skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can anyone yay or nay me here - is this what they do?

A summary/history: https://aletteraday.substack.com/p/letters-2930-palantir

http://web.archive.org/web/20190724214959/http://www.socialc...

Joe Lonsdale, cofounder of Palantir, on what they built: https://www.quora.com/Did-Palantirs-founders-consider-the-et...

Why did Peter Thiel and Joe Lonsdale found Palantir? https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Peter-Thiel-and-Joe-Lonsdale-f...
The USAF needs this to get out of the F-35 cost problem. The F-35 costs so much they can't afford enough. So they have to figure out ways to do more with fewer manned aircraft. (Trying to get rid of the A-10 was the last bad idea in that direction.)
The author writes,

> Arguably, a little friction to slow us down would have enabled both institutions and individuals to make better financial decisions.

But the article fails to bring up the US's rate of interest. If interest rates were allowed to have risen, this would have been just the sort of "slowdown" that the author is looking for.

I find it remarkable that this article could be so insightful, yet lack even a single mentioning of this simple and fundamental fact. Rising interest rates are the market's implementation of precisely what the author is looking for.
Ebola outbreak in western DR Congo reaches 100 cases
This sounds like a feature that should have never been introduced?
On the other hand, it's basically impossible to write in C something as fast as Eigen, because it's exactly the compiler that gets into your face which can optimize away the intermediate layers of abstractions, in a way that would require 10 times the amount of code in C.
I've used PHP in a realtime setting as part of Psalm's Language Server, but it's clearly not built for such workloads – the lack of native async support gets in the way.

If most of the stuff you're doing requires an event loop I'd consider other options before PHP, but if it's mainly serving web requests PHP is my go-to.
This seems like it sort of ties in with NN Taleb's idea of "Anti-fragile" [1].

Perhaps also Chesterton's fence [2].

Maybe also the whole premature-optimization thing [3].

And of course the too-clever-by-half coyotes [4].

Really maybe it just comes down to "be wary of making changes that reduce resiliency."

I was hoping to come up with something cohesive with this comment, but really I guess I just agree with what you say.

And I think there are a bunch of people sort of circling around the same idea, which I don't think we've really quite landed on a precise definition of, just as you say.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_optimization#When_to_o...

[4] https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/
> The only way a small tech company can make any money and be sustainable

Counter argument: A lot of startups in the US that IPO'd and still don't earn money is absurd as well
I wish a wealthy SV person would just buy up Mozilla and get rid of its leadership, how many times have we heard how bad it is?
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...
Yale quantum researchers create an error-correcting cat – YaleNews
Yes. It's an annoying negative sum game we all have to play or spent enormous amounts of effort avoiding.
I posted this in a similar thread yesterday:

> Fisher's Fundamental Theorem: The better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments. -- Gerald Weinberg,"The Psychology of Computer Programming"

It's something everyone should consider in making critical design decisions. Your adaptable, modular system has some risks (particularly in terms of meeting performance targets, increased cost due to increased complexity), but the monolithic system has its own risks (less adaptable to changing requirements, potentially more fragile against attack or damage). Which you choose depends on many variables including your risk profile and anticipated need for change in the future.
>a class of attack wherein non backed up data was at risk

Ransomware is just the act of preventing access to data, with the access being reinstated after paying a fee to the attacker. Generally accomplished by encryption. Whether or not the victim has mitigations, backups, etc. holds no relevance to the class of attack.

>This seems like a failed ransomware attack

It's not really a failed ransomware attack. The attack was successful (they were able to encrypt some data), followed by successful reinstatement of access to the data by using backups, followed by successful extortion by the attacker.
I think policing wrongthink in everyday conversation is about as effective as painting the correct reflection on a mirror. Real respect is earned.
101 GDPR Complaints on EU-US data transfers filed
Taking it down would leave us with w3schools, arguably a lot worse situation than letting the current MDN grow stale..
Or just roll the dice, take a picture of the dice, sell the dice...
No, but places to be hateful on a major platform where users might accidentally stumble into your community and stay are. I would guess that most people who get wrapped up in that stuff stumble upon it, rather than it being something they sought out on their own.
Artive – an anonymous photography sharing platform built on React and Firebase
For around $45 https://www.hetzner.com/sb?ram_from=9&ram_to=13
Actually, the Intel drivers work really well until they don't. With every new kernel release, my laptop shows more and more visual artifacts god knows why.

Hope that their GPU driver quality won't degrade to e1000e levels, where cards freeze randomly or lose links just because they didn't find the passing packets as exciting as I do, get bored and stop working.
Bonus points for linking to jwz from hacker news!
no one is getting arrested or caught in spite of the traceability, unless the hacker is dumb enough to just deposit the BTC on an exchange immediately. The btc is split up and sent through mixers and laundered into thousands of tiny pieces and after a few years or so forgotten by anyone trying to track it.
AMD support is really good, I would put their support on Linux ahead of Intel.
Yeah that makes a lot of sense. It's why we took a year off from teaching to try to make the definitive version of the deep learning framework we really wanted - and even wrote a peer-reviewed academic paper about the design we came up with.

So today's fastai library really doesn't have the issues that we had a year or two back - it's a really carefully designed piece of software. Amongst other things, we've made sure works with the book, which means it has to last for a long time.
Not interested much in deep learning, but wanting to be somewhat on top of it to understand it well, I've done a few courses and skimmed a few books which are available.

The fastai video course was, with a big gap, the best, most understandable, most practical and most enjoyable of them.

Just wanted to say this. Thanks so much for creating it and regularly keeping it up to date!
16 years of losses for a company that does not appear to have compelling operating leverage does not seem like something which would get an enthusiastic Wall Street reception.
Not all ransoms are about denying the owner use of their data. Some ransoms are about publishing copies of the data.
And ruin any semblance of autonomy and not being beholden to the whims of the same kinds of people who add undeletable apps and spyware to new phones and laptops?
Ancient Egypt: Mummies and Mysteries
Democracy in the US has always been under threat, because the elites aren't stupid and realize that letting the masses rule leads to Third Positionism.
Exciting! I’ve been looking for this sort of service from DO for a while.
indeed, seems I misremembered.
It doesn't get moved so much as we discover that a certain mathematical manipulation plus all our previous mathematical manipulations don't amount to an AI.

It also seems like with every breakthrough this complaint is raised without addressing the underlying issues with the new AIs shortcomings.

My hot take: true AI is so far out of reach of our ability it's not even funny, which makes the whole field either a search for the fountain of youth at worst, or at best a search for tools to inform humans or to replace humans in rote tasks. See
https://youtu.be/orMtwOz6Db0
When else would it be? I'm unsure what your point is…
Many advanced nations now have "AWACS killer" missiles with 400+km ranges. I think this is why the sensor suites on 5th generation aircraft are so good.
AMD has revised its silicon (decoupled HDCP stuff from video encoder/decoder to be able to open source video hardware) to enable unencumbered open source drivers while nVidia obfuscates everything deeper and deeper.

It's a big disservice to compare them to nVidia about driver quality at this point.
Browser extensions are probably going to go away, at least in Chrome. Google needs to control ad blocking. They've never been a big thing on the Chrome side anyway. Firefox is down to 8.61% market share worldwide.

As Google removes user control, they can make Firefox go along, since they're Mozilla's biggest revenue source.
Perhaps a floating colony like those proposed for Venus? There might be a Goldilocks zone in the atmosphere. If not then there may still be a comfortable location in near orbit where the heat would be tolerable. It’s interesting to think of ways to overcome an extreme gravity environment though, perhaps suspension in a liquid would counteract some of the effects?
Initially it was like that but I've changed it. I guess I can revert the changes back. Thanks for the kind words :)
Also in government. It’s really good that they are slow and inefficient (although it would be nicer if they were less wasteful).

There is little worse than a very efficient government.
Open source is not the be-all end-all of security either. Closed source apps can still be audited (with increased difficulty), and open source apps might still be impractical to audit even though they are open source.
There was a story published by ProPublica[1] reporting on this sort of progression from the side of people negotiating to pay the ransoms. Here's a small excerpt, but I think the whole thing is worth a read:

Storfer learned quickly never to use the term “hacking.” Instead, he would assume his correspondent “thinks they’re a businessman,” Storfer said. “I’d say: ‘Look, we can’t afford this [ransom] at this time. Do you mind providing your product [recovery key] at a lower rate?’ And it worked,” he said. “They’re doing a job where everyone hates them, so feeling like they were respected made them work with us. I like to think empathy goes a long way.”

The rapport sometimes reaped discounts. “We were able to get a $5,000 ransom lessened to $3,000 because they knew we could deliver it exactly when we said we were going to get it to them,” Storfer said.

[1]: https://features.propublica.org/ransomware/ransomware-attack...
> RSS / web feeds are a bit hard to grok for the average user.

I think basically you want reddit's early marketing, "the front page of the web". Except it's your front page. It's a feed where you can go to see the latest stuff from everywhere you're interested in, rather than having to check each site individually. Like how one's reddit home page shows posts from all the different subreddits to which one is subscribed.

I think the best entry point is probably the browser, like Firefox's "top sites" on about:home. The browser is uniquely positioned to know what sites you frequent. If it also knows where to find those sites' rss feeds, it could automatically suggest adding them (also on the home page or similar). Once you've got that -- people actually using it -- you're over the hump, and it's easy enough to for users to transition to curating their feeds, using a different application, etc
Presumably the people of the future will be much richer then we are. I think there's an idea that over time wealth doesn't grow in an absolute sense - it does. Shipping good overseas makes sense now in ways it didn't 100 years ago not just because shipping costs have fallen but also because incomes have gone up.
The Black Sea is rich on hydrogen sulfide. Googling on cable bacteria and Black Sea showed this:

Cable bacteria can limit sulfide release by promoting iron oxide formation in sediments.[1]

[...] we used laboratory incubations to assess whether cable bacteria can establish in iron (Fe) monosulphide-poor coastal Black Sea sediment and to determine the impact of their activity on the cycling of Fe, phosphorus (P) and sulphur (S). [...] we show that the enrichments in Fe oxides induced by cable bacteria are located in a thin subsurface layer of 0.3 mm. We show that similar subsurface layers enriched in Fe and P are also observed at field sites where cable bacteria were recently active and little bioturbation occurs.[2]

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b01665#

[2] https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2020-292/
I don't think there is any other software that matches Resolve's ease of use and results when it comes to primary or secondary (selective) color correction. I'm pretty sure you could just make a 6000x4000 (for example) timeline (resolution isn't limited to 4K in the paid version) and drop in a bunch of stills as separate single frame "clips", and export as a bunch of stills.
New mysterious bacteria in 2020? Put it back and leave it alone! Maybe next year.
How hard is it to create an opt-in?

GDPR was never about killing Big Tech, it's about protecting your data.
"An election is a poll with the size of all eligible voters."

Not really though.

An election is ostensibly 'perfect sample of the electorate' (assuming everyone voted), which is what makes it 'good'.

It's very easy to get a 'very large sample size' that is still 'very inaccurate'.

In this case, we're talking about potential numbers larger than literal voters, which makes it interesting - but the sample size again is not the issues if we're looking at a 'poll'.
It misses a bigger point: Uber/Lyft drivers don't set their own prices, and can't be considered independent contractors. Nothing stops me from putting up an ad on Craiglist and putting up a price for a gig, and taking more time to complete the gig than I would have gotten for waged labor. It would be absurd to consider me an employee of Craigslist, and rightly so. But if Craiglist forced me to accept a certain price and took their cut, I'm effectively performing waged labor.
Which dictionary? Stability doesn't mean the software can't change. It has more to do with not being broken, than not changing. The latest stable Linux kernel is 5.8.3.
I was pitching the following idea to a friend of mine yesterday:

- the UI should hide e2e/“reallyprivate” conversations by default
- as in "not visible anywhere" (edit: unless the app is in the foreground and you are chatting of course)

Unless you:

- do the “add a new user/conversation"
- then instead of adding mail/GUID/phone you add a whatevercanberemembered number/emoji/sentence that unlocks the private conversation you initiated long before

There should be no trace in the UI that private conversations are going on.

What does HN think ? Why hasn't it been done before ?

Edit: there could even be notifications disguised as another app (news subscriptions, medical reminders, battery low, etc.)
Great story. During my life I've found that assholes of the narcissistic kind have fears or insecurities that clash with their bravado posturing (e.g., a primal fear of dogs, flying, paranoia of being talked about behind their back, cheated on, moving away from their hometown, being seen as bad dressers -- those are the ones I remember). I have always found this odd. I know nothing about psychology, but maybe there's a correlation there?
I don't think many admins would respond to a security breach by taking bribes to break more laws. But maybe they would, and help us clear out these incompetents.
I'm glad to give feedback. I'd prefer to have start up jobs as an option, so I'm incentivized to help with this problem as well. Sorry you are being downvoted as you are at least thinking about the problem and possible solutions.

You say you don't trust someone to get a chunk of equity and then leave after two years, but you asking employees to trust that they won't get let go before vesting. I'm not saying you think of it that way, but that is how it comes across. You want to have your cake and it it too.

Re owning 50.1%: Do you not trust the 15% of employee votes to side with you over the investors? I really don't know much about corporate structures, but I'd love to see the collective employees represent a board vote as well. I have no idea if this is possible.

I would not join a start up without knowing the burn rate with existing revenue/investment (not sales about to close or an investor about to sign papers).

Re-unlimited vacation: What you say is a hassle sounds like offloading your burden as a founder to the employees in the form of a pay decrease. At least in California, PTO is debt owed to the employees, so 2 weeks at 200k is 8k being withheld because of a hassle. Again, does not feel good. Also, I believe in an "unlimited" pto situation employees will only take as much time off as their manager/leadership so in my interview I would be asking what time off my manager/founders have taken in the past year or what you are doing to ensure people take the time off they need to live a healthy and balanced life. I also ask this question at interviews for non-unlimited PTO jobs, but because at least that time will get paid out if unused it isn't as big of deal, although I still wouldn't accept a position if my direct manager hasn't taken at least one week off in the past year.

There are too many creative ways for options to go poorly for an employee. Even with founders with the greatest intentions, things change. Board control can change, divorces can affect shares and control, a co-founder could leave, market conditions could cause well intended founders to have to let people go when things get rocky. If there is medium-success acquisition will the investors/founders be paid before my shares?

Also with options... what am I expecting to be a good payout? $500k after 4-5 years maybe? Thats ~100k a year. With RSUs for actual public stock, sign on grants, ESPP, PTO, etc., the TCO at a FAANG company can be quite high, so it feels like I'm taking on a lot risk to maybe break even? Yes, there is the chance of a billion dollar startup, but those are outliers and aren't representative of most successful startups.

One thing that startups haven't yet started to utilize is the resource of time. Many FAANG engineers make more than enough. If a startup offered me half my FAANG salary for 3 days full time employment with benefits, this is an offer I would strongly consider. It also eases the pressure of PTO issue. Like the old saying goes... Time is money.
I may not be representative of everyone, but these are things have become important to me as I've grown as both an engineer and a person.
Not yet but I plan to release it in the near future. I will put a not to remind you here when it's done.
> > Facebook can't read your WhatsApp messages

> Are we sure it can't?

Google can remotely uninstall, and install a trojaned version of any app regardless of app signature on an official Android distribution.
> This piece was found on Usenet. This is fiction, not reality. Always remember that this is not true. It's really a joke, right? -- Editor
Same-day delivery isn't efficiency; it's made possible by inefficiency, like using more delivery people and vehicles who cover inefficient routes, and using more warehouses closer to delivery areas.

Actually we can't discuss efficiency without making it clear what parameter we are optimizing, at the cost of what (if any) other parameters.

However, usually, if we reduce the time something takes not by cleverly eliminating, rearranging or otherwise streamlining the steps, but rather by some brute force method that requires more resources (more people, more equpiment, more energy), it is hard to frame that as efficiency.
Teenagers don't have phones?

Did all the eligible voters who phone-polled actually vote?

Did they poll the way they actually voted?

Some people don't have two phones?

Can we trust that telegram doesn't have a flaw in the means by which it is measured? (i.e. register again with the same SIM, or something like that?)

It's nice that there is a phone number as validation, but this doesn't 'prove' anything.

Edit: I should add, apparently people are registering photos of their votes, which don't jibe with the tally, which is probably a much better indication of problems with voting [1]

[1] https://belarus2020.org/
Florida mosquitoes: 750M genetically modified insects to be released
I see now the disposible virtual card is available on the free tier. Previously this was only available on premium.
It would be nice if these losers stopped naming crap used to violate civil rights and murder people after Lord of the Rings and other beloved fictional stories. Just call it PusGuzzler 20202 or Venomous Butt Spiders so people can recognize the company and product for what it is, ugly and terrible.
Recently tried to compile scintilla in visual studio, but gave up figuring out how to tune all settings in the IDE and compiled with nmake instead, the make file was very transparent and hackable with everything in plain sight.
This is incorrect. The paper shows that it can do basic math for problems it has not been directly trained on. The only way to dispute that is to twist that very simple claim into something it's not, as you do here by talking about all the extra math that it can't do. If I say I can cut carrots, it doesn't mean I'm claiming to be a world class chef. I am disappointed that a claim as simple as this can be completely misunderstood.
The first chapter is utterly uninspiring. I almost put the novel down due to the cheesiness of the cyberspaceness of it.

Well thank goodness I didn’t. This novel was eye opening as a treatise on small and large scale mortality. One of the most thought provoking pieces of science fiction out there.
murder is good because it discourages people from engaging in behavior that may cause them to be murdered
Efficiency is a broad concept. When it comes to energy, I don't consider stability incongruous with efficiency at all: the less you waste over time, the more stable your electricity demand growth, which saves money and improves QoL for citizens.

In general, learning how to do things better can produce efficiency and more stability too, if the way is better all around.
I certainly get where you're coming from, and agree that all of the questions you listed are things we didn't express opinions on previously and had to decide for yourself.

Still, the bulk of the concerns I've seen over time fall into the categories I've listed - I just really don't remember seeing many comments from folks who were concerned that they "weren't using it effectively" as a particular pain point. Perhaps that was being felt, but expressed in different ways? (I definitely think a lot of people _haven't_ been using it effectively, but didn't necessarily realize it.)

In any case, the highly positive response to RTK and the docs work tells me we're headed in the right direction.

My next task is to rewrite the existing low-level "Basics/Advanced" tutorial sequence to remove outdated references, show simpler patterns, and improve explanations. I've got my notes on things I want to change here:

https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/3855

If you or anyone else has any particular feedback on things you don't like with that existing tutorial or would like to see covered better, please comment and let me know!