skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the comments, and kind words!

The difference between startup and product is simple, and it's something I'm guilty of conflating (along with many others). The product is what you're selling, and the startup is the organisation built around it to bring it to market. I should really have used the word Product instead of Startup.

Thanks for the thoughts around the Read A Book bullet point. Yes, I think it could do with being re-written!
But the image results are mostly little girls.
The usual way this works, is that there is noise.
Some smack on the hand, maybe a few sacrices.
Noise goes away.

Military Intelligence goes back to doing whatever they like
with a shared understanding from those in power (yet not expressed as such).
Don't trust employment statistics you didn't fake yourself. I don't know how it is in the US, but here in Germany a lot of effort is put into making unemployment seem smaller than it actually is.
Self-charging, thousand-year battery startup NDB lands first beta customers
And poor or uneducated parents.
> I’d actually like a "Remove everything I’ve read"-switch

And you should have that. As for the rest of us out here, we should have the option to back our books up.
Prelaunch Apps and Get Feedback 10K Users
Heh, actually it was 1750 but in a 3bd/1ba. Pretty solid right in Murray Hill and nice.
Hahahah.
Don't get a German car. My god, they would force you to refuel at a fucking dealer if they could. BMW already makes the car go into limp mode if they detect you changed the battery and didn't use an CAN dongle to reset the computer.
Are you stating this from specific knowledge of Jane Street?

The division in trading firms, IMLE, is between front office (making and executing trading decisions) and back office (book-keeping, accounting, risk control, compliance, administration, etc). Both sides have technical and financial people. But only front office - both technical and financial - is likely to get wild bonuses from doing good trades. Back office bonuses are more about doing the job well.

If Jane Street is sharing some of the trading profit with back office staff, good on them.
Why not use DDG to find the correct site, and then use that site's built-in search for finding things within it?

Better yet, if I already know I want a particular doc or site, I'll go directly to that site instead of hopping through a search engine first.
Lol 10 commandments of a designer. Do you have your own ones?
I wouldn't worry about it too much, as long as you don't totally insulate them from the downsides. I grew up (age 5-17) in an 8k square foot house. Then I moved into a 2k sqft house and have since lived in smaller, and I much prefer smaller homes. Less to clean, fewer places for stuff to accumulate and get lost, generally "cozier".. The only thing I'd really take back is the ping pong table in the basement.
OT: What is the app used in the screenshot to capture the HTTP requests?
> Why even both writing a waste of a comment?

Because now the top reply of his comment is a summary of the article. So, not that useless of a comment
The fact that F-Droid exists is a huge deal. Yeah, not everyone uses it. There isn't an app for everything (by design) but the apps are way more trustworthy than anything you can get out of the iOS or Android stores.
Note that Bing is only one of their sources: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Also, life is not one-dimensional. The second-order change may not be parallel (or antiparallel) to the change - it may go off in some other direction.
Yes. It definitely has more than 100 million users.

It might be a Yandex partnership to not show outside Russia
Impressive stuff, congrats to these three
> But a problem that you described could be addressed by counting invalid votes as 0.5 instead of 0.

Unfortunately that doesn't solve the problem - because spending money in the town with lots of people with a full vote will produce more votes than spending the same amount of money in the town with lots of people with half a vote.

> Just ask them how much percent a candidate is going to increase/decrease <xyz> in their program

Everyone knows whether they feel happier, healthier, more successful, and whether they've got more money in their pocket today than they had 4 years ago.

Why is a candidate's policy on tariff rates on steel imports from Canada more important than that?
Why do federal dollars pay for all the training?
I was with you until >entire meta-industry of cost management which I’m sure is a net loss.

I am paid hourly and I have literally, in the past week, billed ~14 hours to save ~$150,000 per month. We work for a client and we strive to make sure we're not spending more money in labor than we're saving in AWS costs. I don't know exactly the rate I'm billed at that the client sees, but I know for sure that on aggregate, aside from the actual productive work that I know adds value, I have justified every penny I've been paid in the last ~2 years through my cost savings work alone.

Maybe some folks overcharge or undersave, but I take exception to your comment that you're "sure is a net loss."

Edit: our monthly AWS spend is in the 7 figures. We go through cycles where our priorities change, but when we're in cost savings mode, we regularly discover cost savings measure that are a) implementable in double digit hours and b) save six figures per month.
I would think that people who care about their privacy, would be anti anything that reminds them of totalitarianism and therefore would also not like that Apple can decide what they can install on their devices. It's curious to see that people care about their privacy/data are fine with the control Apple has over their devices.
I.e. killed by a more open platform and inevitable corporate mismanagement...?
The people and AI come together to take over the universe, perhaps! Likely?
I’m surprised the VK (Vodka Kick?) alcopop doesn’t show up.
HN would need to make a significant number of changes for it to restore its signal ratio, including:

1. Flagging sources of information that are known to use clickbait tactics, stupid popups and generally low effort content. Paywalls can also be labeled as such.

2. Niceties like showing original title next to the updated one, or page title next to the submission title. I want to know what the original title was so I can appropriately shame the individual into trying to clickbait a boring topic onto the front page.

3. Downvotes should need to be justified and reviewed. A “I disagree with this comment because it offends me” is not a valid reason to bury good commentary. Happens too frequently. Remove showdead etc altogether.

4. Limited number of new seats for posting/commenting. Read-only for general public. Remove accounts that are regularly submitting garbage to the front page (happens more frequently than you think).

This community has degraded over the years and it’s easily seen in most high volume commentaries. A lot of it is emotionally charged nonsense with people being “convinced” of things with nothing to show where they obtained such strong convictions.

Dan shouldn’t moderate, he should outright ban, and in the process push the low effort armchairing to Reddit and other sites.

HN is first and foremost a vehicle for YC ventures to post their stuff anyway.

While I can understand people are optimistic that this site is somewhat more “intelligent” or “knowledgeable” about particular subjects compared to other sites, the range of that subject matter is so narrow that in majority of categories you’re more likely to find higher quality, insight and volume of posts elsewhere. Namely Reddit.
Let me introduce you to a site called Reddit.
The reason Xsmith is a fresh project is because the PhD student doing most of the implementation wanted to be able to make extensive use of Racket's macro system. Using metaprogramming allows for all the DSL forms to be first-class instead of, say, needing to run a program to generate the program that will then produce the program to create the language's test cases. Of course, this style of metaprogramming has downsides (for example, the start-up time is pretty lengthy, and adding new forms to Xsmith can be tricky if you're not familiar with the Racket macro capabilities), but overall it seems the benefits may outweigh the detriments.

However, Xsmith's core is built upon RACR [0], a Scheme library for building what are called attribute grammars. This isn't quite what you were talking about, but at least it shows that not all of Xsmith is 100% novel implementation. :)

[0] https://github.com/christoff-buerger/racr
Plenty of people have gotten rich exporting goods to China. They just tend to be concentrated in relatively low income countries like Vietnam, exporting things like clothing and textiles. China actually likes this, because it frees resources to develop strategic industries with higher wages.

Which is more or less what the US did with China.
Presuming the banner on this https://element.io/

I had the same understanding as you but if you read https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ , you may come away differently. Specifically, with regards to "strictly necessary cookies" like these, it says:

> While it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies, what they do and why they are necessary should be explained to the user.

The page is just an overview however and it doesn't state where you need to explain to users what the "strictly necessary" cookies do.
Another happy Kobo user, here. What surprised me most is it keeps getting updates—improving both the interface and speed—despite being a device from 2012.

But I am also surprised to learn that some software-only features are not included in updates to older devices. I have a Kobo Glo, and despite having finished an update less than fifteen minutes ago I don’t have the Dropbox syncing feature.
Even with that, the global supply chain in semiconductor consumables will go down for a few years. With all respects, its not humanly possible to operate such a "born global" industry as semiconductors manufacturing without a globally integrated supply chain.

Russia for example still keep tries to have a 100% internal military semiconductor supply chain. Their best chips made on a domestic process are 10μm. TI military foundry is not much further ahead.

I doubt that any actual "strategic planner" actually put his hand on any American policy making process in the last 30 years. The way how terribly unprepared the US was to even such an insignificant nationwide emergency like the virus, is the best proof.
Actually, by searching with !g, you’re leaking your info to both DuckDuckGo and Google, instead of just Google.

If you want to do Google searches without leaking your data to Google, you could use Startpage.com, but personally I don’t trust Startpage more than Google.
The feds are paying for research, not George's tuition. George didn't need a scholarship.
I found that going to the last page showed a more realistic number for results. This would only be shown on that "last page" of results though. However, it does seem strange that there are only 447 results for a google search of "apple"[0] down from a whopping 4,070,000,000 results shown before that page. And that is with show omitted results. Seems like max result limiting for the 0.1% of users that want to look past page 10 of search results

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=apple&start=440&sa=N&filter=...
Ultibo – Baremetal Framework for RPi
In my opinion it's almost a given that any senior dev considers these. You can't be a senior dev / team lead / architect without thinking about how the system will be affected by decisions in the long run. From "MongoDB is faster, but it won't integrate with BI as well down the line" to "Well, GCP is great, but Google has a history of not supporting services in the long run."
This is what I do as well. Privacy by default, more precision when needed.
The OCaml website lists some companies it [0], I think there are a bunch of new blockchain startups that are also using OCaml but are not on that page.

[0] https://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html
> We wouldn't have the audience/opportuity without Apple

Is that worth 30% till the end of time? Your argument is like crabs in a bucket -- one crab tries to get a better deal and you pull him down because you have to pay.

Lets say, somehow, Epic manages to get that fee lowered to something more reasonable for everyone. Would you not be happy with that?
The images returned on DuckDuckGo are, in general, really dodgy. While debugging a web-server of mine, I recently found that various constant strings of file servers return similarly `dodgy' results, like for example "Index of /" [0].

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Index+of+%2F%22&iax=images&ia=i...
@robdelacruz:
I have a few security-related findings for you that you might want to take a look at:

- I can inject any JavaScript in Titles, Tags and possibly other locations.

- By manually changing the value of the `userid` cookie, I can log in as any user ("1" for admin). This also allows me to access the admin section of the website.

- It's highly recommended to enable "HttpOnly" for session cookies. (Secure and SameSite should also be more strict if the application allows it)

Other remarks:

- There should be a limit on the length of submission titles, these are close to infinite it seems.

Edit: It seems others are completely defacing the board by using these tricks. I just want you to know that it's not me.
That's not correct. You can show the proper results without setting the region. Do this by adding an empty token that doesn't get stripped, "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vk+%22%22". That also shows the results list.
> inside of a week

California Assembly Bill 5 was signed into law last September and was clearly a "Going to Happen" event for at least a year prior.

There's no surprise here. Uber had plenty of time to figure out how to deal with this. And they did: they aren't dummies, this was their plan. Their considered decision was that it was in the best interests of their shareholders to play brinksmanship games with their employees' livelihoods instead of make a good faith effort to comply with state law.

Rulebreaking is, after all, part of the corporate culture at Uber, and it always has been.
Fuck. What have I gotten into now. It's all strange pics of little girls. I just looked at the image tab now.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=VK

No strange meanings either.
trees used to be used as wind breaks for farms, would it be possible to do some geo-engineering to prevent fires from spreading through passive design like gaps or roadways or something?
How do you come up with this number?
I am, yes. I'm more familiar with their researchers, but I know (or have spoken to) people across different functions there. They have security engineers who earn over $1M/year (for one example of something which isn't usually "front office"). For Jane Street it's about impact: if you substantially improve something at the firm, you share in the spoils.

That doesn't mean literally everyone who works there is rich, and the quants will do better relatively speaking. But in the sense of engineers being second class citizens: no, I wouldn't say that's the case at all.
Yale gave him fake credibility because it's uncouth to vote for or start a business with a trust fund baby for no other reason than that.
Right!? If you end up checking it out let me know what you think!
>without leaking your info to google.

Can you elaborate? It just does the same query on Google, how is it preventing leakage of information to Google?
Maybe search bots hosted in Ukraine? It's banned there and you can't resolve the host. Images come from another provider.

They voluntary banned to be available in Ukraine?
Plenty of sites have terrible search and discovery stories. I routinely search in a general purpose search engine and filter to the site whose results I want because it's faster and more reliable than trying to navigate the site itself.
> Uber threatening to fire all its drivers if they're subject to regulation.

Do you mean Uber threating not to hire all it's drivers? Right not they're not employees and they all have become them that's a very different process.
Presumably on slow high-flying drones (think like a U-2) or on a balloon. For drones that go under 30 mph you can actually solar-power them, letting them stay aloft indefinitely.

I'd expect to see a shift toward more visual and IR sensors as well, to combat stealth technologies. Modern ultra-HD cameras + image recognition algorithms are a lot more sensitive than human eyes are, and you can field many more drones than AWACS aircraft with much less cost of a loss, letting you bring the relevant detection platforms in closer.
Uhm, I should check my trig before making claims, but it feels like there is a pretty big moon diameter range between making a non-zero dark spot on the earth (size too small) and covering all of the corona effects (size too big). Now it casts a pretty thick full eclipse shadow, so it isn't well aligned to fit the sun — it hides part of the corona too, when you're at the center.
I think it's an expectation mismatch. It's jarring to expect to read a concise, structured news article, and instead start reading "It was a dark and stormy night..." We don't just have news articles here, but we have no way of tagging links as [long reads].
> iPhone users cannot set another browser as the default browser

iOS 14: Here’s an early look at how you’ll be able to change default apps https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/21/ios-14-heres-an-early-look-at...

One of the new and most awaited features of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 is the option to change the default browser and email apps. Users will have to wait until developers update their apps to be compatible with iOS 14 in order to set them as default apps. However, 9to5Mac was able to try this new feature to see how it works.
If you're interested enough, read Gregory Zuckerman - "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution" (2019)

The first half of the book goes over the academic history of quant trading.
It's potentially different for each branch, but the Navy advertises higher rank prior to completion of basic:

"The Navy provides opportunities for you to advance to pay-grades E-2 or E-3 while you wait to leave for boot camp."[1]

My limited understanding is you are paid the higher rank salary while in training but cannot wear the rank until graduation.

[1]https://www.navycs.com/navy-advanced-paygrade.html
yeah there is some absolutely questionable stuff there, I wonder why searching for VK brings them all up, some of these seem like random direct-to-youtube uploads but there's so many of kids that it almost seems like someone's collection, but why does a search for VK return them all? seems like a strange coincidence that there'd be troubling image results and empty normal results
You gain nothing privacy-wise by doing that.

DDG and google both know what you searched for. It is not a proxy. It just opens google search with the query
I never turn off airplane mode, so my Kindle can collect all the data it likes! :)
Global warming is happening, and easily measurable and observed with the naked eye. Obviously large forest fires have occurred before humans doubled atmospheric CO2 levels in the last century.

The idea it is either natural or the result of human caused climate change is a false choice. The question is how much climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of them as a contributing factor. They occur naturally and climate change is predicted (and has so far been accurate) to make them more frequent and worse. Like hurricanes and droughts.
You can use !s for StartPage for the “Google can’t see my queries” layer.
I bet those same countries don’t have the love affair with gun ownership and easy access as the US.

That still comes back to the same question - if the criminals have guns and neither law abiding citizens or the police have guns, where does that leave the law abiding citizens?
and for every dev that left you'd have a shady one step in the fill the void.
Surely you acknowledge that forests in California predated human habitation thereof? (I could see a pedantic point in that they would not then be part of “recorded history,” if that were the point intended.)
> or have some other successful characteristic that you do not.

That's both fair and true, but I'm someone without any successful characteristics.

> You don't need to have gone to a particular school.

All of the interns in question went to top schools of course :)

> If you already got into one of FAANG, you almost certainly have a strong baseline skillset already

While I wish that were true, unfortunately, the FAANG is Amazon so I don't think that's much proof of anything. I would work towards achieving mastery of what I would need to do to pass an interview, but I can't even get an interview - again, because of my current company and undergrad.
You can also use the subdomain i instead of adding .compact

http://i.reddit.com/r/hackernews
ls -al
rm -r. /*
git checkout -b thisIsFine

Couldn't give you a sed or awk example, because, fortunately, did not have to learn either yet.
As of iOS 14, you'll be able to change the default browser (and email client). Still no alternative browser engines, but it's a start.
I've used FreeBSD install media to recover too. You can get a shell and there's no need to download other stuff.

I haven't done this to recover ZFS as written by Linux or Solaris/illumos, not sure how well that works but wouldn't be surprised if it does.
Please use reddit search via the Reddit site, and then via Google/DDG to see the difference.
I think you’re implying that Reddit’s search is subpar, which I agree, although it seems it has improved slightly, recently. When I want firsthand perspective on something I usually append “reddit” to my google searches instead of searching reddit itself, even if I have a reddit tab open already.
Totally, Rust code has been running on that chip specifically for at least a year. ARM just wanted to start support at the big end of the spectrum. I'm personally working in the M4/M7 range, which is a bit bigger than you...
A Tutorial on Atomic Variables and Memory Models in C++
What is the surprise? Who doesn't collect data? As long as that data is anonymized and used for improving their product(s), I am fine. It will be scary if the data is used for selling ads/data itself.
Is the source for HN available?
AFAIK, they gave FFP2 masks, which are like N95.

FFP3 masks are usually not preferred for Covid-19 because they supposedly don't offer that much more protection and they are less comfortable. Because of their greater airflow restriction, they are often fitted with valves, that makes them much less effective at protecting others.

FFP3/N99 respirators are mostly used in industrial settings to protect against very fine particles like asbestos dust.
> There's definitely no good reason why it should be sent to Amazon at all.

I was wracking my brain on this, and all I could come up with was "to independently verify the invoicing for Bing translations" and "how many times are people accessing the definition/translation and not highlighting". So, analytics, not something that explicitly benefits the user.
It's been a decade since the majority of sites had a usable search of their own. Many that still do are just hosting a site-specific Google search at this point.
How would you know that they are not arbitrary if they are transparent?