip out all the flowering language, distill text to claims and logical operations, cross validate that, flag incoherent content and present coherent content in a short form.

For example your processed post could look like that:

- Author claims his fast reading speed at 800 wpm

- 400 wpm with good comprehension

- 50 words when reading carefully, with effort

- Claims people read that last way when disagreeing with the premise

- Claims that it takes an hour to read one article

- Claims that it is rare

- Claims GPT-3 can write filler text like bad students can

- Claims it can appear coherent

Those can be automatically cross checked with each other and external knowledge base, duplicate reworded posts could be found, and even humans could read those more carefully and detect problems because claims and logic are already extracted from the text. I suspect this is what we do internally when reading things, but with more speed comes more things to keep track of, which is hard so we tend to pattern match word salads instead, because we have wetware optimizations for that.

I want to see that in the next generation of content blockers. :)
One of the issues ignored here is the nature of cascading failures that happen during a breach due to password reuse. If a user is compromised through an active credential forwarding attack like the one described the user's account could be compromised on that service. Afterward, however, when the user's credentials are re-used by the attacker to access other accounts that attack is made significantly nosier and ineffective as the user would get an SMS for other services using 2FA.

TL;DR getting a text message every time someone logs in as you is going mean you're much more aware of what's happening with your accounts. Having that text message contain credentials means if it wasn't you logging in (and hence you weren't expecting an SMS) then the login fails.

EDIT: Password managers are great and I'm all for promoting them probably more than 2FA even. The difference between a password manager and 2FA is that a password manager does literally nothing given that your password is known. In that same situation 2FA still does do something and so this appears to be a false dichotomy.
> Like I mentioned earlier, a big chunk of the middle class are living above their means.

The middle class aren't the people who are on SNAP today, you keep changing the groups you're talking about.

> You act like it's an instinct people naturally develop when things are stable, but it's not.

I'm not talking about frugality. I'm talking about long-term planning. Which is aided by stability.

> Predatory insurance/warranty companies are a symptom of what?

A symptom of poor people who are in debt and don't have the time or energy to actually understand how or why. They're overwhelmed. If you aren't in debt or know the extent to which you are actually in debt, predatory "amount due" stamps don't work.

As far as I can tell, you seem to be arguing that because scammers exist, we shouldn't implement UBI, because scammers will just get all the money. So what about all the people who are poor but wouldn't be scammed?
Huawei overtakes Samsung as top smartphone seller: industry tracker
If you work at a for profit company, your “value” is measured by your contribution to the bottom line in how you help the company make money or save money.
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Someone had to pick up the mantle after Hunter S Thompson offed himself in the early 2000s.

Nor does him being a smirking fratboy make him less incorrect. As time progresses all of Hunter Thompson's quotes about Nixon and his cronies (e.g. Roger Ailes) seem more true and prophetic than ever.
Yes, there was a midterm held in 1918.
I’m fairly certain a conventional company was the plan all along. Why else bring in Eric Schmidt?

Any perception that it was not is marketing to push down engineering salaries.
Does Apple treat other video streamers differently than Amazon?
That power bit is the important bit.
Much of Pixar's software is entirely in-house. They already pay internal devs work on programs such as Presto. I'd be surprised to see them give up that sort of control.
"Disclosure: I am an investor in Kadena, a blockchain implemented in Haskell"

Dianne has been threatening to get me a "I'm sorry the sound of my eyes rolling bothered you" T-shirt.
But this is to the benefit of the executives. It doesn't mean that shareholders and consumers wouldn't be better with a split of the companies. This is a clear case when the greedy of a few trump the interest of many. The right thing to do is to block consolidation of companies.
Overall, debit cards make much more sense than credit. Their purpose is just to move money across accounts, not to entice you to overspend and then prey on you if you forget the magic dance, or datamine your spending patterns. There is no intrinsic reason for credit cards to be safer.
This is a study that consists of surveys of working people to determine personal factors that contribute to a likelihood of being infected with COVID-19. One interesting data point suggested that taller people were more likely to be infected possibly through aerosol vs droplets. Here it is being discussed on twitter - https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1288337248035848193
I dunno, the women with 41k was probably doing something sketchy. Having lived in Africa for years, let me tell you, you never, ever, ever want to traveling with large amounts of money across airports. The chance of her having over 50% stolen in bribes is very close to 100%. There's also maybe a 10-20% chance that all of the money would be taken and divided up by officers at the airport.

No one would take that risk, unless they were really desperate or doing something that they couldn't have bank records for.

That's not to say that what Homeland Security did is okay, I think it's totally fucked up that government agencies can just steal your money and then spend it themselves. But I don't buy the medical clinic for women story and I'm guessing neither did they.

Every single time I've traveled in an African airport I've had to pay a bribe to get my bags back. I've also had to give officers at the airport some of my stuff. It happened so frequently that I would purchase stuff like Bluetooth speakers, cigarettes, cheap cell phones, etc just for them, in order to distract them from the more expensive stuff.
Stack Overflow HAproxy logs likely don’t have too much sensitive information. These are most likely logs about visited pages with timestamps - maybe with client IP addresses.

Storing them raw can make sense. You might later come up with new ways to analyze the data which your aggregation logic of choice does not support.
> In addition to spam, we're talking about stuff like newsletters, promotions, notifications, updates, mailing lists, etc.

Much of that flow could be replaced by RSS-based notifications and the like. E-mail might be justified when you want your stuff to be auto-archived, but perhaps any message you would delete immediately after skimming it should just not be sent in the first place.
Absolutely. The Apple-Google-Intel-Adobe collusion to keep salaries down was an example of this.
Unless, of course, the same deal was offered to all video streaming companies.
How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book
Yes, but my understanding is that the final product is "static", meaning that there is no way for readers to contribute to the book or comment on sections of the book.
^ Posted yesterday, with more comments. To sum it up:

"jasonpeacock 1 day ago [–]

He's arguing not just against SMS-2FA, but against 2FA itself, and his simple solution is to "just use a strong password".
The author completely misses the point about the value of 2FA itself. I agree SMS-2FA is not good, but that doesn't mean 2FA is worthless.

reply"
Definitely let the students get the "big boy" certs, not student-catered ones; they're too easy, the students can do a lot more, it would be a waste.
The Venture Capital Flowchart: Find, Decide, Win, Help, Exit
Yeah, to clarify, all of my successes were before Obamacare.
It’s not about being “woke”. The idea is that the only thing that matters whether you get a job is how well you can do your job and how well you collaborate with your coworkers when it comes to adding value to the company.

Your religion (or lack thereof), your race, your outside hobbies, your sex, your sexual orientation shouldn’t matter.
This.

We have very complex business logic directly tied to our Rails / ActiveRecord validations (and, btw, they are a blessing).

Also, it's not only validations. We rely heavily on ActiveRecord callbacks, which are awsome. We have hundreds of before_save, after_save, after_create_commit, and so on, all over our models, and they are also indispensable to our business rules.

For a simple example, if I need to sync my User model with Mailchimp after an e-mail update, this tool would not fire the after_commit callbacks.

Having said that, I would definitely pay for a "service" that would act as gem in my application, mount itself on a specific endpoint (think /turbo-admin), and give me the exact same feature set I saw on this landing page, but with the ease of mind that all our updates would go through Rails, running validations and callbacks.
I think they are trying to imply that, because some crypto projects are targeting similar markets, there might be some conflict of interest that motivated Diehl to create his post.

To me this reads less like a smear and more just "this could be why he dislikes crypto that much".
Thanks. Do you think that a lawyer has enough competence to be able to do this, despite they might not understand the technicalities of the patent itself?
Given that ~1 hour of video is uploaded to youtube per second and assuming 5mbit/s for the video data, then you can store under a days worth of youtube videos on that current-day ice cube (it will be full in about ~15 hours worth of uploads (if I didn't miscalculate)).
Was this figure from the previous quarter or the same quarter last year?
That might not last, the younger crowd seems to be going for TikTok these days.
He's working on the same ledger tech but centralised, and calling out firms working on blockchains unrelated to scams like OneCoin.

Edit: To be clear, I like his blog posts normally and am not trying to smear him. I'm just saying it's not a fair comparison.
Streaming platform Peacock has added 10M customers since April
The fixes they propose are good ones, but aren’t grounded in reality. They ignore how we got here in the first place. Citations matter as a proxy for importance. Negative studies are inherently uninteresting. Companies fund groundbreaking work because they want to be associated with a breakthrough. Scientists publish in bad journals because their careers depend on it - it’s an entire lifetimes work to get tenure and research grants. They can’t just throw that away. Journals publish lousy studies because they don’t have enough good ones - the journals will not self destruct in order to slim down for us.

To fix the system will take a more honest look at the incentives of the people/institutions who create the incentives, and so on.
IMO, someone who perseveres through the horribly difficult early stages of learning an instrument to the point where they can play something passably well is learning delayed gratification. The ability to delay gratification is directly correlated with success in life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
I think the idea is very cool, but similar to the parent comment I have a lot of reservations about how the economics of this work:

1. I get that it seems like pretty much any software business isn't feasible if it doesn't involve a subscription model, but this seems like the last thing I'd be willing to pay a subscription for. I'd pay for what is essentially a good template, but after that, I'd want to own it.

2. In one of the Medium posts the author posted he mentioned that architectures can be 'ejected'. How does that work with your pricing model?

I guess a pricing model where you paid a subscription fee for additional services (some sort of monitoring, automatic upgrades, etc.), but with the option to pay a flat fee at any time to 'eject', is something I'd consider.

But yeah, 20% of cloud spend in perpetuity is steep. More importantly, I put anything that is a perpetual spend under an extremely critical lens, especially something expected to grow linearly with revenue.
The simplest way to 'game' multiple choice based forms of IQ test is to guess the multiple choice options when you don't actually know the answer. This isn't likely to allow you to fake genius, but will boost your score relative to a majority who don't attempt all questions unless there's a very well-designed negative marking scheme.

Willingness to guess answers to ensure the whole test is completed probably is associated with many of the success outcomes associated with higher IQ scores, but it isn't exactly what most people would consider to be intelligence.
> "Siemens is an investment bank that happens to own

All conglomerates are like this, the clearest example is Berkshire Hathaway.
is that worth however many percent of the worlds energy usage?
I'm certainly not going to argue against your points here, since I agree with them, by and large. I personally am not a fan of FB or Palantir, and I suspect I dislike the surveillance state more than the average HN reader. My comment was more on his word choice (which I find to be a bit hyperbolic)
Yikes. Stories like this make me increasingly think about options like Surgery Center of Oklahoma if I ever need a procedure done and I have crappy or nonexistent insurance. (https://surgerycenterok.com/)
It's not as straightforward as 'thinking differently'. Diversity of knowledge, experience, and skill is extraordinarily valuable but if you...

* hoard knowledge

* refuse to elevate those around you

* are frequently combative

* lie about your knowledge/experience

* seek to be right instead of discover optimal solutions

... then all of that diversity is lost or wasted.

It's not about diversity for diversity's sake, it's about sharing in diversity and using all of the differing perspectives to reach optimal solutions that your organization would be blind to otherwise.
The second await does not start until the first await resolves the first promise, but that doesn't mean network activity for the second initiated request isn't still happening in the background.
"...posted to their blog what amount to advertisements for Cardano."

And that would seem to be exactly what Stephen is complaining about.
Hey Jeremy, congrats on the launch! Neat product, wish you luck. In the article, I did find a couple of minor errors you might want to look into. Not meant to nitpick, just a human version of spell-check :)

"Do this startup will be alive 6 months from now?" can be "Will this startup be alive 6 months from now?" and

"Do my architecture will remain usable if I want to stop using Revolv?" can be "Will my architecture remain usable if I want to stop using Revolv?" Good luck.
It’s a systemic issue. In jurisdictions where banks cannot shift the risk to the customers, they tend to be more effective.

In the few European countries I know, banks are very pro-active about card fraud and refund without asking questions if fraud happens anyway.

Nasty people will get funded anyway, but reducing fraud also reduces their income. The main drawback is that people have to use their PIN (and even that is getting rare thanks to contactless cards).
That's because people are obsessed with this idea of a one-size-fits-all great engineer.

A generally great engineer to a startup is somebody who can ship fast, make good enough decisions and trade offs, can think on their feet, and is a jack of all trades.

A generally great engineer to a big company is somebody who can work well with others, can follow process, can work within huge code bases and abstractions, and follow architectural best practices.

These two do not necessarily overlap.
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Problem is that attackers can take advantage of that random internet forum to take over your bank account. Plant something that you would click because it is on your account and it downloads some malware. Could come up with more scenarios probably like they could target someone else from your account and use trust you have on that forum.

But it is of course question if you are worth their time.
Tim Cook specifically mentioned the 15% yesterday at the hearing for a certain type of subscription app, which Amazon Prime falls under. Not sure about the Baidu case.
That is my favorite anti pattern. In addition to losing the money, your budget will be cut by that amount next year, since you obviously did not need it.
Coffee shops were created as places to socialize. As they turned to places of work in the past decade ... the office i guess was turned to the last place where random socialization was socially acceptable.

Neither of these conditions is unavoidable, it's all about the social convention. I guess if WFH goes on for long enough, people will change their social expectations.

> after 5 years they do not feel identified with the company anymore

Yeah, freedom has a price, but it's tangible, a remote workforce will be closer to gig workers, which does allow them to jump ship easier for better pay, but also ends the idea of a business as "being a family" (which is mostly a false illusion anyway).
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It shrank the empire so much that after the war with Persia, the Levant was heavily depopulated.

...and it was that void that the army of Mohammed filled in the rise of Islam when they conquered the Levant, Egypt, Persia, Messopotamia, and the rest of North Africa in a short period.

Those plagues tremendously changed history.

Historyofbyzantium podcast is stellar, btw.
Wait, are you arguing that 2FA is a waste of time/not actually effective? What alternative do you propose then to provide additional security to accounts?

Or are you arguing purely in the sense of SMS and Email based 2FA?
Pre-acquisition YT was nowhere near as large or popular. Videos used to be tiny resolution, heavily compressed and limited to a few minutes in length. Which is to say, most of their pursuit of "growth at all costs" was well after they were acquired and became part of Google/Alphabet.
> The security risk to bank account details is regionally specific. In Europe, IBAN and BIC numbers are readily given out. One reason why is that they are only used in the credit direction.

That's not true, IBANs can be used for direct debit between supporting banks. That's most commonly used for repeat invoices but some shops also support it as payment option for one-time purchases, although instant payments are taking over the latter use-case.
Good question, but I don't know the answer - my sense is the bigger problem is the recycling tends to happen at low rates, and often involve nasty pollution/byproducts[1]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/02/10bn-pre...
Awesome! Great to be part of this!