skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I have a Coinbase account and from all their free crypto promotions I have around $150 of Eth. I'd like to start adding some more to this to hold very long-term - is there a certain exchange or some other way you'd recommend, like Kraken or a hardware wallet?
"Fail fast and opaquely, good luck iterating ya bozo." Good advice, guys, thanks. /s

>So for example if you are denied a home loan, you should be able to request every single scrap of info that loan company collected about you (including any and all credit scores) they used to make that determination

The reason why that doesn't happen is because they're almost certainly discriminating in ways they shouldn't be.
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It must be supremely frustrating to a quantitative person when the statistics meet reality: a jury that says, "well, there's still a possibility he didn't do it, isn't there? You want to have us convict someone on math?"
> a $2k bike

Maybe that's your problem right there. Get a simple bike, leave the house (ok, I know there's Corona, I didn't say congregate), find someplace planar, and cycle in the real world.

In Amsterdam, a decent used bike will cost you the equivalent of 80 USD, maybe less.
Same cons that we came up with too. Which means it’s that’s much harder for anyone who isn’t a developer to make contributions to things like level design.
"New Shepard" is only for tourists or scientists running experiments in the capsule.

Any real payload would be launched with "New Glenn": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn
Just wait until you here about this company called Tesla that is paving the way for “your car is an IoT subscription”.
Oh yeah and this company called John Deere with their subscription model for their DMCA protected tractor that you “own”.
That's a pretty strong assumption. Data that is garbage isn't necessarily going to cause losses. In fact, making the market more opaque (less efficient) will add to profit margins. If all companies are using the same data/algorithm, then even incorrect decisions form a focal point. If all the companies think someone is a bad risk, then that person will end up paying more regardless. Even if one company defects and accurately prices their risk, that company will just lower their rate a little and that customer still won't be getting the rate they would have if full market competition were taking place.
I'm always suspicious of anyone who says "this is a fad" who treats the thing with disdain. If you don't understand what people like about the thing, it seems unlikely you will be able to identify if that desire is going to fade quickly.
I'm not a Google engineer, and I mostly agree with the Google engineers. Guess I've joined my first cult! Can anyone tell me the secret handshake? Do I get a decoder ring?

Less snarky: it's quite disrespectful simply dismiss an entire group of people as a "cult". You seem to spend significant effort engaging based on the affiliation of the person, rather than what they actually have to say.
I don't know if this is still the case, but banks at one time would deny you based on poor credit history also. And so, you get to stay in the "unbanked" category which is just another factor which may keep you in poverty.

The FinTech industry has since grown to the point that being unbanked doesn't need to be a thing anymore. It's easy to pick up a prepaid debit card which you can receive ACH payments on.
It's the invited post list: https://news.ycombinator.com/invited
It is neither harsh nor unfair, it's reality. Your response is a generalisation. Perhaps you've had a great experience in the past that leads you to believe it to be universally true.

But not all doctors do care. I lived in the US for four years and we had a child while we were there. During that process we encountered both an obstetrician and a paediatrician who cared very little. The latter in particular.

Different people are motivated by different things. Some are motivated by wealth, some by prestige, some by compassion, some just by having a stable job. Doctors are people. Particularly in an industry where you can earn a great deal of money, motivations get skewed.

All that said, the parent comment is also a generalisation. People do care, there are some fantastic, compassionate people working in medicine in the US.
> Of course it will affect specific stages more than others

I don't think thats particularly obvious; if a weak candidate is applying above their weight, I would think a resume/recruiter screen is just as likely to screen them out as a tech screen.
The most humanitarian solution to the collapse seems to be a combination of both:

Global Universal Basic Income and Global Carbon Tax.

Global GDP [1] = $142000bn

Human population [2] = 7.8bn

GUBI = $100 * 12 months * 7.8bn = $9360bn

$9360bn / $142000bn = 6.59% of global GDP

6.59% is below the common tax rate.
If it could end all wars forever, wouldn't it be worth it?

Can you survive on $100 per month? Barely anywhere so people would still work but it would be a big step towards rebuilding trust among humanity.

We can only avoid violent dystopia if we solve communication and resource distribution problems.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=global+gdp

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=human+population
"Worse is better" always covers up facts that are too embarrassing to somebody to say out loud.

In the case of x86, Intel's, then IBM's, then Microsoft's thumbs were firmly on the scale. It collapsed vs. amd64 because their thumbs were off.
My goal - my stated goal, that is - is to point out that the engineering approach is flawed. I don't have to explain the degree to which the feature is wrong in order to utilize the fact that it is wrong as a mark against the engineering approach. The approach is wrong, they were told, they didn't change it. End of story.

And you've been misleading yourself: it's not a "single feature" - several features depend on this code. It is a second-class experience, and in ways that build upon other problems I've put into the article.

Cut the bullshit, dude.
I really don't get any of this. Here's the full picture: Larry Wall mostly gave up on Perl 5 in 2000 and announced the next release would be "Perl 6". A few small updates happened to perl 5 up until 2002. Larry started working on Perl 6, forever leaving perl 5. Perl 5 goes stagnant for 5 years, meaning it had no updates released for 5 years. During this time, droves of people picked up python. Perl 6 was no where near complete in 2007, and a small team of devs pushed out perl "5.10" after a 5 year hiatus.

Perl 6 was finally released in ~2018 but by this time no one cared. The perl 6 team feels because of the name 'perl', people aren't adopting this new language, so they change the name. And now a year later, the small perl 5 team is wanting to take perl into the modern age by breaking backwards compatibility. It makes no sense at all, that was the job of perl 6.

It would no different if I started complaining about python 2 not getting any updates and then making a plan to better improve its parser and object model and break backwards compatibility and bring it into the modern age. Python 3 already did that, so like what the heck are you doing???

And then the comments from the perl 7 supporters... saying things like we can either "fight or die" or doing nothing is "certain death" but the alternative is "uncertain hope". I just don't see the point in fighting for something the original author of gave up on over 20 YEARS ago.

I've stated my points [0] before on how companies that stick with perl 5 do so at their own demise. They get cultured into a train of thought where updating software is seen as bad and unhealthy. And if they are a consultancy, their downstream customers also get cultured in to never having to worry about "updates" and/or paying for updates. So then long term contracts with said customer only take into account the cost of feature enhancements instead of "maintenance". So then it becomes impossible to move either consultancy or customer off of the "perl platform" because going to something like django, while a big cost in its own right, would involve a different long term contract that would require paid support and downtime for future django updates/releases. Never mind that finding devs would be easier (and probably cheaper), and the fact that django gets regular security audits and has a much larger plugin/library support ecosystem.

Anyway, to each their own. And godspeed to the perlings out there, I just don't see how any of this is worth it...

[0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23633478
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This is like if Hackernews and TheOnion had a baby. I love it.
Unfortunately, all of these answers are off the mark.

A) Europe has tons of bright people and tons of technical talent - this is not the ussie.

B) Governments don't create stuff. So the 'EU' is barely a government it's not 'they' who can go and make something, or 'have it made'. Even the US gov. would suck bad at copying FB. Granted, if there were no competition, substitutes would arrive.

C) Europe does not have quite the dynamic leadership exhibited in the Valley. Maybe there would be something pop up, but it probably would be a bad clone, it might not have all the nimble features. FB advertising engine is complex, massive, they have huge ad sales division. This is the $$$ the pays for everything.

D) EU is still highly fragmented, and not an immigrant place like SV. Better to think of SV as really a 'global centre' that happens to be in America. Tons of talent from around the world, they come for the money and adventure, not so much to be 'American'.

E) Europeans value quality of life a lot, and in some things it's fine, but in some industries ... it means less competitive.

F) Europe esp. Germany, does not 'get' software in the way SV does.

So Europe has all the pieces but they are not quite aligned.

It's not at all 'easy' to fire on all cylinders and create amazing new experiences.

ByteDance et. al. have zillions of workers, working cheaply, often 7 days a week.

So Europe is good at R&D, Hardware, Lifestyle stuff, and stuff that doesn't need huge scale and major talent depth, things that don't move 24/7.

But EU is not going to build something 'better' than FB or Google anytime soon. But they discover good drugs and make good cars etc..
The main thing that prevents me from DIY IoT is worry about fire hazard. Is there a guide out there for picking right components (e.g. are Sonoff devices solid enough) and assembling them in a way they could be safely plugged to mains, or used to switch mains power? Alternatively, are there guides on how to build battery-powered IoT? I'd be fine powering stuff around home from rechargable AAs if I had a clue on how to build IoT devices like that (IANAEE).
Charitable remainder trusts are setup as irrevocable, if properly drafted. It would be difficult to equitably unwind them after the fact.

Changing how CRUTs are treated ex-post facto would also raise doubts about how Roth IRAs will be treated. There's already people who don't trust that the federal government will keep those tax free.
'land worth' is absolutely not 'cash', it's way less liquid, and 'cash' means ~'immediately' available liquid money.

I wouldn't call the REIT cash either, but maybe that's more debatable.
I travel internationally a lot for work, well I used to anyways, lol. Going to America is always the worst experience. It's longer from point a to b, there's more security theater, and I always get some snide remark from the border crossing person about being an American not living in America.
my guess is because it's really just conjecture about the motivation of journalists or media and entirely unecessary. Also it kind of misunderstands how newspapers work, there is a huge firewall between the newsroom and ad business.

Also this kind of scrutiny is rarely applied to tech sector content being posted here. Given the libertarian anti-regulatory bent that most of them have you could just dismiss it based on conflict of interest.
Ah sorry, you're correct. I checked but forgot about the "?go-get=1" parameter it adds.

The entire thing is a bit hacky, but as mentioned in other comments godoc.org started as an independent project outside of Google and pkg.go.dev built on what was already in place. Was that the right decision? I don't know, I haven't looked at the matter and possible problems in-depth; all I do know it's far more nuanced than "Google being bad at engineering".
Oh that's a shame.

> The API will continue to function until October 1st, to give time for any services relying on it to migrate to other solutions.

Aw no. I was thinking about using invidio.us in my own projects but now I guess I won't!

I have need of a YouTube streaming server, backend only, which I can embed on a web page. I made my own with youtubedown and bash but maintaining it is a pain since YouTube is always changing ciphers and also I forked youtubedown which means I need to adapt my changes to new versions when I upgrade.

So I was thinking of ditching my own and adopting an existing service. Trouble is existing services tend to stop existing. I made my own YouTube streaming server in the first place because I was using HMA YouTube proxy which was always breaking.

So this is a great reminder to me to keep maintaining my own YouTube streaming server.

[I'm using a different VPN today! Is it IP banned?! I don't know. Will this comment be [dead] on arrival?? I don't know!!]
do you mean 'we are doing this' or 'were previously doing this' ?
The article asks "why can't we have one?"

Well, when you can get political, social, and financial factors in the US to give input to <xyz> rail system that such a kind of train service is desired and worth the cost/benefit valued by those parties, then we'll have it.

Otherwise, we're stuck with Amtrak for the moment.
The 40ky Hohle Fels rope making tool made the news in 2016.

https://phys.org/news/2016-07-rope-years.html
I think the deeper insight here is not limited to Cognitect or Clojure: it is that once software gains traction, it is no longer up to the author to determine alpha/beta/stable status. If something is widely depended upon, it will be difficult to change, and it is de facto stable, regardless of the label that the author put on it.
NBA restart: How virtual fans are able to sit 'courtside' in the bubble
I'm struggling to understand on what basis you're saying "almost nothing is oriented toward children". For instance, how many schools did you visit during your two weeks there? Or what are you considering to be "oriented toward children"?
If I host a package outside of the PyPi eco-system though as a wheel, pip while happily install it if I provide a full path to it, and at that point it's not part of pypistats.org
Social media (AKA "election interference") market. You're only pretending to "not get" my point.
If an app is a national security threat, maybe people shouldn’t be carrying them around military bases :shrug:
> You can't leave it unlocked because the device needs to be encrypted. A pass phrase would be more secure but when you're a 400km away from the nearest threat actor there's nothing wrong with a short PIN

Why have it (PIN or password) at all?
I thought about trying tailwind and then saw "Step 1: install via npm"

I am so goddamn sick of having to download a giant mess of JavaScript modules just to use a tool to generate something that has nothing to do with nodejs or it's ecosystem.

It's at the point where I'm in full "crotchety old man" mode and forcing myself to build the entirety of my frontends in pure HTML5/ES6/CSS3.

It's quite liberating, actually.
I'm not seeing many replies that take into account we are in the m̶i̶d̶d̶l̶e̶ beginning of a pandemic which is what was asked.
The only argument against this that I can think of is that the market could continue to go up and up, and your premium gain might be less than what you'd gain through regular DCAing or lump summing in.
I'm not on Facebook, but I do frequent the Twitter-verse, there's a lot of hate there too recently. (A friend of mine who is a longtime hardcore Twitter user says that it wasn't like that in the old days.) Maybe there's just a lot of hate out there at the moment regardless of the platform? I don't even really know what the news panel is to be honest. Do Facebook do their own journalism now or do they curate news stories like Google News?
> I think telling someone not to worry about the details of how something works because you'll get back to it later is way better than showing them the wrong thing and then correcting it. One is a promise kept, the other a promise broken.

I'm not sure I'd say teaching someone to do something by hand for which they could use an existing function is "wrong". There's huge pedagogical value in knowing how powerful tools you didn't make work. Going bottom-up is a very effective way to do that (just ask the lisp folks), and a culmination of "nice job, you've implemented something so useful that it mirrors what the language designers/library authors did as well, here's how to use their version to save time in the future" is far from a broken promise.
TikTok has essentially three categories of users

1. Users that watch, but don’t post anything

2. Regular people that just post random things for fun. These people are essentially using it as instagram for video

3. People making relatively high quality content involving specific subject matter (vlogs, food, technology, sports, etc...). Essentially recreating YouTube channels on TikTok.

The service has historically been dominated by category 1 and 2, but we’re seeing more and more of category 3 now.

And keep in mind that I’m not saying YouTube will disappear - not in the least. There is space for both services to exist. However, TikTok will be capturing an increasing share of the creators that previously had no choice but to be on YouTube.
Why US have to buy it? Can't US make a copy? Is US govt such stupid?
Docker has been mentioned a couple of times but no one has referenced one of the biggest wins of Docker which is it lets you quickly get up and running for things that your Python app might be using in addition to Python itself.

If we're talking about web development with Python typically that means PostgreSQL and Redis too, and probably running Celery in addition to a web server such as gunicorn.

It's really nice to be able to just run a single Docker Compose command and be up and running in a way that works the same on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

This post outlines the differences between creating a Python development environment with and without Docker https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-a-python-developme.... It focuses on the use case of web development.
At the risk of repeating the "Stallman was right" meme, Stallman really was right about this stuff. The more I work in and with tech, the more I'm appreciating GNU/FSF philosophy.

Some time ago I finally understood what's the point of GPL vs. just Open Source - the former is written with end users in mind, not developers. And unfortunately, these days not only developers aren't end users, they're very often working against end users.
Garmin received decryptor for WastedLocker ransomware
I don’t know how many people you worked with closely in two years, but I strongly suspect it’s not enough to properly conclude that “the more tenure an engineer had the worse they were”.

I’ll point out the irony of having this discussion on this post. Many of the Go team engineers have a long tenure, but the author wanted to attribute “good” things only to “not Google” influences.

Yes, the promo system has issues. Yes, there are widely held beliefs about it. But not all widely held beliefs are accurate: there’s usually some truth, but as always, it’s complicated.

Yes, there are some echo chamber issues. But engineers are much more aware of the outside world that you’re implying.

I just think your assertions are pointlessly mean by virtue of being overly broad (in terms of who and what). I like to see specific criticisms of any company, even if backed by an anecdote, because you can learn something.

What’s anyone’s takeaway supposed to be here?
Standing in a train station as a Shinkansen roars through without stopping was one of the most exhilarating things I've experienced. Worth the trip to Japan just for that alone.
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> How do you do Face ID with a helmet visor? How do you do Touch ID with gloves? You can't leave it unlocked because the device needs to be encrypted

Does it? There's a lot more mission critical devices and computers involved in launching and piloting that ship onboard. Are they all encrypted? Every microcontroller? A verified chain of possession for everything going on to the ship seems as if it would be necessary, iPad included. And if that is the case, then is encryption truly a necessity? Keeping in mind that a passphrase was just entered mid livestream.

I'm not saying that encryption doesn't help, and that it shouldn't be encrypted. But I think that "needs to be encrypted" is a little strong. That said, I'm really looking forward to hearing from people arguing against me. Having been working from home since March, with only the occasional social contact, I'd love a good debate right now.
In original Mafia cars behave quite appropriately given time period, so they accelerate slowly. You can also switch to a high gear to drop acceleration further.

They are preparing original Mafia remake to release this fall, which I’m extremely stoked but also slightly cautious about. The update seems to be mostly concerning graphics and I really hope they leave car handling alone.
Apple, maybe, but Google services don't operate in China.
Well, the ruling corporate authority in a cyberpunk state isn't very punk, either. It exists as an edifice to be opposed or exploited by such a rebellious subculture. Maybe Singapore is a cybernetic dystopia in search of a cyberpunk movement.

Also, the street samurai/cowboy hacker trope isn't ubiquitous to every cyberpunk work. Ghost in the Shell, a seminal work, is about law enforcement officers who uphold the state, and occasionally chase down cyberpunk anarchist hackers. (Blade Runner is much the same.) You can have the trappings of the genre without all elements of it.
Interestingly the Japanese shinkansen system has seismic detectors all over the route. If there's enough activity detected then it can automatically stop all trains. Clever stuff.
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I got curious about it and it seems the PIN is 06530, which according to https://www.tutorialspoint.com/letter-combinations-of-a-phon.... can be these combinations, which to my dismay are not very meaningful: ['mjd', 'mje', 'mjf', 'mkd', 'mke', 'mkf', 'mld', 'mle', 'mlf', 'njd', 'nje', 'njf', 'nkd', 'nke', 'nkf', 'nld', 'nle', 'nlf', 'ojd', 'oje', 'ojf', 'okd', 'oke', 'okf', 'old', 'ole', 'olf']

EDIT: I thought iOS PINs should be six digit?
'really nice' road bikes don't start at $1k. More like $3k. $1000 doesn't buy much these days, from the perspective of a serious road cyclist it'll be some barely usable thing with Shimano sora or worse level components on it. And will weigh over 20 pounds.

Someone who knows what they're doing with road bike mechanic stuff can probably piece together a decent dedicated indoor trainer bike for $1000. Using a combination of used and new components.
It's probably just joined to an Exchange email server or something that similarly requires a PIN to be set.
That's why the combination of DoH and certificate pinning worries me - individually they're sound security technologies, but together, they're a nice package to disenfranchise end users with respect to networked devices they own.